US10070980B2
An intragastric implant for obesity treatment is disclosed. The device delays digestion by providing a duodenal sleeve, and may also slows gastric emptying by limiting flow through the pyloric sphincter. The implant includes an elongated axially-compressible duodenal sleeve having a non-tissue-piercing anchor on a proximal end sized to lodge within the duodenal bulb. The anchor may have oppositely-directed anchoring flanges to resists migration in both directions. The sleeve may also have barbed ribs to resist proximal movement back up into the stomach. A method of implant includes collapsing/compressing the device and transorally advancing it through the esophagus to be deployed within the duodenum. A dissolvable jacket may constrain the implant for delivery and naturally dissolve upon implant. Removal of the implant may occur in the reverse.
US10070966B2
An orthopedic knee prosthesis includes a femoral component which exhibits enhanced articular features, minimizes removal of healthy bone stock front the distal femur, and minimizes the impact of the prosthesis on adjacent soft tissues of the knee.
US10070963B2
A total hip femoral prosthesis provides a shortened neck and more proximal coating level. Additionally, a means for strengthening the neck may be incorporated to increase stress transfer to the native bone. A method for reducing potential impingement that results from a high neck resection level includes instrumentation for cutting chamfered surfaces into the bone surrounding the proximal end of the implant. Instrumentation and methods of creating chamfered cuts are disclosed.
US10070954B2
A prosthetic heart valve having an inflow end and an outflow end includes a collapsible and expandable stent including a plurality of cells arranged in rows extending around a circumference of the stent, at least one of the rows forming a flared portion having a diameter that is larger than diameters of others of the rows. The stent further includes engaging arms disposed adjacent the outflow end and extending toward the inflow end, the engaging arms being configured to couple to heart tissue to anchor the stent. A collapsible and expandable valve assembly has a plurality of leaflets disposed within the stent.
US10070951B2
A method of forming a fluid-filled implant is provided. The method includes: forming a first zone of an elastomeric membrane defining at least one partially enclosed void space; expanding a volume of the void space, thereby expanding a volume enclosed by the first zone; forming a second zone comprising at least one elastomeric middle layer on at least a portion of the expanded first zone; and reducing the volume of the void space, thereby contracting elastomeric layers of the first zone and the second zone. The method also includes forming an adjustable implant from the elastomeric membrane by enclosing the void space to form at least one chamber.
US10070943B2
A carrier for at least one fastening element (4) to be fabricated having an attachment area whereby the carrier is provided with a holding piece (3) for attachment in a receiving part of a finishing machine and whereby the carrier includes a carrier piece (2) for the fastening element (4) and the carrier piece (2) is embedded at least partially in the carrier piece (2) in a manner so that the attachment area (4b) of the fastening element (4) can be fabricated. A method for producing a fastening element (4) to be finished and to be attached to an individual surface whereby the contour of the attachment area is defined with the aid of data of the surface onto which the fastening element (4) is to be attached and whereby a pre-shaped, not yet individualized fastening element (4) is formed by removal of material to produce the specific contour. Furthermore, an auxiliary positioning part (21) is provided with a contour that is continued by the contour of the attachment area, which is also defined by the surface onto which the fastening element (4) is to be attached.
US10070937B2
The invention relates to a visualization apparatus for visualizing a quality of applying energy to an object. The quality of applying energy at a location on the object (3) is visualized based on a) a provided image of the object and b) a provided quality value which is a depth value indicative of the depth to which the applied energy has altered the object, representing the quality of applying energy to the object at the location on the object (3), wherein a visual property assigning unit (9) assigns a visual property to the location depending on the quality value and a display (10) displays the provided image and the assigned visual property at the location on the object shown in the image as a transmural region calculated using depth value(s) with respect to a wall of the object. In general a person who applies energy to the object is focused on the location at which energy is applied. Since quality information is shown at the location on which the person is already focused, the quality dependent information can easily be absorbed by the person.
US10070930B2
A method of jointed device movement inside a body comprising: measuring movement of at least one input object portion; mapping the measured input object portion movement to a jointed device portion movement; and moving the device portion according to mapped measured movements.
US10070929B2
A system of this invention is directed to a surgical operation support system that supports determination of an appropriate disposition of a bone in a living body during surgery. The surgical operation support system includes a storage that stores 3D data of a first target bone that is one of two divided surgery target bones and 3D data of a reference bone partially overlapping the first target bone in association with position data of a first marker fixed to the first target bone, and stores 3D data of a second target bone that is the other of the two divided surgery target bones in association with position data of a second marker fixed to the second target bone, an image capturer that captures the first marker fixed to the first target bone and the second marker fixed to the second target bone, and a display that changes display in accordance with a change in relative positions of the first marker and the second marker using the data stored in the storage such that the target position of the second marker with respect to the first marker when the second target bone overlaps the reference bone can be grasped.
US10070927B2
A distal tip assembly for an elongate medical device having an axis comprises a shaft having a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, a wall, and a central lumen extending axially between said proximal end portion and said distal end portion. The distal tip assembly further comprises a position sensor disposed in an outer sleeve such that the sensor can shift relative to the sleeve. The sleeve is disposed at least in part in the wall and is substantially fixed thereto.
US10070926B2
A pedicle depth measuring apparatus comprises an outer tubular member comprising a first end and a second end. A head member is joined to the second end. The head member comprises a base surface comprising an opening. An inner member is slidable within the outer tubular member. The inner member comprises a first end and a second end, the second end being slidable through the opening. The second end further comprises a marker disposed at a distal end. The marker comprises a material that is radiographically distinguishable, in which a placement of the marker within a cannulation of a patient's pedicle is observable. An indicator member is operable for indicating a distance between the marker and the base surface, in which the distance indicates a choice of a size of a pedicle screw to be installed for mitigating damage to the patient's nerve root.
US10070925B2
A medical manipulator is improved in terms of invasiveness into a body tissue and an emergency avoidance difficulty. The medical manipulator includes a driving unit including a vibration-type actuator including a vibrating unit that generates a vibration wave, a moving unit movable relative to the vibrating unit in response to receiving the vibration wave, and a pressure application unit configured to apply a pressure between the vibrating unit and the moving unit. The medical manipulator further includes a manipulator unit connected to the driving unit and configured to be movable by being driven by the driving unit, a supporting unit that supports the driving unit and the manipulator unit, a driving circuit connected to the vibrating unit and configured to apply an AC voltage to the vibrating unit, and a torque control unit configured to control a holding torque with which the moving unit is held by the vibrating unit.
US10070924B2
A drape suitable for use with a multi-tier back table has a first fabric portion configured to substantially cover a lower table surface and a second fabric portion configured as a pocket that receives at least a substantial portion of an upper table surface. By one approach this pocket includes at least one hand slot configured to receive a user's hand such that the user can lift the second fabric portion and slide the pocket over the upper table surface. A third fabric portion having a vertical panel connects the first and second fabric portions.
US10070923B2
A steerable laser probe may include a handle having a handle distal end and a handle proximal end, a plurality of actuation controls of the handle, a flexible housing tube having a flexible housing tube distal end and a flexible housing tube proximal end, and an optic fiber disposed within an inner bore of the handle and the flexible housing tube. An actuation of an actuation control of the plurality of actuation controls may gradually curve the flexible housing tube. A gradual curving of the flexible housing tube may gradually curve the optic fiber. An actuation of an actuation control of the plurality of actuation controls may gradually straighten the flexible housing tube. A gradual straightening of the flexible housing tube may gradually straighten the optic fiber.
US10070922B2
A microwave energy delivery and measurement system, including a microwave energy source configured to delivery microwave energy to a microwave energy delivery device, a measurement system configured to measure at least one parameter of the microwave energy delivery device and a switching network configured to electrically isolate the microwave energy source and the measurement system. The measurement system is configured to actively measure in real time at least one parameter related to the microwave energy delivery device.
US10070913B2
A grasping surface opposed to a second jaw is provided on an outer surface in a first jaw of the grasping treatment unit, and a heat applying portion applying heat to a treated target is provided in a grasping-surface-side part in the first jaw. The heat applying portion includes a projection portion in which the grasping surface projects toward the second jaw, and the projection portion includes a first thermal conduction portion, and a second thermal conduction portion with a thermal conductivity which is different from that of the first thermal conduction portion. The second thermal conduction portion is continuous with the first thermal conduction portion in a longitudinal direction of the first jaw.
US10070912B2
A coupling means (8;8′;8″,14) serves for connecting a suction channel (27) of an electrosurgical instrument (1) to a vacuum source via a suction tubing (11) and/or for guiding an electrical cable (12), that supplies electrical energy from an electrosurgical generator to the electrosurgical instrument (1). The electrosurgical instrument (1) comprises a hollow elongated main body (2) having a first end (7) for securing a first means (3) for application of the electrical energy to a surgical site and an opposite second end (9), which hollow elongated main body (2) has a switch means (5) to be operated by means of an associated actuator (4) to control application of the electrical energy to the surgical site. The coupling means (8;8′;8″) comprises at least a first coupling part (8;8′;8″) for inserting between the second end (9) of the hollow elongated main body (2) and the suction tubing (11), which first coupling part (8;8′;8″) is configured to attach the suction tubing (11) in tandem with said hollow elongated main body (2) and/or to accommodate the electrical cable (12) exiting the hollow elongated main body (2) along the longitudinal axis of said first coupling part (8;8′;8″). A kit including the coupling means and other components for an electrosurgical instrument is also disclosed.
US10070911B2
According to some embodiments, a method of treating a subject having diabetes or symptoms associated with diabetes is provided. The method includes delivering a neuromodulation catheter within a vessel (e.g., hepatic artery) having surrounding nerves that innervate the liver (e.g., sympathetic nerves of the hepatic plexus). The method may also include modulating (e.g., disrupting, ablating, stimulating) the nerves by mechanical compression, energy delivery, or fluid delivery.
US10070908B2
A surgical instrument for cutting an elongated element. The surgical instrument may have a compact size for use in-situ during a surgical procedure. The surgical instrument is also configured to provide the necessary mechanical advantage to cut the elongated element. The surgical instrument may include first and second arms that are pivotally connected together at a pivot. The arms include blades positioned at or towards distal ends of the arms that act together to cut the elongated element. A force mechanism is positioned between the arms to pivot the arms between an open orientation and a closed cutting orientation. The force mechanism may be positioned directly between the arms to reduce the overall size of the instrument.
US10070907B2
An apparatus for bone cement delivery comprising, a proximal nozzle having a proximal end configured to couple to a bone cement source and a first distal delivery end having a circular cross section, a distal nozzle having a proximal end configured to slideably couple to the first distal delivery end and a second distal delivery end having an oblong cross section, that can be slanted, and an attachment mechanism configured to slideably retain the distal nozzle to the proximal nozzle.
US10070906B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide a device for securing a ligature to an osseous structure, the device comprising a first part, a second part, a flexible elongate member for engaging the osseous structure, a closure element, and a deformable element between the first and second parts for holding open a gap G between them. The flexible elongate member is threaded through an orifice in the first part and the gap G. The closure element is configured for clamping the first and second parts against each other, overcoming the resilience of the deformable element, so as to frictionally lock the flexible elongate member threaded through the gap G. Embodiments disclosed herein also provide a method for using the device.
US10070905B2
A device can be provided that includes a bone plate having an upper surface and a bone-facing surface, wherein the bone plate includes one or more openings extending through the bone plate from the upper surface to the bone-facing surface, and one or more sliding elements each including a fastener receiving hole. The one or more openings can at least partially surround a periphery of one of the receiving holes. Further, the one or more openings can be at least partially filled with an elastomer to support elastic suspension of the one or more sliding elements in the bone plate, thereby enabling relative displacement between the one or more sliding elements and the bone plate. At least one sensor can also be provided that is operable to assess a dynamic parameter of one of the one or more sliding elements within the bone plate.
US10070903B2
A computer assisted surgical system that includes an apparatus for imaging a region of interest of a portion of an anatomy of a subject; a memory containing executable instructions; and a processor programmed using the instructions to receive two or more two-dimensional images of the region of interest taken at different angles from the apparatus and process the two or more two-dimensional images to produce three dimensional information associated with the region of interest.
US10070901B2
Instruments are provided for shifting elongate members, such as spinal rods, with respect to coupling members of spinal fixation systems. The instruments include a low friction drive mechanism having one or more rolling elements that ride along a helical groove or track in order to transform rotational movement of a drive member into linear shifting of a reducer member that shifts the elongate member. A one-way locking mechanism may be provided to selectively prevent unwanted counter-rotation of the low friction drive mechanism. The one-way locking mechanism may include annular ratchet teeth arranged on the exterior of the drive member and a ratchet pawl located adjacent to the teeth and selectively engageable therewith.
US10070895B2
A dual tulip assembly has a bone screw and a dual tulip. The dual tulip has a first tulip and a second tulip. Each first and second tulip has a slotted opening for receiving a rod. Each tulip is defined by a pair of sides, one side being common to both first and second tulips. On each side of each slotted opening, the sides have a proximal end with threads for engaging a set screw to secure a rod. The first tulip has an annular tapered distal end with an opening for receiving and securing the bone screw. The second tulip has a base forming a closed distal end. The bone screw has at least a partially hemispherical head. The bone screw has one of the following head shapes; at least partially a hemispherical or spherical head, or any other bulbous head. The dual tulip is a single piece structure.
US10070892B2
Custom moldable cushions for covering medical implants fastened to a bone are provided. Such cushions inhibit irritation of the surrounding soft tissue by covering the bone-implant interface and by reducing friction caused by movement of soft tissue adjacent the implant. Such cushions may also be employed to spread and absorb forces reducing patient discomfort and risk of injury and infection associated with such implants.
US10070882B2
A cutting instrument comprising: an outer tube comprising a distal end and a proximal end; an inner tube rotatably disposed within said outer tube, said inner tube comprising a distal end, a proximal end and a region intermediate said distal end and said proximal end, said region comprising a plurality of slits formed in said inner tube so as to render said region of said inner tube flexible; and a bellows disposed adjacent to said plurality of slits so as to render said region of said inner tube fluid-tight.
US10070877B2
The disclosure provides apparatus and methods for reentering a true lumen. The reentry catheter includes a shaft that includes a proximal opening in a proximal end of the shaft, a J-shaped filler in a distal end of the shaft, and a distal side opening in a sidewall of the shaft. The distal side opening is adjacent to the J-shaped filler. A passageway extends between the proximal opening and the distal side opening. The proximal opening, the distal side opening, and the passageway each are configured for the passage of an elongate medical device there through. A movable cover is hingedly attached to the sidewall of the shaft biased in a closed position and configured to occlude the distal side opening when in the closed position. The elongate medical device is configured to open the movable cover, the movable cover is configured to facilitate reentry to a true lumen.
US10070864B2
A loading unit assembly used for a linear surgical stapler, which includes a staple cartridge frame and a knife driver beam. The knife driver beam has a movable safety block defined on a surface of a proximal end thereof, and a protrusion is correspondingly defined on the staple cartridge frame. When the loading unit assembly is at its initial position, a front surface at a distal end of the safety block engages with the protrusion to stop a movement of the knife driver beam and the safety block. When the loading unit assembly is at its working position, the safety block is relatively separated from the protrusion.
US10070846B2
A method for ablation treatment using ultrasound data begins by identifying pathology to be treated and one or more blood vessels proximate the treatment site in a medical diagnostic image. The identified ROI and the blood vessels are automatically indicated in an ultrasound image Ultrasonic Doppler velocity data is acquired from the flow within the vessels and the Doppler data is used to calculate the volume blood flow through the vessels. The thermal effect of the heat transported by this blood flow is considered in the planning or conduct of the ablation treatment, as by modifying the size of a burn zone graphic around the tip of the ablation probe.
US10070845B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus in which an ultrasonic wave is transmitted toward a subject by an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound image is generated by a diagnostic apparatus body based on reception data thus obtained and an examination is performed based on the ultrasound image, including a display unit on which a plurality of examination portions corresponding to a series of examinations relating to ultrasound diagnosis are displayed in an order of time series in a single screen at a time, and a controller which highlights an examination portion corresponding to an examination being executed among the plurality of examination portions in the display unit, in which each of the plurality of examination portions is displayed as a body mark which indicates an examination position by the ultrasound probe.
US10070833B2
A mobile X-ray imaging apparatus has an angle sensor and a movement calculation circuit that controls the driving of drive wheels based on the turning angle of auxiliary wheels relative to a straight moving direction of the base unit when a fine movement switch instructs movement of the base unit in the fine movement mode. The turning angle of auxiliary wheels is detected by a turning angle sensor and the rotation of the pair of drive wheels is controlled by the movement calculation circuit as the auxiliary wheels turns to the straight moving direction.
US10070831B2
The invention comprises a positively charged particle based cancer therapy system integrated with at least one off-axis imaging system, where elements of the off-axis imaging system and the cancer therapy system are co-positioned/co-rotated with a gantry. The imaging apparatus optionally functions with a tomography system using the positively charged particles of the cancer therapy system for enhanced patient/tumor imaging at and/or prior to a time of treatment.
US10070826B2
There is provided herein methods, apparatus and systems for evaluating carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in a subject's breath, for example in subjects ventilated with High Frequency Ventilation (HFV), the method includes inserting to a trachea of a subject an endotrachial tube (ETT), sampling breath from an area in the trachea located in proximity to a distal end of the endotrachial tube (ETT) and evaluating one or more CO2 related parameters of the sampled breath.
US10070820B2
Transdermal microneedles continuous monitoring system is provided. The continuous system monitoring includes a substrate, a microneedle unit, a signal processing unit and a power supply unit. The microneedle unit at least comprises a first microneedle set used as a working electrode and a second microneedle set used as a reference electrode, the first and second microneedle sets arranging on the substrate. Each microneedle set comprises at least a microneedle. The first microneedle set comprises at least a sheet having a through hole on which a barbule forms at the edge. One of the sheets provides the through hole from which the barbules at the edge of the other sheets go through, and the barbules are disposed separately.
US10070818B2
Devices, methods, computer-readable media, and systems for determining an identity of a food are disclosed. For example, a method may receive at least one property of at least one component in a sample of a food from an intra-oral device including a spectrometer, the at least one property obtained via the spectrometer, compares the at least one property to a plurality of food signatures, and determines the identity of the food based upon the comparing. In another example, a system may include an intra-oral device and a wireless device. The intra-oral device may include a spectrometer for measuring at least one property of at least one component in a sample of a food. The wireless device may include a processor for receiving the at least one property, comparing the at least one property to a plurality of food signatures, and determining the identity of the food based upon the comparing.
US10070816B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for an orthotic device. In one instance, the device may include an orthotic device body and at least two sensors spatially disposed inside the orthotic device body. A first sensor may provide a first output responsive to pressure resulting from application of mechanical force to the orthotic device body. A second sensor may provide a second output responsive to flexing resulting from the application of mechanical force to the orthotic device body. The device may also include a control unit communicatively coupled with the sensors to receive and process the outputs provided by the sensors in response to pressure and flexing. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10070814B2
A magnetic stimulator includes a coil which applies magnetic stimulation to a head of a living body, an intensity controller which controls an intensity of the magnetic stimulation applied by the coil, an acquiring section which acquires a biological signal from the living body, a detector which detects an adverse event of the living body from the biological signal acquired by the acquiring section, and an intensity suppressing section which, when an adverse event of the living body is detected by the detector, suppresses the intensity of the magnetic stimulation that is controlled by the intensity controller.
US10070810B2
An automatic sensor inserter is disclosed for placing a transcutaneous sensor into the skin of a living body. According to aspects of the invention, characteristics of the insertion such as sensor insertion speed may be varied by a user. In some embodiments, insertion speed may be varied by changing an amount of drive spring compression. The amount of spring compression may be selected from a continuous range of settings and/or it may be selected from a finite number of discrete settings. Methods associated with the use of the automatic inserter are also covered.
US10070805B1
A patient monitoring system includes a sensing device configured to measure physiological parameter data from a patient, an identification transmitter that transmits an identification signal, wherein the identification signal is associated with the patient, and a location tracking system having a plurality of identification receivers arranged in a care facility that receive the identification signal from the identification transmitter and determine a patient location within the care facility based on a location of receipt of the identification signal. The patient monitoring system further includes a contextual alarming module that receives the patient location and selects at least one location-specific alarm rule based on the patient location in the care facility. Physiological parameter data is then assessed by the patient monitoring system based on the location-specific alarm rule.
US10070800B2
A method for use in performing impedance measurements on a subject. The method includes, in a processing system, determining at least one first impedance value, measured at a site using a first electrode configuration, determining at least one second impedance value, measured at the site using a second electrode configuration, and determining the presence, absence or degree of an anomaly using the first and second impedance values.
US10070777B2
A system and method may display an image stream, where an original image stream may be divided into two or more subset images streams, each subset image stream being displayed simultaneously or substantially simultaneously. The images may be displayed fused. The images may be collected from an ingestible capsule traversing the GI tract.
US10070775B2
An endoscopic system according to the invention, in particular for colonoscopy, includes a flexible endoscope with an elongate, flexible shaft, a regulator part, and also an operating part which can be placed on or pushed onto the shaft and which has at least one control element, wherein the endoscopic system furthermore includes a shaft stop, which can be secured on a patient support and which has a locking mechanism, controllable by the at least one control element, for locking the shaft against movement in a longitudinal direction of the shaft.
US10070769B2
A dishwasher with a tub at least partially defining a washing chamber, a liquid spraying system, a liquid recirculation system defining a recirculation flow path, and a liquid filtering system. The liquid filtering system includes a rotating filter disposed in the recirculation flow path to filter the liquid.
US10070764B2
An autonomous coverage robot includes a chassis having forward and rearward portions and a drive system carried by the chassis. The forward portion of the chassis defines a substantially rectangular shape. The robot includes a cleaning assembly mounted on the forward portion of the chassis and a bin disposed adjacent the cleaning assembly and configured to receive debris agitated by the cleaning assembly. A bin cover is pivotally attached to a lower portion of the chassis and configured to rotate between a first, closed position providing closure of an opening defined by the bin and a second, open position providing access to the bin opening. The robot includes a body attached to the chassis and a handle disposed on an upper portion of the body. A bin cover release is actuatable from substantially near the handle.
US10070759B2
A dispenser includes a housing, a cartridge, and a pump assembly. The housing defines an internal volume. The cartridge is coupled with the housing. The pump assembly includes a tube that extends through the cartridge and into the internal volume of the housing. The tube includes a first inlet through which a first liquid is drawn into the tube from the internal volume when the pump assembly is actuated, and a second inlet through which a second liquid is drawn into the tube from the cartridge when the pump assembly is actuated.
US10070753B2
A cooking appliance includes an upper housing, a lower housing operatively connected to the upper housing, and a removable baking attachment received on the lower housing. The baking attachment has a bottom surface, a substantially open top and peripheral sidewalls defining a baking cavity.
US10070750B2
A device for heating an amount of liquid in a container using steam, comprising a steam conduit coaxially arranged in a tubular element which axially extends substantially from the inlet end to the outlet end of the steam conduit from which it is radially spaced thereby forming a first axially-extending annular air gap. Said tubular element is coaxially arranged in a sleeve thereby forming a second axially-extending air gap, said first air gap and said second air gap being closed at both respective axial ends on said tubular element. The steam conduit is made of a polymeric material having a low heat transfer coefficient, the tubular element is made of a metal material and said sleeve is also made of a polymeric material having a low heat transfer coefficient.
US10070747B2
Examples of the present disclosure are related systems and methods for lead-ins for anti-fatigue floor mats. More particularly, embodiments disclose lead-ins with tapered ends with variable heights that transition from a floor level to a mat surface level to enable drop stitch-mats to be used in residential and commercial areas.
US10070746B1
A clothes hanger having a first storage compartment and a second storage compartment wherein the first storage compartment is integrally formed into the body of the clothes hanger. The first storage compartment further includes a first side storage compartment and a second side storage compartment. The first side storage compartment and second side storage compartments are configured within independent access doors. The clothes hanger is further configured with a hook portion that is configured to be surroundably secured and locked to a support rod. The first side compartment and the second side compartment further include interior volumes that are divided into a plurality of storage sections by internal walls. A protective case is provided for the first storage compartment and the second storage compartment. The second storage compartment is secured to the clothes hanger with support rods and wherein the second storage compartment is below the clothes hanger.
US10070737B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus comprising a table with a generally horizontal top surface, an opening in the top surface, a receptacle located beneath the opening, a piston located inside the receptacle, and a means for moving the piston from a first vertical position to a second vertical position.
US10070733B2
When, at the initial operation of an air mattress having inflating and deflating functions or at restarting after maintenance, many air cells need to be filled with a large amount of air, the air supply/discharge pump is operated at a driving force (the first power output) close to the maximum driving capacity thereof in order to inflate the air cells as soon as possible. In the normal operation in which the bed user is lying on the bed, when the air supply/discharge pump needs to be driven in order to cause alternate inflation and deflation or in order to prevent the user from touching the bottom, the air supply/discharge pump is driven at a second or third power output lower than the first power output. Thereby, it is possible in the air mattress having inflating and deflating functions to achieve rapid pressure adjustment and alleviate bed user's discomfortable feeling due to the operation noise of the pump upon the pressure adjustment.
US10070731B2
This invention is to a folding chair with side bags that have a self-contained packaging functionality, composed of a folding stand as well as a seat fabric and a backrest fabric fixed to the folding stand. When the folding stand is opened, the seat fabric and the backrest fabric are in an unfolded open state. In a preferred embodiment, corresponding side bags and packing straps are provided at the seat fabric edges or on the handrails on both sides of the chair. Packing straps are provided behind the side bags. Locking mechanisms are provided on the two side bags and two packing straps. When folded, the two side bags will wrap around the outside of the folded chair and the two packing straps will wrap around the rest of the outside of the folded folding stand.
US10070730B2
This invention is to a type of folding chair with side bags on both sides, composed of a folding stand as well as seat fabric and backrest fabric fixed to the folding stand. When the folding stand is opened, the seat fabric and the backrest fabric are in an unfolded, open state. Its characteristics are: corresponding side bags are provided at the seat fabric edges or on the handrails on both sides of the folding chair. A corresponding locking mechanism is provided at the bottom or back of the two side bags. When the folding stand is folded, the two side bags will wrap around the outer sides, forming a binding packaging structure with the interlock of the locking mechanism at the bottom or the back of the side bags.
US10070725B2
A modular furniture assembly comprising first and second members (e.g., base and transverse member) may have convenient dual coupling mechanisms, for example, a magnetic coupling mechanism and a mechanical (e.g., hook and loop) coupling mechanism. The first member and/or second member may include a fabric or other cover over a foam or other body (e.g., fabric over foam, or other cover over a skeleton). Either or both members may include a rigid core (e.g., a board, skeleton, etc.). The coupling mechanisms may be such as to not detract from any soft, cushioned characteristics of a fabric over foam construction, if such is provided. The coupling structure in the first member and/or the second member may be tethered to the rigid core of the particular member to reduce tenting of the fabric or other cover of the first member and/or the second member as the tethered coupling structure is pulled.
US10070719B2
A stand for supporting a computing device at an elevated position is provided. The stand may support a laptop computer at a height such that a screen of the laptop computer is at or near eye-level of a user. The stand may include support arms and cross-members attached to the support arms to provide an offset to the support arms. Mounting points may be attached to ends of the support arms. The mounting points may be engageable with a base of the screen of the laptop computer such that a chassis of the laptop computer is suspended from the base of the screen.
US10070708B2
Combination beverage containers and storage vessels. Various embodiments are configured to store a consumable beverage or otherwise consumable liquid as well as at least one second item which may comprise an edible foodstuff, toy, novelty, etc. all in one convenient container. In some embodiments, the second items may be stored directly in the vessel separated from the liquid or the second items may be stored in a second container that may be removably seated in a portion of the vessel. The vessels may or may not be hand-held.
US10070706B2
A pendant for containing a commemorative or aromatic object includes a first body having inner and outer surfaces, the inner surface being configured to house a second commemorative object or aromatic substance. A second body includes outer and inner surfaces and a plate. The inner surface and plate define a permanently enclosed chamber selectively sealed to retain the commemorative or aromatic object. The second body has an opening with a removable cover for receiving the commemorative or aromatic object in the chamber. A rotatable coupler is provided between the first and second bodies to enable open and closed positions of the pendant. The second body includes a seal formed between the inner surface and the plate to define a portion of the chamber and to define an annular interspace isolating the chamber from an external environment both in the closed and open positions of the pendant.
US10070703B2
[Object][Solving Means] An attachable and detachable structure includes a superficial part and a base. The superficial part has an attachment part and a non-attachment part. The base supports the superficial part and moves one of the attachment part and the non-attachment part forward or backward to the other.
US10070702B2
A quick-release securing device is constructed of nylon strap having an openable loop at one end, and snap hook at the other end. The distance between the openable loop and the snap hook, and the circumference of the openable loop, is adjustable. The loop can be opened and closed using a buckle. A supplemental strap may be employed for releasably attaching items, such as boat fenders, to the securing device.
US10070699B2
A clasp for attaching a component to a bag having a strap. The clasp includes a protrusion portion having a protrusion and a receiving portion having a first arm and a second arm. The first and second arms define a receiving cavity configured to receive the protrusion of the protrusion portion. In one embodiment, the receiving portion further includes a body to which the first arm and second arm are connected by a plurality of flexible connectors. In another embodiment, the first arm is connected to the second arm by a clip. The arms of the receiving portion may each comprise a flexible extension which resists opening of the cavity. Alternatively or in addition, the receiving portion may further have a spring assembly which resists opening of the cavity. The receiving portion may further include one or more C-shaped strap retainers for attaching to the strap of the bag.
US10070696B2
A holding assembly for articles can be used with a flexible manufacturing system to hold an article in place. The holding assembly can be used with a printing system to print onto the article. The holding assembly can expand to fit the article. The holding assembly can include a moldable surface that can be provided with a temporarily fixed geometry through the use of a vacuum. The holding assembly can help provide a flattened outer surface for the article to facilitate printing.
US10070694B2
A shoelace securing device including a lace lock through which a pair of shoelaces are disposed and secured. The lace lock includes a pair of locking apertures and a spring. The shoelace securing device includes a plurality of protrusions extending from the lace lock about which a pair of shoelaces are wrapped. The shoelace securing device includes a shield member selectably coupleable over the plurality of protrusions thereby trapping any shoelaces wrapped around the plurality of protrusions. The shield member includes a non-front aperture for shoelaces to extend through.
US10070693B2
A tensile strand element for an article of footwear is disclosed. The tensile strand element includes one or more tensile strands secured at their endpoints between the sole and upper of an article of footwear, creating one or more looped portions. The unsecured looped portions may extend into the fastening region of the footwear and engage with a fastening system to tighten the footwear upper snugly against a wearer's foot to provide added support.
US10070655B2
An egg substitute composition includes a substantially egg-less dry mixture that includes a starch and/or lipid source and/or a protein source, and a hydrocolloid system. The hydrocolloid system includes a mixture of hydrocolloids and a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is adapted to crosslink the mixture of hydrocolloids upon the introduction of a liquid. The mixture of hydrocolloids includes a lower-temperature gelling hydrocolloid and a higher-temperature gelling hydrocolloid. The compositions may further include a liquid activator, which may be added to the dry mix to hydrate the composition, and enable use of the composition in any application typically calling for raw eggs, e.g., scrambled eggs, omelets, frittatas, etc. The compositions (in dry or hydrated form) may also be used as egg-substitutes in various different applications, such as in emulsions (e.g., mayonnaise), and baking mixes.
US10070654B2
An egg substitute composition includes a substantially egg-less dry mixture that includes a starch and/or lipid source and/or a protein source, and a hydrocolloid system. The hydrocolloid system includes a mixture of hydrocolloids and a crosslinking agent. The crosslinking agent is adapted to crosslink the mixture of hydrocolloids upon the introduction of a liquid. The mixture of hydrocolloids includes a lower-temperature gelling hydrocolloid and a higher-temperature gelling hydrocolloid. The compositions may further include a liquid activator, which may be added to the dry mix to hydrate the composition, and enable use of the composition in any application typically calling for raw eggs, e.g., scrambled eggs, omelets, frittatas, etc. The compositions (in dry or hydrated form) may also be used as egg-substitutes in various different applications, such as in emulsions (e.g., mayonnaise), and baking mixes.
US10070642B2
A hermetically sealing, enclosure-type mousetrap is provided having a reusable housing and a disposable cartridge that contains an internal high voltage killing mechanism. Upon entry of a mouse into the cartridge through a rodent access opening, the opening is closed and the mouse is killed using the high voltage mechanism. Closure of the door hermetically seals the cartridge with the dead mouse inside, after which the cartridge can be disposed of without any contact between the user and the carcass along with any parasites and pathogens associated therewith.
US10070641B2
A device and method for positioning a coil spring actuated body grip trap on a pole. A strip of material having an aperture therethrough through is inserted between adjacent coils of the coil spring of a coil spring actuated body grip trap so that the aperture of the strip of material extends from the coils. A pole is driven into the ground, the pole having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the aperture of the strip of material. The aperture of the strip of material is slid onto the pole so that the body grip trap is at a desired position on the pole so that the aperture of the strip of material jam-locks on the pole by the weight of the trap.
US10070638B2
A multiple purpose ice fishing bucket lid device provides a seat, storage, and additional functionality in a lid for covering a bucket. The device includes a housing for coupling to a bucket such that the housing covers the bucket. The housing defines an interior space. A pail is couplable to the housing wherein the pail extends into the interior space for holding bait. The pail is alternatively couplable to the housing in an inverted position wherein the pail extends upwardly relative to a top wall of the housing defining an elongated compartment with the interior space and an interior of the bucket for holding an elongated implement such as an ice fishing rod.
US10070629B2
A water circulation pump pre-filter unit (PFU). The PFU is submerged and provides structure to camouflage the system to give a natural and aesthetic look. The PFU comprises at least two cleaning systems: (1) biological cleaning mechanism; and (2) an internal self-cleaning mechanism. Specifically, the PFU comprises several filtering surfaces that form a repository for pond debris on which fish and other aquatic creatures feed, i.e., the biological cleaning mechanism. These filtering surfaces of the PFU also provide a protective barrier that prevents large debris from entering the circulation pump. The internal self-cleaning mechanism is a spray wash water source mechanism used to clean the PFU without removing the PFU or fish from the pond or entering the water. Together these features improve the quality of the water in the pond and extend the life of a pump.
US10070625B2
A multifunctional dog chain includes at least two ropes, a handle ring and hooks. Rear ends of the at least two ropes are interconnected to form a first connecting portion, the handle ring is in 360° rotary connection with the first connecting portion, front ends of the ropes are separated, the hooks used for connecting with dog collars are arranged on each of said ropes, an adjustable rope clamp is arranged between the ropes and connected to the ropes to separate the ropes into a front part and a rear part, the ropes between the first connecting portion and the adjustable rope clamp form the closed rear part, each of the ropes in the front part is of a separated structure, and the adjustable rope clamp can move back and forth along said ropes. The multifunctional dog chain can prevent accidents out of too long ropes.
US10070623B2
A reconfigurable pet enrichment system designed to help pets fulfill their natural behaviors is provided. The system is arranged to facilitate an environment that helps stimulate, entertain, and exercise a pet, and also provides a defensible space for napping, resting, or sleeping. The system is constructed from two separate pieces of pliable material. A base component is fashioned with a non-slip element. A top-covering component is attached to the base component, by means of semi-permanent fasteners, to create a variety of forms such as ripples, nooks, and tunnels. The top component contains a plurality of differing sized openings. Openings appeal to a pet's predatory nature, as the openings provide a source of stimulation and interaction. The pet enrichment system may be formed of any desired material, so as to be safe for pet interaction. The system may also be configured with a plurality of members attached via semi-permanent fasteners.
US10070620B2
A lick deterrent device to deter animals from biting or chewing. The deterrent device has a flexible substrate physically conformable in three directions with conductive traces thereon. The lick deterrent device is configured for electrical connection to a removable power source. The traces are configured so that they may be contacted by an animal's tongue or saliva, so that upon contact, an electrical circuit is completed thereby delivering a mild electric shock to the animal. The lick deterrent device may be stretchable in at least one direction.
US10070616B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01067507. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01067507. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01067507 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01067507 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10070614B2
A transgenic soybean resistant to soybean cyst nematode (SCN), or parts thereof, including an artificial DNA construct encoding a serine hydroxymethyltransferase protein (e.g., GmSHMT). Also provided are GmSHMT alleles containing mutations R130P and Y358N along with research and breeding methods and compositions including such.
US10070599B2
A plant cultivation apparatus includes a cultivation unit including a cultivation bed that includes a recess having a recessed cross-sectional shape and being configured to receive cultivation liquid injected into the recess, and a cultivation plate on the cultivation bed. The cultivation plate is supported on the recess of the cultivation bed, and includes an air supply path defined inside the cultivation plate, an air intake port through which air is supplied to the air supply path, and an air discharge port connecting with the air supply path and defined on an upper surface side of the cultivation plate where a cultivation plant is disposed. The cultivation bed includes an air intake port through which air is introduced and guided to the air supply path of the cultivation plate, and an air discharge port connectable with the air intake port of the cultivation plate.
US10070595B2
In the case of a drip irrigation tube the dosing elements which are inserted therein and are connected to the walling of the drip irrigation tube each comprise inlet regions, dosing regions and outlet regions, through which the water issues out of the drip irrigation tube via outlet openings installed in the tube walling. The outlet openings are in the form of a slit, the edge regions of the slit are supported by supporting means in such a manner as to limit bending of the edge regions of the slit towards the dosing elements. As a consequence, when negative pressure prevails in the tube contaminants are prevented from being able to penetrate through the slits into the dosing elements and block same.
US10070589B1
A bale trailer has two parallel bale cradles that are adjustable to accommodate different shapes and sizes of bales. Each cradle is balanced toward an unloading position and each is automatically returned to the carry position after unloading by the action of a spring.
US10070588B2
A gardening tool, such as a mower, includes a main body and a handle rotatably connected to the main body. The main body includes a motor. The handle includes a plurality of telescopic members slidably connected to each other. The mower further includes a operation assembly for being operated by a user to activate the motor and a control device for sending a control signal to enable or disable the operation of motor by the operation assembly.
US10070583B2
A cutting blade for use on trimmer rotary head assemblies configured to cut unwanted vegetation.
US10070582B2
A trimmer head may include a housing rotatable about an axis; and a line holder supported by the housing. The line holder defines a first receptacle, a second receptacle separated from the first receptacle and an opening communicating with the first receptacle and the second receptacle. A line is supportable by the line holder, the line having a first end and an opposite second end, the line being folded to provide a first line section from the first end toward a folded portion and a second line section from the second end toward the folded portion, the folded portion being insertable into the opening, the first line section being received in the first receptacle, the second line section being received in the second receptacle.
US10070574B2
An agricultural tillage implement with a hydraulic system having a left wing hydraulic subsystem supplying hydraulic pressure and flow to an outer left wing hydraulic circuit for actuating the actuator of an outer left wing wheel assembly, and a right hydraulic subsystem supplying hydraulic pressure and flow to an outer right wing hydraulic circuit for actuating an actuator of an outer right wing wheel assembly; the hydraulic system additionally having at least one hydraulic flow divider dividing hydraulic flow and pressure between the outer left wing hydraulic circuit and the outer right wing hydraulic circuit, the at least one hydraulic flow divider being configured to coordinate the motion of the outer left wing and the outer right wing wheel assemblies.
US10076070B2
A component mounting apparatus includes a mounting unit that mounts an electronic component on a board, at least one component supply unit that supplies chip solder, and a control unit that controls the mounting unit to mount the chip solder, which is supplied from the component supply unit, on the board, based on production data in which a size of chip solder to be mounted on each electrode of the board is instructed.
US10076068B2
An electric power converter includes a semiconductor module, a cooler, and a pair of direct current bus bars. The direct current bus bars are connected to the semiconductor. The direct current bus bars serve as current paths between the direct current power supply and the switching element. The cooler is made of metal, and is electrically connected to ground. A proximal bypass capacitor is formed close to the switching element by a heat radiating plate integrated with the semiconductor module, the cooler, and an insulating layer interposed between them. The electric power converter further includes a pair of distal bypass capacitors, each of which has a larger capacitance than the proximal bypass capacitor has, and has a current path to the switching element of which a length is longer than a current path to the switching element from the proximal bypass capacitor.
US10076066B2
A heat dissipating control module for a server device with a heat dissipating module includes a sensing unit, for detecting at least one environment parameter of an environment where the server device located at; and a control unit, coupled to the sensing unit for adjusting at least one heat dissipating parameter according to the at least one environment parameter and a plurality of heat dissipating parameter data, wherein the at least one heat dissipating parameter is utilized for controlling operations of the heat dissipating module.
US10076061B2
A fan system including a volute, a wind wheel, a motor, and a motor controller. The motor controller includes a control box including a plurality of fins for dissipating heat of the motor controller, and controls the operation of the motor to drive the wind wheel. The wind wheel is adapted to suck ambient air to form an air flow which passes through the plurality of fins.
US10076058B2
A cooling device of the present disclosure is attached to a park station where wireless power supply is performed to a vehicle using a coil and cools a coil provided on the vehicle by spraying a coolant.
US10076047B1
An electronic device chassis includes a casing and two limitation mechanisms. The casing includes two accommodating zones. The two limitation mechanisms are rotatably disposed at the casing. Each of the limitation mechanisms includes a first engaging portion near one of the accommodating zones, and a linkage structure near the other one of the accommodating zones, so that when the limitation mechanism is rotated, the first engaging portion and the linkage structure enter or leave the two accommodating zones, respectively. When two electronic assemblies are disposed in the two accommodating zones, two second engaging portions of the two electronic assemblies are located in rotating paths of the two first engaging portions, and a portion of each of the limitation mechanisms is located in a moving path of the corresponding electronic assembly. An electronic device is further provided.
US10076046B2
The present disclosure pertains to an arrangement comprising a housing, a circuit board arranged in the housing and at least one flat contact to connect the circuit board with an electrical component arranged outside of the housing, whereby the housing has a breakthrough that the flat contact protrudes from, whereby the circuit board has breakthrough that the flat contact reaches through, that the circuit board has a contact tab on the side facing away from the housing breakthrough and whereby a molded seal is inserted in the housing breakthrough and the molded seal positively encloses the flat contact and whereby the contact tab is connected with the flat contact in an electrically conductive manner.
US10076039B2
A method of fabricating a packaging substrate includes following steps: providing a carrier board having two opposite surfaces, forming on each of the surfaces a plurality of first metal bumps; covering the carrier board and the first metal bumps with a first dielectric layer that has a plurality of first intaglios which exposes a top surface and side surface of the first metal bumps; forming a conductive seedlayer on the first dielectric layer and the first metal bumps; forming a metal layer on the conductive seedlayer; removing a portion of the metal layer and the conductive seedlayer that is higher than the top surface of the first dielectric layer, and forming a first circuit layer in the first intaglios; forming a built-up structure on the first circuit layer and the first dielectric layer, forming a pair of upper and lower entire packaging substrates.
US10076037B2
Provided is a printed circuit board including: an electronic component having a bottom face and a side face, in which first lands are provided on the bottom face; a printed wiring board having a mounting face, in which second lands corresponding to the first lands are provided on the mounting face, and in which the electronic component is mounted such that the bottom face faces the mounting face; a solder aggregation member provided outside the second lands on the mounting face; pieces of first solder each of which joins each of the first lands to corresponding one of the second lands; second solder formed on the solder aggregation member; and a thermosetting resin adhered to the bottom face of the electronic component outside the first lands and to the mounting face of the printed wiring board outside the second lands.
US10076034B2
An electronic structure is provided. The electronic structure includes a first board structure, a first contact pad, a first joint member, and a second joint member. The first contact pad is disposed on the first board structure. The first joint member is disposed on the first contact pad, in which the first joint member has a first Young's modulus. The second joint member is disposed on the first joint member, in which the second Young's modulus has a second Young's modulus, and the second Young's modulus is greater than the first Young's modulus.
US10076024B2
This disclosure relates generally to an electronic assembly and method having a first electrical connection point and a second electrical connection point and a differential interconnect coupling the first electrical connection point to the second electrical connection point, the differential interconnect including first and second transmission traces including a interior edges and a exterior edges opposite the interior edges, the second interior edge facing the first interior edge, and stub traces, each stub trace coupled to one of the first and second transmission traces and projecting from one of the first interior edge, the first exterior edge, the second interior edge, and the second exterior edge. A substantially equal number of stub traces project from the first exterior edge and the second exterior edge. At least twice as many stub traces project from the first and second exterior edges as project from the first and second interior edges.
US10076017B2
The invention provides a method for creating in a display space an ambience lighting effect, wherein the display space comprises a screen configured to display moving images and a display space light source configured to provide the ambience lighting effect, wherein the moving images are representative of a stage performance in a performance space, the method comprising (a) deriving ambience lighting effect input data from one or more of (i) a light related cue provided by a cue manager, (ii) lighting effects accompanying the stage performance, and (iii) an analysis of a video shot by a video camera configured to monitor at least a part of an audience present in the performance space; and (b) displaying the moving images on the screen in the display space, while creating with the display space light source said ambience lighting effect at least based on the ambience lighting effect input data.
US10076008B2
The invention relates to an optoelectronic circuit intended to receive, between a first node and a second node, a variable voltage, the optoelectronic circuit including: a plurality of light-emitting diodes series-assembled between the first node and a third node; a first current limitation/regulation circuit assembled between the third node and the second node; a switching circuit coupling the third node to at least certain light-emitting diodes of the plurality of light-emitting diodes; a capacitor including first and second plates; a first diode having its cathode connected to the second plate and having its anode coupled to the second node; and a second diode having its anode connected to the second plate and having its cathode coupled to the third node or to a second current limitation/regulation circuit.
US10075999B2
A combination heater and sensor comprising: (a) a heating layer, a sensing layer, or both; (b) one or more power application portions, one or more sensing application portions, or both; wherein the heating layer and the sensing layer are located within the same plane; and wherein the heating layer is a nonwoven layer that is comprised of a plurality of metallized fibers that are randomly oriented forming the heating layer so that upon application of power the heating layer provides heat.
US10075995B2
Exemplary embodiments including a method including determining a user equipment of a wireless communication network is in an autonomous mobility mode; receiving an indication from the wireless communication network of a data communication available for the user equipment; and based on the indication, establishing a connection between the user equipment and a network node of the wireless communication network. Apparatus, program products, and software to perform the exemplary embodiments are also disclosed.
US10075991B2
A method and apparatus for performing a state transition for Device to Device (D2D) communication are provided. The method includes determining whether D2D initiation is required, while a terminal is operating in a first or a second state defined by EPS (Enhanced Packet System) Mobility Management (EMM)-Deregistered and EPS Connection Management (ECM)-IDLE at a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) layer and Radio Resource Control (RRC)-IDLE. If the D2D initiation is required, the method includes transitioning to a third state defined by EMM-Registered and ECM/RRC-Connected and performing the D2D initiation through a mobile communication network. If a deactivation condition is satisfied or a D2D state update is completed in the third state, the method includes transitioning to a fourth state defined by EMM-Registered and ECM/RRC-IDLE, and if a state update or scheduling for D2D communication is required in the fourth state, the method includes transitioning to the third state.
US10075989B2
A network connecting method includes: storing, by a server, a data table that matches a first information on an access point (AP) with a second information related to a beacon, wherein the access point (AP) and the beacon are configured to perform short-range wireless communications of different standards; transmitting, by the beacon, a beacon message on basis of an authentication information; obtaining, by a terminal, the authentication information based on the beacon message; transmitting, by the terminal, a request message including the authentication information to the server through long-range wireless communication; obtaining, by the server, based on the data table, an access information corresponding to the authentication information transmitted from the terminal; transmitting a response message including the access information to the terminal; and accessing, by the terminal that receives the response message, the AP by using the access information.
US10075988B2
Discontinuous reception (DRX) alignment techniques for dual-connectivity architectures are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise one or more radio frequency (RF) transceivers, one or more RF antennas, and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration information message containing a small cell RRC configuration information element (IE), the small cell RRC configuration IE to contain a small cell discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration IE comprising one or more inter-cell-coordinated small cell DRX parameters, the logic to determine a start time for a small cell DRX cycle based on at least one of the one or more inter-cell-coordinated small cell DRX parameters and initiate the small cell DRX cycle at the determined start time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10075975B2
The present invention is designed so that communication overhead pertaining to control signals is reduced in a communication system in which the bandwidth of a physical downlink shared channel is narrower than the system bandwidth. The radio base station of the present invention has a resource allocation section that allocates a physical downlink shared channel to a predetermined narrow band in a downlink system bandwidth, for a user terminal, and a downlink control information generating section that generates downlink control information to report to the user terminal, and the downlink control information generating section determines the size of a field pertaining to resource allocation information, included in downlink control information related to the physical downlink shared channel, based on the narrow band where the physical downlink shared channel is allocated.
US10075971B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting interference related control information in order to improve reception performance of a UE which receives a downlink signal, in a cellular mobile communication system based on an Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) system. A communication method of a UE according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving information on a resource allocation unit of an interference signal from an eNB; performing blind detection using information on the resource allocation unit of the interference signal; performing error-correcting coding using a transmission parameter for interference and a result obtained by the blind detection; and decoding reception data. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a reception performance of the UE can be improved through interference cancellation and suppression.
US10075970B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for enabling at least one opportunity to transmit mission critical (MiCr) data and at least one opportunity to receive MiCr data in a time division duplex (TDD) subframe during a single transmission time interval (TTI). The single TTI may be no greater than 500 microseconds. The TDD subframe may be a downlink (DL)-centric TDD subframe or an uplink (UL)-centric TDD subframe. How much of the TDD subframe is configured for the at least one opportunity to transmit the MiCr data and how much of the TDD subframe is configured for the at least one opportunity to receive the MiCr data may be adjusted based on one or more characteristics of the MiCr data. The MiCr data may have a low latency requirement, a high priority requirement, and/or a high reliability requirement. Various other aspects are provided throughout the present disclosure.
US10075968B2
A radio communication device is described having a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals during a transmitting period, the transmitting period comprising a first time period, during which signals are transmitted, and a second time period, during which no signals are transmitted; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to transmit signals taking into account the transmitting period of the first transceiver such that the second transceiver transmits signals at least partially during the second time period.
US10075961B2
An adaptive channel selection method is disclosed, performed by an autonomous communications node for selecting one of a plurality of possible channels in an unlicensed spectrum band. The method comprises: (a) for each channel: (i) determining a first interference measure UiS for the channel based on received energy from one or more other nodes j using said channel; (ii) causing the or each other node j using said channel to transmit an echo signal and receiving the echo signal(s) at the first communications node; (iii) determining from the or each echo signal a second interference measure UiA; (iv) determining a third interference measure Ui based on a combination of the first and second interference measures; and (b) selecting a channel whose third interference measure meets a predetermined condition.
US10075947B2
The present invention provides a method for assigning the number of control channel candidates and the number of blind detection times, a base station, and a user equipment. The method includes determining a first aggregation level set {L1i} and determining the number of EPDCCH candidates corresponding to each aggregation level in the {L1i}. {L1i} is formed by N aggregation levels supported by an EPDCCH. A second aggregation level set {L2j} is determined along with the number of EPDCCH candidates corresponding to each aggregation level in the {L2j}. {L2j} is formed by M aggregation levels supported by an EPDCCH to be detected, {L2j} is a subset of {L1i}, and the number of EPDCCH candidates corresponding to L2j in {L2j} is greater than or equal to the number of EPDCCH candidates corresponding to L2j in {L1i}.
US10075941B2
An arrangement is disclosed where in a multi-carrier communication system, the modulation scheme, coding attributes, training pilots, and signal power may be adjusted to adapt to channel conditions in order to maximize the overall system capacity and spectral efficiency without wasting radio resources or compromising error probability performance, etc.
US10075931B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for device-to-device (D2D) operation in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) determines that it is out of coverage (OOC). Even though the UE is OOC, the UE continues to transmit a D2D synchronization signal for in-coverage under a specific condition. If the UE determines that it is in coverage before the specific condition is met, the UE transmits the D2D synchronization signal for in-coverage. If the specific condition is met while the UE is OOC, the UE transmits the D2D synchronization signal for OOC.
US10075926B2
A method and apparatus for configuring Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes generating a header including a LCID for identifying extended PHR and L indicating a length of the extended PHR, and inserting Power Headrooms (PHs) of multiple activated carriers into the extended PHR of one of the carriers.
US10075923B2
A network node and a method performed by a network node for determining downlink transmission power for a downlink shared channel to be used in a Transmission Time Interval, TTI, by cells served by the network node in a wireless telecommunications network. The network node determines the downlink transmission power available to a cell for physical channels associated with the downlink shared channel based on downlink transmission power allocated in the cell to physical channels associated with a pilot signal downlink channel.
US10075921B2
A TCU is provided to resolve an abnormal state while minimizing loss of convenience for a user. The TCU which communicates with a server terminal providing service for a vehicle via a mobile telephone network for receiving provision of the service, includes a main control unit, and a communication module for communicating with the mobile telephone network. The main control unit resets an operation state of the communication module when communication for receiving the service is not available.
US10075920B2
A method for controlling traffic in an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a process request event for a first traffic, identifying whether the first traffic is allowed to be delayed, detecting whether a second traffic is generated if the first traffic is allowed to be delayed in a state where process of the first traffic is delayed, and processing the first traffic and the second traffic simultaneously if the second traffic is generated.
US10075916B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
US10075913B2
A wireless communication system includes a mobile station and a base station. The base station includes a blind decoding control unit that transmits a signal including a control signal serving as a trigger to change a decoding process to the mobile station based on a result of measurement of the amount of data of the mobile station. The mobile station includes a blind decoding control unit that selects a signal format to be decoded upon reception of the control signal from the base station, and detects a control signal directed to the mobile station by decoding the signal having the selected format among signals received from the base station.
US10075910B2
A base station device includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire first information on a first communication load of the base station device. The processor is configured to determine, on basis of the first information, whether a first event occurs. The processor is configured to acquire, upon determining that the first event occurs, second information on second communication loads of other base station devices located within a predetermined range from the base station device. The processor is configured to determine an impact range and an impact time of the first event on basis of the first information and the second information. The processor is configured to instruct terminal devices within the impact range to change, during the impact time, a setting of discontinuous reception from a normal setting to a first setting for easier detection of an incoming call.
US10075908B2
The present invention is generally directed to a playback device configured to audibly output audio in a multi-network environment. The device may include a network interface to receive audio and/or video data over a plurality of wireless networks; speaker drivers; one or more color indicators associated with wireless networks; a user interface to receive a user's selection of a specific wireless network through a the use of a color indicator; and one or more processors to sign into a selected first wireless network and receive data therefrom, and to audibly output the data received; receive from the user interface a selection of a specific color, the specific color associated with a second wireless network; sign out of the specific wireless network and into the second wireless network; and receive from the second wireless network data, and output the audio via the one or more speaker drivers.
US10075901B2
A system and a method that employs Extended Access Barring (EAB) when a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device performs an attempt to access an evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system are provided. When User Equipment (UE) supporting MTC, an MTC device, performs an attempt to access a network, the system and method determines whether it can access the network and performs the access procedure. The system and method can control the operations of UE that performs an attempt to access a network, thereby preventing excessive access.
US10075897B2
An access beacon sequence is transmitted by an entity in a communication system, the access beacon sequence comprising at least one access beacon packet. A method includes segmenting the access beacon sequence into access beacon segments, by segmenting said at least one access beacon packet. For each one of the access beacon segments, an access beacon portion is generated to include a corresponding one of the plurality of access beacon segments and an indicator indicating that the access beacon portion refers to an access beacon sequence of the communication system, so as to obtain a plurality of access beacon portions corresponding to the plurality of access beacon segments. Each access beacon portion of the plurality of access beacon portions is transmitted on a respective frequency channel amongst a plurality of frequency channels, where different access beacon portions are sent on different frequency channels according to portion-frequency association information.
US10075896B2
A method for use in an electronic device includes: receiving, from a server, beacon information including a first function information. The first function information is associated with a first function, and the first function is executed in response to detecting that a beacon signal that is received from a beacon transmitter matches beacon information.
US10075887B2
A terminal device that communicates with a different terminal device and an Evolved Universal Terrestiral Radio Access Network (EUTRAN) configures a mode 2 that is available for communication between terminal devices out of EUTRAN coverage and for communication between terminal devices in the EUTRAN coverage, as a mode for inter-terminal device communication, and, during a handover procedure, performs reception processing for communication between terminal devices in a mode 2.
US10075884B2
Systems and methods related to performing an assignment and a handover in a radio communication network are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method performed by a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) of a radio communication network may include seizing resources for a Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) bearer and an Internet Protocol (IP) bearer for use on a terrestrial A-interface of the radio communication network for an activity to be performed by a target Base Station Controller (BSC) of the radio communication network. Further, the method may include sending, to the target BSC, an indication that requests the activity be performed by the target BSC and that also identifies the seized resources for the TDM bearer and the IP bearer for use on the terrestrial A-interface for the activity
US10075879B2
A method in a user equipment (605) is disclosed. The method comprises acquiring (704, 708) interference mitigation assistance parameters and granularity parameters, determining (712) one or more interfering cells (610B) for which a first strength measurement should be determined, determining (716) a first strength measurement for each of the determined one or more interfering cells, and ordering (720) the one or more interfering cells. The method further comprises identifying (724) from the ordered one or more interfering cells a first number of interfering cells having the strongest first strength measurements, determining (728) a second strength measurement for each of the identified first number of interfering cells, determining (732) one or more cells of the identified first number of interfering cells for which to perform cancellation of interference, and performing (736) cancellation of interference on the determined one or more cells of the identified first number of interfering cells.
US10075877B1
A method of data communication rate control is provided. The method includes an application service provider receiving, from a mobile service provider, an indication of a data rate for transmission of data from a server associated with the application service provider to a mobile device. The method also includes transmitting data to the mobile device from the server associated with the application service provider based on the received data rate indication.
US10075870B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile communications network detection method and apparatus. The mobile communications network detection method comprises: receiving, by a network element management device, quality of service information sent by multiple network element devices on a transmission path of a service data flow, where the quality of service information is used for indicating quality of service of transmission of the service data flow by the network element devices, and the multiple network element devices include a base station device and a core network device; and determining, by the network element management device, quality of service of the transmission path of the service data flow according to the quality of service information sent by the multiple network element devices. The mobile communications network detection method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention are used to efficiently detect quality of service of service transmission.
US10075857B2
Techniques for operating a wireless network in a plurality of radio operating environments are disclosed. In some embodiments, an apparatus receives a first parameter value set that is selected from a group of multiple parameter value sets, wherein the first parameter value set is appropriate for a first target radio operating environment that corresponds to one or more of: a first level of mobility of user devices or a first range of wireless transmission. In some embodiments, the apparatus is reconfigured to receive wireless broadcast transmissions from a second broadcast transmitter using a second parameter value set that is appropriate for a second target radio operating environment. The first and second broadcast transmitters may be the same or different. The parameter value sets may include a first parameter based upon which the apparatus is configured to determine subcarrier spacing and a second parameter that indicates a cyclic prefix size.
US10075854B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for managing access points in a Wi-Fi network by using a centralized controller. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a Wi-Fi access point management method is provided for minimizing interference between Wi-Fi access points in a Wi-Fi network environment, and for reducing excessive power consumption by using a centralized controller to adapt to network conditions, meeting requirements including users' traffic demands.
US10075850B2
A method and system for detection and mitigation of attacks on a wireless network. The wireless network includes a plurality of antennas that are associated with different directions of coverage. The antennas can include an antenna array or an antenna having beamforming capabilities. An intrusion prevention processor or device analyzes incoming signals and determines individual device or aggregate device behavior patterns. The behavior patterns are compared with known attack patterns or triggers to determine if an anomaly has occurred. Attacking signals are blocked, or antennas in the direction of the anomaly are disabled while the system stabilizes. If the system stabilizes and the anomaly clears, the antennas are enabled and monitoring continues.
US10075845B2
An authentication system includes: an information processing apparatus configured to acquire, from a read result of an authentication image indicating authentication information, the authentication information; and a terminal apparatus configured to communicate with the information processing apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with the information processing apparatus; a first determining unit configured to determine whether the terminal apparatus is positioned within a second communication range in which a distance from the information processing apparatus is a threshold or less, within a first communication range that enables wireless communication with the information processing apparatus; and a display controller configured to perform control to display an authentication screen containing the authentication image on a display unit when it is determined that the terminal apparatus is positioned within the second communication range.
US10075841B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable storage media are provided for implementing a trusted subscription management platform. An example server device is configured to transmit, to a trusted UI client of a mobile station, information regarding a set of virtual SIM cards associated with the mobile station, and receive, from the trusted UI client of the mobile station, a request to provision a particular virtual SIM card. The server device is further configured to initiate, by an SM-SR module and via a trusted baseband client of the mobile device, a secure proxy channel between the server device and a profile manager that hosts the particular virtual SIM card, and transmit, via the secure proxy channel and to the profile manager, an instruction regarding the particular virtual SIM card. Corresponding methods and computer readable storage media are provided.
US10075835B2
One or more sensors gather data, one or more processors analyze the data, and one or more indicators notify a user if the data represent an event that requires a response. One or more of the sensors and/or the indicators is a wearable device for wireless communication. Optionally, other components may be vehicle-mounted or deployed on-site. The components form an ad-hoc network enabling users to keep track of each other in challenging environments where traditional communication may be impossible, unreliable, or inadvisable. The sensors, processors, and indicators may be linked and activated manually or they may be linked and activated automatically when they come within a threshold proximity or when a user does a triggering action, such as exiting a vehicle. The processors distinguish extremely urgent events requiring an immediate response from less-urgent events that can wait longer for response, routing and timing the responses accordingly.
US10075834B1
A cell broadcast emergency services delivery mechanism for vehicular Internet of Things (IoT) communication is provided. A method can comprise receiving, from a federal emergency management agency device, first data representing federal management emergency event data, aggregating second data representing an emergency event associated with a vehicle with the first data to form third data, based on the emergency event data and the third data, determining a commonality between the first data and the second data, in response to determining the commonality between the first data and the second data, generating metadata, and broadcasting the metadata to the vehicle.
US10075829B2
Provided is an information processing device including: a processing unit configured to, when an information transmission control device is detected based on a signal transmitted from the information transmission control device using first communication, cause user information indicating a user to be transmitted to the information transmission control device using second communication whose communicable range is narrower than the first communication, and to acquire, using the first communication, distribution information transmitted from the information transmission control device that has acquired the user information.
US10075828B2
Systems and Methods disclosed herein relate to providing control of smart devices via data provided from or to a doorbell, via an application programming interface (API). The data provided by the doorbell may be submission data related to the doorbell, while received data may be reception data related to one or more smart devices, a smart-device environment structure hosting the smart devices, or both. Based upon the reception data and/or the submission data, a status of the doorbell and/or of the smart devices may be modified.
US10075827B1
Systems and methods utilize a machine type communication interworking function and mapping function to manage and route requests from a variety of devices in data networks.
US10075824B2
An in-vehicle device is capable of coupling to a portable terminal, receives content data played by the portable terminal that has been coupled, and outputs the content data that has been received. While music is being played back by the portable terminal, the in-vehicle device estimates a remaining battery level of the portable terminal after playback of the music to be next played back finishes, and provides, when the estimated value is a threshold value or less, notification of the remaining battery level before the playback of music starts and/or after the playback finishes.
US10075822B2
A social community management method includes: setting a group including a plurality of mobile devices, based on a location; determining common interest information shared by users of the plurality of mobile devices included in the group; creating a social community for communication of the users based on the determined common interest information; and transmitting information on the created social community to the plurality of mobile devices.
US10075819B2
A system for micro-locating a portable device including: a plurality of proximity sensors disposed within a vehicle, wherein the proximity sensors are disposed at different locations from each other, and wherein the proximity sensors are each configured to broadcast a signal; a portable device configured to receive the signals broadcast from the proximity sensors to determine its location with respect to the vehicle; and a control module disposed within the vehicle and configured to enable or disable vehicle control features of the portable device based on the location of the portable device.
US10075815B1
Sensor data having values received from several sensors of a mobile device and response data associated with the sensor data may be used in the determination or training of a predictive model. Received sensor data may be input into the predictive model, and the output of the predictive model may be used in the selection and serving of content items to the mobile device. Data to effect presentation of the selected content item may be outputted to the mobile device to effect presentation. In some instances, the predictive model may be updated using the received plurality of values. The updated predictive model may be used in the selection of a subsequent content item for the mobile device. In other implementations, historical sensor data may be used with the set of received sensor data as input for the predictive model.
US10075812B1
In one embodiment, a method for dynamically adjusting a location based geo-fence based on current or predicted weather is provided. The method includes determining a target number of users to be reached for an area using a geo-fence and receiving an indication of a predicted meteorological event for the area covered by the geo-fence. The method further includes generating a predicted number of users that will trigger the geo-fence based on: a desired location, a current size, and a predicted effect the predicted meteorological event will have on the number users that trigger the geo-fence. The method further includes, responsive to the predicted number of users being below a threshold, increasing the size of the geo-fence such that the predicted number of users at least meets the threshold and sending a notification to a given user of the number of users in response to the given user triggering the geo-fence.
US10075806B2
A vehicle tracking system includes a remote portable wireless device. The system also includes a wireless transceiving device included in each of a plurality of vehicles, the wireless transceiving device in communication with a GPS device. The system further includes a server, capable of communicating with both the remote portable wireless device and each wireless transceiving device. The at least one server may receive a plurality of vehicle selections from the remote portable wireless device. The server may also determine a vehicle that corresponds to each of the plurality of selections, including a cellular phone number for each determined vehicle. The server may further transmit tracking instructions to each determined vehicle and receive GPS coordinates from each vehicle. The server may compare the received coordinates from each vehicle and report a deviance beyond a predetermined threshold to the remote portable wireless device.
US10075801B2
An information processing system including a recognizing unit configured to recognize a given target on the basis of signals detected by a plurality of sensors arranged around a specific user, an identifying unit configured to identify the given target recognized by the recognizing unit, an estimating unit configured to estimate a position of the specific user in accordance with the a signal detected by any one of the plurality of sensors, and a signal processing unit configured to process signals acquired from sensors around the given target identified by the identifying unit in a manner that, when output from a plurality of actuators arranged around the specific user, the signals are localized near the position of the specific user estimated by the estimating unit.
US10075800B2
A mixing console (300) for processing at least a first and a second source signal and for providing a mixed audio signal comprises an audio signal generator (100) for providing an audio signal (120) for a virtual listening position (202) within a space (200), in which an acoustic scene is recorded by at least a first microphone (204) at a first known position within the space (200) as the first source signal (210) and by at least a second microphone (206) at a second known position within the space (200) as the second source signal (212). The audio signal generator (100) comprises an input interface (102) configured to receive the first source signal (210) recorded by the first microphone (204) and the second source signal (212) recorded by the second microphone (206), and a geometry processor (104) configured to determine a first piece of geometry information (110) based on the first position and the virtual listening position (202) and a second piece of geometry information (112) based on the second position and the virtual listening position (202). A signal generator (106) for providing the audio signal (120) is configured to combine at least the first source signal (210) and the second source signal (212) according to a combination rule using the first piece of geometry information (110) and the second piece of geometry information (112).
US10075798B2
A method and an electronic device are provided for simultaneously outputting different audios with directionality. The method includes outputting a first audio, and when a request to output a second audio is detected, changing at least one attribute value of the first audio and the second audio and outputting the first audio and the second audio.
US10075795B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for processing a multichannel audio signal. A multichannel audio signal processing method may include: generating an N-channel audio signal of N channels by down-mixing an M-channel audio signal of M channels; and generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of the N-channel audio signal.
US10075793B2
Aspects of a multi-orientation playback device including at least one microphone array are discussed. A method may include determining an orientation of the playback device which includes at least one microphone array and determining at least one microphone training response for the playback device from a plurality of microphone training responses based on the orientation of the playback device. The at least one microphone array can detect a sound input, and the location information of a source of the sound input can be determined based on the at least one microphone training response and the detected sound input. Based on the location information of the source, the directional focus of the at least one microphone array can be adjusted, and the sound input can be captured based on the adjusted directional focus.
US10075792B2
An apparatus for controlling and positioning a device in a body cavity includes a cap that increases the maneuverability of the device in the body cavity as the device is positioned in the body cavity. In certain examples, the apparatus for controlling and positioning an ear canal component of a hearing aid in an ear canal includes a cap having a having a plurality of gripping structures and a projection that defines a plurality of grooves between the projection and the plurality of gripping structures; and a sidewall opposite the plurality of gripping structures and defining a cavity configured to receive the ear canal component. The cap and the sidewall are configured to couple with the ear canal component.
US10075790B2
A headset controller for controlling two incoming radio signals for a headset that includes a left earcup and a right earcup. The controller includes a first radio signal input connection configured for receiving a first radio signal from a first radio, and a second radio signal input connection configured for receiving a second radio signal from a second radio different from the first radio. The controller also includes an electrical sensing and switching mechanism that is operative, when both channels have incoming signals, to send each signal separately to a respective earcup. The electrical sensing and switching mechanism is operative, when only one of the two channels has an incoming signal, to send that one signal to both earcups.
US10075789B2
A GPEQ filter and tuning methods for asymmetric transaural audio reproduction on mobile consumer devices. The GPEQ filter includes an asymmetric FIR filter bank configured to normalize the magnitude responses of at least two audio speakers to a target response above a low frequency cross-over of the audio speakers as reproduced at the listener position and a symmetric IIR filter bank component configured to high pass filter above the low frequency cross-over and equalize the magnitude responses of the at least two audio speakers. In some embodiments the FIR filter bank is configured to normalize the group delay of the audio channels and in some embodiments the IIR filter bank includes an asymmetric IIR filter bank component configured to correct any residual asymmetry in the magnitude responses of the at least two audio speakers. Phase preservation may be accomplished using phase-balanced or phase-compensated IIR filter sections.
US10075788B2
Some embodiments of the invention include a throwable microphone device. The throwable microphone device may comprise a housing. The throwable microphone device may include a microphone, a communication unit, a motion sensor, an orientation sensor, and a processor disposed within the housing. In some embodiments, the microphone may receive sound waves and generate a corresponding electrical audio signal. The communication unit may wirelessly transmit at least a portion of the electrical audio signals. The motion sensor may detect changes in acceleration of the throwable microphone device. The orientation sensor may detect changes in orientation of the throwable microphone device. The processor may be electrically coupled with the microphone, the communication unit, the motion sensor, and the orientation sensor. The processor may mute the throwable microphone device in response to data from the motion sensor and may also unmute the throwable microphone device in response to data from the orientation sensor.
US10075780B2
The invention relates to a support for an audio system, the audio system comprising a heat source, a discharge surface for the heat and means for conducting at least one portion of the heat produced by the heat source towards the discharge surface. The support further comprises a plate comprising at least one heat-conducting elastic member able to deform for fitting at least one portion of the discharge surface of the audio system, and a thermal dissipation radiator in thermal contact with the elastic member.
US10075768B1
A method for storing video data according to one embodiment includes receiving a video signal comprising television programming, and converting the video signal to video data. Additionally, the method includes storing first temporal-based portions of the video data in files on a first storage device, storing second temporal-based portions of the video data in files on a second storage device, and creating reduced quality video data from the video data based on the first and/or second temporal-based portions of the video data. Further, the method includes outputting the first temporal-based portions of the video data and/or the second temporal-based portions of the video data, outputting the reduced quality video data to a first device via a network, and outputting the first temporal-based portions of the video data and/or the second temporal-based portions of the video data to a second device via the network.
US10075763B2
Implementations are disclosed for scoring and categorizing a video channel. A method includes receiving category identifiers associated with a plurality of videos in a video channel. The plurality of videos is associated with a plurality of categories specified by the category identifiers. The method further includes receiving ratings of each of the plurality of videos in the video channel. The ratings are based on video use within the video channel. The method further includes generating one or more scores of the video channel in view of the category identifiers and the ratings. Each of the one or more scores is indicative of relevance of the video channel to a respective category specified by the category identifiers.
US10075760B2
A method of processing a digital television (DTV) signal in a DTV receiver, the method includes receiving a digital television signal including a plurality of extended text table (ETT) instances that appear in transport stream packets with common packet identification (PID) values, the ETT instances having common table ID values, each ETT instance comprising a section header and a message body, the section header containing a table identification (ID) extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT instance, the message body containing an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT instance, wherein the section header further contains a section length field indicating a section length, and wherein the ETT instance further contains a CRC 32 field; demodulating the digital television signal; and identifying at least one pertinent ETT instance from the plurality of ETT instances.
US10075759B2
A pseudo-interactive program guide over a local network is described. One embodiment includes generating (510) a plurality views of a program guide corresponding to pictures of a portion of the content in the program guide, transmitting (540) a first view of the program guide on a first channel, and transmitting (550) a second view of the program guide on a second channel. Another embodiment includes receiving (620) a first channel broadcast over a local network in response to a first user input, the first channel including a program stream containing a view corresponding to a picture of a first portion of content in a program guide, and receiving (630) a second channel in response to a second user input, the second channel including a program stream containing a view corresponding to a picture of a second portion of content in a program guide, the second portion being different from the first portion.
US10075748B2
A media processing tool adds custom data to an elementary media bitstream or media container. The custom data indicates nominal range of samples of media content, but the meaning of the custom data is not defined in the codec format or media container format. For example, the custom data indicates the nominal range is full range or limited range. For playback, a media processing tool parses the custom data and determines an indication of media content type. A rendering engine performs color conversion operations whose logic changes based at least in part on the media content type. In this way, a codec format or media container format can in effect be extended to support full nominal range media content as well as limited nominal range media content, and hence preserve full or correct color fidelity, while maintaining backward compatibility and conformance with the codec format or media container format.
US10075747B2
A method of processing a broadcast signal is discussed. The method includes generating service components of a broadcast service; generating first signaling data and second signaling data, the first signaling data for locating the second signaling data, the second signaling data signaling the broadcast service; processing the service components and the second signaling data into transport packets, wherein the first signaling data includes destination Internet Protocol (IP) address information, a destination port number, and source IP address information through which the second signaling data is delivered; and transmitting the broadcast signal including the first signaling data and the transport packets.
US10075740B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for providing an enhanced live video presentation to one or more viewers of a live video stream. In particular, the systems and methods described herein involve detecting a live video stream at an event and, based on received information about the event, generating a video enhancement overlay for the live video stream. In addition, the systems and methods involve providing, for display to one or more viewers, an enhanced live video presentation that includes the live video stream and the video enhancement overlay including information about the event. In this way, systems and methods described herein facilitate an enhanced user experience for broadcasters and viewers of live video content.
US10075734B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for performing intra-prediction using an adaptive filter. The method for performing intra-prediction includes the steps of: determining whether or not to apply a first filter for a reference pixel value on the basis of information of a neighboring block of a current block; applying the first filter for the reference pixel value when it is determined to apply the first filter; performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference pixel value; determining whether or not to apply a second filter for a prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block, which is predicted by the intra-prediction performance on the basis of the information of the neighboring block; and applying the second filter for the prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block when it is determined to apply the second filter.
US10075731B2
Techniques and tools for video coding/decoding with sub-block transform coding/decoding and re-oriented transforms are described. For example, a video encoder adaptively switches between 8×8, 8×4, and 4×8 DCTs when encoding 8×8 prediction residual blocks; a corresponding video decoder switches between 8×8, 8×4, and 4×8 inverse DCTs during decoding. The video encoder may determine the transform sizes as well as switching levels (e.g., frame, macroblock, or block) in a closed loop evaluation of the different transform sizes and switching levels. When a video encoder or decoder uses spatial extrapolation from pixel values in a causal neighborhood to predict pixel values of a block of pixels, the encoder/decoder can use a re-oriented transform to address non-stationarity of prediction residual values.
US10075723B2
A predictive coding system performs predictive encoding by determination of an optimum prediction mode from prediction methods for a pixel signal of a target block. A predicted signal is generated according to the determined mode, and a residual signal is determined. The residual signal and the optimum prediction mode are encoded to generate a compressed signal, which is decoded. The decoded signal is stored as a reconstructed picture sample. During encoding, a candidate prediction mode list is generated that contains elements of optimum prediction modes of previously-reproduced blocks neighboring the target block. A flag indicating whether the list contains an element corresponding to the optimum prediction mode is encoded, and an index to the corresponding element is encoded if the corresponding element is included in the list. The optimum prediction mode can be encoded based on identifying the elements in the list, unless no corresponding element appears on the list.
US10075717B2
Methods of encoding and decoding for video data are described for encoding or decoding multi-level significance maps. Distinct context sets may be used for encoding the significant-coefficient flags in different regions of the transform unit. In a fixed case, the regions are defined by coefficient group borders. In one example, the upper-left coefficient group is a first region and the other coefficient groups are a second region. In a dynamic case, the regions are defined by coefficient group borders, but the encoder and decoder dynamically determine in which region each coefficient group belongs. Coefficient groups may be assigned to one region or another based on, for example, whether their respective significant-coefficient-group flags were inferred or not.
US10075714B2
The value of a quantization parameter for at least one second color component of an image or image portion is determined using a current color format among several possible color formats. The determination comprises the steps of selecting at least one function associated with a possible color format, and determining the value of the quantization parameter for the second color component by applying said at least one function to a value of an intermediate quantization parameter which is based on the value of the quantization parameter of the first color component of the image or image portion. The at least one function is selected independently from the current color format.
US10075703B2
A wide-angle autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image display method is provided. The method includes tracking a user in an autostereoscopic 3D image viewing state with respect to a display panel including a plurality of display units, obtaining a first distance between the display panel and a spectroscopic unit array including a plurality of spectroscopic units and a first width associated with each spectroscopic unit, and determining a second distance between a viewing position of the user and the display panel. The method also includes determining a width of a display unit combination corresponding to the second distance. Further, the method includes calculating a gray value of each display unit based on the width of the display unit combination and a reference value of the distance between each display unit and an edge of the display unit combination and displaying the 3D image on the display panel.
US10075701B2
Methods and apparatus for using selective resolution reduction on images to be transmitted and/or used by a playback device are described. Prior to transmission one or more images of an environment are captured. Based on image content, motion detection and/or user input a resolution reduction operation is selected and performed. The reduced resolution image is communicated to a playback device along with information indicating a UV map corresponding to the selected resolution allocation that should be used by the playback device for rendering the communicated image. By changing the resolution allocation used and which UV map is used by the playback device different resolution allocations can be made with respect to different portions of the environment while allowing the number of pixels in transmitted images to remain constant. The playback device renders the individual images with the UV map corresponding to the resolution allocation used to generate the individual images.
US10075697B2
A method of processing an image in a display apparatus includes receiving an image from an external source, processing the received image by applying depth information to at least one pixel among pixels constituting the received image according to occurrence of a preset event, and displaying the processed image.
US10075695B2
An information processing method and device are disclosed. The information processing method is applied to an information processing device in which a 3D map and a spatial topological structure management-based feature library created in advance for a certain environment are contained, and different users in the certain environment can determine their location. The method includes acquiring a first image taken by a first user; extracting one or more first feature points in the first image to obtain first feature descriptors; obtaining 3D locations of the first feature points based on 3D location of the first user, the first image, and the feature library; determining feature descriptors to be updated based on 3D location of the first user, the 3D locations of the first feature points, the first feature descriptors corresponding to the first feature points, and existing feature descriptors in the feature library; and updating the feature library.
US10075693B2
A computerized system for displaying stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) video recorded on a stereoscopic camera device includes a computer store containing data. The data includes a stereoscopic video feed of two or more stereoscopic images from a stereoscopic video capture device, wherein the stereoscopic video feed comprises a plurality of contemporaneous metadata feeds, wherein a metadata feed comprises a time sequenced set of metadata obtained from a sensor of the stereoscopic video capture device. The computerized system includes a computer processor in the stereoscopic video capture device, which computer processor is coupled to the computer store and programmed to obtain the stereoscopic video feed from the computer store, parse the plurality of contemporaneous metadata feeds from the stereoscopic video feed, and calibrate the stereoscopic video feed for display in a display of a user's computing device using the plurality of contemporaneous metadata feeds.
US10075684B2
A pixel displacing correction section performs a pixel displacing correction adapted to shift a position of the sub-pixel in the display target image on the image signal of the sub-pixel supplied to a plurality of light modulators to thereby compensate position shifts of the display positions of the sub-pixels constituting the images of the respective color components to be displayed on the display surface with respect to a reference position. A boundary correction section decreases the luminance represented by the image signal of the sub-pixel of another color component of the pixel, to which the sub-pixel belongs, with respect to the sub-pixel having completely moved outside the effective display range due to the pixel displacing correction.
US10075679B2
A system for generating an image display comprising a digital camera for capturing digital images, a computer for automatically selecting a digital image template having a designated location for disposing one of the captured digital images, and the computer for selecting one of the captured digital images to be disposed therein, an electronic display for displaying the digital template with the captured digital image disposed in the designated location, and a transmission channel for transmitting to the electronic display the captured digital images.
US10075676B2
An intelligent virtual assistant is provided for respectively customizable interactive audio/video content to each of a plurality of computing devices during a networked communication session. Input is received from at least one device, and is determined via information provided in or with the input, that the input is at least one of speech input, facial input, gesture input and textual input. The input is processed and machine-based learning occurs using at least some of the processed input. The intelligent virtual assistant is provided for the respectively customizable interactive audio/video content as a function of the machine-based learning process via at least one of the plurality of computing devices.
US10075675B2
Disclosed aspects relate to dynamic video image management. A set of dynamic image quality factors may be collected with respect to a dynamic video image. A set of display parameter values may be determined based on the set of dynamic image quality factors. The set of display parameter values may be of a set of display parameter values for a set of computing assets. The set of display parameter values may be determined to benefit the set of dynamic image quality factors with respect to the dynamic video image. The set of computing assets may be configured using the set of display parameter values. The set of computing assets may be configured to benefit the set of dynamic image quality factors with respect to the dynamic video image.
US10075673B2
A system and method for providing an image are provided. The image providing method includes: transmitting, to an external device, a first video image of a first resolution, which is converted from an original video image of an original resolution; receiving, from the external device, area information about an area of interest of the first video image of the first resolution; determining, based on the area information, an area corresponding to the area of interest, of the original video image of the original resolution, wherein the determined area is smaller than the original video image of the original resolution converting a part of the original video image of the original resolution to a second video image of the first resolution, wherein the part corresponds to the determined area; and transmitting the second video image to the external device.
US10075672B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for optimizing video conferences. For instance, systems and methods described herein optimize both the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams. Systems and methods described herein optimize the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams by identifying a context associated with the one or more video conference data streams and optimizing the one or more video conference data streams based on the identified context.
US10075657B2
A detecting apparatus includes a multi-tier 3D integrated ASIC comprising one or more analog tiers and one or more digital tiers, and a sensor bonded to the multi-tier 3D integrated ASIC. The detecting apparatus includes an electrical substrate and a group of FPGAs or custom data management ASICs. The detecting apparatus also includes a thermal management system, a power distribution system and one or more connectors to transfer data to a data acquisition system configured for radiation spectroscopy or imaging with zero suppressed or full frame readout.
US10075650B2
An imaging system of a vehicle includes a tail lamp assembly that illuminates a field of illumination rearward of the vehicle. A light source control operates at least one light source of the tail lamp assembly in a repeating cycle that includes (i) a first illumination period wherein light emitted by the tail lamp assembly has a first brightness level and (ii) a second illumination period wherein light emitted by the tail lamp assembly has a second brightness level that is lower than the first brightness level. A camera is operable to capture image data representative of a region that is at least in part encompassed by the field of illumination. A camera control may operate the camera to capture image data during at least part of the first illumination period and to not capture image data during at least part of the second illumination period.
US10075644B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image obtaining unit for obtaining a captured image onto which an emission graphic image including a marker serving as a reference is emitted and a correction information generation unit for generating correction information, for making an emission range and an image capturing range be the same, from a difference between the emission range onto which the emission graphic image is emitted and the image capturing range of the captured image, based on the marker in the captured image and the marker in the emission graphic image.
US10075639B2
An image acquiring device, according to one embodiment, comprises: an optical image stabilization unit which compensates for hand trembling; and optical unit which is controlled in accordance with the result value compensated in the optical image stabilization unit; an image sensor unit which converts optical information output from the optical unit into an electric signal; and image information processing unit which image processes the electric signal in accordance with the compensated result value; and an image information output unit which displays the image-processed result, wherein the image sensor unit comprises a plurality of phase difference detection pixels, and a plurality of image detection pixels disposed in a grid pattern along with the plurality of phase difference detection pixels, and the plurality of phase difference detection pixels comprise a first pixel group having a certain area shielded, the certain area being among an area separated by being partitioned in the vertical direction, and a second pixel group having a certain area shielded, the certain area being among an area separated by being partitioned in the horizontal direction, and thus the accuracy of focus may be increased by using a phase difference detection auto focus (AF) method even when an optical image stabilizer (OIS) is being driven.
US10075638B2
An image pickup apparatus which enhances usability in shooting in a case where a user sets an initial lens position. A system control unit starts shifting a zoom position of a taking lens in response to start of a zooming operation in which the zoom position is changed, and stops shifting the zoom position in response to termination of the zooming operation. When the zoom position reaches a predetermined zoom position, which is inside an optical zoom range and is neither an optical wide-angle end nor an optical telephoto end, while the zoom position is being shifted in a first direction in response to a first zooming operation for shifting the zoom position in the first direction, the system control unit provides control to fix the zoom position at the predetermined zoom position even when the first zooming operation has not been terminated.
US10075631B2
An imaging apparatus which can take shots sequentially by self-timer. The imaging apparatus, in response to input of a user's start operation to perform self-timer shooting, plays back a first voice file including a voice of a predetermined playback time period one time, the first voice file including a voice providing guidance to prepare for shooting, determines whether the first voice file has been played back to completion one time, and performs shooting one time when it is determined that the first voice file has been played back to completion one time, without performing a time-check function. The imaging apparatus repeats playback of the first voice file and performs shooting a predetermined number of times.
US10075624B2
A portable camera is provided for, including a camera section, a body section, and an attachment portion, wherein the camera section and the body section are configured to contact one another along an angled surface that allows the camera section to swivel with respect to the body section. The attachment portion may also be connected to the body section via a magnet and may further include ports for attaching to a charging and/or data cable.
US10075616B2
A wearable computer includes: a first storage that permanently stores a first characteristic therein, the first characteristic representing a physical characteristic of an owner of the wearable computer; an obtaining portion that obtains a second characteristic, the second characteristic representing a physical characteristic of a user who wears the wearable computer; a determination portion that determines whether the user is the owner based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic; a first request portion that requests, when the user is determined to be the owner, to allow the user to log into another device; a second storage that temporarily stores the second characteristic therein; and a second request portion that requests, when the user is not determined to be the owner, to allow the user to log into that another device by sending the second characteristic stored in the second storage portion to that another device.
US10075614B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first detection unit and a second detection unit. The first detection unit detects a rectangular shape in an image including plural document images. The second detection unit detects, in a case where a background of the rectangular shape is not white, rectangular shapes included in the rectangular shape detected by the first detection unit as document images.
US10075610B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for providing print dimensions from a printer. An example method includes analyzing a first roll of a printer, the first roll holding first paper having a first width; determining, via a processor of the printer, a first print dimension of the first paper on the first roll based on the first width; and providing the first print dimension to an electronic device, the electronic device to use the first print dimension to determine whether content is to be clipped when printed on the first paper.
US10075607B2
A reading apparatus that reads a sheet includes: a first light emitting diode (LED) configured to emit light with a specific wavelength; a light emitting element including a second LED configured to emit light with the specific wavelength and a phosphor configured to be excited by the light emitted from the second LED; a line sensor configured to generate a reference signal according to a quantity of received light emitted from the first LED and reflected off the sheet, and also generate an image signal according to a quantity of received light emitted from the light emitting element and reflected off the sheet; and a controller configured to generate an image representing the sheet from a differential result obtained by removing a component corresponding to the reference signal from the image signal.
US10075600B2
A display device (1) includes a display section (20), a detection section (30), a storage (40), and a controller (10). The detection section (30) detects a touch region (210) of the display region in which a user touches. The storage (40) stores therein a pattern (400). The controller (10) includes a determination section (101) and a display controller (103). The determination section (101) determines whether or not the touch region (210) matches the pattern (400). The display controller (103) causes the display section (20) to display a soft key array (220) upon the determination section (101) determining match.
US10075598B2
A sheet scanner that scans an input document to generate a scan image that is communicated to a selected scan destination via a wireless communications port of the sheet scanner includes a touch screen display having a swipe screen interface including at least one icon for selecting a scan destination by selecting the icon on the touch screen display, and at least one icon that the user may access by swiping the swipe screen interface and that, when selected, enables the user to select a different scan destination. An outbox icon may also be selected to enter the sheet scanner into a mode for viewing activity status and history of the sheet scanner and for resending the scan image to the same or a new scan destination.
US10075597B2
An image processing apparatus having a file server function and capable of using a path notification function according to the way in which the image processing apparatus is utilized by a user. The image forming apparatus does not perform a URI notification, if an image data file is stored into a storage unit of the apparatus via the file server function, or if the file is stored via the file server function from an unregistered data storage source, or if the file was not created by an MFP job, or if the file is stored via the file server function and has a registered file type.
US10075588B2
A user terminal, the user terminal comprising a communication client application for managing communications with at least one further user terminal over a first network, the communication client application being configured to: determine with respect to at least one outgoing call the first network is a lower bandwidth data network; generate an interrupt message to be displayed; determine a user input in response to the interrupt message; and manage a placement of the communications with the at least one further user terminal over the first network based on the user input.
US10075587B2
A device may determine that delivery of a message, to a destination identified by a telephone number shared by multiple user devices, has failed. The device may receive a unique identifier from a message delivery device associated with delivering the message. The unique identifier may correspond to a user device of the multiple user devices, and may be different from the telephone number. The device may determine whether the unique identifier indicates that the user device is able to receive the message, and may selectively provide the message to the message delivery device. The message may be provided to the message delivery device for delivery to the user device when the unique identifier indicates that the user device is able to receive the message. The message may not be provided to the message delivery device when the unique identifier indicates that the user device is unable to receive the message.
US10075584B2
Systems and methods for intelligently routing an incoming telephone call to an internal extension based on the calling history are provided. According to one embodiment, a session log, containing information regarding sessions between internal extension numbers and external telephone numbers, is maintained by a call monitor of a telephone system. The internal extension numbers are associated with telephone extensions within the telephone system and the external telephone numbers are associated with telephones outside of the telephone system. An incoming telephone call is received by the call monitor from a telephone outside the telephone system that is associated with an external telephone number. It is determined by the call monitor whether the incoming call represents a call-back to an internal extension number based on the session log. When the incoming call is determined to represent a call-back, then causing a switch to route the incoming call to the internal extension number.
US10075581B2
A vehicle safety system operating on a driver's cellphone and comprising selective blocking apparatus, controlled by a processor, for blocking specified functionalities of the cellphone only when the cellphone is in a moving vehicle; and communication functionality operative to receive from a remote server and feed to said processor, updates which determine which specified functionalities to block.
US10075579B2
A mobile terminal, a method in the mobile terminal, and a cover of the mobile terminal are provided for processing input. A first area of a touch screen of the mobile terminal corresponding to a window area of the cover is defined, and a second area of the touch screen of the mobile terminal corresponding to a non-window area of the cover is defined. A first input in the second area while the cover is closed over the touch screen is detected and the first input as a first control command is processed.
US10075559B1
A server configuration management system is disclosed. The system comprises a script database storing a plurality of audit policies, a plurality of servers that each comprises an agent that executes at least a portion of one of the plurality of audit policies, and a configuration management server communicatively coupled to the script database and each agent. The configuration management server sends an audit script to a plurality of agents executing on a plurality of non-production servers of a common device group in a non-production environment, receives audit results from the plurality of agents, sends a remediate script to corresponding agents executing on non-compliant non-production servers, and responsive to a non-production server malfunctioning as a result of execution of the remediate script, creates, via a user interface, and implements an exception for a production server in the common device group in a production environment that corresponds to the non-production server.
US10075556B2
A portion of a content segment to distribute via an online platform may be selected. A retention metric may be obtained. Consumer engagement during the content segment may be quantified. The portion of the content segment to distribute via a second online platform to direct consumers to the content segment on the first online platform may be determined. The system may distribute the portion of the content segment via the second online platform.
US10075554B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a webpage from a mobile-client system of a user, where the request includes an http-header, accessing information describing the user, determining the attributes of the mobile-client system based on the http-header and the information describing the user, and transmitting the webpage to the mobile-client system in response to the request, where the webpage has been customized based on the determined attributes of the mobile-client system.
US10075553B1
Systems and methods for rewriting code related to a network page are described herein. The systems and methods can determine whether the network page includes cacheable resources. Responsive to the determination, the systems and methods can rewrite the code for the network page to cause a user system to access the cacheable resource from a content distribution network. Further, the systems and methods can determine whether access to the cacheable resource should be provided via the content distribution network or a proxy server based at least partially on a relative location of the proxy server and the content distribution network to the user system requesting access to the network page.
US10075552B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for transmitting, to user devices, data for potential targets predicted to be identified in an augmented reality application. One method includes receiving a request for target data related to at least one physical object within an image of a real-world environment captured at the device; identifying a current target representing the physical object within a virtual environment corresponding to the real-world environment; determining at least one potential future target to be identified at the device based on identified coincident target requests; and sending to the device target data for each of the current and potential future targets based on the determination, wherein the device presents the target data for the current target within the virtual environment displayed at the device and store the target data for the potential future target in a local memory of the device.
US10075549B2
An optimizer module can function as a proxy between clients and a server that provides access to a service via a REST API. As a proxy, the optimizer module can receive requests from the clients and can combine the requests into a single bulk request that is then submitted to the server. By combining multiple independent requests into a single bulk request, the optimizer module can reduce the total number of concurrent requests and thereby increase the total number of clients that can concurrently submit requests. In some cases, the optimizer module may be configured to apply optimizing rules when generating a bulk request.
US10075542B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for dynamic execution of actions in response to communications events of one or more communications protocols that are generated in response to a variety of triggers. The method includes, at an event clearinghouse for receiving communications events, receiving a communications event that is associated with a trigger, the communications event having a first communication protocol, identifying an action to take in response to the communications event, identifying a target for the action, and initiating the identified action by or on behalf of the identified target, wherein the event clearinghouse supports a plurality of communications protocols.
US10075534B1
The disclosed method may include (1) receiving, at a network node within a network, a keepalive message of a routing protocol from a neighbor of the network node, (2) determining that the keepalive message of the routing protocol serves as evidence that the neighbor of the network node is currently reachable via a link within the network, (3) identifying a neighbor cache that includes entries for neighbors of the network node within the network, and then (4) refreshing an entry for the neighbor within the neighbor cache to avoid initiation of a reachability confirmation process directed to the neighbor due at least in part to the keepalive message of the routing protocol serving as evidence that the neighbor of the network node is currently reachable via the link. Various other methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed.
US10075533B2
Method and a system to transfer the state of web-based content between devices through use of a short code. An example method includes determining a state of content being accessed on a device. The method further includes assigning a short code to the state of the content. The short code may have a limited number of characters. The method may further include storing the short code and the state of the content. The method may further include providing the content according to the state of the content on a second device based on the short code.
US10075531B2
The automatic establishing of the connection between the public cloud and the on-premises resource. First, the bridging infrastructure is automatic accessed. The bridging infrastructure is configured to interact with a user system within the private network using a first control. For instance, it is this first control that may be represented as an executable within the configuration package used in provisioning the connection. A second control is provided to the application running in the public cloud. The second control is structured such that the at least one application may be used to securely connect via the bridging infrastructure with an on-premises resource of the private network.
US10075522B2
A method and apparatus for automated mirroring is presented. In a particular embodiment of a method for automated mirroring, a Network Device running as a Fabric Attach (FA) Server receives an FA Type Length Value (TLV) from an Access Device running as a FA proxy or client. The Access Device is configured to mirror traffic to a Remote Switch Port Analyzer (RSPAN) Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN). The TLV includes a request to associate the RSPAN VLAN with a Service Identifier (I-SID) used to carry mirror traffic in a network. The method includes wherein the FA server receives the mirrored traffic on the RSPAN VLAN. The FA Server signals the I-SID into the network, and detects receive interest in the I-SID. The FA Server delivers the mirrored traffic to devices that expressed a receive interest in the mirrored traffic.
US10075519B2
A communications system comprising a plurality of nodes communicatively connected via a communications network, each node comprising a processing circuit and network interface circuitry connected to the processing circuit, each node being configured to connect to the communications network and to communicate with other nodes of the communications system, the communications system comprising at least one cluster of nodes, wherein one of the nodes of the cluster is operable to perform a cluster head role connecting the cluster to the communications network, and wherein the cluster is operable to implement a mechanism for transferring the cluster head role from one node of the cluster to another node of the cluster.
US10075518B2
Systems for managing user collaboration over objects stored on a cloud-based service platform. A server in a cloud-based platform maintains a set of read/write metadata that is associated in one-to-one correspondence to stored objects that are accessible by two or more collaborators. The server does not maintain a list of peers that communicate over peer-to-peer connections, rather the server exposes a semaphore for access to the metadata that pertains to a particular one of the stored objects. The server responds to download requests from the collaborators so as to deliver executable signaling protocol computer code to the collaborators' user devices. The signaling protocol code includes semaphore access by the collaborators' user devices using an application programming interface. Two or more accesses over the same semaphore establishes a leader and at least one follower. Corresponding ephemeral peer-to-peer connections are established between the leader and the at least one follower.
US10075512B2
An entertainment access system is provided that enables a user to request and receive status reports that present current information concerning a wide variety of items pertaining to the user's devices, entertainment content and usage rights in a standard, predictable and consistent manner that enhances rather than hinders the user experience. In some illustrative examples, the user can request the status report from one of his devices that is registered with the entertainment access system. The entertainment access system responds by collecting and formatting the status information so that is can be conveniently displayed or otherwise rendered on the registered device. For instance, if the request is received from a cell phone device, which generally has a relatively small screen, the information may be presented in a relatively abbreviated format. On the other hand, if the request is received from the user's personal computer, the information may be presented by the entertainment access system to the personal computer in a more detailed or entirely different format than when the information is to be presented to a cell phone device.
US10075501B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for processing requests. In particular, the invention concerns building a dependency tree between the requests received from the client device for prioritizing the processing of the requests by the server device; maintaining a list of requests of the dependency tree in their removal order from the dependency tree while the server device is prioritizing the processing of the requests; and removing a selection of requests from the dependency tree wherein the selection is based on the order of requests in the list.
US10075495B2
Systems and methods to provide adaptable live video game streaming can include one or more servers selecting a video game stream from a plurality of video game streams associated with distinct viewpoints of an online game, and transmitting a first plurality of video game frames of the selected video game stream to a live streaming system for streaming to a plurality of client devices. The server(s) can receive feedback data from the plurality of client devices, and analyze the feedback data to determine an aggregate user interest in a portion of video game content associated with the online game. The server(s) can transmit a second plurality of video game frames associated with the portion of video game content to the live streaming system for streaming to the client devices.
US10075493B2
An information management problem definition system has a processing device configured for receiving a plurality of messages comprising a chat session from a plurality of users communicating via a plurality of workstations during a problem definition initiative conference session. The processing device is further configured for logging session data and event data comprising data corresponding to one or more messages received from one or more users during the chat session, archiving at least a portion of the logged event data, wherein the archived data is configured as searchable and retrievable data, and initiating an interface to one or more of the plurality of users including initiating display of at least one of the plurality of messages via the interface and initiating display of at least some of the event data and at least some of the session data via the interface.
US10075489B2
A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.
US10075486B2
A method for managing information relating to a change deployment in order to communicate some or all the information to a plurality of users includes providing an interface to users at workstations accessible by the users, receiving information comprising a plurality of messages from users communicating via the workstations during a change deployment session, initiating display of at least one of the messages to the users via the interface, initiating display of task data to the users via the interface, the task data corresponding to at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the change deployment conference session, the event data comprising task status data indicating the status of the at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.
US10075482B2
A method for managing multiple electronic conference sessions. The method includes a computer processor identifying a plurality of conference sessions that a user is attending, wherein the plurality of conference sessions includes a first session and a second session. The method further includes a computer processor identifying one or more triggers that indicate an occurrence of an event in at least one of the plurality of conference sessions. The method further includes a computer processor determining that the user is an active participant in at least the first session of the plurality of conference sessions that the user is attending. The method further includes a computer processor detecting at least one trigger of the one or more identified triggers, within the second session of the plurality of conference sessions that the user is attending.
US10075471B2
Data received through a proxy for a service is analyzed for compliance with one or more data policies, such as one or more data loss prevention policies. When data satisfies the criteria of one or more data policies, the data is manipulated at the proxy prior to transmission of the data to the service. In some examples, the manipulation of the data includes encryption.
US10075470B2
Systems and techniques are described for virtual machine security. A described technique includes operating one or more virtual machines each in accordance with a respective security container, wherein the respective security container is associated with a respective rule that specifies transfer of the virtual machine from the respective security container to a quarantine container based on one or more criteria. One or more security services are operated on the one or more virtual machines to identify one or more security threats associated with one or more of the virtual machines. One or more tags generated by the endpoint security services are obtained, where each tag is for a virtual machine that is associated with one of the identified security threats. And one of the virtual machines is identified as requiring transfer to the quarantine container based on, at least, one or more of the obtained tags and the one or more criteria.
US10075469B1
Information can be added to the headers of email messages to ensure the messages are delivered using encryption, without the user having to manage keys or perform the encryption. A user can select an option in an email program that causes a flag to be added to the message header. Each mail server along the delivery path can provide (or expose) information about the type(s) of encryption supported, and if the encryption is not sufficient then the message will not be delivered to that server. This ensures the transport will remain encrypted before delivering the message to the next hop along the path. If the message cannot be delivered encrypted then the message will not be transmitted past that point. An end user then only needs to click a button or perform another such action to ensure encrypted message delivery.
US10075466B1
An apparatus is provided including at least one platform; an intrusion prevention system configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform; a firewall configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform; at least one first data storage configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform; and at least one second data storage configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform. The at least one platform is configured to perform a plurality of operations that collective protect one or more networked devices, by causing a reporting of at least a first occurrence based on a determination that the first occurrence includes at least one first occurrence packet that is capable of taking advantage of at least one of the actual vulnerability to which the at least one networked device is actually vulnerable.
US10075465B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for determining exposure of an apparatus to a technical hazard and prioritizing technical hazards. An exemplary system is configured to: determine an impact associated with a technical hazard on the apparatus, the impact being initiated by a second apparatus; determine a probability of occurrence of the technical hazard; and determine the exposure of the apparatus based on the impact and the probability.
US10075461B2
A method for monitoring includes defining a plurality of different types of administrative activities in a computer system. Each administrative activity in the plurality includes an action performed by one of the computers in the system that can be invoked only by a user having an elevated level of privileges in the system. The administrative activities performed by at least a group of the computers in the system are tracked automatically. Upon detecting that a given computer in the system has performed an anomalous combination of at least two of the different types of administrative activities, an action is initiated to inhibit malicious exploitation of the given computer.
US10075460B2
Any system with an interface may be attacked by a bad actor. If that interface is exposed to a network, the bad actor may launch a remote attack or cause other systems to attack the system. Many attacks exploit vulnerabilities that are unknown to the system operators (e.g., zero-day attacks). Power grid components, such as electricity meters, are increasingly networked and, therefore, increasingly attacked. By determining a pattern of behavior for a meter and then looking for a variation of the pattern, an attack may be identified. Once an attack is discovered, countermeasures may be launched to restore the system to normal operations, harden the system against future attack, and/or retaliate against the attacker.
US10075452B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments, aspects of the disclosure provide efficient, effective, and convenient ways of uploading and authenticating content. In particular, a user device may receive validating information from a wireless networking device. The user or client device may record a content item, and may insert a validation tag based on the validating information. The user or client device may then send the content item to the wireless networking device. The wireless networking device may receive the content item at a first location and may determine the validity of the content item based on the validating information. The user device may continually interact with wireless networking devices as it travels to continually upload content items while establishing the validity of the time and location of the content items.
US10075434B2
Generally, this disclosure describes a method and system for authenticating to a network via a device-specific one-time password. A method in an embodiment may include generating a first one-time password (OTP) based at least in part on a plurality of client device attributes; and providing the first OTP to an authenticator associated with a private network during a first session, wherein the authenticator is configured to authenticate the client device to at least one of the private network and protected content included in the private network for a second session following the first session based on the provided first OTP.
US10075427B2
For resetting authentication tokens based on implicit credentials, a method is disclosed that includes receiving, by use of a processor, an authentication request, the request requiring an authentication token, the request not including the authentication token, verifying an implicit credential, and resetting the authentication token in response to the implicit credential matching a predefined credential.
US10075421B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for vehicle wireless internet security are provided. A connection request is received from a mobile device. A data request is transmitted to the mobile device. The data request includes a request for location-based data of the mobile device. A first data is received from the mobile device that corresponds to the data request. A vehicle data is generated that comprises location-based data of the vehicle. A match between the first data and the vehicle data is determined. A match is determined where the location based data of the mobile device is with a pre-determined threshold of the location-based data of the vehicle.
US10075406B2
The present application is directed to a system and method for creating on-line comments of a point of interest. The system and method creates a moment having a piece of digital content showing the point of interest, wherein the moment has a time stamp and a location stamp; and shares the moment with a predetermined group of members. The sharing of the moment is limited to members that meet the time stamp and the location stamp, and the system and method refuse accepting comments from members that do not meet the time stamp and location stamp.
US10075400B2
An email is received. The email consists of a common content, at least one recipient for the common content, a private content, and at least one recipient for the private content. Each of the at least one recipients for the private content is a recipient of the common content. The common content is stored in a first storage location, and the private content is stored in a second storage location.
US10075397B2
The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream devices, for example, power loss, and/or may automatically notify the appropriate companies and/or personnel to correct the problem.
US10075392B1
An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a plurality of antennas and an integrated circuit chip coupled to the plurality of antennas, and is configured to process cellular signals received from the plurality of antennas in accordance with a cellular communication protocol and to process radio frequency identification (RFID) signals received from the plurality of antennas in accordance with an RFID protocol.
US10075387B1
A mobile server adapted to provide access to services via a wireless network to devices in proximity of the mobile server is disclosed. The mobile server comprises a web server that receives input at a predefined port. The mobile server generates a WiFi network that is used to communicate data between the mobile server and the devices. Devices are provisioned with information to recognize the WiFi network and communicate requests for functionality to the web server at the predefined port. The mobile server provides access to the requested functionality via the WiFi network. The mobile server may automatically assign particular devices to perform particular functions based upon the operating characteristics of the devices.
US10075366B2
A master station 101 according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a communicating unit 10 that can communicate with a subordinate station 102 by using a communication route through one or a plurality of wireless terminal devices 202, and communicates with the subordinate station 102 in accordance with a predetermined rule; and a reconstruction processing unit 43 that performs a process of changing the communication route when a state against the predetermined rule occurs. The reconstruction processing unit 43 decides whether to perform the process of changing the communication route, based on an arrival state of a communication signal destined for the own master station 101 regularly transmitted from the subordinate station 102.
US10075361B2
A technique for self-testing of services in an access point of a communication network includes providing a table that has a mapping between a service test, packets to be sent for testing, and packets that should be received in response to the testing, emulating and marking the test packets to be sent, placing the marked test packets in an Rx queue, processing the test packets normally by the access point to provide response packets and marking these response packets, delivering the marked response packets to a Rx queue, retrieving the marked response packets from the Rx queue, and comparing the service test response packets to the list of packets that should have been received in the response to the testing in order to validate that service on the access point.
US10075357B2
A system, which uses the internet to deliver time sensitive information, includes an overlay node, having a plurality of overlay nodes, which are used to deliver the time sensitive information. To better characterize the connection between a sending node and a receiving node, the sending node periodically requests each overlay node in the path between the sending node and the receiving node to force a retransmission of a packet, while also forwarding that same packet to the next overlay node. In this way, the delay associated with each link in the path can be quantified and recorded by the receiving node. Based on the observed transmission delays, the receiving node may determine an optimal buffer time. This buffer time is the amount of buffering performed at the receiving node prior to outputting the time sensitive information.
US10075356B2
Example methods disclosed herein to prioritize anomalies in a communication network include classifying respective nodes in the communication network as normal, abnormal or indeterminate based on measurements received for the nodes. Disclosed example methods also include selecting a subset of the nodes classified as abnormal to be root cause abnormal nodes representing sources of the anomalies in the communication network, respective ones of the root cause abnormal nodes being abnormal nodes identified in the communication network and determined to have respective sets of direct descendent nodes having majorities of nodes classified as abnormal or indeterminate. Disclosed example methods further include combining respective anomaly sizes and anomaly scopes determined for the respective ones of root cause abnormal nodes based on the measurements to determine respective rankings for the root cause abnormal nodes, and outputting the respective rankings to prioritize the set of root cause abnormal nodes.
US10075349B2
A monitoring device includes a video buffer model and a user model. The video buffer model monitors a media program streaming across a network to a media client for perceivable transmission impairments. The user model reflects user dissatisfaction due to types of perceivable transmission impairments and timing, duration, and frequency of perceivable transmission impairments so as to estimate a quality of experience of the media program. The parametric model can include one or more parameterized functions, and a set of parameters used in at least one of the one or more of the parameterized functions at a point in time during the streaming of the media program can be based on a type of perceivable transmission impairment associated with the point in time.
US10075348B2
Service discovery for an application lacking capabilities sufficient to facilitate Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Zero-configuration networking (Zeroconf), Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) or other service discovery protocols relying upon multicast User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is contemplated. The service discovery may be facilitated with a discovery proxy configured to identify available services and a discovery service having capabilities sufficient to apprise the application of the services identified with the discovery proxy.
US10075346B2
As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, includes generating, by a software asset management tool (SAM), a baseline event set comprising a plurality of events corresponding to an environment. The method further includes receiving a future event set comprising one or more future events corresponding to the environment. The method further includes combining the future event set and the baseline event set to produce an effective event set. The method further includes performing calculations and generating reports corresponding to the effective event set. A computer system, and a computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.
US10075340B2
An information processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage configuration information indicating a device configuration of the information processing apparatus, a receiving unit configured to receive setting information to be used by the information processing apparatus to perform an operation, from a server, and a control unit configured to control, in a case where setting information stored in the information processing apparatus is updated by using the received setting information, whether to execute processing for causing the information processing apparatus to reflect the update of the setting information, based on a type of the setting information to be updated and the configuration information.
US10075326B2
Method and apparatus for detecting a hung up and/or slow-running syscall without affecting the performance of the syscall. Before a syscall is started, a time stamp can be created at a memory address that is distinct from memory addresses to be used by the syscall. While a syscall thread handles the syscall operation, a separate monitor thread monitors the time stamp to track the length of time the syscall operation has been running. If the syscall thread operation exceeds a threshold time limit, then a flag can be sent to a network administrator to indicate that the syscall may be hung up and/or slow running.
US10075325B2
A contents streaming method of a user terminal device is provided. The method includes converting a certain portion of contents into a first format based on information to initially display contents on the external device, transmitting the certain portion of contents converted into the first format to the external device, converting the contents into a second format different from the first format after transmitting the portion of contents converted into the first format, and transmitting the contents converted into the second format to the external device.
US10075323B2
This disclosure describes methods, devices, and systems related to interleaving and deinterleaving symbols used in single carrier modulation and coding schemes. A device is disclosed comprising at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory. The at least one processor is further configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: receive a source data bit string from the at least one memory, scramble the source data bit string, parse the scrambled source data bit string into a plurality of segments, assign a portion of the plurality of segments to a Single Carrier-Block (SC-BLK), and encode the portion of the plurality of segments into a code word, wherein the code word comprises a plurality of bit groups, and each bit group comprises one or more bits. The at least one processor is further configured to determine a number of modulation symbols based at least in part on group size; map each of the plurality of bit groups to a corresponding modulation symbol; group the modulation symbols into an interleaved symbol block associated with the SC-BLK; group the plurality of modulation symbols in the interleaved symbol block into a second code word that corresponds to the first code word; and transmit a packet comprising the interleaved symbol block.
US10075319B2
Channel data for a plurality of OFDM tones for one or more spatial or space-time streams are determined. A plurality of angle values associated with the one or more spatial or space-time streams and the one or more OFDM tones of the plurality of OFDM tones are determined. For each of the one or more spatial or space time streams, a per-tone signal to noise ratio (PT-SNR) associated with one or more OFDM tone of the plurality of OFDM tones is determined, and an average signal to noise ratio (avg-SNR) is determined by averaging signal to noise ratio (SNR) values corresponding to one or more OFDM tones of the plurality of OFDM tones. A feedback report is generated to include at least i) the plurality of angle values, ii) the PT-SNRs, and iii) the avg-SNR.
US10075317B2
A method of modulating complex symbols is provided, which delivers a multiple carrier signal. The method performs the following acts for at least one base block of N×K complex symbols, where N and K are integers such that N>1 and K≥1: extending the base block to deliver a block of N×(2K−1) elements, referred to as an “extended” block; phase shifting the extended block, delivering a phase shifted extended block; filtering the phase shifted extended block, delivering a block of N×(2K−1) filtered elements, referred to as a “filtered” block; mapping the N×(2K−1) filtered elements of said filtered block onto MK frequency samples, where M is the total number of carriers and M≥N; and transforming the MK frequency samples from the frequency domain to the time domain.
US10075315B2
A method for transmitting data includes modulating data bits with a constellation to produce modulated data symbols, precoding the modulated data symbols to obtain ns groups of precoded samples, where ns is equal to a number of non-zero terms in a sparse code associated with the transmitting device, mapping the ns groups of precoded samples to groups of subcarriers in accordance with the sparse code associated with the transmitting device, to obtain a plurality of subcarrier-mapped samples, transforming the plurality of subcarrier-mapped samples into encoded data symbols, and transmitting the encoded data symbols.
US10075314B2
A method and apparatus for improving channel estimation within an OFDM communication system. Channel estimation in OFDM is usually performed with the aid of pilot symbols. The pilot symbols are typically spaced in time and frequency. The set of frequencies and times at which pilot symbols are inserted is referred to as a pilot pattern. In some cases, the pilot pattern is a diagonal-shaped lattice, either regular or irregular. The method first interpolates in the direction of larger coherence (time or frequency). Using these measurements, the density of pilot symbols in the direction of faster change will be increased thereby improving channel estimation without increasing overhead. As such, the results of the first interpolating step can then be used to assist the interpolation in the dimension of smaller coherence (time or frequency).
US10075313B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for pilot grouping, route protocols, and scheduling in multi-carrier communication systems. In an embodiment, an access terminal may group a plurality of pilot signals characterized by different frequencies into one or more pilot groups, each pilot grouping being identified by a plurality of parameters (e.g., a PN offset and a group ID). Each pilot group may include pilot signals having substantially the same coverage area. The access terminal may further select a representative pilot signal from each pilot group for pilot strength reporting. The access terminal may also use the pilot grouping for effective set management.
US10075311B2
A clock correction method is provided. The clock correction method includes the following steps: receiving a training signal in a communication protocol, wherein the training signal carries a specific signal pattern occurring repeatedly; performing frequency division on the training signal according to a number of toggles of the specific signal pattern so as to generate an equalization training sequence clock; and correcting a frequency of an output clock of an oscillator according to the equalization training sequence clock.
US10075302B2
A Power over Ethernet method and device, where the Power over Ethernet method includes: determining, by PSE, a maximum power of a PD according to a classification class of the PD; obtaining, by the PSE, a length of a network cable between the PSE and the PD; determining, by the PSE, a type of the network cable; calculating, by the PSE, a loss power of the network cable according to the length of the network cable and the type of the network cable; and using, by the PSE, a sum of the maximum power of the PD and the loss power of the network cable as a supply power, to supply power to the PD. The Power over Ethernet method and device provided in the present disclosure improves usage efficiency of the PSE supply power.
US10075301B2
A method of equality verification using relational encryption including receiving a relational key that includes a first relational key component and a registration ciphertext that includes an encryption of a first plaintext data set. The method includes storing the registration ciphertext without decrypting the registration ciphertext. After the storing of the registration ciphertext, the method includes receiving an authentication request and communicating a safeguard data set that includes a random challenge in response to the authentication request. The method includes receiving an encrypted response that is generated based on the safeguard data set and a second plaintext data set. The method includes verifying a relationship between the encrypted response and the registration ciphertext using the relational key without decrypting the encrypted response and without decrypting the registration ciphertext. The relationship indicates that equality exists between the first and the second plaintext data sets.
US10075296B2
Embodiments of an invention for loading and virtualizing cryptographic keys are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes a local key storage location, a backup key storage location, and execution hardware. Neither the local key storage location nor the backup key storage location is readable by software. The execution hardware is to perform a first operation and a second operation. The first operation includes loading a cryptographic key into the local key storage location. The second operation includes copying the cryptographic key from the local key storage location to the backup key storage location.
US10075295B2
Information, such as a cryptographic key, is used repeatedly in the performance of operations, such as certain cryptographic operations. To prevent repeated use of the information from enabling security breaches, the information is rotated (replaced with other information). To avoid the resource costs of maintaining a counter on the number of operations performed, decisions of when to rotate the information are performed based at least in part on the output of stochastic processes.
US10075291B1
Deduplication and compression evaluation methods and systems involve one or more processors obfuscating plain text file data in each file of a computer file system using a first cipher encryption scheme, obfuscating each plain text file name representing the plain text file data in each file of the computer file system using a second cipher encryption scheme, and associating each obfuscated file name representing the plain text file data of each of the plurality of files of the computer file system with the obfuscated file data of each of the plurality of files of the computer system. In addition, each plain text directory name for each of the obfuscated file names associated with the obfuscated file data in each of the plurality of files of the computer file system is obfuscated using a third cipher encryption scheme.
US10075288B1
Remote terminals are configured to generate ciphertexts from plaintext polynomials. Each ciphertext corresponds to a plaintext polynomial bound to a message space of a polynomial-based fully homomorphic cryptographic scheme. At least one server is configured to receive ciphertexts via a network from the plurality of remote terminals. The server performs a multiplication operation and an addition operation on the ciphertexts to obtain resultant ciphertexts. The multiplication operation includes performing a bitwise decomposition function on a ciphertext to obtain a bitwise decomposed ciphertext. The bitwise decomposition function maps a multi-bit data type to a sequence of bits. The multiplication operation further includes performing matrix multiplication on the bitwise decomposed ciphertext and a data element belonging to a set of data elements. Message filters, data search engines, and other applications are discussed.
US10075279B2
A method and device for deactivating secondary cells by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method including generating, by the BS, a MAC deactivation message for a first SCell, wherein the first SCell is associated with one or more SCells served by the BS; and transmitting, by the BS, the MAC deactivation message to a UE for deactivating the first Cell, wherein the first SCell is used for transmission of PUCCH including uplink control information for multiplexing all uplink control information of the one or more SCells associated with the first Cell, wherein the MAC deactivation message for the first SCell indicates all of the one or more SCells associated with the first SCell are deactivated.
US10075278B2
The disclosure describes apparatus and methods for communicating control plane data with a mobile device in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network employing carrier aggregation. A network apparatus, such as an enhanced NodeB (eNodeB) or a mobility management entity (MME), can be configured to evaluate a measurement report (MR) received from a mobile device for one or more radio frequency (RF) conditions associated with a primary network cell and one or more RF conditions associated with a secondary network cell. Then, based on the evaluation, the network apparatus can determine to communicate the control plane data with the mobile device via the primary network cell, the secondary network cell, or both. The control plane data can correspond to non-access stratum (NAS) information, radio resource control (RRC) information, or a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission of previously transmitted control plane data.
US10075277B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a control channel in an intra-cell carrier aggregation system. The method includes establishing a connection with a base station through a Primary cell (Pcell) of a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme and a Secondary cell (Scell) of a Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) scheme. The method also includes receiving data through the Scell before a timing configured as an uplink sub-frame according to a TDD UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration of the Pcell. The method also includes transmitting a feedback of the received data through the Pcell in a feedback sub-frame. By the method, a feedback for a data can be effectively transferred.
US10075276B2
Provided is a data transmission system using a carrier aggregation. The data transmission system may assign a radio resource based on a correspondence relationship between a downlink and an uplink, and may transmit data using the assigned radio resource.
US10075265B2
Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB) and methods for network-assisted interference cancellation with reduced signaling in a 3GPP LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the number of transmission options is reduced by introducing a smaller signaling codebook. In some embodiments, higher-layer feedback from the UE to the eNodeB is established to inform the eNB about certain NA-ICS capabilities of the UE. In some embodiments, the number of signaling options is reduced by providing only certain a priori information. In some embodiments, correlations in the time and/or frequency domain are exploited for reducing the signaling message. In some embodiments, differential information is signaled in the time and/or frequency domain for reducing the signaling message.
US10075255B2
A method and system for allocating PDCCH resources in a wireless communication system are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes detecting at a first base station a condition of inter-cell interference, ICI, between a first cell and a neighboring cell, indicating that the first cell is in a coordination need state. The method includes generating at the first base station serving the first cell a request to lower a first PDCCH load of the neighboring cell to reduce the ICI between the first cell and the neighboring cell, a PDCCH load of a cell being defined as a ratio of used resource elements to total available resource elements within the cell.
US10075253B2
Method and arrangement for providing delay information to synchronization packets passing a transport network node. In a transport network node synchronization packets propagate from a synchronization master node towards boundary clock nodes. The synchronization packets pass the transport network node, in which the synchronization packets are received, and a level of delay is determined. Furthermore, when the level of delay for the synchronization packets is above a threshold, the synchronization packets are marked with a delay indication. The received synchronization packets are sent to the boundary clock node or ordinary clock node, whether or not they are marked. By implementing functionality for determining a level of delay of synchronization packets, and marking passing synchronization packets with delay indications, boundary clock nodes and ordinary clock nodes may differentiate the received synchronization packets based on the delay identifications. Thereby, improved accuracy may be achieved when calculating time synchronization offsets.
US10075251B2
Broadcasting select haptic metadata includes broadcasting a broadcast signal to haptic-enabled devices. In response, haptic playback capability information is received at a host source from a haptic-enabled device when original haptic metadata in the broadcast signal encodes haptic information incompatible with the haptic playback capability information. The select haptic metadata, which is customized for the haptic playback capability information, is generated and sent from the host source to the haptic-enabled device.
US10075249B2
To minimize a measurement range when a near field measurement is performed on the directivity of a massive-MIMO antenna, and prevent the accuracy of measurement from deteriorating. Beam direction detection means 33 causes a probe antenna 12 to perform a rough scanning in a state where an electromagnetic wave radiation plane 1a of a test antenna 1 is directed toward a reference direction directly facing a measurement plane P, and detects the direction of a beam radiated by the test antenna 1 on the basis of a received signal thereof. Antenna direction change means 34 changes the direction of the test antenna 1 so that the detected direction of a beam is directed toward the center of the measurement plane P.
US10075247B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a waveguide system that includes a transmission device having a coupler positioned with respect to a transmission medium to facilitate transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves that transport communications data. The electromagnetic waves propagate along an outer surface of the transmission medium. A training controller detects an impairment on the transmission medium adverse to the transmission or reception of the electromagnetic waves and adjusts the electromagnetic waves to reduce the effects of the impairment on the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10075239B2
A reproduction device is configured to receive light emitted based on a plurality of signals having a specific amplitude in a specific color space on which information is superimposed, and to reproduce the information based on the received light. The reproduction device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: generate a plurality of signals in the specific color space from the received light, correct the generated plurality of signals based on the specific amplitude, and acquire the information based on the corrected plurality of signals.
US10075238B2
The present disclosure discloses methods and devices for an optical signal encoding and decoding. The optical signal encoding method includes: reading N-ary data bit by bit, and encoding the data into electric signal units: encoding each different digit in the N-ary data into a different electric signal unit, where high level duration and low level duration in the electric signal unit are Ti1, Ti2, . . . , and Tij respectively, i, j, and N are natural numbers, and the different electric signal units are separated by delimiters; and combining the electric signal units corresponding to the N-ary data into a drive signal, where the drive signal is used for being output in a light form. Instable flashing of emitted light of a terminal device is overcome effectively, and information transmission reliability is further improved.
US10075235B2
An electronic device comprising: a visible light communication (VLC) transmitter; a radio transmitter; and at least one processor, configured to: control the radio transmitter to transmit a first data item to a receiving device; and control the VLC transmitter to transmit a second data item to the receiving device.
US10075234B2
Techniques are disclosed for emitting position information from luminaires. Luminaire position information may be emitted via a light-based communication (LCom) signal that comprises data including the position information. The data may include relative and/or absolute position information for the luminaire and may indicate the physical location of the luminaire. Relative position information for the luminaire may include coordinates relative to a point of origin within the environment. Absolute position information for the luminaire may include global coordinates for the luminaire. In some cases, the absolute position information for a luminaire may be calculated using position information for the luminaire relative to a point of origin and the absolute position of the point of origin. The data may also include an environment identifier, which may indicate a map to use for the interpretation of position information for the luminaire. The techniques can be used for both stationary and mobile luminaires.
US10075216B2
Provided in the present invention is a method for avoiding downlink interference between an indoor DAS system and a small base station, the steps comprising: step 1: determining an initial access RU, and establishing a signal strength table; step 2: the DAS system, by means of the chosen RU, attempts to establish a downlink with UE 1, and detects the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) value of the downlink signal of UE 1, and comparing same with a preset threshold value γ1; step 3: UE 1 maintains one or a plurality of RU downlinks assigned thereto by the DAS system, during the communication process continuously detects an SINR value at a set time interval, and on the basis of whether same is greater than γ1, ensures a corresponding service quality.
US10075214B2
Patient care equipment includes a wireless coupler that transfers power and/or data between an architectural unit and the patient care equipment. The patient care equipment may also include additional wireless couplers that transfer power and/or data between first and second components of the equipment. The second component may be movable relative to the first component. A structure or hot swapping batteries is also disclosed, the swapped battery being charged on an inductive charging mat.
US10075213B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for using proximity sensing systems, such as Bluetooth low energy (LE) beacons, to uniquely identify remote computing systems, such as point of sale terminals. A mobile device includes an antenna, a baseband modem, and a contactless frontend, and is able to perform near-field communication transactions. The mobile device antenna receives radio communications from one or more Bluetooth LE beacons, the transmissions including data packets with a unique identifier. The mobile device calculates the signal strength of the one or more Bluetooth LE beacons at a time proximate to when a near-field communication transaction is initiated. The mobile device stores in its memory the data packet associated with the Bluetooth LE beacon broadcasting the strongest signal.
US10075211B2
A crosstalk reduction method includes providing a signal transmission unit including first to eighth main transmission paths, the first and second paths, the third and sixth paths, the fourth and fifth paths and the seventh and eighth paths being respectively paired to transmit differential signals, providing a first coupling transmission path in the signal transmission unit, the first coupling transmission path being adapted to electrically couple the third main transmission path to the fifth and seventh main transmission paths that are located adjacent to the sixth main path, and providing a second coupling transmission path in the signal transmission unit, the second coupling transmission path being adapted to electrically couple the sixth main transmission path to the second and fourth main transmission path that are located adjacent to the third main transmission path.
US10075206B1
Example customizable example customizable wearable electronic devices, and methods of assembling the same are disclosed. An example customizable wearable electronic device includes a housing bottom member, a housing top member including a radio frequency (RF) attenuating portion that includes a material that attenuates RF energy and an RF conducting portion that includes an electrically-conductive material, the housing top member separated from the housing bottom member by an electrical isolation gap member, an electrically-conductive contact to couple the RF conducting portion of the top housing member to a communication module in the customizable wearable electronic device, and a customization part selected from a plurality of different customization parts having respective different configurations, the selected customization part electrically coupled to the RF conducting portion of the housing top member when the selected customization part is assembled to the housing top member.
US10075202B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for detection path design for reflection coefficient estimation. In one novel aspect, a hardware-based phase estimator estimates a phase shift between the forward path signal and the reverse path signal. In one embodiment, a data selector is used to pass only signals above a magnitude threshold. In another embodiment, a modified phase unwrap algorithm stores an unwrapping correction for subsequent samples and updates the stored unwrapping correction upon processing of each sample processed. In another novel aspect, mixed hardware and software solutions are used. In one embodiment, the reference signal and the detection signals are matched such that the modulation signal interference is removed. In some embodiments, one or two power detectors and a cross-correlator are used. In yet another embodiment, two detection measurement paths are used to obtain the reflection coefficient. In one embodiment, fractional timing offset is estimated to obtain the reflection coefficient.
US10075201B1
An adaptive controller for a nonlinear system includes a Volterra filter having a transfer function defined by P coefficients. The controller includes an alignment/compensation circuit, which aligns the input samples to the output samples of the nonlinear system. The controller generates a P×P matrix using at least one of input samples to, or output samples from the nonlinear system and normalizes each element of the P×P matrix using a respective normalization factor. The controller generates and solves a system of P linear equations from the P×P matrix and a P×1 matrix derived from input and output samples of the nonlinear system using Cholesky decomposition that may include Fast Inverse Square Root operations and forward backward elimination to generate P values. The controller multiplies each of the P values by an inverse of a respective one of the normalization factors to generate the P coefficients for the Volterra filter.
US10075197B1
A method for transmitting a codeword in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes generating a codeword by encoding an input signal based on a polar code, acquiring a Hamming weight from a bit sequence of at least a part of the codeword, generating Hamming weight information based on the Hamming weight, and transmitting the Hamming weight information and the codeword to a receiver. The Hamming weight information includes a range indicator indicating a range to which the Hamming weight belongs, among a plurality of ranges.
US10075195B2
A electronic system includes: a support chip configured to receive an input code stream; a circular Viterbi mechanism, coupled to the support chip, configured to: generate a final path metric for the input code stream, store intermediate path metrics at the repetition depth, generate a repetition path metric for the input code stream, and calculate a soft correlation metric based on the final path metric, the repetition path metric, and the intermediate path metrics.
US10075193B2
Herein provided are methods and systems for decoding polar codes. A data flow graph relating to a predetermined polar code is converted to a tree graph comprising rate-zero nodes, rate-1 nodes, and rate-R nodes. A rate-R node within the binary tree is replaced with a maximum likelihood node when predetermined conditions are met thereby replacing a sub-tree of the tree graph with a single maximum likelihood node.
US10075189B2
A system includes an encoding circuit, a line quality monitor circuit, and a controller circuit. The encoding circuit generates a first data signal indicating encoded data using a first forward error correction code. The line quality monitor circuit generates an indication of a line quality of a second data signal using an eye monitor circuit that monitors the second data signal. The controller circuit causes the encoding circuit to generate encoded data in the first data signal using a second forward error correction code in response to a change in the indication of the line quality of the second data signal.
US10075185B2
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US10075175B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a time-to-digital converter (TDC) to receive a reference clock and a feedback clock, wherein the TDC is to generate a digital output code representing a time difference between the reference clock and the feedback clock; a circuitry to apply a digital code to an output of the TDC; and a node to receive the digital output code from the TDC and the digital code from the circuitry, wherein the circuitry is to monitor the digital output code and to control the TDC according to at least the monitored digital output code.
US10075172B2
There is disclosed herein current-mode circuitry for measuring a timing difference between first and second signals, the circuitry comprising: a tail node configured during a measurement operation to receive a current pulse in dependence upon the first signal; first and second nodes conductively connectable to said tail node along respective first and second paths; and steering circuitry configured during the measurement operation to control such connections between the tail node and the first and second nodes based on the second signal to steer the current pulse so that a first portion of the current pulse passes along the first path and a second portion of the current pulse passes along the second path in dependence upon the timing difference between said first and second signals; and a signal output unit configured to output a measurement-result signal indicating a measure of said timing difference based upon one or both of the first and second portions.
US10075166B2
A circuit generates a number of oscillations. The circuit includes a first branch with at least one delay line introducing symmetrical delays on rising edges and on falling edges and at least one asymmetrical delay element introducing different delays on rising edges and on falling edges. The circuit further includes a second branch looped back on the first branch and including at least one delay line introducing symmetrical delays on rising edges and on falling edges.
US10075165B2
A calibration circuit sharing a resistor for impedance matching includes a command decoder configured to receive a command signal and decode the command signal into a calibration enable signal; a selector configured to select one of the calibration enable signal and a start signal according to a select signal, and provide a driving signal; and a calibration driver configured to perform an impedance matching operation in response to the driving signal, and generate a completion signal when performance is completed, wherein the start signal corresponds to a completion signal provided from another calibration circuit which shares the resistor for the impedance matching.
US10075146B2
An elastic wave device including a sealing structure. Examples of the elastic wave device include a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode provided on the substrate, a first wiring electrode provided on the substrate adjacent the IDT electrode, a second wiring electrode provided on the first wiring electrode, and a dielectric sealing structure that extends over and seals an excitation space above the IDT electrode in which the IDT electrode excites the elastic wave. The second wiring electrode includes a protrusion formed on its outer periphery and extending beyond the first wiring electrode into the excitation space. The first and/or second wiring electrodes are electrically connected to the IDT electrode. The dielectric sealing structure includes a sealing wall provided on the second wiring electrode, the sealing wall being spaced apart from the IDT electrode by the protrusion and having a side surface that defines a side edge of the excitation space.
US10075140B1
Media devices present content such as games, audiobooks, music, movies, and so forth. During presentation of content, usage data may be acquired which provides information about how the media device is configured to present the content. For example, the usage data may indicate at which times during presentation that a user has increased or decreased volume for presentation of a movie. Information from a plurality of users may be analyzed to develop a presentation profile, which indicates at what times in the movie users have increased or decreased volume. During subsequent presentation of the content, a media device may use the presentation profile to adjust presentation settings of the content without user intervention.
US10075139B2
A low voltage to high voltage (LV2HV) conversion circuit has an input configured to receive an input signal (at a relatively low voltage) and an output configured to generate an output signal (at a relatively high voltage). The LV2HV conversion circuit includes a voltage to current conversion circuit referenced to the relatively low voltage and configured to convert a voltage of the input signal to a first current, wherein a magnitude of the first current is dependent on said voltage of the input signal and a gain setting value. A current mirroring circuit mirrors the first current and outputs a second current. A current to voltage conversion circuit converts the second current to a voltage of the output signal. The current mirroring circuit and current to voltage conversion circuit are referenced to the relatively high voltage.
US10075137B2
Power amplification system for radio frequency communications, comprising a input port of an input radio frequency signal, an output port of an output radio frequency signal; a digital predistortion unit operatively interposed between the input port and the output port and quadrature modulation correction means operatively interposed between the digital predistortion unit and between at least one of the input port and the output port.
US10075136B2
The present invention discloses a power amplifier capable of adaptively operating in one of an energy efficient mode and a high output power mode. An embodiment of the power amplifier includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first bias element, a second bias element, a third bias element and a plurality of switches. In the energy efficient mode, by the control over the on/off states of the switches, an inverter type power amplifier is realized with the first transistor, the second transistor, the second bias element and the third bias element. In the high output power mode, by the control over the on/off states of the switches, a common source amplifier or a common emitter amplifier is realized with the second transistor and the first bias element.
US10075128B2
The invention relates to a solar module and a method for manufacturing a solar module, wherein the solar module comprises at least one solar cell; at least two connection elements (3) for establishing an electrical connection to the at least one solar cell; a bypass component (4) which is connected with the connection elements (3) and a connection box (2), in which the bypass component (4) is provided, wherein the connection box (2) comprises a potting material (6) which covers at least partially the bypass component (4). According to the invention the connection box (2) comprises at least one connection area (7, 7a, 7b) which is free of potting material (6), wherein a bypass component (40) and/or another electronic component is connectable with the connection elements (3) using the connection area (7, 7a, 7b). The invention also relates to a method for repairing and/or retrofitting a solar module.
US10075121B2
A driver circuit for generating a sequence of pulses of a drive voltage from a supply voltage is described. The drive voltage is used for operating an electrical actuator, such as an electrical engine or machine. The driver circuit comprises means for providing an amplitude indication of an amplitude of the supply voltage, which is used for generating a first pulse of the sequence of pulses. Furthermore, the driver circuit comprises an integration unit configured to integrate the amplitude indication for a duration of the first pulse, thereby generating an integrated voltage. In addition, the driver circuit comprises a comparator configured to compare the integrated voltage with a reference voltage, thereby generating a comparator signal. Furthermore, the driver circuit comprises a control unit configured to terminate the first pulse in dependence of the comparator signal.
US10075115B2
At least one embodiment relates to a cogeneration system configured to be coupled to an electrical input of a building and configured to be coupled to a heating or cooling system of a building. The cogeneration system can comprise a generator configured to generate electrical energy. There can be also a fluid output and a fluid input that passes through the generator and configured to absorb heat from the generator. There can also be an electrical output coupled to the electrical input of the building wherein when the generator is operational, the engine creates both heat and electricity. There can also be a processor in communication with the generator, wherein the processor controls when the generator turns on and off based upon the amount of heat or cooling needed, the cost of fuel and the existing electrical rates. These costs can be obtained using communication with real time rates over the internet.
US10075111B2
When electricity is supplied sequentially one by one to coils with a plurality of coil phases provided in a stator of a brushless DC motor, detection is made on a difference of signals corresponding to currents flowing respectively to coils with another plurality of coil phases coupled to the electrically conductive coil phases due to an effect of a magnetic flux of a stopped rotor. A stop position of the rotor with respect to the stator is determined, based on the relationship between a result of the detection operation and a coil phase in association with each other.
US10075103B2
A power generation device for a mobile body includes power generating units and a holding member. Each power generating unit includes an elastically deformable base member and a piezoelectric film, which are laminated alternately. The holding member holds the power generating units. Each power generating unit has an elongated flat-plate shape. Opposite ends of the power generating unit in a longitudinal direction are held by the holding member such that the power generating unit is in an orientation in which a longitudinal axis is substantially perpendicular to the flow direction of the external fluid. A fixing member is provided at each of the opposite ends in the longitudinal direction of each power generating unit. The power generating units are arranged in the holding member via the fixing members to pivot in accordance with the flow of the external fluid.
US10075097B2
To generate a PWM signal, as an on/off signal of a semiconductor switch that constitutes a power conversion main circuit, by comparing a modulation wave command based on an input voltage waveform command of the power conversion main circuit with a carrier wave having changes from a lower limit to an upper limit and from the upper limit to the lower limit for an integral number of times per one cycle of an AC power supply, where the carrier wave has characteristics such that one change time from the lower limit to the upper limit and then returning to the lower limit is constant, and a time ratio between a change time from the lower limit to the upper limit and a change time from the upper limit to the lower limit changes periodically.
US10075095B2
Various systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed herein, which provide a new power conversion topology for isolated systems that does not include a transformer. Embodiments of the inventive systems comprise: a switching system utilizing high voltage, low leakage switches, e.g., Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOS-FETs; a power source; an inductor and a capacitor operating as a link stage resonant LC circuit; and a load. The switching system may be configured to be controlled in a synchronized ‘four phase’ control loop process, wherein the input switches are prevented from being closed at the same time as the output switches, thereby providing electrical isolation between the input power source and the load—without the use of a transformer. The techniques disclosed herein are applicable to any number of isolated systems that supply power to electronic systems such as: digital cameras, mobile phones, watches, personal data assistants (PDAs), portable music players, displays, and computers.
US10075093B2
Provided is a power conversion device capable of suppressing common-mode voltage fluctuation resulting from output voltage transitioning. A power conversion device 1 is provided with N voltage control units 21 to 2N, a full-bridge conversion unit having four switches QB1 to QB4, a clamp unit having holding switches QC1 and QC2, and a control unit 5. The control unit controls the four switches QB1 to QB4, the holding switches QC1 and QC2, the pairs of regenerative switches Q11 to Q1N and Q21 to Q2N and pairs of input switches Q31 to Q3N and Q41 to Q4N of each of the N voltage control units 21 to 2N. As a result, the control unit can switch an output voltage V1 between 2N+3 levels.
US10075087B2
An alternating current power supply configured to provide a high-voltage alternating current power output from two low-voltage alternating current power sources is provided. The alternating current power supply comprises a first alternating current power input, a second alternating current power input, and an alternating current power output having a first output conductor and a second output conductor. The alternating current power supply includes a first switch means for coupling the first alternating current input to the first output connector and the second alternating current input to the second output connector. The first switch means is sequentially responsive to the first current flow followed by the second current flow. The alternating current power supply further comprises an isolation means connected between the first switch means and the alternating current power output, wherein the isolation means is configured to isolate the first current flow from the second current flow.
US10075083B2
A resonant power converter is disclosed with a driving circuit generating a switching signal connecting power to a resonant tank circuit, with a voltage monitoring circuit measuring a voltage output and a load current. A micro-controller is operable with a control circuit for multiple step sampling with the switching signal at a switching frequency to settle the resonant circuit determined from the voltage output and load current. A fast load transient response at a high frequency with the resonant circuit provides the multiple step sampling to ensure enough time for micro-controller to calculate. Optimal trajectory control facilitates a burst mode of high frequency with the resonant circuit using adaptive multiple step sampling for an on-time to extend the burst operation range. A soft start-up process uses the micro-controller processing in multiple stages.
US10075079B2
A switching regulator includes circuitry for reducing conductive emissions caused when the regulators switch from one transistor switch to the other. The switching regulator includes at least one switch with a diode connected from the source to the drain of at least one of the transistor switches. When the regulator switches from one transistor switch to the other, the circuitry initiates turning on the switch with a relatively small, current-limited signal, waits for the diode across the recently turned off switch to complete reverse recovery, and then quickly turns the new switch fully on.
US10075070B2
A pulse generator includes a mode controller that detects a state in which there has been no transition of a pulse signal to the off level for a given cycle (period). When such a state is detected, the pulse generator transits to a skip mode. In the skip mode, the period is repeatedly switched between: (i) a first period in which the pulse signal is maintained at the on level over multiple cycles; and (ii) a second period in which the pulse signal is forcibly switched to the off level so as to charge the bootstrap capacitor by means of a bootstrap circuit.
US10075067B2
Various examples are provided for two-switch switched-capacitor (SC) converters. In one example, a SC converter includes first and second switches connected in series, a first gain-extension network coupled to the first switch and a second gain-extension network coupled to the second switch, which can be operated to boost a voltage applied across the first and second switches. The gain-extension networks can include a diode and a capacitor. In another example, the gain-extension networks can include a switch and a capacitor, which can be operated to buck a voltage applied across the gain-extension networks. In another example, a SC converter includes first and second diodes connected in series, a first gain-extension network coupled to the first diode and a second gain-extension network coupled to the second diode. The gain-extension networks can include a switch and a capacitor, which can be operated to buck a voltage applied across the gain-extension networks.
US10075065B2
A converter circuit is provided and includes: a first EMI filter connected to AC lines and includes one or more across-the-line capacitors; a charging circuit that receives power from the first EMI filter and limits an amount of current passing from the first EMI filter to a DC bus; and a PFC circuit of a compressor drive that provides PFC between an output of the charging circuit and a generated first DC voltage. The PFC circuit includes: a rectification circuit that rectifies the power from the AC lines or a charging circuit output; and a second EMI filter connected downstream from the rectification circuit and including a DC bus rated capacitor. The second EMI filter outputs a filtered DC signal based on a rectification circuit output. The PFC circuit, based on the second EMI filter output, outputs the first DC voltage to the DC bus to power the compressor drive.
US10075063B2
A startup circuit is provided for establishing the Vcc voltage level of a switching power converter. The startup circuit uses a switch controller and path switching transistor to provide a two-stage Vcc capacitor charging that reduces startup time while avoiding short circuit damage through the alternate usage of a high impedance charging path and a low-impedance charging path.
US10075053B2
Electric apparatus using eddy current generation for transmitting torque between two adjacent rotors
An electric apparatus comprises a stator having an array of coils positioned within its periphery and a first rotor having an array of magnet pairs positioned within its periphery. The first rotor has one face adjacent to the stator. A second rotor made of conductive material is positioned adjacent to another face of the first rotor. A coupling mechanism may be connected to the second rotor. The electric apparatus may be connected to an electric power source and act as a motor for driving a mechanical load attached to the coupling mechanism. The electric apparatus may alternatively be connected to an electric load, a turbine being attached to the coupling mechanism for generating electric power. An enclosure may protect components of the electric apparatus against external elements, for example to allow underwater operation.
US10075034B2
A motor including: a stator that has a plurality of teeth formed, toward the central axis, on the inner circumferential section of a cylindrical shaped yoke and has a coil wound, with distributed winding, onto the plurality of teeth; and a rotor where a plurality of magnetic poles consisting of two permanent magnets which are rotatably installed on the inside of the stator and placed, in a convex V-shape, on a central axis side of the stator, are formed in the circumferential direction at a uniform interval, wherein the rotor has outer flux barriers consisting of air gaps formed on the respective diameter directional outer ends of the two permanent magnets, and inner flux barriers consisting of air gaps formed on the respective diameter directional inner ends of the two permanent magnets, the respective inner flux barriers of the two permanent magnets being spatially connected to each other.
US10075033B2
A rotor (1) of an electrical rotating machine, especially for an alternator or an alternator-starter of a motor vehicle, comprising two polar wheels (7, 8), an excitation winding provided with an insulator (15), and at least one magnetic assembly (13) placed between the two polar wheels which are each provided with teeth (9a, 9b), the insulator of an excitation winding comprising a plurality of petals (20), wherein at least one of the petals has a side recess (27) for allowing the passage of one of the magnetic assemblies (13) during the assembly of the two polar wheels (7, 8).
US10075030B2
An electric machine comprise a first carrier having an array of electromagnetic elements and a second carrier having electromagnetic elements defining magnetic poles, the second carrier being arranged to move relative to the first carrier. An airgap is provided between the first carrier and the second carrier. The electromagnetic elements of the first carrier include posts, with slots between the posts, one or more electric conductors in each slot, the posts of the first carrier having a post height in mm. The first carrier and the second carrier together define a size of the electric machine. The magnetic poles having a pole pitch in mm. The size of the motor, pole pitch and post height are selected to fall within a region in a space defined by size, pole pitch and post height that provides a benefit in terms of force or torque per weight per excitation level.
US10075023B2
A wireless communication apparatus includes: a wireless communication unit configured to perform directional wireless communication with an external apparatus; a wireless power supply unit configured to perform wireless power supply to the external apparatus; a sector management unit configured to store a plurality of IDs each indicating a communication parameter which is set for the wireless communication unit in order to determine an antenna pattern for the wireless communication unit, and a power supply parameter which is set for the wireless power supply unit in order to determine an antenna pattern for the wireless power supply unit; and a control unit configured to control the directional wireless communication and the wireless power supply based on an ID included in the plurality of IDs.
US10075020B2
A method of transmitting a signal by a wireless power transmitter in a wireless charging system, wireless power transmitter, and a wireless power receiver are provided. The method includes transmitting a first signal; transmitting a second signal; detecting a load change during a period in which the second signal is transmitted; and extending a transmission period of the second signal based on the detected load change. The wireless power transmitter includes a power transmission unit configured to transmit a first signal and a second signal; a sensing unit configured to detect a load change during a period in which the second signal is transmitted; and a controller configured to extend a transmission period of the second signal based on the detected load change.
US10075019B2
The disclosure features wireless power transmitters that include a power source, a first coil connected to the power source, a second coil connected in series to the first coil, and a third coil positioned in proximity to the second coil, where during operation of the wireless power transmitters, the power source applies a driving voltage to the first and second coils, the first coil generates a first magnetic field that transfers power to a receiver resonator, the second coil generates a second magnetic field that induces a voltage across the third coil, and the induced voltage across the third coil is applied to a component of the wireless power transmitters.
US10074999B2
A portable charging system includes a piece of baggage that has at least one outer pocket. A charging unit is provided and the charging unit is coupled to the piece of baggage. At least one electronic device is selectively electrically coupled to the charging unit to charge the electronic device.
US10074994B2
A power tool system includes at least one power tool, in particular at least one measuring tool, which has a holder for at least partial insertion of a rechargeable battery pack, and a rechargeable battery pack, in particular a rechargeable battery pack including lithium cell chemistry, for reversible insertion into the holder of the at least one power tool. The holder and the rechargeable battery pack have compatible mechanical and electrical interfaces for mechanical and electrical contact-connection of the power tool and the rechargeable battery pack.
US10074988B2
This application relates to control methods and apparatus for a voltage source converter comprising a plurality of energy storage devices which can be selectively connected into an arm of the voltage source converter. The apparatus is configured to generate a modelled value of the voltage of an energy storage device of the voltage source converter based on one or more model parameters and the operation of the voltage source converter, receive the modelled value and also a measured value of the voltage of at least one energy storage device, determine an error between the modelled value and the measured value, and generate a model control signal for adapting the model based on said error so that the modelled value substantially corresponds to the measured value. Control circuitry is responsive to said model module and/or said model adaptation module to control operation of the voltage source converter.
US10074985B2
A solar and/or wind inverter that uses an ultracapacitor for grid stabilization. The ultracapacitor may be directly tied to, and placed between, a power source and an inverter. The ultracapacitor may supply power to a grid via the inverter during a reduction of power or a loss in power from the grid.
US10074981B2
A power supply configured to be operatively connected to at least one load, comprising an AC bus operatively connected to the load, a first AC power source operatively connected to the AC bus, a DC bus, a DC/AC converter operatively connected between the DC bus and the AC bus, a first DC power source, and a load balancer operatively connected between the first DC power source and the DC bus. The power supply operates in a first mode in which power is supplied to the load from the first AC power source through the AC bus and in a second mode in which power is supplied to the load from the first DC power source through the DC bus, the DC/AC converter, and the AC bus.
US10074977B2
Methods and systems for implementing experimental trials on utility grids. The variation of grid parameters are coordinated to create periods of time and areas of space from within which the variations of grid parameters do not overlap, allowing sensor data within those periods of time and areas of space to be associated with particular variations in grid parameters. This associated data can in turn be used to improve models of sensor response and utility grid behavior.
US10074974B2
An arrangement for protecting an electrical facility from overvoltages having an overcurrent protection facility arranged in a first series circuit and a shunt circuit arranged between the overcurrent protection facility and the electrical facility to be protected, the shunt series resulting in a second series circuit, wherein a diode for discharging transient overvoltages is arranged in the shunt circuit, which is conductive if a voltage threshold is exceeded, as a result of which the current resulting from the overvoltage can be passed through the shunt circuit to the facility to be protected into the second shunt circuit, where a first inductor is arranged in a series connection to the diode, the diode is connected here to a first diode terminal on the first series circuit and is connected to a second diode terminal on the first inductor, and where the overcurrent protection facility is not triggered prematurely by temporary overvoltages.
US10074972B2
An exemplary electrical network in form of a ring system includes a plurality of infeed transformers which are arranged in parallel between a sourcing busbar/cable system and a ring load busbar/cable system. A junction point connects each infeed transformer to the ring load busbar/cable system. The network includes a plurality of current limiters, where each current limiter is positioned between two junction points. Upon a fault event of an infeed transformer, two current limiters on both sides of a respective junction point of the faulted infeed transformer are simultaneously tripped in order to reduce current in the ring load busbar/cable system.
US10074968B2
A power-source protection circuit includes a power source including a first voltage rail and a second voltage rail, a pass switch connected across the first voltage rail and a third voltage rail, a control switch connected to the second voltage rail and a control terminal of the pass switch, such that the pass switch turns on in response to the control switch turning on and the pass switch turns off in response to the control switch turning off, and output terminals connected to the third voltage rail and the second voltage rail. The control switch is arranged to switch on when the power source is started and the control switch is arranged to switch off when the output terminals are short-circuited and to switch on when the short-circuit is removed.
US10074961B2
A driver circuit is configured to pass a current. The circuit includes a first transistor connected in series with the laser diode, and configured to regulate the current. A voltage regulator is configured to provide an input to a gate of the first transistor so as to regulate the current in dependence upon a regulator input and a feedback input at the voltage regulator.
US10074956B2
An extreme ultraviolet light generation system used with a laser apparatus may be provided, and the extreme ultraviolet light generation system may include: a chamber including at least one window for at least one laser beam and a target supply unit for supplying a target material into the chamber; and at least one polarization control unit, provided on a laser beam path, for controlling a polarization state of the at least one laser beam.
US10074945B2
Disclosed is an audio barrel jack assembly that reduces or eliminates signal loss when used with either a mono or stereo audio plug. The jack assembly employs a support housing having a passageway sized to receive a conventional audio plug. The passageway including connectors that engage opposite sides of the audio jack for increased surface engagement providing an improved electrical connection.
US10074944B2
A circuit includes a connector having first and second mateable portions. Each portion includes at least two terminals configured to mechanically engage at least two terminals of the other portion. The two terminals within the first and second portions are arranged so that as the first and second portions are mated, a first terminal of the first portion and a first terminal of the second portions come into contact before respective second terminals of the first and second portions. The circuit also includes a polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) device with a first terminal in electrical communication with the first terminal of the first portion and a second terminal in electrical communication with the second terminal of the first portion. A power terminal is in electrical communication with the second terminal of the first portion and is configured to be connected to a power source. A load terminal is in electrical communication with the first and second terminals of the second portion and is configured to be connected to a load.
US10074928B1
A cable connecting assembly includes a barrel member, a tubular member partially received in the barrel member, a securing member, and a seal unit. The tubular member includes a head part and a hollow tail part. The head part defines a receiving space adapted to receive an end portion of the cable therein. The tail part is connected to the head part, is adapted for a neck portion of the cable to extend therethrough, and is curved to extend in a direction transverse to the lengthwise direction. The tail part includes two body halves removably coupled to each other. The securing member has a through hole permitting extension of the tail part. The seal unit is sleeved on the head part and sealingly contacts an inner surface of the barrel member.
US10074923B1
An electrical connector is revealed that has unique useful characteristics. A sheet metal fork supplies the stored energy that imparts a force to a second member—a plunger that makes contact with the mating circuit. The plunger can be configured to increase or decrease the force or deflection and can be designed with various connection ends with different contact characteristics.
US10074909B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of omnidirectional single-input single-output (SISO) multiband/broadband antennas. In an exemplary embodiment, an omnidirectional SISO multiband/broadband antenna generally includes a radiator element having a single piece construction with a stamped cone shape defined by multiple stamped portions.
US10074906B2
The present invention is related to a horizontally polarized wave antenna using a serial-feed mode. The antenna includes: a feeder line configured to receive a current supplied from a feeder unit installed to a vehicle; and a patch antenna unit configured to radiate an electromagnetic wave in a horizontal direction while being installed to serially extend in a vertical direction with respect to the ground in a shape that is bent in a zigzag form. The patch antenna unit includes a plurality of first patch elements and a plurality of second patches. With this arrangement, it is possible to realize a horizontally polarized wave with a high resolution by composing vectors of currents flowing in respective patch elements while keeping the entire size of a radar system small.
US10074905B2
A planar antenna apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first radiation unit configured to transmit a signal, a first feed unit configured to feed a current to the first radiation unit and apply the signal to be transmitted to the first radiation unit, a first Radio Frequency (RF) ground to which a plurality of antenna elements are grounded; and a via that connects the first radiation unit to the first RF ground, wherein all of the first radiation unit, the first feed unit, the first RF ground, and the via are disposed on a first plane, and wherein a capacitance value between the first radiation unit and the first feed unit and an inductance value determined by a length and a width of the radiation unit are set as values that cause a resonant frequency in a specific frequency band to be a preset value.
US10074903B2
An antenna apparatus may be provided that includes: a radiating metal; a ground which is connected to the radiating metal; a first impedance which forms a first path by being connected between the radiating metal and the ground, has an impedance value which is changed depending on a frequency, and opens the first path in response to a predetermined frequency, and a second impedance which forms a second path parallel with the first path by being connected between the radiating metal and the ground, has an impedance value which is changed depending on a frequency, and short-circuits the second path in response to the predetermined frequency.
US10074887B2
According to an implementation, a computing device includes electronic circuitry, and an antenna and heat venting chamber having an antenna radiating element disposed in at least a first plane, a ground plane element disposed in at least a second plane, a first side wall member defining a plurality of perforations, and a second side wall member having a portion that is disposed opposite to the first side wall member, where the portion of the second side wall member defines at least one opening. The computing device includes a cooling system configured to vent heat generated by the electronic circuitry through the antenna and heat venting chamber.
US10074876B2
The disclosure relates to a method for balancing out states of charge of a battery which has a number of N battery cells. In order to balance out the individual states of charge (SOCn) of the n=1 to N cells, the state of charge of at least one cell is changed to a target state of charge (SOCtarget,n) which depends on the discharge depth (DODk) of the cell having the lowest capacity (Capk) according to the equation SOCtarget,n=1−DODk/Capn, Capn being the capacity of the nth cell to be changed. Advantageously, the method is suitable for optimizing the voltage or the energy content of a battery that is constituted of a plurality of cells.
US10074869B2
A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly and a first separator. The first separator includes a first reactant gas channel, a first reactant gas manifold, and a first buffer portion. The first buffer portion is located outside of a power generation region of an electrode catalyst layer of the first electrode. The first buffer portion connects the first reactant gas channel to the first reactant gas manifold. A gas diffusion layer of the first electrode extends along a surface of the first separator to a first buffer region facing the first buffer portion. An intermediate layer of the first electrode covers a portion of the gas diffusion layer of the first electrode in the first buffer region.
US10074868B2
A fuel cell stack includes a bracket and a boss. The bracket includes an attachment surface. The bracket includes an attachment and detachment hole and an opening hole. The boss includes a bearing surface and a locking surface part. The locking surface part is connected to the bearing surface and protrudes in an outside direction such that at least a part of the locking surface part overlaps with the attachment surface part viewed from an attachment direction when a center of the attachment and detachment hole coincides with a center of the bearing surface.
US10074861B2
Fuel cell systems, e.g. systems including proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, are engineered to have more than one internal electrical resistance that can change according to temperature. Such changes in internal electrical resistance levels allow rapid heat-up of the fuel cells from low temperatures to an elevated temperature that is optimal for water management and fuel cell operation. The fuel cell systems can include at least one fuel cell and at least one resistor-switch unit electrically connected to the at least one fuel cell. The at least one resistor-switch unit includes a resistor and a switch in which the switch is electrically connected in parallel with the resistor.
US10074857B2
A titanium or titanium alloy material for a separator of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell having high contact conductivity with carbon and high durability, and including an oxide film formed on a titanium or titanium alloy substrate by a stabilization treatment performed after a passivation treatment, and one or more kinds of conductive materials selected from carbide, nitride, carbonitride, and boride of tantalum, titanium, vanadium, zirconium, and chromium, the conductive materials being dispersed in the oxide film and having a major axis diameter of from 1 nm to 100 nm. A contact resistance value with a carbon paper is 20 mΩ·cm2 or less at a surface pressure of 10 kgf/cm2 before and after an accelerated deterioration test in which the titanium or titanium alloy material is immersed in a sulfuric acid aqueous solution having an adjusted pH of 4 at 80° C. for four days.
US10074847B2
A battery pack including a housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion is secured to the second housing portion and defines an interface for receiving a power tool. The battery pack also includes a frame received within the second housing portion, the frame including opening to secure a plurality of battery cells. The battery pack further includes a pair of battery cells of the plurality of battery cells stacked vertically in each of the openings. A wedge is positioned in each of the openings between the pair of battery cells. The battery pack also includes a printed circuit board positioned between the frame and the first housing portion.
US10074842B2
The present disclosure provides a secondary battery, which comprises a cap plate, at least two cells and two connecting pieces. The cap plate is provided with two electrode terminals which are opposite in electrical polarity. Each cell has two tabs which are opposite in electrical polarity. Each connecting piece has: an electrode terminal electrical connecting portion for electrically connecting with the corresponding electrode terminal of the cap plate; a plurality of tab electrical connecting portions for electrically connecting with the corresponding tabs of the cells respectively; and a plurality of fusing portions electrically connecting the corresponding tab electrical connecting portion to the electrode terminal electrical connecting portion, a width of each fusing portion is less than a width of the electrode terminal electrical connecting portion. A configuration of the connecting piece is simple, thereby reducing the cumulative heat of the secondary battery and reducing the temperature rise.
US10074840B2
Provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including: a porous substrate, and a heat resistant porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, that is an aggregate of resin particles and an inorganic filler, and that satisfies the following expression (1). In expression (1), Vf is a volume proportion (% by volume) of the inorganic filler in the heat resistant porous layer, and CPVC is a critical pigment volume concentration (% by volume) of the inorganic filler. Also provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including: a porous substrate, a heat resistant porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, that includes a resin and an filler, and that satisfies the following expression (2), and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on both sides of a stacked body of the porous substrate and the heat resistant porous layer, and that includes an adhesive resin. In expression (2), Vf is a volume proportion (% by volume) of the filler in the heat resistant porous layer, and CPVC is a critical pigment volume concentration (% by volume) of the filler. 0.65≤Vf/CPVC≤0.99 expression (1) 0.40≤Vf/CPVC≤0.99 expression (2)
US10074837B2
A technology for a wireless transfer station that is operable to detect interference during a wireless transfer of energy or data between wireless transfer stations. A transfer load on a wireless transfer coil of a wireless transfer station can be monitored during a wireless transfer of energy or data from the wireless transfer station to another wireless transfer station. A change in the transfer load that exceeds a threshold value can be detected. The wireless transfer of energy or data by the wireless transfer station can be adjusted using the wireless transfer coil based on the detected change in the transfer load.
US10074834B2
A battery pack includes: a core pack; a protection circuit module electrically connected to the core pack and including a connector for further electrically connecting to an external electronic device; and a metallic cover for covering the core pack and the protection circuit module while exposing the connector to the outside, the metallic cover including a protrusion adjacent to a ground portion of the connector.
US10074829B2
In various embodiments, an optoelectronic component device is provided. The optoelectronic component device may include a linear regulator designed for providing an electric current; an optoelectronic component formed for converting the electric current into an electromagnetic radiation; and an electrothermal transducer designed for converting the electric current into a temperature difference. The electrothermal transducer is thermally coupled to the optoelectronic component, and the optoelectronic component and the electrothermal transducer are electrically coupled in series with the linear regulator.
US10074828B2
An organic EL light-emitting device including: a light-emitting layer capable of generating light; a first light-scattering layer containing first light-scattering particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 μm to 1 μm; and prisms in a streak array pattern. The light emitting layer, the first light-scattering layer and the prisms are disposed in this order, and a mean free path L1 of light scattering in the first light-scattering layer and a thickness D1 of the first light-scattering layer satisfy D1/L1<6.
US10074822B2
To provide a novel light-emitting element or a highly reliable light-emitting element. To provide a light-emitting device, a display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each of which can be manufactured at a low cost. To provide a light-emitting element including an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer and an electron injection transport layer between the light-emitting layer and the cathode, and the amount of a halogen detected from a material forming the electron injection transport layer is less than or equal to 30 ppm.
US10074818B2
The transistor includes a gate electrode, an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on a substrate, in which the gate electrode is formed by using silver β-ketocarboxylate denoted by General Formula (1) described below.
US10074816B2
The present disclosure provides a substrate structure for an electronic element, which includes a supporting carrier; a release layer having a first microstructure on a surface thereof, and the release layer having first adhesion to the supporting carrier; and a flexible substrate for disposing the supporting carrier and the release layer thereon, wherein the flexible substrate has second adhesion to the release layer, the first adhesion is greater than the second adhesion, and the surface of the flexible substrate in contact with the surface of the release layer has a second microstructure opposing to the first microstructure. The present disclosure further provides a method for fabricating the substrate structure.
US10074812B2
A compound is represented by one selected from Formulae 1 and 2: Wherein the components of Formulae 1 and 2 are each independently defined as set forth in the present disclosure. An organic light-emitting device includes at least one of the compound represented by one selected from Formulae 1 and 2.
US10074806B2
A composition formed of a mixture of two compounds having similar thermal evaporation properties that are pre-mixed into an evaporation source that can be used to co-evaporate the two compounds into an emission layer in OLEDs via vacuum thermal evaporation process is disclosed.
US10074802B2
Method for producing a device with transistors distributed over several levels and provided with a resistive memory cell having an electrode formed of a conductor portion belonging to a connection element connected to a transistor of a given level.
US10074798B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing an ultrasonic probe. The method includes forming a sacrificial layer on a substrate; forming a plurality of openings in the sacrificial layer that are separated from one another; forming piezoelectric units by growing a piezoelectric element in each of the plurality of openings; and removing the sacrificial layer.
US10074796B2
The piezoelectric material of the present invention includes a main component composed of a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by Formula (1), Zn, and Mg. The content of Zn is 0.005 mol or more and 0.050 mol or less based on 1 mol of the perovskite-type metal oxide, and the content of Mg is 0.001 mol or more and 0.020 mol or less based on 1 mol of the perovskite-type metal oxide.Formula (1): (NaxBa1-y)(NbyTi1-y)O3 (where x is 0.83 or more and 0.95 or less, y is 0.85 or more and 0.95 or less, and x/y is 0.95 or more and 1.05 or less).
US10074794B2
A multilayer component includes a main body and an external contact. The external contact has a connection element and a contact layer. The contact layer electrically conductively connects the main body to the connection element. A connection between the main body and the connection element is produced by sintering of the contact layer.
US10074791B2
A system for recapturing energy may include a thermoelectric generator (TEG) assembly for thermally attaching to a surface heated by plasma or ionization heating. The TEG assembly may include a first level thermoelectric generator module (TEM). The first level TEM may include a hot side that is thermally attached to the surface, a cold side and a plurality of TEG devices disposed between the hot side and the cold side. A second level TEM may be stacked on the first level TEM. A hot side of the second level TEM may be thermally attached to the cold side of the first level TEM. The plurality of TEG devices generate an electric current based on a temperature differential across the TEG devices. The TEG assembly may also include an electrical wiring system that electrically connects the TEMs and supplies the electric current generated to an electrical power apparatus.
US10074790B2
A thermoelectric device is provided that includes a duct through which a first fluid can flow. The duct has first walls and side walls which connect the first walls. At least one first wall is in thermal contact with a thermoelectric module which has a housing with at least two opposite second walls. A plurality of thermoelectric elements is arranged between the second walls. The thermoelectric elements have opposite surfaces, each of which is in thermal contact with one of the second walls of the housing of the thermoelectric module.
US10074779B2
A light emitting diode (LED) module including: a circuit board; at least one LED disposed on the circuit board; a molding cover spaced apart from the LED by a predetermined gap and covering upper and lower surfaces of the circuit board at an edge of the circuit board; and a circuit part positioned at the edge of the circuit board and driving the LED. The LED is centrally disposed on an upper surface of the circuit board.
US10074777B2
A light emitting diode (LED) structure including a stacked semiconductor layer, a contact layer and a dielectric reflective layer is provided. The stacked semiconductor layer includes a first type doped layer, a second type doped layer and an active layer disposed between the first type doped layer and the second type doped layer, wherein the first type doped layer, the active layer and the second type doped layer are penetrated by a plurality of recesses. The contact layer is disposed on the second type doped layer. The dielectric reflective layer is disposed on the contact layer and extended into the recesses to connect the contact layer and the first type doped layer with a coverage rate equal to or less than 60% from a top view of the LED structure.
US10074773B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting structure in which a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer are sequentially laminated, an insulating layer disposed on the light emitting structure and including first and second openings, an electrode layer disposed on the insulating layer and including first and second electrodes, and an adhesive layer disposed between the electrode layer and the insulating layer and including first and second openings. The first opening of the adhesive layer overlaps the first opening of the insulating layer and is equal to or larger than the first opening of the insulating layer. The second opening of the adhesive layer overlaps the second opening of the insulating layer and is equal to or larger than the second opening of the insulating layer.
US10074767B2
A light-emitting element, a light-emitting element unit and a light-emitting element package are provided, which are each reduced in reflection loss and intra-film light absorption by suppressing multiple light reflection in a transparent electrode layer and hence have higher luminance. The light-emitting element 1 includes a substrate 2, an n-type nitride semiconductor layer 3, a light-emitting layer 4, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 5, a transparent electrode layer 6 and a reflective electrode layer 7, and the transparent electrode layer 6 has a thickness T satisfying the following expression (1): 3 λ 4 n + 0.30 × ( λ 4 n ) ≤ T ≤ 3 λ 4 n + 0.45 × ( λ 4 n ) ( 1 ) wherein λ is the light-emitting wavelength of the light-emitting element 4, and n is the refractive index of the transparent electrode layer 6.
US10074765B2
One embodiment can provide a system for curing conductive paste applied on photovoltaic structures. The system can include a wafer carrier for carrying a plurality of photovoltaic structures and a heater. The wafer carrier can include a surface element that is in direct contact with the photovoltaic structures and is substantially thermally insulating. The heater can be positioned above the wafer carrier. The heater can include a heated radiation surface that does not directly contact the photovoltaic structures.
US10074764B2
A method of forming low-energy x-ray absorbers. Sensors may be formed on a semiconductor, e.g., silicon, wafer. A seed metal layer, e.g., gold, is deposited on the wafer and patterned into stem pads for electroplating. Stems, e.g., gold, are electroplated from the stem seed pads through a stem mask. An absorber layer, e.g., gold, is deposited on the wafer, preferably e-beam evaporated. After patterning the absorbers, absorber and stem mask material is removed, e.g., in a solvent bath and critical point drying.
US10074758B2
A back-contact Si thin-film solar cell includes a crystalline Si absorber layer and an emitter layer arranged on the crystalline Si absorber layer, which include a contact system being arranged on the back so as to collect excess charge carriers generated by the incidence of light in the absorber layer; a barrier layer having a layer thickness in a range of from 50 nm to 1 μm formed on a glass substrate; at least one coating layer intended for optical coating; and thin layer containing silicon and/or oxygen adjoining the crystalline Si absorber layer arranged on the at least one coating layer for improving the optical characteristics. The crystalline Si absorber layer can be produced by means of liquid-phase crystallization, is n-conducting, and has monocrystalline Si grains. An SiO2 passivation layer is formed between the layer containing silicon and/or oxygen and the Si absorber layer during the liquid-phase crystallization.
US10074756B2
A method for producing an optical component includes presenting a laminate and separating a second layer from a substrate. In presenting the laminate, the laminate includes the substrate, a first layer disposed on the substrate, the second layer disposed on the first layer, and a third layer disposed on the second layer. The first layer includes a portion that does not overlap with the second layer and the third layer. In separating the second layer from the substrate, the second layer is separated from the substrate by dissolving the first layer from the substrate with a liquid. The first layer and the third layer each contain a compound.
US10074744B2
A control electrode GE1 is formed in a lower portion of a trench TR1 formed in a semiconductor substrate SUB, and a gate electrode GE2 is formed in an upper portion inside the trench TR1. An insulating film G1 is formed between the control electrode GE1 and a side wall and a bottom surface of the trench TR1, an insulating film G2 is formed between the side wall of the trench TR1 and the gate electrode GE2, and an insulating film G3 is formed between the control electrode GE1 and the gate electrode GE2. A region adjacent to the trench TR1 includes an n+-type semiconductor region NR for a source, a p-type semiconductor region PR for a channel formation, and a semiconductor region for a drain. A wiring connected to the control electrode GE1 is not connected to a wiring connected to the gate electrode GE2, and is not connected to a wiring connected to the n+-type semiconductor region NR for a source.
US10074743B2
A recess is formed at a semiconductor layer of a device to define a plurality of mesas. An active trench portion of the recess residing between adjacent mesas. A termination portion of the trench residing between the end of each mesa and a perimeter of the recess. The transverse spacing between the mesas and the lateral spacing between the mesas and an outer perimeter of a recess forming the mesas are substantially the same. A shield structure within the trench extends from the region between the mesas to the region between the ends of the mesas and the outer perimeter of the recess forming the mesas. A contact resides between a shield electrode terminal and the shield portion residing in the trench.
US10074722B2
The present technique relates to a transistor that uses an oxide semiconductor as its channel layer and that is capable of suppressing fluctuations in threshold voltage, and to a thin-film transistor substrate and a liquid crystal display that include such a transistor. The transistor is configured such that an overlap length, which is a length of overlap in plan view between the source electrode and the channel protective film in a direction from the source electrode toward the drain electrode, is longer than an overlap length, which is a length of overlap in plan view between the drain electrode and the channel protective film in a direction from the drain electrode toward the source electrode.
US10074721B2
In an embodiment, a method of planarizing a surface includes applying a first layer to a surface including a protruding region such that the first layer covers the surface and the protruding region, removing a portion of the first layer above the protruding region and forming an indentation in the first layer above the protruding region, the protruding region remaining covered by material of the first layer, and progressively removing an outermost surface of the first layer to produce a planarised surface.
US10074718B2
Non-planar semiconductor devices having group III-V material active regions with multi-dielectric gate stacks are described. For example, a semiconductor device includes a hetero-structure disposed above a substrate. The hetero-structure includes a three-dimensional group III-V material body with a channel region. A source and drain material region is disposed above the three-dimensional group III-V material body. A trench is disposed in the source and drain material region separating a source region from a drain region, and exposing at least a portion of the channel region. A gate stack is disposed in the trench and on the exposed portion of the channel region. The gate stack includes first and second dielectric layers and a gate electrode.
US10074717B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of active fins defined by an isolation layer on a substrate, a gate structure on the active fins and the isolation layer, and a gate spacer structure covering a sidewall of the gate structure. A sidewall of the gate structure includes first, second, and third regions having first, second, and third slopes, respectively. The second slope increases from a bottom toward a top of the second region. The second slope has a value at the bottom of the second region less than the first slope. The third slope is greater than the second slope.
US10074715B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes determining at least one electrical parameter for each semiconductor device of a plurality of semiconductor devices to be formed in a semiconductor wafer. The method further includes implanting doping ions into device areas of the semiconductor wafer used for forming the plurality of semiconductor devices with laterally varying implantation doses based on the at least one electrical parameter of the plurality of semiconductor devices.
US10074710B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of transmitting windows configured to transmit light therethrough. The plurality of transmitting windows is spaced apart from the plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a transistor and a capacitor. The transistor includes a light-blocking electrode disposed on the substrate and a plurality of electrode members disposed at different layers on the light-blocking electrode. The capacitor includes a first capacitor electrode disposed on a same layer as the light-blocking electrode, and a second capacitor electrode disposed on a same layer as a first one of the plurality of electrode members to overlap the first capacitor electrode.
US10074708B2
A light emitting device includes a transistor, a light reflection layer, a first insulation layer that includes a first layer thickness part, a second layer thickness part, and a third layer thickness part, a pixel electrode that is provided on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer that covers a peripheral section of the pixel electrode, a light emission functional layer, a facing electrode, and a conductive layer that is provided on the first layer thickness part. The pixel electrode includes a first pixel electrode which is provided in the first layer thickness part, a second pixel electrode which is provided in the second layer thickness part, and a third pixel electrode which is provided in the third layer thickness part. The first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode are connected to the transistor through the conductive layer.
US10074705B2
In a method of manufacturing a transparent display device, a substrate including a pixel region and a transmission region may be provided. A first electrode may be formed on the substrate in the pixel region, and a display layer may be formed on the first electrode. A second electrode facing the first electrode may be formed on the display layer, and a capping structure including a first capping layer and a second capping layer may be formed on the second electrode. The first capping layer may be formed on the second electrode in the pixel region and a first region of the transmission region by using a mask that has an opening, the mask may be shifted, and the second capping layer may be formed on the second electrode in the pixel region and a second region of the transmission region by using the shifted mask.
US10074702B2
An organic light emitting diode display panel is disclosed, which comprises: a substrate having a light emitting region and a non-light emitting region, wherein a first electrode layer is disposed on the light emitting region, a pixel defining layer is disposed on the non-light emitting region, and the pixel defining layer has a plurality of concave structures; an organic layer disposed on the first electrode layer and the pixel defining layer; and a second electrode layer disposed on the organic layer; wherein the organic layer is discontinuous at the concave structures.
US10074681B2
A light shield for shielding a light sensitive element in an image sensor comprising a primary plate located such as to shield the light sensitive element from incident light, the primary plate comprising at least one aperture and the or each aperture being associated with a light blocking structure, wherein the light blocking structure comprises a secondary plate and a wall; the wall is arranged between the primary plate and the secondary plate, and is configured to act as a light barrier to light passing between the primary plate and the secondary plate.
US10074680B2
A CMOS image sensor and a method of forming are provided. The CMOS image sensor may include a device wafer. A conductive feature may be formed on a back-side surface of the device wafer. The device wafer may include a pixel formed therein. A passivation layer may be formed over the back-side surface of the device wafer and the conductive feature. A grid film may be formed over the passivation layer. The grid film may be patterned to accommodate a color filter. The grid film pattern may align the color filter to corresponding pixel in the device wafer. A portion of the grid film formed over the conductive feature may be reduced to be substantially planar with portions of the grid film adjacent to the conductive feature. The patterning and reducing may be performed according to etching processes, chemical mechanical processes, and combinations thereof.
US10074675B2
A thin film transistor substrate includes a substrate; a first thin film transistor on the substrate and including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode on the polycrystalline semiconductor layer, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; a second thin film transistor on the substrate and including a second gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer on the second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode; an intermediate insulating layer on the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode and under the oxide semiconductor layer; and a dummy layer between the first source electrode and the intermediate insulating layer and between the first drain electrode and the intermediate insulating layer, wherein the dummy layer is formed of a same material as the oxide semiconductor layer.
US10074655B2
A high capacitance embedded capacitor and associated fabrication processes are disclosed for fabricating a capacitor stack in a multi-layer stack to include a first capacitor plate conductor formed with a cylinder-shaped storage node electrode formed in the multi-layer stack, a capacitor dielectric layer surrounding the cylinder-shaped storage node electrode, and a second capacitor plate conductor formed from a conductive layer in the multi-layer stack that is sandwiched between a bottom and top dielectric layer, where the cylinder-shaped storage node electrode is surrounded by and extends through the conductive layer.
US10074651B2
A semiconductor device is provided which suppresses variations in transistor characteristics such as a source-drain diffusion capacitance. A first transistor TRA is formed in a first element forming area EFA as a divided transistor. A second transistor TRB is formed in a second element forming area EFB as another divided transistor. The first element forming area EFA and the second element forming area EFB are set to the same size. The first element forming area EFA and the second element forming area EFB are arranged deviated from each other in an X direction by a length SPL corresponding to the minimum pitch PT of a gate wiring GH.
US10074650B2
A semiconductor device includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate having a stack of a first semiconductor substrate, a buried insulating layer and a second semiconductor substrate formed in a first region and a deep trench isolation disposed in a second region. The semiconductor device also includes a plurality of transistors on the second semiconductor substrate, a deep trench isolation having a bottom at a surface of the first semiconductor substrate in the second region, the deep trench isolation exposing a sidewall of the second semiconductor substrate and a sidewall of the buried insulating layer, and a dielectric capping layer filling the deep trench isolation and covering the plurality of transistors on the second semiconductor substrate.
US10074646B2
A protective circuit includes a non-linear element, which further includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer covering the gate electrode, a pair of first and second wiring layers whose end portions overlap with the gate electrode over the gate insulating layer and in which a conductive layer and a second oxide semiconductor layer are stacked, and a first oxide semiconductor layer which overlaps with at least the gate electrode and which is in contact with side face portions of the gate insulating layer and the conductive layer of the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer and a side face portion and a top face portion of the second oxide semiconductor layer. Over the gate insulating layer, oxide semiconductor layers with different properties are bonded to each other, whereby stable operation can be performed as compared with Schottky junction. Thus, the junction leakage can be decreased and the characteristics of the non-linear element can be improved.
US10074638B2
A light emitting device includes a package having a recess which includes a bottom surface. A first bottom surface of a first light emitting element is put on a first part of the bottom surface. A second bottom surface of a second light emitting element is put on the first part of the bottom surface. A first side surface of the first light emitting element is opposite to a second side surface of the second light emitting element with a gap. At least a part of the first side surface does not overlap with the second side surface viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first side surface. A protection element is provided at a second part of the bottom surface. A light reflective material covers the protection element.
US10074635B2
Solid state light emitter devices and methods are provided. A solid state light emitter device can include a submount having an upper surface and a bottom surface. At least first pair and a second pair of electrically conductive contacts can be disposed on the bottom surface of the submount. The first pair of contacts can be electrically independent from the second pair of contacts. The device can further include multiple light emitters provided on the upper surface of the submount. The multiple light emitters can be configured into at least a first light emitter zone that is electrically independent from a second light emitter zone upon electrical communication to a respective pair of contacts.
US10074629B2
An embodiment method for forming a semiconductor package includes attaching a first die to a first carrier, depositing a first isolation material around the first die, and after depositing the first isolation material, bonding a second die to the first die. Bonding the second die to the first die includes forming a dielectric-to-dielectric bond. The method further includes removing the first carrier and forming fan-out redistribution layers (RDLs) on an opposing side of the first die as the second die. The fan-out RDLs are electrically connected to the first die and the second die.
US10074604B1
A method of fabricating an integrated fan-out package is provided. The method includes the followings. An integrated circuit component is mounted on a carrier. An insulating encapsulation is formed on the carrier to encapsulate sidewalls of the integrated circuit component. A plurality of conductive pillars are formed on the integrated circuit component and a dielectric layer is formed to cover the integrated circuit component and the insulating encapsulation, wherein the plurality of conductive pillars penetrate through the dielectric layer and are electrically connected to the integrated circuit component. A redistribution circuit structure is formed on the dielectric layer and the plurality of conductive pillars, wherein the redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the integrated circuit component through the plurality of conductive pillars, and the redistribution circuit structure and the insulating encapsulation are spaced apart by the dielectric layer.
US10074602B2
A substrate includes a first conductive structure, a second conductive structure attached to the first conductive structure and a third conductive structure attached to the second conductive structure. The first conductive structure includes a first dielectric layer and a first circuit layer embedded in the first dielectric layer. The second conductive structure includes at least one second dielectric layer disposed on a second surface of the first dielectric layer and at least one second circuit layer embedded in the second dielectric layer. The third conductive structure includes a third dielectric layer disposed on the second conductive structure and a third circuit layer disposed on the third dielectric layer. A material of the second dielectric layer is different from the a material of the first dielectric layer and a material of the third dielectric layer.
US10074599B2
Semiconductor dies with recesses, associated leadframes, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A semiconductor system in accordance with one embodiment includes a semiconductor die having a first surface and a second surface facing opposite from the first surface, with the first surface having a die recess. The system can further include a support paddle carrying the semiconductor die, with at least part of the support paddle being received in the die recess. In particular embodiments, the support paddle can form a portion of a leadframe. In other particular embodiments, the support paddle can include a paddle surface that faces toward the semiconductor die and has an opening extending through the paddle surface and through the support paddle.
US10074598B2
A lead frame includes a plurality of circuit patterns which each have a die pad and an electrode terminal portion and are disposed in a band shape, a tie bar, a frame portion and a suspension lead. Cut are a connection portion between electrode terminals and the frame portion, a connection portion between the frame portion and the tie bar at both end portions in a disposition direction of circuit patterns, and a connection portion from a connection part of the frame portion with the tie bar, between the circuit patterns to a part of the frame portion extending in the disposition direction. The electrode terminal portion is bent to extend to a direction of an upper surface of a semiconductor element. The lead frame is collectively resin-sealed while exposing the tie bar and the electrode terminal portion above the tie bar.
US10074597B2
The disclosure is directed to techniques to evenly distribute current in interdigited leadframes by decoupling current between interdigited pads. The leadframe may use a perpendicular structure between the leadframe conductive pads and the lead traces. The perpendicular structure provides a short path for the current to travel from electrode pad openings on a device to the lead traces carrying current to other portions of a circuit. The conductive pad may be parallel to the electrode pad opening to lower spreading resistance. In an example of a transistor, the transistor may have two or more electrode pads for every current carrying node. Therefore, several electrode pads may have the same node, such as the source or drain of the device. For example, two or more source pads may be connected though the leadframe to evenly distribute the current and decouple the current from a single transistor.
US10074589B2
A multi-layer structure includes a substrate with a surface and with particles partially covering and partially embedded in the surface. The particles have high thermal conductivity and low electrical conductivity. A dielectric layer on the surface partially covers the partially embedded particles. A metal layer on the dielectric layer covering the partially covered particles forms a thermal interface material (TIM) for electronic packaging applications.
US10074577B2
A method for forming fins includes growing a SiGe layer and a silicon layer over a surface of a bulk Si substrate, patterning fin structures from the silicon layer and the SiGe layer and filling between the fin structures with a dielectric fill. Trenches are formed to expose end portions of the fin structures. A first region of the fin structures is blocked off. The SiGe layer of the fin structures of a second region is removed by selectively etching the fin structures from the end portions to form voids, which are filled with dielectric material. The silicon layer of the fin structures is exposed. The SiGe layer in the first region is thermally oxidized to drive Ge into the silicon layer to form SiGe fins on an oxide layer in the first region and silicon fins on the dielectric material in the second region.
US10074575B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of fabricating nanosheet channel field effect transistors. An example method includes forming a first sacrificial nanosheet and forming a first nanosheet stack over the first sacrificial nanosheet, wherein the first nanosheet stack includes alternating channel nanosheets and sacrificial nano sheets. The method further includes exposing a surface area of the first sacrificial nanosheet and exposing surface areas of the alternating channel nanosheets and sacrificial nanosheets, wherein the exposed surface area of the first sacrificial nanosheet is greater than each of the exposed surface areas of the alternating channel nanosheets and sacrificial nanosheets. The method further includes applying an etchant to the exposed surface areas, wherein the etchant is selective based at least in part on the amount of surface area to which the etchant is applied.
US10074565B2
This invention provides an effective and a method of laser processing for separating semiconductor devices formed on a single substrate (6) or separating high thickness, hard and solid substrates (6), which is rapid. During preparation of the device or substrate (6) for the cleaving/breaking/dicing procedure an area of damage (8, 11) is achieved by obtaining deep and narrow damage area along the intended line of cleaving. The laser processing method comprises a step of modifying a pulsed laser beam (1) by an focusing unit (1), such as that an “spike”-shaped beam convergence zone, more particularly an above workpiece material optical damage threshold fluence (power distribution) in the bulk of the workpiece (6) is produced. During the aforementioned step a modified area (having a “spike”-type shape) is created. The laser processing method further comprises a step of creating a number of such damage structures (8, 11) in a predetermined breaking line by relative translation of the workpiece (6) relative the laser beam (1) condensation point.
US10074564B2
Disclosed are methods and integrated circuit (IC) structures. The methods enable formation of a gate contact on a gate above (or close thereto) an active region of a field effect transistor (FET) and provide protection against shorts between the gate contact and metal plugs on source/drain regions and between the gate and source/drain contacts to the metal plugs. A gate with a dielectric cap and dielectric sidewall spacer is formed on a FET channel region. Metal plugs with additional dielectric caps are formed on the FET source/drain regions such that the dielectric sidewall spacer is between the gate and the metal plugs and between the dielectric cap and the additional dielectric caps. The dielectric cap, dielectric sidewall spacer and additional dielectric caps are different materials preselected to be selectively etchable, allowing for misalignment of a contact opening to the gate without risking exposure of any metal plugs and vice versa.
US10074560B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an insulating pattern layer on a substrate, conformally forming a first conductive layer with a first thickness on the insulating pattern layer, wet etching the first conductive layer to have a second thickness that is less than the first thickness, and forming a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer after wet etching the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer includes a material that is different from a material included in the first conductive layer.
US10074553B2
In a wafer level chip scale package, a wafer level interconnect structure is formed on a dummy substrate with temperatures in excess of 200° C. First semiconductor die are mounted on the wafer level interconnect structure. The wafer level interconnect structure provides a complete electrical interconnect between the semiconductor die and one or more of the solder bumps according to the function of the semiconductor device. A second semiconductor die can be mounted to the first semiconductor die. A first encapsulant is formed over the semiconductor die. A second encapsulant is formed over the first encapsulant. The dummy substrate is removed. A first UBM is formed in electrical contact with the first conductive layer. Solder bumps are made in electrical contact with the first UBM. A second UBM is formed to electrically connect the semiconductor die to the wafer level interconnect structure.
US10074544B2
A method for lithographic patterning of thin films. A thin film is deposited on a substrate and the film is exposed to optical energy from a focused laser to induce a thermal gradient in the film by optical absorption. The film is softened through a melting or glass transition process and the thermal gradient induces a directional dewetting down the thermal gradient. The invention permits developer free positive tone lithography by thermal direct write and also metrology of the thin film by the morphology of the resultant features.
US10074542B2
There is provided a substrate processing method which includes polishing a rear surface of a substrate before a pattern exposure such that the rear surface is subjected to a roughening treatment; and bypassing a roughness alleviating treatment with respect to the polished rear surface of the substrate.
US10074524B2
A plasma processing apparatus (11) is provided with: a processing container (12), in which processing is performed using plasma; a plasma generating mechanism (19), which has a high frequency oscillator that oscillates high frequency, includes a high frequency generator that generates high frequency by being disposed outside of the processing container (12), and which generates plasma in the processing container (12) using the high frequency generated by means of the high frequency generator; a determining mechanism, which determines the state of the high frequency oscillator; and a notifying mechanism, which performs notification of determination results obtained from the determining mechanism.
US10074515B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a charged particle beam lithography method includes forming, such that a shape identical to a first figure pattern obtained using a first charged particle beam having a first resolution can be obtained by superimposing a plurality of second figure patterns, said plurality of second figure patterns that have different widths and are obtained by using a second charged particle beam having a second resolution higher than the first resolution; and performing multiple writing of the plurality of second figure patterns, which are stacked, by using the second charged particle beam.
US10074514B1
An apparatus may include an electrode system, the electrode system comprising a plurality of electrodes to guide an ion beam from an entrance aperture to an exit aperture, and a voltage supply to apply a plurality of voltages to the electrode system. The electrode system may comprise an exit electrode assembly, where the exit electrode assembly includes a first exit electrode and a second exit electrode, separated from the first exit electrode by an electrode gap. The first exit electrode and the second exit electrode may be movable with respect to one another so as to change a size of the electrode gap over a gap range.
US10074513B2
A method for evaluating a specimen includes positioning a detector in an inserted position in which a first distance between a tip of the detector and a plane extending along a surface of the specimen is less than a distance between the plane and a tip of charged particle beam optics. While maintaining the detector at the inserted position, the surface of the specimen is scanned by a primary beam that exits from the tip of the charged particle beam optics. The detector detects x-ray photons and/or charged particles emitted or reflected from the specimen as a result of scanning the specimen with the primary beam. After completion of the scanning, the detector is positioned at a retracted position in which a second distance between the tip of the detector and the plane exceeds a distance between the tip of the charged particle beam optics and the plane.
US10074503B2
The invention relates to an electron gun for generating a flat electron beam, comprising a cathode with an emission surface which is curved about a central axis and which is designed to emit electrons. The electron gun further comprises an accelerating device for accelerating the electrons in a radial direction towards a target region on the central axis. Furthermore, the emission surface has a width in the azimuth direction and a height oriented perpendicularly to the width, said width being at least ten times greater than the height.
US10074499B2
A system includes a fuse pump; a fuse that can be blown by the fuse pump; and a voltage source configured to provide a first voltage only if the fuse pump is enabled to blow the fuse, the fuse pump blowing the fuse when the first voltage serves as a supply voltage of the fuse pump. If the first voltage serves as a supply voltage of the fuse pump, a first consumed time is required to blow the fuse. If a second voltage, provided by the voltage source, were to be served as a supply voltage of the fuse pump, a second consumed time is required to blow the fuse. The first consumed time is less than the second consumed time.
US10074495B2
The switch case includes a metal plate having a first surface and a second surface that is at a side opposite to the first surface, and a resin case embedding a part of the metal plate. The resin case includes a housing portion having an opening formed on a surface of the resin case. The metal plate includes a terminal portion, a contact portion, and an intermediate portion positioned between the terminal portion and the contact portion. The terminal portion is exposed from the surface of the resin case, and the intermediate portion is embedded in the resin case. The intermediate portion is provided with at least one through-hole penetrating the first surface and the second surface. The contact portion includes a part of the first surface exposed to the housing portion of the resin case. In the at least one through-hole, the hole diameter of the at least one through-hole at the second surface is larger than the hole diameter of the at least one through-hole at the first surface.
US10074493B2
A break-before-make (BB4M) circuit topology is disclosed for use with a multiplexer that eliminates shoot-through current between analog inputs and also between an analog input and analog output. The BB4M circuit generates a pulse that disables an existing selected channel before enabling a newly selected channel or gate driver, and is suitable for use in high-radiation or outer space operating environments.
US10074488B2
An external terminal for an electric energy storage device, which is coupled to an upper end of a cylindrical metal case to cap the metal case and has a hollow formed at a center thereof so that a safety valve is installed therein, wherein the metal case includes an outer part exposed to the outside in an erect state in a normal direction and an inner part positioned below the outer part, and wherein the inner part includes a first surface adjacent to the hollow and a second surface stepped higher than the first surface (112a) toward the outer part (111).
US10074474B2
A planar matrix transformer assembly. In one embodiment, the assembly comprises (a) a core comprising multiple center posts in a matrix pattern; and multiple edge posts along edges of the core for a magnetic flux return path; (b) a single-turn layer comprising a top winding on the top the layer to form a single turn around each center post; and a bottom winding electrically coupled to the top winding and on the bottom of the layer to form a single turn around each center post; and (c) a multi-turn layer comprising multiple top-side windings on top of the layer, wherein each top-side winding is a multi-turn winding around a different center post; and multiple bottom-side windings on the bottom of the multi-turn layer, wherein each bottom-side winding is (i) electrically coupled to a different top-side winding in a one-to-one correspondence, and (ii) a multi-turn winding around a different center post.
US10074471B2
The present invention provides a magnetic element in which iron loss-caused heat generation is restrained and which can be produced with a high productivity. The magnetic element has a magnetic body which allows a magnetic flux generated by a coil (4) to pass therethrough. The magnetic body is a combined body formed by combining two halves, of the magnetic body composed of the compression molded and injection molded bodies, obtained by bisection made in an axial direction of the coil with each other. A compression molded magnetic body (2) is disposed at a portion generating iron loss-caused heat to a high extent or a portion inferior in heat dissipation performance. An injection molded magnetic body (3) is disposed at a portion other than the portion where the compression molded magnetic body is disposed. The compression molded and injection molded magnetic bodies are combined with each other.
US10074469B2
An oblique angle polarized magnet includes a rectangular magnetized permanent magnet having a grain direction, an attraction surface, and a magnetic primary field line that is orthogonal to the grain direction but non-orthogonal to the attraction surface. The oblique angle polarized magnet may be used in a magnetically positioned apparatus, such as a tablet computing device cover operable as a stand for the tablet computing device. The magnetically positioned apparatus may be configured to assume a position where first and second magnets are oriented in a non-parallel orientation such that the first and second surfaces of the magnets oriented at an acute angle with respect to each other. The magnets may facilitate the position.
US10074456B2
A dielectric glass composition suitable for use in an electronic device which comprises a sufficient amount of silicon dioxide to impart durability to the glass composition when subject to a humid environment, and one or more alkali metal oxides, wherein (i) the total content of the alkali metal oxides is at least about 10 wt % and no more than about 35 wt %, based upon 100% total weight of the glass composition, (ii) the median particle size (d50) of the glass composition is no more than about 5 μm, and (iii) the glass composition has a coefficient of thermal expansion of at least about 10 ppm/K and no more than about 25 ppm/K, is provided.
US10074437B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a reference voltage generation block suitable for selecting and outputting one of a plurality of reference voltages in response to a voltage division enable signal, as an input reference voltage, in response to a selection enable signal; and a control signal generation block suitable for generating the voltage division enable signal and the selection enable signal in response to a reference voltage information.
US10074433B1
A data encoding method, a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage device are provided. The method includes: writing a first data into a first physical programming unit of a first physical programming unit group among a plurality of physical programming unit groups; writing a second data into a second physical programming unit of a second physical programming unit group among the plurality of physical programming unit groups; encoding the first data and the second data to generate an encoded data; and writing the encoded data into a third physical programming unit group among the plurality of physical programming unit groups.
US10074432B2
Methods of operating a memory device include programming a page of a memory block of the memory device using a particular starting programming voltage, determining a programming voltage indicative of a programming efficiency of the page of the memory block during programming of the page of the memory block, storing a representation of the programming voltage indicative of the programming efficiency of the page of the memory block, setting a starting programming voltage for a different page of the memory block in response to the stored representation of the programming voltage indicative of the programming efficiency of the page of the memory block, and programming the different page of the memory block using its starting programming voltage.
US10074422B1
A memory device and method of operating the same are disclosed. Generally, the device includes an array of Ferro-electric Random Access Memory cells. Each cell includes a first transistor coupled between a bit-line and a storage node (SN) and controlled by a first wordline (WL1), a second transistor coupled between a reference line and the SN and controlled by a second wordline (WL2), and a ferro-capacitor coupled between the SN and a plateline. The device further includes a sense-amplifier coupled to the bit-line and reference line, and a processing-element configured to issue control signals to WL1, WL2, the plateline and the sense-amplifier. The cell is configured and operated to generate a bit-level reference in which a first voltage pulse is applied to the plateline during a read cycle for the data pulse and a second voltage pulse serves as a reference pulse and as a clear pulse.
US10074420B2
Systems, integrated circuits, and methods to utilize access signals to facilitate memory operations in scaled arrays of memory elements are described. In at least some embodiments, a non-volatile memory device can include a cross-point array having resistive memory elements and line driver. The line driver can be configured to access a resistive memory element in the cross-point array.
US10074409B2
An integrated circuit may have configurable storage blocks. A configurable storage block may include a memory array, and arithmetic and control circuitry. The arithmetic and control circuitry may be used to determine whether to operate the configurable storage block in a first mode which may provide random access to the memory array or in a second mode which may provide access to the memory array in a predefined order. Thus, the configurable storage block may implement simple first-in first-out modules and shift registers in addition to implementing memory modules with random access. Arithmetic and control circuitry may include a multiplexer that determines whether the configurable storage block is implementing simple first-in first-out modules or shift registers. When the configurable storage block implements first-in first-out modules, an up-down counter may be activated to generate a count value received at the multiplexer.
US10074402B2
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying event images captured during an event associated with power equipment, such as a maintenance action. An entity, such as a maintenance technician, is equipped with an image recorder and an audio recorder. In some embodiments, the image recorder and/or audio recorder are wearable, such as mounted to eyewear and/or headwear worn by the entity. Audio that is recorded by the audio recorder is processed to identify events (e.g., key actions in a maintenance procedure). Based upon the identification of an event from the audio, event images (e.g., images captured temporally proximate to when the event was identified in the audio) associated with the event are identified and stored in a library. In some embodiments, one or more of such event images are later displayed to entities via a heads-up display, for example.
US10074392B1
During in-drive writing of a servo spiral on a disk surface, a servo spiral can be distinguished during demodulation from adjacent servo spirals on the same disk surface. When a set of servo spirals is written on a disk surface, a first spiral is written to include a first identifying characteristic and the following spiral is written to include a second identifying characteristic. The identifying characteristic may include embedded sync marks encoding a certain numerical value, a unique frequency of high-low transitions included in each spiral, and/or a unique frame size.
US10074390B1
A PZT microactuator such as for a hard disk drive has a restraining layer bonded on its side that is opposite the side on which the PZT is mounted. The restraining layer comprises a stiff and resilient material such as stainless steel. The restraining layer can cover most or all of the top of the PZT, with an electrical connection being made to the PZT where it is not covered by the restraining layer. The restraining layer reduces bending of the PZT as mounted and hence increases effective stroke length, or reverses the sign of the bending which increases the effective stroke length of the PZT even further. The restraining layer can be one or more active layers of PZT material that act in the opposite direction as the main PZT layer. The restraining layer(s) may be thinner than the main PZT layer.
US10074389B2
A wired circuit board includes an insulating layer and a plurality of wires disposed at one-side surface in a thickness direction of the insulating layer at spaced intervals to each other. The plurality of wires have one pair of wires in parallel, the plurality of wires continuously have a first portion and a second portion in which the total sum of a line width of one wire of one pair of wires and an interval between one pair of wires is smaller than that of the first portion, and a thickness T1 of the first portion is large with respect to a thickness T2 of the second portion.
US10074387B1
A method provides a magnetic transducer including a first antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) shield, a second AFC shield and a read sensor between the first and second AFC shields. The first AFC shield includes first and second ferromagnetic layers and a first nonmagnetic spacer layer between the first and second ferromagnetic layers. The first and second ferromagnetic layers have first and second saturation magnetizations and first and second thicknesses, respectively. The second ferromagnetic layer is between the read sensor and the first ferromagnetic layer. The second AFC shield includes third and fourth ferromagnetic layers and a second nonmagnetic spacer layer between the third and fourth ferromagnetic layers. The third ferromagnetic layer is between the read sensor and the fourth ferromagnetic layer. The third and fourth ferromagnetic layers have third and saturation magnetizations and third and fourth thicknesses, respectively. The second AFC shield is a mirror image of the first AFC shield.
US10074382B2
The present document relates to the determination of a 200 bitrate related to an encoded bitstream, and describes a method for determining an estimate of a bitrate of a bitstream comprising a sequence of frames comprising a varying number of bitsand corresponding to excerpts of an audio and/or video signal. At least two frames of the sequence of frames comprise a parameter indicative of a processing delay for the corresponding frame. The method comprises determining: a total number of bits for a subsequence of frames from the bitstream; a corrected number 201 of frames based on a number of frames comprised within the subsequence and the parameters of at least two frames of the subsequence; and a lower bitrate bound and an upper bitrate bound of the bitrate based on the total number of bits, the corrected number of frames and a frame rate of the bitstream.
US10074381B1
Disclosed is an augmented reality system to generate and cause display of an augmented reality interface at a client device. Various embodiments may detect speech, identify a source of the speech, transcribe the speech to a text string, generate a speech bubble based on properties of the speech and that includes a presentation of the text string, and cause display of the speech bubble at a location in the augmented reality interface based on the source of the speech.
US10074378B2
A data encoding may be determined by examining the data itself. By examining the data, such as by identifying characteristics of the data, the data encoding may be identified and the substantive information extracted from the data by decoding the data according to the identified data encoding. The data encoding may be identified without extra control or header information separate from the encoded data itself. The identification of data encoding may be determined by a plurality of detectors examining different characteristics of the data and determining an encoding of the data based on each of those individual characteristics. The output of the detectors may be collected and used to decide the encoding of the data. One example application involves determining if audio data is DSD- or PCM-encoded audio data by examining only the data itself.
US10074369B2
Systems, methods, and devices for escalating voice-based interactions via speech-controlled devices are described. Speech-controlled devices capture audio, including wakeword portions and payload portions, for sending to a server to relay messages between speech-controlled devices. In response to determining the occurrence of an escalation event, such as repeated messages between the same two devices, the system may automatically change a mode of a speech-controlled device, such as no longer requiring a wakeword, no longer requiring an indication of a desired recipient, or automatically connecting two speech-controlled devices in a voice-chat mode. In response to determining the occurrence of further escalation events, the system may initiate a real-time call between the speech-controlled devices.
US10074361B2
Provided is a speech recognition apparatus. The apparatus includes a preprocessor configured to extract select frames from all frames of a first speech of a user, and a score calculator configured to calculate an acoustic score of a second speech, made up of the extracted select frames, by using a Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based acoustic model, and to calculate an acoustic score of frames, of the first speech, other than the select frames based on the calculated acoustic score of the second speech.
US10074354B2
In an active noise reducing headphone, a signal processor applies filters and control gains of both the feed-forward and feedback active noise cancellation signal paths. The signal processor is configured to apply first feed-forward filters to the feed-forward signal path and apply first feedback filters to the feedback signal path during a first operating mode providing effective cancellation of ambient sound, and to apply second feed-forward filters to the feed-forward signal path during a second operating mode providing active hear-through of ambient sounds with ambient naturalness.
US10074353B2
A sound masking system includes a self-amplified loudspeaker emitter unit, with a driver and enlarged ported enclosure, sufficient to provide a frequency range down to a low frequency, such as about 125 Hz. To deliver the power, the power distribution architecture includes audio power amplifiers in the emitter housing of each loudspeaker. Raw power is delivered to each emitter unit through a cable and connectors, such as an Ethernet cable and connectors, in the same cable with the sound masking and audio signals. Inside the emitter units are electronics that efficiently convert the raw power and low level signal to drive the loudspeaker directly. The power comes from a typical desktop power supply, from which the power is combined with the sound masking and audio signals using a power injector unit that distributes the combined power and signals to loudspeakers. The loudspeakers can connect to an individually addressed sound masking network.
US10074350B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to automatically identifying structures of a music stream. A segment structure may be generated that visually indicates repeating segments of a music stream. To generate a segment structure, a feature that corresponds to a music attribute from a waveform corresponding to the music stream is extracted from a waveform, such as an input signal. Utilizing a signal segmentation algorithm, such as a Variable Markov Oracle (VMO) algorithm, a symbolized signal, such as a VMO structure, is generated. From the symbolized signal, a matrix is generated. The matrix may be, for instance, a VMO-SSM. A segment structure is then generated from the matrix. The segment structure illustrates a segmentation of the music stream and the segments that are repetitive.
US10074345B2
A mobile terminal includes a display unit to display a first surface of a multifaceted graphical object, a motion detecting unit to detect a motion of the mobile terminal, and a control unit to switch the displayed first surface to a second surface of the multifaceted graphical object based on the detected motion. A method for switching a display surface of a multifaceted graphical object includes displaying a first surface of the multifaceted graphical object on a mobile terminal, detecting a motion of the mobile terminal, and switching the displayed first surface to a second surface of the multifaceted graphical object based on the detected motion.
US10074343B2
A three-dimensional image output apparatus according to a present disclosure includes a storage that stores image data of a plurality of images obtained by shooting the same one scene at different positions, a selector that selects two image data as image data for stereoscopic viewing from a plurality of image data stored in the storage, and an obtainer that obtains at least one of a display condition at a time of displaying a three-dimensional image relating to the image data stored in the storage and a viewing condition at a time of viewing the three-dimensional image. When at least one condition obtained by the obtainer is different from a currently set condition, the selector reselects two image data from the plurality of image data to outputting the reselected image data.
US10074339B2
A receiver circuit includes a CLK_LP circuit, a CLK_HS circuit, a DATA_LP circuit, a DATA_HS circuit and a malfunction detection circuit. The CLK_LP circuit and the CLK_HS circuit are connected to the clock lane. The DATA_LP circuit and the DATA_HS circuit are connected to the data lane. The malfunction detection circuit is configured to assert an HS-mode return signal when a first mode signal indicating the communication mode of the clock lane is set to the LP mode at a moment when the second mode signal indicating the communication mode of the data lane is switched from the HS mode to the LP mode. The CLK_LP circuit sets the first mode signal to the HS mode in response to the assertion of the HS-mode return signal.
US10074336B2
The voltage transmission circuit includes: a multiplexer for transmitting positive and negative voltages ranging +VDD to −VDD selectively; and a demultiplexer for receiving the positive and negative voltages and output them at positive and negative outputs. The voltage transmission circuit is arranged by use of elements each having a withstand voltage of which the absolute value is not 2|VDD|, but |VDD|. While transmitting positive voltages, the multiplexer is configured not to be applied by negative voltages, the multiplexer and demultiplexer are controlled by signals each having a potential of 0 V to +VDD, and the demultiplexer outputs the positive voltages at the positive output. While transmitting negative voltages, the multiplexer is configured not to be applied by positive voltages, the multiplexer and the demultiplexer are controlled by signals each having a potential of −VDD to 0 V, and the demultiplexer outputs the negative voltages at the negative output.
US10074325B2
A display device includes a first base substrate, first through n-th gate lines, first through (m+1)-th data lines, and a plurality of pixels. Each of the first through n-th gate lines extends in a first direction. Each of the first through (m+1)-th data lines extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. The plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix form. Each of the plurality of pixels is coupled to a corresponding one of the gate lines and a corresponding one of the data lines. Each pixel in the first column among the plurality of pixels is independently driven from each pixel in the second column among the plurality of pixels. Pixels in the first column and pixels in the m-th column are provided in the non-display area. Pixels coupled to the first data line and pixels coupled to the (m+1)-th data line display a black image.
US10074323B2
A liquid crystal display device includes an image display area including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, and a peripheral area disposed outside the image display area and including circuitry. The peripheral area includes a first potential supply layer, a second potential supply layer and a third potential supply layer. The first potential supply layer is provided to supply a potential to a common electrode of the plurality of pixels in the image display area. The third potential supply layer is connected to power supply circuitry for receiving the potential. The second potential supply layer includes bridge patterns separated by spaces, and the bridge patterns connect the first potential supply layer and the second potential supply layer.
US10074322B2
An object of the present invention is to realize a liquid crystal display device of a field sequential system which is capable of preventing occurrence of color shift and flicker. One frame period is divided into a plurality of fields, the number of which is greater than the number of lighting patterns. Provided are a liquid crystal state value acquiring unit (131) configured to obtain a liquid crystal state value at an end time of a display field based on an input gradation value in the display field and a liquid crystal state value at an end time of a previous field (one field before the display field) (a gradation value corresponding to an aligned state of liquid crystal molecules), and an application gradation value acquiring unit (133) configured to obtain an application gradation value in the display field by correcting an input gradation value in the display field based on a liquid crystal state value at the end time of the previous field. The application gradation value acquiring unit (133) obtains an application gradation value such that display luminance in each field becomes display luminance corresponding to the input gradation value.
US10074307B2
Disclosed herein is a display device in which light emitting elements of a plurality of colors including a light emitting element emitting blue light are formed in each pixel on a substrate on which a transistor is formed for each sub-pixel, and a plurality of pixels formed with sub-pixels of the plurality of colors as a unit are arranged in a form of a matrix, wherein relative positional relation between transistors of sub-pixels of respective light emission colors including blue light and a light emitting section of a light emitting element emitting the blue light is laid out such that distances between the transistors of the sub-pixels of the respective light emission colors including the blue light and the light emitting section of the light emitting element emitting the blue light are equal to each other for the respective colors.
US10074303B2
A display method for a display device is provided. The display method comprises activating a Head Mounted Theater (HMT) mode, the HMT mode displaying two images which are substantially same each other on first and second areas respectively, separated from each other, in a display area of the display device; and adjusting a display time, for displaying a black screen in the first and second areas, of a unit frame time when the HMT mode is activated.
US10074302B2
A display apparatus including a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a pixel array disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and a photoelectric conversion array disposed between the pixel array and the second substrate is provided. The pixel array includes sub-pixel units. An initial light from each of the sub-pixel units is converted into an electrical energy and a display light by the photoelectric conversion array. The electrical energy is stored and the display light passes through the second substrate to display an image. Display lights presented by two adjacent sub-pixel units have different wavelengths. The photoelectric conversion array includes photoelectric conversion cells. An area of each of the photoelectric conversion cells covers the two adjacent sub-pixel units and partially overlaps an area of another photoelectric conversion cell. Different photoelectric conversion cells covering the same sub-pixel unit have different absorption wavelengths.
US10074297B2
The present invention relates to detectable warning panels, and in particular to detectable warning panels that display text and/or other graphic information such as commercial messages, trademarks, logos, directions, slogans, pictures, names, product illustrations, emblems, promotional information related to a product or service, Quick Response Codes, matrix code, two-dimensional bar code, optical machine-readable labels, and combinations thereof.
US10074295B2
The present system provides a lightweight fire-resistant photoluminescent identifier system for firefighters, which is suitable for use on the firefighter's facemask, as well as other equipment. The system is lightweight and provides individual recognition of an individual firefighter. The identifier system lights up automatically in a low-light environment without batteries, yet prevents glare to the firefighter using the system. The components that comprise the system are fire-resistant to temperatures up to and exceeding 500 degrees Fahrenheit to facilitate personal recognition of the individual in dark and low-light areas.
US10074285B2
A taxiing path optimization system is provided for computing a taxi path of an aircraft using available taxi routes of a corresponding airport. An interaction means management unit manages interactions between a user and the taxiing path optimization system using an interactive device for inputting a taxi clearance. An aircraft positioning management unit manages positional information of the corresponding airport and aircraft received from a plurality of sources for augmenting an aircraft position by consolidating the aircraft position with the positional information in a complementary fashion. A taxi path display unit displays the taxi path based on the inputted taxi clearance and the augmented aircraft position, wherein the taxi path is automatically computed based on aircraft characteristics or airport capabilities.
US10074280B2
A vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication system and method of operating same including acquiring V2P parameters from at least one of a first V2P device associated with a user or a second V2P device integrated with a vehicle associated with the user. Detecting a pedestrian state transition of the user based on the V2P parameters. The pedestrian state transition indicates at least one of a change in a classification of the user from a pedestrian state to a driver state or a change in the classification of the user from a driver state to a pedestrian state. Further, the method includes warning to at least one of the user or one or more entities in proximity to the user using the V2P parameters, the pedestrian state transition, and the vehicle parameters.
US10074278B1
This document describes systems and techniques that may be used to aggregate information about open parking spots from various different parking providers or organizations.
US10074276B2
An approach is provided for parking availability detection based on vehicle trajectory information. A trajectory processing platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of trajectory data associated with at least one journey of at least one vehicle to determine at least one portion of the at least one journey that is associated at least one parking search by the at least one vehicle. The trajectory processing platform also determines one or more street segments associated with the at least one portion of the at least one journey. The trajectory processing platform further causes, at least in part, a classification of the one or more street segments as associated with the at least one parking search. The trajectory processing platform further determines parking availability information for the one or more street segments based, at least in part, on the trajectory data.
US10074274B2
This disclosure relates to a method of safely and automatically navigating in the presence of emergency vehicles. A first vehicle may receive, via communication hardware, a message indicating presence of the emergency vehicle. Such a message may originate from the emergency vehicle itself and/or from infrastructure such as a smart traffic light that can sense the presence of the emergency vehicle. The first vehicle may then determine the relative location of the emergency vehicle and automatically respond appropriately by determining a safe trajectory and navigating according to that trajectory until the emergency vehicle is out of range. In some examples, the first vehicle may detect the presence of an emergency vehicle using on-board sensors such as distance measuring sensors, depth sensors, and cameras, in addition to receiving a message via communication hardware.
US10074270B2
In one embodiment, a cluster application generates navigation-related data based on observations received from vehicles. In operation, the cluster application computes an oriented distance between two observed object positions based on a heading, where each observed object position is associated with a different one of two observations. The cluster application then generates a cluster that includes the two observations based on the oriented distance. Subsequently, the cluster application computes an object position that is associated with the cluster based on the two observations. The cluster application transmits the object position and at least one characteristic associated with the observations to a update application that generates an update to a road database. Because the cluster application computes the object position based on multiple observations that are likely of a single object, the object position associated with the cluster may be more reliable than the observed object positions.
US10074269B2
An example remote control device includes an inertial sensor; one or more manipulable input devices; wireless communication circuitry; and control circuitry for controlling the wireless communication circuitry to communicate information about the inertial sensor and the input devices to an electronic device. The information is communicated at one or more communication intervals using a data format which permits a value associated with the inertial sensor and sampled at a given sampling time to be communicated in at least first and second different communications.
US10074264B2
Disclosed is a monitoring system of physical contact events in a hospital environment), wherein the hospital environment comprises at least one operable device by a passer-by in the hospital environment, the system comprising:at least one touch sensor associated with a surface of the operable device, the touch sensor configured in order to identify the occurrence of a physical contact on the surface of the operable device. A method of monitoring physical contact events in a hospital environment is also disclosed.
US10074257B2
An example method of security prejudgment based on characteristic information include receiving characteristic information of a monitored party from the monitored party, calculating security status information of the monitored party based on a probability of danger that has been stored and corresponds to the characteristic information of the monitored party, determining that the security status information is greater than a first threshold, performing an appropriate operation based on the determination. Accordingly, the technical solution of the present disclosure solves a problem that presetting of monitoring conditions cannot cover potential surrounding risks that result in a safety hazard. Further, the technical solution can monitor risks that are not reflected by spatial information. After identifying and warning based on the characteristic information, potential risks may be avoided before occurring without wasting data traffic.
US10074255B2
A gas detector includes environmental condition detection circuitry that includes one or more sensors, data processing circuitry, and wireless communication circuitry. The gas detector is configured to be carried by a user. The environmental condition detection circuitry detects the presence or lack of presence of a particular gas in a vicinity of the gas detector and further detects a temperature in the vicinity of the gas detector and communicates detection data to the data processing circuitry. In response to detection of a hazardous temperature condition, the data processing circuitry of the gas detector provides an alert notification to the user carrying the gas detector. Also disclosed is an alert system including multiple gas detectors in which a first gas detector communicates an alert to a second gas detector via wireless communication, and in response, the second gas detector transmits the alert to another gas detector or device via wireless communication.
US10074248B2
Systems and techniques are provided for guided installation of an opening sensor. A strength of a magnetic field created by a magnet of an opening sensor at a location of a magnetometer sensor of the opening sensor may be determined. Feedback may be provided to an installer of the opening sensor based on the determined strength of the magnetic field. A function of the opening sensor may be configured based on the determined strength of the magnetic field. The function may be associated with reporting the status of an entry point to which the magnetometer sensor may be affixed.
US10074244B2
According to an embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of bets, in which each bet defines a respective amounted wagered, a respective area, and a respective weather-related event. Data that represents the plurality of bets is displayed. An outcome of a weather-related event is determined and at least one winner is determined based on the bets and the outcome.
US10074241B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the use of game modifiers between game stages of a game played on a gaming device. According to some embodiments, a gaming device is configured to play a multi-stage game of chance. After a first stage is completed and a result for the first stage is determined, a game modifier is altered and applied to a second stage of the game when a predefined criterion is satisfied. The game modifier may modify prizes associated with the second stage of the game by, for example, applying a multiplier to prizes associated with a second stage result, the modifier may alter an aspect of the second stage of the game by, for example, adding or replacing one or more game elements used in evaluating the second stage outcome for prizes, or the modifier may trigger a bonus event.
US10074237B2
Systems of detecting unauthorized operation of a hybrid game are disclosed, including a hybrid game associated with a player, the hybrid game constructed to: communicate game operating performance data (GOPD); and the a regulatory scanning and screening audit (RSSA) module connected to the hybrid game via a communication link, the RSSA module constructed to: receive GOPD comprising scoring information for the player as a function of the player's demonstrated skill at the entertainment game of the hybrid game, and real credit information for real credit committed by the player; determine a rate of scoring information and a rate of commitment of the real credit; determine whether the player is operating the hybrid game in an unauthorized manner; and communicate a notification causing the hybrid game to suspend operation.
US10074236B2
An electronic gaming machine where the player plays an interactive game using their player eye gaze. A graphics processor generates an interactive game environment and defines a viewing area as its subset, the viewing area having visible game components. A display device displays the viewing area having the plurality of visible game components. The display controller controls rendering of the viewing area on the display device using the graphics processor. At least one data capture camera device continuously monitors the player eye gaze to collect player eye gaze data. The game controller determines the location of the player's eye gaze relative to the viewing area and triggers a control command to the display controller. In response, the display controller controls the display device in real-time to provide a graphical animation effect displayed on the display device representative of a visual update to the visible game components in the viewing area.
US10074234B2
The present invention is to provide a casino table capable of adequately determining whether a dishonest act is committed on a card arranged on a casino table while reducing a maintenance cost, a personnel cost, etc., by using a normal card not containing the tag, etc. A game surface is imaged by an imaging device, the presence of the card placed on the game surface is detected from image data produced by an imaging signal issued from the imaging device, and trajectory data of the card placed on the game surface is produced.
US10074216B2
A display control device includes a record reference unit configured to refer to a record in which an image, an object included in the image, and a position where the object is displayed or an orientation of the object in the image are associated with one another; and a display controller configured to perform a transition from display of a first image including the object to display of a second image including the object based on the record while maintaining the position where the object is displayed or the orientation of the object, the second image being different from the first image.
US10074211B2
A method and device for establishing a frontier between a first object and at least a second object of a scene in the space of a depth map, at least a part of the first object and at least a part of the at least a second object being visible from the point of view associated with the depth map through a set (3) of elements of the depth map. Thereafter, the method comprises comparing, for a point of the scene visible through a first element of said set, depth information associated with the point with depth information associated with said first element and with depth information associated with the other elements, called second elements; establishing a line representative of a direction associated with the frontier between the first object and the at least a second object from the comparison results; selecting a part of the vertices of surface elements visible through the set according to the orientation of normal associated with the vertices; and establishing the frontier from the coordinates of the selected vertices expressed in the space of the depth map.
US10074208B2
A method and apparatus for automated comparison of 3D images, such as specific shapes in images, for example, for detecting vascular changes and aneurysm growth. The method comprises an adaptive geodesic active contour (GAC) approach which can be performed in a single pass, or across multiple iterations. The method uniquely utilizes shape to identify targets in two 3D images so that images can be compared if there is any shape feature. A method is also described for iterative parameter image construction, which beneficially removes false positives. The technology is particularly well-suited for use in comparing geometric changes of aneurysms, tumors, thromboses, inflammations.
US10074207B2
A method includes obtaining contrast-enhanced image data having a plurality of voxels, each voxel having an intensity value. The method further includes determining a vesselness value for each voxel. The method further includes determining a hypo-density value for each voxel. The method further includes weighting each of the intensity values by a corresponding vesselness value. The method further includes weighting each of the hypo-density values by the corresponding vesselness value. The method further includes combining the weighted intensity values and the weighted hypo-density values, thereby generating composite image data. The method further includes visually displaying the composite image data.
US10074200B1
Imagery may be generated for a written work based on textual descriptions in the written work using an automated or partially automated process. The imagery may be used to create a trailer for the written work, for insertion into a digital version of the written work, to visually represent the written work, and/or for other reasons. Descriptive text from the written work may be identified and associated with a catalog of imagery, which include image objects that are discrete images of subjects. The image objects may be compiled with other image objects to create an initial image. The initial image may be edited by a user or other person to add more detail, modify subjects, add an additional subject, remove subjects, change attributes, and/or make other changes to the initial image.
US10074196B2
A method for reconstructing a three-dimensional image dataset from two-dimensional projection images includes recording the projection images using a collimator downstream of an X-ray source. A local Laplace filter is initially applied to the projection data of the projection images during the reconstruction using filtered back-projection. After this, high-frequency spikes arising in the Laplace-filtered projection data at boundaries to the image region are removed by a spike filter, and a global residual filter is applied. A fit parameter describing a fit function approximating the projection data characteristic in the uncorrected projection images inside the image region is determined based on at least marginal values of the projection data present at the boundaries. Next, following on from the use of the residual filter, an additive correction of the residual-filtered projection data in the image region is performed with the fit function scaled by a scaling factor.
US10074191B1
A system and method for determining volume of a runtime object with a vision system is provided. A plurality of vision sensors are arranged so that the fields of view (FOVs) of the plurality of vision sensors collectively view features associated with volume determination of a runtime object. Each of the displacement sensors generates range images from sequences of analyzed images, each producing a single row of the range image. An ignoring volume is subtracted from the measured range image based upon one or more dividing planes as they appear in the viewing/imaging perspective of each displacement sensor. Negative subtraction results are substantially nulled. The resulting representative range images are used to calculate the volume of a portion of the object, as sectioned by the diving planes. Each volume result is summed/added to derive the overall summed volume of the runtime object.
US10074187B2
An image recognition system for detecting and tracking at least an image portion associated with a predefined object from a moving picture is configured to be able to perform: an object detection processing step of detecting the object; a tracking point specification processing step of specifying a predetermined point as a tracking point; a tracking target recognition processing step of recognizing an actual tracking target based on the tracking point; a tracking processing step of tracking the tracking target; and a determination processing step of determining the type of the tracking target's behavior. The tracking point specification processing step and the determination processing step are implemented by software, while the object detection processing step, the tracking target recognition processing step, and the tracking processing step are implemented by hardware.
US10074185B2
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for determining pleura boundaries of a lung, an exemplary method comprising acquiring image data from an imaging device, generating a set of two-dimensional (2D) slice images based on the acquired image data, determining, by a processor, a seed voxel in a first slice image from the set of 2D slice images, applying, by the processor, a region growing process to the first slice image from the set of 2D slice images starting with the seed voxel using a threshold value, generating, by the processor, a set of binarized 2D slice images based on the region grown from the seed voxel, filtering out, by the processor, connected components of the lung in each slice image of the set of binarized 2D slice images, and identifying, by the processor, the pleural boundaries of the lung based on the set of binarized 2D slice images.
US10074181B2
A method for monitoring a vehicle's surrounding region, includes reading in a distance image pertaining to the surrounding region, the distance image including distance values representing the result of a multiplicity of distance measurements, which are performed with a sensor for stereo image recording based on a method for calculating a stereo disparity map concerning the surrounding region sensed by the sensor. In a selecting, a cut-away portion from the distance image is selected, and in a detecting, an obstacle located in the surrounding region is detected using the distance values included in the cut-away portion. In an ascertaining, a number of relevant distance values is ascertained, which represent distance values included in the cut-away portion that are allocatable to the obstacle. In an ascertaining, a value of an existence measure for the existence of the obstacle is determined, based on the number and quality of relevant distance values.
US10074179B2
An image measurement device acquires a first measurement region and a second measurement region on an image, acquires distance information corresponding to the first measurement region and distance information corresponding to the second measurement region, and computes a distance between the two regions. In a case where the first measurement region is displaced on the image, the second measurement region is displaced on a contour or a plane on the image, and a distance between the first measurement region after the displacement and the second measurement region after the displacement is computed. Thereby, distance measurement is able to be performed over a wide range without a complicated operation in the image measurement device for measuring a distance between two regions by using an image.
US10074169B2
A method and an apparatus for detecting bubbles and/or creases on labeled containers. Bubbles/creases can be detected without comparison with a previously stored reference recording by virtue of the fact that a label to be examined is illuminated with a first flash of light, for example using the surface radiator, and is recorded in a first camera image, that the label is also illuminated with at least one second flash of light, for example using the directional radiator, with a changed directional characteristic and is recorded in a second camera image, and that a brightness difference between the first and second camera images is calculated.
US10074159B2
Disclosed embodiments provide systems, components, and methodologies for performing super sampling in combination with other operations to enhance anti-aliasing in high resolution meshes generated by GPUs so as to mitigate, reduce or eliminate the effects of degenerated triangles so as to improve the appearance of simulated objects.
US10074147B2
A computer-based system configured to present a user interface that enables a user to access multiple clinical trial systems via a common secure web-based interface. Data integration and reconciliation achieved using an integration platform, in which multiple clinical trial systems are connected to a central messaging hub, provides an integrated clinical trial workflow system that reduces the redundancy in data entry and functionality present in conventional clinical trial workflow systems that employ standalone systems for various aspects of clinical trial management. Aggregation of data using the integration platform provides clinical trial directors with consolidated useful information for making management decisions and the user interface may be dynamically configured based, at least in part, on user access credentials resulting in a more efficient workflow for administrators of a clinical trial.
US10074128B2
An onboard computing device of autonomous vehicle interacts with computers utilized by one or more merchants to enable users to pre-purchase items from the one or more merchants while en route to a destination. Merchant computing devices may employ dynamic promotions to incent the user to prep-purchase items and to reroute to a destination of the respective merchant. Once a user pre-purchases an item from a merchant, the merchant may prepare the item for the user's arrival by, for example, prepackaging the item, or manufacturing or assembling the item, while the customer is en route (i.e., before the user's autonomous vehicle arrives at the destination). The merchant computing device may send a pre-purchase confirmation to the onboard computing device of the user, which may indicate where the user's autonomous vehicle should park and/or where the pre-purchased items are being held for pick up.
US10074127B2
A method and an apparatus for communicating a recommended item to a user are described. The method comprises determining that the user has a level of commitment to an item offered for sale, and, in response to this determination, communicating information concerning a recommended item to the user over a network. The recommended item is identified based on a set of longest words in a description of the item offered for sale.
US10074126B2
Various examples of methods and systems for providing shopping suggestions to in-store customers are described. In one implementation, a method may analyze store information specific to a store and customer information associated with a customer. The method may also identify one or more items as recommendation for the customer based on the analyzing. The method may further indicate the one or more items on a map of the store.
US10074125B2
According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.
US10074123B2
A ring design machine receives one or more selections of gemstones and one or more selections of settings and allows a user to “mix and match” gemstones and settings and view a selected gemstone in a compatible setting for that gemstone. To present the gemstone in the setting, the ring design machine presents a combination image that depicts the gemstone in the setting. The ring design machine, which may be implemented using a computer programmed by software, may present the combination image to the user in response to receiving a selection of the gemstone and a selection of the setting from the user via a network.
US10074104B2
Tools (for example, systems, apparatuses, computer programs, methods, etc.) can be provided to improve content presentation. More particularly, content, such as help content, can be dynamically targeted to the user based on context information included in the content request.
US10074102B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for increasing an engagement level of a social media post among a community of social media users. For example, systems and method described herein involve building and training a data model that represents how a given community of social media users engages with social media posts. Furthermore, systems and method described herein utilize the trained data model to suggest one or more alternative word choices for use in a social media post, in order to increase or optimize the predicted level of engagement the social media post will receive from the community of social media users.
US10074101B2
Provided is a computer implemented process for reminding users of offers that were discovered by the user at one location when, at a later time, the user is at another location, the process including: displaying, with a mobile device, an offer and a reminder interface to indicate that the user requests themselves or another reminder recipient to be reminded of the offer when near another computing device of the reminder recipient; receiving an interaction with the reminder interface by the user and, in response, storing a reminder request in memory, the reminder request identifying the offer; obtaining data identifying the other computing device, a geographic area of the other computing device, or a wireless environment of the other computing device; detecting, with a processor of the mobile device, that the reminder recipient has interacted with the other computing device, entered the geographic area, or entered the wireless environment; and in response to the detection, presenting a notification reminding the reminder recipient of the offer.
US10074099B2
A system and method may comprise providing, via a computing device, a connection link to an end user device having a network connectivity access network element; extracting, via an advertisement server, an offer of a value voucher unique to the end user from a database connected to the advertisement server and presenting, through the end user device, an offer of the value voucher to the end user; receiving, via the computing device, from the end user an acceptance of the value voucher; and storing the value voucher in a coupon database in an Internet accessible coupon storage locker unique to the end user.
US10074098B2
One aspect of the disclosure relates to a digital signage display system. In one embodiment, the digital signage display system includes: a camera configured to capture an image frame; a service processor in communication to the camera; and a digital signage display. The service processor includes a processor and a non-volatile memory storing a firmware. The firmware is configured, when executed at the processor, to process the captured image frame, detect persons in the image frame, generate a demographic-map data structure, and send the demographic-map data structure to a server system. The demographic-map data structure contains demographic information of the persons detected in the image frame. The digital signage display is configured to receive a display content provided by the server system in response to the demographic-map data structure.
US10074095B2
An embodiment of a method is disclosed, including but not limited to, dividing a reward token in a reward token data base into a plurality of reward token pieces based on a selection of plurality of end user data delivery vehicles on which an advertiser wants to send the reward token pieces to an end user; sensing end user activity on a communication network on at least one of the plurality of end user data delivery vehicles at one of a plurality of data delivery vehicle servers; sending from a first one of the plurality of data delivery vehicle servers, a first one of the plurality of reward token pieces to the end user on a first one of the plurality of end user data delivery vehicles; and sending from a second one of the plurality of data delivery vehicle servers, a second one of the plurality of reward token pieces to the end user on a second one of the plurality of end user data delivery vehicles. A computer program product and system for performing the method are also disclosed.
US10074073B2
A method for managing an inventory system includes receiving an operation request that identifies an inventory item and selecting, from a plurality of workstations, a workstation at which to fulfill the operation request. The method also includes moving an inventory holder storing the identified inventory item to the selected workstation and moving a supply holder storing a supply item associated with the received operation request to the selected workstation. The method additionally includes fulfilling the operation request, at least in part, at the workstation.
US10074072B2
Apparatus and method to facilitate determination of item locations are disclosed herein. One or more storage medium to store a plurality of initial tag to item holder mappings that define associations between select ones of a plurality of tags associated with items to select ones of a plurality of item holders that hold the items; one or more processors; and read rate and match modules to be executed by the one or more processors may be provided. The read rate module is to generate a current detection rate by one or more antennas for each tag identified in a plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings. The match module is to determine at least one item holder at which each respective tag identified in the plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings is most likely to be currently located to provide a location of the item.
US10074070B2
Various examples of methods and systems for prioritizing identifier in cost-based inventory allocation are described. In one implementation, a method may determine a shipping cost sensitivity of each identifier of a plurality of identifiers of a plurality of items in an inventory, the shipping cost sensitivity of each identifier related to sales volume, billable weight and shipping zone associated with the respective identifier. The method may also rank the plurality of identifiers based at least in part on the shipping cost sensitivity of each identifier. The method may further determine an order of allocation of the inventory of the plurality of items based at least in part on the ranking of the plurality of identifiers.
US10074067B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing personalized delivery services by a carrier providing a package delivery service. For example, a consignee may indicate a delivery preference to be applied to delivery of a package, such as indicating a specific location where the package is to be left upon delivery, if the consignee is not present to accept the package. In one embodiment, the consignee may be notified by the carrier of the scheduled delivery of the package, and may be linked to the carrier's web site to indicate a delivery preference. Alternatively, the delivery preference may be indicated by the consignee proactively accessing the web site. After conveying a delivery preference, the carrier's systems communicate the delivery preference at the appropriate time to a portable computing device which informs the delivery personnel of the consignee's delivery preference. Other embodiments allow the consignor to indicate delivery preferences.
US10074065B2
Transportation services are matched with a specified demand for transportation services. Categories of transportation services met by capabilities of the transportation service provider are determined, along with preference data concerning the transportation service provider, in which non-user-defined preference data is at least partially obtained by machine learning. Candidate service interest is used to match the transportation service provider to the specified demand for transportation services. Competitive bids are obtained to meet a specified demand for transportation services, and the transportation service provider is offered inclusion in the competitive bids based on the candidate service interest. If the transportation service provider wins the bid, provision of the transportation service are arranged, and if the transportation service provider loses the bid, repeating the sequence of using the candidate service interest to match the transportation service provider to the specified demand for transportation services.
US10074064B2
Methods and systems for facilitating delivery of a package to a customer are described. The methods include receiving a delivery order, the order including a signature requirement; requesting a visual identification of an authorized receiver of the package from a user; receiving the visual identification from the user; and transmitting the visual identification to a shipping carrier.
US10074054B2
Techniques for use in connection with performing optimization using an objective function that maps elements in a first domain to values in a range. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: identifying a first point at which to evaluate the objective function at least in part by using an acquisition utility function and a probabilistic model of the objective function, wherein the probabilistic model depends on a non-linear one-to-one mapping of elements in the first domain to elements in a second domain; evaluating the objective function at the identified first point to obtain a corresponding first value of the objective function; and updating the probabilistic model of the objective function using the first value to obtain an updated probabilistic model of the objective function.
US10074053B2
An aspect of the present disclosure provides a hardware element in a Network on Chip (NoC), wherein the hardware element includes a clock gating circuit configures one or more neighboring hardware elements to activate before receiving new incoming data and to sleep after a defined number of cycles, wherein the defined number of cycles can be counted from a cycle having non-receipt of incoming data and/or having a clearance of all data within an input queue of a source hardware element.
US10074052B2
Disclosed is a method and system for dynamically generating a customized, personalized and contextual alert for a user based upon personalized, contextual and background knowledge associated with the profile of the user. The system comprises a profile updater module configured to update the profile data of the user extracted either from the social web or from the user. Further, a reasoning module is configured to derive refined background knowledge in context with the updated profile data of the user. A monitoring module is configured to monitor the events sensed by a sensing module. A context extractor module is configured for extracting the context of the events and the context of the user. A knowledge converter module is configured to convert the extracted context into structured format. Finally, the refined background knowledge is steam reasoned to determine whether the events received are relevant to the user and accordingly transmitted.
US10074051B2
A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of layers, the circuit comprising: activation circuitry configured to receive a vector of accumulated values and configured to apply a function to each accumulated value to generate a vector of activation values; and normalization circuitry coupled to the activation circuitry and configured to generate a respective normalized value from each activation value.
US10074044B2
A printing device printing on a non-transitory recording medium with a print head, comprising the following: an input receiver receiving input of a character string including multiple characters; a print data transmitter sending to the print head individually inverted characters of one or more characters included in the character string of which the input is received; and a printer printing with the print head the inverted characters received by the print head such that the inverted characters are arranged closer to a leading end in a transfer direction of the recording medium.
US10074041B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for deep learning and classifying images of objects by receiving images of objects for training or classification of the objects; producing fine-grained labels of the objects; providing object images to a multi-class convolutional neural network (CNN) having a softmax layer and a final fully connected layer to explicitly model bipartite-graph labels (BGLs); and optimizing the CNN with global back-propagation.
US10074033B2
Certain embodiments involve using labels to track high-frequency offsets for patch-matching. For example, a processor identifies an offset between a first source image patch and a first target image patch. If the first source image patch and the first target image patch are sufficiently similar, the processor updates a data structure to include a label specifying the offset. The processor associates, via the data structure, the first source image patch with the label. The processor subsequently selects certain high-frequency offsets, including the identified offset, from frequently occurring offsets in the data structure. The processor uses these offsets to identify a second target image patch, which is located at the identified offset from a second source image patch. The processor associates, via the data structure, the second source image patch with the identified offset based on a sufficient similarity between the second source image patch and the second target image patch.
US10074024B2
Mental state analysis is performed by obtaining video of an individual as the individual interacts with a computer, either by performing various operations, such as driving a vehicle or being a passenger in a vehicle, or by consuming a media presentation. The video is analyzed to determine eye-blink information on the individual, such as eye-blink rate or eye-blink duration. The blink-rate information is compensated for a context. Blinking for a group of people of which the individual is a part is evaluated. Mental states of the individual are inferred for the blink event based on the blink event, the blink duration of the individual, the difference in blinking between the individual and the remainder of the group, and the blink-rate information that was compensated. The blink-rate information and associated mental states can be used to modify an advertisement, a media presentation, a digital game, or vehicle controls.
US10074020B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a vehicular lane line data processing method, apparatus, storage medium, and device. The method includes: acquiring at least two consecutive original images of a vehicular lane line and positioning data of the original images; calculating, using a deep neural network model, a pixel confidence; determining an outline of the vehicular lane line and using the outline of the vehicular lane line as a candidate vehicular lane line; calculating a vehicular lane line confidence; filtering the candidate vehicular lane line; recognizing attribute information of the vehicular lane line; and determining map data of the vehicular lane line. The vehicular lane line data can be efficiently and precisely determined, the labor costs in high-precision map production is greatly reduced, and the mass production of high-precision maps can be achieved.
US10074013B2
Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities.
US10074005B2
In the examples provided herein, a vascular pattern recognition system integrated onto a portable card includes a vascular pattern detection system to obtain image data of blood vessels of a finger to be swiped across a detection area on the portable card, wherein the vascular pattern detection system includes a near infrared light source and an image sensor array. The vascular pattern recognition system also includes an image processor to process the image data to generate a scanned vascular pattern and compare the scanned vascular pattern to a pre-stored pattern stored on the portable card to authenticate the image data, and a security processor to generate a transaction code to authorize a transaction upon authentication of the image data.
US10074004B2
The present invention provides a “C-Q-T” type capacitive fingerprint sensor with an integrator. The integrator comprises an amplifier, an integrating capacitor, a reference voltage and a reset circuit. By applying the present invention, linearity and sensitivity of the “C-Q-T” type capacitive fingerprint sensor are improved. During a conversion process of the “C-Q-T”, through introduction of the integrator, charge transfer quantities between a target capacitor and the integrating capacitor can be consistent for each time, so that a sensing equation is optimized, and better linearity is shown in the conversion process. As influence of a background capacitor and of a bus parasitic capacitor on the sensing equation is removed, the sensitivity of the “C-Q-T” type capacitive fingerprint sensor is improved.
US10073996B2
Device with RFID radio frequency identification window that couples to the mouth of a shopping cart, or another container, that includes a frame with a window horizontally crossed by a plurality of light rays coming from a light curtain, an infrared sensor configured to detect an object that approaches the window, an RFID reader configured to detect and identify codes contained in RFID labels incorporated in the objects that enter or exit the basket of the cart through the window, UHF antennas, the radiation beams of which cover the space of the window, configured to be activated once the infrared sensor detects the object that approaches; and a processor configured to store the objects that stay inside the cart in an electronic shopping list.
US10073993B2
Disclosed is a system for electromagnetic interrogation of RFID transponders including at least one RFID transponder, at least one so-called repeater RFID device and at least one RFID terminal, the at least one RFID terminal is configured to emit an interrogation signal towards the at least one repeater at a frequency F1, the at least one repeater is configured to repeat the interrogation signal with frequency F1 towards the at least one RFID transponder at a frequency F2 and the at least one RFID transponder is configured to emit a backscattered response signal at a frequency F3, the system being characterized in that the at least one repeater is configured to perform an exclusively analog frequency transposition from the frequency F1 to the frequency F2.
US10073991B2
Systems and methods of making a diagnostic test strip, the method including marking a machine-readable pattern onto the diagnostic test strip which contains information that allows a meter designed to work with the test strip to convert raw signal data from the diagnostic test strip into a meaningful concentration value for an analyte of interest. The method further includes printing the machine-readable pattern having a modified based code that is different from a base code of the diagnostic test strip being produced, wherein the modified based code is based on a strip geometry parameter, a chemistry parameter or both the strip geometry and chemistry parameters that are measured for the diagnostic test strip.
