US10063153B2
System and method for regulating a power conversion system. A system controller for regulating a power conversion system includes a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal. The system controller is configured to receive at least an input signal at the first controller terminal, and generate a gate drive signal at the second controller terminal based on at least information associated with the input signal to turn on or off a transistor in order to affect a current associated with a secondary winding of the power conversion system. The system controller is further configured to, if the input signal is larger than a first threshold, generate the gate drive signal at a first logic level to turn off the transistor.
US10063141B2
A method of adjusting an output voltage sensing error of a low voltage DC-DC converter to adjust a difference between a value obtained by sensing an output voltage of a low voltage DC-DC converter and a reference value controlling the low voltage DC-DC converter, thereby improving control accuracy is provided. The method of correcting an output voltage sensing error of a low voltage DC-DC converter includes applying a test voltage to an output of the LDC by voltage application equipment, sensing a voltage of the output of the LDC by a voltage sensing circuit and adjusting by a controller a voltage reference map included in an LDC controller that outputs a voltage reference value of the LDC, based on an error between the test voltage and a voltage sensing value sensed by the voltage sensing circuit.
US10063140B2
A control circuit for controlling a power circuit having a power switch includes a control loop configured to generate a control signal for the power switch of the power circuit based on an error signal determined by comparing a sensed parameter of the power circuit and a reference signal, and a positive offset signal and a negative offset signal each configured to adjust the control signal. The control circuit is configured to detect a change in an output current of the power circuit and selectively apply only one of the offset signals based on the change in the output current to adjust the control signal thereby enhancing a dynamic response to the change in the output current. Additional example control circuits, example power supplies and/or power converters including a control circuit for controlling a power switch, and example control methods are also disclosed.
US10063137B2
The present disclosure relates a reactive power compensation system including a detection unit for acquiring loading state information of a plurality of loads, a reactive power compensation unit for compensating reactive power, and a controller for controlling the reactive power compensation unit to perform flicker compensation or power factor compensation based on a control signal according to the loading state information.
US10063126B2
There is provided a method for manufacturing a laminated iron core. The method includes receiving a plurality of block iron cores which are temporarily laminated and ejected from a die, each block iron core being formed by laminating a plurality of iron core pieces that are blanked from a thin plate workpiece using the die, individually separating the temporarily laminated block iron cores by a block iron core separating unit, and rotating and laminating each of the separated block iron cores by a rotating and laminating unit in order different from order of lamination of the temporarily laminated block iron cores before separation in a place different from a location of the die.
US10063124B2
Disclosed herein is a shaft-mounted monitor for monitoring conditions of a rotating shaft using a calculated rotational component of the rotating shaft. The monitor may include a sensor such as an accelerometer, thermal sensor, strain gauge, or the like. In various embodiments, a variety of parameters relating to the rotating shaft may be monitored, such as a temperature, rotational speed, angular position, torque, power, frequency, or the like. The monitor may include a wireless transmitter to transmit the monitored condition of the rotating shaft to an intelligent electronic device or a monitoring system.
US10063117B2
There is provided a dynamo-electric machine that can provide excellent insulating properties by downsizing coil ends. A dynamo-electric machine includes a stator and a rotator. The stator has a stator iron core formed with a plurality of slots arranged in a circumferential direction, and a stator coil inserted into the slots of the stator iron core. The rotator is rotatably disposed on the stator iron core with a predetermined gap. The stator coil is provided with an insulating film. The stator coil includes a main coil and a lead wire with an alternating current terminal. The main coil has a plurality of segment coils connected to one another. The segment coil is a conductor in a rectangular cross section formed in advance in a nearly U-shape. The lead wire is led from the slot. The tip end of the segment coil is formed in a trapezoid cross section.
US10063111B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing wireless power transfer network for communication devices, providing central management in communication with a cloud based network for enabling remote activation. The system comprising at least one wireless power outlet and at least one management server. The management system, of the current disclosure, is enabling possible remote activation and associate between a communication device and a wireless power receiver, thus, allowing power transfer between the remote health check and maintenance of all of wireless power outlets from an outlet to a communication device via an associated wireless power receiver as well as providing communication based upon its UDID associated with the relevant RXID.
US10063105B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods addressing the shortcomings in the art, and may also provide additional or alternative advantages as well. The embodiments described herein provide a wireless charging proximity transmitter configured to intelligently generate waveforms of various types, such as radio-frequency waves and ultrasound waves, among others. The wireless charging transmitter may be used for providing energy to a receiver that is proximately located to the transmitter. The receiver may be coupled to, or may be a component of, an electrical device that is intended to receive the power from the wave-based energy produced by the wireless proximity transmitter.
US10063097B2
An apparatus includes a controlled field alternator or utility source of electrical power, a segmented waveform converter, and a controller. The source of electrical power is configured to generate a polyphase signal. The synchronous inverter includes multiple switches connected between the polyphase signal of the source of electrical power and an output filter. The controller is configured to provide a control signal for the switches based on measured electrical quantities associated with the output filter and may provide a field control signal to the controlled field alternator. The apparatus may be applied to a vehicle, a lawnmower, a zero turn radius lawnmower, or another type of machine.
US10063090B2
A solar power generation device is provided which includes a first DC-DC converter to which an output of a solar battery is input, a storage battery to which an output of the first DC-DC converter is input, a second DC-DC converter that converts a voltage of the storage battery, and a control unit. The control unit changes a duty ratio of the first DC-DC converter so as not to charge the storage battery and changes a duty ratio of the second DC-DC converter so as to set an operating point of the solar battery to a maximum power point, when a value indicating a state of charge of the storage battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
US10063089B2
The present invention provides a novel wind power charging circuit with three-phase, single-stage and bridgeless framework. This novel wind power charging circuit is developed based on an isolated single-ended primary-inductance converter (SEPIC) having buck-boost converting function, and can be applied in a wind turbine system for increasing the operation scope of the input voltage provided by a wind turbine of the wind turbine system, so as to facilitate the wind turbine system include wide-range operation scope under different wind speeds, such that the electric energy production and the electromechanical conversion efficiency of the wind turbine system are able to be effectively enhanced. In addition, because this novel wind power charging circuit does not include any bridgeless PFC circuits and bridge-type diode rectifiers, the low conducting loss as well as the whole circuit volume and assembly cost of the wind turbine system can be simultaneously reduced.
US10063083B2
An information handling system operating a BMU controller may include a rechargeable battery, a BMU controller to determine battery charge percentage value, a memory device for storage of an internal data record indicating a first power-on setting, and the controller operatively coupled to the memory memory device and the rechargeable battery. The controller executing machine-readable executable code instructions to determine that the main memory contains no internal data record indicating a first power-on event and to limit the voltage received by the rechargeable battery such that percentage value of the charge of the rechargeable battery does not exceed a set percentage value charge limit during storage and shipment of the information handling system. The controller also receiving machine-readable executable code instructions operable to record an internal data record in the memory device indicating a first power-on event when the processor and main memory of the information handling system are next powered on from an off state and upon storing the internal data record indicating a first power-on setting to remove the set percentage value charge limit and allow the rechargeable battery to charge to full capacity.
US10063077B2
A system architecture for a battery charger that employs GaN-based power devices. The system takes advantage of the active power electronics circuits for power conversion, utilizing controls for power factor correction at its input and constant current/constant voltage regulation at its output. Specifically, a universal GaN-based battery charger architecture is proposed for charging either low- or high-voltage batteries using either three-phase 230-V variable frequency or three-phase 115-V constant frequency AC input power, while meeting stringent power quality and electromagnetic interference aerospace requirements.
US10063069B1
A module maintenance system includes a battery module, a charging device, and a rig. The battery module has a series configuration and a parallel configuration. In the parallel configuration, the rig connects each battery cell of the battery module in parallel and the charging device charges each battery cell of the battery module using the rig. In the series configuration, the battery module serially connects each battery cell of the battery module to a first terminal and a second terminal and the charging device charges each battery cell of the battery module using the first terminal and the second terminal.
US10063063B2
A harmonic harvesting circuit design for harvesting un-rectified AC power contained in the fundamental and harmonic frequencies at the output of conventional rectifying circuits.
US10063059B2
Controlling a wind power plant comprising at least one wind turbine generator for producing power to an electrical grid where the amount of said power is based on a signal response in a voltage signal in said electrical grid due to a change in power output into said electrical grid.
US10063054B2
An arrangement for power management in an energy distribution system, a method for power management in an energy distribution system and an arrangement for implementing the method for power management in the energy distribution system, wherein a feed/return unit and a control unit are provided, where the control unit is configured to sense a present actual system state and to take the sensed actual system state as a basis for prompting energy output or energy intake (energy out/intake, energy feed/return) by the feed/return unit in order to allow continuous correction and dynamic support of an energy distribution system or in an energy distribution system.
US10063053B2
Methods for controlling an energy storage device to reduce peak power demand at a site are provided. In one embodiment, load data corresponding to a load in a utility grid-connecting energy generation (EG) system is received. The load data may be sampled at a first predetermined interval, and the EG system may include an energy storage device. A load threshold level is received, and a discharge control signal is generated. The discharge control signal may be generated when the measured load is at or above the load threshold level. The control signal may be applied to the measured load for a second predetermined interval that is longer than the first predetermined interval.
US10063051B2
The present invention relates to a socket box. The socket box includes a base, a socket insert, a facia insert and an internal electrically conductive substrate. The socket insert comprises a body having an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the upper surface is provided with a plurality of apertures which are sized and spaced so as to receive the pins of an electrical plug, and wherein further the lower surface is provided with a plurality of sprung electrical contacts. The socket insert and electrically conductive substrate are supported and held in spaced relationship to one another by the facia insert such that the sprung electrical contacts are compressed against the electrically conductive substrate, and wherein further the facia insert in turn is supported by the base.
US10063045B2
A coil actuator for a low and medium voltage switching apparatus comprising a coil electromagnet (2), a power and control unit (3), which comprises a power circuit (31) operatively connected to said coil electromagnet (2) and a processing unit (32) operatively connected to said power circuit and controlling the trip of said coil electromagnet (2) through said power circuit (31). The power and control unit (3) comprises an optical port (30), which is suitable to be operatively connected to an optical fiber cable (112), and a first detection unit (33), which is operatively connected to said optical port and to said processing unit. The first detection unit (33) is suitable to receive a light signal (L) from said optical port and to output a first detection signal (D1) indicative of the presence of an arc fault, depending on said light signal. The processing unit (32) is suitable to receive said first detection signal (D1) from said first detection unit and to control the trip of said coil electromagnet (2), depending on said first detection signal. In a further aspect, the invention relates to an arc fault coil suppression device including said coil actuator.
US10063043B2
A spacer device includes an elongate spacing member extending a longitudinal axis for securing to electrical transmission lines, and has a minimum thickness dm. At least one thickened portion having a thickness Tt and length dt is positioned intermediate along the spacing member to form at least two column lengths Lc separated by the at least one thickened portion. Each column length Lc has a portion with the minimum thickness dm. The thickness Tt and length dt of the at least one thickened portion can be at least two times the minimum thickness dm to form at least one end support for the at least two column lengths Lc, such the at least two column lengths Lc behave as separate Euler type columns for producing increased Euler buckling strength with a minimal increase in weight.
US10063042B2
A mounting assembly for an electrical fixture has an upper unit and a lower unit. The upper unit includes a first portion of a detent mechanism and an upper contact for connection to a power source. The lower unit is configured for connection to an electrical fixture and includes a second portion of a detent mechanism and a lower contact for connection to the electrical fixture. When the lower unit engages the upper unit, the first portion and the second portion of the detent mechanism cooperate to releasably retain the upper unit and lower unit together and the upper contact and lower contact touch to create an electric pathway between the power source and the electrical fixture.
US10063039B2
This invention has to do with a gripping cable hanger assembly system for the solar, mining, and electrical industry. The gripping cable hanger is comprised of a support wire gripping mechanism, cable carrier supports/receptacles, data carrier wire capability, space between said wire carriers with said wire comprising a shape retention material that may have a high dielectric, UV resistant coating thereon.
US10063028B2
Unidirectionality of lasers is enhanced by forming one or more etched gaps in the laser cavity. The gaps may be provided in any segment of a laser, such as any leg of a ring laser, or in one leg of a V-shaped laser. A Brewster angle facet at the distal end of a photonic device coupled to the laser reduces back-reflection into the laser cavity. A distributed Bragg reflector is used at the output of a laser to enhance the side-mode suppression ratio of the laser.
US10063026B2
A laser medium unit 10 in a laser beam amplification device includes a plurality of laser media 14. A cooling medium flow path F1 is provided around the laser medium unit 10 to cool the laser medium unit 10 from outside. A sealed space between the laser media 14 is filled with gas or liquid, and a laser beam for passing through the sealed space is not interfered by a cooling medium flowing outside. Therefore, a fluctuation of an amplified laser beam is prevented, and a quality such as stability and focusing characteristics of the laser beam is improved.
US10063024B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals carried by the insulative housing, a metallic shielding plate retained in the insulative housing, and a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a number of receiving slots located at a back-end thereof. The terminals have a number of soldering portions exposed from the insulative housing. Each receiving slot is located between every two neighboring soldering portions to receive soldering material.
US10063010B2
Connector part for connecting to a mating connector part, wherein the connector part has at least one locking device for locking the connector part to the mating connector part, wherein the locking device has at least one pretensioning element and at least one locking element for engaging in a locking element receiver of the mating connector part in an engagement position of the locking element, and the locking element is elastically pretensioned by means of a pretensioning element in a locking direction toward the engagement position and the locking element can be moved in a release direction angled to the locking direction out of the engagement position into a release position.
US10063005B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a metallic shielding shell enclosing the housing, and an insulative shell enclosing the metallic shielding shell. The metallic shielding shell forms a first mating cavity. The insulative shell includes a round rib protruding from an inner sidewall of the insulative shell. The round rib and the metallic shielding shell interfere with each other.
US10062999B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing; a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing to form a receiving space; a metal shell for mounting on a printed circuit board, the metal shell being affixed to the shielding shell; and an insulative shell insert-molded with the metal shell and enclosing the shielding shell.
US10062989B2
A receptacle connector includes an insulative receptacle housing defining two grooves located inside two corresponding lengthwise walls and extending along a longitudinal direction to receive the two lengthwise walls of the plug connector therein. A center island is formed between the two grooves in the transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Two rows of passageways are formed in the corresponding lengthwise walls, respectively, and each passageway communicates with the corresponding groove. Two rows of receptacle contacts are disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively. Each of the receptacle contacts further includes an upside-down U-shaped structure straddling the lengthwise wall and including an inner part/arm abutting against an interior surface of the lengthwise wall, and an outer part/arm abutting against an exterior surface of the lengthwise wall, wherein the inner part further includes another locking structure to interlock with the locking structure on the corresponding plug contact.
US10062988B1
A connector assembly for terminating cables to a PCB. An interface of compliant contacts within in a cylindrical disk of dielectric material and a boss with the cable attached reciprocate within a cylindrical sleeve with the interface toward the PCB. Springs bias the interface and boss toward the PCB. The sleeve, interface, boss/cable assembly, and springs are slid into a barrel that has a pair of pawls extending paraxially from the proximal end. The pawls combine with paraxial alignment fingers on the sleeve. In the unattached position, the circular alignment posts fit into round PCB holes. As the connector is pushed toward the PC, the sleeve contacts the PCB and stops, but the barrel continues until it is free to rotate to an attached position where the pawl fingers slide under the PCB. An optional locking mechanism locks the barrel in the attached position.
US10062986B2
A connector of the present invention includes an inner housing and an outer housing. The inner housing has a contact holding portion holding at least one contact, and is for attachment to a substrate. The outer housing is configured as a separate body from the inner housing, is provided between a case with the substrate attached thereto and the inner housing and is fixed to the case, and suppresses rattling of the inner housing relative to the case.
US10062984B2
A connector system is provided that includes a first connector and a second connector that are both coupled by a cable. Both connectors can be configured with terminal tails that are configured to be press-fit into a circuit board. The first connector includes a first terminal pair and the second connector includes a second terminal pair and the first and second terminal pairs are fixably connected to opposite ends of the cable.
US10062980B2
A safety termination apparatus for connecting to a power conductor has first and second galvanic connections, a sensor wire, and an insulating housing. The first and second galvanic connections are connected to an uninsulated portion of the power conductor and a sensor wire is electrically connected to each galvanic connection. The insulating housing encloses the galvanic connections and has first and second compartments for enclosing the first and second galvanic connections. The first and second compartments separate the first and second galvanic connections such that the first and second galvanic connections are not electrically connected to each other than through a mutual connection to the power conductor.
US10062972B1
The various technologies presented herein relate to mitigating or reducing sidelobe levels during operation of an antenna array. Power coefficients operating across an antenna array are tapered to facilitate a power concentration at central region of the antenna array while power coefficients of a lower magnitude are generated at the periphery of the antenna array. Power coefficient variation can be effected by at least one of electrical path length, number of antennas being powered in a particular antenna subarray, a number of T-splitters incorporated into an electrical path servicing an antenna, etc. Electrical coupling of a pre-T/R stripline and a post-T/R stripline can be achieved in conjunction with operation with a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer acts as a dielectric at the Ku frequency band. Further, phase delay can be applied to at least one electrical signal to facilitate concurrent delivery of power across the antenna array.
US10062963B2
An antenna bracket for electronic devices includes a solid bracket having an aperture formed therethrough. The solid antenna bracket has side walls that are rounded to a predetermined radius, and at least one antenna pocket positioned on said side walls. The antenna pocket receives and secures at least one antenna. The antenna bracket has a polygon shape that follows the contours of the electronic device housing.
US10062961B2
An electronic device includes a support board having a mounting face and an integrated circuit chip mounted on the mounting face. An encapsulation block embeds the integrated circuit chip, the encapsulation block extending above the integrated circuit chip and around the integrated circuit chip on the mounting face of the support board. The encapsulation block includes a front face with a hole passing through the encapsulation block to uncovering at least part of an electrical contact. A layer made of an electrically conducting material fills the hole to make electrical connection to the electrical contact and further extends over the front face of the encapsulation block.
US10062956B2
An antenna device includes a conductive member and a wiring substrate including a coupling line that is conductive. The antenna device includes connecting conductors electrically connecting the conductive member and the coupling line. A feeding coil magnetic-field coupled to the coupling line is arranged on the wiring substrate.
US10062953B2
There is provided a satellite antenna including: a reflector which is directed in a direction toward a target satellite and receives a predetermined satellite signal; and a balance weight module which is mounted on a rear surface of the reflector, in which the balance weight module includes a guide movable balance weight, a guide which defines a movement route along which the guide movable balance weight is moved in a state in which the guide movable balance weight is coupled to the guide, and a fixing member which selectively couples the guide movable balance weight at one side of the guide. By using the satellite antenna according to the present invention, it is possible to easily and quickly perform an operation of adjusting weight balance of the reflector and to prevent a safety accident.
US10062949B2
Multi-band radio frequency communication is performed using an integrated multi-band bandpass filter implemented based on ring resonators, such as concentric dielectric ring resonators. By constructing the multi-band bandpass filter using concentric ring configurations, the print circuit board (PCB) real estate requirement of multiple filters operating at multiple frequency bands is significantly reduced. Various configurations of the multi-band bandpass filter based on the concentric ring resonators provide flexibility in the layout design and manufacturing of multi-band radios for mobile devices, such as compact smartphones. These configurations of the concentric ring resonators can include but are not limited: a slot-coupling configuration, a direct-coupling configuration, and an embedded direct-coupling configuration.
US10062948B2
One embodiment is directed to a microwave cavity resonator comprises a cavity housing forming a cavity. A resonator element is arranged in the cavity and extends longitudinally along a longitudinal axis, wherein the resonator element comprises, when viewed along the longitudinal axis, a first end connected to a first housing wall and a second end opposite the first end, the second end being arranged at a distance from a second housing wall. The resonator element, at its second end, comprises at least one first capacitor element and the cavity housing comprises at least one second capacitor element reaching into the cavity and arranged at a distance, when viewed along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, from the at least one first capacitor element such that a gap between the at least one first capacitor element and the at least one second capacitor element is formed.
US10062947B2
An RF transmitter with a power combiner and a differential amplifier is provided. The power combiner converts a differential output signal to a single-end output signal and transmits the single-end output signal to the antenna. The differential amplifier includes common-source input transistors, common-gate output transistors and a switch module. The common-source input transistors amplify a differential input signal and output an amplified differential signal. The common-gate output transistors, including sources electrically coupled to the common-source input transistors and drains electrically coupled to the power combiner, generate the differential output signal according to the amplified differential signal. The switch module is electrically coupled between the gates. The switch module electrically couples the gates of the common-gate output transistors if the RF transmitter is in operation and electrically isolates the gates if the RF receiver is in operation.
US10062945B2
A coupling structure for crossing three transmission lines millimeter-wave or centimeter-wave signals a signal conductor layer of a circuit substrate, the coupling structure comprising three planar cross-couplers, and from each of the three cross-couplers two input/output points of the cross-coupler being connected clockwise in succession in the plane of the cross-coupler, to respectively one input/output point of a respective other of the three cross-couplers.
US10062925B2
Disclosed is an electrolyte solution used for a lithium secondary battery having high capacity, less undergoing aging deterioration of capacity, and also excellent in life characteristic. The electrolyte solution used for a lithium secondary battery contains a compound having a trivalent or higher boron formed by incorporation of a boroxine compound represented by (RO)3(BO)3 in which R(s) each represent independently an organic group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms and LiPF6, and a non-aqueous solvent.
US10062906B2
Disclosed is an electrode for secondary batteries including an electrode mix, which includes an electrode active material and a binder, coated on a current collector. More particularly, the electrode includes a first electrode mix layer including a first binder, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of which is lower than that of a second binder, and an electrode active material, and coated on the current collector; and a second electrode mix layer including the second binder, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of which is higher than that of the first binder, and an electrode active material, and coated on the first electrode mix layer.
US10062896B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a secondary battery, built in a battery case, having an electrode assembly impregnated with an electrolyte solution, the method including: (a) injecting an electrolyte solution into a chamber; (b) impregnating by soaking an electrode assembly, which has a separator interposed between a cathode and an anode, in an electrolyte solution contained in the chamber; and (c) moving into the electrode assembly from step (b) with the electrolyte solution into a battery case, whereby interfacial wetting of the electrode assembly and the electrolyte solution is improved. A secondary battery manufactured according to the method may have improved electrolyte solution impregnation properties, ionic conductivity, electronic conductivity and the like and, as such, may have improved electrochemical performance.
US10062893B2
A method for connecting electrodes of the same polarity of an accumulator (1) to a current output terminal (6, 7), the accumulator including two current output terminals (6, 7), a container (2) containing an electrochemical bundle (9) having alternating positive and negative electrodes, the ends of the current collectors of the positive and negative electrodes defining a first (Si) and second (S2) surface respectively. There is a step of additive manufacturing of an internal connecting part (11, 13) electrically connecting the first and/or the second surface to the corresponding current output terminal.
US10062879B2
A battery module assembly having one or more plate-shaped cells, including two or more battery modules having cell units, each of which includes one or more battery cells, electrically connected to one another, a pair of an upper and lower case to surround outer circumferences of the modules such that one surface of each of the outermost modules is exposed outside in a state in which the modules are erected on their sides, one or more first fastening holes vertically formed at a top of the upper case and a bottom of the lower case in a direction in which first fastening holes face each other to fasten and fix the upper and lower case, and two or more second fastening holes horizontally formed at a front and/or a rear of the upper case and a front and/or a rear of the lower case to position or fix the assembly.
US10062868B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a pixel structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The pixel structure includes: a substrate; an organic light emitting layer, disposed on the substrate; and an organic light gathering layer, disposed on a light exiting side of the organic light emitting layer, wherein light emitted from the organic light emitting layer is incident on the organic light gathering layer which is configured to gather the light emitted from the organic light emitting layer.
US10062866B2
The present invention provides an OLED display and a manufacturing method thereof. The OLED display of the present invention includes an OLED substrate and a thin film encapsulation layer disposed on the OLED substrate. The thin film encapsulation layer includes a patterned the high thermal conductivity layer and the high thermal conductivity layer is provided with a plurality of openings formed therein to correspond, in a one to one manner, to a plurality of sub-pixel areas of the OLED substrate so as to prevent the high thermal conductivity layer from absorbing light and also help eliminate the constraint that a top emission device is only allowed to use a material having a high transmission rate, thereby allowing for effective transfer of heat generated during an operation of an OLED device without deteriorating light emission efficiency of the device, reducing thermal decomposition of a material of the OLED device, and ensuring the device possesses sufficiency capability of blocking external moisture and oxygen to thus extend the service life of the device.
US10062865B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a pixel electrode above the substrate; an intermediate layer above the pixel electrode and including an organic emission layer; an opposite electrode above the intermediate layer; and an encapsulation structure above the opposite electrode and including at least one inorganic film and at least one organic film. A difference between a refractive index of the at least one inorganic film and a refractive index of the at least one organic film is in a range between about 0.3 to about 0.5. A thickness of the at least one inorganic film is in a range of about 0.7 μm to about 1.5 μm. A thickness of the at least one organic film is in a range of about 3.5 μm to about 6.5 μm.
US10062864B2
An apparatus can include a first electrode on a planarization layer, an organic emission layer on the first electrode, a first bank and a second bank on the planarization layer and configured to surround the organic emission layer, and an anti-moisture unit on a portion of the planarization layer and a portion of the second bank, wherein the anti-moisture unit is configured to suppress moisture permeation through the second bank and the planarization layer.
US10062844B2
Apparatuses and methods of manufacture are disclosed for phase change memory cell electrodes having a conductive barrier material. In one example, an apparatus includes a first chalcogenide structure and a second chalcogenide structure stacked together with the first chalcogenide structure. A first electrode portion is coupled to the first chalcogenide structure, and a second electrode portion is coupled to the second chalcogenide structure. An electrically conductive barrier material is disposed between the first and second electrode portions.
US10062841B2
A memory device including first conductive lines spaced apart from each other and extending in a first direction; second conductive lines spaced apart from each other and extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction; first memory cells having a structure that includes a selection device layer, a middle electrode layer, a variable resistance layer, and a top electrode layer; and insulating structures arranged alternately with the first memory cells in the second direction under the second conductive lines, wherein the first insulating structures have a top surface that is higher than a top surface of the first top electrode layer, and the second conductive lines have a structure that includes convex and concave portions, the convex portions being connected to the top surface of the top electrode layer and the concave portions accommodating the insulating structures between the convex portions.
US10062830B2
An elastic wave resonator includes an interdigital transducer electrode provided on a piezoelectric substrate and including a first electrode layer made of Al or an alloy with Al as its primary component and including a first main surface on a side where the piezoelectric substrate is located and a second main surface on the opposite side from the first main surface. An SH wave is used as a propagated elastic wave. When a resonant frequency of the elastic wave resonator is fr and an anti-resonant frequency of the elastic wave resonator is fa, a minimum value of an absolute value of a distortion component in the first main surface calculated through a two-dimensional finite element method is about 1.4×10−3 or less at a frequency f expressed as: f=fr+0.06×bw, where bw is fa−fr.
US10062828B2
A Josephson parametric converter is provided. The Josephson parametric converter includes a multi-Josephson junction ring modulator having arrays of N Josephson junctions arranged in a ring configuration with nodes inter-dispersed between the arrays. N is an integer having a value greater than one. The Josephson parametric converter includes a first and a second resonator formed from lumped-element capacitors that shunt the multi-Josephson junction ring modulator and respectively enable a first and a second mode of the Josephson parametric converter.
US10062819B2
An LED die conformally coated with phosphor is mounted at the base of a shallow, square reflector cup. The cup has flat reflective walls that slope upward from its base to its rim at a shallow angle of approximately 33 degrees. A clear encapsulant completely fills the cup to form a smooth flat top surface. Any emissions from the LED die or phosphor at a low angle are totally internally reflected at the flat air-encapsulant interface toward the cup walls. This combined LED/phosphor light is then reflected upward by the walls and out of the package. Since a large percentage of the light emitted by the LED and phosphor is mixed by the TIR and the walls prior to exiting the package, the color and brightness of the reflected light is fairly uniform across the beam. The encapsulant is intentionally designed to enhance TIR to help mix the light.
US10062805B2
A semiconductor light-emitting element includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type; a light-emitting functional layer that includes a light-emitting layer; and a second semiconductor layer that is formed on the light-emitting functional layer and is of a conductivity type opposite to a conductivity type of the first semiconductor layer. The light-emitting layer includes a base layer which has a composition subject to stress strain from the first semiconductor layer and has a plurality of base segments that are partitioned in a random net shape; and a quantum well structure layer composed of at least one quantum well layer and at least one barrier layer. The base layer has a composition of AlxGa1−xN (0≤x≤1), and the barrier layer has a composition of AlyGa1−yN (0≤y<1), and the composition x and the composition y satisfy a relation of x>y.
US10062804B2
A method of manufacturing a nano-scale LED electrode assembly including a selective metal ohmic layer is disclosed. Specifically, the method can be useful in increasing conductivity between a nano-scale LED device and electrodes and also reducing contact resistance therebetween by depositing a conductive material in a region in which the nano-scale LED device comes in contact with the electrodes so as to improve the contact between the nano-scale LED device and the electrodes, thereby further improving light extraction efficiency of the nano-scale LED device.
US10062795B2
A solar cell encapsulant sheet including a resin layer (S) formed of a resin composition containing an olefine-based resin, wherein the storage elastic modulus at 25° C. of the resin layer (S) is 200 MPa or less, at least one surface of the resin layer (S) is the sheet surface of the encapsulant sheet, and the sheet surface satisfies the following requirements (a), (b) and (c): (a) the dynamic friction coefficient on a tempered white glass plate is 1.5 or less, (b) the surface roughness Rzjis is from 0.1 to 50 μm, and (c) the static friction coefficient on a tempered white glass plate is 1.5 or less.
US10062790B2
To provide a miniaturized transistor having highly stable electrical characteristics. Furthermore, also in a semiconductor device including the transistor, high performance and high reliability are achieved. The transistor includes, over a substrate, a conductor, an oxide semiconductor, and an insulator. The oxide semiconductor includes a first region and a second region. The resistance of the second region is lower than that of the first region. The entire surface of the first region in the oxide semiconductor is surrounded in all directions by the conductor with the insulator interposed therebetween.
US10062788B2
A lateral SOI device may include a semiconductor channel region connected to a drain region by a drift region. An insulation region on the drift layer is positioned between the channel region and the drain region. Permanent charges may be embedded in the insulation region sufficient to cause inversion in the insulation region. The semiconductor layer also overlies a global insulation layer, and permanent charges are preferably embedded in at least selected areas of this insulation layer too.
US10062784B1
A method includes forming a metal gate in a first inter-layer dielectric, performing a treatment on the metal gate and the first inter-layer dielectric, selectively growing a hard mask on the metal gate without growing the hard mask from the first inter-layer dielectric, depositing a second inter-layer dielectric over the hard mask and the first inter-layer dielectric, planarizing the second inter-layer dielectric and the hard mask, and forming a gate contact plug penetrating through the hard mask to electrically couple to the metal gate.
US10062776B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a first III-V compound layer over the substrate, a second III-V compound layer on the first III-V compound layer, a third III-V compound layer on the second III-V compound layer, a source region on the third III-V compound layer, and a drain region on the third III-V compound layer. A percentage of aluminum of the third III-V compound layer is greater than that of the second III-V compound layer.
US10062774B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate trenches formed in a semiconductor layer; a gate electrode filled via a gate insulating film in the plurality of gate trenches; an n+-type emitter region, a p-type base region, and an n−-type drift region disposed laterally to each gate trench; a p+-type collector region on a back surface side of the semiconductor layer; a plurality of emitter trenches formed between the gate trenches adjacent to each other; a buried electrode filled via an insulating film in the plurality of emitter trenches; and a p-type floating region formed between the plurality of emitter trenches. The p-type floating region is formed deeper than the p-type base region, and includes an overlap portion. The n+-type emitter region selectively has a pullout portion pulled out in a transverse direction along the front surface of the semiconductor layer from a side surface of the gate trench.
US10062770B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a substrate, a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET. The first MOSFET is disposed on the substrate within a first transistor region and the second MOSFET is disposed on the substrate within a second transistor region. The first MOSFET includes a first fin structure, two first lightly-doped regions, two first doped regions and a first gate structure. The first fin structure includes a first body portion and two first epitaxial portions, wherein each of the first epitaxial portions is disposed on each side of the first body portion. A first vertical interface is between the first body portion and each of the first epitaxial portions so that the first-lightly doped region is able to be uniformly distributed on an entire surface of each first vertical interface.
US10062761B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes steps of forming a trench in a surface of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type in a depth direction; forming a conductive layer in the trench, with a first insulating film interposed therebetween; dividing the conductive layer into a gate electrode and an in-trench wiring layer which face each other in the trench and filling a gap between the gate electrode and the in-trench wiring layer with a second insulating film; introducing second-conductivity-type impurities into the entire surface of the semiconductor substrate to form a channel forming region of a second conductivity type; and selectively forming a main electrode region of the first conductivity type in a portion of the channel forming region which is provided along an opening portion of the trench so as to come into contact with the opening portion.
US10062760B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor layer of SiC of a first conductivity type, a plurality of body regions of a second conductivity type formed in the surface portion of the semiconductor layer with each body region forming a unit cell, a source region of the first conductivity type formed in the inner portion of the body region, a gate electrode facing the body region across a gate insulating film, a drain region of the first conductivity type and a collector region of the second conductivity type formed in the rear surface portion of the semiconductor layer such that the drain region and the collector region adjoin each other, and a drift region between the body region and the drain region, wherein the collector region is formed such that the collector region covers a region including at least two unit cells in the x-axis direction along the surface of the semiconductor layer.
US10062758B2
A semiconductor device having a low feedback capacitance and a low switching loss. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a drift layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of first well regions formed on a surface of the drift layer; a source region which is an area formed on a surface of each of the first well regions and defining, as a channel region, the surface of each of the first well regions interposed between the area and the drift layer; a gate electrode formed over the channel region and the drift layer thereacross through a gate insulating film; and second well regions buried inside the drift layer below the gate electrode and formed to be individually connected to each of the first well regions adjacent to one another.
US10062755B2
Semiconductor devices are formed using a thin epitaxial layer (nanotube) formed on sidewalls of dielectric-filled trenches. In one embodiment, a termination structure is formed in the termination area and includes an array of termination cells formed in the termination area, the array of termination cells including a first termination cell at an interface to the active area to a last termination cell, each termination cell in the array of termination cells being formed in a mesa of the first semiconductor layer and having a first width; and an end termination cell being formed next to the last termination cell in the termination area, the end termination cell being formed in an end mesa of the first semiconductor layer and having a second width greater than the first width.
US10062740B2
A display device and a display device packing method are provided. The display device comprises a display panel having a display region and a non-display region; a cover lens disposed on a light-emitting surface of the display panel; and a buffer layer disposed between the cover lens and the display panel and in the non-display region of the display panel, wherein the buffer layer is selectively filled with a plurality of bubbles to enhance a buffering effect.
US10062737B2
An OLED pixel arrangement structure includes multiple first sub-pixels, multiple second sub-pixels and multiple third sub-pixels. Four adjacent ones of the first sub-pixels and four adjacent ones of the second sub-pixels are alternately arranged and surround one of the third sub-pixels. Centers of the four adjacent first sub-pixels and centers of the four adjacent second sub-pixels form vertexes of a virtual octagonal cell, and the virtual octagonal cell has at least two orthogonal symmetry axes, a basic pixel unit is formed by the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels forming the virtual octagonal cell and a part of the third sub-pixel inside the virtual octagonal cell which are located on one side of one of the at least two orthogonal symmetry axes of the virtual octagonal cell. A center of the third sub-pixel coincides with a center of the virtual octagonal cell.
US10062722B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array having plurality of pixel cells arranged into a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns of pixel cells in a first semiconductor die. A plurality of pixel support circuits are arranged in a second semiconductor die that is stacked and coupled together with the first semiconductor die. A plurality of interconnect lines are coupled between the first and second semiconductor dies, and each one of the plurality of pixel cells is coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of pixel support circuits through a corresponding one plurality of interconnect lines. A plurality of shield bumps are disposed proximate to corners of the pixel cells in the pixel array and between the first and second semiconductor dies such that each one of the plurality of shield bumps is disposed between adjacent interconnect lines along a diagonal of the pixel array.
US10062721B2
A device includes an image sensor chip having formed therein an elevated photodiode, and a device chip underlying and bonded to the image sensor chip. The device chip has a read out circuit electrically connected to the elevated photodiode.
US10062718B2
In one general aspect, the techniques disclosed here feature an imaging device that includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first pixel cell including a first photoelectric converter in the semiconductor substrate, and a first capacitive element one end of which is electrically connected to the first photoelectric converter; and a second pixel cell including a second photoelectric converter in the semiconductor substrate. An area of the second photoelectric converter is larger than an area of the first photoelectric converter in a plan view.
US10062706B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an element isolation film, and a fin having side surfaces facing each other in a first direction of an upper surface and a main surface connecting the facing side surfaces and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The device further includes a control gate electrode arranged over the side surface via a gate insulation film and extending in the first direction, and a memory gate electrode arranged over the side surface via another gate insulation film having a charge accumulation layer and extending in the first direction. Furthermore, an overlap length by which the memory gate electrode overlaps with the side surface is smaller than an overlap length by which the control gate electrode overlaps with the side surface in the direction orthogonal to the upper surface.
US10062704B2
A method is provided for fabricating a buried-channel MOSFET and a surface-channel MOSFET of the same type and different gate electrodes on a same wafer. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a well area and a plurality of shallow trench isolation structures; forming a threshold implantation region doped with impurity ions opposite of that of the well area in the well area for the buried-channel MOSFET; forming a gate structure including a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the gate electrode of the buried-channel MOSFET is doped with impurity ions with a same type as that of the well area, and the gate electrode of the surface-channel MOSFET is doped with impurity ions with a type opposite of that of the well area; and forming source and drain regions in the semiconductor substrate at both sides of the gate structure.
US10062692B1
Disclosed are methods of forming field effect transistor(s) (FET) and the resulting structures. Instead of forming the FET source/drain (S/D) regions during front end of the line (FEOL) processing, they are formed during middle of the line (MOL) processing through metal plug openings in an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer. Processes used to form the S/D regions through the metal plug openings include S/D trench formation, epitaxial semiconductor material deposition, S/D dopant implantation and S/D dopant activation, followed by silicide and metal plug formation. Since the post-MOL processing thermal budget is low, the methods ensure reduced S/D dopant deactivation, reduced S/D strain reduction, and reduced S/D dopant diffusion and, thus, enable reduced S/D resistance, optimal strain engineering, and flexible junction control, respectively. Since the S/D regions are formed through the metal plug openings, the methods eliminate overlay errors that can lead to uncontacted or partially contacted S/D regions.
US10062689B2
A FinFET-type device is formed having a fin structure with vertically-oriented source/drain regions (with lightly doped extensions) and a channel region extending substantially perpendicular to the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A semiconductor stack is provided (or formed) having a first heavily doped layer and two lightly doped layer, with a channel region formed between the two lightly doped layers. The stack is etched to form fin structures (for the devices) and a gate stack is formed along the sidewalls of the channel region. A second heavily doped layer is selectively formed on the upper lightly doped layer. A portion of the first heavily doped layer and a portion of the lower lightly doped layer form a lower S/D region with a lightly doped extension region. Similarly, a portion of the second heavily doped layer and a portion of the upper lightly doped layer form an upper S/D region with a lightly doped extension region.
US10062688B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a fin extending along a first direction over a substrate and a gate structure extending in a second direction overlying the fin. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer overlying the fin, a gate electrode overlying the gate dielectric layer, and a first insulating gate sidewall on a first lateral surface of the gate electrode extending along the second direction. A source/drain region is formed in the fin in a region adjacent the gate structure. A portion of the source/drain region extends under the insulating gate sidewall for a substantially constant distance along the first direction.
US10062684B2
A transition frequency multiplier semiconductor device having a first source region, a second source region, and a common drain region is disclosed. A first channel region is located between the first source region and the common drain region, and a second channel region is located between the second source region and the common drain region. A first gate region is located within the first channel region to control current flow between the first source region and the common drain region, while a second gate region is located within the second channel region to control current flow between the second source region and the common drain region. An inactive channel region is located between the first channel region and the second channel region such that the first channel region is electrically isolated from the second channel region. A conductive interconnect couples the first source region to the second gate region.
US10062682B1
A bidirectional transient voltage suppressor (TVS) circuit for data pins of electronic devices includes two sets of steering diodes and a diode triggered clamp device in some embodiment. In other embodiments, a bidirectional transient voltage suppressor (TVS) circuit for data pins of electronic devices includes two sets of steering diodes with a clamp device merged with a steering diode in each set. The TVS circuit is constructed to realize low capacitance at the protected nodes and improved clamping voltage for robust protection against surge evens. In some embodiments, the TVS circuit realizes low capacitance at the protected nodes by fully or almost completely depleting the P-N junction connected to the protected nodes in the operating voltage range. In this manner, the TVS circuit does not present undesirable parasitic capacitance to the data pins being protected, especially when the data pins are applied in high speed applications.
US10062678B2
Proximity coupling interconnect packaging systems and methods. A semiconductor package assembly comprises a substrate, a first semiconductor die disposed adjacent the substrate, and a second semiconductor die stacked over the first semiconductor die. There is at least one proximity coupling interconnect between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die, the proximity coupling interconnect comprising a first conductive pad on the first coupling face on the first semiconductor die and a second conductive pad on a second coupling face of the second semiconductor die, the second conductive pad spaced apart from the first conductive pad by a gap distance and aligned with the first conductive pad. An electrical connector is positioned laterally apart from the proximity coupling interconnect and extends between the second semiconductor die and the substrate, the position of the electrical connector defining the alignment of the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad.
US10062676B1
A multilayer chipset structure is provided. The chips can be arranged in a stacking structure with multilayer circuit board. Each circuit board is formed with wiring opening and chipset opening. The chipset opening can be arranged with at least one chipset, such as a controller. The different openings cause connecting wires can pass therethrough so as to connect different chips or circuit elements on different layer. By this modularized structure, the multilayer package structure can be formed with a complicated structure in one package so as to reduce the packaging cost effectively. The connecting wires pass through the openings so as to reduce the whole path lengths needed. No complicated wiring is needed. All the conducting wires are at an upper side of the chips. In packaging, it only needs to package the upper side.
US10062675B2
Micro-LED array display devices are disclosed. One of the micro-LED display devices includes: a micro-LED panel including a plurality of micro-LED pixels; a CMOS backplane including a plurality of CMOS cells corresponding to the micro-LED pixels to individually drive the micro-LED pixels; and bumps electrically connecting the micro-LED pixels to the corresponding CMOS cells in a state in which the micro-LED pixels are arranged to face the CMOS cells. The micro-LED pixels are flip-chip bonded to the corresponding CMOS cells formed on the CMOS backplane through the bumps so that the micro-LED pixels are individually controlled.
US10062673B2
The invention provides a lighting device (100) comprising: —a first solid state light source (10), configured to provide UV radiation (11) having a wavelength selected from the range of 380-420 nm; —a second solid state light source (20), configured to provide blue light (21) having a wavelength selected from the range of 440-470 nm; —a wavelength converter element (200), wherein the wavelength converter element (200) comprises: —a first luminescent material (210), configured to provide upon excitation with the blue light (21) of the second solid state light source (20) first luminescent material light (211) having a wavelength selected from the green and yellow wavelength range, and wherein the first luminescent material excitability for UV radiation (11) is lower than for blue light (21); and —a second luminescent material (220), configured to provide upon excitation with the blue light (21) of the second solid state light source (20) second luminescent material light (221) having a wavelength selected from the orange and red wavelength range, and wherein the second luminescent material excitability for UV radiation (11) is lower than for blue light (21).
US10062671B2
A semiconductor module includes a circuit board and a power semiconductor chip embedded in the circuit board. The power semiconductor chip has a first load electrode. The semiconductor module further includes a power terminal connector electrically connected to the first load electrode. The embedded power semiconductor chip is positioned laterally within a footprint zone of the power terminal connector.
US10062642B2
Characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. A semiconductor device includes a coil CL1 and a wiring M2 formed on an interlayer insulator IL2, a wiring M3 formed on an interlayer insulator IL3, and a coil CL2 and a wiring M4 formed on the interlayer insulator IL4. Moreover, a distance DM4 between the coil CL2 and the wiring M4 is longer than a distance DM3 between the coil CL2 and the wiring M3 (DM4>DM3). Furthermore, the distance DM3 between the coil CL2 and the wiring M3 is set to be longer than a sum of a film thickness of the interlayer insulator IL3 and a film thickness of the interlayer insulator IL4, which are positioned between the coil CL1 and the coil CL2. In this manner, it is possible to improve an insulation withstand voltage between the coil CL2 and the wiring M4 or the like, where a high voltage difference tend to occur. Moreover, a transformer formation region 1A and a seal ring formation region 1C surrounding a peripheral circuit formation region 1B are formed so as to improve the moisture resistance.
US10062634B2
A semiconductor die assembly in accordance with an embodiment of the present technology includes a first semiconductor die, a package substrate underlying the first semiconductor die, an interposer between the package substrate and the first semiconductor die, and a second semiconductor die between the package substrate and the interposer. The semiconductor die assembly further comprises a heat spreader including a cap thermally coupled to the first semiconductor die at a first elevation, and a pillar thermally coupled to the second semiconductor die at a second elevation different than the first elevation. The heat spreader is configured to transfer heat away from the first and second semiconductor dies via the cap and the pillar, respectively. The interposer extends around at least 75% of a perimeter of the pillar in a plane between the first and second elevations.
US10062625B2
An underfill material enabling voidless packaging and excellent solder bonding properties, and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same are provided. An underfill material is used which contains an epoxy resin and a curing agent, and a time for a reaction rate to reach 20% at 240° C. calculated by Ozawa method using a differential scanning calorimeter is 2.0 sec or less and a time for the reaction rate to reach 60% is 3.0 sec or more. This enables voidless packaging and excellent solder connection properties.
US10062622B2
A semiconductor device includes a first bonding surface disposed on a first component of the semiconductor device. A bond material is disposed on the first bonding surface, and a second bonding surface is disposed on a second component of the semiconductor device. The bond material is disposed on the second bonding surface. A first electroplated bond connects the bond material and the first bonding surface, and a second electroplated bond connects the bond material and the second bonding surface.
US10062620B1
A die device includes a die including an active layer; and an interconnect feature configured for electrical connection of the active layer, wherein the interconnect feature is in contact with a substrate in the die; and a bump, independent of the die, configured for electrical connection of the active layer.
US10062619B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a silicon-on-insulator substrate comprising a semiconductor bulk substrate, a buried insulation layer formed on the semiconductor bulk substrate and a semiconductor layer formed on the buried insulation layer, providing at least one N-type metal-oxide semiconductor gate structure being an NZG gate structure having a gate insulation layer over the semiconductor layer and at least one P-type metal-oxide semiconductor gate structure being a PZG gate structure having a gate insulation layer over the semiconductor layer, the NZG and PZG gate structures being electrically separated from each other.
US10062617B2
A method of forming SRB finFET fins first with a cut mask that is perpendicular to the subsequent fin direction and then with a cut mask that is parallel to the fin direction and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming a SiGe SRB on a substrate; forming a Si layer over the SRB; forming an NFET channel and a SiGe PFET channel in the Si layer; forming cuts through the NFET and PFET channels, respectively, and the SRB down to the substrate, the cuts formed on opposite ends of the substrate and perpendicular to the NFET and PFET channels; forming fins in the SRB and the NFET and PFET channels, the fins formed perpendicular to the cuts; forming a cut between the NFET and PFET channels, the cut formed parallel to the fins; filling the cut with oxide; and recessing the oxide down to the SRB.
US10062613B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first trench and a second trench in a substrate; forming a first work function metal layer in the first trench and the second trench; forming a patterned mask to cover the second trench; removing the first work function metal layer from the first trench; forming a second work function metal layer in the first trench and the second trench; and forming a conductive layer in the first trench and the second trench to form a first gate structure and a second gate structure.
US10062607B2
A method for forming metallization in a workpiece includes electrochemically depositing a second metallization layer on the workpiece comprising a nonmetallic substrate having a dielectric layer disposed over a substrate and a continuous first metallization layer disposed on the dielectric layer and having at least one microfeature comprising a recessed structure, wherein the first metallization layer at least partially fills a feature on the workpiece, where the first metallization layer is a cobalt or nickel metal layer, and wherein the second metallization layer is a cobalt or nickel metal layer that is different from the metal of the first metallization layer, electrochemically depositing a copper cap layer after filling the feature, and annealing the workpiece to diffuse the metal of the second metallization layer into the metal of the first metallization layer.
US10062586B2
A chemical fluid processing apparatus and a chemical fluid processing method are described, to treat a substrate with a plurality of chemical fluids such that substantially constant temperature is maintained across a substrate surface. The apparatus includes a discharge nozzle above the substrate to supply a first chemical fluid at a first temperature to a front surface of the substrate, a bar nozzle oriented in a radial direction of the substrate to supply a second chemical fluid at a second temperature to the front surface or a back surface of the substrate, the second temperature being higher than the first temperature, and where the bar nozzle includes a plurality of outlets for discharging the second chemical fluid to a plurality of contacting places on the front surface or the back surface of the substrate at different distances from the center of the substrate.
US10062581B2
A method of forming an isolation structure, wherein a hard mask is formed on a first region and a second region of a substrate; the substrate is etched using the hard mask as an etching mask to form a plurality of first active patterns in the first region and a plurality of second active patterns in the second region, a first trench between the first active patterns having a first trench width, and a second trench between the second active patterns having a second trench width smaller than the first trench width; a first oxide layer is formed on the hard mask and the first and second trenches; the first oxide layer is conformally formed on an inner wall of the first trench and filling the second trench; a polysilicon layer is conformally formed on the first oxide layer and a spin-on-dielectric (SOD) layer is formed on the polysilicon layer to fill the first trench; and the SOD layer and the polysilicon layer are annealed using an oxygen-containing gas so that the SOD layer and the polysilicon layer are transformed into a second oxide layer and a third oxide layer, respectively, in the first trench, resulting in a semiconductor device with an isolation structure with good isolation characteristics.
US10062577B1
A method of fabricating III-V fin structures includes providing numerous fins. Then, a group III-V material layer is formed to encapsulate an upper portion of each of the fins. Later, part of the group III-V material layer is removed to expose an end of each of the fins, and divides the group III-V material layer into numerous U-shaped structures. Next, a first part of each of the fins and the entire silicon oxide layer are removed. Finally, part of each of the U-shaped structures is removed to segment each of the U-shaped structures into two III-V fin structures.
US10062570B2
An object is to provide a high reliable semiconductor device including a thin film transistor having stable electric characteristics. In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film is used for a semiconductor layer including a channel formation region, heat treatment (which is for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed so as to improve the purity of the oxide semiconductor film and reduce impurities such as moisture. Besides impurities such as moisture existing in the oxide semiconductor film, heat treatment causes reduction of impurities such as moisture existing in the gate insulating layer and those in interfaces between the oxide semiconductor film and films which are provided over and below the oxide semiconductor film and are in contact with the oxide semiconductor film.
US10062561B2
Methods are described for reducing the wet etch rate of dielectric films formed on a patterned substrate by flowing the material into gaps during deposition. Films deposited in this manner may initially exhibit elevated wet etch rates. The dielectric films are treated by exposing the patterned substrate to a high pressure of water vapor in the gas phase. The treatment may reduce the wet etch rate of the dielectric films, especially the gapfill portion of the dielectric film. Scanning electron microscopy has confirmed that the quantity and/or size of pores is reduced or eliminated by the procedures described herein. The treatment has also been found to reduce the etch rate, e.g., at the bottom of gaps filled with the dielectric film.
US10062558B2
A technique for improving the efficiency of injecting ions into the electrode unit of a funnel structure having high ion-transport efficiency is provided to improve the overall ion-transport efficiency. From an ionization chamber 1 for ionizing a sample under atmospheric pressure, ions are injected through a straight capillary pipe 3 into the inner space of the electrode unit 10 of a funnel structure composed of ring electrodes in a first intermediate vacuum chamber 4. The space for setting the capillary pipe 3 is formed by replacing one or more ring electrodes with C-shaped electrodes whose circumference portion is partially removed. Each C-shaped electrode is arranged so that the ions will be injected perpendicularly to the ion-transport direction. The injected ions lose energy due to collision cooling, become converged onto the ion-beam axis C due to the ion-confining effect of a radio-frequency electric field, and efficiently move toward the exit aperture along a potential gradient created by a direct-current electric field. The gas stream carrying the ions passes through the gaps of the ring electrodes, without increasing the gas pressure at the exit of the ring-electrode inner space and thereby deteriorating the degree of vacuum in the next stage.
US10062557B2
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising passing ions through a first stage and a second stage of a mass spectrometer and monitoring a first ion acquisition for a first dwell time extending from a time T1 to a time T1+Tdwell1. The method further comprises reconfiguring the mass spectrometer or one or more components of the mass spectrometer to monitor a second ion acquisition and setting the first stage to transmit ions of the second ion acquisition at a time T, wherein T
US10062550B2
Provided are substrate processing apparatuses including a temperature measurement unit. The substrate processing apparatus comprises a chamber including a substrate processing region, a dielectric sheet that is disposed on the substrate processing region and includes an insertion hole and a temperature measurement unit that is disposed on the dielectric sheet to measure the temperature of the dielectric sheet, and has a screw portion inserted into the insertion hole, wherein each of the insertion hole and the screw portion has thread helixes meshed with each other.
US10062547B2
In a plasma processing apparatus for processing a substrate by plasmatizing a process gas introduced into a processing container, an introducing unit which introduces the process gas is formed on a ceiling surface of the processing container; a gas retention portion which gathers the process gas supplied from the outside of the processing container through a supply passage, and a plurality of gas ejection holes which allow communication between the gas retention portion and the inside of the processing container are formed in the introducing unit; a gas ejection hole is not formed in a location of the gas retention portion that faces an opening of the supply passage; and a cross section of each of the gas ejection holes has a flat shape.
US10062545B2
A computer-readable recording medium encoded with a computer program for executing an ion etching method of etching a substrate arranged on a substrate holder using an ion beam etching apparatus. The computer program includes a decremental control program having a command according to which the first step is executed; and an incremental control program having a command according to which the second step is executed.
US10062544B2
An apparatus for improving the uniformity of an ion beam is disclosed. The apparatus includes a heating element to heat an edge of the suppression electrode that is located furthest from the suppression aperture. In operation, the edge of the suppression electrode nearest to the suppression electrode may be heated by the ion beam. This heat may cause the suppression electrode to distort, affecting the uniformity of the ion beam. By heating the distal edge of the suppression electrode, the thermal distortion of the suppression electrode can be controlled. In other embodiments, the distal edge of the suppression electrode is heated to create a more uniform ion beam. By monitoring the uniformity of the ion beam downstream from the suppression electrode, such as by use of a beam uniformity profiler, a controller can adjust the heat applied to the distal edge to achieve the desired ion beam uniformity.
US10062539B2
Provided is an anode capable of keeping the X-ray dose steady in an X-ray generating tube by preventing a crack in a connecting electrode layer, which electrically connects a target layer and an anode member. The anode includes a first bonding boundary where the connecting electrode layer, which electrically connects the target layer and the anode member, is bonded to a supporting substrate of a target, and a second bonding boundary where the connecting electrode layer is bonded to the anode member in which the connecting electrode layer is formed so that the first bonding boundary and the second bonding boundary are on the same side with respect to the connecting electrode layer.
US10062537B1
A release apparatus includes a coiled restraining wire with each end attached to a corresponding fuse wire. The fuse wires are supplied with respective actuation electric currents by respective independent current sources. Flow of actuation current through a fuse wire causes that fuse wire to break; breakage of either one or both fuse wires allows the restraining wire to partially uncoil and allow the release apparatus to transition from a retained condition to a released condition, by allowing disengagement of retention members from a release member that can then move out of the release apparatus. The release apparatus can be employed to attach a deployable component to a satellite or spacecraft, and can be readily repaired, refurbished or reset for repetitive ground testing.
US10062532B2
A method for the activation of an electrical device (50), which comprises at least one electrical component (30) whose values are mechanically variable by rotating or displacing is characterized by the following steps: at least one first and one second threshold value are predetermined, which are adjustable by rotating, touching, displacing or other manipulations; a time window starts after reaching the first threshold value by manipulation of the electrical component (30); if the second threshold value is reached by manipulation of the electrical component (30) within the time window, an activation signal is output; and if the second threshold value is not reached within the predeterminable time window by manipulation of the electrical component (30), the activation process is terminated.
US10062522B1
A capacitor having first and second electrodes and a scaffold dielectric. The scaffold dielectric comprises an insulating material with a plurality of longitudinal channels extending across the dielectric and filled with a dielectric paste comprising a porous material and an ion-comprising liquid within the pores of the porous material. The plurality of longitudinal channels are substantially parallel and the liquid comprising the dielectric paste generally has an ionic strength of at least 0.1. Capacitance results from the migrations of positive and negative ions in the confined liquid in response to an applied electric field. A method of supplying power to a load using the capacitor and a method of making the capacitor is additionally disclosed.
US10062521B2
An electrode (10) for a combination of supercapacitor and battery, comprising an active structure (12), wherein the active structure (12) comprises an active material layer (18) which is divided into strips in the plane and capacitor strips (16) and battery strips (14) are arranged alternately in the plane, is proposed. Also a process for producing such an electrode (10) and a combined supercapacitor and battery cell comprising at least one such electrode.
US10062520B2
A photo-electrochemical cell of an embodiment includes: a first electrode which has a transparent conductive film provided on a first surface of a photoelectric conversion layer; a first catalyst layer provided on the first electrode; a second electrode provided on a second surface of the photoelectric conversion layer; and a second catalyst layer provided on the second electrode. The first catalyst layer has a plurality of catalyst parts disposed on the first electrode and a transparent dielectric part disposed in a gap between the plurality of catalyst parts.
US10062517B2
Systems, devices, and methods for micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) tunable capacitors can include a fixed actuation electrode attached to a substrate, a fixed capacitive electrode attached to the substrate, and a movable component positioned above the substrate and movable with respect to the fixed actuation electrode and the fixed capacitive electrode. The movable component can include a movable actuation electrode positioned above the fixed actuation electrode and a movable capacitive electrode positioned above the fixed capacitive electrode. At least a portion of the movable capacitive electrode can be spaced apart from the fixed capacitive electrode by a first gap, and the movable actuation electrode can be spaced apart from the fixed actuation electrode by a second gap that is larger than the first gap.
US10062514B2
In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, outer electrodes include base electrode layers including a conductive metal and a glass component on a ceramic multilayer body, conductive resin layers including a thermosetting resin and a metal component on the base electrode layers such that exposed portions of the base electrode layers are exposed at least at one corner on one end surface side of the ceramic multilayer body and at least at one corner on the other end surface side thereof, and plating layers on the conductive resin layers and the exposed portions of the base electrode layers. The exposed portions of the base electrode layers are in direct contact with the plating layers at least at one corner on the one end surface side of the ceramic multilayer body and at least at one corner on the other end surface side thereof.
US10062506B2
A capacitor includes a body having a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface and a fourth surface connecting the first surface to the second surface, and including a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode respectively having a first lead portion and a second lead portion exposed to the second surface, a first external electrode and a second external electrode formed on the second surface of the body, and electrically connected to the first internal electrode and the second internal electrode, respectively, and dummy electrodes formed on the third surface and the fourth surface of the body and extending from edges at which the second surface meets the third surface and the fourth surface.
US10062504B2
A manufacturing method of a rare-earth magnet includes: manufacturing a first sealing body by filling a graphite container with a magnetic powder to be a rare-earth magnet material and by sealing the graphite container; manufacturing a sintered body by sintering the first sealing body to manufacture a second sealing body in which the sintered body is accommodated; and manufacturing a rare-earth magnet by performing hot plastic working on the second sealing body to give magnetic anisotropy to the sintered body.
US10062483B2
A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, on which magnetic domain refining treatment by strain application has been performed, has an insulating coating with excellent insulation properties and corrosion resistance. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is obtained by irradiating a steel sheet with a high-energy beam to apply, to the steel sheet, linear strain extending in a direction that intersects a rolling direction of the steel sheet, and then re-forming an insulating coating on the steel sheet, in which in an irradiation mark region due to the high-energy beam, a ratio of an area containing defects on the insulating coating is 40% or less, a maximum width of the irradiation mark region in the rolling direction is 250 μm or less, and a thickness of the insulating coating is 0.3 μm or more and 2.0 μm or less.
US10062481B2
An insulation system includes a number of mica hard-boards joinable to form a free-standing slot-liner for insulating a conductor when placed therein and accommodating an expansion of the conductor. In another embodiment, an electromagnetic pump includes a stator of the electromagnetic pump including a number of laminations, a slot-liner positioned within a gap formed by the laminations, an annular wound copper conductor coil positioned within the slot-liner. The slot-liner includes a number of mica hard-boards joined to form an annular volume for insulating the conductor coil and accommodating an expansion of the conductor coil.
US10062475B1
A composition and method for reducing the coefficient of friction and required pulling force of a wire or cable are provided. A composition of aqueous emulsion is provided that is environmentally friendly, halogen free and solvent free. The composition is compatible with various types of insulating materials and may be applied after the wire or cable is cooled and also by spraying or submerging the wire or cable in a bath. The composition contains lubricating agents that provide lower coefficient of friction for wire or cable installation and continuous wire or cable surface lubrication thereafter.
US10062472B2
A polyolefin molded product comprising a resin composition containing (1) from 1 to 30% by mass of an olefin-based polymer having an elastic modulus of from 5 to 450 MPa, (2) a propylene-based polymer having an elastic modulus of 500 MPa or more (the content of the component (2) is the balance), and (3) from 0.0001 to 2% by mass of an additive.
US10062466B2
An apparatus for reducing radiation scatter in an imaging system having an operational slot for receiving an anti-scatter grid. The apparatus includes an imaging system component having at least one storage slot formed therein for selectively storing an anti-scatter grid when the grid is not in the operational slot of the imaging system. The apparatus further includes an operational slot sensor configured to detect the presence of an anti-scatter grid and/or an imaging property of a grid in the operational slot. The system allows an operator to select an appropriate anti-scatter grid for use in the imaging system from one or more anti-scatter grids that are located within the operational and/or storage slots of the imaging system.
US10062458B2
A method of providing an end-capped tubular ceramic composite for containing nuclear fuel (34) in a nuclear reactor involves the steps of providing a tubular ceramic composite (40), providing at least one end plug (14, 46, 48), applying (42) the at least one end plug material to the ends of the tubular ceramic composite, applying electrodes to the end plug and tubular ceramic composite and applying current in a plasma sintering means (10, 50) to provide a hermetically sealed tube (52). The invention also provides a sealed tube made by this method.
US10062457B2
Methods for providing predictive notifications to a monitoring device are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving retrospective patient data collected from a plurality of medical devices, and determining, based on a comparison of the retrospective patient data with current patient data for a patient from a medical device, a likelihood of a potential adverse medical event occurring for the patient. The method also includes providing a notification to a monitoring device indicative of the potential adverse medical event for the patient. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10062448B1
A circuit includes a fuse cell with a current mirror. The first leg of the current minor includes first and second N-type transistors coupled in series between the upper and lower rails and the second leg includes third and fourth N-type transistors coupled in series between the upper and lower rails. The size of the first N-type transistor is (Y·A1), the second N-type transistor is (X·A2), the third N-type transistor is (X·A1) and the fourth N-type transistor is (Y·A2) where X and Y are integers and A1 and A2 are the sizes of respective reference transistors. A fuse has a first terminal coupled between the first and second N-type transistors and a second terminal coupled between the third and fourth N-type transistors; a first control node on the second leg of the current minor is coupled to control the voltage at an output node of the fuse cell.
US10062440B1
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device capable of eliminating influence of bit line (BL) leakage on reading and a reading method thereof. The non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory array, a semiconductor well having a plurality of erase units, and a source switch array having a plurality of source switches. Each of the source switches is coupled to a common source line of one erase unit of the semiconductor well. Only one source switch among the source switches coupled to a selected erase unit among the erase units of the semiconductor well for reading is enabled during a reading operation. Thus, the BL leakage is prevented from affecting the reading operation on memory cells of the memory array, thereby improving the reliability of the non-volatile semiconductor memory device.
US10062435B2
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for operation of non-volatile memory devices. In one aspect, a correlated electron switch (CES) device may be placed in any one of multiple memory states in a write operation. Limiting current between terminals of the non-volatile memory device during read operations may enable use of higher voltages for higher realized gain.
US10062434B2
A device is disclosed that includes a driver, a sinker and a memory column. The memory column includes a plurality of resistive memory cells each being electrically connected between the driver and the sinker through a first line and a second line. When one of the resistive memory cells is conducted, at least one of the driver and the sinker is configured to be controlled to have a resistance depending on a row location of the conducted resistive memory cell in the memory column.
US10062425B2
Provided herein are a capacitor, a memory device including the capacitor, and a method of manufacturing the capacitor. The capacitor is manufactured by directly depositing a metal electrode having high ion mobility on an ultrathin ferroelectric layer having a certain thickness, and thus may simultaneously use metal cation migration and ferroelectric polarization inversion, and a low-power and high-performance capacitor capable of being selectively activated may be provided by simultaneously controlling an external electric field and an internal electric field caused by polarization of the inside of a ferroelectric thin film.
US10062419B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a circuit structure is provided. The circuit structure comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a storage node and a word-line. Each of the two transistors comprises a gate, a source and a drain. The storage node is connected to the gate of the first transistor. The word-line is connected to the gate of the second transistor. The first and second transistors are serially connected. The first and second threshold voltages are respectively associated with the first and second transistors, and the first threshold voltage is lower than the second threshold voltage.
US10062418B2
A data programming method and a memory storage device are provided. The method includes: programming a plurality of first type physical units in a rewritable non-volatile memory module to store first data; encoding the first data to generate encoded data; receiving second data; and programming at least one of a plurality of second type physical units in the rewritable non-volatile memory module corresponding to the first type physical units to store at least a part of the second data after the first data is encoded. Therefore, the correcting ability for correcting errors in pair physical units in multi-channel programming procedure may be improved.
US10062417B2
Systems and methods for selectively recording and bookmarking a portion of broadcast media content include receiving a video stream containing the broadcast media content, determining a video segment of the video stream to be output to a display device, and performing OCR on characters present within the video segment. The systems and methods may further include detecting a trigger event in the OCR of the video segment and creating a digital bookmark corresponding to the detected trigger event. The systems and methods may include generating a recording of a portion of the broadcast media content, whereby the recording begins prior to the trigger event and concludes after the trigger event, and storing the digital bookmark associated with the generated recording.
US10062415B2
Some embodiments provide an application that can automatically generate a movie from a collection of media clips stored on a device or accessible by the device. The movie creation process of some embodiments uses novel video and audio compositors that dynamically composite video and audio components of the movie. The video compositors process explores different combination of media clips and media-clip arrangements to produce an interesting video presentation. The audio compositor receives the duration of the video presentation, and dynamically generates a song for the video presentation based on this duration. Another novel interaction is that in some embodiments the audio compositor provides the starting location of its last segment to the video compositor so that the video compositor can align the start of the last video segment with this ending segment. In some embodiments, the video and audio compositors also synchronize fade-out effects that they apply to their respective presentations with each other. Also, in some embodiments, the video compositor can ask the audio compositor for one or more audio onsets that are near a particular time in the presentation. In some of these embodiments, the audio compositor returns (1) a list of onsets that are near a time that is specified by the video compositor, and (2) a priority for each of these onsets. The video compositor then uses this list of onsets to align an edit point in the composite video's definition to the location of one of the onsets based the specified priority value(s) and the desirability of the video edit at the onset location.
US10062408B2
An automatic playback overshoot correction system predicts the position in the program material where the user expects to be when the user stops the fast forward progression of the program material. The system determines the position where the program material was stopped and transitions to the new mode that the user selected, starting at the stopped position with an overshoot correction factor subtracted from it. The system uses a prediction method to correctly place the user within the program upon transition out of fast forward mode and determines if the speed of the fast forward mode and then automatically subtracts a time multiple to the frame where the transition was detected and positions the user at the correct frame. The time multiple is fine tuned if the user is consistently correcting after the fast forward mode stops.
US10062394B2
A system encourages experimentation with audio frequency and speaker technologies while causing an inanimate object to appear to lip-sync. The system applies a bandpass filter to an incoming audio stream to determine a magnitude of audio content in a frequency band of interest. For example, the system may filter results directed at the voice band, associated with speech. A controller controls a strobe light to flash at a particular point of travel of a platform reciprocating at a known frequency. An illusion is created that a sculpture, such as a piece of paper formed into a ring, is lip-synching to music.
US10062385B2
A system and method for selecting a speech-to-text engine are disclosed. The method includes selecting, by an engine selection component, at least two speech-to-text engines to decode a portion of computer-readable speech data. The portion of speech data can be decoded simultaneously by the selected speech-to-text engines for a designated length of time. In some embodiments portions of the speech data can be simultaneously decoded with selected speech-to-text engines at periodic intervals. An accuracy of decoding can be determined for each selected speech-to-text engine by an accuracy testing component. Additionally, the relative accuracies and speeds of the selected speech-to-text engines can be compared by an output comparison component. The engine selection component can then select the most accurate speech-to-text engine accurate to decode a next portion of speech data. Further, the engine selection module may select a speech-to-text engine that meets or exceeds a speed and/or accuracy threshold.
US10062378B1
A computer-implemented method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining, by a processor, a frequency spectrum of an audio signal data. The method further includes extracting, by the processor, periodic indications from the frequency spectrum. The method also includes inputting, by the processor, the periodic indications and components of the frequency spectrum into a neural network. The method additionally includes estimating, by the processor, sound identification information from the neural network.
US10062376B2
Disclosed are an electronic apparatus and a voice recognition method for the same. The voice recognition method for the electronic apparatus includes: receiving an input voice of a user; determining characteristics of the user; and recognizing the input voice based on the determined characteristics of the user.
US10062375B2
Inputs provided into user interface elements of an application are observed. Records are made of the inputs and the state(s) the application was in while the inputs were provided. For each state, a corresponding language model is trained based on the input(s) provided to the application while the application was in that state. When the application is next observed to be in a previously-observed state, a language model associated with the application's current state is applied to recognize speech input provided by a user and thereby to generate speech recognition output that is provided to the application. An application's state at a particular time may include the user interface element(s) that are displayed and/or in focus at that time, and is determined by an operating system hooking component embedded in the automatic speech recognition system.
US10062361B2
Herein disclosed an image display including: row scan lines configured to supply a control signal; column signal lines configured to supply a video signal; and pixel circuits configured to be disposed at intersections between the scan lines and the signal lines, wherein each of the pixel circuits has at least a drive transistor, a sampling transistor connected to a gate of the drive transistor, a capacitive part connected between the gate and a source of the drive transistor, and a light-emitting element connected to the source of the drive transistor.
US10062359B2
A control circuit applied to a display includes an adjustment parameter generating circuit, an adjustment circuit, a compensation circuit, an image detail compensating circuit and an output circuit. The adjustment parameter generating circuit determines an adjustment parameter according to a backlight intensity corresponding to a pixel in a frame. The adjustment circuit adjusts a pixel value of the pixel according to the adjustment parameter to generate an adjusted pixel value. The compensation circuit compensates the adjusted pixel value according to a compensation curve go generate a compensated pixel value. The compensation curve includes a non-linear segment. The image detail compensating circuit generates a detail compensation value according to an edge factor of the pixel. The output circuit adjusts the compensated pixel value according to the detail compensation value to generate an output pixel value of the pixel.
US10062356B1
An imager is provided for viewing subcutaneous structures. In an embodiment of the invention, the imager includes a camera configured to generate a video frame, and an adaptive nonlinear processor. The adaptive nonlinear processor is configured to adjust a signal of the video frame below a first threshold to a maximum dark level and to adjust the signal of the video frame above a second threshold to a maximum light level. The imager further includes a display, configured to display the processed video frame.
US10062354B2
Systems and methods for creating entities that operate within a virtual environment, where in some embodiments the entities are substantially autonomous in the sense that they are capable of communications and interactions with the environment and other entities. In some embodiments, the entities may be capable of interacting with an environment other than the one in which they were created and originally configured. In some embodiments, the entities may engage in interactions with other entities that operate to enable changes in behavior of one or both of the entities.
US10062353B2
This disclosure is directed to a system to compensate for visual impairment. The system may comprise, for example, a frame wearable by a user to which is mounted at least sensing circuitry and display circuitry. The sensing circuitry may sense at least visible data and depth data. Control circuitry may then cause the display circuitry to visibly present the depth to the user based on the visible data and depth data. For example, the display circuitry may present visible indicia indicating depth to appear superimposed on the field of view to indicate different depths in the field of view, or may alter the appearance of objects in the field of view based on the depth of each object. The system may also be capable of sensing a particular trigger event, and in response may initiate sensing and presentation for a peripheral field of view of the user.
US10062351B2
An amplifier feeds a current corresponding to a difference between a gradation voltage corresponding to a luminance level in a video signal and an amplified gradation voltage obtained by amplifying such a gradation voltage through an output current line in a current mirror circuit, and provides a voltage on the output current line to an output part via a driving line. The output part generates the amplified gradation voltage on the output line by feeding a current according to a voltage on the driving line through the output line.
US10062350B2
Disclosed is a voltage conversion circuit, display panel, and method for driving the display panel. The voltage conversion circuit comprises: a voltage-dividing unit which receives a voltage of a data signal of a main pixel region, and divides the voltage of the data signal of the main pixel region so as to output an intermediate voltage, and a reverse unit which, under control of a first clock signal and a second clock signal, inversely converts the intermediate voltage to a voltage of the data signal of a sub pixel region, rendering polarity of a pixel voltage of the sub pixel region and polarity of a pixel voltage of the main pixel region opposite to each other.
US10062349B2
A display device includes a liquid crystal display and a power supply to apply a common voltage to a common electrode of the display. The power supply applies a first common voltage to the common electrode for a first period after power is turned on, and applies a second common voltage higher than the first common voltage to the common electrode until the power is turned off after the first period.
US10062336B2
A method for setting an electronic display device for a vehicle to a secure state, wherein the electronic display device is designed to display, in response to an image signal received by a control mechanism, an image datum transmitted by the image signal, and to maintain the display without applying an operating voltage, is characterized in that the method comprises a step for receiving a diagnosis signal via an interface to the control mechanism, wherein the diagnosis signal represents a signal provided by the control mechanism, and furthermore, a step for outputting a reset signal to an interface to the display device, depending on a signal status of the diagnosis signal, wherein the reset signal is designed to trigger a display of a secure image datum by the display device, in order to set the display device to the secure state.
US10062331B2
The present invention relates to a display device which can provide optimal luminance and visibility to viewers by considering a viewing environment, a viewing distance and image characteristics in an associated manner and a method for driving the same. The method for driving a display device includes: determining final luminance by applying sensed results of ambient illumination, ambient temperature and a viewing distance from a user in an associated manner; adjusting luminance of the display device according to the determined final luminance; and calculating a weighted average picture level (WAPL) from an input image, calculating a differential gain per gray level according to the calculated WAPL, correcting the input image by applying the calculated differential gain per gray level to the input image and outputting the corrected input image.
US10062329B2
An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line intersecting with each other, a pixel circuit which is provided corresponding to the intersection thereof, and a wire. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, one transistor which controls a current flowing to the light emitting element, and the other transistor of which conduction state is controlled according to a scanning signal which is supplied to the scanning line between a gate node of the one transistor and the data line. The wire is provided between the data line and the one transistor.
US10062325B2
A pixel circuit according to example embodiments includes a scan switch connected between a data line and a first node, a storage capacitor, an organic light emitting diode, a driving transistor connected to a first power voltage and configured to generate a driving current, a first control switch connected between the driving transistor and a second node and configured to be turned on during a first sensing period based on a first control signal, a second control switch connected between the second node and an anode of the organic light emitting diode and configured to be turned on during a second sensing period based on a second control signal, and a sensing switch connected between the data line and the second node and configured to be turned on based on a sensing control signal.
US10062321B2
A pixel circuit includes a first-transistor including gate-electrode receiving first emission control signal, first-electrode connected to ELVDD, and second-electrode connected to first node, a second-transistor including gate-electrode receiving second emission control signal, first-electrode, and second-electrode connected to second node, a third-transistor including gate-electrode connected to third node, first-electrode connected to first node, and second-electrode connected to first-electrode of the second-transistor, an OLED including anode connected to second node and cathode connected to ELVSS, a fourth-transistor including gate-electrode receiving bias scan signal, first-electrode connected to initialization voltage, and second-electrode connected to second node, a fifth-transistor including gate-electrode receiving bias scan signal, first-electrode connected to reference voltage, and second-electrode connected to third node, a sixth-transistor including gate-electrode receiving data scan signal, first-electrode receiving data signal, and second-electrode connected to third node, a storage-capacitor between first node and third node, and a hold-capacitor between ELVDD and first node.
US10062319B2
To reduce power consumption of a display device. A sequence of supply of video signals to a plurality of pixels included in an active matrix display device is controlled. For example, a supply sequence is controlled so that the potentials of the video signals supplied to a plurality of pixels are in ascending order or in descending order. This enables a reduction in the amount of charge and discharge of electric charge of signal lines which supply video signals to a plurality of pixels. Consequently, power consumption of the display device can be reduced.
US10062318B2
In a method for driving a light-emitting diode (LED) device, a driving system is configured to: a) receive a number of driving signals, each corresponding to a period the LED device is to be activated; b) determine a number of repetitions for output of each of the driving signals; c) determine an average driving period for each of the driving signals; d) constructing a sequence list of driving signals to be sent to the LED device, the sequence list including a plurality of rows, each of the rows is numbered and includes two columns for containing respectively two entries of the driving signals therein; and e) sequentially transmit the two entries of the driving signals contained in each of the rows included in the sequence list to the LED device.
US10062305B1
A Customized Storage Calendar including a backboard, calendar frame, partitions, configured as rows and columns, to define storage compartments, day boxes displaying the day number and positive subject indicia on a removable insert secured by tabs or on a removable top wall slider which are refillable, month box configured as left or right side insert which provides storage for remaining sliders displaying the current month slider, optional year sliders, and optional academia subject or positive subject indicia, horizontal support member, and a week face plate. The Customized Storage Calendar is shown configured with 31 dual-sided day boxes and 7 six wall day boxes displaying positive subject indicia on a removable insert, and 7 five wall cube day boxes displaying positive subject indicia on a removable top wall slider. Each day box is adapted to receive and store an object therein.
US10062302B2
Vision-assist systems and methods include use of processor(s) and a communicatively coupled feedback device and environmental sensing device upon which generated feedback is based. Machine readable instructions stored on a memory module cause the system to perform the following when executed by the processor(s): record a first metric corresponding to a level of reliance by a user on the feedback device at a first time; record a second metric corresponding to the level of reliance by the user on the feedback device at a second time after the first time; and record an awarded amount of reliance points when the second metric is less than the first metric, indicative of a decrease on a reliance by the user on the vision-assist system. The awarded amount of reliance points corresponds to a percentage by which the second metric decreases compared to the first metric.
US10062297B2
A sports electronic training system, and applications thereof, are disclosed. In an embodiment, a portable performance monitoring system for monitoring an individual's performance during a physical activity includes a motion monitor adapted to be physically coupled to the individual during the activity and a portable electronic processing device adapted to be physically coupled to the individual during the activity. The portable electronic processing device includes a wireless personal-area network transceiver adapted for wireless communication with the motion monitor, a memory adapted to store workout program data, a processor adapted to determine performance information for the individual, and an output adapted to provide feedback to the individual based on the performance information and the workout program data.
US10062296B2
A wireless mobile training device has a microprocessor, a first switch, a microphone, and a speaker. The microprocessor generates a first control signal to induce the speaker to emit a first audible instruction requesting a training program identifier. The microphone generates a first input signal corresponding to a received audible training program identifier. The microprocessor generates a second control signal to induce the speaker to emit a second audible instruction associated with a predetermined training program name, if the received audible training program identifier corresponds to the predetermined training program identifier. The microprocessor determines a first time interval for completing a first user task associated with the second audible instruction based on second and third input signals from either the first switch or the microphone.
US10062295B2
Formatting of content for presentation on a display of a computing device is provided. The computing device receives a request to present content associated with a user identifier (ID) of a user of a computing device. Personality attributes associated with the user ID are retrieved defining personality characteristics of the user associated with the user ID. A template is retrieved based on the retrieved personality attributes, the template defining content presentation parameters in respect of the personality attributes. Content is formatted associated with the request using the parameters of retrieved template. The formatted content is presented on the display of the computing device associated with the user ID.
US10062291B1
Systems and methods providing improved flight guidance are described. In some implementations, performance data from a plurality of completed flight segments of an aircraft are recorded and used to generate and/or update a regression model between one or more input parameters and one or more output parameters. Flight profile data for a current flight segment of the aircraft is estimated using the regression model and compared to flight profile data predicted based on pre-programmed performance data. The estimated and predicted flight profile data are compared to determine if a difference between the two exceeds a predetermined amount and flight guidance for a current flight segment is generated based on the estimated flight profile data if the difference exceeds the predetermined amount.
US10062283B2
A device for operating a parking lot, includes a communication interface, which is configured to receive a parking inquiry for a vehicle in the parking lot from a user of a communication network via the communication network, and a processor, which, in response to the received parking inquiry, configured to ascertain a parking position in the parking lot for the vehicle based on an instantaneous and/or expected number of vehicles situated in an entrance area of the parking lot, the communication interface being configured to transmit the ascertained parking position via the communication network to the user so that the vehicle may park in the ascertained parking position. Also described is a method for operating a parking lot and a computer program therefor.
US10062274B2
A notification system operating in a healthcare setting maintains information in alarm messages received from each of a plurality of call points and in messages received from clinicians, and operates on this information to determine whether a clinician is currently suffering from alarm fatigue or is at risk of suffering from alarm fatigue at some future time.
US10062243B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes input unit that inputs commodity information indicating a commodity to be registered, setting unit that sets the number of pieces of the commodity, measurement unit that measures weight of the number of pieces of the commodity, first determination unit that determines whether or not a difference between the measured weight and a multiplication value obtained by multiplying a representative value of weight which is set in advance for the commodity by the number is within a range of a preset predicted width, registration unit that registers the commodity indicated by the commodity information in association with the number, second determination unit that determines a threshold range to which the difference corresponds, based on a preset threshold range of a plurality of stages, and notification unit that makes a different notification for each of the threshold ranges.
US10062235B2
The present invention provides a coin recognition unit having high recognition capacity. The coin recognition unit comprises magnetic sensors each configured to collect magnetic characteristics of a transported coin; at least one optical sensor disposed with a space from the magnetic sensors and configured to collect optical characteristics of a surface of the coin; a glass plate constituting a transport surface on which the coin is transported and having a larger size than the coin; and a controller configured to control the magnetic sensors and the at least one optical sensor and perform a recognition process, the glass plate covering at least part of each magnetic sensor and at least part of each optical sensor.
US10062231B2
Method and its enabling device for remote wireless micro-latching for security purposes, comprising at least one user or controller, one mobile communication device, and one secured device, whereas said user is enabled to open or close a micro-latch in said a secured device, for instant a safe box or a medical cabinet, allowing access to secured content, including money, ID card, checks, as well as medicine. Also disclosed is a multiplicity of said devices and their preprogrammed remote control by computer or mobile app. The micro-latching can be amplified to macro-latching, for instance by a micro-solenoid switching a high power electrical switch bank or relay, which in turn initiates industrial processes.
US10062225B2
It is presented a portable access control communication device comprising: a housing for protecting a key device, the access control communication device; a socket arranged to hold a blade of a key device, the socket comprising a connector for communication with the key device; a cellular radio communication module; and a controller. The controller is arranged to communicate, using the cellular radio communication module, with an access control device over a cellular communication network when a key device is provided in the socket such that there is electric contact between the key device and the socket. A corresponding method, computer program and computer program product area also presented.
US10062224B2
A dual or progressive access level security system and method is disclosed. The system receives or acquires one or more initial access identifiers of the user via an identity reader. In examples, the identity reader is a biometric scanner such as a fingerprint scanner that reads a fingerprint, or an antenna such as a Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna that reads an initial access identifier from a tag within a user device such as a fob or mobile phone or a Bluetooth identifier from the user's mobile computing device. In response to validation of the initial access identifier, the system presents virtual keys for the user to enter an access code. In embodiments, the virtual keys are included within a touchscreen and within a virtual projected keyboard presented by the security system. The security system grants access to the user in response to validation of the access code.
US10062223B2
An intermediary access device enables a user electronic device to communicate with a vehicle's onboard computer system. A first wireless transceiver of the intermediary access device is used to establish a secure wireless communication channel between the intermediary access device and a vehicle on-board computer system. A second wireless transceiver of the intermediary access device is used to establish a user-initiated communication channel between the intermediary access device and a user electronic device. User commands and vehicle information can then be transmitted between the vehicle on-board computer system and the user electronic device via the intermediary access device in a safe, secure and efficient manner.
US10062214B2
The present disclosure includes methods and systems for rendering digital images of a virtual environment utilizing full path space learning. In particular, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods estimate a global light transport function based on sampled paths within a virtual environment. Moreover, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods utilize the global light transport function to sample additional paths. Accordingly, the disclosed systems and methods can iteratively update an estimated global light transport function and utilize the estimated global light transport function to focus path sampling on regions of a virtual environment most likely to impact rendering a digital image of the virtual environment from a particular camera perspective.
US10062205B2
A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for generating a three-dimensional floor plan of a structure (e.g., a building, vehicle, or other structure) that includes a plurality of walls and at least one window. The three-dimensional floor plan includes internal building data such as height and orientation information for one or more rooms of the structure. The internal building data may include lighting elements and a view from the at least one window. The floor plan also includes external building data such as size, shape, location, and orientation of a second structure adjacent the first structure. The external building data may include points of interest and heavenly bodies. The system may allow a user to view the interior of a particular room and the exterior view from the particular room while manipulating the lighting conditions inside and/or outside of the particular room.
US10062192B2
Techniques are disclosed for performing flood-fill operations on vector artwork. In one embodiment, a region under a point of interest (POI) of vector artwork is rasterized and flood-filled, and an initial bounding shape around that area is used as a first guess as to the area to be filled. In other cases, the initial bounding shape is created around some initial area that includes the POI (no rasterization). In any such case, vector objects having bounding shapes that intersect the initial bounding shape are identified and fed into a planar map. After map planarization, a new bounding shape is created around a new area resulting from the planarizing and that includes the POI. In response to that bounding shape not extending beyond the initial bounding shape, a vector-based flood-fill operation can be performed on that new area. The process repeats if a new bounding shape extends beyond previous bounding shape.
US10062187B1
Example embodiments include a method that reduces consumption of computer resources in a computer system to reconstruct a shape of a multi-object image using finite terms. The method includes computing an initial function by performing V-system of degree 0 and functions of curves by performing hierarchical V-system. Norms of the functions of curves are compared with a predetermined threshold. A reconstruction function of the shape of the multi-object image is generated by summing the initial function and the functions of curves.
US10062185B2
In a method and apparatus for reducing variability of representations of regions of interest in reconstructions of original imaging data, a processor performs a reconstruction on the original imaging data to provide original image data, applies a filter to the original image data to provide filtered image data, displays the original image data to a user as an original image, at said display monitor, receives input parameters from the user to define a volume of interest, applies the input parameters to the filtered image data to generate a contour defining the volume of interest in the filtered image data, and displays the contour defining the volume of interest in the filtered image data to the user on the original image at said display monitor.
US10062182B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics with improved content presentation.
US10062181B1
The present invention describes exemplary embodiments of a method and apparatus for transmitting raster graphics. The method comprises determining a region, from 3D scene information for quality adjustment in a raster sequence of frames, wherein the raster sequence is generated by a graphics processing unit (the GPU) and consumed by an image encoder and the 3D scene information is provided by the GPU to the image encoder via shared memory and adjusting, by the image encoder, quality for the region according to the 3D scene information and a resource target for encodings of the raster sequence of frames.
US10062169B2
A method of providing a descriptor for at least one feature of an image comprises the steps of providing an image captured by a capturing device and extracting at least one feature from the image, and assigning a descriptor to the at least one feature, the descriptor depending on at least one parameter which is indicative of an orientation, wherein the at least one parameter is determined from the orientation of the capturing device measured by a tracking system. The invention also relates to a method of matching features of two or more images.
US10062168B2
An apparatus includes: an input configured to receive a plurality of images, wherein the images include respective sub-images of a bodily part of a subject, and wherein a position of the bodily part relates to a breathing movement and a cardiac movement of the subject; a first registration engine configured to determine a first registration of at least two breathing correlated images, wherein the at least two breathing correlated images comprise two of the plurality of images or are derived from at least some of the plurality of images; a second registration engine configured to determine a second registration of at least two cardiac correlated images; and a volumetric image generator configured to generate a volumetric image using the first registration and the second registration.
US10062156B2
An inspection method includes receiving a plurality of inspection images of a substrate. The method includes generating a first noise image from a first image from the first channel and an additional noise image from the additional image from the additional channel. The method further includes generating a first signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) image from the first noise image and an additional SNR image from the additional noise image and identifying one or more first pixel candidates in the first SNR image and in the additional SNR image. The method further includes combining image data from the first SNR image and image data from the additional SNR image at common pixel candidate sites based on the one or more identified first pixel candidates and the one or more identified additional pixel candidates to form a combined image used to detect defects on the substrate.
US10062154B1
Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with image processing operations are disclosed that provide image contrast enhancement. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes histogram stretching logic to generate a stretched histogram. The stretched histogram is generated by compressing an enlarging a contrast of brightness bins of an equalized histogram of brightness component values formed from a previous input frame of image pixel data. Flat region detection logic classifies pixels of the previous input frame of image pixel data as being flat pixels or non-flat pixels, and counts a number of the flat pixels. Noise detection logic classifies the flat pixels as being noisy pixels or non-noisy pixels, and counts a number of the noisy pixels. The number of noisy pixels and characteristics of the stretched histogram are used to enhance the contrast of a current input frame of image pixel data.
US10062148B2
Provided are a method and a device for converting a White-Red-Green-Blue (WRGB) color filter array into a Red-Green-Blue (RGB) color filter array in order to be easily applied to a commercial digital camera. The method includes (a) correcting a color of a White-Red-Green-Blue (WRGB) color filter array, (b) converting the WRGB color filter array into a Red-Green-Blue (RGB) color filter array, and (c) correcting a green of the RGB color filter array by using multichannel color difference value.
US10062145B2
The invention relates to a method for mapping the crystal orientations of a polycrystalline material, the method comprising: receiving (21) a series of images of the polycrystalline material, which images are acquired by an acquiring device in respective irradiation geometries; estimating (22) at least one intensity profile for at least one point of the material from the series of images, each intensity profile representing the intensity associated with the point in question as a function of irradiation geometry; and determining (24) a crystal orientation for each point in question of the material by comparing (23) the intensity profile associated with said point in question to theoretical signatures of intensity profiles of known crystal orientations, which signatures are contained in a database.
US10062144B2
A spherical harmonic is defined which is an operationally optimal small finite subset of the infinite number of spherical harmonics allowed to exist mathematically. The composition of the subset differs depending on its position on virtual hemisphere. The subsets are further divided into small spherical tesserae whose dimensions vary depending on the distance from the hemispherical center. The images of the outside visual scenes are projected on the flat surface of the webcam and from there are read and recalculated programmatically as if the images have been projected on the hemisphere, rotational invariants are then computed in the smallest tesserae using numerical integration, and then invariants from neighboring tesserae are added to compute the rotational invariant of their union. Every computed invariant is checked with the library and stored there if there is no match. The rotational invariants are solely used for visual recognition and classification and operational decision making.
US10062140B2
In a graphics processing system, when rendering plural views of the same scene (step 43), such as for stereoscopic rendering, the vertex shading operation is configured so that rather than executing the vertex shader program separately for each view that is being rendered, a single vertex shading program is executed once for all the views. The vertex shader program that is executed is configured to, for view-dependent operations, perform the respective operation separately for each view (step 48), so as to derive an appropriate vertex shaded output attribute value for each view, and is configured to, for vertex shading operations that are not dependent upon the view being rendered, perform those vertex shading operations only once for the set of views and to provide only a single vertex shaded output value for each vertex attribute in question for the set of views (step 49).
US10062136B2
The image display control program described below is stored on a recording medium. The program causes a client computer to execute a process including, detecting a stopping signal indicating that operations performed on an image have been stopped, performing control so as not to display images based on image data packets that are received after the detection, opening a second communication port that is different from a first communication port that communicates the image data packets, when the stopping signal is detected, transmitting, to a server via the first communication port, the stopping signal and port identification information of the second communication port, receiving, via the second communication port, a current still image corresponding to the stopping of the operations that the server transmits in response to the stopping signal, and displaying the current still image after an image that has been displayed immediately before the stopping of the operation.
US10062127B1
A computerized method for optimizing a corporation's real estate lease portfolio to reduce over-market leases, while at the same time helping to efficiently pick new lease locations that best meet corporate objectives. This system scores various potential new lease Comps in accordance with customer selected and weighted factors, including a novel set of Key Selected Driver factors that rate a building's suitability to the customer's needs, according to an algorithmic scoring system. The system also comprises a financial modeling section that extrapolates both projected present Site's lease costs, inclusive of operating expenses and projected alternate locations (Comp's) lease costs, inclusive of estimated operating expenses into the future, calculates projected savings, and presents the results in the form of a comparison to market benchmark. The system also determines the percentage of Utilization that the corporation is achieving compared against the maximum Capacity of their real estate.
US10062126B2
Embodiments are provided for controlling a fleet of vehicles and drones. The vehicles are directed to respectively drop off passenger groups at multiple locations. Routes are calculated routes for the vehicles to respectively pick up the passenger groups from the multiple locations based on predicted pick-up times, passenger group sizes and available vehicle capacities. One or more assign drones are assigned to each passenger group at each location. Each drone is configured to broadcast a current location of the passenger group in the location and a corresponding one of the predicted pick-up times and delay the corresponding passenger group in the location based on one of the vehicles assigned as a pick-up vehicle for the passenger group being delayed.
US10062123B2
Methods and systems may involve identifying metadata associated with a local application, and using an operating system-independent chat protocol to pass the metadata to a remote application. The metadata may include information to be presented to a user of a device executing the remote application, information to be used to locate more information for presentation to the user of the other device, information to be used to coordinate operation of multiple devices, and so forth. In one example, the metadata is passed using a protocol such as XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol).
US10062116B2
A system and methods are developed for providing market data in an electronic trading environment. One example method includes determining a probability model comprising a probability corresponding to a change in relation to a market data parameter, then, using the probability to generate a compressed bit stream representing the market data parameter, and providing the compressed bit stream to the client terminal.
US10062107B1
Techniques to facilitate security transactions in a preferred currency, regardless what original or market currency the securities are being traded in and where the transaction may take place, are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a three-tier architecture is presented and includes a brokerage, a market exchange and a currency exchange. Through a consolidated trading platform, the brokerage presents all prices, quotes, transactions or settlements in a preferred currency, in conjunction with the market exchange and the currency exchange. As a result, a trader always knows exactly what he/she may end up with a transaction of an asset.
US10062103B2
Native e-commerce transactables for social and other familiar and/or suitable user environments are enabled. A user of a network site may interact with a transactable to conduct a transaction with a 3rd party without leaving a user environment of the network site. The transactable may be configured to adopt the “look and feel” of the network site into which it is incorporated. While conducting the transaction with the transactable, the user may perceive that they remain at the network site, even though transaction information may be exchanged with a 3rd party network site. The transaction mediation service may obtain social activity data from a plurality of social network sites, as well as merchant activity data (e.g., transaction activity) from a plurality of merchant network sites. The data of each suitable network site may be translated, transformed and/or normalized into a unified and uniform format maintained by the transaction mediation service.
US10062102B2
A method, system and computer readable medium are capable of identifying information to display. The method includes identifying a location of a display device. The method includes identifying, in response to a user input, places within a predetermined distance of the location of the display device. The method includes identifying current information about items or services available at the identified places. The method includes displaying, on the display device, the current information about the items or services available at the identified places within the predetermined distance of the display device.
US10062100B2
Techniques disclosed herein identify visitors who visit a real-world shopping venue as belonging to a group. This involves tracking a physical action of a visitor present at the real-world shopping venue and identifying the visitor based on the tracked physical action and previously collected visitor information associated with the venue. The visitor is determined to be a member of a group based on the previously collected visitor information. Based on determining that the visitor is a member of the group, a notification is sent to another member of the group. The notification identifies that the visitor has placed at least one item in a sharing cart while the visitor is present at the real-world shopping venue. A system determines that visitors who routinely visit a real-world shopping venue belong to a group based on their activities while visiting the venue, and allows the visitors to provide feedback to each other.
US10062097B2
Devices, systems, and methods include a three-dimensional (3D) scanning element, an electronic data storage configured to store a database including fields for 3D scan data and demographic information, a processor, and a user interface. In an example, the processor obtains 3D scan data of a body part of a subject from the 3D scanning element, analyzes the 3D scan data for incomplete regions, generate a composite 3D image of 3D scan data from the database based on similarities of demographic information, and overlays composite 3D image regions corresponding to incomplete regions on the 3D scan data.
US10062096B2
A computer-enabled transaction system provides a list of items for purchase in response to a user request for an item. The system filters prospective items based on eligibility which includes availability of the item for purchase. Eligible items are ranked based on generated revenue per impressions wherein impressions include previous viewings of the items. The ranked, eligible items are then displayed in a list to the user with preferential displaying of the higher ranked items.
US10062090B2
In one embodiment, branded 3D digital assets are displayed on a client machine. The client machine is configured to determine a proportion of a branded 3D digital asset displayed on screen of a graphical user interface and obtain a percentage of the screen of the graphical user interface that the branded 3D digital asset is covering using a screen bounding function of a 3D engine of the online environment. A computer server is configured to receive an objective related to a placement of the branded 3D digital asset, the objective determining when to display the branded 3D digital asset. The server then determines whether the objective has been achieved, and if so, prevents display of the branded 3D digital asset for a predetermined period of time.
US10062086B2
A method for operating a bonus system includes providing a driver account associated with a driver by a database, acquiring data relating to the driver by an application installed on a mobile terminal, acquiring data on the vehicle side of at least one motor vehicle of the driver by at least one acquisition device on the motor vehicle side, transmitting the acquired data to the database, creating an electronic life career associated with the driver account based on the data transmitted to the database, and assigning respectively preset bonus points to the driver account as soon as it has been acquired based on the electronic life career that respective preset events have been achieved. Preset benefits can be redeemed depending on the bonus points assigned to the driver account.
US10062082B2
A method and a system are provided for identifying payment card holder hobbies or interests. The method includes retrieving from one or more databases a first set of information comprising payment card transaction information, payment card holder information and merchant information. The method further includes analyzing the first set of information to construct one or more groupings of merchants based on merchant line of business or merchant association with a hobby or interest; analyzing the first set of information to identify one or more payment card holder purchase behaviors; and associating the one or more payment card holder purchase behaviors with the one or more groupings of merchants to identify one or more payment card holder hobbies or interests. The method and system provide advantages in fraud prevention, and can also be used by merchants or businesses to better target customers or enhance existing customer relationships.
US10062080B2
A system for enforcing energy regulations is described. The system helps building departments maximize energy savings from the energy regulation enforcement process. The system is configured to optimize enforcement given a fixed level of enforcement resources within a building department. Optimization is achieved through the use of building science and sampling systems to structure building-by-building specialized inspection lists, which are delivered to building inspectors. Information collected during the inspection process is used to determine amounts of money that can be saved via complying or not complying with specific provisions of the energy regulations.
US10062073B2
A BLUETOOTH low energy mobile payments system may comprise a BLE beacon that is deployed at a merchant location. The BLE beacon may be associated with a specific merchant terminal. The BLE beacon may be configured to broadcast a unique beacon ID that is detectable by a user device. The user device may be configured to communicate the beacon ID to a payment system. In response to receiving the beacon ID, the user device may initiate a payment between a user and a merchant, via a user device and a merchant terminal.
US10062068B1
In an embodiment, the present invention is a method of compiling a register for processing a transaction. The method includes: providing a scanner having a housing with a first and second side that are opposite each other; providing a data capture device that is configured to capture data contained in a target being swiped past the housing; providing a controller operably connected to the data capture device, and operable to maintain the register and identify a direction of the target being swiped; adding an item associated with the target to the register by swiping the target past the housing and the data capture device in a first direction from the first side to the second side; and removing the item from the register by swiping the target past the housing and the data capture device in a second direction from the second side to the first side.
US10062065B2
To provide a settlement system capable of being switched between a cash desk payment style and a pay station payment style at a given timing in the same store. The present invention is a settlement system including a cash settlement apparatus and a cash register, wherein a layout is capable of being switched between a cash desk payment style in which the cash settlement apparatus is incorporated in a cash register lane, and a pay station payment style in which the cash settlement apparatus is separated from the cash register lane.
US10062056B2
A method for updating an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, the email message belonging to a thread of email messages received by the data processing system, the method comprising: determining whether one or more of the email messages in the thread was received after the email message is opened on the display screen; and, if so, displaying an update message on the display screen indicating that one or more of the email messages in the thread was so received.
US10062049B2
Systems and processes for tracking the status of an item are disclosed. Systems and processes for decommissioning identifying information from pharmaceutical product containers are disclosed.
US10062040B2
An automated kiosk and related apparatus provide check-in and boarding services to energy sector passengers, such as helicopter passengers. Preferably, the kiosk and related apparatus can take and store a picture of the passenger, calculate and/or measure the weight of the passenger and the passenger's luggage, print luggage tags and boarding printouts, check third parties' databases (such as a no-fly list (NFL)) for approval for the passenger's flight and can transmit data to another location (server, third party employer, pilot).
US10062037B2
A self-assembling learning system and apparatus determines self-assembling actions that are expected to reduce uncertainties that are embodied as probabilities and then updates the probabilities in accordance with information that results from the performing of the self-assembling actions. The updated probabilities inform the determination of subsequent self-assembling actions. Neural networks, simulations of multiple potential self-assembling actions, and expected values of information may be applied in determining the self-assembling actions that are to be performed. Sensors may be applied to receive information that inform the updating of probabilities, and the self-assembling apparatus may be a robotic device. Self-assembling actions may comprise modifications to relationships between elements of a computer-implemented system.
US10062022B2
A two-dimensional information code is provided. Inside the information code, specification Patten regions, a recording region, and an information addition region are arranged. In the specification pattern region, predetermined-shape specification patterns are arranged. Data expressed by a plurality of types of cells are recorded in the data recording region. Additional information, which is different from the data recorded in the data recording region, can be recorded in the information addition region.
US10062019B2
Print data generated in a page description language can be processed using a processor. The processing can include checking whether conditions specified in trigger information are satisfied for at least one page of the document and/or for the entire document. Based on the checking, an action associated with the trigger information can be executed that changes the print data. The print data supplied as input print data can be output as output print data after the execution of the action. For example, images, text, barcodes, and/or graphics may be inserted via in the action. Finishing options may also be added, or fonts may be changed.
US10062017B2
A print engine is adapted to print image data from a plurality of pre-processing systems that supply image data at different image resolutions and halftoning states. A data interface receives the image data and associated metadata including an image resolution parameter and a halftone state parameter. A metadata interpreter interprets the metadata and determines image processing operations that are required to prepare the image data for printing using a printer module. A resolution modification processor module processes the image data to modify its resolution if the metadata interpreter determines that the image resolution of the image data does not match the printer resolution. A halftone processor module processes the image data by applying a halftoning operation if the metadata interpreter determines that the image data is not in an appropriate halftoning state.
US10062008B2
A method for classifying an object in image data to one out of a set of classes using a classifier, said image data comprising an image of the object, each class indicating a property common to a group of objects, the method comprising the steps of obtaining said classifier used to estimate for an input feature vector a probability for each of the set of classes, one probability indicating whether the input feature vector belongs to one class; extracting a feature vector from said image data; using the obtained classifier to estimate the probabilities for the extracted feature vector; and evaluating the estimated probabilities for determining whether the object does not belong to any one of the set of classes based using a quality indicator.
US10062007B2
An apparatus stores a plurality of partial programs, which are constituent elements of an image recognizing program that detects a position of a template image on an input image. The apparatus creates a plurality of individual programs each being a combination of at least two of the plurality of partial programs, and calculates a similarity map that associates similarity with the template image with each pixel of the input image by using each of the plurality of individual programs. The apparatus calculates fitness for each of the plurality of individual programs, based on a distribution of the similarity map, selects an individual program for which the fitness is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold, from among the plurality of individual programs, and outputs the selected individual program as the image recognizing program.
US10061994B2
A driving-support-image generation device of the present invention comprises: a character recognizer that recognizes a character in an image indicative of a message content of a messaging object posted on a road or around a road; and an image processor that generates, based on the character recognized by the character recognizer and driving-support information related to the character, a driving-support image obtained by modifying the image of the messaging object into an image matched to the driving-support information.
US10061991B2
A method of displaying data in a data visualization computing system is described. Various methods of displaying the data are described including using a timeline, the data being aggregated based on time periods wherein the timeline consists of a plurality of time period sizes, the current selected time period covering the smallest time period, the period furthest on the timeline from the current selected period covering the largest time period, the timeline consisting of at least one time period of each time period size. Also described are improved methods of data selection and display.
US10061989B2
A learning system (100) includes an information transfer apparatus (10) and a learning processing apparatus (20). The information transfer apparatus (10) includes: an analysis unit (11) that obtains data serving as a learning target, compares the obtained data with a reference model, and assigns, to the data, an index indicating a degree of worthiness of the data as the learning target; and a transmission processing unit (12) that transmits the data to the learning processing apparatus (20) based on a rule that has been set using the index. The learning processing apparatus (20) includes a learning processing unit (21) that updates the model or generates a new model based on the data transmitted from the information transfer apparatus (10).
US10061984B2
A device may receive one or more images captured by an image capture system. The one or more images may depict one or more objects. The device may process the one or more images using one or more image processing techniques. The device may identify the one or more objects based on processing the one or more images. The device may identify a context of the one or more images based on the one or more objects depicted in the one or more images. The device may determine whether the one or more objects contribute to a value of one or more metrics associated with the context. The device may perform an action based on the value of the one or more metrics.
US10061978B2
A device (1) for measuring muscular capacity. The device includes removable fastening device (12) for fastening the device to the athlete or to the moved weight (3; 2). An autonomous electrical power supply means (15), and a display (11) are provided. A three-axis accelerometer (14) delivers a sequence of accelerations (a(t)) along the axis of movement of the weight. The sequence includes at least 100 measurements per second over a duration between 1 and 10 seconds. A data processing device (16) determines, at the end of the test, on the basis of the sequence of accelerations, at least one quantity representative of the muscular capacity of the athlete and displays this quantity on the display (11).
US10061977B1
A system and method for determining a mood for a crowd is disclosed. In example embodiments, a method includes identifying an event that includes two or more attendees, receiving at least one indicator representing emotions of attendees, determining a numerical value for each of the indicators, and aggregating the numerical values to determine an aggregate mood of the attendees of the event.
US10061972B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods for determining a presence and an amount of an analyte in a biological sample. The systems and methods for determining the presence of an analyte utilize a plurality of images of a sample slide including multiple fields-of-view having multiple focal planes therein. The systems and methods utilize algorithms configured to balance the color and grayscale intensity of the plurality of images and based thereon determine if the plurality of images contain the analyte therein.
US10061966B2
A fingerprint identification apparatus includes a fingerprint identification IC chip, a polymer film substrate and a decorative layer. The fingerprint identification IC chip comprises a plurality of metal bumps arranged on one side of the fingerprint identification IC chip. The polymer film substrate comprises a plurality of conductive pads and arranged on one side of the fingerprint identification IC chip with the metal bumps. At least part of the conductive pads is corresponding to and electrically connected to the metal bumps. The decorative layer is arranged on one side of the polymer film substrate opposite to the fingerprint identification IC chip.
US10061964B2
A press sheet for fingerprint reader and a fingerprint reader are provided. The press sheet includes a transparent substrate, a microstructure layer, and a diffusion layer. The transparent substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface faces towards an optical imaging apparatus. The microstructure layer is disposed on the first surface of the transparent substrate, and the diffusion layer contains diffusion particles.
US10061962B2
A fingerprint identification module includes a substrate, a fingerprint sensor die, a covering adhesive layer, a cover plate and a mold compound layer. The fingerprint sensor die is attached on the substrate for sensing a fingerprint image. The covering adhesive layer is formed on a top surface of the fingerprint sensor die. The cover plate is attached on the covering adhesive layer. The mold compound layer is formed over the substrate. The fingerprint sensor die, the covering adhesive layer and the cover plate over the substrate are molded together through the mold compound layer, and the cover plate is exposed. The fingerprint identification module has small thickness and enhanced sensing accuracy.
US10061956B1
A reflected light identification (RLID) system uses light to communicate stored information across long distances with minimal interference. The RLID system may include a light source that directs an incident light signal to an RLID structure, which then transmits an encoded light signal to a sensor. The RLID system may include a passive RLID structure (i.e., a structure that does not include power source) such as an RLID reflection surface that includes layered reflective films that reflect the incident light signal back in multiple reflections that serially encodes data. The RLID system may also include an active RLID structure (i.e., a structure that includes power source) that uses energy harvesting to extract and accumulate power from an incident light signal, and then uses the harvested energy to transmit a return signal.
US10061947B2
A wireless user authentication system uses an AIDC device and a wireless reader to verify the identity of an individual. The AIDC device is a key fob that contains the user's credentials. The wireless reader is a device that wirelessly interrogates the AIDC device to ascertain the user's credentials. The wireless reader has a casing an interface window, a component cavity, a control panel, multiple antenna spacers, an antenna, and a processing unit. The casing is an enclosure that houses the components of the wireless reader within the component cavity. The interface window is hole that enables the user to access the control panel. the antenna spacers are rigid beams that retain the processing unit in a position that is offset from the control panel. Additionally, the antenna is wound around the antenna spacers and retained in a configuration that facilitates wirelessly communicating with the AIDC device.
US10061938B2
A streams manager determines which portions of a streaming application process sensitive data, and when performance of the streaming application needs to be increased, selects based on the sensitive data which portion(s) of the streaming application can be moved to a public cloud. The streams manager then interacts with the public cloud manager to move the selected portion(s) of the streaming application to the public cloud. This may include cloning of processing elements or operators to a public cloud, then splitting tuple attributes so tuple attributes that do not include sensitive data can be processed in the public cloud while tuple attributes that include sensitive data are processed in a secure system. The tuple attributes are then recombined into full tuples in the secure system. The streams manager thus protects the integrity of sensitive data while still taking advantage of the additional resources available in a public cloud.
US10061934B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer-readable media for accessing a wearable computing system using randomized input origins for user login. In a particular embodiment, a method provides presenting a user with a first origin on which user login information is based, wherein the first origin is randomly selected from a plurality of possible origins. The method further provides, receiving first motion information from the user indicating a first position relative to the first origin that corresponds to a first element of the user login information. Upon receiving the user login information, the method provides determining whether the user login information authorizes the user to access the wearable computing system.
US10061928B2
In general, the invention provides a computer architecture designed for enhanced data security. In embodiments, the architecture comprises two sub-systems, each with their own processing units and memories, and a defined set of interfaces that interconnect the two sub-systems and the external world. One sub-system is designed to provide a familiar environment for running computer applications. The other sub-system is designed to provide a secure bridge between the first sub-system and users via input and output devices.
US10061916B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for measuring peer influence on a child may include (i) monitoring computing activity on at least one endpoint device of a child to identify (a) baseline behaviors that indicate expected behavior patterns of the child (b) an unusual behavior of the child that indicates a deviation from the baseline behaviors, (ii) identifying, based at least in part on the monitored computing activity, a peer of the child associated with the unusual behavior, (iii) determining, based at least in part on a comparison between the baseline behaviors and the unusual behavior, a level of influence the peer has on the child, and then (iv) performing a computing security action that prevents the child from engaging in potentially harmful behaviors by providing, to a guardian of the child, the level of influence of the peer. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10061907B2
A file validation method and system is provided. The method includes retrieving from an authoritative source system, an artifact file. Identification information identifying a requesting user of the artifact file is recorded and associated metadata and a modified artifact file comprising the metadata combined with the artifact file are generated. An encryption key including a first portion and a second portion is generated and the first portion is stored within a central key store database. An encrypted package comprising the modified artifact file and the second portion of the key is generated.
US10061901B2
The present invention relates to a prediction method for a mixed solvent for minimizing the amount of single solvents used, and to a system using same, and more specifically to a novel evaluation method that can predict a mixed solvent that minimizes the amount of single solvents used by using a graph-based mixing ratio dependent solubility estimation (G-MRDSE) that can calculate the maximum composition of additional solvents in a mixed solvent, and a system using same.
US10061898B2
An avatar-based charting method for assisted diagnosis to improve the efficiency of medical practice. Through an anthropomorphic symptom record interface, the first page is the Genetic-Psycho-Social-Bio (GPSB) which assists in understanding the genetic, psychological, social-environmental, and biological characteristics of patients. A Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan (SOAP) diagnosis page aids in doctor diagnosis. A decision support diagnostic summary interface automatically generates the diagnosis summary and notifies of any unusual circumstances. Finally, a medical records module saves all information into a medical database in order to provide health care for subsequent tracking and evaluation.
US10061892B2
Medical item identification information is stored in association with information indicating locations at which medical items are placed in a medical item tray. An RFID reader acquires tray identification information from an RFID tag on the tray. An RFID reader also acquires item identification information from an RFID tag on the medical item to be placed in the tray. A database stores medical item identification information in association with tray identification information and tray zone information. The tray zone information indicates particular zones of the tray in which particular items are to be placed. A computer processor processes the medical item identification information, the tray identification information and the tray zone information, and executes instructions to generate a first image depicting a type of medical item tray as indicated by the tray identification information, and a second image that depicts a zoomed in portion of the first image as indicated by the tray zone information.
US10061890B2
Disclosed herein are methods for determining the copy number of a chromosome in a fetus in the context of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis. In an embodiment, the measured genetic data from a sample of genetic material that contains both fetal DNA and maternal DNA is analyzed, along with the genetic data from the biological parents of the fetus, and the copy number of the chromosome of interest is determined. In an embodiment, the maternal serum is measured using a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarray, along with parental genomic data, and the determination of the chromosome copy number is used to make clinical decisions pertaining to the fetus.
US10061889B2
Disclosed herein are methods for determining the copy number of a chromosome in a fetus in the context of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis. In an embodiment, the measured genetic data from a sample of genetic material that contains both fetal DNA and maternal DNA is analyzed, along with the genetic data from the biological parents of the fetus, and the copy number of the chromosome of interest is determined. In an embodiment, the maternal serum is measured using a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarray, along with parental genomic data, and the determination of the chromosome copy number is used to make clinical decisions pertaining to the fetus.
US10061888B2
Apparatus and associated methods may relate to a system for predicting a respirator fit by comparing a respirator model in a deformed state to a specific facial model. In an illustrative example, an internal measurement may be calculated between an inside part of the respirator model and the facial model. The internal measurement may be compared against a predetermined threshold to determine a fit of the respirator model, for example. In various implementations, the internal measurement may be a distance and/or a volume between the respirator and facial model. In some implementations, a 3D representation of the respirator model may be displayed upon a 3D representation of the facial model. In some implementations, a color-coded facial display may characterize areas of comfort and discomfort with respect to the respirator model. For example, areas of comfort and discomfort may be objectively determined in view of an applied pressure by the respirator.
US10061880B2
A method and apparatus for simulating radio frequency propagation paths between radio frequency devices are provided. In an illustrative embodiment, the apparatus comprising a system controller for receiving and processing test data, a data sequencer configured to interact with attenuators and RF devices, and RF paths designed to simulate RF propagation paths. The method comprising steps to execute a full simulation.
US10061877B2
A method for modeling a material at least partially-defined by atomic information includes, for each of a plurality of configurations of the material, determining energy moments for a density of states of the respective configuration of the material, and generating a tight binding Hamiltonian matrix for the respective configuration of the material. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of configurations of the material, forming a tight binding model of the configuration of the material by resolving a linking of (i) the energy moments for the density of states of the material to (ii) the tight binding Hamiltonian matrix for the material. Still further the method includes, based on the tight binding models for each of the configurations of the material, forming an environmentally-adapted tight binding model.
US10061863B2
A method may include automatically receiving content and metadata; automatically identifying a source metadata format of the metadata; automatically identifying a target metadata format; automatically selecting a data map to perform validation of the metadata and at least one of transforming or translating of the metadata based on the identifying of the source metadata format and the identifying of the target metadata format, wherein the transforming includes converting the metadata to the target metadata format and the translating includes converting a file type of the metadata to a target metadata file type; and automatically attempting to validate the metadata based on the data map; automatically performing the at least one of the transforming or the translating of a validated metadata when the metadata is validated based on the data map, wherein the transforming includes converting the validated metadata to the target metadata format including one or more extendible fields.
US10061856B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query for multimedia objects of an online social network from a user of the online social network; searching an index of multimedia objects to identify multimedia objects indexed with keywords that match n-grams of the search query, the keywords having been extracted from reshares associated with the multimedia objects; calculating an object-score for each identified multimedia object based on social signals; generating search results with references to the identified multimedia objects that have an object-score greater than a threshold object-score; and sending to the user one or more of the search results as part of a search-results page.
US10061844B2
The present application discloses a method, a server and a computer readable storage medium for segmenting a search query. The server receives a query segmentation request including a search query, and the search query further includes an ordered sequence of semantic elements. Each semantic element is correlated with one or more predetermined search terms each at least including the respective semantic element. The server further modifies the search terms by replacing irrelevant semantic elements with segmentation identifiers. The modified search terms are then combined to form combined search queries each of which includes the ordered sequence of semantic elements and at least one segmentation identifier that separates the semantic elements. A specific combined search query is identified based on search probabilities of the combined search queries, and the search query is segmented according to a location of at least one segmentation identifier in the specific combined search query.
US10061837B2
A method and a system for processing recommended software are disclosed. A cluster analysis module performs a cluster analysis for users based on software using information reported by the users, and determines a software list corresponding to each user cluster, and sort software in the software list according to using condition of the software. A recommendation module determines a user cluster that is the most relevant to a specific user based on software using information of the specific user, and selects top N pieces of software from a software list corresponding to the user cluster to recommend the selected top N pieces of software to the specific user, where N is a predefined value.
US10061835B2
An embodiment takes the form of a method carried out by a computing system comprising a processor and instructions for carrying out the method. The method includes (i) presenting via a user interface a plurality of data-input fields having an associated default order for user entry of respective values in the respective data-input fields, (ii) receiving respective values entered via the user interface in the respective data-input fields, (iii) storing a respective current counter value of an incrementing counter in association with receiving each respective entered value, (iv) establishing a respective user-confidence level for each of one or more of the respective entered values, wherein each established user-confidence level is set based at least in part on a comparison of the associated default order with a set of one or more of the stored counter values, and (v) outputting one or more of the established user-confidence levels.
US10061826B2
Generating and providing a content feed to a user that surfaces information items that are determined to be interesting or relevant to the user including content that is determined to be “distant” to the user is provided. Explicit user actions are used to discover peers who are not colleagues of the user (e.g., peers with whom the user does not share a close organizational relationship, peers with whom the user does not regularly communicate, etc.), but who the user indicates an interest in via his/her actions. These peers are categorized as elevated peers of the user, and information items associated with and trending around the elevated peers are surfaced to the user in a content feed.
US10061825B2
A method of recommending a friend in a first terminal is provided. The method includes generating first interest keyword information by analyzing event information of the first terminal, receiving second interest keyword information of a second terminal, comparing the first interest keyword information and the second interest keyword information, and displaying information recommending a user of the second terminal as a friend based on a result of the comparing.
US10061814B2
A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects.
US10061813B2
Techniques can construct a learner's educational context (e.g., course enrollments, subject-matter interests, and/or activity involvements) and tailor query processing using the educational context. For a given query, each concept in a set of concepts can be assigned a weight. The weight can depend on a query term in the query. For example, for a query including “North America”, a “geography” concept and a “history” concept can be determined to be related to the query, and weights can be influenced accordingly. Weights can also depend on a user's educational context (e.g., such that the “geography” weight is higher when a learner is enrolled in a geography course). A query time can also be analyzed in view of schedule data (e.g., indicating when particular topics are to be studied in a course). Weights can further depend on which concepts are recently, currently or will soon be of interest based on the schedule.
US10061812B2
A system, method, server, and computer readable medium for tracking outcome specific data. Input establishing accounts for providers serving clients is received. The accounts are stored in a server. Each of the clients is assigned to one or more of the providers in response to selections from an administrator. Data associated with each of the clients received from the providers is compiled utilizing computing or communications devices in communication with the server. The compiled data is presented visually in response to a user request.
US10061804B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product optimizes an order of execution of column join operations. A first partitioning of the first data column splits the first data column into first subsets of rows. A second partitioning of the second data column splits the second data column into a second subsets of rows. Cardinalities of sub-tables derived by a respective joining of the subsets of rows of the first and second data columns are estimated, based on the first and second value frequency information. An order of execution of multiple join operations is then optimized based on the estimated cardinalities of the sub-tables.
US10061796B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for verifying consistency between content of a native application and content of a corresponding resource that is provided separately from the content of the native application.
US10061795B2
A method and system for managing access to data. A plurality of data items is stored across a plurality of partitions according to a graph-based data model. The data model associates each data item with an identifier of a source entity pertaining to the data item, an identifier of a destination entity pertaining to the data item, and an identifier of a type of directed relationship pertaining to the data item from the source entity to the destination entity. When a lookup request is received identifying a source entity, a particular partition is identified based on the source entity identifier. A response to the lookup request is then returned that includes data item(s) from the identified partition.
US10061793B2
One or more processors evaluate whether a subset of a dataset is sorted. One or more processors process the dataset if it is determined that the subset of the dataset is sorted.
US10061784B2
Provided is a method for fusing a plurality of data, this method comprising inputting a plurality of N-dimensional uncertain data where N is a natural number not being a zero, representing the inputted plurality of uncertain data in a first form of a data set in a 2N-dimensional extended space, generating a second form of a data set by applying whitening transform WT to the 2N-dimensional extended space, acquiring a first point or first vector through a linear projection to a transformed constraint manifold from the second form of the data set and generating a N-dimensional fused data by applying inverse-whitening transform to the first point or first vector.
US10061778B1
Techniques to perform event-based synchronization of data are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received, during the course of performing a synchronization event-based synchronization with a synchronization client, that a user of the synchronization client has provided an input associated with a request to access a file or other object the changes to which have not yet been downloaded completely to the synchronization client. Download of the changes to the file other object with respect to which the input associated with a request to access is associated is reprioritized, to enable the synchronization client to provide access to the file or other object more quickly than would have been possible without the reprioritization.
US10061777B1
A lock manager configured for locking files is tested. As part of the test and based on a lock assignment plan, a process acquires locks on portions of the files. Based on a lock testing plan, a second process performs a lock verification for a portion of the locked portions. A result of this lock verification is compared to its expected result. Based on an updated lock assignment plan, the process transitions from the locks to other locks on other portions of the files. Based on an updated lock testing plan, the second process performs a second lock verification for a portion of the other locked portions. A result of this second lock verification is compared to its expected result. Based at least in part on the two comparisons, the lock manager is evaluated.
US10061774B2
Probable origination date may be derived by using a stream of data captured, for example, from the Internet and from other documentation sources such as historical information about a target object, its author, related environmental data, social media data, blogs, microblogs, posts, historical information, and/or other data sources. Techniques such as textual analysis, statistical analytics, and/or artificial intelligence may combine and correlate the information from data sources to extract clues that may indicate the original author and date of authorship. Based on the number of conflicting or validating references, and the relationships between them, a probability or confidence score in the accuracy of the analysis may be generated.
US10061756B2
Methods of facilitating the discovery of relationships between/among participants within systems for annotating visual media objects to create new associations, communities, and other relationships. These methods include processing annotations, metadata, and/or other information using one or more aggregate-behavior-visualization algorithms and displaying aggregate-behavior visualizations to users. These visualizations allow users to seek out and discover relationships and provide unique knowledge assets useful for a variety of purposes, including creating smart documents and fostering learning.
US10061753B2
Systems and methods are presented for content extraction from markup language text. The content extraction process may parse markup language text into a hierarchical data model and then apply one or more filters. Output filters may be used to make the process more versatile. The operation of the content extraction process and the one or more filters may be controlled by one or more settings set by a user, or automatically by a classifier. The classifier may automatically enter settings by classifying markup language text and entering settings based on this classification. Automatic classification may be performed by clustering unclassified markup language texts with previously classified markup language texts.
US10061751B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a computer-implemented method for providing creatives. The method comprises identifying, using one or more processors, a creative for processing, the creative including a title portion and a body portion, where the body portion includes a visual uniform resource locator (URL), the visual URL comprising a visual portion and a link to a resource. The method further comprises evaluating the visual URL for inclusion in the title portion, including determining when promotion of the visual URL satisfies one or more promotion criterion, and if so, promoting the visual URL for inclusion in the title portion. The method further comprises providing the creative including the title portion with the promoted visual URL.
US10061735B2
A USB chipset coupled between a first device and a second device is provided. A data processing unit is coupled to the first device and generates a plurality of transmission information according to first information provided by the first device. A transmitting unit is coupled to the data processing unit to transmit the transmission information to the second device and includes a converting module, a first output driving module, a second output driving module, and a transmitting-terminal selecting module. The converting module is coupled to the data processing unit to receive the transmission information in parallel and serially outputs the transmission information. The first output driving module is coupled to a first pin set. The second output driving module is coupled to a second pin set. The transmitting-terminal selecting module is coupled between the converting module and the first and second output driving modules.
US10061732B2
An electronic device includes a housing, or a ‘cover’, the housing material molded into a desired target shape and to at least partially embed a plurality of functional elements and an enabling arrangement, optionally at least partially embedded in the housing, the enabling arrangement including: a first connector with a first plurality of connecting elements to establish a connection between the plurality of functional elements and the enabling arrangement, a second connector with one or more second connecting elements to be connected a host device utilizing the functionalities associated with the functional elements, a memory for storing and retrieval of instructions, and processing elements capable of transforming signals from a one known format to another predetermined format according to stored instructions. A corresponding method is presented.
US10061727B2
A paired queue apparatus and method comprising request and response queues wherein queue head and tail pointer update values are communicated through an enhanced pointer word data format providing pointer indicator information and optional auxiliary information in a single transfer, wherein auxiliary information provides additional system communication without consuming additional bandwidth. Auxiliary information is optionally contained in a response data entry written to a response queue or in a request entry written to a request queue.
US10061720B2
A storage system includes a controller part, a data storage part, and a transfer path of a signal that couples these parts. A driver included in the controller part transmits the signal including write data on the basis of a configured parameter, a receiver included in the data storage part receives the signal, and the write data included in the signal is written into a first storage area. The controller part reads the write data from the first storage area, determines whether or not a bit error exists in the write data, changes the parameter when the bit error exists to repeat similar determination and find an appropriate parameter at which the bit error no longer exists.
US10061717B1
Techniques of protecting data involve storing a data structure in a data storage system that associates indices with respective keys. In this data structure, each index corresponds to a point in time when a respective key was put into effect. Each key may then be used to decrypt data stored in the data storage system that was encrypted during a time interval following the point in time when the respective key was put into effect, but before a later key was put into effect. During a key update process, a new key is put into effect and a new entry is created in the data structure that associates a new index with the new key.
US10061711B2
A file access method and apparatus, and a storage system are provided. After receiving a file access request from a process, a first physical address space is accessed according to a preset first virtual address space and a preset first mapping relationship between the first virtual address space and the first physical address space, where the first physical address space stores a file system. After obtaining an index node of a target file from the first physical address space according to a file identifier of the target file carried in the file access request, a file page table of the target file is obtained according to file page table information. The file page table records a second physical address space in the first physical address space. The target file is accessed according to the second physical address space.
US10061710B2
The present invention provides a storage device adopting a semiconductor device as a storage media having a nonvolatile property and must be erased for writing data, wherein the device divides and manages a logical storage space provided to a higher level device in logical page units, and manages a virtual address space which is a linear address space to which multiple physical blocks of the semiconductor device are mapped. The storage device uses a page mapping table managing a correspondence between a logical page and an address in the virtual address space, and a virtual address configuration information managing a correspondence between an area in the virtual address space and a physical block, in order to manage the correspondence between the respective logical pages and storage areas of the semiconductor device.
US10061709B2
Methods of mapping memory cells to applications, methods of accessing memory cells, systems, and memory controllers are described. In some embodiments, a memory system including multiple physical channels is mapped into regions, such that any region spans each physical channel of the memory system. Applications are allocated memory in the regions, and performance and power requirements of the applications are associated with the regions. Additional methods and systems are also described.
US10061704B2
A data storage device includes a data storage medium having a plurality of data blocks. A cache includes a plurality of cache blocks. Each cache block includes a corresponding cache block address. A metadata table includes a plurality of table entries for the data blocks, respectively. Each of the table entries is configured to store the cache block address of one of the cache blocks in which data of a corresponding one of the data blocks is written. A bitmap is configured to store statuses of all of the cache blocks, respectively.
US10061703B2
Prevention of a prefetch memory operation from causing a transaction to abort. A local processor receives a prefetch request from a remote processor. A processor determines whether the prefetch request conflicts with a transaction of the local processor. A processor responds to at least one of i) a determination that the local processor has no transaction, and ii) a determination that the prefetch request does not conflict with a transaction by providing a requested prefetch data by providing a requested prefetch data. A processor responds to a determination that the prefetch request conflicts with a transaction by suppressing a processing of the prefetch request.
US10061697B2
Systems and methods for determining garbage collection (GC) scope in a distribute storage system using chunk-based storage. The systems and methods are compatible with multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) semantics.
US10061695B2
Provided herein are a memory system and an operating method thereof. A method of operating a controller for controlling a memory block including a plurality of pages includes determining whether the memory block is in an open state or a closed state, if the memory block is in the open state, reading merged metadata included in the plurality of pages, and rebuilding logical to physical (L2P) mapping data of a plurality of logical pages included in each of the plurality of pages based on the merged metadata.
US10061684B2
Technology is disclosed herein for validating a new version of a service running in parallel with a previous version of the service. In a validation environment, traffic is duplicated traffic that is inbound to the previous version of the service, for consumption in parallel by the new version of the service. In response to write operations that are prompted by the traffic, the previous version of the service is provided with regular access to the data while the new version of the service is provided with emulated write-access to the data. The non-validated replies to the traffic generated by the new version of the service are then evaluated against expected replies to the traffic generated by the previous version of the service, to identify flaws in the new version of the service.
US10061682B2
Testing computer software applications is performed by identifying first and second executable portions of the computer software application, where the portions are configured to access a data resource, and where at least one of the portions is configured to write to the data resource, instrumenting the computer software application by inserting one or more instrumentation instructions into one or both of the portions, where the instrumentation instruction is configured to cause execution of the portion being instrumented to be extended by a randomly-determined amount of time, and testing the computer software application in multiple iterations, where the computer software application is executed in multiple parallel execution threads, where the portions are independently executed at least partially in parallel in different threads, and where the computer software application is differently instrumented in each of the iterations.
US10061680B2
A quality score for a computer application release is determined using a first number of unique users who have launched the computer application release on user devices and a second number of unique users who have encountered at least once an abnormal termination with the computer application release on user devices. Additionally or optionally, an application quality score can be computed for a computer application based on quality scores of computer application releases that represent different versions of the computer application. Additionally or optionally, a weighted application quality score can be computed for a computer application by further taking into consideration the average application quality score and popularity of a plurality of computer applications.
US10061671B2
Apparatus comprising logic analyzer circuitry comprises a succession of two or more successive trigger condition detectors each configured to detect a match between a respective trigger condition and data handling activity relating to data handling transactions each having a respective transaction identifier; the succession of trigger condition detectors being configured so that a detection by a trigger condition detector of a match with its respective trigger condition enables a next trigger condition detector in the succession to initiate detection of a match with the respective trigger condition of that next trigger condition detector; and a transaction identifier detector associated with a first trigger condition detector in the succession, configured to detect the transaction identifier relating to a data handling transaction for which a match is detected by the first trigger condition detector, and to supply the detected transaction identifier to a subsequent trigger condition detector in the succession of trigger condition detectors; in which the subsequent trigger condition detector is configured to apply the detected transaction identifier as at least a part of its respective trigger condition so as to detect a match only in respect of a data handling transaction having that transaction identifier.
US10061669B2
A method for providing real time replication status for a networked virtualization environment for storage management, includes scanning metadata to identify replication status for all virtual disks (vDisks) in the networked virtualization environment, generating replication tasks for vDisks that are identified as under replicated based on the scan, performing the replication tasks, monitoring the progress of the replication tasks and determining the real time replication status of the networked virtualization environment based on the scanned metadata and the monitored progress of the replication tasks.
US10061666B1
In distributed storage environments (e.g., VPLEX®, from EMC Corporation) a director may be added while the distributed data is being replicated. However, the new director may have new splitters that do not know what to replicate and how to handle new I/Os. If I/Os are missed or lost, that information is gone forever and may be recovered only by a full resync of the volume. However, example embodiments of the present invention overcome these and other deficiencies by allowing adding a director and new splitters without interruption of the replication. Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus and a computer-program product for adding a director to storage with network-based replication without data resynchronization. The method includes obtaining distributed storage system node configuration information and performing replication in a network-based replication system according to the configuration information.
US10061659B1
Techniques to provide direct access to backup data are disclosed. An indication is received to provide access to backup data backed up previously to a target device. The backup data as stored on the target device is used to spawn on the target device a logical volume corresponding to the backup data. Access to the logical volume as stored on the target device is provided to a production host.
US10061652B2
Technologies for managing fault recovery in a cloud computing environment may be used after faults of various sizes, including faults which put total functioning capacity below subscribed capacity. Computing services have repair priorities. A fault recovery manager selects a higher priority service whose capacity is below a minimum availability, and chooses a lower priority service still above its minimal availability, and reassigns capacity from the lower priority service to the higher priority service without depriving the lower priority service of operability. Capacity reassignment continues at least until the higher priority service is at or above minimal availability, or the lower priority service is at minimal availability. Lower priority services may also be terminated entirely to free up resources for higher priority services. New deployments may be prevented until all services are at or above minimal availability. Spare capacity may be reserved against demand fluctuations or further faults.
US10061645B2
A method of memory array and link error correction in a low power memory sub-system includes embedding error correction code (ECC) parity bits within unused data mask bits during a normal write operation and during a read operation. The method also includes embedding the ECC parity bits in a mask write data byte corresponding to an asserted data mask bit during a mask write operation.
US10061635B2
A cyber physical system including at least one monitoring and safety device for monitoring various parameters of a machine with regard to the maintenance of setpoint values and for generating an error signal in the event of an error and a hard-wired interface to the Internet and a transmission and/or reception unit for transmitting and/or receiving data over the Internet, wherein the monitoring or safety device is connected to the transmission and/or reception unit for transmitting the error signal over the Internet. The hard-wired interface is connected to a controllable switch for physical disconnection and enabling of the connection between the cyber physical system and the Internet, and the cyber physical system has at least one control unit connected to the monitoring or control device for triggering the controllable switch for brief enabling of the connection between the cyber physical system and the Internet.
US10061634B2
Example methods and apparatus to detect transport faults in media presentation systems are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, a cause leading to sending of a first transport failure alert associated with a media stream, counting, by executing an instruction with the processor, a number of false alerts associated with the cause, and when the number of false alerts associated with the cause satisfies a first threshold, adjusting, by executing an instruction with the processor, a second threshold used to determine whether to generate a second transport failure alert associated with the cause.
US10061633B2
A program verification method for a nonvolatile memory device includes performing a first failure bit counting operation about a first stage to generate a first failure bit accumulated value and comparing the first failure bit accumulated value and a first failure reference value to determine a program failure. When the first failure bit accumulated value is less than the first failure reference value, a second failure bit counting operation for a second stage is performed to generate a second failure bit accumulated value. The second failure bit accumulated value is compared to a second reference value to determine a program failure. The second failure reference value is different from the first failure reference value.
US10061613B1
Systems and methods are described for handling requests to execute idempotent code in an on-demand code execution system or other distributed code execution environment. Idempotent code can generally include code that produces the same outcome even when executed multiple times, so long as dependencies for the code are in the same state as during a prior execution. Due to this feature, multiple executions of idempotent code may inefficiently use computing resources, particularly in on-demand code execution system (which may require, for example, generation and provisioning of an appropriate execution environment for the code). Aspects of the present disclosure enable the on-demand code execution system to process requests to execute code by verifying whether dependency states associated with the code have changed since a prior execution. If dependency states have not changed, no execution need occur, and the overall computing resource us of the on-demand code execution system is decreased.
US10061606B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing secure information processing. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of secure domain isolation. Moreover, the method may include configuring a computing component with data/programming associated with address swapping and/or establishing isolation between domains or virtual machines, processing information such as instructions from an input device while keeping the domains or virtual machines separate, and/or performing navigating and/or other processing among the domains or virtual machines as a function of the data/programming and/or information, wherein secure isolation between the domains or virtual machines is maintained.
US10061604B2
A computer system receives a first instruction identifier identifying a first instruction being executed by a first thread associated with a first virtual machine and receives a second instruction identifier identifying a second instruction being executed by a second thread associated with the first virtual machine. The system produces an execution record comprising the first instruction identifier, a first thread identifier identifying the first thread, a first timestamp reflecting a first real-time clock value associated with executing the first instruction, the second instruction identifier, a second thread identifier identifying the second thread, and a second timestamp reflecting a second real-time clock value associated with executing the second instruction. The system executes the first instruction by a first replay thread of a second virtual machine and the second instruction by a second replay thread of the second virtual machine in a chronological order specified by the first timestamp and the second timestamp.
US10061600B2
A control component of a computing environment activates a virtual adapter hosted on a physical adapter of a host system of the computing environment. The virtual adapter is for use by a guest of the host system in performing data input and output. The activating activates the virtual adapter absent involvement of the guest. Based on activating the virtual adapter, the control component obtains configuration information of the activated virtual adapter from the physical adapter, the configuration information generated based on the activating. The control component ascertains a configuration of the activated virtual adapter based on the obtained configuration information.
US10061594B2
A method is provided for operating a computing device, the method including verifying the contents of a protected portion of a nonvolatile memory included in the computing device, the protected portion including a first protected file that includes first instructions; in response to the protected portion being successfully verified, initiating execution of an operating system kernel, on the computing device, included in a boot portion of the nonvolatile memory, wherein the boot portion is configured to cause the computing device to execute instructions stored in a system portion of the nonvolatile memory under control of the kernel, and the system portion is not included in the protected portion; subsequent to initiating execution of the kernel, locating the first instructions via a first symbolic link to the first protected file, wherein the first symbolic link is stored in one of the system portion or the boot portion; and executing the first instructions under control of the kernel.
US10061592B2
A method for improving power, performance, area (PPA) for mixed precision computations in a processing environment. The method includes determining a braiding factor as a number of units of work encoded into a physical thread. A value of the braiding factor is determined based on a mix of precision requirements presented for individual units of work. Units of work are classified as instructions for applied code transformation based on associated precision requirements for the processing environment. Instruction inputs from specified registers are packed together into a destination register according to the determined value of the braiding factor. The packed instructions presented in vector form are executed with an instruction set architecture configured for executing packed instructions of different precisions.
US10061589B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for data speculation execution (DSX) are described. In some embodiments, a hardware apparatus for DSX comprises decoder hardware to decode a class of instructions to support data speculative execution (DSX) including an instruction to begin a DSX, end a DSX, and speculative instructions to execute during a DSX, and execution hardware to speculatively execute decoded instructions that support DSX including the speculative instructions and update speculative instruction tracking hardware.
US10061585B2
A machine instruction is provided that includes an opcode field to provide an opcode, the opcode to identify a perform pseudorandom number operation, and a register field to be used to identify a register, the register to specify a location in memory of a first operand to be used. The machine instruction is executed, and execution includes for each block of memory of one or more blocks of memory of the first operand, generating a hash value using a 512 bit secure hash technique and at least one seed value of a parameter block of the machine instruction; and storing at least a portion of the generated hash value in a corresponding block of memory of the first operand, the generated hash value being at least a portion of a pseudorandom number.
US10061579B1
The present embodiments relate to circuitry that efficiently performs double-precision floating-point addition operations, single-precision floating-point addition operations, and fixed-point addition operations. Such circuitry may be implemented in specialized processing blocks. If desired, each specialized processing block may efficiently perform a single-precision floating-point addition operation, and multiple specialized processing blocks may be coupled together to perform a double-precision floating-point addition operation. In some embodiments, four specialized processing blocks that are arranged in a one-way cascade chain may compute the sum of two double-precision floating-point number. If desired, two specialized processing blocks that are arranged in a two-way cascade chain may compute the sum of two double-precision floating-point numbers.
US10061572B2
A short pointer mode application has been loaded. Based on determining that the short pointer mode application has been loaded, an address space configured for a long pointer mode environment is reconfigured. The address space has one portion addressable by short pointers of a defined size and another portion addressable by long pointers of another defined size, and the reconfiguring includes obtaining a long pointer library, and loading the long pointer library in the one portion of the address space addressable by short pointers.
US10061567B2
Embodiments are directed towards generating applications that include multi-sized types running in managed code. During the compilation of an intermediate language version of an application, if a multi-size type is encountered, a runtime engine may perform actions to process the multi-size types. Accordingly, architecture information associated with the target computer may be determined. Data types corresponding to the architecture of the target computer and the multi-sized types may be determined based on the architecture information. Native code calls associated with an intermediate language code calls may be determined such that the parameters of the native code calls match the architecture dependent data types. And, a machine code version of the intermediate language code call may be generated. The generated machine code version of the intermediate language code may be executed with the data types specific to the target computer.
US10061559B2
Methods and apparatuses for performing arithmetic operations efficiently and quickly are described. Such arithmetic operations include, but are not limited to, multiplying 2N bit integers, multiplying multiple N-bit integers simultaneously, multiplying 2N bit complex numbers, and other multiplication operations involving coefficients, complex numbers, and complex conjugate numbers.
US10061557B1
A method of controlling audio speaker settings in a vehicle with a rear row of seating comprises: requesting an operator of the vehicle to make a choice between a first option, wherein the vehicle automatically controls audio speaker settings based on a dynamically determined occupancy state of the rear row of seating, and a second option, wherein the vehicle recommends audio speaker settings to the operator based on the dynamically determined occupancy state; dynamically determining the occupancy state; if the operator chooses the first option, then automatically controlling audio speaker settings based on the dynamically determined occupancy state; and if the operator chooses the second option, then providing recommended audio speaker settings to the operator based on the dynamically determined occupancy state. The audio speaker settings include volume.
US10061545B2
A printing apparatus includes a memory and a controller that receives, from an external apparatus, a print job for printing images on a plurality of sheets, estimates a print time of the received print job, and executes the received print job. The memory stores predetermined values which the controller uses for estimating the print time of the received print job. The stored predetermined values include (i) one predetermined sheet change time for a sheet change from a sheet of a first size to a next sheet of a second size larger than the first size, and (ii) another predetermined sheet change time for another sheet change from a sheet of the second size to a next sheet of the first size.
US10061537B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for reordering data received in a non-contiguous order into a contiguous order. In one example of the disclosed technology, an apparatus includes a number of input buffers comprising at least a first, first-in first-out (FIFO) input buffer and a second FIFO input buffer, a number of FIFO output buffers, and a reorder unit configured to store a first portion of non-contiguous data received from an image sensor in the first input buffer, store a second portion of the received data in the second FIFO input buffer, store a respective pixel of data output by the first and second FIFO input buffers at a first address location in the memory, and traverse the memory according to an order to store the respective pixels in a FIFO output buffer. The apparatus can thus be used to reorder pixel data prior to further image processing.
US10061532B2
A system includes multiple memories. Access of at least one of the multiple memories uses an interface subsystem that includes a memory controller and a distinct media controller, the memory controller to issue a transaction-level access request. The media controller is associated with at least one memory and produces, in response to the transaction-level access request, at least one command according to a specification of the at least one memory. Data is migrated from a first of the multiple memories to a second of the multiple memories, without the data traversing through a cache memory in the processor during the migrating.
US10061527B2
A memory system includes non-volatile memory. The memory system includes a controller that controls data transfer between a host and the non-volatile memory, and a power supply unit that supplies a voltage to the controller. Further, the controller includes a power supply control unit that determines the voltage supplied to a module in the controller on the basis of an operation condition determined with the host. The power supply unit adjusts the voltage supplied to the module in accordance with a command from the power supply control unit.
US10061522B2
A storage controlling system, coupled to a storage apparatus including storage disk devices, receives writing target data, generates a parity in units of parity generation of a given length for the data, and stores the data and parity into the devices. The system includes a cache memory and controller. The controller includes: a reception section receiving a writing instruction including the writing target data and information for specifying a target sector to write the data to; a decision section deciding whether processing target data is held in the cache memory, the processing target data including at least one unit of parity generation that includes sector data stored in the sector and fraction data other than the sector data; and a writing processing section updating, when the processing target data is in the cache memory, the data based on the instruction and outputting the post-update data as the writing target data to the apparatus.
US10061521B2
An operation method of a storage device, which is connected to a host through an interface sharing a memory buffer of the host, includes receiving an access command from the host, anticipating data that is expected to be requested by the host with reference to the access command, reading out the anticipated data from a nonvolatile memory device and loading the read data to a first area of the memory buffer, and in a case of being requested to load the anticipated data into a second area of the memory buffer by the host, moving the anticipated data from the first area to the second area.
US10061517B2
A data arrangement apparatus calculates evaluation values for individual relocation processes generated based on an access pattern. Each of the relocation processes indicates a relocation of some of a plurality of unit data pieces in a storage device. The data arrangement apparatus selects, amongst influence range levels whose ranges in relation to unit data pieces to be affected by the relocation differ in extent of influence, one influence range level based on the evaluation values and coefficients associated one-to-one with the influence range levels. Based on the extent of influence indicated by the selected influence range level, the data arrangement apparatus determines one or more relocation processes to be executed amongst the generated relocation processes. Based on access status after the determined relocation processes are executed, the data arrangement apparatus updates a coefficient associated with the selected influence range level.
US10061515B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a host and a memory system. The host includes a main memory. The memory system includes a memory access unit and an interface unit. The memory access unit converts a first request into transmission information. The first request is a request for data transfer toward a memory region as a part of the main memory. The interface unit transmits transmission information according to an instruction from the memory access unit.
US10061511B2
A computing device with multi-layer control: mentor layer and instruction/control layer includes a memory and one or more functional units. The computing device is configured to implement a multi-layer control structure including a data structure layer including a local high speed memory, a mentor layer, and an instruction/control layer. The local high speed memory includes one or more variables. The mentor layer includes one or more mentor circuits. The mentor circuits control actions associated with the Variables in the local high speed memory. The instruction/control layer includes one or more control circuits that interpret instructions or control operations by one or more functional units. In some embodiments, the local high speed memory implements a frame/bins structure. In some embodiments plural information is included in HLL and/or machine language.
US10061510B2
A computer keyboard includes position sensors such as capacitive sensors on each of the keys for monitoring positions of fingertips on the keys. A processor receives an indication of contact of a finger on a surface of a key, including an identity of the key and an indication of a position of the contact on the surface. The processor also receives an indication of a motion gesture comprising displacement of the position of the contact on the surface of the key. Using the identity of the key and the indication of the motion gesture, an input from a human operator is determined.
US10061503B2
The disclosed non-linear slider control enables a single control to rapidly change orders of magnitude in the scale of control by varying the bounds and quantization interval based on the value before the user begins a slide operation. The bigger the value is at the start, the larger the bounds and the interval. At the end of at least one slide control operation, the bounds and step interval value are recomputed.
US10061498B2
A graph display device includes an expression input unit, a graph display control unit, first and second display control units and a coefficient changed graph display control unit. The expression input unit recognizes a functional expression. The graph display control unit displays a graph corresponding to the recognized functional expression in a display part. The first display control unit displays a first user interface object for changing a numeric value set to a variable when a coefficient in the functional expression is the variable. The second display control unit displays a second user interface object for changing a numeric value as a constant when a coefficient in the functional expression is the constant. The coefficient changed graph display control unit displays a graph corresponding to the functional expression in which a numeric value changed by the first or second user interface object is set as a coefficient value.
US10061495B2
A method for displaying a relational diagram on a screen where at least one view of the relational diagram is larger than an available viewing area provided by the screen. The method comprises steps of detecting a predetermined action performed on a first element of the relational diagram, determining one or more relevant elements associated with the first element, and modifying a view of the relational diagram to display the first element and the one or more relevant elements on the screen.
US10061493B2
Methods for generating and editing object-inserted images is illustrated. The methods mentioned above include main image determining step; step of receiving input that determines the object; step of object being displayed on mobile device's screen; step of receiving touch input about object; step of menu about object being displayed on screen; receiving the first drag input that modifies touch point; step of displaying in overlay on main image the icon at touch point and displaying main image in the first area when touch point is placed on the menu; step of receiving the second drag input that places icon on the first point on main image; and step of generating object-inserted image with object inserted to it when touch input is finished.
US10061487B2
Systems and approaches arc provided to enable multiple user devices to share data between devices. In one scenario, a user may click on or touch a telephone hyperlink from a browser of a desktop computer to initiate a telephone call from the user's mobile phone. In another situation, a user may begin various computing tasks from a tablet in the evening, share data associated relating to her work with a business computer, and complete her tasks the next day in the office with little to no minimal disruption to her work flow. In effect, the user may “cut” or “copy” data from a first personal computing device and paste that “data” onto a second computing device.
US10061476B2
Systems and methods for content identification, selection, organization and distribution are described. Content is identified or represented by one or more moods conveyed by the content to users. Once moods are identified for the content, the content can be searched based on those moods using ranges or sensory perception. Range-based searches are performed by looking for content having corresponding ranges and ranked based on the level of correspondence. Sensory mood searches are based on a user's association with the sensory information provided. Negative limitations may be used to exclude certain content that might otherwise be ranked based on the level of correspondence. Different types of content may be presented to users through a variety of different interfaces that are appropriate for the content. Distribution of content may be structured based on the moods associated with the content.
US10061474B2
Systems and methods for providing a user interface for searching, browsing, and ordering overhead (e.g. aircraft or satellite) imagery are provided. The user interface provides a map and search bar for searching and browsing images. Images may be presented to a user based on a selected and/or displayed geographic region of interest. Browsing to a different geographic region of interest may dynamically and automatically update the images presented. The user interface allows the user to select an image for viewing and/or purchase. Selection of an image overlays the image on the map, aligned with the geographic region which the image captures. Closing the selected image re-centers and re-zooms to the original display. Presented images can be filtered based on several criteria. Images can include still images and/or videos.
US10061472B2
An information terminal enables a user to simply and easily confirm a plurality of pieces of update information handled by a plurality of various application programs without any troublesome operation. An information storage stores a plurality of different types of information. An update information storage stores a part of information updated in the information storages as update information associated with the respective types. An update information manager monitors an information update in the information storages and stores, when an information update is made in the information storages, the part of the updated information in the update information storage as update information associated with the respective types. Further, an information selector extracts the update information stored in the update information storage in time series and outputs them to display them on a screen.
US10061468B2
A system and method for providing a virtual space determines a representation of the virtual space based on information defining a personality of a character within the virtual space and/or information indicating a user's personality. The system and method may also determine the information defining the character's personality based on information regarding the user and/or information regarding the character. In some examples, the system and method may further determine information to facilitate a development of the user based on the information describing the user's personality. The system and method may also determine the user's personality based on information indicating user's personality. In some examples, the user's personality may be determined based on user's experiences within the virtual space. In some other examples, the user's personality may be determined based on information regarding the user that is acquired from sources external to the virtual space.
US10061465B2
A display apparatus, a source apparatus, and methods of providing content are provided. The display apparatus includes: a receiver which receives content data; a storage which stores frame size information corresponding to a content type; a detector which detects the content type of the content data; a video processor which forms a content frame having a frame size corresponding to the detected content type by using the frame size information stored in the storage; and a display which displays the content frame formed by the video processor.
US10061458B1
A hand-held controller includes a handle extending in a longitudinal direction. The handle is shaped and dimensioned to be grasped by a user's hand. A ring is attached to an end of the handle and has an annular surface. The annular surface defines a plane that forms a predetermined angle with respect to the longitudinal direction. A capacitive touch pad is attached to the end of the handle and has a touch surface to receive haptic input from a finger of the user's hand. The capacitive touch pad generates sensor signals responsive to receiving the haptic input from the finger of the user's hand.
US10061454B2
A method for fabricating a thin film touch screen panel includes forming an adhesive layer on a convex portion of an arcuate spherical-shaped glass, adhering a base film on the adhesive layer, and forming a transparent electrode laminate on the base file, wherein the convex portion of the glass is flattened by applying heat to the adhesive layer after forming the adhesive layer or adhering the base film, thereby the transparent electrode laminate may be formed on the straight flattened glass and the base film, and the process of forming the transparent electrode laminate may be more precisely and reliably performed.
US10061452B2
A touch display device including sensing electrodes arranged on a single layer of a touch panel and a touch detection circuit configured to determine whether an object touched the touch panel by a voltage detected by the sensing electrodes. The sensing electrodes include a first group including two first sensing electrodes spaced apart by having a second sensing electrode interposed between the two first sensing electrodes. The first group is connected to the touch detection circuit through one wire. The sensing electrodes also include a second group including one second sensing electrode. The second group is connected to the touch detection circuit through one wire.
US10061449B2
Power consumption of touch sensing operations for touch sensitive devices can be reduced by implementing a coarse scan (e.g., banked common mode scan) to coarsely detect the presence or absence of an object touching or proximate to a touch sensor panel and the results of the coarse scan can be used to dynamically adjust the operation of the touch sensitive device to perform or not perform a fine scan (e.g., targeted active mode scan). In some examples, the results of the coarse scan can be used to program a touch controller for the next touch sensing frame to idle when no touch event is detected or to perform a fine scan when one or more touch events are detected. In some examples, the results of the coarse scan can be used to abort a scheduled fine scan during the current touch sensing frame when no touch event is detected.
US10061442B2
A near-touch interface is provided that utilizes stereo cameras and a series of targeted structured light tessellations, emanating from the screen as a light source and incident on objects in the field-of-view. After radial distortion from a series of wide-angle lenses is mitigated, a surface-based spatio-temporal stereo algorithm is utilized to estimate initial depth values. Once these values are calculated, a subsequent refinement step may be applied in which light source tessellations are used to flash a structure onto targeted components of the scene, where initial near-interaction disparity values have been calculated. The combination of a spherical stereo algorithm, and smoothing with structured light source tessellations, provides for a very reliable and fast near-field depth engine, and resolves issues that are associated with depth estimates for embedded solutions of this approach.
US10061440B2
An optical touch sensing system, an optical touch sensing device, and a touch detection method thereof are provided. The optical touch sensing system includes an optical touch sensing device and a stylus. The optical touch sensing device includes a touch panel, multiple optical sensors, a first light source, and a processor. The touch panel has a touch surface. The first light source generates a first light periodically. The stylus includes a switch module and a second light source. The switch module enables the second light source to generate a second light when the stylus touches the touch surface. The processor determines a position touched by the stylus according to the first light and the second light received by the optical sensors.
US10061436B2
A touch display panel, a driving method and a touch display device are provided. Touch and display are driven synchronously in the touch display panel. That is, touch detection is implemented while the display is performed and there is no need to perform the display and the touch in different stages, thereby avoiding limiting an improvement on a report rate, and ensuring a high report rate of the touch display device.
US10061431B2
A vehicle head unit to execute an applied application relating to a connectivity service includes: a device driver configured to provide a touch signal including coordinate information of a position touched by a user on a display of the vehicle head unit; and a touch event software accelerator configured to determine whether the touch signal is a signal for controlling the applied application based on the coordinate information and configured to transmit the touch signal to a user terminal according to the determination.
US10061429B2
A touch display device can include a touch panel having a plurality of subpixels, arranged between a first substrate and a second substrate, and a plurality of touch sensors arranged in units of a certain number of subpixels; an elastic layer on the second substrate; a display driver for supplying image signals to the plurality of subpixels, respectively; and a touch driver for supplying a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch sensors and sensing a touch position and a touch pressure which is applied when a touch is input to the touch panel, based on a capacitance variation of each of the plurality of touch sensors.
US10061423B2
Various embodiments of removable user interfaces, electronic computing devices, and systems are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a body having a bend and a user interface area, a connector adapted to couple to a corresponding connector on an electronic device, and a plurality of conductive elements. The bend enables the user interface area to wrap around a portion of the electronic device when the connector is coupled to the corresponding connector on the electronic device. In another embodiment, a portable electronic system includes a removable user interface and an electronic computing device having a display surface, where the removable user interface is couplable to the electronic computing device such that the removable user interface is disposed over at least a part of the display surface.
US10061422B2
According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detecting function includes: a substrate; a display area; a touch detection electrode provided with a plurality of conductive thin wires, each of the conductive thin wires including a plurality of thin wire pieces each having a linear shape and including a first end and a second end; a drive electrode; and a display functional layer. The adjacent thin wire pieces are arranged so as to be bent at a bent portion serving as a portion at which the second end of the one thin wire piece of the adjacent thin wire pieces is connected to the first end of the other thin wire piece of the adjacent thin wire pieces, and the conductive thin wires include a bent portion having an angle formed by the adjacent thin wire pieces different from angles of the other bent portions.
US10061420B2
A first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a source line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a switching element which is connected to the gate line and the source line, and a pixel electrode which is connected to the switching element. The first substrate includes a common electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode, and a detection electrode element necessary for sensing a state of closeness of a conductor brought externally, that extends parallel to the common electrode and is formed of a metallic material. By this structure, power consumption of a drive electrode of an input sensor can be reduced, and improvement of a drive frequency can be obtained.
US10061416B2
There is provided a touch control display device, wherein, second electrodes in the organic light-emitting diodes are connected in series in the same layer in a first direction so as to form a plurality of first conductive units (105); the touch control layer comprises a plurality of second conductive units (107) arranged in parallel in a second direction, the first conductive units (105) and the second conductive units (107) are configured to be insulated from each other and to form a cross network. A touch control structure is formed by the cooperation of the first conductive units (105) consisting of the second electrodes and the second conductive units (107) in the touch control layer, thereby reducing the thickness of the touch control display device. Only the first encapsulation layer (106), the touch control layer and the second encapsulation layer (108) are configured on the light-exiting surface of the organic light-emitting diodes, which not only has a compact structure but also effectively increases the light-emitting efficiency of the touch control display device. There is also provided a preparation method of the touch control display device, wherein, during the preparation process of the second electrodes, the second electrodes are formed into first conductive units (105) that cooperate with the second conductive units (107) in the touch control layer to constitute a touch control structure, which is a simple preparation method with low process cost.
US10061413B2
An operating element which is cylindrical and has two touch panels with touch-sensitive surfaces, the touch panels being arranged on two outer sides of the operating element which face away from one another, an operating command being able to be input by touching the surfaces of both touch panels, a first focal point for touch being able to be detected on a first touch panel and a second focal point for touch being able to be detected on the second touch panel, and a direction associated with the operating command being able to be dynamically determined by the focal points of the touching of the surfaces of the two touch panels.
US10061410B2
Transmitter set for concurrent transmission, transmitting method thereof, and touch sensitive system
The present invention provides a set of transmitters which transmits signals concurrently. The set comprises a first role transmitter configured to transmit a first electrical signal according to a first role transmitter status to a touch sensitive device; and a second role transmitter configured to transmit a second electrical signal according to a second role transmitter status to said touch sensitive device. In consequence, the touch sensitive device is configured to analyze the first and the second electrical signals concurrently transmitted and to get the first and the second role transmitter status as well as a first relative position between the first role transmitter and the touch sensitive device and a second relative position between the second role transmitter and the touch sensitive device.
US10061408B2
A stylus is provided, which includes a core body, an electrode disposed adjacent to the core body, a transmitter that sends a downlink signal including switch information SW1 using the electrode, and a controller that determines whether the stylus is in contact state with an operating surface or the stylus is in hover state. In the contact state, the controller controls the transmitter to send the switch information SW1 at a first bit rate. In the hover state, the controller controls the transmitter to send the switch information SW1 at a second bit rate smaller than the first bit rate. A technical advantage includes lowering the possibility of a failure to receive downlink signals when the stylus is in hover state, even though the stylus sends the downlink signals with the same intensity as when the stylus is in contact state.
US10061401B2
The presentation of interaction sequences to a user on a mobile communications device is disclosed. A first external input corresponding to a triggering of an interaction sequence delivery is received on a first input modality. An overlay is displayed in a graphical user interface in response to receiving the external input. Interaction sequence invocation instructions are displayed within the overlay. A second external input is received on a second input modality different from the first input modality. The second external input is translated to a set of quantified values. An interaction sequence results content is then displayed within the overlay in response to a substantial match between the set of quantified values translated from the received second external input to the set of predefined values corresponding to the interaction sequence invocation instructions.
US10061397B2
Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.
US10061384B2
An information processing apparatus includes an eyeball position estimation unit that estimates an eyeball position of a user in a pupil-corneal reflection method on the basis of a captured image including an eye of the user captured when the eye of the user looking at a display surface is irradiated with light; a discrepancy estimation unit that estimates an amount of discrepancy between an eyeball position on the display surface and a visual field center of the display surface, the eyeball position being identified on the basis of the eyeball position; and an operation instruction unit that issues an operation instruction to adjust a position of a device including the display surface on the basis of the estimated amount of discrepancy.
US10061377B2
According to one embodiment, when shifting to a sleep mode, a processor of a memory device transmits a first command and saving data to a host and issues a power shut-off request. The first command is a command for writing data to a first memory of the host. The saving data includes register information. The register information includes register data stored in the control register and an address of the control register. A power supply circuit shuts off power supply to a second memory of the memory device, the control register, the processor, and a peripheral circuit in response to the issued power shut-off request.
US10061374B2
A method for dynamic frequency scaling (DFS) on the electronic systems level (ESL). The method can run in a virtual environment and dynamically scale the frequency of a virtual component based on a first transaction time and a second transaction time.
US10061372B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a communication control module, an input module and a notification module. The communication control module controls the communication with a peripheral device which is associated with the information processing apparatus. The input module receives the input of the charging state information, output from the peripheral device, which indicates the state of non-contact power supply to the peripheral device with a non-contact manner in which no mechanical connection is taken with the peripheral device. The notification module notifies, if the input module receives the input of the charging state information, the state of the non-contact power supply for the peripheral device.
US10061369B2
A system enables personal information manager (PIM) applications to continue to provide alerts and other time sensitive information even when the system upon which the PIM is stored is turned off. Automatically data may be transferred from a first processor-based system to a second processor-based system to implement time sensitive activities. The second processor-based system may provide a user notification at a predetermined time preset on the first processor-based system.
US10061367B2
A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a first body including a display and a battery receiving portion that is embedded in the first body and communicates with an opening positioned at an end of the first body, a second body including an inner housing coupled to a side of a battery, and a spring assembly positioned in the first body and providing an elastic force for the battery while contacting another side of the battery coupled to the inner housing. The first body and the second body are in at least one of states including a first state in which the second body is coupled to the end of the first body, and a second state in which an entire portion of the second body is spaced apart from the end of the first body.
US10061364B2
The present invention aims at improving a cooling efficiency and a maintenance workability related to heat generating components in a storage subsystem. Therefore, the present invention provides multiple cooling fans configured to cool multiple components for operating the storage subsystem, a first wind direction panel defining a passage configured to blow a cooling air generated by the cooling fans to a first component, a second wind direction panel defining a passage configured to blow a cooling air generated by the cooling fans to a second component having a smaller heating value than the first heat generating component and having a low temperature, and a chassis configured to store the multiple components, the cooling fans and the first and second wind direction panels, wherein the second wind direction panel is configured to be integrated with a side wall of the chassis and detachable from the chassis.
US10061363B2
Electronic devices have a PCB with a heat-generating component (e.g., POP or SOC), a heat sink, and an EMI shielding structure. A combination structure can include a top heat spreader/EMI shield located above and in thermal contact with the POP/SOC top, a bottom heat spreader/EMI shield located below and in thermal contact with the POP/SOC bottom, and a heat-directing component located on the PCB, laterally surrounding a majority of the POP/SOC sides, and between and in thermal contact with the top and bottom heat spreaders. Resulting heat paths for the POP/SOC include one through its top to the top heat spreader, another through its bottom to the bottom heat spreader, and others through its sides through the PCB through the heat-directing component to the top and bottom heat spreaders. The heat-directing component can be a metal horseshoe shaped pad integrally formed onto the PCB.
US10061360B1
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop, that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular example of the electronic device includes a hinge design that includes a first housing pinion that connects to a first housing, a first housing rack coupled to the first housing pinion, a second housing pinion that connects to a second housing, and a second housing rack coupled to the second housing pinion. The first housing rack can be curved and a portion of the first housing pinion can travel along a pinion guide that has approximately the same curved profile as the first housing rack.
US10061335B2
Provided is a voltage regulator having satisfactory transient response characteristics. The voltage regulator includes: a first amplifier for detecting that undershoot occurs in an output voltage; a second amplifier for detecting that overshoot occurs in the output voltage; a first constant current circuit for increasing a bias current of an error amplifier circuit by a first amount for a first time period in response to a signal determined based on one of an output signal of the first amplifier and an output signal of the second amplifier; a second constant current circuit for increasing the bias current of the error amplifier circuit by a second amount larger than the first amount for a second time period shorter than the first time period in response to a signal determined based on the output signal of the first amplifier; and a first switch circuit for pulling up a gate of an output transistor in response to a signal determined based on the output signal of the second amplifier.
US10061333B1
A voltage-to-current converting circuit, comprising: a direct current (DC) bias circuit, a first DC-blocking circuit, a second DC-blocking circuit, a first differential input pair and a second differential input pair; wherein the DC bias circuit is connected to the first and second DC-blocking circuits and configured to provide a bias voltage to the first and the second differential input pairs; wherein the first DC-blocking circuit is connected between the DC bias circuit and the first and second differential input pair and the second DC-blocking circuit is connected between the DC bias circuit and the first and second differential input pair; and wherein the first differential circuit is connected to the second differential circuit via two resistors.
US10061328B2
Various embodiments provide methods for controlling landings of a UAV in a landing zone including a plurality of landing bays. Various embodiments include a method implemented on a computing device for receiving continuous real-time sensor data from a transceiver and from sensors onboard the UAV, and detecting a target landing bay within the plurality of landing bays within the landing zone that is available for landing based on the continuous real-time sensor data. Orientation and position coordinates for landing in the target landing bay may be calculated based on the continuous real-time sensor data. Information regarding positions and flight vectors of a plurality of autonomous UAVs may be obtained, and a flight plan for landing in the target landing bay may be generated based on the orientation and the position coordinates, positions and flight vectors of the plurality of autonomous UAVs and a current orientation and position of the UAV.
US10061321B2
An autonomous mobile apparatus includes one or more memories and circuitry which, in operation, performs operations including determining a first control method or a second control method as a control method for controlling the autonomous mobile apparatus on the basis of information regarding another autonomous mobile apparatus, the first control method being a method for controlling the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus such that the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus autonomously moves in a certain area using a first control algorithm and the second control method being a method for controlling the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus such that the autonomous mobile apparatus or the other autonomous mobile apparatus autonomously moves in the certain area using a second control algorithm, and autonomously moving the autonomous mobile apparatus using the determined control method.
US10061320B2
A remotely operated vehicle (“ROV”) camera apparatus is disclosed. An ROV includes an anchor housing connected to a body of the ROV. The anchor housing includes a first magnet. The ROV also includes a camera connection housing configured to be rotatably connected to the anchor housing. The camera connection housing includes a connector cup configured to contact the anchor housing, a second magnet located inside the connector cup, the second magnet configured to magnetically couple to the first magnet, and a motor assembly including a motor configured to rotate a drive shaft, the drive shaft being connected to the magnet plate. The ROV further includes a camera device mechanically coupled to the camera connection housing. Actuation of the motor causes the connector cup to rotate with respect to the anchor housing causing the camera device to rotate.
US10061318B2
A fact checking system utilizes social networking information and analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The social networking fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information and/or provides a status of the information, including automatically modifying a web page to include the fact check results. The fact checking system is able to be implemented utilizing a drone device. The drone device is able to be implemented in conjunction with a security system.
US10061307B2
A production adjustment system includes a cell including a plurality of machines, a cell control device which is communicably connected to the cell, to control the cell, and a higher-level management controller which is communicably connected to the cell control device, to acquire disaster information. The cell control device includes a command unit for issuing commands to the plurality of machines based on state information of the cell, which is acquired from the at least one sensor of the cell, and disaster information acquired from the higher-level management controller.
US10061305B2
A controller has an encoder that outputs four-phase pulse signals according to a rotation of a rotor of a motor by a rule. During a rotational drive of the motor, when (i) an abnormal pulse state is observed in which the pulse signal is output in a non-compliant manner with the rule and (ii) a lapse time from a last normal output timing, which is a last timing of an output of the pulse signal by the rule, is longer than a threshold determination time, it is conclusively determined that the encoder has abnormality. Thus, the encoder is provided with an improved noise-proof character, and is prevented from being falsely determined as abnormal due to the abnormal pulse state, even when an output of the pulse signal from the encoder is temporarily ridden by a noise.
US10061300B1
The subject technology is related to methods and apparatus for discretization, manufacturability analysis, and optimization of manufacturing process based on computer assisted design models and machine learning. An apparatus determines from the digital model features of a physical object. Thereafter, the apparatus produces predictive values for manufacturing processes based on regression machine learning models. The apparatus generates a non-deterministic response including a non-empty set of attributes of manufacture processes of the physical object based on a multi-objective optimization model. The non-deterministic response complies or satisfies a selected multi-objective condition included in the multi-objective optimization model.
US10061292B2
A method for aligning a strip of labels, which contains a plurality of labels, relative to a cutting device, wherein the strip of labels is cut into labels by the cutting device that are subsequently applied to containers. In a learning mode, the strip of labels is automatically transported by a transport device and the position of the strip of labels relative to the cutting device is detected by a position sensor disposed as a first camera, and, in an aligning mode, an operator can then enter a desired cutting parameter in a machine control unit of an input unit. Information indicated of the desired cutting parameter relative to the strip of labels is then displayed to the operator on a screen, and the machine control unit controls the cutting device on the basis of the desired cutting parameter.
US10061289B2
A method and system for use in creating a profile of, managing and understanding power consumption in a premise of a user, wherein said premise comprises two or more power consuming devices comprises measuring, via at least one sensor, aggregate energy consumption at the premise, receiving at a mobile computing device comprising a data processor, said aggregated signal from the sensor, collecting and recording the aggregate signal over a plurality of time resolutions and frequencies, therein to create a predicted aggregate signal for each time x and frequency y, detecting changes in the predicted aggregate signal at time x an frequency y (detected consumption pattern changes) and conveying to at least one of the user, a utility company, and other third party a notification of detected consumption pattern changes.
US10061274B2
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system controllers are described herein. One HVAC controller includes a user interface configured to receive an indication of whether there is a positive or negative relationship between each of a number of controlled variables of an HVAC system and each of a number of manipulated variables of the HVAC system, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to determine operating parameters for each of the number of manipulated variables, wherein the determined operating parameters are determined based, at least in part, on whether there is a positive or negative relationship between each respective controlled variable and each respective manipulated variable, and the determined operating parameters are not based on system dynamics and disturbances associated with the HVAC system. The determined operating parameters may be optimal with respect to the current condition of the HVAC system.
US10061271B2
The electromechanical timepiece movement comprises a stepping motor, a wheel driven in rotation by the motor, a pinion meshing with the wheel and a device for detecting the angular position of the wheel, the detection device making it possible to determine the passage of a reference half-axis of the wheel through a reference angle defined by the wheel and the pinion and comprising for such purpose an electronic circuit capable of detecting an additional localised resistive torque when the wheel is driven in a stepping motion. The localised resistive torque is achieved by a resilient element integral with the wheel and one portion of which is at least partially superposed on a given hollow of the toothing of said wheel. The movable component has a toothing which is at least partially situated at the level of the resilient element, such that the toothing moves and presses against the resilient element when it penetrates inside said given hollow.
US10061269B2
A balance wheel-spring system including a balance wheel that oscillates about a balance wheel shaft and a spring, one inner spiral of which is fixed to the balance wheel shaft or to a collet mounted integrally with the shaft and one outer spiral of which is fixed to a stud integral with a bridge. The balance wheel includes a hub, a rim, an arm connecting the hub to the rim, a front face which includes a countersink and a rear face, the arm including a housing receiving and retaining a flyweight, and the spring being mounted opposite the front face of the balance wheel. The flyweight is mounted on the arm on the rear face of the balance wheel, the distance between the bottom of the countersink of the front face of the balance wheel and the spring is a predetermined interval between 0.05 mm and 1.50 mm.
US10061260B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly provided with an opening; a drawer movable while supporting an cartridge including a photosensitive drum between an inside position and an outside position; an optical unit in the main assembly to project light onto the drum a shutter member provided in the main assembly and movable between a closing position and an open position an operating portion to move the shutter member from the open position to the closing position in a process of movement of the drawer from the inside position to the outside position and to move the shutter member from the closing position to the open position in a process of movement of the drawer from the outside position to the inside position.
US10061249B2
In an image forming apparatus, an image forming unit forms a first image of a first color and a second image of a second color. An obtaining unit obtains information related to relative positions of a first measurement image, which is formed on an image carrier, of the first color and a second measurement image, which is formed on an image carrier, of the second color. A generation unit generates correlation data based on first information corresponding to a first image forming speed and second information corresponding to a second image forming speed. A controller, in a case where the image forming unit forms an image at the second image forming speed, corrects relative positions of the first image and the second image based on the first information in advance and the correlation data.
US10061248B2
An image forming apparatus includes a display device that displays an input screen image and a touch-panel arranged on the display device, and has a trial copy function of producing, when instructed to produce multiple copies of a document, a copy or copies to allow the user to confirm that the copy or copies are well. When the trial copy function is designated and a copy start key displayed on the input screen image is pressed, the image forming apparatus produces one copy or copies of the document, erases the copy start key from the input screen image, and displays a trial copy key, a trial end key and a balloon including help information. Since keys related to the trial copy are displayed in place of normally displayed keys, operation errors can be reduced and the user can easily execute the trial copy function.
US10061244B2
A fixing apparatus for an image forming apparatus includes: a fixing belt; a pressure roller configured to face the fixing belt; a nip forming member configured to be disposed inside the fixing belt and press the fixing belt to the pressure roller to form a nip; and first and second guide bushings configured to be disposed at both ends of the nip forming member, respectively, in which the first and second guide bushings each support both end supports both ends of the fixing belt in a state in which a part thereof is movable.
US10061242B2
In a fixing device, a windbreak plate 908 for suppressing movement of air by a cooling fan 903 toward a thermistor 912 is provided. This windbreak plate 908 is, when a fixing roller 910 and a pressing roller 920 are spaced from each other, disposed opposed to the pressing roller 920 with a distance narrower than an opposing distance between an entrance guide 905 and the pressing roller 920.
US10061241B2
A fixing device includes a rotatable cylindrical heating roller, a heat source and a pressing roller. The heat source is arranged in a hollow inner space of the heating roller. The pressing roller is pressed against the heating roller to form a fixing nip through which a sheet is passed in a sheet passing direction. The heating roller has a substrate layer and a heat conductive layer. The substrate layer is formed such that both end portions in a width direction perpendicular to the sheet passing direction are made thinner than a center portion in the width direction, within a sheet passing area through which the sheet is passed. The heat conductive layer is provided around an outer circumferential face of the substrate layer and has a heat conductivity higher than the substrate layer.
US10061239B2
A fixing device according to an embodiment includes a first rotator, a belt, and a second rotator. The belt forms a nip by abutting onto a surface of the first rotator. The second rotator is disposed to abut onto an inner circumferential surface of the belt. The second rotator presses the belt against the first rotator such that the dynamic frictional force between the inner circumferential surface of the belt and the second rotator becomes equal to or smaller than 0.98 N.
US10061223B2
In an image forming apparatus, a control unit performs a control for determining a surface potential A to determine a first voltage to be applied to a charge roller by a charge voltage application circuit so that a surface potential of a photosensitive drum becomes a first potential. The charge voltage application circuit thereafter applies the first voltage to the charge roller to charge the photosensitive drum. In such a state, the control unit performs a second control to determine a light amount of a laser light source, so that the surface potential of the photosensitive drum becomes a second potential. In such a manner, a potential of a photosensitive drum surface is detected with high accuracy. Moreover, a time taken to detect the potential of the photosensitive drum surface is shortened.
US10061216B2
An electrostatic image developing toner contains: toner particles, first silica particles having an average equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm to 120 nm and second silica particles having a compressive agglomeration degree of 60% to 95%, a particle compression ratio of 0.20 to 0.40 and an average equivalent circle diameter being greater than the average equivalent circle diameter of the first silica particles.
US10061207B2
A method for preventing or reducing contamination of an immersion type projection apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes at least one immersion space that is at least partially filled with a liquid when the apparatus projects a beam of radiation onto a substrate. The method includes rinsing at least part of the immersion space with a rinsing liquid before the apparatus is used to project the beam of radiation onto a substrate.
US10061203B2
A beam distribution optical unit serves for splitting an incident beam of illumination light into at least two emergent illumination-light beams. The beam distribution optical unit has at least one blazed reflection grating having reflective grating structures. The result is an optical unit in which a plurality of illumination-light beams are efficiently produced from one incident beam of illumination light.
US10061202B2
A micromirror of a micromirror array in an illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus can be tilted through a respective tilt angle about two tilt axes. The micromirror is assigned three actuators which can respectively be driven by control signals in order to tilt the micromirror about the two tilt axes. Two control variables are specified, each of which is assigned to one tilt axis and which are both assigned to unperturbed tilt angles. For any desired combinations of the two control variables, as a function of the two control variables, one of the three actuators is selected and its control signal is set to a constant value, in particular zero. The control signals are determined so that, when the control signals are applied to the other two actuators, the micromirror adopts the unperturbed tilt angles as a function of the two control variables.
US10061194B1
In accordance with some aspects of the present disclosure, a maskless interferomeric lithography system for fabricating a three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystal using a multiple two-beam-exposures is disclosed. The system can comprise an illumination system comprising an optical arrangement operable to receive radiation from a radiation source and provide three or more tilted two-beam interference pattern exposures to be combined into a three-dimensional pattern; and a substrate operable to be supported by a substrate table, wherein the substrate comprises a photoresist formed on a top surface of the substrate and operable to receive the three-dimensional pattern and wherein means are provided to adjust the position of the substrate in all six mechanical degrees of freedom.
US10061188B2
An illumination system including at least one light source, a reflection cover, a wavelength conversion element, and a filter element is provided. A focal point of the reflection cover is disposed on an extension line of a transmission path of an excitation beam provided by the light source, and an opening of the reflection cover is adjacent to the focal point. The wavelength conversion element penetrates through the opening, and has a light-action region. The light-action region is disposed on the transmission path of the excitation beam, and converts the excitation beam into a conversion beam. The reflection cover is disposed on a transmission path of the conversion beam. The filter element is disposed on a transmission path of the conversion beam from the reflection cover. The conversion beam from the reflection cover is obliquely incident to the filter element, and the filter element filters the conversion beam.
US10061177B2
Process for forming a multi-layer electrochromic structure, the process comprising depositing a film of a liquid mixture onto a surface of a substrate, and treating the deposited film to form an anodic electrochromic layer, the liquid mixture comprising a continuous phase and a dispersed phase, the dispersed phase comprising metal oxide particles, metal alkoxide particles, metal alkoxide oligomers, gels or particles, or a combination thereof having a number average size of at least 5 nm.
US10061168B2
According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; pixels each including sub-pixels corresponding to different color areas; a first electrode in each sub-pixel; and a second electrode facing the first electrode. The first electrode includes an electrode base portion extending in a first direction; and a plurality of comb tooth portions extending in a second direction from the electrode base portion. A slit pitch of a sub-pixel in one color area and a slit pitch of a sub-pixel in the other color area of at least two color areas out of different color areas are different in size, each slit pitch corresponding to a gap between the comb tooth portions adjacent to each other.
US10061160B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the first substrate; a first electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a first alignment layer disposed on the first electrode. The first alignment layer includes: a copolymer formed from at least one compound of cyclobutane dianhydride (CBDA) and a cyclobutane dianhydride derivative, and a first diaminean including alkylene group (—CkH2k−, k being a natural number); and a cross-linking agent including an alkylene group (—CnH2n−, n being a natural number), wherein the copolymer includes polyimide.
US10061158B2
An electronic device may be provided with a display. Backlight structures may be used to provide backlight for the display. The backlight structures may include a light guide plate. The light guide plate may include a planar extended portion that guides light along the back of the display and an integrated edge reflector along one or more edges of the planar extended portion. The planar extended portion and the integrated edge reflector may be formed from respective first and second shots of material. The integrated edge reflector may be formed from a polymer material with embedded reflective structures such as glass microbeads or other oxide particles. The backlight structures may include a reflective layer that is attached to the integrated edge reflector of the light guide plate using adhesive. The display may include active display pixels formed over a portion of the integrated edge reflector.
US10061155B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a polarizer, a display panel and a display device. A flexible electrode layer in the polarizer is located between an adjacent polarizing layer and one functional film layer or located between two adjacent functional film layers. Specifically, the polarizer provided by embodiments of the present invention adds a flexible electrode layer in the structure of the polarizer, thereby enabling the polarizer to have both the optical function of a conventional polarizer and the additional flexible electrode function. When the multifunctional polarizer is applied in a display device, the functions of electrostatic shielding and protecting the display device can be achieved. Particularly, when the multifunctional polarizer is applied in an In Plane Swtiching (IPS) liquid crystal display device, it can replace the shielding electrode structure at the color film substrate side so as to implement the function of electrostatic shielding.
US10061154B2
A method for manufacturing quantum dots display panel comprises the following steps of: using an existing yellow light manufacturing process from color filter or combining with a dry etching manufacturing process to resin composition with surface-modified red quantum dots and surface-modified green quantum dots, then completing production of a quantum dots layer with a more refined graphical structure. Compared with other existing method for manufacturing quantum dots display panel, the present disclosure has the following advantages that simple preparation of raw materials and in making process, high-resolution graphics, large-scale volume production, and less processing time and cost are saved. The quantum dots are used into the structure of the color filter is to effectively improve color saturation and gamut of the display device, and to enhance color performance of display panel.
US10061147B2
A touch display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate disposed opposite to the array substrate. The opposite substrate includes a first base substrate and a high-resistance film material layer which is disposed on the first base substrate, and a square resistance of the high-resistance film material layer is larger than or equal to 107 Ω/□ and is less than or equal to 1012 Ω/□.
US10061144B2
Techniques for providing eyewear with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear (e.g., eyeglasses) without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles of the eyewear. Often, the electrical components can be attached to the eyewear as an after-market enhancement. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere.
US10061137B2
Embodiments are directed towards a system for enabling a user to view an image on a surface. The system may include projector(s), sensor, projection surface or screen, and processor. The projectors may project light for an image onto the surface. The sensor may detect light reflected off the surface. The surface may include multiple types of surface elements, such as multiple first elements positioned as border of a display area on the surface to provide feedback regarding the surface and multiple second elements positioned within the border of the display area to reflect the image to the user. The processor may determine characteristics of the border of the display area based on light reflected to the sensor from first elements. And it may modify parameters of the image based on the characteristics of the border of the display area.
US10061128B2
A display device for a motor vehicle includes: a projection module for generating an image for a projection in a direction of gaze of a user of the display device along an optical path; a reflection and/or display element; a support element for the reflection and/or display element; and a holding element, comprising a protruding part relative to the reflection and/or display element. The reflection and/or display element is held between the support element and the holding element and in a fixed position relative to the support element.
US10061108B2
The present invention relates to the field of digital pathology and in particular to whole slide scanners. Autofocus imaging can be performed by sampling a first number of pixels of a primary image sensor and sampling a second number of pixels of an autofocus image sensor, wherein the second number is between one quarter and three quarters of the first number. Thus, continuous autofocus for rapid light scanning may be provided based on an additional image sensor that is tilted with respect to the optical axis.
US10061105B2
First to third lens groups that are formed of anamorphic lenses having positive power and anamorphic lenses having negative power combined with one another and allow the distances between the anamorphic lenses to be changed cooperate with one another to allow field curvature to be changed both in the meridian direction and the sagittal direction.
US10061100B2
A zoom lens device includes a focusing lens group arranged on an object side, and a variator lens group next thereto, and a temperature sensor. The focusing lens group includes a focusing lens, and a temperature-based correction lens for correcting changes in focal point caused by temperature changes around the focusing lens group. The temperature-based correction lens is moved by a temperature-based correction lens driving mechanism along an optical axis to a position determined by a temperature detected by the temperature sensor, independently of the positions of the focusing lens or variator lens group. Thereby, the zoom lens device is capable of favorably correcting defocus of the lens group caused by an ambient temperature change with a simple correcting mechanism.
US10061099B2
A lens device includes: a lens that is movable in an optical axis direction; a rotating member that rotates in conjunction with movement of the lens in the optical axis direction; a first signal detection section that detects a signal which changes in accordance with a position of the lens in the optical axis direction; a second signal detection section that detects a signal which changes in accordance with an amount of rotation of the rotating member; a first lens position detection section that detects the position of the lens based on the signal detected by the first signal detection section; a second lens position detection section that detects the position of the lens based on the signal detected by the second signal detection section; and a control section as defined herein.
US10061097B2
A data center includes various sets of infrastructure modules which each provide a particular type of infrastructure support to support computing operations in the data center. Separate sets of infrastructure modules can be installed incrementally based on incrementally changing support capacity for the corresponding type of infrastructure support in the data center. Such incrementally changing support capacity can be based upon support requirements of electrical loads, including rack computer systems, which are inbound to the data center. Where support capacity for a particular type of infrastructure support drops below a threshold, a quantity of additional infrastructure modules which provide the particular type of infrastructure support can be selected and installed to increase the support capacity. Separate sets of infrastructure modules can be selected and installed independently of each other, to independently adjust support capacity for separate types of infrastructure support, which can minimize excess support capacity at any given time.
US10061095B2
An indoor cable is composed of an optical fiber core, tension members, an outer sheath, and so forth. The optical fiber core and the tension members are integrated by the outer sheath. The outer sheath is composed of a transparent material. The optical fiber core includes a glass wire and a resin coating (a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer). The optical fiber core does not have a colored layer that is conventionally formed on the outer periphery of the resin coating layer. That is, the optical fiber core is composed entirely of transparent materials. On both sides of the optical fiber core, separate from the optical fiber core, is arranged a pair of tension members. The tension members are composed of transparent materials.
US10061094B2
A method and system for implementing high-speed electrical interfaces between semiconductor dies in optical communication systems are disclosed and may include communicating electrical signals between a first die and a second die via coupling pads which may be located in low impedance points in Tx and Rx paths. The electrical signals may be communicated via one or more current-mode, controlled impedance, and/or capacitively-coupled interfaces. The current-mode interface may include a cascode amplifier stage split between source and drain terminals of transistors on the dies. The controlled-impedance interfaces may include transmission line drivers on a first die and transmission lines on a second die. The capacitively-coupled interfaces may include capacitors formed by contact pads on the dies. The coupling pads may be connected via one or more of: wire bonds, metal pillars, solder balls, or conductive resin. The dies may comprise CMOS and may be coupled in a flip-chip configuration.
US10061087B2
A MEMS optical switch and a switching node are disclosed. The MEMS optical switch includes N1 input ports, N1 input MEMS mirrors, M1 output ports, and M1 output MEMS mirrors, where a first input port is configured to transmit a first optical signal to a first input MEMS mirror. The first input MEMS mirror is configured to reflect the first optical signal to a first destination output MEMS mirror, where along a straight line in which a first deflection axis is located, the first input MEMS mirror is located on an edge of the N1 input MEMS mirrors, and when reflecting the received first optical signal to a first output MEMS mirror and a second output MEMS mirror, the first input MEMS mirror deflects towards an opposite direction relative to a second deflection axis.
US10061079B2
A method of making a grating in a waveguide includes forming a waveguide material over a substrate, the waveguide material having a thickness less than or equal to about 100 nanometers (nm). The method further includes forming a photoresist over the waveguide material and patterning the photoresist. The method further includes forming a first set of openings in the waveguide material through the patterned substrate and filling the first set of openings with a metal material.
US10061075B2
A light guide device that improves the efficiency of backlighting and creates a more uniformly illuminated image is provided. The light guide device includes a first light guide that guides light emitted from a light source and a second light guide component disposed in contact with a surface of the first light guide component to guide incident light incident through the first light guide component. A first optical reflection component is disposed on the surface of the first light guide component to reflect incident light to an adjacent surface of the first light guide component. A second optical reflection component is disposed on a surface of the second light guide component that is adjacent to the first light guide component to reflect incident light through the first optical reflection component to the first light guide component.
US10061071B2
In various embodiments, a panel luminaire (300, 400, 500) may include a housing (302, 402) that frames a light aperture (304, 404), a linear substrate (308, 408) mounted to the housing along a first plane, at least one light source (306, 406) mounted along the linear substrate to emit light along the first plane, and a planar light guide (310, 410, 510) mounted to the housing parallel to the first plane. The planar light guide may include a light extraction feature (312) to extract light emitted by the at least one light source. In some embodiments, a portion (334) of a periphery (314) of the planar light guide may be curved to redirect light emitted by the at least one light source towards the light extraction feature. In some embodiments, the planar light guide and an aesthetic panel (418, 518) of the housing may be spaced apart to form a gap (420, 520) big enough to allow for the aesthetic panel to be three dimensional.
US10061061B2
Methods of well treatment include modeling approaches that account for the effect of pore structure during well stimulation treatments. In one aspect, methods may include preparing a computer model of a porous medium; simulating an injection of a fluid into the computer model of the porous medium; measuring a pore-scale heterogeneity of the computer model of the porous medium, and designing a stimulating fluid treatment for the porous medium. Other aspects may include the development of a wellbore stimulation methodology that allows stimulation fluid breakthrough curves of differing formation samples to be plotted as a single curve that accounts for the varied pore structure of the respective samples.
US10061060B2
A method and apparatus for generating a simulation grid for a reservoir model based on a geological model comprising horizons, constraints and multiple geological grid cells. A pre-image is generated corresponding to the geological grid cells, the pre-image comprising a surface and the modeling constraints being mapped onto the surface. A constrained two-dimensional grid is generated on the pre-image, the two-dimensional grid comprising multiple grid cells. Simulation layer boundaries are selected from the geological model and the constrained two-dimensional grid is projected onto the simulation layer boundaries. Prismatic cells are then generated to form the three-dimensional simulation grid. The method of generating a grid as herein described may be incorporated in existing reservoir simulators.
US10061051B2
Systems, methods, and devices for evaluation of an earth formation intersected by a borehole using a logging tool. Methods include exciting an upper and lower transmitter; receiving signals at a plurality of receivers between the upper and lower transmitter; estimating a phase shift attributable to a volume of interest of the formation adjacent to a section of the carrier corresponding to the plurality of receivers by estimating phase shifts attributable only to portions of the volume of interest adjacent to corresponding portions of the section between each adjacent pair of receivers of the plurality of receivers; wherein each adjacent pair is positioned at a corresponding distance that is no more than half of the shortest wavelength of those wavelengths associated with the received signals. Estimating a phase shift between an adjacent pair of receivers may be carried out using a first relative phase value; and a second relative phase value.
US10061049B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatuses to detect one or more downhole laterals in a wellbore using electromagnetic sensors. Certain embodiments include a subsurface unit including a ruggedized encapsulation resistant to heat, pressure, and variations in pH. The systems and apparatuses are communicable with surface controls.
US10061047B2
An example method for downhole surveying and measuring may include positioning a first conformable sensor proximate to a downhole element. The first conformable sensor may include a flexible material, a transmitter coupled to the flexible material, and a receiver coupled to the flexible material. An ultrasonic sensor may be positioned proximate to the downhole element. The receiver may measure an electrical response of the downhole element to a signal generated by the transmitter. An acoustic response of the downhole element may be measurements at the at the ultrasonic sensor. The electrical response and the acoustic response may be processed to determine a parameter of the downhole element.
US10061046B2
Microseismic mapping using buried arrays with the integration of passive and active seismic surveys provides enhanced microseismic mapping results. The system is initially set up by recording seismic data with the buried array installation while shooting a significant portion of the 3D surface seismic survey. The 3D surface seismic survey provides the following data: shallow 3D VSP data from the buried arrays; P-wave and converted wave data for the area covered by the buried array that benefits from the planned data integration processing effort; and microseismic data and associated analysis.
US10061033B2
A wireless tracking device operating in at least two modes to reduce power consumption and extend the operable period of the wireless tracking device. In an active mode, the wireless tracking device samples sensor signals at a higher resolution and may also actively communicate with a remote device via wireless connection. In a hibernation mode, most of the components or modules in the wireless tracking device are shut down to reduce power consumption. The wireless tracking device may switch to the active mode When a predetermine event is detected.
US10061032B2
There is provided a method of selecting a satellite for positioning in a global navigation satellite system, which includes: receiving satellite signals from satellites that a receiver can receive; calculating DOP where pseudorange weight is applied for each of satellite signal combinations including at least four or more of the satellite signals by the receiver; and selecting a satellite signal combination having the smaller DOP than a standard in the satellite signal combinations by the receiver.
US10061031B2
A navigation terminal includes a path controller configured to identify moving trajectories reaching respective points of interest, to cluster the identified moving trajectories into at least one moving section, to reflect a road correction mechanism in the at least one clustered moving section and to cluster the at least one clustered moving section into at least one moving path, and to extract one moving path, in which time sequential position information received from a GPS is corrected, from the at least one clustered moving path. Thereby, the navigation terminal is resistant to error of a GPS sensor, error generated due to a collection cycle, or error generated in correction, and precisely predicts a moving path.
US10061030B2
An in-vehicle apparatus installed in a first vehicle. The in-vehicle apparatus includes a first distance sensor measuring a distance to an object based on time to receive a reflection wave of an electro-magnetic transmission wave from the object after a transmission of the electro-magnetic transmission wave, with the first distance sensor being an electro-magnetic wave sensor. The in-vehicle apparatus also includes an inclination angle sensor that senses a first vehicle inclination angle representative of an inclination angle of the first vehicle that includes the first distance sensor, a radio communicator that receives a second vehicle inclination angle transmitted from a second vehicle that leads the first vehicle, an angle difference calculator that calculates an angle difference between the first vehicle inclination angle and the second vehicle inclination angle, and a processor that performs a preset operation based on the distance measured by the first distance sensor.
US10061026B2
A photoelectric sensor includes the following components. A disturbance detection unit detects a disturbance by comparing a light reception result obtained by a light receiver with a first threshold and with a second threshold for a predetermined period in a state where no light is transmitted by a light transmitter. The second threshold takes a value of a sign opposite to that of the first threshold relative to a no-signal state. A waiting unit waits for the light reception result obtained by the light receiver to become within a range from the first threshold to the second threshold upon detection of a disturbance. A disturbance type determination unit causes detection of a disturbance to be performed again after the waiting. A light transmission instruction unit instructs the light transmitter to transmit light when no disturbance is detected for a predetermined period.
US10061025B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for producing a 3D image of an underwater environment. 2D sonar return data that defines an angle and distance value may be taken from a theoretical 2D slice of the underwater environment. Multiple sets of 2D sonar return data are taken from corresponding 2D slices of the underwater environment during travel. The multiple sets of 2D sonar return data can be inputted into a 3D point cloud/matrix based on the distance value and angle and the corresponding 2D slice associated with each sonar return. The 3D point cloud/matrix can then be processed to determine a cluster of sonar returns that correspond to the bottom surface. Additional filtering may be performed and the bottom surface can be reconstructed to form a 3D image for display to a user.
US10061017B2
A target recognition apparatus of one embodiment is installed in a vehicle, and includes a data acquisition means which acquires received data from a transceiver having a plurality of transmission and receiving channels which transmit and receive radar waves; an image acquisition means which acquires image data from an image sensor which picks up an image of a state around an own vehicle; and a detection means which detects a target which has reflected the radar waves based on the received data and the image data.
US10061009B1
A system and method is described for generating a confidence level for data generated by a beamforming acoustic beacon system. The system may include an audio emission device to emit a set of sounds corresponding to a set of predefined modal patterns into a listening area. The sounds may be detected by an audio capture device to produce a set of impulse responses corresponding to the modal patterns. The impulse responses may be processed to produce a set of window synthesized impulse responses for various angles. These window synthesized impulse responses may (1) be formed based on a weighted set of the modal patterns that were originally used to emanate sound and (2) seek to emulate a target beam, which is also composed of the same weighted modal patterns. A confidence level may be computed based on the difference between the window synthesized impulse responses and the target beam pattern.
US10061008B2
A system and methods for calculating an attitude and a position of an object in space are disclosed. Measurements in relation to an object, stars, and a signal timing are received at a combined orbit and attitude determination system to provide received measurements. An estimated separation angle error, an estimated position error, and an estimated attitude error are estimated based upon the received measurements to provide estimated errors.
US10061004B2
A computer-implemented method for reconstructing magnetic resonance images using a parallel computing platform comprising a host unit and a graphical processing device includes receiving a plurality of coil data sets from a magnetic resonance imaging system, each respective coil data set comprising scanner data and a coil sensitivity map associated with a distinct coil included in the magnetic resonance imaging system. An iterative compressed-sensing reconstruction process is applied to reconstruct an image based on the plurality of coil data sets. Each iteration of the iterative compressed-sensing reconstruction process comprises: individually transferring the plurality of coil data sets from the host unit to the graphical processing device using a plurality of asynchronous data streams, overlapping with transfer of the plurality of coil data sets, optimizing a plurality of data fidelity values on the graphical processing device, each respective data fidelity value corresponding to a distinct coil data set, and computing an estimated image on the graphical processing device based on the plurality of data fidelity values.
US10060994B2
A radio frequency (RF) antenna device (140) applies an RF field to an examination space (116) of a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system (110). The RF antenna device (140) has a tubular body and is segmented in its longitudinal direction (154). Each segment (162, 164) has at least one activation port. The result is that each mode, corresponding to an activation port, may be controlled individually. Accordingly, the inhomogeneity of the subject of interest in the longitudinal direction of the RF antenna device can directly be addressed. There are different ways to build up a z-segmented RF antenna device.
US10060991B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a vertical Hall element with improved sensitivity. The vertical Hall element includes: a semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed on the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of electrodes aligned along a straight line on a surface of the semiconductor layer and being impurity regions of the second conductivity type being higher in concentration than the semiconductor layer; a plurality of electrode isolation diffusion layers of the first conductivity type respectively arranged between adjacent electrodes of the plurality of electrodes on the surface of the semiconductor layer to isolate the plurality of electrodes from one another; and embedded layers being an impurity region of the second conductivity type which is higher in concentration than the semiconductor layer and being respectively provided substantially right below one of the plurality of electrode isolation diffusion layers between the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer.
US10060987B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus to measure the remaining capacity of a battery. The method and apparatus may comprise utilizing various parameters, such as internal resistance, temperature, and aging characteristics to calculate the remaining capacity of the battery. According to various embodiments, the internal resistance and temperature of the battery are periodically measured. According to various embodiments, each time a new internal resistance is measured, the new the internal resistance becomes the new baseline for calculating the remaining capacity of the battery.
US10060984B2
A battery management system comprises a circuit for controlling a heating component for a battery to prevent overheating of the battery. The circuit can include an RTD, a primary resistor and a secondary resistor, wherein respective reference voltages are compared to generate a signal. The signal can be filtered and converted to a digital signal for use to by a software programmable processing device (SPPD) to control a temperature of the battery via the heating component. Further, a method is provided that allows hardware only comparison of the nonlinear temperature representation to a fixed set point.
US10060982B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method for determining faults in motors and drives. The system includes a motor drive that has a DC-link coupled to a power source. A controller system is configured to measure power applied to the DC-link, integrate the power over time to yield energy consumed, and to determine energy that accumulates in operation over time. The controller is further configured to detect a fault condition when the energy that accumulates in operation is less than expected based on the energy consumed.
US10060979B2
A scan chain may be formed throughout an integrated circuit in which the scan chain is coupled to a set of pins via bi-directional input/output (I/O) buffers. A state machine may be provided to control the scan chain. Decoding logic may monitor states and transitions between states and generate pseudo static control signals in response to certain states and transition sequences in order to free up test pins for use as additional scan data I/O pins using a single JTAG IR. A test pattern may be received from an external tester using the set of I/O pins and buffers operating in parallel. The test pattern may then be provided to combinatorial logic circuitry coupled to the scan chain. A response pattern may be captured in the scan chain. The response pattern may then be provided to the external tester using the same set of I/O pins and buffers operating in parallel.
US10060975B2
A semiconductor device inspection system (1) includes a laser beam source (2), for emitting light, an optical sensor (12) for detecting the light reflected by the semiconductor device (10) from the light and outputting a detection signal, a frequency band setting unit (16) for setting a measurement frequency band and a reference frequency band with respect to the detection signal, a spectrum analyzer (15) for generating a measurement signal and a reference signal from the detection signals in the measurement frequency band and the reference frequency band, and a signal acquisition unit (17) for calculating a difference between the measurement signal and the reference signal to acquire an analysis signal. The frequency band setting unit (16) sets the reference frequency band to a frequency domain in which a level of the detection signal is lower than a level obtained by adding 3 decibels to a white noise level serving as a reference.
US10060974B2
Approaches for detecting wear in integrated circuit chips are provided. An on-chip sensor system includes an integrated circuit chip including a plurality of sensor groups. Each respective one of the sensor groups is structured and arranged to detect a measure of wear corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of failure mechanisms.
US10060970B2
An electronic component testing device which is able to release heat (radiate heat) efficiently from a self-heating electronic component, and is able to carry out an intended test efficiently while keeping the temperature of the electronic component within a predetermined range higher than ordinary temperature.
US10060969B2
A test board unit may include a test board, a thermal tank and a heat-dissipating plate. The test board may be configured to provide a semiconductor chip with a test current. The thermal tank may be configured to dissipate heat generated in the semiconductor chip. The heat-dissipating plate may be coupled between the test board and the thermal tank and may be configured to transfer the heat from the semiconductor chip to the thermal tank.
US10060960B1
An ion measuring device to measure ionic activity in its vicinity is disclosed. The ion measuring device includes a housing to protect its internal components, such as an ion sensing assembly from damage due to exposure to environment. The housing allows the ion sensing assembly to conduct readings of the atmosphere while keeping debris and other elements that may skew the readings away from the ion sensing assembly. The ion measuring device include means to covert readings at the ion sensing assembly into digital data. The ion measuring device further includes electronic means that collects and records data gathered by the ion sensing assembly, and further be able to transmit the data to a remote base station for further processing and analysis.
US10060950B2
Shielded probe systems are disclosed herein. The probe systems are configured to test a device under test (DUT) and include a measurement chamber that at least partially bounds an enclosed volume, an aperture defined by the measurement chamber, a probing assembly, and a shielding structure. The probing assembly includes a probe, which is oriented within the enclosed volume, a probe arm, which is operatively attached to the probe, and a manipulator, which is operatively attached to the probe arm. At least a portion of the probing assembly extends through the aperture. The shielding structure extends between the measurement chamber and the probing assembly and is configured to restrict fluid flow through the aperture and shield the enclosed volume from an ambient environment that surrounds the measurement chamber while maintaining at least a threshold separation distance from the probe arm throughout a probe arm range-of-motion thereof.
US10060944B2
A micromechanical sensor device, and a corresponding method, including an ASIC substrate having first front and rear sides, a first rewiring element on the first front side; a MEMS substrate having a second front side, and a second rear side having a base substrate and a second rewiring element formed thereon; a micromechanical functional layer having at least one movable sensor structure, and which is on the second front side of the second rewiring element; a capping element having third front and rear sides, the third rear side being applied to the second front side for capping the sensor structure; and a recess formed in the base substrate on the second rear side, or in the capping element on the third front side, and within which the ASIC substrate is suspended on a flexible layered first suspension element via the first rewiring element, forming a cavity surrounding the ASIC chip.
US10060941B2
The present invention discloses a magnetoresistive gear tooth sensor, which includes a magnetoresistive sensor chip and a permanent magnet. The magnetic sensor chip is comprised of at least one magnetoresistive sensor bridge, and each arm of the sensor bridge has at least one MTJ element group. The magnetoresistive gear tooth sensor has good temperature stability, high sensitivity, low power consumption, good linearity, wide linear range, and a simple structure. Additionally, the magnetoresistive gear tooth sensor has a concave soft ferromagnetic flux concentrator, which can be used to reduce the component of the magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet along the sensing direction of the MTJ sensor elements, enabling a wide linear range. Because it is arranged as a gradiometer, the magnetoresistive gear tooth sensor bridge is not affected by stray magnetic field; it is only affected by the gradient magnetic field generated by gear teeth in response to the permanent magnet bias. The magnetoresistive gear tooth sensor of the present invention is able to detect the position of a specific tooth or a missing tooth of a gear. This magnetoresistive gear tooth sensor is also capable of determining the speed and direction of motion of a gear.
US10060938B2
An analytical instrument architecture provides high analytical test throughput in a compact footprint. A dilution section creates dilutions of a sample, a reaction processing section contains containers for assay reaction and measurement, and a reagent storage section supports reagent storage and supply. Transfer probes move the dilution and reagents to reaction containers. The dilution processing section includes concentric, independently driven rings of dilution containers; the reaction processing section includes concentric rings of reaction containers driven by the same mechanism for parallel processing of assays.
US10060936B2
A system for identifying a drug simulant includes an electronic sensing system structured to measure the value of an inherent property of the drug simulant; a processing unit in electrical communication with the electronic sensing system; and a memory unit in communication with the processing unit, the memory unit having a look-up table including a range of values of the inherent property of a given fluid and corresponding names of simulated drugs associated with each value. The processor is structured to identify a name of the simulated drug corresponding to the drug simulant by receiving signals indicative of the value of the measured inherent property from the sensing system and comparing the value to the look-up table in the memory.
US10060924B2
The present invention relates to mutant peptides of the E protein of the West Nile virus and other flaviviruses useful for discriminating flaviviral infections, as well as kits, methods and uses related thereto.
US10060915B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods useful for molecular and cellular separation, detection and quantification. The compositions provided herein comprise a nanostructure having magnetic property operably linked to an analyte-binding member.
US10060914B2
The invention is in the field of analysis of cell populations and cell separation and the compositions obtained thereby. More particularly, the invention concerns a method for separating cells of interest according to a specific marker expressed on their surface.
US10060911B2
The present invention relates to a novel method for diagnosing high-affinity binders, in particular antibodies or autoantibodies, and the identification, characterization and selection of marker sequences and diagnostic use thereof, in particular in the form of a panel. The invention also relates to a singleplex assay in which the discovered selection of marker sequences is used in the form of a panel and high-affinity binders are detected using a single signal.
US10060905B2
The current invention concerns a method for determining the presence of a (pre)cancerous cell in a liquid cell sample, comprising the steps of: —suspending and preserving a cell sample obtained from a subject in a sample vial comprising a liquid medium, said liquid medium comprises means for labeling cells or epitope(s) on or in said cells; —obtaining data from said labelled liquid cell sample; and —determining the presence of said (pre)cancerous cells based on said obtained data; characterized in that said data comprises morphological data and biomarker data. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a liquid medium for fixing, preserving and labeling cells in a cell sample and a sample vial specifically designed to be used in conjunction with the current method.
US10060903B2
A method of exporting measurements of a nanopore sensor on a nanopore based sequencing chip is disclosed. An electrical characteristic associated with the nanopore sensor is measured. The electrical characteristic associated with the nanopore sensor is processed. A summary for the electrical characteristic and one or more previous electrical characteristics is determined. The summary for the electrical characteristic and the one or more previous electrical characteristics are exported. Determining the summary includes determining that the electrical characteristic and at least a portion of the one or more previous electrical characteristics correspond to a base call event at the nanopore sensor. The summary represents the electrical characteristic and the at least a portion of the one or more previous electrical characteristics.
US10060900B2
A method for screeding of an uncured concrete surface includes providing a screeding machine and a control. The uncured concrete surface is screeded and the control processes data captured by the sensors while the screeding machine is screeding the uncured concrete surface. While the screeding machine is screeding the uncured concrete surface, and responsive to data processing by the control of data captured by the sensors while the screeding machine is screeding the uncured concrete surface, the control estimates a flatness or levelness or quality of the surface of the concrete surface being screeded. The control may generate an output indicative of the estimated flatness or levelness or quality of the surface, and/or a display may display information associated with the estimated flatness or levelness or quality of the surface.
US10060898B2
The expandable jacket and flexible ring comprises of the segmented circular arch shaped plates and bands or rings around the segmented plates. The test preparation consists of a membrane surrounding a specimen with or without a filter, segmented plates surrounding the membrane, and bands or rings around the segmented plates to permit uniform radial expansion of the specimen through its height when increments of vertical load are applied during the test, thereby providing accurate values of area of cross-section, deviator stress, volume change, modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio and shear strength. Using the flexible ring, three-dimensional consolidation tests are performed to determine three-dimensional coefficient of consolidation and coefficients of consolidation in horizontal and vertical directions. Removable attachments are used for assembling the expandable jacket and flexible ring during the test. A calibration device is used to determine the modulus of elasticity of the membrane and expandable jacket and flexible ring.
US10060890B2
To provide a gas chromatograph allowing a substance led out from a measurement target component to reach a reduction reaction part and capable of preventing occurrence of a quantification error while preventing corrosion and sensitivity deterioration of a metal pipeline due to measurement non-related components such as halogen, sulfur and the like. The gas chromatograph includes: an oxidation reaction part into which a sample gas passed through a column is introduced and which oxidizes the measurement target component and converts the resultant measurement target component to a prescribed intermediate component to be led out therefrom; and an intermediate gas flow path for deriving the intermediate component from the oxidation reaction part, and in this configuration, a reagent to be reacted with measurement non-related components is provided in the intermediate gas flow path, and the reagent contains a metal element to be reacted with only oxygen.
US10060887B2
The invention relates to kits and methods of collecting and detecting alkyl methylphosphonic acids from environmental or biological liquids using a sorbent material. The sorbent material may be transported, desorbed and tested for alkyl methylphosphonic acids.
US10060884B2
A method of scanning a sample includes simultaneously forming a plurality of co-linear scans. Each scan is formed by a sweep of a spot by an acousto-optical device (AOD). The co-linear scans are separated by a predetermined spacing. A first plurality of swaths are formed by repeating the simultaneous forming of the plurality of co-linear scans in a direction perpendicular to the co-linear scans. The first plurality of swaths have an inter-swath spacing that is the same as the predetermined spacing. The predetermined spacing can be a scan length or an integral number of scan lengths. A second plurality of swaths can be formed adjacent to the first plurality of swaths. Forming the second plurality of swaths can be performed in an opposite direction to that of the first plurality of swaths or in a same direction. An inspection system can implement this method by including a diffractive optical element (DOE) path after a magnification changer.
US10060883B2
A method includes emitting an ultrasonic signal into a test specimen from a transducer, receiving a first reflected ultrasonic signal from the test specimen, wherein the first reflected ultrasonic signal is reflected from a feature in the test specimen and the first reflected ultrasonic signal is internally reflected within the test specimen three times prior to being received, and determining a threshold depth of the feature in the test specimen based on receiving the first reflected ultrasonic signal.
US10060882B2
Testing methods and apparatus for testing the health of steel tubes used in reformers and other tubes and pipes used in other high temperature applications are provided. The method includes the steps of transmitting two sinusoidal electromagnetic signals, each having a different frequency F1 and F2, into the reformer tube, receiving a response signal, and analyzing the received response signal's intermodulation frequencies to determine the state of the steel reformer tube.
US10060880B2
Magnetoresistive (MR) sensors employing dual MR devices for differential MR sensing are provided. These MR sensors may be used as biosensors to detect the presence of biological materials as an example. An MR sensor includes dual MR sensor devices that may be tunnel magnetoresistive (TMR) devices or giant magnetoresistive (GMR) devices as examples. The MR devices are arranged such that a channel is formed between the MR devices for receiving magnetic nanoparticles. A magnetic stray field generated by the magnetic nanoparticles causes free layers in the MR devices to rotate in opposite directions, thus causing differential resistances between the MR devices for greater sensing sensitivity. Further, as another aspect, by providing the channel between the MR devices, the magnetic stray field generated by the magnetic nanoparticles can more easily rotate the magnetic moment orientation of the free layers in the MR devices, thus further increasing sensitivity.
US10060877B2
The invention relates to an electrochemical sensor for the determination of a concentration of at least one analyte in a medium, in particular a body tissue and/or a body fluid, to an apparatus that includes the electrochemical sensor, and to a use of the electrochemical sensor, and finally to a method for producing it. The electrochemical sensor has an isolation element and at least two electrodes. The at least two electrodes comprise at least one working electrode and at least one further electrode, in particular at least one counter electrode and/or at least one reference electrode. The at least two electrodes run parallel to one another and form an electrochemical measuring cell of the electrochemical sensor.
US10060861B2
A method comprises: directing a laser beam onto a side of a tube, wherein the side includes a defect; moving the tube with respect to the laser beam such that the laser beam beams onto the defect; sensing a reflection of the laser beam from the side based on the defect; computationally identifying a change between the laser beam and the reflection; computationally acting based on the change. The side can be internal or external. In other implementations, the laser beam is moved with respect to the tube such that the laser beam beams onto the defect.
US10060860B2
Nanomaterials fabricated to pharmaceutical dosage forms are disclosed. The nanomaterials are useful to provide a plurality of analysis to the dosage form. Consequently, the nanomaterials provide a means to perform quality testing on a continuous basis throughout the supply chain, including the cold chain whereby manufacturers and distributors can achieve greater product integrity and longer shelf life and ultimately minimize cost. The end user benefits in obtaining the highest quality drugs at the time of need.
US10060858B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for the rapid and reliable measuring of distortion defects in a manufactured float glass strip, having the following features: a) a linear inset LED light source (5) sweeping the breadth of the glass strip (4) to be examined, said light source having LEDs that are tightly packed one next to the other below a glass strip (4) to be examined, b) a linear cylindrical lens 8) which is arranged in parallel to the entire length of the inset LED light source (5) and the distance of which to the inset LED light source (5) is continuously variable, c) a light source (2) arranged above the glass strip (4), d) an array of at least 4 CCD cameras arranged above the glass strip (4), and a two-stage parallel signal evaluation unit.
US10060842B2
A downhole viscosity sensor and related systems and methods are disclosed. The sensor includes a first fluid flow path including a turbine and a velocity sensor, a second fluid flow path including a second turbine and a second velocity sensor, a mechanical or electrical linkage linking the first turbine and second turbine to cause the turbines to rotate in unison. The sensor also includes a field generator, which may be a magnetic field or electric field generator. The first fluid flow path includes an open flow path for receiving a fluid from a formation and the second fluid flow path includes a closed flow path having a reference fluid that has a variable but known viscosity.
US10060841B2
A fluid densitometer for measuring the density of fluid includes an inner tube and outer tube. A sensor assembly passes through the outer tube to contact an outer radial surface of the inner tube. The inner tube is vibrated at a predetermined frequency, and detected resonance signals are used to determine fluid density.
US10060840B2
A method and system is disclosed for determining upper strain limits for materials, and designing devices or components based on determined strain limits.
US10060836B2
A disposable cartridge for preparing a sample fluid containing cells for analysis is disclosed. The cartridge includes one or more parallel preparation units, each preparation unit includes one or more chambers enclosed between seals and connected in series. Each chamber is configured for receiving an input fluid, performing a procedure affecting the fluid thereby generating an output fluid, and releasing the output fluid. A first chamber of the one or more chambers is a pressable chamber coupled to a first opening, while a last chamber of the one or more chambers is coupled to a second opening. The input fluid of the first chamber is the sample fluid. The one or more preparation units are coupleable to a compartment for performing analysis of the respective output fluids convey able via the second openings.
US10060833B2
A shape memory effect measuring apparatus is provided that is useful for tensile stress, strain and recovery stress measurement. The apparatus includes a load cell, a linear variable displacement transducer, a temperature sensor, a rigid platform, a computer-based data recorder and a processing system a load frame, grips to hold sample, and a liquid bath. The liquid bath is mounted on the rigid stand platform to hold the liquid bath. A uniform temperature of liquid is attained by controlled heating and stirring arrangement. The computer-based processing system may be used to monitor and control the desired temperature of the sample. A change in length of a specimen and stress generated during expansion thereof may be recorded, from which strain and stress may be calculated using the apparatus.
US10060829B2
A diagnosis device includes: a diesel particulate filter (DPF) collecting particulate matter (PM) in exhaust gas; a resistive type PM sensor provided downstream of the DPF, detecting an amount of PM from current flowing through PM deposited between electrodes. An actual regeneration interval calculator calculating an actual interval from completion of regeneration of the sensor to a start of the next regeneration; a PM slippage amount calculator estimating an amount of PM slippage in exhaust gas that slips through the DPF, assuming the DPF is normal; an estimated regeneration interval calculator calculating, on the basis of the PM slippage amount, an estimated interval from completion of the regeneration of the sensor to the start of the next regeneration; and a DPF failure-normal determination device determining whether the DPF has failed or is normal by comparing the actual interval to the estimated interval.
US10060822B2
An inter-flap space 36 between an outside flap 24 and an inside flap 44 of a filler pipe 16 is placed in communication with the inside of a fuel tank 14 using a communication pipe 62, and an open and close valve 64 is provided to the communication pipe 62. Further provided are a pressure reduction pump 82 that depressurizes the fuel tank 14, an internal tank pressure sensor 68 that detects an internal tank pressure of the fuel tank 14, and a controller that controls opening and closing of the open and close valve 64 and driving of the pressure reduction pump 82, and that determines an outside flap seal state of the outside flap 24 based on the internal tank pressure.
US10060821B2
A detection apparatus arranged to detect defects within a flexible pipe body. The detection apparatus comprises an electrical power supply and a first meter. The electrical power supply is arranged to couple between, and to supply current to, first and second electrically conductive members extending at least partially along the length of a flexible pipe body and electrically isolated from one another except for being electrically connected at a point remote from the power supply. The first meter is arranged to detect variation between the current flowing in each electrically conductive member. Detected variation is indicative of a pipe body defect causing an Earth fault along one of the electrically conductive members. A corresponding method, a pipeline apparatus including the detection apparatus and a method of forming the pipeline apparatus are also disclosed.
US10060815B2
In a pressure sensor having a configuration in which strain gauges are provided on a diaphragm, a change in sensor characteristic caused by a positional shift of the strain gauges is suppressed, and a change in sensor output in response to a change in temperature is suppressed. The pressure sensor is a pressure sensor obtained by arranging, on a diaphragm having a long side and a short side, a sensor chip in which four strain gauges having the same characteristic and constituting a bridge circuit are provided, the pressure sensor being for detecting, in the bridge circuit, voltage output that is in proportion to a pressure applied to the diaphragm, and the pressure sensor is configured as follows: the four strain gauges are arranged to be adjacent to one another in the vicinity of the center of the diaphragm so that two strain gauges are arranged along the short side and the other two strain gauges are arranged along the long side; and the diaphragm has a thin portion in a long-side direction seen from the sensor chip.
US10060798B1
Systems and methods are provided for logging temperatures of food products using a temperature assembly including a housing and a temperature probe, e.g., an infrared probe, for acquiring a temperature of a food product, and a mobile electronic device including a camera, a communication interface for communicating with the temperature assembly, a processor configured to acquire a temperature reading from the temperature assembly and an image from the camera when the temperature reading is acquired, and memory for storing the temperature reading and image.
US10060797B2
A device for detecting electromagnetic radiation, including a readout circuit, which is located in a substrate, and an electrical connection pad, which is placed on the substrate, including a metal section that is raised above the substrate and electrically connected to the readout circuit. The detection device furthermore includes a protection wall that extends under the raised metal section so as to define therewith at least one portion of a cavity, and what is called a reinforcing layer section that is located in the cavity and on which the raised metal section rests.
US10060794B2
The spectrometer includes a spectrometer body; a shield including a layer on an exterior of the spectrometer body to prevent light from entering and escaping through an area other than a contact surface between the spectrometer body and an object; an internal light source placed within the shield and configured to emit light to the object; a spectroscope mounted in the spectrometer body and configured to allow the light that passes therethrough to be casted into a spectrum; a detector configured to have one surface that is in full contact with the spectroscope and to detect external light entering from outside of the shield; and a processor configured to, in response to the detector detecting the external light, perform a certain processing.
US10060786B2
Some embodiments are directed to a multiplexed fiber sensor for a fiber optic hydrophone array, including a signal receiver configured to receive a signal from the fiber optic hydrophone sensor array and an interferometer. The interferometer is configured to produce a first signal component and a second signal component from the signal received from the hydrophone array, and also provided with a first polarization controller configured to control the polarization of the first signal component and a second polarization controller configured to control the polarization of the second signal component. A modulated carrier signal generator configured to generate a modulated carrier signal component based on the first signal component is also provided. A detector configured to output a demodulated output signal from the modulated signal component and the second signal component is included, wherein the modulated signal component and the second signal component output separately from the interferometer.
US10060783B2
The instant disclosure relates to a scale assembly applicable to a mobile device, which includes a touch screen and a software application (app). The scale assembly includes a platform, one or more sensing member, one or more flexible member, and a base. When an object is placed on the platform, the sensing member of the scale assembly presses the touch screen of the mobile device, and the mobile device, based on the app, reads the change associated with a sensing value detected by the touch screen, and converts the obtained sensing value difference into the weight of the object.
US10060782B2
A method estimates a weight of a motor vehicle including front and rear wheel assemblies, using a smart communication device, after loading of the vehicle. The method includes identifying the vehicle in the smart communication device, using a camera of the smart communication device to capture and process a photograph of at least one wheel with at least one point of the vehicle brought to sink down jointly upon the loading of the vehicle with a suspension of the wheel of the vehicle, determining a clearance of the wheel assembly opposite the photographed wheel, calculating a load value on the wheel assembly of the photographed wheel and a load value on the opposite wheel assembly as a function of the respective clearances of these wheel assemblies, to determine a total load value, and using the smart communication device to inform a user of a load state of the vehicle.
US10060777B2
An “air-data probe” system measures at least one component of freestream velocity by tracking the motion of a laser-induced breakdown (“LIB”) spark created in a freestream flow. Neutral density filters are positioned or deployed so that the brightness of the initial LIB spark doesn't over saturate the LIB sensor system. This allows for more consistent tracking of the LIB spark throughout the duration of the LIB spark, including the later stages where the LIB spark is not nearly as bright as the initial LIB spark, thereby allowing all or substantially all of the light generated by the LIB spark to reach the sensors. This provides for enhanced visibility and more accurate detection of the LIB spark over time and as air density changes.
US10060771B2
A fastening apparatus for an electronic device (3) and a method for fastening a sensor housing (2) having a fastening flange (4) and having a fastening base (6), wherein the fastening flange (4) is configured to be positioned in a passage opening (8) in the fastening base (6) and wherein the fastening flange (4) is configured to be locked in the fastening base (6), a fixing slider (10) being displaceably arranged at the fastening base (6) to lock and/or to release the fastening flange (4) in the fastening base (6).
US10060770B2
A sensor for outputting a sensor signal which is dependent on a variable to be measured, including: —a measuring pickup which is connected electrically to a data line at a connecting point, is housed in a measuring pickup housing and is set up to feed the sensor signal which is dependent on the variable to be measured into the data line, with the result that the sensor signal can be output via the data line, an installation housing which houses the measuring pickup housing and the data line at least at the connecting point and is manufactured from a flexible material, and—a fastening element which is connected fixedly to the installation housing for fastening the installation housing to a sensor holder, wherein the measuring pickup housing; and the fastening element are arranged on two sides of the installation housing which lie opposite one another.
US10060765B2
An optical position-measuring device for determining the position of a first object relative to a second object movable relative to the first object along a measurement direction includes a scale with a measuring graduation connected to the first object and extending along the measurement direction. A scanner is connected to the second object and includes a fiber-optic array including optical fibers. The fiber-optic array is configured as a fiber-optic plate having an image-input face facing the scale and an image-output face facing the detector array. The fiber-optic array transmits a light pattern into a detection plane of the detector array. An interstitial medium is disposed between the image-output face of the fiber-optic plate and the detector array to ensure that an amount of deflection that the beams exiting the image-output face undergo on a path to the detector array is smaller than in a case without the interstitial medium.
US10060763B2
A sensor assembly for indicating the relative location of a metallic object. The sensor assembly including a primary electromagnetic coil arranged to generate a time varying magnetic field, and a secondary electromagnetic coil arranged to detect the time varying magnetic field as affected, directly or indirectly, by the object and to output, on the basis of the detected time varying magnetic field, a signal indicative of the relative location of the object. At least one of the primary and secondary electromagnetic coils is wound about a core body formed of a material having the same conductivity and/or magnetic permeability as the object.
US10060757B2
This document provides apparatus and methods for cancelation of quadrature error from a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device, such as a MEMS gyroscope. In certain examples, a quadrature correction apparatus can include a drive charge-to-voltage (C2V) converter configured to provide drive information of a proof mass of a MEMS gyroscope, a sense C2V converter configured to provide sense information of the proof mass, a phase-shift module configured to provide phase shift information of the drive information, a drive demodulator configured to receive the drive information and the phase shift information and to provide demodulated drive information, a sense demodulator configured to receive the sense information and the phase shift information and to provide demodulated sense information, and wherein the quadrature correction apparatus is configured to provide corrected sense information using the demodulated drive information and the demodulated sense information.
US10060755B2
Disclosed are a method and system for providing map information by a terminal supporting a navigation function, and more particularly, variably displaying map information as a streaming image map or an embedded vector map according to a travel state in a route guide service. Accordingly, since the present invention variably supports two-type map information including the embedded vector map and the streaming image map in the navigation function, it is possible to use map information through the streaming image map when a detailed, clear image is needed, and it is possible to use a route guide service through the embedded vector map providing more accurate and general map information while moving. Also, it is possible to efficiently receive map information applied to a navigation function from a service device connected through a communication network and accordingly, it is possible to efficiently perform the navigation function provided from a terminal.
US10060750B2
A method, system, and computer program product, include receiving a plurality of requests for dynamic context information from a plurality of road segments, determining whether the plurality of road segments are included in a same cluster of road segments in a road network generated by clustering road segments in the road network based on connectivity of the road network, and consolidating the plurality of requests to generate a consolidated request in response to determining that the plurality of road segments are included in the same cluster.
US10060749B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to create a clothoid road geometry. In the context of a method, a link geometry representative of a portion of a road network is converted into a plurality of link splines. The method also includes converting the plurality of link splines into respective sequences of one or more clothoids based upon curvature profiles of the link splines.
US10060743B2
A method of correcting an output value of a geomagnetic sensor that recursively calculates a state estimate, an estimate gain vector, and an estimate error co-variance based on the output value of the geomagnetic sensor that is acquired sequentially and corrects the output value of the geomagnetic sensor based on the value includes acquiring a kth output value of the geomagnetic sensor, calculating a kth estimate gain vector based on a k−1th estimate error co-variance and the kth output value, calculating a kth state estimate based on the calculated kth estimate gain vector and the kth output value and a k−1th state estimate, calculating the kth estimate error co-variance using the kth estimate gain vector and a k−1th estimate error co-variance, and correcting the output value of the geomagnetic sensor based on the kth state estimate, wherein k is a natural number larger than 1.
US10060742B2
A device relating to a standalone laser target system which has the capacity to employ gravity to achieve a position plumb with the ground and to be easily operated at night or in low light conditions. The laser target is retro-reflective and is self-plumbing from the target frame. The target frame also has a detachable handle, which is used for positioning the target. The target frame further has an internal power source to illuminate the target. The device is designed to be easily packed in a protective carrying case to facilitate transport of the device.
US10060737B2
A coordinate measuring machine has a rotary table supporting a measurement object, a measuring head including a measuring element and a frame, on which the measuring head is arranged. The frame has first, second and third frame parts moveable relative to the workpiece holder along first, second and third movement axes, respectively. The measuring element is mounted via at least one fluid bearing, such as an air bearing, on one or more of the frame parts. The measuring head is positioned at a defined position along the first, second and third movement axes. Thereafter, the at least one fluid bearing is deactivated and the rotary table rotated around a further axis while the measuring head, using the measuring element, records current measured values. A shape contour of the object is determined on the basis of the measured values recorded while the at least one fluid bearing was selectively deactivated.
US10060730B2
A method of performing geometrical measurements of remote objects includes performing a laser sweep of a measurement object with a handheld sensor device including a distance measurement unit and an inertial measurement unit. The method includes activating the distance measurement unit to perform a plurality of distance measurements during the laser sweep, and activating the inertial measurement unit to perform an inertial measurement in association with each of the distance measurements. A processor is used to process the distance measurements with reference to the associated inertial measurements to determine a geometric characteristic of the measurement object.
US10060723B2
A method and equipment based on multi-core fiber Bragg grating (FBG) probe for measuring structures of a micro part are provided. The provided method relates to how to accomplish measuring structures of a micro part by transforming two or three-dimensional contact displacements into spectrum shifts of the multi-core FBG probe, and to reconstruct the structure geometry of a micro part. The provided equipment can be used to bring the spherical tip of the multi-core FBG probe into contact with a micro part, to determine coordinates of contact points, and to reconstruct the structure geometry of a micro part. The provided method and equipment feature high sensitivity, low probing force, high inspecting aspect ratio and immunity to environment interference.
US10060711B2
A thermally emissive apparatus (2) having an electro-thermal heating element (6) comprising a layer (8) of a first material having a first resistivity and a plurality of discrete regions (10) of a second material having a second resistivity substantially lower than that of the first material in electrical contact with the first material. The plurality of regions (10) of second material are arranged spatially so as to impart a predetermined effective sheet resistivity to the first layer (8). A plurality of heating elements may be used having a common first layer (30) of first material, wherein the spatial arrangement of the regions (10) of second material within a first heating element are optionally different to that within a second heating element. In this configuration the first and second heating elements may emit infrared radiation (14) having different intensities. The apparatus (2) finds applications as a thermal target and as an electro-thermal ice protection device.
US10060710B2
A conducted electrical weapon (“CEW”) launches wire-tethered electrodes from multiple cartridges to provide a current through a human or animal target to impede locomotion of the target. The CEW may detect when the electrodes launched from the cartridges may provide the current through more than one target. The CEW may detect when electrodes launched from the cartridges may provide the current through the same target. The CEW may set the pulse rate of the current based on detecting the launch of electrodes from more than one cartridge, detecting that electrodes may provide the current through two or more targets, and/or detecting that two or more pairs of electrodes may deliver the current through the same target.
US10060702B2
A system for aiming a projectile weapon includes a telescopic sight for use with a second sighting device, such as a reflex sight or other non-magnifying sight. The telescopic sight has an eye point spaced apart rearwardly from its eyepiece and positioned at a vertical plane containing a line of initial trajectory of the weapon to which the aiming system is mounted so that a line parallel to the line of initial trajectory does not intersect the eyepiece. The location of the eye point facilitates concurrent use of a second sighting device at a normal mounting height and viewable past the eyepiece, thereby allowing the viewer to change views between the telescopic sight and the second sighting device with little eye movement and essentially no head movement.
US10060698B2
A self-defense device with a body, a gun barrel, a trigger assembly, at least one forward light, and a switch is disclosed. The body is held by a human hand. The gun barrel can be positioned in the body and include an entry port and an exit port. The trigger assembly includes a trigger and a firing pin. The firing pin is moveable to engage a round in the barrel. The light can be exposed on an outer surface of the body. The light is positioned such that light emitted by the light projects forward, along the axis of the barrel. The switch can selectively activate and deactivate the light. The switch and the trigger are positioned close to one another so as to be concurrently engageable by a single human hand.
US10060695B2
Disclosed herein are suppressors for use with firearms or the like, and methods of making and using such firearm suppressors. Some aspects relate to a firearm suppressor including a helical portion extending helically around a cylindrical body portion, at least a section of the helical portion being canted such that it extends radially outward from the cylindrical body portion at an oblique angle relative to a plane normal to the central longitudinal axis. In some cases, the helical portion is canted distally.In another respect, a firearm suppressor including a helical portion extending radially outward from and helically around a cylindrical body portion having a bore to define a crest and a root, and at least one channel extends from an inner opening along the bore to an outer opening along the root of the helical portion.In yet another respect, a firearm suppressor including a cylindrical wall defining a central bore extending about a longitudinal axis, and one or more cooling bores spaced from the central bore, the cooling bores extending into the wall offset from the central longitudinal axis.
US10060693B2
A pistol with a safety trigger, including a trigger lever supported in a housing and arranged in a trigger region, and of a safety lever pivotally mounted therein, wherein the safety lever engages a catch in the housing for ergonomics and reliability reasons, the safety lever is arranged in front of the trigger lever, extends over the clear height of the trigger region and is supported on the trigger lever in such a way that it forms a two-armed lever.
US10060690B1
A magazine release block including a blocking element and a lower receiver of a firearm, wherein the lower receiver comprises a blocking element channel extending between an upper surface of the lower receiver and a magazine release button receiving cavity, wherein the blocking element is positioned within the blocking element channel, and wherein the blocking element is movable between a disengaged position wherein the blocking element does not inhibit movement of a magazine release button and an engaged position wherein at least a portion of the blocking element inhibits movement of said magazine release button, and wherein when an upper receiver of the firearm is operably positioned atop the lower receiver a surface of the upper receiver urges the blocking element to the engaged position.
US10060689B2
Embodiments of the invention include a firearm system and method of assembly of the firearm system including a receiver complex including a receiver coupled to a forward receiver. A feed port is positioned between the receiver and the forward receiver, and a striker coil assembly is positioned proximate the receiver, and includes a plurality of strikers each extending at least partially through a coil. An interchangeable barrel is coupled to the forward receiver forming a breech. In some embodiments, the firearm system includes a breech that includes a plurality of side-by-side bores of the barrel. Some embodiments include a magazine coupled to the receiver complex adjacent the feedport to simultaneously feed more than one dischargeable projectile into the feedport with a single charge block. In some embodiments, the charge block includes a plurality of chambers and a plurality of projectiles positioned within the plurality of chambers.
US10060686B2
A passive radiative cooling system in which an ultra-black emitter includes metamaterial nanostructures disposed on the top surface of a metal sheet, and a conduit structure channels the flow of coolant against a bottom surface of the metal sheet. The metamaterial nanostructures (e.g., tapered nanopores) are configured to dissipate heat from the coolant in the form of emitted radiant energy having wavelengths/frequencies that fall within known atmospheric transparency windows (e.g., 8-13 μm or 16-28 μm), the emitted radiant energy being transmitted through a reflective layer into cold near-space. The ultra-black emitter is formed using a modified Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) self-assembly technique followed by electroless plating that forms metal-plated tapered nanopores, and the reflective layer includes a distributed Bragg reflector. The cooling system is made scalable by way of modular cooling units (modules) that are configured for connection in series and parallel to form dry cooling systems suitable for large power plants.
US10060685B2
A laminated header includes: a plurality of plate-like members laminated with each other; one first opening; a plurality of second openings; and a distribution flow passage connecting the one first opening and each of the plurality of second openings to each other. The distribution flow passage includes: a first passage having a straight line shape; a first branching flow passage for the first passage to branch into a plurality of passages; a second passage that has a straight line shape and is connected to each of the plurality of passages branched in the first branching flow passage; a second branching flow passage for the second passage to branch into a plurality of passages; and a third passage that has a straight line shape and is connected to each of the plurality of passages branched in the second branching flow passage.
US10060672B2
This invention is about an air separation apparatus to produce oxygen and nitrogen through isobaric separation, which is based on the Rankine cycle system of similar thermal energy power circulation apparatus at cryogenic side, a liquid pump is used to input work and the cold is made up to the air separation apparatus with refrigerating media, so as to realize the isobaric separation of air to produce nitrogen and oxygen. The air separation apparatus of this invention can save energy by over 30% as compared with the traditional advanced apparatus with the identical refrigerating capacity, and it can also realize centralize gas supply via the air separation apparatus, therefore it constitutes a breakthrough to the traditional air separation technology and refrigeration theory, with substantial economic, social and environmental protection benefits.
US10060662B2
Surged heat pump systems, devices, and methods are disclosed having refrigerant phase separators that generate at least one surge of vapor phase refrigerant into the inlet of an evaporator during an on cycle of the compressor. This surge of vapor phase refrigerant, having a higher temperature than the liquid phase refrigerant, increases the temperature of the evaporator inlet, thus reducing frost build up in relation to conventional refrigeration systems lacking a surged input of vapor phase refrigerant to the evaporator. The temperature of the vapor phase refrigerant is raised in relation to the liquid phase with heat from the liquid by the phase separation, not by the introduction of energy from another source. The surged heat pump systems may operate in highest heat transfer efficiency mode and/or in one or more higher temperature modes.
US10060644B2
The present technology relates to systems and methods for control of home automation activity based on user characteristics. More specifically, the present technology relates to using a home automation system to control home automation activity based on user characteristics and weighting home automation sensors based on priority. Example embodiments include receiving an input including user preferences, assigning a weight to HVAC sensors using the preferences, generating a profile using the set of preferences and the weights, transmitting the profile to an HVAC system to run the HVAC system, receiving HVAC data recorded by the HVAC sensors, updating the HVAC profile, and transmitting the updated HVAC profile to be displayed on a television display device.
US10060632B2
A cooking apparatus including a filter which may efficiently collect gas and smoke generated in a pyro-cleaning process, and a method of controlling the same. The cooking apparatus includes a main body having a cooking chamber formed therein, a vent unit configured to discharge gas in the cooking chamber to the outside of the main body, and a filter installed in at least one of the cooking chamber and the vent unit to collect gas or smoke generated in the cooking chamber. The filter includes a metal sheet.
US10060629B2
A combustor is provided. The combustor may comprise an axial fuel delivery system, and a radial fuel delivery system aft of the axial fuel delivery system. The radial fuel delivery system may be configured to direct fuel at least partially towards the axial fuel delivery system. A radial fuel delivery system is also provided. The system may comprise a combustor including a combustor liner, a mixer coupled to the combustor liner, and a nozzle disposed within the mixer, wherein the mixer and the nozzle are configured to direct fuel in a direction at least partially forward.
US10060623B2
A gas hot air gun head includes a fuel supply device engagable with a gas reservoir and having a fluid inlet end, a fluid outlet end and a channel extending from the fluid inlet end to the fluid outlet end. Further, a flow-guiding device connects to the fluid outlet end of the fuel supply device and includes a combustor. The combustor connects to the fuel supply device. The combustor includes a combustion chamber extending therethrough. The combustion chamber includes first and second flow-guiding plates engaging therein and separating from each other in an axial direction. The first flow-guiding plate includes a plurality of first holes extending therethrough. The second flow-guiding plate includes a plurality of second holes extending therethrough. A centerline of one of the plurality of first holes offsets from centerlines of the plurality of second holes.
US10060621B2
Provided is a gas-air mixing device for a combustor which effectively controls the amount of gas and air supplied to a burner provided in a combustor, such as a boiler or a water heater, thus improving the turn-down ratio which leads to increased convenience for using hot water and heat and enhanced durability of the burner. The gas-air mixing device for a combustor comprises: a housing, connected on one side to a turbo fan; a discharge part disposed on one side of the housing and in contact with the turbo fan; first and second air supply parts, provided on the other side of the discharge part and separated by a first partition; first and second gas supply parts, separated by a second partition; and an opening/closing means for controlling the flow of gas and air by opening or blocking the second air supply part and the second gas supply part.
US10060620B2
A burner is described that includes a main longitudinal pipe into which there flows primary transport air loaded with solid particles of a pulverulent fuel, a longitudinal tube arranged inside and concentric to the main pipe, the longitudinal tube extending to the vicinity of a primary transport air outlet end of the main pipe and producing an outer longitudinal passage disposed around and concentric to an inner longitudinal passage, and means for distributing the different concentrations of solid particles in the primary transport air, in the outer longitudinal passage and in the inner longitudinal passage.
US10060619B2
A high voltage can be applied to a combustion reaction to enhance or otherwise control the combustion reaction. The high voltage is switched on or off by a grid electrode interposed between a high voltage electrode assembly and the combustion reaction.
US10060617B2
A lamp includes a lamp unit and an air-guiding ring. The lamp unit has a housing receiving a light-emitting element, as well as a fitted portion formed on an outer periphery of the housing. The air-guiding ring has an inner periphery forming a fitting hole and is fitted around the fitted portion of the lamp unit via the fitting hole. The air-guiding ring comprises a venting portion extending from an outer periphery to the inner periphery of the air-guiding ring.
US10060610B1
A lighting assembly is disclosed that is sold in a kit/package with a single, dual conductor wire that forms an electrical “loop”. Both free ends of a first conductor of the wire are connected to the same conductor socket and both free ends of a second conductor are connected to the other conductor socket. During installation, a contractor can simply cut with wire loop to provide a pre-wired light assembly that is ready to be daisy-chained to other light assemblies or electrical equipment.
US10060604B2
A replacement LED insert module for retrofitting a pre-existing shoe box parking lot light. The module includes a plate into which an array of LED light fixtures capable of being operated directly from an AC power supply are mounted. The module is configured for attachment to a flange in the pre-existing shoe box parking lot light after the innards of the pre-existing light (bulbs, any reflectors, ballasts, etc.) have been removed.
US10060600B1
A light emitting device includes a light emitting chip, a reflecting cup arranged on a side of the light emitting chip, and a package encapsulating the light emitting chip and the reflecting cup. The light emitting chip includes a first light emitting surface and a second light emitting surface coupled to the first light emitting surface. The reflecting cup has an inner surface facing the second light emitting surface of the light emitting chip. The reflecting cup arranges around a periphery of the second light emitting surface. The inner surface of the reflecting cup is a multifocal paraboloid. The multifocal paraboloid includes multistage paraboloids. The corresponding focus points of the multistage paraboloids are symmetrically distributed on the first light emitting surface of the light emitting chip.
US10060591B2
This invention is directed toward a body board, used for riding ocean waves, which has one or more removable LED light ropes disposed in one or more channels that have been molded into the top, bottom, or sides of the body board. The channels are removably covered with a water-resistant covering that can be opened to remove or exchange the LED lights. The body board also includes a cavity into which a battery is placed, where the battery powers the LED's, and means of controlling the LED's. The battery cavity, in the first embodiment, is also covered by a water-resistant covering that can be opened to access the battery for removal or replacement. A solar panel is embedded in the deck of the body board and connected to the battery for recharging when the body board is left in the sun.
US10060589B2
A light device comprises an elongated light guide (2) and a LED source (1) seated in the light guide entry part (3) for emitting the light beam into the light guide (2). The entry part of the light guide comprises mutually intersecting parts of at least two ellipsoids (11, 21) arranged with their main axes (14, 24) next to each other. The LED light sources are fitted in the first focuses (15, 25) of the ellipsoids for emission of light beams and their reflection from the elliptic walls (13, 23) thereof to the second focuses (16, 26) thereof, laying inside the light guide in different distances from the first focuses. The distance between the first focus (15) and the second focus (16) of the first ellipsoid (11) preferably equals at least 1.5 times the distance between the first focus (25) and the second focus (26) of the second ellipsoid (21).
US10060587B2
In one embodiment, a lighting device for a vehicle includes a first light source configured to generate first light, and a second light source configured to generate second light. A fiber optic light panel is optically coupled to the first and second light sources and includes a plurality of optical fibers each configured to emit light along a respective length of the optical fiber. The plurality of optical fibers are arranged to define an illumination region such that the first and second light is output from the illumination region.
US10060586B1
An electric flameless candle is disclosed; the electric flameless candle includes a case, a translucent shell positioning unit, a translucent shell, a light emitting unit, a connecting unit, an electromagnetic sway module, a circuit board and a power unit. The case includes an opening. The translucent shell positioning unit is located at the opening. The translucent shell is located on the translucent shell positioning unit and includes a translucent shell base. The light emitting unit is located on the translucent shell base and in the translucent case. The connecting unit is connected to the translucent shell base. The electromagnetic sway module is located in the case. The electromagnetic sway module includes a metal bar, a metal coil and a metal core. The metal coil is connected to the fixing stand and located under the metal bar. The metal core is located in the metal coil.
US10060581B2
A light emitting module including a substrate, a plurality of first light emitting diode (LED) chips and a plurality of second LED chips is provided. The substrate has a cross-shaped central region and a peripheral region surrounding the cross-shaped central region. The first LED chips are disposed on the substrate and at least located in the cross-shaped central region. The second LED chips are disposed on the substrate and at least located in the peripheral region. A size of each second LED chip is smaller than a size of each first LED chip. The number of the first LED chips located in the peripheral region is smaller than that in the cross-shaped central region. The number of the second LED chips located in the cross-shaped central region is smaller than that in the peripheral region.
US10060577B2
A conformable fuel gas storage tank includes a shell, a fuel gas storage material, and one or more filter tube(s). The fuel gas can be natural gas or hydrogen gas. The shell defines an interior, and the fuel gas storage material is located within the interior. The filter tube permits fuel gas to diffuse out of filter tubes and into the interior of the tank and, additionally, supports the tank against outwardly-directed forces resulting from pressure within the interior of the shell.
US10060574B2
A supporting device includes a housing, a support board, a linkage trestle and a plurality of elastic bodies. The support board pivots on the housing. The linkage trestle includes a pivot end and a sliding end, the pivot end is pivotally connected to the support board, and the sliding end abuts the housing. The plurality of elastic bodies are disposed in the housing, and the elastic bodies form a slide channel in the housing, wherein the sliding end is disposed in the slide channel, the sliding end abuts the elastic bodies, and the elastic bodies change the width of the slide channel with the movement of the sliding end such that the elastic bodies push against the sliding end.
US10060573B2
An expandable socket for attachment to a portable media player or a portable media player case. The expandable socket generally includes a base, a button, and a spring. The base is adapted to engage a portion of the portable media player or the portable media player case. The button is spaced from and movable relative to the base. The spring is disposed between the base and the button, the spring arranged to resist movement of the button toward the base.
