US10103917B2
Systems and methods are provided for peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction in multichannel digital front-ends (DFEs). A transmitter may be configured to reduce PAPR during multichannel transmission, with the reducing comprising: generating a plurality of frequency-domain symbols, each of which corresponding to a particular one of a plurality of subcarriers; assigning the subcarriers to a plurality of channels, wherein a number of channels is less than a number of subcarriers; and generating a plurality of time-domain signals corresponding to the channels. An adjustment to reduce PAPR may be applied to at least one of the time-domain signals, with the adjustment being based on symbols boundaries. The adjustment may comprise sign inversion. Adjusted and unadjusted waveforms may be generated for two or more of the time-domain signals; and selection may be made between generated adjusted waveforms based on particular criteria. The criteria may comprise lowest peak.
US10103913B2
In some embodiments, improved routing strategies for small-world network-on-chip (SWNoC) systems are provided. In some embodiments, an ALASH routing strategy or an MROOTS strategy are used in order to improve latency, temperature, and energy use within a network-on-chip system. In some embodiments, millimeter-wave wireless transceivers are used to implement the long-distance links within the small-world network, to create a millimeter-wave small-world network-on-chip (mSWNoC) system. In some embodiments, non-coherent on-off keying (OOK) wireless transceivers are used to implement the wireless links.
US10103911B2
A comparator circuit outputs a comparison result obtained by comparing a data signal with a threshold whose magnitude is adjusted based on a first offset value at a timing synchronized with a second clock signal whose phase is adjusted based on a difference in phase between the data signal and a first clock signal and a second offset value. An eye monitor circuit thins comparison results obtained in a clock data recovery (CDR) circuit for individual symbols of the data signal by comparing the data signal with a threshold, selects a comparison result corresponding to a symbol for which the comparison result is obtained by the comparator circuit, determines, by comparing the selected comparison result with the comparison result obtained by the comparator circuit, whether or not an error has occurred due to the first or second offset value, and outputs the number of times the error has occurred.
US10103895B1
A method for physically unclonable function-identification (PUF-ID) generation includes: providing a PUF array having programmable resistance memory cells; performing a forming procedure followed by a programming procedure on all of the programmable resistance memory cells of the PUF array; performing an estimation process to estimate randomness of the PUF array, by comparing a reference current of a base unit to a total current passing through all of the programmable resistance memory cells for obtaining a PUF randomness; determining a setting result of randomness based on the estimation process; and generating a PUF-ID according to the setting result of randomness.
US10103893B2
A distributed hash tree-based authentication system for digital input records has more than one upper-level core node, each of which receives at least one uppermost value from aggregators. Communicating with each other about which aggregator values they have received, the nodes try to reach agreement as to which of these values should be included in duplicated current intra-node hash tree evaluations so as to form a consistent top-level value used as the basis for digital signatures associated with the digital input records. The top-level value is then entered either directly, or after combination with other top-level values over a period, into a block of a blockchain.
US10103892B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a traffic flow at a tamper resistant environment from an application, where the tamper resistant environment is separated from a host operating system. The method also includes applying a security token to the traffic flow and sending the traffic flow to a server. In specific embodiments, a security module may add information about the application to traffic flow. A trapping module may monitor for a memory condition and identify the memory condition. The trapping module may also, responsive to identifying the memory condition, initiate a virtual environment for the application, and check the integrity of the traffic flow.
US10103889B2
Technologies for securely exchanging sensor information include an in-vehicle computing system of a vehicle to establish a trusted execution environment and a secure communication channel between the trusted execution environment and a corresponding trusted execution environment of a coordination server. A private key is bound to the trusted execution environment of the in-vehicle computing system. The in-vehicle computing system confirms the authenticity of the coordination server, receives sensor data generated by a sensor of the vehicle, and generates an attestation quote based on the trusted execution environment of the in-vehicle computing system. The in-vehicle computing system further transmits, to the coordination server over the secure communication channel, the sensor data, the attestation quote, and a cryptographically-signed communication signed with the private key.
US10103888B2
The subject matter discloses a method operated on at least two servers for a third-party client, the method comprising receiving by a first server a first result of the first irreversible function applied to a secret key from a first third-party client, receiving by a second server a second result of the second irreversible function applied to the secret key from the third-party client, receiving by the first server, a message from a second third-party client, the first server computing a first hash function on said first result and on said message, and sending a result of the first hash function from the first server to the second server, the second server computing a second hash function on said second result and on the result of the first hash function sent from first server and outputting the result generated by second server as HMAC result.
US10103881B2
A permutation method for reconciling bit errors in a quantum key reconciliation protocol performing an iterative reconciliation process, includes: obtaining a bit string through a previous reconciliation step; and permuting bits in athe bit string obtained from a the previous reconciliation step before a subsequent reconciliation step by performing a linear modulo operation based on a length of the bit string and a length of a block for the subsequent reconciliation step.
US10103876B2
A processor is disclosed for ciphering of first data. The processor includes a key store and a first data store. In use the processor for ciphering the first data in accordance with a first cipher process and a first secret key to provide output data, during ciphering of the first data inserting within the cipher processor other data for ciphering in accordance with at least a portion of the first cipher process, the other data inserted within a sequence of cipher processor operations and scheduled for obfuscating the output data.
US10103872B2
Systems and methods include establishing a cryptographically secure communication between an application module and an audio module. The application module is configured to execute on an information-handling machine, and the audio module is coupled to the information-handling machine. The establishment of the cryptographically secure communication may be at least partially facilitated by a mutually trusted module.
US10103866B2
A wireless device operates in a first wireless network using a first wireless protocol to receive a set of provisioning parameters for joining a second wireless network that uses a second wireless protocol. The first wireless network may be based on a shared wireless broadcast medium. The wireless device then joins the second wireless network using the set of provisioning parameters. In an embodiment the first wireless protocol is according to IEEE 802.11 specifications, while the second wireless protocol is according to IEEE 802.1.5.4 specifications.
US10103858B2
A method for transmitting an uplink signal at a UE in a wireless communication system includes, when a virtual cell ID for a reference signal for demodulation of a physical uplink channel is provided, generating a sequence of the reference signal on the basis of the virtual cell ID, and transmitting the generated reference signal to an eNB. A sequence hopping pattern of the reference signal can be determined on the basis of the virtual cell ID.
US10103848B2
A method is disclosed comprising defining a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ profile for a user terminal among a plurality of HARQ profiles available. In an embodiment, the HARQ profile indicates a first time interval between downlink transmission being received in the terminal and corresponding uplink control information being expected to be transmitted from the terminal, and a second time interval between the uplink control information being transmitted from the terminal and corresponding downlink retransmission at earliest being expected to be received in the terminal. In another embodiment, the HARQ profile indicates a third time interval between uplink transmission being received in a base station and corresponding downlink information being expected to be transmitted from the base station, and a fourth time interval between the downlink information being transmitted from the base station and corresponding uplink retransmission at earliest being expected to be received in the base station.
US10103845B2
Embodiments of dual mode communication systems and methods are disclosed. On system embodiment, among others, comprises logic configured to perform spatial multiplexing and expanded bandwidth signaling to data.
US10103838B2
An information transmission method and device includes: reporting, by a UE, a CQI value to an eNB; receiving, by the UE, an MCS value sent by the eNB, where the MCS value is determined by the eNB according to the CQI value; and receiving, by the UE, PDSCH data according to the MCS value, where the CQI value and the MCS value are determined according to a second set of tables, where a modulation scheme that can be supported by the second set of tables is higher than 64 QAM.
US10103834B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to wireless distribution systems (WDSs) employing an optical star communications architecture based on quad small form-factor pluggable (QSFP) coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) transceivers. In one aspect, a selected QSFP CWDM transceiver among one or more QSFP CWDM transceivers wavelength multiplexes a plurality of downlink optical communications signals to generate a WDM downlink communications signal and provides WDM downlink communications signal to a selected remote unit branch among one or more remote unit branches in the WDS. In another aspect, the selected QSFP CWDM transceiver wavelength de-multiplexes a WDM uplink communications signal received from the selected remote unit branch into a plurality of uplink optical communications signals. By supporting an optical star communications architecture based on the selected QSFP CWDM transceiver, it may be possible to reduce total length of optical fibers in the WDS, thus leading to reduced optical fiber material and installation costs.
US10103832B2
Systems and methods for triggering interference mitigation at a wireless device in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a node associated with a cellular communications network makes a determination to trigger interference mitigation at a wireless device based on a signal load in at least one interfering cell from which transmissions result in interference at the wireless device during reception from a desired cell, a relation between reference signals used in the desired cell and the at least one interfering cell, and a timing relation between at least one of a group consisting of: signals transmitted by the desired cell and the at least one interfering cell and signals received at the wireless device from the desired cell and the at least one interfering cell. In response to making the determination, the node triggers interference mitigation at the wireless device.
US10103827B2
Provided is a display device that enables easy adjustment of an antenna in the most appropriate direction. An antenna angle acquisition unit (12) acquires antenna angle information indicating an antenna angle which is a horizontal angle and a vertical angle of an antenna (20) for receiving a signal from a radio wave generation source. A reception quality acquisition unit (14) acquires reception quality information indicating a quality of a received signal received by the antenna (20) at the antenna angle acquired by the antenna angle acquisition unit (12). A display unit (16) displays an antenna adjustment image where the antenna angle information and the reception quality information are associated with each other based on the acquired antenna angle information and the acquired reception quality information.
US10103822B2
Each of a plurality of modules comprises a respective one of a plurality of antenna elements, and each of a subset of the plurality of modules comprising a respective one of a plurality of transceivers, wherein the plurality of modules are interconnected via one or more communication links. The circuitry may be operable to receive a calibration signal via the plurality of antenna elements, determine, for each one of the antenna elements, a time and/or phase of arrival of the calibration signal, calculate, based on the time and/or phase of arrival of the calibration signal at each of the plurality of antenna elements, electrical distances between the plurality of antenna elements on the one or more communication links, and calculate beamforming coefficients for use with the plurality of antenna elements based on the electrical distances.
US10103810B2
A signboard apparatus includes: light panel apparatuses arranged two-dimensionally, and each having a transmission function and a light-emitting face for visible light communication; and a control apparatus that performs, with respect to the light panel apparatuses, exclusive control of the transmission function. The light panel apparatuses are arranged as a collective signboard.
US10103805B2
A method and apparatus for requesting a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system is provided. A machine type communication user equipment (MTC UE) transmits a random access preamble for requesting the synchronization signal to a network, receives the synchronization signal from the network, and performs synchronization by using the received synchronization signal.
US10103802B2
Certain features relate to a remote antenna unit having a multi-stage isolation sub-system for isolating uplink and downlink signal paths. A multi-stage isolation sub-system in the remote antenna unit can include a first stage device that is configured to generate a cancellation signal for canceling unwanted downlink signals received at the uplink antenna. The isolation sub-system can also include a second stage device configured to generate a cancellation signal that attenuates residual noise and intermodulation products generated in the downlink path and received in the uplink path. The multi-stage isolation sub-system can combine the cancellation signals with signals received on the uplink path in order to cancel or attenuate downlink leakage signals and residual noise present on the uplink path.
US10103797B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for mitigating interference in wireless networks. Various embodiments may include signaling of quasi co-location and resource element mapping of an interfering physical downlink shared channel. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10103796B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of selectively responding to wireless communication transmissions. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to allocate at least one association beamforming training (A-BFT) period, to receive a responder beamforming transmission from a responder device during the A-BFT period, to transmit to the responder device a feedback transmission in response to the responder beamforming transmission, and to set a responder filtering period extending over one or more successive A-BFT periods, wherein the wireless communication unit is to ignore one or more responder beamforming transmissions from the responder device during the filtering period.
US10103795B2
A cellular communication transceiver including an array which includes a plurality of aperture elements distributed over one or more surfaces, the aperture elements being configured to receive and transmit cellular communication signals, a beamformer configured to apply a time domain beamforming process to the cellular communication signals to enable directional receive and transmit beams to be formed using the aperture elements, and a telemetry subsystem operably coupling the aperture elements to the beamformer.
US10103794B2
A method and apparatus determine parameters and conditions for line of sight MIMO communication. Reference signals can be received at a receiving device from a transmitting device. A channel matrix can be measured based on the reference signals. At least two of a first line of sight channel parameter, a second line of sight channel parameter, and a third line of sight channel parameter can be extracted based on the channel matrix. The first line of sight channel parameter can be based on transmitting device antenna element spacing. The second line of sight channel parameter can be based on a product of the transmitting device antenna element spacing and a receiving device antenna element spacing. The third line of sight channel parameter can be based on the receiving device antenna element spacing. The at least two line of sight channel parameters can be transmitted to the transmitting device.
US10103792B2
For example, a wireless station may be configured to generate a plurality of time-domain streams in a time domain, the plurality of time-domain streams comprising at least a first time-domain stream comprising a first data sequence in a first interval and a second time-domain stream comprising a second data sequence in the first interval, the first time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted and sign-inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence in a second interval subsequent to the first interval, and the second time-domain stream comprises a time-inverted complex conjugate of the first data sequence in the second interval; to convert the plurality of time-domain streams into a respective plurality of frequency-domain streams in a frequency domain; and to transmit a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the plurality of frequency-domain streams.
US10103790B2
A cooperative transmission system and a cooperative transmission method used in multiple access points in a wireless local network are provided. The cooperative transmission system includes a plurality of access points, a clustering controller and at least one cluster controller. Each of the access points serves at least one user device within a serving range of the access point. The clustering controller clusters the access points into a plurality of clusters according to locations of the access points and the serving range. The at least one cluster controller controls cooperative synchronous downlink transmissions among all the access points within a cluster governed by the cluster controller, and the clusters, when intersecting with one another, employ an interference suppression mechanism to eliminate interference generated by the user devices or neighboring access points located in different clusters. Through the use of the cooperative communication technique and the interference suppression mechanism, the interference generated by a plurality of access points in a wireless local network due to overlapped basic service sets is avoided.
US10103788B2
Embodiments provide a method for reducing a self-interference signal in a communications system, and an apparatus. The method includes: sending a sounding signal; receiving an echo signal, where the echo signal includes a near-field reflected signal corresponding to the sounding signal. The method also includes separating the near-field reflected signal corresponding to the sounding signal from the echo signal, and determining a near-field reflection channel parameter according to the near-field reflected signal. The method also includes determining a reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal based on the near-field reflection channel parameter, and subtracting the reconstructed near-field reflected self-interference signal from a received second communication signal.
US10103786B2
A method for close proximity communication is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a signal transmitted by a close proximity communication (CPC) device at one of a distance of greater than or less than a CPC detection perimeter with a multi-mode magnetic induction communication (MMMIC) device with at least one antenna. The method further comprises identifying the type of device transmitting the detected signal. The method further comprises enabling the MMMIC device to communicate with the close proximity communication device at one of the distance of greater than the CPC detection perimeter and the distance of less than the CPC detection perimeter based on the type of device that is identified.
US10103784B2
Apparatus 810, 850, 912, 914, 1306, and methods and systems for creating, modifying, categorizing, parsing, grouping and displaying data suits suitable for use with Near Field Communication (NFC) tags, including storing in a computer readable medium of a log tag data sets read by or written by the user device, assessing at least one category for each of the logged tags, and displaying, in conjunction with at least one indicator indicative of the respective at least one category, of each of the logged tags on the user device.
US10103780B1
A system for communication over automotive power lines is described. The system includes a plurality of vehicle modules. Each of the vehicle modules includes a power line communication (PLC) module. A PLC network connects the power lines configured to carry electric power to the vehicle modules. The PLC processors enable the power lines to transmit data between the plurality of vehicle modules. The system also includes a master PLC processor configured to transmit data to one or more of the plurality of vehicle modules via one of two selectable protocols that include a multiple frequency channel communication protocol and a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication protocol.
US10103768B2
A casing comprising a flip cover, configured to encase at least a part of a mobile device having a camera, the flip cover comprising an optical filter located to enable image capturing by the camera through the optical filter.
US10103761B2
Control circuitry for use in generating a local oscillator (LO) signal is provided. Synthesizer control circuitry is configured to control synthesizer circuity to generate an analog oscillator signal having a first frequency at which phase noise is minimized. DS control circuitry is configured to generate a control word or message to cause DS circuitry to generate a digital DS signal having a desired frequency when the DS circuitry is clocked by the oscillator signal having the first frequency. The desired frequency is proportional to the LO signal frequency. The digital DS signal generated by the DS circuitry is used to generate the LO signal. Thus the first frequency used to clock the DS circuitry is selected to optimize the oscillator rather than having some relationship to the LO frequency. In addition, a single synthesizer may be used in order to simultaneously generate many LO signals.
US10103760B1
A circuit applied to a display apparatus includes a front-end circuit, a conversion circuit and an impulsive interference detection circuit. The front-end circuit converts an analog input signal into a digital input signal. The conversion circuit, coupled to the front-end circuit, converts the digital input signal from a time domain to a frequency domain to generate a frequency-domain signal. The impulsive interference detection circuit, coupled to the conversion circuit, detects a noise intensity of the frequency-domain signal to generate a detection result, which is used to determine whether the analog input signal has impulsive interference.
US10103756B1
A method for identifying an interfering transmitter in a network is disclosed. The method includes receiving an interference indication indicating interference between transmitters in the network. The method includes ceasing transmitting operations of all of the transmitters in the network for a threshold period of time. The method includes soliciting an interference assessment of the network for the threshold period of time when all of the transmitters in the network ceased the transmitting operations. When the interference assessment indicates cessation of the interference between the transmitters in the network, the method includes determining that the interfering transmitter resides inside of the network; and executing an interference isolation routine configured to identify the interfering transmitter.
US10103752B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding/decoding method, apparatus, and system. The present invention is used to improve the decoding performance and improve accuracy of a survivor path. The method includes: encoding information bits to obtain a first-level encoded code word; obtaining a sorting value of each check bit of the first-level encoded code word, and adjusting each check bit to a corresponding position according to the sorting value of each check bit, where the sorting value refers to a value of S when the check bit is related to first S information bits of the information bits in the first-level encoded code word, and S is a non-zero integer; and performing second-level encoding on the first-level encoded code word after positions of the check bits are adjusted, thereby obtaining a second-level encoded code word. The present invention is applicable to various communication systems.
US10103745B1
Methods and apparatus are provided for content-aware compression of data using selection from multiple weighted prediction functions. An exemplary method comprises obtaining a floating point number; applying a plurality of distinct prediction algorithms to the floating point number to generate a corresponding plurality of predictions; selecting at least one of the predictions for the floating point number based on combination weights for the plurality of distinct prediction algorithms, wherein the combination weights are based only on prior samples of the floating point numbers; and encoding the floating point number by encoding, as a single code, the exponent and the length of a residual generated by the distinct prediction algorithm associated with the selected at least one prediction. The combination weights are optionally updated for subsequent floating point numbers. A set of one or more predictors out of a larger set of predictors can be determined for a specific data set based on a data analysis ranking.
US10103737B2
Control systems and methods suitable for combination with power production systems and methods are provided herein. The control systems and methods may be used with, for example, closed power cycles as well as semi-closed power cycles. The combined control systems and methods and power production systems and methods can provide dynamic control of the power production systems and methods that can be carried out automatically based upon inputs received by controllers and outputs from the controllers to one or more components of the power production systems.
US10103727B1
A power switch circuit includes a first input voltage, a first switch element, a switcher, a first bootstrap capacitor, and a second bootstrap capacitor. The first switch element includes a first control end, a first input end, and a first output end. The first input end is coupled to the first input voltage. The first output end provides an output voltage. The switcher is coupled to the first switch element. The first bootstrap capacitor is coupled to the switcher and provides a first driving voltage. The second bootstrap capacitor is coupled to the switcher and provides a second driving voltage. The first bootstrap capacitor and the second bootstrap capacitor alternately supply the first driving voltage or the second driving voltage to the first control end through an operation of the switcher.
US10103716B2
A data latch circuit includes a first inverter circuit having a first input terminal and a first output terminal, and connected between a first voltage source and a second voltage source, a second inverter circuit having a second input terminal electrically connected to the first output terminal and a second output terminal electrically connected to the first input terminal, and connected between the first voltage source and the second voltage source, a first transistor electrically connected between the first voltage source and the first inverter circuit, a second transistor electrically connected between the second voltage source and the first inverter circuit, a first switch circuit that controls an electrical connection between the first output terminal and a first bus, and a second switch circuit that controls an electrical connection between the first output terminal and a second bus.
US10103714B2
Apparatuses and methods to adjust voltage for thermal mitigation are provided. The apparatus includes a circuit, a plurality of switches configured to provide power of a power domain to the circuit, a plurality of thermal sensors disposed at different locations about the circuit and configured to detect temperatures at the different locations, and a control circuit configured to determine that one of the detected temperatures at one of the locations exceeds a temperature threshold, and in response, adjust one or more of the plurality of switches in proximity with the one location to reduce power provided to the circuit. The method includes providing power of a power domain through a plurality of switches, detecting a temperature at a location exceeding a temperature threshold, and adjusting the plurality of switches in proximity with the location to reduce the power provided, in response to the detecting the temperature exceeding the temperature threshold.
US10103709B2
A crystal unit is provided with a rectangular substrate, a frame which is provided on an upper surface of the substrate, a mounting frame which has joining pads which are provided along the outer circumferential edge of the upper surface and which is provided on the lower surface of the substrate by joining joining terminals provided along the outer circumferential edge of the lower surface of the substrate and its joining pads, a crystal element which is mounted on electrode pads which are provided on the upper surface of the substrate in a region surrounded by the frame, a thermosensitive element which is mounted on connection pads which are provided on the lower surface of the substrate in a region surrounded by the mounting frame, and a lid which is joined to the upper surface of the frame.
US10103707B2
A power amplifying converter comprises a multi-balanced-unbalanced converting unit, a plurality of power amplifying units, a plurality of dual-path power combining units and a differential power combining unit. The multi-balanced-unbalanced converting unit is provided with a first input/output end and a plurality of second input/output ends. Each of the power amplifying units is provided with a first input end electrically connected to the second input/output end, and a first output end. Each of the dual-path power combining units is provided with two second input ends electrically connected to the first output ends, and a second output end. The differential power combining unit is provided with two third input ends electrically connected to the second output ends, and a third output end. In this case, the multi-balanced-unbalanced converting unit is made up of a plurality of 1/12 wavelength transmission lines.
US10103700B2
In some embodiments, a method for processing an audio signal in an audio processing apparatus is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio signal and a parameter, the parameter indicating a location of an auditory event boundary. An audio portion between consecutive auditory event boundaries constitutes an auditory event. The method further includes applying a modification to the audio signal based in part on an occurrence of the auditory event. The parameter may be generated by monitoring a characteristic of the audio signal and identifying a change in the characteristic.
US10103686B2
Disclosed is technology pertaining to a device and method for photovoltaic power generation using a photoelectric effect. The device for photovoltaic power generation includes: a frame; a photovoltaic panel arranged on the frame such that a light receiving surface is perpendicular to an incident direction of sunlight with the back thereof against the sun; two or more flat mirrors which are arranged on the frame and reflect the incident sunlight to the light receiving surface of the photovoltaic panel; a rotation mechanism for tracking the sun such that the light receiving surface of the photovoltaic panel is perpendicular to the incident direction of the sunlight by rotating the frame in a biaxial direction; and a supporting structure for supporting the frame and the rotation mechanism.
US10103676B2
A fan motor braking apparatus includes a fan motor, a conversion circuit and a motor driver circuit. The conversion circuit is respectively and electrically connected to the fan motor and the motor driver circuit. The conversion circuit includes bridge structures. After the fan motor starts operating, the motor driver circuit receives at least one fan status signal and determines whether the fan motor braking apparatus enters a braking status or not according to the at least one fan status signal. When the fan motor braking apparatus enters the braking status, the motor driver circuit outputs a braking control signal to the conversion circuit so that the bridge structures of the conversion circuit generate a brake effect on fan motor, wherein the at least one fan status signal includes an external speed-control signal and a transition voltage signal of the fan motor.
US10103675B2
A control device includes a gate-signal generating unit that outputs a gate signal to an inverter circuit and a voltage-vector generating unit that generates a voltage command to the gate-signal generating unit on the basis of a torque command PTR from an upper unit, rotating speed FM of an alternating-current electric motor, and a direct-current voltage value EFC applied to the inverter circuit. The voltage-vector generating unit calculates, on basis of a modulation rate, which is a ratio of the direct-current voltage value EFC and a voltage amplitude command in the voltage command, a PWM current distortion rate serving as an index representing a degree of a current harmonic caused by PWM control, generates the voltage amplitude command value on the basis of the calculated PWM current distortion rate, and outputs the voltage amplitude command value to the gate-signal generating unit.
US10103666B1
Various examples are related to synchronous generator modeling with frequency control, which can be achieved using unscented Kalman filtering. In one example, a method includes obtaining operational parameters associated with a generator of a power system; determining parameters of a synchronous generator model with frequency control based at least in part upon the operational parameters associated with the generator; and providing a command to a frequency control of the generator, the command updating one or more parameters of the frequency control. In another example, a system includes a generator controller for a generator of a power system; and a computing device in communication with the generator controller, where the computing device is configured to determine parameters of the synchronous generator model using operational parameters associated with the generator and provide a command updating one or more parameters of a frequency control of the generator controller.
US10103665B2
Systems and methods for protecting the redundancy of inverter blocks are provided. In one example implementation, a system can include a plurality of inverter blocks. Each inverter block can include a first conversion entity configured to convert DC power to AC power, a second conversion entity configured to convert AC power to DC power, and a third conversion entity configured to convert DC power to AC power. An isolation transformer can be coupled between the first conversion entity and the second conversion entity. The system includes an inverter block switching element coupled to an output of each inverter block. A protection element is disposed in each inverter block. The system includes one or more control devices configured to isolate at least one of the plurality of inverter blocks based at least in part on a status of the protection element disposed in the inverter block.
US10103662B2
A method for operating an electric machine having a power inverter, which is electrically connected to a relative ground potential, and a ground differential voltage between the relative ground potential and a reference ground potential is monitored, and if the ground differential voltage reaches an upper limit value, the electric machine is operated in a current-delivering operating state, and if the ground differential voltage reaches a lower limit value, the electric machine is operated in a non-current-delivering operating state.
US10103661B2
A wind power plant is provided. The wind power plant comprises at least one wind turbine and a power plant controller. The power plant controller is configured to detect whether a grid voltage exceeds a predefined threshold, and if it has detected that the grid voltage exceeds the predefined threshold, the power plant controller sends a reactive power reference to the at least one wind turbine, thereby causing the at least one wind turbine to reduce its reactive power output in response to the reactive power reference.
US10103658B2
A microcomputer of a drive control device for controlling the driving of a brushless motor has a positioning part and a torque acceleration control unit. The positioning unit controls the power to be supplied to the windings, to thereby position the rotor at a drive start position which is a position of the rotor relative to the stator at which the drive control of the brushless motor can start, before starting the drive control of the brushless motor. The torque acceleration control unit controls the power to be supplied to the windings so that a torque acceleration falls within a predetermined range that the collision stress generated when the outer wall of the end of the shaft collides with the inner wall of the hole of an impeller (rotating member) is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, when the rotor is positioned.
US10103639B2
A method is shown to create soft transition in selected topologies by controlling and designing the magnetizing current in the main transformer to exceed the output current at a certain point in the switching cycle.
US10103635B2
A high power-factor buck-boost converter having a rectified low-frequency AC line voltage input and a DC output is provided. The converter may include a magnetic element, a controlled switch having a gate terminal and a drain terminal that is coupled to the magnetic element, a rectifier diode coupled to the magnetic element, an output smoothing capacitor coupled to the rectifier diode, and a control circuit having an output coupled to the gate terminal of the controlled switch for repeatedly turning the controlled switch off for a first time duration and on for a second time duration. The second time duration may be determined as a function of the first time duration immediately preceding the second time duration.
US10103632B2
A multiphase power converter has a plurality of phase circuits, each of which provides a phase current when being active. During single-phase operation of the multiphase power converter, an enhanced phase control circuit and method monitor the summation of the phase currents, and when the summation becomes higher than a threshold, switch the multiphase power converter to a higher power zone to increase the number of active phases. A high efficiency and high reliability multiphase power converter is thus accomplished.
US10103627B2
A packaged integrated circuit and method of forming the same. The package integrated circuit includes an integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor die affixed to a surface of a multi-layer substrate, and a switch-mode regulator formed on the semiconductor die (or another semiconductor die) affixed to the surface of the multi-layer substrate. The integrated circuit and the switch-mode regulator are integrated within a package to form the packaged integrated circuit.
US10103617B2
A regulator circuit comprises: a regulator output node; at least (N+1) regulator control circuits, N being an integer greater than 1; N drivers, each one of the N drivers including: a multiplexer having an input port and an output port, the input port of the multiplexer being coupled with output nodes of the at least (N+1) regulator control circuits; an adjuster circuit configured to adjust a level of a current supplied by the driver to the regulator output node; and a task controller. The task controller is configured to: set a first one of the N+1 regulator control circuits to be idle during a first cycle of a clock signal; and set a second one of the N+1 regulator control circuits to be idle during a second cycle of the clock signal.
US10103615B2
Eddy current retarder equipment (1) able to be carried on board a vehicle, includes: a stator assembly (2), including inductor windings (23) forming a circuit (4), a rotor assembly (3) designed to be mounted on a transmission shaft of the vehicle, including an armature (31) facing the inductor windings (23), control elements (6) for establishing a linear setpoint (β), excitation elements (7) for exciting the inductor circuit (4) from an electric power source (5) of the vehicle as a function of the setpoint (β), a speed sensor (9) for supplying information relating to the rotational speed (Ω) of the rotor assembly (3), a sensor (10) of the strength of current supplied to the inductor circuit (4), processing elements (8) for estimating, at a given moment (t), the retarding torque supplied by the equipment (1).
US10103614B2
A vibration motor is provided in the present disclosure. The vibration motor includes a housing, a magnet module received in the housing and fixedly connected with the housing, the magnet module comprising a main magnet unit as well as a first vice magnet unit and a second vice magnet unit symmetrically disposed on two sides of the main magnet unit, and the main magnet unit being spaced from the first vice magnet unit and the second vice magnet unit to form magnetic gaps, a vibration module, comprising a coil inserted into the magnetic gaps and masses for clamping the coil, and an elastic support, configured for connecting the coil and the masses to suspend the vibration module in the housing. A stop module for limiting the amplitude of the masses is disposed between the masses and the first vice magnet unit and between the masses and the second vice magnet unit.
US10103607B2
In a reference state of a rotation angle detector, plural first output coils include first output coils having the number of windings of Ai and Aj, plural second output coils include second output coils having the number of windings Bk and Bm. The rotation angle detector includes at least one configuration from among: a configuration in which the numbers of windings of the first and second output coils are the same numbers of windings as in the reference state, with the exception that the number of windings Ai is the number of windings Ai±a or the number of windings Aj is the number of windings Aj±a; and a configuration in which the number of windings Bk is the number of windings Bk±b or the number of windings Bm is the number of windings Bm±b.
US10103602B2
Provided is an electric motor capable of cooling a stator without being increased in size with a small number of components and even with simple work. The electric motor includes ring-shaped sealing members (34) having flexibility and being arranged on an inner diameter side of a stator coil (22) so as to surround inner diameter portions of coil ends. Cooling oil flowing from an upper part of a housing into the housing flows downward through coil end oil paths (37, 38) formed by the sealing members (34), coil end covers (32, 33), and the coil ends.
US10103600B2
A flywheel based energy storage system which can include one or more flywheels and a motor/generator unit is disclosed. The system can include a universal joint connecting a suspended flywheel and motor/generator to another body (e.g., frame or mounting point on another structure). The universal joint permits automatic adjustment of an axis of the suspended flywheel to help reduce effects of gyroscopic precession on the flywheel system. A single flywheel is fixed to the drive shaft. Multiple additional flywheels are mounted to drive shaft via bearings to allow freewheeling. The fixed (or first) flywheel is fully charged before speed activated clutch engages second flywheel. All additional flywheels are started sequentially in like manner. During discharge, charged flywheels engage drive shaft via one-way ratchet type mechanism and non-charged flywheels continue to freewheel. A sectional drive shaft of one embodiment simplifies portability and assembly. A variable inertia flywheel of another embodiment further reduces charge-up time.
US10103599B2
An electromotive drive system having an electronics housing on the motor side and having, detachably plugged thereinto, a connection housing for connecting and contacting connection wires in particular direct current supply wires, of at least two connection cables.
US10103590B2
A wedge mechanism including at least one wedge element and a guide member. The guide member is attached to the second assembly and adapted for receiving the wedge element in a way that and at least an inactive position of the mechanism is defined where the first and second assemblies can be detached from each other, and an active position where at least one of the wedge element and the guide member presses against two different sectors of the first assembly such that the first assembly and the second assembly remain attached to each other.
US10103584B2
A wireless power transfer system includes a power transmitter (101) providing power to a power receiver (105) via an inductive power signal. The power transmitter (101) and receiver (105) can operate in different modes including a test mode and a power transfer mode. Operating parameters of the power receiver (105) are constrained in the test mode relative (and specifically the loading). A foreign object detector (209) generates a foreign object detection estimate from a comparison of a measured load to an expected load of the inductive power signal when the power receiver is operating in the test mode. A controller (211) enters the power transmitter (101) and receiver (103) into the power transfer mode when the foreign object detection estimate is indicative of no detection of a foreign object. In the power transfer mode, a parasitic power loss detector (207) generates a parasitic power loss detection for the power transfer if a parasitic power loss estimate is outside a range.
US10103579B2
A wireless power reception device that wirelessly receives power from a wireless power transmission device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a reception coil receiving power from the wireless power transmission device wirelessly through a magnetic field, and a switch connected to one end and the other end of the reception coil, wherein the wireless power reception device controls the operation of the switch according to the frequency band of the power transmitted by the wireless power transmission device.
US10103569B2
A power transmission system includes a plurality of electrical substations and a plurality of transmission lines arranged to connect the plurality of electrical substations to form a power transmission network; and a controller system arranged to control a power transmission within the power transmission network. The controller system includes: a detection module arranged to detect an occurrence of a fault in at least one faulty electrical substation of the plurality of electrical substations; and a restoration module arranged to at least temporally maintain an output power of the at least one faulty electrical substation; and wherein at least one of the plurality of electrical substations is operable to facilitate maintaining of the output of the at least one faulty electrical substation upon the detection of the occurrence of the fault.
US10103568B2
A remote emergency light system provides a base unit that is electrically coupled to one or more remote emergency light fixtures using cables. The base unit may provide power to each of the remote emergency light fixtures using the cables to activate the remote emergency light fixtures during an emergency condition. Alternatively, the base unit may provide a trickle charge to one or more remote emergency light fixtures when each of the remote emergency light fixtures includes an energy charging device. The base unit may be configured to communicate with the remote emergency light fixtures and determine when a trickle charge should be sent to a remote emergency light fixture, when a trickle charge should be stopped for a remote emergency light fixture, and/or when an energy charging device needs to be replaced. The cables can meet the requirements for Class 2 circuits as defined by the National Electric Code.
US10103566B2
A suitcase integrated charging and powering device integrated into a suitcase includes a suitcase that has a housing, which defines an internal space. A plurality of rollers is coupled to a bottom of the housing. A power module is positioned in the internal space and coupled to the housing. The power module comprises at least one rechargeable battery that is removable from the housing, such that the power module can be connected to an external power source and recharged. A generator is positioned in the internal space and coupled to the bottom of the housing proximate to the plurality of rollers. The generator is operationally coupled to the plurality of rollers and the power module. A plurality of ports is coupled to and positioned on the housing. The ports are operationally coupled to the power module.
US10103564B2
A UPS system includes UPS devices and a common bus. The UPS devices are configured to output respective backup voltages. The common bus electrically interconnects the UPS devices for receiving the backup voltages, and is configured to output to the UPS devices a greatest one of the backup voltages as a dominant voltage. Each UPS device is operable to detect the backup voltage outputted thereby, to compare the backup voltage with the dominant voltage, to determine whether a power recovery signal is received from the power supply equipment, and to vary the backup voltage with a descending trend, where the varying of the backup voltage is conducted at least based on the dominant voltage and the backup voltage.
US10103562B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device and a method for controlling a charging operation of a battery. The charging control method includes charging a battery using a first charging mode, if a current voltage of the charged battery coincides with a predetermined voltage, decreasing an intensity level of a charging current and charging the battery using the decreased charging current intensity, and if the decreased charging current intensity coincides with a predetermined current intensity, converting from the first charging mode to a second charging mode and charging the battery using the second charging mode.
US10103561B2
A power supply system comprises a first battery, a second battery, an output electric circuit, a first switching element, a second switching element, and a third switching element. The output electric circuit includes a first electric circuit and a second electric circuit. The second electric circuit has a potential lower than a potential of the first electric circuit. The first, second and third switching elements are provided in series with each other from the first electric circuit toward the second electric circuit. The first battery is provided in parallel with the second switching element. The second battery is provided in parallel with a series connection between the second switching element and the third switching element.
US10103560B2
A charger with a wide range output voltage includes a voltage output side, a first constant voltage output unit, a voltage modulation unit and a load voltage detection unit. The first constant voltage output unit generates a first constant voltage. The load voltage detection unit detects a load voltage and transmits the load voltage to the voltage modulation unit. According to the load voltage and a load charging voltage requirement, the voltage modulation unit generates a modulation voltage and transmits the modulation voltage to the first constant voltage output unit. The first constant voltage output unit transmits the first constant voltage and the modulation voltage to the voltage output side. Moreover, the modulation voltage is an n times of a second constant voltage. The n is a positive number.
US10103557B1
A combination handheld mobile device and rechargeable battery system. The handheld mobile device being portable and configured to wirelessly communicate with a second mobile device; and the rechargeable battery system operably associated with and configured to provide electrical energy to the handheld mobile device. The rechargeable battery system includes a battery having a body with a partial hollow cavity; a power port conductively coupled to the battery and carried within the partial hollow cavity; and a terminal conductively coupled to the battery and carried on an outside surface of the body.
US10103553B2
Disclosed is a method of wirelessly transmitting, the method including: a selection phase for detecting each of power receivers and sending a digital ping to the each of power receivers; an introduction phase for receiving a request from the each of power receivers for a free slot; a configuration phase for providing a series of locked slots to the each of power receivers; a negotiation phase for receiving at least one negotiation data packet from the each of power receivers using the series of locked slots; a power transfer phase for transmitting power to the each of power receivers; and a renegotiation phase for returning to the negotiation phase, wherein the renegotiation phase is a phase for returning to the negotiation phase when a change of a charge status of at least one of the each of power receivers to which the power is transmitted is detected.
US10103549B2
An electrical power system may comprise a first plurality of power sources, a first collector bus configured to receive power from the plurality of power sources, an unregulated DC bus configured to receive power from the first collector bus, a regulated high voltage direct current (HVDC) bus configured to receive power from the unregulated DC bus, and a first power distribution unit (PDU) configured to receive power from the regulated HVDC bus. The regulated HVDC bus may be configured to supply power to a high voltage load. The first plurality of power sources may comprise a first solar array, a first supercapacitor, and/or a first battery.
US10103543B2
A method for controlling a load by providing a total energy consumption and a time window for the total energy consumption of the load from one or more energy sources is described. The method includes determining of energy blocks, wherein the energy blocks are based on a power interval during a time interval, the time intervals are within the time window and the energy blocks are allocated energy-source-dependent costs, sorting of the energy blocks in ascending order according to the level of the costs per energy block and subsequent summation of quantities of energy that the energy blocks contain in ascending order of sorting until the total energy consumption of the load is reached. From this, on and off times of the load are determined by means of the time intervals that belong to the summed energy blocks, wherein the power intervals belonging to the respective energy blocks determine a power consumption of the load at the respective instant, and the load is actuated in accordance with the on and off times. An apparatus for carrying out the method is likewise disclosed.
US10103542B2
Snapback ESD protection device employing one or more non-planar metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors (MOSFETs) are described. The ESD protection devices may further include lightly-doped extended drain regions, the resistances of which may be capacitively controlled through control gates independent of a gate electrode held at a ground potential. Control gates may be floated or biased to modulate ESD protection device performance. In embodiments, a plurality of core circuits are protected with a plurality of non-planar MOSFET-based ESD protection devices with control gate potentials varying across the plurality.
US10103538B1
A driver circuit provides power from a power source to a load. The driver circuit includes a surge protector, an input stage (e.g., full wave rectifier), a controller, an overvoltage protection circuit, and an output stage (e.g., a half bridge inverter). The input stage receives power from the power source and provides a direct current (DC) power rail. The controller operates the output stage to provide power from the DC power rail to the load. The overvoltage protection circuit shuts down the controller when the DC power rail exceeds a predetermined voltage. This ceases operation of the output stage, protecting the output stage from damage while the DC power rail is above the predetermined voltage.
US10103528B2
An cable duct is presented herein. The cable duct includes a cover plate having a double sided hinge allowing the cover to be opened from one of two sides. The cover has a pair of saddle features longitudinally extending along distal edges of the cover plate, a base plate arranged opposite the cover plate, and a sidewalls extending from the base plate to the cover plate. Each sidewall defines a lobe mechanism on a sidewall end opposite the base plate that is configured to engage the corresponding saddle feature releasably secure the cover plate to the sidewall. Each saddle feature is configured to pivot about the lobe mechanism. Each lobe mechanism includes a rounded outer lobe portion having a first radius and a rounded inner lobe portion having a second radius. The first radius is greater than the second radius.
US10103520B1
A method of manufacturing a spark plug includes: mounting a metal shell on an assembly body of a temporary insulator and a temporary center electrode; causing discharge to occur between the temporary center electrode and the metal shell by applying a voltage across the metal shell and the temporary center electrode and capturing, while the discharge is occurring, an image of a range including the temporary center electrode, the temporary insulator, annular space which is present between the temporary insulator and the metal shell and has an opening on the front end side, and the metal shell; and determining whether or not the form of the inner circumferential surface of the metal shell is a predetermined form.
US10103518B2
Semiconductor photonic device surfaces are covered with a dielectric or a metal protective layer. The protective layer covers the entire device, including regions near facets at active regions, to prevent bare or unprotected semiconductor regions, thereby to form a very high reliability etched facet photonic device.
US10103517B2
Semiconductor photonic device surfaces are covered with a dielectric or a metal protective layer. The protective layer covers the entire device, including regions near facets at active regions, to prevent bare or unprotected semiconductor regions, thereby to form a very high reliability etched facet photonic device.
US10103511B2
The present invention discloses a laser beam combination apparatus, comprising: a water cooling plate, a beam combiner and two laser arrays; each of the laser arrays comprises N lasers, wherein N is a positive integer more than 1; the two laser arrays are fixed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the water cooling plate, respectively; and the beam combiner performs a spatial beam combination, a polarization beam combination or a wavelength beam combination of laser beams output from the two laser arrays. Thus it can be seen that in the technical solution provided by the present invention, arrays of lasers are arranged on the upper and lower surfaces of the water cooling plate, and under the condition that a beam combination is performed on the same number of laser light beams, the water cooling plate is used in a high efficiency to decrease the volume and weight of the laser light beam combination apparatus, save the material of the water cooling plate of the laser light beam combination apparatus, and reduce the cost of the laser light beam combination apparatus, thus meeting the production and processing requirement of the laser light beam combination apparatus, and promoting the continuous development and progress of the laser light beam combination technique.
US10103508B2
A photocathode comprises a substrate in which a cavity is formed and a film of material disposed on the substrate. The film of material comprises an electron emitting surface configured to emit electrons when illuminated by a beam of radiation. The electron emitting surface is on an opposite side of the film of material from the cavity.
US10103505B1
A cable with connectors includes a plurality of electric wires arranged in parallel, and a first connector and a second connector provided at each end of the electric wires. The first connector includes a first substrate accommodated therein and a connector plug connected to the first substrate. The second connector includes a second substrate accommodated therein and a connector plug connected to the second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate have a plurality of first contact points arranged at one end-side thereof and to be connected with the electric wires, respectively. The plurality of first contact points is arranged so that am arrangement order of the plurality of first contact points provided on the first substrate and an arrangement order of the plurality of first contact points provided on the second substrate are mirror-symmetric with the electric wires being interposed therebetween.
US10103504B2
An electric connector is provided to ensure reliable termination of cable wires having different sizes. The electric connector can include a housing, a plurality of contacts, and a wire holder. The wire holder includes a wire support extension configured to be at least partially inserted into the housing. The wire support extension defines a plurality of wire receiving passages configured to arrange a plurality of first wires thereon and align the first wires with contact insert slots of the housing, respectively, when the wire support extension is inserted to the housing. The wire holder further includes a plurality of wire support ribs configured to centralize second wires smaller than the first wires.
US10103502B2
It is aimed to provide a connector capable of stably holding a holder in a housing and improving quality. A connector includes a capacitor (70) serving as an electrical component, terminals (50A, 50B) to be connected to the capacitor (70), a holder (30) for holding the terminals (50A, 50B) and the capacitor (70), and a housing (10) into which the holder (30) holding the terminals (50A, 50B) and the capacitor (70) is to be inserted. The terminal (50A) includes correcting portions (56) for correcting the inclination of the holder (30) in the housing (10) by coming into contact with the housing (10) from inside.
US10103496B2
The invention relates to an electric connector with a shield contact. This connector comprises a sleeve with a cavity designed to receive the end of at least one cable provided with a first contact and a shielding ferule, and an outer surface. This connector also comprises a metal shield contact ring having at least one inner elastic tongue extending toward the inside of the cavity to establish an electric contact with the ferule, and at least one outer elastic tongue extending toward the outside of the outer surface to establish an electric contact with the shield of a counter-connector or a housing incorporating a counter-connector having a second contact connected to the first contact, when the connector and the counter-connector are coupled.
US10103494B2
An electronic device including a universal serial bus type-C connector. The connector includes a first plurality of contacts and a second plurality of contacts. Each of the first plurality of contacts and each of the second plurality of contacts include a first layer formed of a first material and a second layer formed of a second material, the second layer over the first layer. The second layer is present in a first area of each of the first plurality of contacts and the second layer is absent from the first area of each of the second plurality of contacts.
US10103493B2
A method of manufacturing a connector and assembly of a cabling category and comprising two mating zones connected by an intermediate zone. Each of the zones is manufactured such that Near End Cross Talk (NEXT) resulting from transmission of the high frequency signal across each zone is below a specified amount chosen such that NEXT introduced by a high frequency signal transmission between via all the zones is below a level as specified for the cabling category.
US10103489B2
In one or more aspects, a determination is made as to whether a connector is securely fastened, whether the connector connected within a socket structure is the expected connector for that socket structure, and/or whether connectors coupled to one another via one or more cables are properly positioned for communication between them. Information on selected physical connection elements of a connector is used to determine one or more structural characteristics of the cable(s) connected to the connector and to determine whether the connector is the expected connector for a particular socket structure.
US10103485B2
Coaxial connector including a center conductor provided inside an outer conductor with a tubular outer conductor main body. A mating portion on one side in the axial direction of the outer conductor main body detachably mates with a counterpart connector. A supporting portion on the other side in the axial direction of the outer conductor main body supports the center conductor through the insulating member medium. Securing portions projecting from the end face on the other side in the axial direction or from the outer peripheral surface on the other side in the axial direction of the outer conductor main body towards the other side in the axial direction securing the outer conductor by soldering to a conductor pattern on the board surface. A first barrier portion on the outer peripheral surface on the other side in the axial direction of the outer conductor main body blocks solder flow.
US10103479B2
A cable connector is provided for coupling to and mounted within the internal cavity of an electrical box for securing an electrical cable passing through an opening in the electrical box. The cable connector includes a body having a first end positioned next to or adjacent the cable opening in the electrical box and a second end spaced from the first end and the cable opening. At least one and typically two retaining members are spring biased from the first end of the body and extend into a cable passage of the body toward the second end. A front wall is provided at the second end of the body with an opening for receiving the wires and forming a stop member to prevent the armor sheathing from passing through the front wall.
US10103466B1
A double-threaded connector or spacer according may be self-threading such that insertion into a mounting hole in a PCB will cause the interior of the mounting hole to become threaded to match the double-threaded connector or spacer. The double- threaded connector or spacer installed in a mounting hole of a carrier. A “half circle” portion of daughter card is held in place between the double-threaded connector or spacer and screw. The half circle portion of the daughter card is plated to make electrical contact with the double-threaded connector or spacer, for example, to allow for grounding of the daughter card via the carrier, e.g., PCB.
US10103465B2
Connector systems may include a connector receptacle and connector plug or insert. The connector receptacle may include a tongue. The tongue may be formed using a printed circuit board. Contacts may be plated on top and bottom surfaces of the tongue. Retention features may also be located on top and bottom surfaces of tongue. These retention features may be speed bumps or other features. The connector insert may include a leading edge portion formed of plastic, a conductive shield around the insert behind the leasing edge portion, a plurality of spring contacts attached to an inside of the conductive shield, a top row of contacts; and a bottom row of contacts. Other connector receptacles may include a tongue having side ground contacts. The side ground contacts may engage an inside of a plug shield and have contacting portion to fit in openings in the plug shield.
US10103462B1
A card edge connector assembly includes a card edge connector having a housing defining a card slot for a circuit card and having a base mounted to a host circuit board and including mounting lugs having datum surfaces. The assembly includes card guide modules coupled to the housing each having a base secured to the host circuit board and a support beam extending from the base for supporting the circuit card. The base includes a locating cavity that receives the mounting lug and locating surfaces that engage the datum surfaces to register the card guide modules relative to the housing.
US10103455B2
A crimp terminal includes a wire connection portion including a bottom wall portion, and a pair of side wall portions. The wire connection portion includes a core wire crimping portion provided on one end side, and to be crimped onto a core wire of a wire, and a covering crimping portion provided on another end side, and to be crimped onto a covering of the wire, and integrally covers the core wire and the covering. In the core wire crimping portion before crimping, an interval between outer wall surfaces of the pair of side wall portions is widest at an end portion on the covering crimping portion side, and in the covering crimping portion before crimping, the interval is widest at an end portion on the core wire crimping portion side.
US10103453B2
A carrier module of a cable connector includes a circuit board and a grounding bar disposed on the circuit board. The circuit board includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a grounding layer arranged between the first and second insulating layers. The circuit board has a hole formed on a surface thereof and a conductive extension disposed within the hole, and the conductive extension is connected to the grounding layer. The grounding bar includes a base portion and a conductive portion connected to the base portion. The conductive portion is inserted into the hole, and connected to the conductive extension, thereby electrically connecting the grounding bar and the grounding layer of the circuit board. Thus, the carrier module of the instant disclosure is provided with the grounding bar having well grounding performance which is firmly fixed on the circuit board.
US10103447B2
An integrated circuit package comprises an electrically conductive material, a first electrically isolating layer having a first side in contact with the electrically conductive material and a second side opposite to the first side, a second electrically isolating layer stacked at the second side with at least the first electrically isolating layer and arranged at a package side, and an integrated antenna structure arranged between the first electrically isolating layer and the second electrically isolating layer. The electrically conductive material is encapsulated by a dielectric material, arranged to partly overlap the integrated antenna structure, separated from the integrated antenna structure by at least the first electrically isolating layer and arranged to reflect a radio frequency signal received by the electrically conductive material through at least the first electrically isolating layer to the package side.
US10103446B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to graphene-based Rotman lenses. In an embodiment, a lens is formed on a surface of a dielectric plate. The lens comprises a composition having individual sheets of graphene. The lens includes a plurality of first transmission lines extending from a first lens contour and a plurality of second transmission lines extending from a second lens contour. The plurality of first transmission lines each terminate at a first port. The plurality of second transmission lines each terminate at a second port. The first contour and the second contour are positioned opposite each other. The first port and/or the second port has a width of λ/2 or less. The individual graphene sheets form a three-dimensional interconnected network within the composition.
US10103436B2
Filter circuitry is used in communication systems that employ multiple antennas. In general, a communication system may have a transmit path and a receive path. The transmit path extends to a first antenna port and is configured to present signals for transmission in a first communication band and a second communication band to the first antenna port for transmission via a first antenna that is coupled to the first antenna port. The receive path extends to a second antenna port and comprises a first multiple passband/multiple stopband filter that provides a plurality of passbands and a plurality of stopbands interleaved with one another, wherein a first stopband and a second stopband of the plurality of stopbands correspond respectively to the first communication band and the second communication band and are separated by a first passband of the plurality of passbands.
US10103423B2
A housing for a personal electronic device is described herein. The housing may include at least one modular subassembly configured to be arranged within an internal cavity of the housing. The at least one modular subassembly is aligned with a feature external to the housing, is affixed to an interior surface of the internal cavity, and is configured to function both as an antenna and as an internal support member of the housing.
US10103422B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an antenna including a dielectric antenna and a mounting carriage connectable with a mounting bracket. Wireless signals can be transmitted by electromagnetic waves that propagate without requiring an electrical return path, where the electromagnetic waves are guided by a dielectric core of a cable coupled to a feed point of the dielectric antenna. The mounting bracket is connectable with a cross member of a utility pole, where the mounting carriage includes an opening for receiving an antenna mount, and where, when received in the mounting carriage, the antenna is suspended beyond distal ends of the cross member. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10103418B2
Disclosed is a printed-circuit board (PCB) structure having an electromagnetic-tunnel-embedded architecture, the PCB structure including a PCB, and an EM-tunnel-embedded in the PCB, wherein the EM-tunnel includes a dielectric core and a metal clad which surrounds the dielectric core and has at least one port exposed to a surface of the PCB.
US10103417B2
Waveguide hinges are provided that allow for a substantially continuous RF waveguide to be formed through the hinge when the hinge elements are in a particular relative rotational configuration with respect to one another; the substantially continuous RF waveguide is not formed when the hinge elements are in various other relative rotational configurations. Such waveguide hinges allow for waveguide elements to be repositioned during periods when RF energy is not being transmitted.
US10103415B2
A battery cell includes a pouch, an electrolyte material, positive and negative electrodes, and one or more heat conducting members. The pouch has an inner surface defining an internal volume, within which is contained the electrolyte material. The electrodes form current collectors that are positioned within the internal volume of the pouch. The electrode terminals are connected to a respective one of the positive and negative electrodes. Each heat conducting member is in thermal communication with a respective electrode terminal fully within the internal volume of the pouch, and extends between the electrodes and the inner surface of the pouch. The heat conducting members form a parallel heat transfer path within the battery cell. A battery pack includes a housing containing multiple such battery cells.
US10103413B2
The present invention provides a method for removing copper and aluminum from an electrode material and a process for recycling electrode material from waste lithium-ion batteries. The method for removing copper and aluminum from the electrode material comprises: subjecting the electrode material containing electrode active material, copper and aluminum to reaction with an aqueous solution, wherein the aqueous solution has a pH value of higher than 10, and comprises base, oxidizing agent and complexing agent. The process for recycling electrode material from waste lithium-ion batteries comprises: a) harvesting an electrode material containing electrode active material, copper and aluminum from waste lithium-ion batteries; b) removing copper and aluminum from the electrode material according to the foresaid method; and c) further purifying and regenerating the electrode active material for reuse in new lithium-ion batteries. The present invention thus provides a practical and efficient method for recycling active materials from waste lithium-ion batteries.
US10103412B2
A universal rechargeable battery constituted by employing a lithium-ion battery and a control method for the rechargeable battery are provided. The rechargeable battery includes: an outer packaging housing and, sequentially laminated and assembled within the outer packaging housing, a charging/discharging controller, a positive electrode crimping piece, a lithium-ion battery, and a negative electrode end cap. The charging/discharging controller includes: a charging/discharging controller housing and, arranged within the charging/discharging controller housing, a charging/discharging control circuit solder body, an insulating washer, and a charging/discharging controller support frame. The charging/discharging control circuit solder body is soldered to a lithium battery charging/discharging control circuit. The lithium-ion battery charging/discharging control circuit includes: a lithium-ion battery charging control circuit, a lithium-ion battery detection circuit, and a DC-DC step-down regulator discharging circuit that are soldered onto a circuit substrate and electrically connected respectively to the lithium-ion battery, to a positive electrode end cap, and to the negative electrode end cap via the charging/discharging controller housing and the outer packaging housing.
US10103409B2
A lead-acid battery including: a power generating element, a container accommodating the power generating element a lid member having a rib joined to an outer wall of the container and sealing an opening of the container; an outer peripheral wall provided at the lid member, located to be spaced apart from the rib, and surrounding the outer wall of the container; and a spacer located between the outer wall of the container and the outer peripheral wall of the lid member.
US10103407B2
A battery includes a first portion and a second portion, in which the first portion includes a first positive electrode layer, a first negative electrode layer, and a first solid electrolyte layer located between the first positive electrode layer and the first negative electrode layer, in which the second portion includes a second positive electrode layer, a second negative electrode layer, and a second solid electrolyte layer located between the second positive electrode layer and the second negative electrode layer, in which the first portion and the second portion are in contact with each other, the second portion is more sharply bent than the first portion, the first solid electrolyte layer contains a first binder, the second solid electrolyte layer contains a second binder, and the second solid electrolyte layer containing the second binder has higher flexibility than a flexibility of the first solid electrolyte layer containing the first binder.
US10103399B2
A method of manufacturing a cell unit of a fuel cell, including: a) forming an assembly including an electrolyte membrane, an anode catalyst layer coated with a gas diffusion electrode on the side of a surface of the membrane, a cathode catalyst layer coated with a second gas diffusion electrode on the side of the other surface of the membrane, a first reinforcement frame at least partly extending between the membrane and the first electrode, and a second reinforcement frame at least partly extending between the membrane and the second electrode; b) fastening the first and second frames on either side of the membrane; and c) performing a local welding of at least one of the first and second frames to the membrane.
US10103397B2
A metal-air battery includes a battery module configured to provide electricity by oxidation of a metal and reduction of oxygen in air; and a first air purifier in fluid communication with the battery module and including a condenser configured to condense moisture in the air and remove the condensed moisture.
US10103394B2
A fuel cell system is provided, which includes a fuel cell configured to generate power by a reaction of fuel gas and air, an air compressor configured to compress air and supplying the compressed air to the fuel cell, a controller configured to control operations of the fuel cell and the air compressor, and an exhaust system member configured to discharge off-gas and produced water from the fuel cell. When a first condition including a flow rate of air by the air compressor being greater than a first flow rate is satisfied, the controller increases a rotational speed of the air compressor to supply air at or more than a second flow rate that is greater than the first flow rate to the fuel cell, and to discharge water inside the fuel cell.
US10103390B2
Disclosed herein is a method for producing fluid flow field plates with complex flow field geometries. The method includes locating an electrically conductive sheet on top of another electrically conductive sheet so that they are in intimate contact with each other. The sheets are sealed together, with a manifold opening cut through the sheets. A channel for a fluid is created by kiss cutting through the first sheet so that the channel is in fluid communication with the manifold opening.
US10103388B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a fine catalyst particle comprising a palladium-containing particle and a platinum outermost layer covering the palladium-containing particle, wherein a first composite body containing palladium and platinum is formed by mixing the palladium-containing particle with a first solution in which a platinum compound is dissolved, and then covering at least part of a surface of the palladium-containing particle with platinum; wherein a second composite body containing palladium, platinum and copper is formed by mixing the first composite body with a second solution in which a copper compound is dissolved, and then covering at least part of a surface of the first composite body with copper using copper underpotential deposition; and wherein the copper in the second composite body is substituted with platinum derived from a third solution in which a platinum compound is dissolved.
US10103387B2
A method for producing a fuel cell catalyst layer, which is able to allow an ionomer to sufficiently penetrate to the inside of the fine pores of a support with fine pores. The method is a method for producing a fuel cell catalyst layer in which a catalyst is supported on the support with fine pores and is coated with an ionomer, the method comprising: hydrophilizing a surface of the support by use of nitric acid, and dispersing the support, the catalyst and the ionomer by use of a ball mill after the hydrophilizing, wherein the amount of acidic functional groups per specific surface area of the support is set to 1.79 μmol/m2 or more in the hydrophilizing.
US10103385B2
Disclosed is an electrode assembly including a plurality of alternately arranged cathode and anode plates, a separator interposed between the cathode plate and the anode plate, a plurality of cathode tabs respectively formed on the cathode plates, a plurality of anode tabs respectively formed on the anode plates, a cathode lead coupled to the cathode tabs, and an anode lead coupled to the anode tabs, wherein the welding portions in which the cathode and anode tabs are respectively coupled to the cathode and anode leads have different shapes, or kinds of the cathode and anode tabs are identical and kinds of the cathode and anode leads are different.
US10103383B2
Provided are a transition metal mixed hydroxide comprising an alkali metal other than Li, SO4 and a transition metal element, wherein the molar ratio of the molar content of the alkali metal to the molar content of the SO4 is not less than 0.05 and less than 2, and a lithium mixed metal oxide obtained by calcining a mixture of the transition metal mixed hydroxide and a lithium compound by maintaining the mixture at a temperature of 650 to 1000° C.
US10103379B2
A composite particle is provided. The particle comprises a first particle component and a second particle component in which: (a) the first particle component comprises a body portion and a surface portion, the surface portion comprising one or more structural features and one or more voids, whereby the surface portion and body portion define together a structured particle; and (b) the second component comprises a removable filler; characterized in that (i) one or both of the body portion and the surface portion comprise an active material; and (ii) the filler is contained within one or more voids comprised within the surface portion of the first component. The use of the particle in applications such as electrochemical cells, metal-ion batteries such as secondary battery applications, lithium air batteries, flow cell batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, filters, sensors, electrical and thermal capacitors, micro-fluidic devices, gas or vapor sensors, thermal or dielectric insulating devices, devices for controlling or modifying the transmission, absorption or reflectance of light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation, chromatography or wound dressings is disclosed.
US10103373B2
Diaphragm paper, and a preparation method and an application thereof. The diaphragm paper comprises a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer, wherein the second layer is located between the first layer and the third layer; the first layer and the third layer are loose layers, of which the average aperture is larger than 10 μm and the basis weight is 5 to 30 g/m2; and the second layer is a compact layer, of which the average aperture is smaller than 5 μm and the basis weight is 2 to 15 g/m2. The compact layer has small aperture and good insulating performance, and is capable of effectively insulating a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The loose layers have good liquid permeability and electrolyte absorptivity, and can guarantee the discharge performance of a battery. The material is further advantageous in having good dimensional stability and being thin, so that a battery can achieve high capacity.
US10103368B2
A battery pack includes a tray, an array frame positioned relative to the tray and that houses at least one battery cell, and a retention clip mounted to the tray and engageable with a portion of the array frame. The portion or the retention clip is flexible and the other of the portion and the retention clip is rigid.
US10103357B2
Provided are nanograting structures and methods of fabrication thereof that allow for stable, robust gratings and nanostructure embedded gratings that enhance electromagnetic field, fluorescence, and photothermal coupling through surface plasmon or, photonic resonance. The gratings produced exhibit long term stability of the grating structure and improved shelf life without degradation of the properties such as fluorescence enhancement. Embodiments of the invention build nanograting structures layer-by-layer to optimize structural and optical properties and to enhance durability.
US10103341B2
An organometallic complex having a structure represented by the following general formula (G1) is provided. (In the formula, A represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 25 carbon atoms. Further, Z represents any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 25 carbon atoms. In addition, Ar1 represents an aryl group having 6 to 25 carbon atoms. R1 represents any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms. Further, M is a central metal and represents an element belonging to Group 9 or Group 10.)
US10103330B2
A semiconductor structure includes a resistance variable memory structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a dielectric layer. The resistance variable memory structure is over the dielectric layer. The resistance variable memory structure includes a first electrode disposed over the dielectric layer. The first electrode has a sidewall surface. A resistance variable layer has a first portion which is disposed over the sidewall surface of the first electrode and a second portion which extends from the first portion away from the first electrode. A second electrode is over the resistance variable layer.
US10103325B2
The resistance change memory device including a first resistance change memory element, a second resistance change memory element, and a memory controller is provided. The first resistance change memory element is disposed on a chip. The second resistance change memory element is disposed on the same chip. The memory controller is disposed on the same chip. The memory controller is configured to control data access of the first resistance change memory element and the second resistance change memory element. An accessing frequency of the first resistance change memory element is different from an accessing frequency of the second resistance change memory element.
US10103324B2
A memory device includes a plurality of bit lines, including first and second bit lines, extending in a first direction away from a substrate, a plurality of word lines, including first and second word lines, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and substantially parallel to a surface of the substrate, a first variable resistance film between the first word line and the first bit line and a second variable resistance film between the second word line and the second bit line, an insulating material electrically isolating the first and second word lines and the first and second bit lines, and a plurality of air gaps between the first and second bit lines.
US10103316B2
Provided is a piezoelectric film formed by a vapor phase growth method, the piezoelectric film containing: a perovskite oxide in which a perovskite oxide represented by the following formula P is doped with Si in an amount of from 0.2 mol % to less than 0.5 mol %, wherein a ratio of a peak intensity of a pyrochlore phase to a sum of peak intensities in respective plane orientations of (100), (001), (110), (101) and (111) of a perovskite phase measured by an X-ray diffraction method is 0.25 or less: A1+δ[(ZrxTi1−x)1−aNba]Oy Formula P wherein, in formula P, A is an A-site element primarily containing Pb; Zr, Ti, and Nb are B-site elements; x is more than 0 but less than 1; a is 0.1 or more but less than 0.3.
US10103314B2
The piezoelectric material of the present invention includes a main component composed of a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by Formula (1), at least one of Mn and Ni, and Mg. The content of Ni is 0 mol or more and 0.05 mol or less based on 1 mol of the perovskite-type metal oxide, and the content of Mn is 0 mol or more and 0.005 mol or less based on 1 mol of the perovskite-type metal oxide, provided that the content of Mn and the content of Ni are not simultaneously 0 mol. 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).
US10103313B2
A button device includes a piezoelectric element which includes a piezoelectric body with one surface on which a first external electrode and a second external electrode are formed and a plate with one surface attached to the other surface of the piezoelectric body, a supporting plate disposed on the one surface of the piezoelectric body, a cover disposed on the other surface of the plate, a first spacer provided between an edge portion of the one surface of the plate and the supporting plate, a second spacer provided between at least a part of an edge portion of the other surface of the plate and the cover to provide a separation space between the plate and the cover, and a dot provided in the separation space to transfer an external force to the piezoelectric element or to transfer a vibration of the piezoelectric element to the cover.
US10103310B2
A thermo-electric generator includes a semiconductor membrane with a phononic structure containing at least one P-N junction. The membrane is suspended between a first support designed to be coupled to a cold thermal source and a second support designed to be coupled to a hot thermal source. The structure for suspending the membrane has an architecture allowing the heat flux to be redistributed within the plane of the membrane.
US10103306B2
Provided is a light-emitting element package, one embodiment comprising: a substrate; a light-emitting element disposed on the substrate; and a molded part surrounding the side surfaces and the top surface of the light-emitting element and having patterns on a surface from which the light incident thereto from the light-emitting element is output, wherein a part of the patterns correspond to a first area corresponding to the light-emitting element, and to a second area around the first area and are arranged at an angular range of 120 to 130 degrees on the surface of the molded part.
US10103303B2
A light emitting package includes a first lead frame; a second lead frame spaced apart from the first lead frame in a first direction; a body coupled to the first lead frame and the second lead frame; and a light emitting element on the first lead frame. The first lead frame includes first to fourth side parts, the first side part includes a first protrusion that protrudes outwards from one side surface of the body, and a first contact part disposed at the end of the first protrusion. The second lead frame includes fifth to eighth side parts, the fifth side part includes a second protrusion that protrudes outwards from a side surface of the body, which is symmetrical to the one side surface of the body, and a second contact part disposed at the end of the second protrusion. Each of the first contact part and the second contact part includes a second layer and first layer covers the second layer.
US10103295B2
An embodiment relates to a light emitting device package and a manufacturing method of the light emitting device package. The light emitting device package according to an embodiment may include a body having a top opened cavity, a light emitting device mounted on an inner bottom surface of the cavity, and a molding part accommodated in the cavity to protect the light emitting device, and the molding part may include a CYTOP, and thus not only light efficiency can be enhanced but also the reliability of the product can be improved with high durability.
US10103291B2
A method for forming a light-emitting package structure provided with a predetermined view angle is provided. The method includes the steps of: disposing a flip chip on a carrier substrate; filling an underfill material between at least two electrodes of the flip chip for supporting the flip-chip; laser lifting-off a growing substrate from the flip chip for forming a thin film chip and exposing an epitaxial structure from the thin film chip; roughening the epitaxial structure exposed from the thin film chip; providing a view angle adjusting structure including a wavelength converting layer on the thin film chip, and selecting a predetermined view angle and achieving the predetermined view angle by adjusting the view angle adjusting structure according to a linear regression formula.
US10103290B2
Various embodiments of SST dies and solid state lighting (“SSL”) devices with SST dies, assemblies, and methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a SST die includes a substrate material, a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material on the substrate material, an active region between the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, and a support structure defined by the substrate material. In some embodiments, the support structure has an opening that is vertically aligned with the active region.
US10103289B2
A light-emitting diode having a stack-like structure, whereby the stack-like structure comprises a substrate layer and a mirror layer and an n-doped bottom cladding layer and an active layer, producing electromagnetic radiation, and a p-doped top cladding layer and an n-doped current spreading layer, and the aforementioned layers are arranged in the indicated sequence. The active layer comprises a quantum well structure. A tunnel diode is situated between the top cladding layer and the current spreading layer, whereby the current spreading layer is formed predominantly of an n-doped Ga-containing layer, having a Ga content >1%.
US10103284B2
Apparatus for the industrial production of photovoltaic concentrator modules, consisting of a module frame, a lens disc, a sensor carrier disc and an electrical line routing arrangement, comprising the following features: a) a mount for the stress-free mounting of a module frame by means of clamping elements on both longitudinal sides and stop elements on both transverse sides, wherein the setting of the clamping elements takes place by means of the displacement and rotation of a switching rod, b) a device for a punctiform application of acrylic and a linear application of silicone onto the bearing surfaces of the module frame, c) a respective device for placing the sensor carrier disc or the lens disc, wherein these discs are transported in a stress-free fashion by means of special suction apparatuses and are emplaced with a centrally starting, predetermined contact pressure, d) a device for measuring the respective disc position and for positioning a sensor carrier disc or a lens disc, e) a device for the fine adjustment of the lens disc with respect to the CPV sensors of the sensor carrier disc by means of a camera, wherein the camera is adjusted in such a way that the position of its optical axis impinges on the geometrical midpoint of a CPV sensor, f) a device for curing the silicone application between the module frame and the respective disc by means of a plurality of UV light emitters, and g) devices for transporting the workpieces to be processed.
US10103282B2
The present invention provides transparent semiconducting films for constructing a translucent electrode that possess a high transparency and low sheet resistance. Further, the transparent semiconducting films have a high light diffusion property, which is capable to be a translucent front/back electrode in a light-emitting device for improving the light emission efficiency and a front/intermediate/back electrode in a multi-junction solar cell for improving the light trapping effect. Related fabrication method and how they are applied in different fields are also provided in the present invention.
US10103277B2
A method comprising a step of forming an oxide semiconductor film over a substrate by a sputtering method while heating the substrate at a temperature of higher than 200° C. and lower than or equal to 400° C. is provided. The oxide semiconductor film comprises a crystalline region and is in a non-single-crystal state. The step of forming the oxide semiconductor film is performed by using a sputtering target comprising indium, gallium, zinc and oxygen and a sputtering gas comprising at least one of a rare gas and oxygen.
US10103266B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a lower fin that protrudes from a substrate and extends in a first direction, an oxide film the lower fin, an upper fin that protrudes from the oxide film and that is spaced apart from the lower fin at a position corresponding to the lower fin, and a gate structure the upper fin that extends in a second direction to intersect the upper fin, wherein germanium (Ge) is included in a portion of the oxide film located between the lower fin and the upper fin.
US10103263B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide transistor structures having strained channel regions. Strain is created through lattice mismatches in the source and drain regions relative to the channel region of the transistor. In embodiments of the invention, the transistor channel regions are comprised of germanium, silicon, a combination of germanium and silicon, or a combination of germanium, silicon, and tin and the source and drain regions are comprised of a doped III-V compound semiconductor material. Embodiments of the invention are useful in a variety of transistor structures, such as, for example, trigate, bigate, and single gate transistors and transistors having a channel region comprised of nanowires or nanoribbons.
US10103255B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a drift layer; a base layer and a carrier storage layer over the drift layer; a collector layer on the drift layer opposite to the base layer; multiple trenches penetrating the base layer and the carrier storage layer and reaching the drift layer; a gate electrode on an insulation film in each trench; and an emitter region in a surface portion of the base layer contacting each trench. A thickness of at least a portion of a part of the gate insulation film on a sidewall of each trench on a collector layer side from a peak position, at which the impurity concentration of the carrier storage layer is highest, is thicker than a thickness of another part of the gate insulation film on the sidewall of an opening portion side of the trench from the peak position.
US10103254B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for fabricating a semiconductor die that includes one or more bipolar transistors disposed on or above a high-resistivity region of a substrate. The substrate may include, for example, bulk silicon, at least a portion of which has high-resistivity characteristics. For example, the bulk substrate may have a resistivity greater than 500 Ohm*cm, such as around 1 kOhm*cm. In certain embodiments, one or more of the bipolar devices are surrounded by a low-resistivity implant configured to reduce effects of harmonic and other interference.
US10103253B2
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region; a first semiconductor mesa formed on the semiconductor substrate within the first region; a second semiconductor mesa formed on the semiconductor substrate within the second region; and a field effect transistor (FET) formed on the semiconductor substrate. The FET includes a first doped feature of a first conductivity type formed in a top portion of the first semiconductor mesa; a second doped feature of a second conductivity type formed in a bottom portion of the first semiconductor mesa, the second semiconductor mesa, and a portion of the semiconductor substrate between the first and second semiconductor mesas; a channel in a middle portion of the first semiconductor mesa and interposed between the source and drain; and a gate formed on sidewall of the first semiconductor mesa.
US10103245B2
An integrated circuit die includes a silicon substrate. PMOS and NMOS transistors are formed on the silicon substrate. The carrier mobilities of the PMOS and NMOS transistors are increased by introducing tensile stress into the channel regions of the NMOS transistors and compressive stress into the channel regions of the PMOS transistors. Tensile stress is introduced by including a region of SiGe below the channel region of the NMOS transistors. Compressive stress is introduced by including regions of SiGe in the source and drain regions of the PMOS transistors.
US10103231B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first element portion. The first element portion includes first and second semiconductor layers, first, second and third electrodes, and a first insulating layer. The first semiconductor layer includes Alx1Ga1-x1N (0≤x1<1). The first electrode is separated from the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode includes a polycrystal of a nitride of one of Al or B. The second semiconductor layer includes Alx2Ga1-x2N (x1
US10103222B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided on a part of the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type provided on a part of the second semiconductor region, agate electrode, a first electrode, and a conductive portion. The gate electrode is provided on another part of the second semiconductor region via a gate insulating portion. The first electrode is provided on the third semiconductor region and electrically connected to the third semiconductor region. The conductive portion is provided on another part of the first semiconductor region via a first insulating portion and electrically connected to the first electrode, and includes a portion arranged side by side with the gate electrode in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction from the first semiconductor region to the first electrode.
US10103217B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating layer disposed over a substrate, wherein the insulating layer has a center region. A first winding portion and a second winding portion are electrically connected to the first winding portion, disposed in a first level of the insulating layer and surrounding the center region, wherein each of the first winding portion and the second winding portion comprises a plurality of conductive lines arranged from the inside to the outside. A first extending conductive line and a second extending conductive line partially surround the first extending conductive line, and are disposed in the first level of the insulating layer, wherein the first winding portion and the second winding portion surround the first extending conductive line and the second extending conductive line. A third extending conductive line is disposed in a second level of the insulating layer and surrounding the center region.
US10103216B2
The present disclosure relates to a thin film transistor substrate for flat panel display including an organic light emitting diode display. The present disclosure provides a device comprising: a substrate; a scan line extending in a first direction on the substrate; a buffer layer on the scan line; a semiconductor layer extending in a second direction and crossing the scan line on the buffer layer; a gate insulating layer on the semiconductor layer; a gate electrode connected to the scan line, and extending in the first direction and crossing the semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer; an intermediate insulating layer on the gate electrode; a data line crossing the scan line on the intermediate insulating layer; a source electrode branching from the data line and contacting a first side of the semiconductor layer; and a drain electrode facing the source electrode and contacting a second side of the semiconductor layer.
US10103211B2
In the case where a material containing an alkaline-earth metal in a cathode, is used, there is a fear of the diffusion of an impurity ion (such as alkaline-earth metal ion) from the EL element to the TFT being generated and causing the variation of characteristics of the TFT. Therefore, as the insulating film provided between TFT and EL element, a film containing a material for not only blocking the diffusion of an impurity ion such as an alkaline-earth metal ion but also aggressively absorbing an impurity ion such as an alkaline-earth metal ion is used.
US10103198B2
A magnetoresistive element according to an embodiment includes: a multilayer structure including a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer disposed above the first magnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic layer disposed between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer; a conductor disposed above the second magnetic layer, and including a lower face, an upper face opposing to the lower face, and a side face that is different from the lower face and the upper face, an area of the lower face of the conductor being smaller than an area of the upper face of the conductor, and smaller than an area of an upper face of the second magnetic layer; and a carbon-containing layer disposed on the side face of the conductor.
US10103194B2
An image sensor includes a substrate, a plurality of light sensitive pixels, a first plurality of color filters, a plurality of reflective sidewalls, and a second plurality of color filters. The light sensitive pixels are formed on said substrate. The first plurality of color filters is disposed over a first group of the light sensitive pixels. The reflective sidewalls are formed on each side of each of the first plurality of color filters. The second plurality of color filters are disposed over a second group of light sensitive pixels and each color filter of the second plurality of color filters is separated from each adjacent filter of said first plurality of color filters by one of the reflective sidewalls. In a particular embodiment an etch-resistant layer is disposed over the first plurality of color filters and the second group of light sensitive pixels.
US10103186B2
A photoelectric conversion section contains a semiconductor element having a laminated structure which contains an electroconductor, a semiconductor, and an insulator provided between the electroconductor and the semiconductor, in which the insulator is a silicon oxide film containing nitrogen in a main portion located between the electroconductor and the semiconductor.
US10103185B2
A method of image sensor fabrication includes growing a semiconductor material having an illuminated surface and a non-illuminated surface, where the semiconductor material includes silicon and germanium and a germanium concentration increases in a direction of the non-illuminated surface. The method further includes forming a plurality of photodiodes, including a doped region and a heavily doped region, in the semiconductor material, where the doped region is of an opposite majority charge carrier type as the heavily doped region. A plurality of isolation regions are formed and disposed between individual photodiodes in the plurality of photodiodes, where the plurality of isolation regions surround, at least in part, the individual photodiodes and electrically isolate the individual photodiodes.
US10103161B2
Die cracking of a three dimensional memory device may be reduced by adding offsets to backside contact via structures. Each backside contact via structure can include laterally extending portions that extend along a first horizontal direction adjoined by adjoining portions that extend along a horizontal direction other than the first horizontal direction. In order to preserve periodicity of memory stack structures extending through an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, the distance between an outermost row of a string of memory stack structures between a pair of backside contact via structures and a most proximal backside contact via structure can vary from a laterally extending portion to another laterally extending portion within the most proximal backside contact via structure. Source shunt lines that are parallel to bit lines can be formed over a selected subset of offset portions of the backside contact via structures.
US10103152B2
A Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same are provided. The method includes forming a trench in a substrate, forming a lower gate metal using a first gas, the lower gate metal burying at least a portion of the trench, forming a barrier metal on the lower gate metal, on the barrier metal, forming an upper gate metal using a second gas different from the first gas and forming a capping film on the gate metal, the capping film filling the trench.
US10103148B2
NAND string configurations and semiconductor memory arrays that include such NAND string configurations are provided. Methods of making semiconductor memory cells used in NAND string configurations are also described.
US10103146B2
A FinFET device is provided. The FinFET device includes a plurality of fin structures that protrude upwardly out of a dielectric isolation structure. The FinFET device also includes a plurality of gate structures that partially wrap around the fin structures. The fin structures each extend in a first direction, and the gate structures each extend in a second direction different from the first direction. An epitaxial structure is formed over at least a side surface of each of the fin structures. The epitaxial structure includes: a first epi-layer, a second epi-layer, or a third epi-layer. The epitaxial structure formed over each fin structure is separated from adjacent epitaxial structures by a gap. A silicide layer is formed over each of the epitaxial structures. The silicide layer at least partially fills in the gap. Conductive contacts are formed over the silicide layer.
US10103141B2
A method includes forming a plurality of trenches extending from a top surface of a semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, with semiconductor strips formed between the plurality of trenches. The plurality of trenches includes a first trench and second trench wider than the first trench. A first dielectric material is filled in the plurality of trenches, wherein the first trench is substantially fully filled, and the second trench is filled partially. A second dielectric material is formed over the first dielectric material. The second dielectric material fills an upper portion of the second trench, and has a shrinkage rate different from the first shrinkage rate of the first dielectric material. A planarization is performed to remove excess second dielectric material. The remaining portions of the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material form a first and a second STI region in the first and the second trenches, respectively.
US10103138B2
In some embodiments, a system may include an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a substrate including a first surface, a second surface substantially opposite of the first surface, and a first set of electrical conductors coupled to the first surface. The first set of electrical conductors may function to electrically connect the integrated circuit to a circuit board. The integrated circuit may include a semiconductor die coupled to the second surface of the substrate using a second set of electrical conductors. The integrated circuit may include a passive device dimensioned to be integrated with the integrated circuit. The passive device may be positioned between the second surface and at least one of the first set of electrical conductors. The die may be electrically connected to a second side of the passive device. A first side of the passive device may be available to be electrically connected to a second device.
US10103116B2
A conductive bump assembly may include a passive substrate. The conductive bump assembly may also include a conductive bump pad supported by the passive substrate and surrounded by a first passivation layer opening. The conductive bump assembly may further include a second passivation layer opening on the passive substrate. The second passivation layer opening may be merged with the first passivation layer opening surrounding the conductive bump pad proximate an edge of the passive substrate. The conductive bump assembly may also include a conductive bump on the conductive bump pad.
US10103094B2
An interconnect element includes a semiconductor or insulating material layer that has a first thickness and defines a first surface; a thermally conductive layer; a plurality of conductive elements; and a dielectric coating. The thermally conductive layer includes a second thickness of at least 10 microns and defines a second surface of the interconnect element. The plurality of conductive elements extend from the first surface of the interconnect element to the second surface of the interconnect element. The dielectric coating is between at least a portion of each conductive element and the thermally conductive layer.
US10103091B2
A semiconductor device may include: a first and a second semiconductor elements each including electrodes on both surfaces thereof; a first and a second metal plates which interpose the first semiconductor element, the metal plates respectively being bonded to the first semiconductor element via first soldered portions; and a third and a fourth metal plates which interpose the second semiconductor element, the metal plates respectively being bonded to the second semiconductor element via second soldered portions; wherein a first joint is provided at the first metal plate, a second joint is provided at the fourth metal plate, the joints are bonded via a third soldered portion, and a solidifying point of the first soldered portions is higher than a solidifying point of the third soldered portion, and a solidifying point of the second soldered portions is higher than the solidifying point of the third soldered portion.
US10103089B2
An exemplary cooling system includes a heat transfer device having a base and a plurality of curved fins defining a curved air flow channel. Air flow is provided through the air flow channel, and a plurality of openings through a fin communicate air flow from a first side to a second side of the curved fin.
US10103070B2
Methods and processes for forming semiconductor devices with reduced yield loss and failed dies are provided. One method includes, for instance: obtaining a wafer after at least one fabrication processing; taking first r, θ, z measurements of the wafer after the at least one fabrication processing; performing at least one second fabrication processing; taking second r, θ, z measurements of the wafer after the at least one second fabrication processing; and analyzing the second r, θ, z measurements with respect to the first r, θ, z measurements. A process includes, for instance: obtaining a wafer with a substrate and at least one first device positioned on the substrate; taking first measurements in a r, θ, z coordinate system; forming at least one second device over the substrate; taking second measurements in the r, θ, z coordinate system; and analyzing the second measurements with respect to the first measurements.
US10103064B2
The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit device including n-channel and p-channel MOSFETs. The MOSFETs include epitaxial grown raised source/drain regions and epitaxial grown channel regions. An epitaxially grown diffusion barrier layer separates the epitaxial grown channel regions from underlying deep n-wells and p-wells. The epitaxial source/drain regions allow for a low thermal budget that in combination with the diffusion barrier layer allows the deep n-wells and p-wells to be heavily doped while preserving high purity in the channel layers.
US10103061B2
Disclosed herein is a processing method of a single-crystal substrate having a film formed on a front side or a back side thereof to divide the single-crystal substrate along a plurality of preset division lines. The method includes a film removing step of removing the film along the division lines, a shield tunnel forming step of applying a pulsed laser beam having a wavelength which permeates through the single-crystal substrate along the division lines to form shield tunnels, each including a fine hole and an amorphous region shielding the fine hole, in the single-crystal substrate along the division lines, and dividing step of exerting an external force on the single-crystal substrate to which the shield tunnel forming step is performed to divide the single-crystal substrate along the division lines.
US10103045B2
A vertical fixing transmission box used for transmitting a container is disclosed. The transmission box includes a carrier substrate and an elastic component, wherein the carrier substrate is utilized to carry the container, and the elastic component may be switched between an opening state and a fixing state. When the container is carried by the carrier substrate and the elastic component is switched to the opening state, the elastic component provides a vertical elastic force to abut against the container downwardly and fix the container. Also, the transmission box may be transported by an automatic material handling system.
US10103035B2
There is a provided a copper-ceramic bonded body in which a copper member formed of copper or a copper alloy and a ceramic member formed of nitride ceramic are bonded to each other, in which an active element oxide layer containing an active element and oxygen is formed at bonding interfaces between the copper member and the ceramic member, and a thickness t of the active element oxide layer is in a range of 5 nm to 220 nm.
US10103029B2
A process for metalizing a through silicon via feature in a semiconductor integrated circuit device, the process including, during the filling cycle, reversing the polarity of circuit for an interval to generate an anodic potential at said metalizing substrate and desorb leveler from the copper surface within the via, followed by resuming copper deposition by re-establishing the surface of the copper within the via as the cathode in the circuit, thereby yielding a copper filled via feature.
US10103028B2
Methods for selective silicide formation are described herein. The methods are generally utilized in conjunction with contact structure integration schemes and provide for improved silicide formation characteristics. In one implementation, a silicide material is selectively formed on source/drain (S/D) regions at a temperature less than about 550° C. The resulting silicide is believed to exhibit desirable contact resistance and applicability in advanced contact integration schemes.
US10103026B2
A method of forming a material layer includes providing a substrate into a reaction chamber, providing a source material onto a substrate, the source material being a precursor of a metal or semimetal having a ligand, providing an ether-based modifier on the substrate, purging an inside of the reaction chamber, and reacting a reaction material with the source material to form the material layer.
US10103017B2
The invention relates to the preparation of samples on mass spectrometric sample supports with dispensing of liquids, and particularly to devices and methods to clean the dispenser. During dispensing of hundreds of samples, solved material may crystallize over time as deposit at the capillary tip of the dispenser, which impedes the vertical detachment of the drop in the medium and long run. Therefore, frequently cleaning the capillary tip is essential for a robust operation of the preparation device. The invention proposes to automatically clean the dispenser tip by creating a drop of washing fluid, such as pure solvent, fully enclosing the dispenser tip. The washing fluid is fed through a channel outside the central dispenser capillary to a location slightly above the capillary tip. The size of the hanging drop of washing fluid is photometrically regulated and monitored to prevent it from falling off prematurely.
US10103016B2
A sample support according to an aspect is a sample support for a surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization method, and includes: a substrate in which a plurality of through-holes passing from one surface thereof to the other surface thereof are provided; and a conductive layer that is formed of a conductive material and covers at least the one surface. The through-holes have a width of 1 to 700 nm, and the substrate has a thickness of 1 to 50 μm.
US10103015B2
Methods and systems for delivering a liquid sample to an ion source for the generation of ions and subsequent analysis by mass spectrometry are provided herein. In accordance with various aspects of the present teachings, MS-based systems and methods are provided in which a desorption solvent utilized in a sampling interface to desorb one or more analyte species from an SPME device is fluidly coupled to an ion source for ionizing the one or more analyte species desorbed into the desorption solvent for subsequent mass spectrometric analysis (e.g., without a liquid chromatography (LC) column between the sampling interface and the ion source). In accordance with various aspects of the methods and systems described herein, the configuration the sampling interface can be optimized so as to reduce the fluid volume dead space about the fluid inlet so as to concentrate the one or more analyte species desorbed at optimized conditions from the SPME substrate in a decreased volume of the desorption solvent when the SPME device is inserted into sampling interface.
US10103011B2
A plasma processing apparatus 1 includes a chamber 10, a mounting table 16, a focus ring 24a, a first electrode plate 36 and a second electrode plate 35. The focus ring 24a is provided around the mounting table 16 to surround a mounting surface of the mounting table 16. The first electrode plate 36 is provided above the mounting table 16. The second electrode plate 35 is provided around the first electrode plate 36 to surround the first electrode plate 36 and is insulated from the first electrode plate 36. The plasma processing apparatus 1, in a first process, performs a preset processing on a semiconductor wafer W mounted on the mounting surface with plasma generated within the chamber, and, in a second process, increases an absolute value of a negative DC voltage applied to the second electrode plate 35 depending on an elapsed time of the first process.
US10103008B2
A micromachining process includes exposing the work piece surface to a precursor gas including a compound having an acid halide functional group; and irradiating the work piece surface with a beam in the presence of the precursor gas, the precursor gas reacting in the presence of the particle beam to remove material from the work piece surface.
US10103004B2
A method of imaging a secondary charged particle beam emanating from a sample by impingement of a primary charged particle beam is provided. The method includes setting a first operating parameter to a first value. The first operating parameter is selected from a group including: landing energy of the primary charged particle beam on the sample, extraction field strength for the secondary charged particle beam at the sample, magnetic field strength of an objective lens that focuses the primary charged particle beam onto the sample, and working distance of the objective lens from the sample. The method further includes controlling, while the first operating parameter is set to the first value, the excitation of a first lens and of a second lens to map the secondary charged particle beam onto a first region on an aperture plate. The first region overlaps with a first opening of the aperture plate and with a second opening of the aperture plate. The method further includes setting the first operating parameter to a second value different from the first value. The method further includes controlling, while the first operating parameter is set to the second value, the excitation of the first lens and of the second lens to map the secondary charged particle beam onto the first region on the aperture plate.
US10103000B2
A double-tilt sample holder for TEM, comprising: it comprise the main body of sample holder body, front-end tilt stage, drive rod, linkage, tilt axis, rotation axis, fixed axis of drive rod and sample loading stage. The axis hole is arranged at the front-end tilt stage, which is connected to the main body of the sample holder body by the tilt axis. The linkage, the boss slot and the drive rod slot are connected by the rotation axis. Two through movement guide grooves are designed symmetrically at both sides of the front-end of sample holder body, and the drive rod is fixed by the fixed axis of the drive rod, which restricts the drive rod to move reciprocally in a straight line driven by the linear stepping motor at the back-end of the main body of the holder body, further leading the tilt stage to rotate around the tilt axis. The tilt angle of the sample loading stage can be precisely controlled by the high precision linear stepping motor in the apparatus. The maximum tilt angle of the sample stage can be adjusted by the included angle between the boss at the bottom surface of the front-end tilt stage and the horizontal direction and the length of the movement guide groove in the apparatus. The apparatus can be used coordinately with TEM and its universality is wide.
US10102997B2
Disclosed herein are a high-voltage generator for an x-ray source, an x-ray gun, an electron beam apparatus, a rotary vacuum seal, a target assembly for an x-ray source, a rotary x-ray emission target, and an x-ray source. These various aspects may separately and/or together enable the construction of an x-ray source which can operate at energies of up to 500 kV and beyond, which is suitable for use in commercial and research x-ray applications such as computerized tomography. In particular, the high-voltage generator includes a shield electrode electrically connected intermediate of a first voltage multiplier and a second voltage multiplier. The electron beam apparatus includes control photodetectors and photo emitters having a transparent conductive shield arranged therebetween. The rotary vacuum seal includes a pumpable chamber at a position intermediate between high-pressure and low-pressure ends of a bore for a rotating shaft. The rotary target assembly is configured such that when a torque between a bearing housing and a vacuum housing exceeds a predetermined torque, the bearing housing rotates relative to the vacuum housing. The rotary x-ray emission target has a plurality of target plates supported on a hub, the plates being arranged on the hub to provide an annular target region about an axis rotation of the hub. The x-ray gun is provided with a shield electrode maintained at a potential difference relative to the x-ray target different to the electron beam emission cathode.
US10102992B2
The present disclosure relates to a switching device, comprising an input for a sensor signal, the sensor signal having a sensor signal amplitude; and processing circuitry to determine a switching threshold based on the sensor signal amplitude and a weighting factor depending on said sensor signal amplitude and to generate a switching signal when a level of the sensor signal crosses the switching threshold.
US10102989B2
An electric switching device may include at least two conductor elements that can be placed at a distance from one another and contacted with each other using a moving mechanism, and a housing that defines a circuit breaker chamber, wherein the housing is made of an insulator, and at least partly surrounds the conductor elements. At least one face of the housing may have a resistive coating made of a matrix material filled with a filler, wherein the coating has a sheet resistance between 108 and 1012 ohm at the operating field strength, and is conductingly connected to the conductor elements.
US10102987B1
A keyboard switch for a keyboard includes a base secured to a plunger that reciprocates with respect to the base and is biased away from the base. An electrical contact assembly is positioned within a cavity defined by the base and the plunger. The electrical contact assembly remains in an electrically open state when the plunger is furthest from the base, but the electrical contact assembly enters an electrically closed state when the plunger is longitudinally moved downwardly by force towards the base. In this regard, a cam protruding from a side portion of a body of the plunger has a profile surface that contacts the electrical contact assembly as the plunger is longitudinally moved towards the base. A curved profile of the cam that incorporates a concave arc uniquely changes the amount of force experienced by the typist at different points of the downward motion of the plunger.
US10102986B2
A control panel for a vehicle. The control panel includes a decorative layer and a control assembly. The decorative layer has a visible face and a rear face opposite to the visible face. The control assembly has a front face and a rear face opposite to the front face. The front face of the control assembly faces the rear face of the decorative layer. The control assembly is fixed to the decorative layer and includes a support film, a pressure sensor and a light-emitting diode. The pressure sensor and the light-emitting diode are printed on the support film.
US10102975B2
The present disclosure provides a film capacitor, including: a plurality of capacitor cores, including: a first group of capacitor cores connected in parallel, having first and second end surfaces; and a second group of capacitor cores connected in parallel, connected with the first group of capacitor cores in series, having a third end surface opposite to the first end surface of the first group of capacitor cores and a fourth end surface; a positive electrode busbar, connected to the first end surface; a negative electrode busbar, connected to the third end surface; an intermediate busbar, connected to the second end surface and the fourth end surface respectively; a first connection sheet connected to the positive electrode busbar; a second connection sheet connected to the negative electrode busbar; and a third connection sheet connected to the intermediate busbar.
US10102973B2
A ceramic capacitor comprising at least a dielectric ceramic layer and at least a graphene electrode layer deposited on the ceramic layer, wherein the graphene electrode layer has a thickness no less than 2 nm and consists of a graphene material or a graphene composite material containing at least 0.1% by weight of a graphene material dispersed in a matrix material or bonded by a binder material, wherein the graphene material is selected from (a) a plurality of single-layer or multi-layer pristine graphene sheets having less than 0.01% by weight of non-carbon elements, or (b) one or a plurality of a non-pristine graphene material having at least 0.01% by weight of non-carbon elements, wherein the non-pristine graphene is selected from graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene fluoride, graphene chloride, graphene bromide, graphene iodide, hydrogenated graphene, nitrogenated graphene, doped graphene, chemically functionalized graphene, or a combination thereof.
US10102971B2
A first substrate includes a substrate main body including a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposing each other in a first direction, first and second connection electrodes disposed on the first principal surface, and third and fourth connection electrodes disposed on the second principal surface. A first metal terminal includes a first connection portion electrically connected with the first connection electrode, and a first leg portion extending from the first connection portion. A second metal terminal includes a second connection portion electrically connected with the fourth connection electrode, and a second leg portion extending from the second connection portion. A multilayer capacitor is disposed on the first principal surface side of the first substrate, and an overcurrent protection device is disposed on the second principal surface side of the first substrate. The second connection electrode and the third connection electrode are electrically connected to each other.
US10102959B2
A common mode filter includes: an insulator; a coil pattern embedded within in the insulator; and a magnetic layer including a layer of material filled with different-size magnetic particles, wherein a surface of the magnetic layer is adhered to the insulator.
US10102955B2
An electrical system including multiple bodies having an underlying structure resembling a double helix may be arranged and used, to produce useful electromagnetic effects for various applications, including therapy and the promotion of growth in organisms and organic matter.
US10102953B2
An apparatus and method for holding permanent magnet components, particularly on a rotor of an electrical machine. A magnet carrier (10) comprises a channel (30) suitable for receiving an encircling magnet retainer (20) and a method of manufacturing a magnet assembly (100) comprises providing a magnet carrier (10) comprising a channel (30), mounting a magnet (60) on the magnet carrier (10), and encircling the magnet (60) and magnet carrier (10) with a magnet retainer (20), wherein the magnet retainer (20) passes through the channel (30).
US10102947B1
A process for manufacturing finished wire and cable having reduced coefficient of friction and pulling force during installation, includes providing a payoff reel containing at least one internal conductor wire; supplying the at least one internal conductor wire from the reel to at least one extruder; providing the least one extruder, wherein the at least one extruder applies an insulating material and a polymerized jacket composition over the at least one internal conductor wire, wherein the polymerized jacket composition comprises a predetermined amount by weight of nylon; and at least 3% by weight of a silica providing a cooling device for lowering the temperature of the extruded insulating material and the polymerized jacket composition and cooling the insulating material and the polymerized jacket composition in the cooling device; and, reeling onto a storage reel the finished, cooled, wire and cable for storage and distribution.
US10102923B1
A system includes a plurality of RFID chips affixed to a medical item, a data collection engine device, and a server device. The data collection engine wirelessly transmits power to a first one of the RFID chips and receives first medical data from the first RFID chip while the first RFID chip is activated by the power receiver. The data collection engine generates a first message indicative of the first medical data to be sent to the server device. The server device can determine aspects of the medical item based upon the first medical data.
US10102909B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a cell string having a plurality of memory cells connected to one bit line. A page buffer is connected to the bit line via a sensing node and connected to the cell string via the bit line. The page buffer includes a first latch for storing bit line setup information and a second latch for storing forcing information. The first latch is configured to output the bit line setup information to the sensing node, and the second latch is configured to output the forcing information to the sensing node independently of the first latch.
US10102906B2
A state-changeable device includes a first and a second particle arranged in proximity to each other; and a coupling material between the first and the second particle; wherein the first and the second particle are adapted to provide a charge carrier distribution such that surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) occur; and the coupling material is adapted to exhibit a variable conductivity in response to a trigger signal thereby changing an electro-optical coupling between the first and the second particle.
US10102904B2
A memory access module for performing memory access management of a storage device includes a plurality of storage cells. Each storage cell has a number of possible bit(s) directly corresponding to possible states of the storage cell. The memory access module further includes: a read only memory for storing a program code; and a microprocessor, coupled to the read only memory, for executing the program code to perform the following steps: performing a plurality of sensing operations, wherein a first sensing operation corresponds to a first sensing voltage, and each subsequent sensing operation corresponds to a sensing voltage determined according to a result of the previous sensing operation; using the plurality of sensing operations to generate a first digital value and a second digital value of a storage cell; using the first and the second digital value to obtain soft information of a same bit stored in the storage cell; and using the soft information to perform soft decoding.
US10102894B2
A magnetic memory includes: a first and second terminals; a conductive layer including first to fourth regions, the first and fourth regions being electrically connected to the first and second terminals respectively; a first magnetoresistive element including: a first and second magnetic layers; a first nonmagnetic layer between the first and second magnetic layers; and a third terminal electrically connected to the first magnetic layer; a second magnetoresistive element including: a third and fourth magnetic layers; a second nonmagnetic layer between the third and fourth magnetic layers; and a fourth terminal electrically connected to the third magnetic layer; and a circuit configured to apply a write current between the first terminal and the second terminal and apply a first and second potentials to the third and fourth terminals respectively to write the first and second magnetoresistive elements, the first and second potentials being different from each other.
US10102893B2
Systems and methods for performing word line pulse techniques in magnetoelectric junctions in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a magnetoelectric random access memory (MeRAM) circuit, including, a plurality of voltage controlled magnetic tunnel junction bits (MEJs) each magnetoelectric junction connected to the drain of an MOS transistor, the combination including three terminals, each connected to a bit, source, and at least one word line, in an array, and a driver circuit, including a bit line driver, and a word line driver the bit line driver, the driver circuit generates voltage pulses for application to the magnetoelectric junction bit, the output of the driver circuit is connected to the word line, which in turn is connected to the gate of the MOS access transistor in each MeRAM cell, thereby generating a square voltage pulse across the magnetoelectric junction bit.
US10102892B1
Unlike prior RAM-based shift register circuits, the presently-disclosed shift register circuit does not require control circuits to generate write and read address signals. Instead, the presently-disclosed shift register circuit utilizes a portion of RAM to store and provide the write and read address signals. The write and read addresses are output from the data output port of the RAM, and received by the write and read address ports of the RAM. Advantageously, the presently-disclosed shift register circuit requires less area to implement because the need for write and read control circuits is eliminated.
US10102890B2
A semiconductor system includes a controller operatively coupled to a semiconductor device, the controller being suitable in a training mode for receiving an external signal and a first data signal from an external device and for transmitting the received external signal and the first data signal to the semiconductor device; and the semiconductor device being suitable in the training mode for determining a level of a reference voltage in response to the first data signal, and for transmitting a second data signal to the controller by buffering the external signal based on the reference voltage without performing a termination operation during an output period of the second data signal, wherein the controller controls an enable timing of the external signal by receiving the second data signal.
US10102882B1
A base of a disk drive apparatus includes a bottom plate portion, a pivot post, and a recessed portion. A lower surface of the bottom plate portion includes a first lower surface and a second lower surface. The first lower surface is arranged to extend perpendicularly to the first and second axes on a side of the recessed portion on which the first axis lies. The second lower surface is arranged to extend perpendicularly to the first and second axes on an opposite side of the recessed portion with respect to the first axis and at a level higher than that of the first lower surface. The first lower surface includes a projecting portion arranged adjacent to the recessed portion, and arranged to project in a direction away from the first axis.
US10102881B2
A method includes receiving a plurality of images at an encoder device and encoding the plurality of encoder images to generate an output video stream, where the output video stream includes a plurality of encoded video frames corresponding to the plurality of images. During generation of the output video stream, the encoder device receives a notification that a particular image of the plurality of images satisfies a thumbnail generation condition. In response to the notification, the encoder device generates a thumbnail from the particular image and sends the output video stream to a media server.
US10102874B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to A method of manufacturing hexagonal ferrite powder, which comprises heating to equal to or higher than 300° C. and pressurizing to equal to or higher than 20 MPa a hexagonal ferrite precursor-containing water-based solution, to convert the precursor to hexagonal ferrite, wherein the water-based solution comprises at least a reducing compound selected from the group consisting of a reducing inorganic compound and a reducing organic compound that have a reducing property and exist as a solid or a liquid at ordinary temperature and ordinary pressure, as well as, when the reducing compound is a reducing inorganic compound, the water-based solution further comprises an organic compound.
US10102873B2
A tape drive-implemented method, according to another embodiment, includes: determining a length of a window of a servo pattern to use for calculating a lateral position estimate, determining a number of the windows of the servo pattern to use for calculating a lateral position value, receiving signals corresponding to each of the number of the windows of the servo pattern from a single servo channel, calculating a lateral position estimate for each of the number of the windows of the servo pattern, calculating the lateral position value by using the lateral position estimates, and using the lateral position value to control a tape head actuator. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US10102871B1
A write head for recording data on a storage medium. The write head includes a bearing surface and a write pole. The write pole includes a main pole layer having a front surface that forms a portion of the bearing surface. The front surface of the write pole has a leading edge and a trailing edge. The write pole further includes a high damping material layer. The high damping material layer has a front end that is attached to the main pole layer at the leading edge.
US10102864B2
For an efficient encoding of subband configuration data the first, penultimate and last subband groups are treated differently than the other subband groups. Further, subband group bandwidth difference values are used in the encoding. The number of subband groups NSB is coded using a fixed number of bits representing NSB−1. The bandwidth value BSB[1] of the first subband group is coded using a unary code representing BSB[1]−1. No bandwidth value BSB[g] is coded for the last subband g=NSB. For subband groups g=2, . . . , NSB−2 bandwidth difference values ΔBSB[g]=BSB[g]−BSB[g−1] are coded using a unary code, and the bandwidth difference value ΔBSB[NSB−1] for subband group g=NSB−1 is coded using a fixed number of bits.
US10102860B2
In at least one exemplary embodiment for common phrase identification and language dictation recognition systems and methods for using the same, the system comprises a database capable of receiving a plurality of verbal records, the verbal record comprising at least one identifier and at least one verbal feature and a processor operably coupled to the database, where the processor has and executes a software program. The processor being operational to identify a subset of the plurality of verbal records from the database, extract at least one verbal feature from the identified records, analyze the at least one verbal feature of the subset of the plurality of verbal records, process the subset of the plurality of records using the analyzed feature according to at least one reasoning approach, generate a processed verbal record using the processed subset of the plurality of records, and deliver the processed verbal record to a recipient. The processor being further operational to identify common phrases in parts of the verbal record, identifying a body of work for building a set of common phrases, analyze documents in a training set to find some common phrases, and replacing phrases with the common phrases.
US10102857B2
The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for determining device leadership among voice interface devices. In one aspect, a method is performed at an electronic device that includes microphones, a speaker, processors, and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. The electronic device: (1) detects a voice input; (2) determines a first quality score for the detected voice input; (3) receives quality scores generated by other electronic devices for detection of the voice input by the other electronic devices; (4) in accordance with a determination that the first quality score is not the highest amongst the quality scores for the voice input, identifies a criterion associated with the voice input; and (5) in accordance with a determination that the identified criterion is the most relevant to the electronic device, responds to the detected input.
US10102855B1
Methods and systems for rendering lists of instructions and performing actions associated with those lists are described herein. In some embodiments, an individual may request that a voice activated electronic device associated with their user account assist in performing a task using a list of instructions. The list of instructions may include metadata that indicates actions capable of being performed by additional Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices. When the instructions are rendered, an instructions speechlet may recognize the metadata and may cause one or more of the IoT devices to perform a particular action. Furthermore, the metadata may also correspond to content capable of being rendered by the voice activated electronic device to assist the individual in performing a particular step of the instructions.
US10102846B2
A conversational agent capability assessment method, system, and computer program product, includes obtaining data to create at least one scenario for testing a conversational agent, performing a set of tests using a scenario of the at least one scenario created to assess a capability of the conversational agent, and comparing a result of the capability from the set of tests with an expected result of the scenario.
US10102834B2
A method for scrolling a musical score on a screen of a device, comprising: loading a file having a digital score in a piece of memory of said device, wherein said digital score is in a digital format for representing musical notation; displaying a plurality of notes or at least one measure from said score on the screen. The method further comprises: scrolling said score in a continuous way by moving the notes or measures displayed on the screen, in such a way that additional notes of music or additional measures start to appear on the screen while the already scrolled notes or measures start to disappear from the screen; adjusting the scrolling speed according to the displayed notes or measures and to a tempo. Device, computer program product and computer-readable memory/medium.
US10102833B1
A musical drumhead having a plurality of multifilament yarns joined to form an open weave mesh fabric wherein the surface of the multifilament yarns is uneven or undulating for enabling a strong bond with an applied coating, which, in turn, is provided to encapsulate the individual multifilament yarns. When struck by a hard object, the open weave mesh fabric absorbs vibrations resulting in a sound that simulates the sound properties of a modern day synthetic drumhead at substantially reduced sound levels. Integrating a plurality of soft fiber tufts into the surface (top and bottom) of the mesh fabric reduces the sound levels produced by the drumhead of the present invention even further.
US10102832B2
A universal tuning knob for stringed instruments is presented. The invention consists of a knob with an elongated and threaded cylindrical shaft. The shaft includes a lumen sized to receive the machine head post of any stringed instrument. The outside perimeter of the knob is configured for grip. The threaded cylindrical shaft includes a slot on its side wall to receive and retain a bushing. The bushing includes a second slot that can be notched (i.e. sized) to fit and lock the machine head post of any stringed instrument. A sleeve lock with internal threads is threaded onto the threaded cylindrical shaft of the knob thereby retaining the bushing. An optional second lumen on the head of the knob is configured to receive a mounting screw.
US10102831B2
The present invention includes a retractable stringed musical instrument; specifically a stringed musical instrument having a tailpiece, a body coupled to the tailpiece, a neck coupled to the body and a fingerboard coupled to the neck. The fingerboard and the neck extends and retracts relative to the body. The retractable stringed instrument further comprises a mechanism to maintain tension on the strings of the instrument regardless if the neck is in the extended or retracted position.
US10102827B2
An apparatus for generating a panoramic image(s) may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including generating a panoramic image(s) based on performing registration on at least two images associated with depth map data and determining an overlap region(s) between the two images within first and second items of depth map data. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to label the overlap region(s) within the first or second item of depth map data based on generating a virtual seam(s) connecting portions of the two images to generate a composite image. The portions correspond to image data within first and second items of depth map data. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to blend the seam of the composite image to obtain the panoramic image. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US10102826B2
A method includes: determining a glare effect in a first partial region of the first display device in which an item of information is represented as an image; sorting items of information according to relevance if a plurality of items of information is represented on the first display device; checking and establishing that a glare effect in a second partial region of the first display device or on a second display device is lower than the glare effect in the first partial region; checking and establishing that no item of information, or an item of information with lower relevance, is represented in the second partial region of the first display device or on the second display device; and representing the one item of information, or the one item of information with a higher relevance, in the second partial region of the first display device or on the second display device.
US10102818B2
An LCD includes a substrate, gate on array (GOA) units connected in series, a controller, a level shifter, and an over-current protection circuit. The substrate includes a pixel array section and a circuit arrangement section. The GOA units are used for outputting a scanning signal to the pixel array section based on voltage levels of clock signals and a voltage level of a start signal. The controller generates the clock signals and the start signal. The level shifter adjusts the voltage levels of the clock signals and the voltage level of the start signal. The over-current protection circuit outputs an adjusting signal to the controller to turn off the LCD when a magnitude of one of the plurality of clock signals is over a predetermined value. Therefore, the LCD is turned off for a while, preventing from being burnt out.
US10102814B2
A controllable device for phase modulation of coherent light comprises a modulator matrix having a plurality of liquid crystal modulator cells each being adapted to modulate a phase value of light passing through a liquid crystal modulator cell depending on a voltage, which is applied to the liquid crystal modulator cell; at least one polarity area of said modulator matrix including at least one liquid crystal modulator cell; at least one storage unit for storing at least one pair of voltage values of which one has a positive and the other has a negative polarity for the liquid crystal modulator cells, whereby the pair of voltage values corresponds to a predetermined phase value; and a control unit for selectively applying one pair of voltage values to one liquid crystal modulator cell.
US10102812B2
The invention provides a data processing method for transparent LCD; which computes the grayscale value of the transparent sub-pixel based on the grayscale values of the red, green and blue sub-pixels of each display pixel. As such, the present invention realizes the real time adjustment of the transmittance of the transparent sub-pixel of the transparent LCD and effectively improves the display quality of the transparent LCD.
US10102804B2
A display device includes a pixel array section, the pixel array section having pixels arranged in a matrix form, at least one of the pixels including an electro-optical element, a write transistor, a capacitor, a drive transistor, and a switching transistor. A write scan line is disposed for each pixel row of the pixel array section and adapted to convey a write signal to be applied to a gate electrode of the write transistor. The wiring structure of the write scan line does not cross a wiring pattern connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor.
US10102803B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first capacitor connected between a first voltage line receiving a driving signal and a first node; a first transistor comprising a control electrode connected to the first node, a first electrode connected to a second voltage line receiving a first power source signal, and a second electrode connected to a second node; an organic light emitting diode comprising an anode electrode connected to the second node and a cathode electrode receiving a second power source signal; a second capacitor connected between an m-th data line and the second node; a second transistor comprising a control electrode connected to an n-th gate line, a first electrode connected to the first node, and a second electrode connected to the second node;and a third transistor comprising a control electrode connected to an n-th scan line, a first electrode connected to the first voltage line, and a second electrode connected to the second node.
US10102800B2
An organic light emitting display device includes pixel driving circuits to control pixels which include organic light emitting diodes. The pixel driving circuits include a first pixel driving circuit and a second pixel driving circuit, and the organic light emitting diodes include a first organic light emitting diode. The first organic light emitting diode emits light at a first brightness based on a driving current from the first pixel driving circuit in a first frame, and emits light at a second brightness based on a driving current from the second pixel driving circuit in a second frame.
US10102794B2
A distributed charge-pump power-supply system includes a system substrate with a plurality of separate electronic elements spatially distributed over the system substrate. Each electronic element includes first and second sub-elements requiring first and second different operating voltage connections. A plurality of separate charge-pump circuits are also spatially distributed over the system substrate. Each charge-pump circuit has a common charge-pump power supply connection and provides the first and second voltage connection supplying operating electrical power to the first and second sub-elements. The electronic elements are arranged in groups of one or more electronic elements and the first and second voltage connections for each group are provided by a charge-pump circuit.
US10102788B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a display device and a driving method thereof. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to a display device including a white pixel, and a method of driving such a display device. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of colored pixels and a white pixel, wherein the colored pixels and the white pixel each include at least one switching element, the colored pixels and the white pixel are disposed to be adjacent to each other so as to collectively have a center, and the switching elements are each positioned proximate to the center.
US10102785B2
A flexible display device includes a display panel, at least one inspection part, and a detector. The display panel includes at least one bending portion and a display area. The inspection part is located on the bending portion and bends in a manner similar to the bending portion. The detector applies an inspection signal to the inspection part and receives an output signal from the inspection part. A crack in the inspection part is then determined based on a comparison of the inspection and output signals.
US10102782B1
The road side vehicle distress sign is adapted for use with a vehicle. The road side vehicle distress sign attaches to the vehicle. The road side vehicle distress sign is a sign that presents a sentiment indicating that the vehicle requires assistance. The sentiment presented by the road side vehicle distress sign is selected from a plurality of sentiments such that a selected sentiment informs passing vehicles of the type of assistance the vehicle requires. The road side vehicle distress sign attaches to the vehicle. The selected sentiment presented by the road side vehicle distress sign is illuminated such that the selected sentiment is readily visible to passing vehicles. The road side vehicle distress sign comprises a housing and a placard device. The placard device is contained within the housing.
US10102774B2
Systems, methods, and devices for presenting and managing interrelated sets of skills are provided. In some embodiments, a map interface is provided that presents the interrelated skills to a user, and provides the user an opportunity to strategize regarding how best the skills may be acquired to advance on a career path. In some embodiments, an administrative user may use the interface to view an aggregate skill set of employees in an organization.
US10102764B1
A system includes an image capture device and an assessment computing device. The image capture device is configured to capture an image of an object and a first score associated with the object on a first scale. The assessment computing device is configured to receive the image of the object and the first score from the image capture device, and to receive a second score on a second scale that is different from the first scale from a third party assessment source computing device. The assessment computing device is also configured to normalize the second score to a particular scale to provide a normalized second score, and to determine a level of mastery based at least partially on the first score and the normalized second score. The assessment computing device is configured to generate a user interface with information indicating the level of mastery.
US10102738B2
Several embodiments include a portable security device. The portable security device can include one or more sensors. The portable security device can compute a home rhythm pattern utilizing a machine learning engine based on a historical record of real-time sensor feeds. The portable security device can camouflage itself as a digital clock, a digital calendar, or a home security dashboard. The portable security device can define an action trigger that binds a state of the environment around the portable security device to at least a device component action. The portable security device can identify a real-time state of the portable security device amongst a finite set of potential states based on features observed from the sensor feeds. The portable security device can execute the device component action at the portable security device in response to determining that the real-time state matches the action trigger.
US10102735B2
Hand-washing systems and methods are proposed enabling monitoring, reminding, recording, and reporting functionalities. The hand-washing systems and methods include wearable devices equipped with RFID and vibration capabilities. The wearable RFID devices permit users to provide data pertaining to the hand-washing activities of the user in, for example, health care related settings. The data can be collected and, in turn, shared with relevant entities for reporting purposes.
US10102729B1
A safety system and method for redundant alerting to prevent unattended vehicular occupants is disclosed. Redundant alerts are presented on multiple devices to alert multiple different people of an unattended occupant, such as a child, in a vehicle. In some cases, further action may be taken to alarm local passersby or emergency services of the unattended occupant. Accordingly, there are multiple layers of security to prevent an unattended occupant from remaining in a potentially dangerous situation such as an overheating vehicle.
US10102728B1
A method of operating a smoke detector comprising an illuminator, a light sensor, and a carbon monoxide sensor includes the step of measuring a voltage signal in response to an electromagnetic signal emitted by the illuminator. The method comprises the step of determining a smoke concentration using the voltage signal, and the step of determining a carbon monoxide concentration using the carbon monoxide sensor. The method includes comparing the smoke concentration and the carbon monoxide concentration to a warning zone criteria, and the step of calculating a rate of increase of at least one of smoke and carbon dioxide based on a determination that the warning zone criteria is unmet. The method comprises generating an alarm in response to a determination of a warning condition.
US10102713B2
Software for a gaming system receives a password over a network from a user of a remote player device for a gaming system for a gambling game. The software authenticates the user using the password. The software also receives an age from the user and determines that the user is of age to gamble on the gambling game, based on data stored in a database for the gaming system. Then software transmits a program to the remote player device. When executed, the program interactively presents the gambling game through a remote player interface and causes media associated with the gambling game to be presented on the remote player device.
US10102710B2
In a game event a first set of game symbols are displayed in a game symbol display area, at least one prize is displayed in a prize display area, and an expanded second set of game symbols having at least one game symbol located in the prize display area is displayed. A winning game outcome may be declared if at least one game symbol located in the prize display area contacts at least one prize which is displayed in the prize display area. The game event may be presented via a uniquely configured gaming machine or system in which the game symbols and prizes are generated and displayed as graphical elements on a video display. The game event may be presented as or as part of a wagering event.
US10102707B2
In various embodiments a display may allow a secondary player to select a game of an appropriate primary player.
US10102706B2
A dispensing station comprises beneficial products for patients of a health care provider. An inventory database tracks inventory available in the dispensing station. A patient is associated with a prescription record, which specifies a prescribed beneficial product. The patient may provide patient identifying information to the dispensing station, such as credentialed payment information, which may be used to identify a prescription record, authenticate the patient, transfer a payment, and/or dispense the prescribed beneficial product to the patient. The prescription record may be valid for a limited time period, may be restricted to fulfillment within a particular location, and/or may be restricted to one or more specified dispensing stations. The dispensing station may validate the beneficial products before dispensing the products to the patient.
US10102696B2
An in-vehicle control device includes a recording unit that sequentially records first data transferred through an in-vehicle local network; a data acquisition unit that acquires second data relating to an event from a portion of the first data generated within a first time before occurrence of the event and from another portion of the first data recorded within a second time after occurrence of the event; a generation unit that generates third data when a specified operation or change in state of an occupant occurs by elapse of a third time after occurrence of the event; a first holding unit that holds the second data; a second holding unit that holds the third data; a nonvolatile memory having a first and a second recording regions; and a data control unit that records the second data on the first recording region and the third data on the second recording region.
US10102687B1
A method and apparatus for managing software components and information. An apparatus comprises a computer system, a library application running on the computer system, a distribution application running on the computer system, and a crate tool in the computer system. The library application is configured to store a number of software components and information for ground vehicles in the computer system and generate tasks to manage software components and the information in the ground vehicles. The distribution application is configured to send a selected software component in the number of software components to a ground vehicle and receive the information from the ground vehicle. The crate tool is configured to manage crates containing the software components and the information and validate signatures associated with the software components and the information in the crates.
US10102674B2
In one general aspect, a system for providing a virtual reality (VR) space can include a mobile computing device, and a VR headset operatively coupled to the mobile computing device and including a screen. The mobile computing device can be configured to execute a VR application, and provide content for display on the screen of the VR headset in the VR space.
US10102665B2
Described embodiments include a system that includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to position an indicator, in response to a positioning input from a user, over a particular point on a three-dimensional electroanatomical map that is displayed on the display, and over which are displayed a plurality of markers that mark respective data points. The processor is further configured to expand a contour, subsequently, along a surface of the map, while a selecting input from the user is ongoing, such that all points on the contour remain equidistant, at an increasing geodesic distance with respect to the surface, from the particular point, and to display, on the display, one or more properties of each of the data points that is marked by a respective one of the markers that is inside the contour. Other embodiments are also described.
US10102660B2
A method, system and computer-program product for real-time virtual 3D reconstruction of a live scene in an animation system. The method comprises receiving 3D positional tracking data for a detected live scene by the processor, determining an event by analyzing the 3D positional tracking data by the processor, comprising steps of determining event characteristics from the 3D positional tracking data, receiving pre-defined event characteristics, determining an event probability by comparing the event characteristics to the pre-defined event characteristics, and selecting an event assigned to the event probability, determining a 3D animation data set from a plurality of 3D animation data sets assigned to the selected event and stored in the data base by the processor, and providing the 3D animation data set to the output device.
US10102652B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for preventing overplotting for data visualization. An example method includes identifying a request to generate a chart including a plotting area indicating a set of data points to be displayed in the plotting area of the generated chart; determining that the requested chart will be unsuitable for display; dividing the plotting area into a plurality of bins, each having a shape configured to tessellate the plotting area in response to determining that the requested chart will be unsuitable for display; assigning each data point to one of the plurality of bins based on a position of each data point within the plotting area of the requested chart; and generating a modified chart including the plotting area of the requested chart including the plurality of bins each configured to indicate a number of data points are assigned to the particular bin.
US10102650B2
Model-based scatter correction is used in SPECT with a non-parallel-hole collimator. Model-based scatter correction uses scatter kernels based on simulation to model the scatter for a given system and patient. For non-parallel-hole collimators, the measured sensitivity and measured vector maps are used in the modeling of scatter. The measured sensitivity is used to normalize the scatter kernels simulated for a parallel-hole collimator rather than attempting to simulate scatter with the complicated arrangement of holes. The measured vector maps are used to accurately project the model-based scatter sources into a data or emissions space.
US10102646B2
An embodiment provides an optical image measuring apparatus capable of acquiring images with high lateral resolution and global sharpness. An optical image measuring apparatus of an embodiment includes an optical system, image forming part, controller and composite-cross-sectional-image forming part. The optical system includes a scanner that changes an irradiation position of signal light on an object and a focus position changing part that changes a focus position of the signal light. The optical system detects interference light of returned light of the respective signal light from the object and reference light. The image forming part forms a cross-sectional image based on detection results of a plurality of interference light corresponding to a plurality of irradiation positions of the signal light. The controller controls the optical system to irradiate the signal light onto the plurality of irradiation positions repeatedly while changing the focus position. The composite-cross-sectional-image forming part forms one composite cross-sectional image based on two or more cross-sectional images formed by the image forming part on the basis of results of repetitive irradiation of the signal light.
US10102640B2
Three-dimensional image data of an imaged object, such as the bone structure of a patient, comprise first and second rigid parts movably connected to each other, in a first state of position and orientation. Sub-regions within the three-dimensional image data are divided into at least first image data and second image data. A set of two-dimensional projection images of the imaged object are taken from first and second different projection directions, while the first and the second rigid parts are in a second state of position and orientation. A processing device registers the first image data with the set of two-dimensional projection images and separately registers the second image data with the set of two-dimensional projection images to obtain first and second registration information, respectively, which is used to determine the position and orientation of the first and second rigid parts in the second state.
US10102635B2
Segmentation is the process of partitioning an image into regions under certain rules. One implementation is to separate human objects that appear in a sequence of images (video) from the background. The goal is to find humans and segment them out in real-time, fully automatic (with no user input), and the result is produced immediately after a new image is captured. Once the segmentation process is started, the method is constantly learning (or updating) the decision rule for segmenting out human objects from the background by itself. Moving object detection by a Kalman filter-based approach roughly detects the region where moving objects are present.
US10102634B1
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for segmenting an image of a video stream with a client device, binarizing an area of interest within one or more image, identifying an initial pupil location and an initial iris radius, and determining a final pupil location and a final iris radius. Some embodiments enable the client device to perform one or more operations within a user interface based on the image segmentation.
US10102628B2
An object recognizing apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to acquire a plurality of images photographed by a stereo camera; a segment extractor configured to calculate parallax from the plurality of images and to extract a set in which the parallax is within a predetermined range, as a segment, at intervals of a certain width in an image lateral direction; a target extractor configured to extract segments coupled in the image lateral direction and an image depth direction, as a target; a calculator configured to calculate a variation amount of upper end positions and a variation amount of height widths of the segments that constitute the target; and a determinator configured to determine that the target is a haze if at least one of the variation amount of the upper end positions and the variation amount of the height widths is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
US10102626B2
A fully automatic brain tumor segmentation and classification method and system improve the healthcare experience with machine intelligence. The automatic brain tumor segmentation and classification method and system utilize whole tumor segmentation and multi-class tumor segmentation to provide accurate analysis.
US10102615B2
Methods and system for detecting hotspots in semiconductor wafer are provided. At least one semiconductor wafer is inspected to detect a plurality of hotspots of each die in the semiconductor wafer, wherein each of the hotspots has defect coordinates in a layout of the die. The hotspots of the dies are stacked in the layout according to the defect coordinates of the hotspots. A common pattern is obtained according to the stacked hotspots corresponding to a location with specific coordinates in the layout. It is determined whether the common pattern is a known pattern having an individual identification (ID) code. A new ID code is assigned to the common pattern when the common pattern is an unknown pattern.
US10102612B2
An apparatus (1) for rotating objects (40) on screens (9) defines a hand axis (20) in response to 3D position information related to the hands (21, 22) of a user and detects a changed orientation of the hand axis (20) with respect to a 3D space and calculates a rotation for the object (40) on the screen (9) in response to said detecting. This way, to rotate the object (40) on the screen (9), an imaginary copy of the object (40) is considered to be inside an imaginary ball (41) held by the user, which imaginary ball (41) is being rotated. The changed orientation of the hand axis (20) comprises changes in angles between the hand axis (20) and the axes (31, 32, 33) of the 3D space. To improve stability in case of each one of said changes being unequal to zero, the apparatus (1) further detects the angles and compares the respective angles with respective thresholds and reduces or weights the respective changes in response to respective comparison results.
US10102604B2
In on embodiment, a hybrid fabric interconnects multiple graphics processor cores within a processor. The hybrid fabric interconnect includes multiple data channels, including programmable virtual data channels. The virtual data channels carry multiple traffic classes of packet-based messages. The virtual data channels and multiple traffic classes may be assigned one of multiple priorities. The virtual data channels may be arbitrated independently. The hybrid fabric is scalable and can support multiple topologies, including multiple stacked integrated circuit topologies.
US10102603B2
A graphics processing may include implementing a vertex shader and a pixel shader with a GPU. Vertex parameter values may be compressed with the vertex shader and compressed vertex parameter values may be written to a cache. The pixel shader may access the compressed vertex parameter values that were written to the cache and decompress the compressed vertex parameter values. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US10102599B2
A system and method for acquiring, compiling and displaying data indicative of healthcare data workflow within an integrated healthcare enterprise simplifies the monitoring and identification of inefficiencies such as bottlenecks in the enterprise. Information gathered from enterprise system components and data files are used to measure individual component performance. System alerts and messaging capabilities allow an enterprise administrator to remedy potential bottlenecks before problems arise. Remedial measures may be programmed into the system to automatically remedy inefficiencies as they are identified.
US10102598B2
Dynamically determining an optimum connectivity path is provided. Default paths to connectivity sources associated with a payer may be determined and ranked based on various metrics, such as availability, content, and cost. When a connection to a primary connectivity source is determined to be down or unresponsive, a request may automatically be routed to a next connectivity source, wherein the next connectivity source is determined to be a next highest ranking connectivity source based on the various metrics. Data associated with availability, content, cost, and other attributes may be collected, stored in a database, and utilized to rank connectivity sources. Accordingly, as new information about a payer or connectivity source is discovered, default paths and rankings of connectivity sources may change.
US10102590B1
This disclosure relates to gathering, storing, analyzing and distributing data acquired by unmanned vehicles after catastrophes. The vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. The gathering phase of the process may being by receiving requests from the interested consumers as to the type of information desired, and this information is used to determine and/or configure the mission. The storage phase may include pre-processing data during the mission, and optionally storing the data in a cloud network. The analysis phase may be performed vehicle-side, server-side, or a combination thereof.
US10102585B1
Methods and systems for automatically mitigating risks of insurance-related events to a property are provided. According to certain aspects, a smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may analyze data received from a plurality of smart devices disposed on, within, or proximate to a property, as well as data received from an insurance provider. If it is determined that an actual or potential risk of property damage exists, the smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may automatically issue commands to one or more smart devices to take actions that mitigate the risk. The smart home controller may also transmit information about the actual or potential risks and any mitigative actions to an insurance provider. The insurance provider remote processor may interpret the transmitted data to perform insurance activities, such as providing a discount and/or adjusting an insurance premium or policy associated with the property.
US10102584B1
An insurance data gathering process contingent upon dynamically captured image and informatics sensor data. The captured image data may be used to facilitate rapid insurance-related decisions. In regards to a decision to be rendered for a property insurance policy, at least one image is retrieved associated with the property. One or more accounts associated with the insured are identified and one or more risks characteristics are identified regarding the insured. An aggregated dataset is provided from the at least one image, one or more accounts and risk characteristics associated with the insured. Predictive analysis is performed on the aggregated dataset to render a risk profile for the insured regarding an insurance policy for the property. A decision is rendered regarding the insured and the insurance policy based at least in-part upon the rendered risk profile.
US10102580B2
A trading application can receive price and quantity information for tradeable objects. The trading application can compute implied price and quantity information for spreads of the tradeable objects. Direct and indirect price and quantity information for the spreads can be displayed in a manner that shows the relationship with each other and with the price and quantity information for the tradeable objects.
US10102573B1
A system and method is provided for administering an actively managed fund having shares tradable on an exchange, to support efficient secondary market trading. A Fund Module defines an actively managed ETF. A Portfolio Module tracks a portfolio held by the ETF while maintaining confidentiality of at least a portion thereof. A Basket Module publishes Creation and Redemption Baskets including a subset of the fund portfolio. A Current Valuation Module calculates a current Intraday NAV for the portfolio and Baskets throughout a trading day. A Swap Module provides for periodic entry and exit from NAV Swaps between an ETF Party and Swap Counterparties, who exchange payments based on performance of the fund portfolio and the Fund Basket. A Creation/Redemption Module permits creations and redemptions of ETF shares in exchange for the Fund Basket. Arbitrage is permitted between ETF share price and Intraday NAV without full portfolio disclosure.
US10102563B2
A method and apparatus for controlling an inventory carrier for replenishing a pod used for delivery of online orders includes displaying, using at least one of said at least one processor, at least one replenishment procedure option to a user, receiving, using at least one of said at least one processor, a selection of one of the at least one replenishment procedure from the user, and controlling, using at least one of said at least one processor, movement of the inventory carrier based on the received selection.
US10102546B2
Systems and methods are provided for combined social behavior tracking, online surveillance and web bot software technologies via a mobile device or computer for tracking online consumer behavior and data, cookies, embedded advertisements, predicting online consumer behavior, buying patterns by monitoring online activities, online communications, search inquiries, social networking, social plugins, social applications, advertisements, purchasing, behavior, and buying patterns, consumer address books and contact lists, blogs, chat rooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers, instant messaging, text chat, internet forum, service providers, travel and hospitality, real estate, educational services, ancillary services (as defined herein) and delivery system for behavior targeting and filtering of coupons, mobile services, products, goods and services, advertisements and service providers and related company information on a three dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated with entities providing and/or members of the service and/or social networking.
US10102545B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retargeting content in a search environment. A method can include receiving a request for a content item to be provided with a search results page and determining that one or more retargeted content items are eligible for presentation with the search results page. Each retargeted content item is a content item that is eligible for presentation with the search results page based on: (1) the search query matching a targeting keyword for the retargeted content item, and (2) the user identifier matching a retargeted identifier that is included in a retargeting set for the retargeted content item. A responsive content item to be presented with the search results page is selected, based at least in part on bids that are associated with the retargeted content items, and data specifying the responsive content item are provided.
US10102542B2
Example systems and methods for optimization and attribution of marketing resources are described. In one implementation, a method retrieves transaction data associated with one or more offline stores and user data of users that are exposed to a marketing campaign. The method also correlates the transaction data to the user data to measure marketing attribution and modify the marketing campaign.
US10102530B2
A system and method for detecting a test event involving a financial transaction device at a merchant having a merchant profile is disclosed. The method includes receiving data associated with a transaction involving a financial transaction device; calculating a score using at least the transaction data; comparing the score to a threshold value; and attaching a merchant probe flag to the merchant profile if the score exceeds the threshold value. The merchant probe flag indicates a likelihood that a test event has occurred at the merchant based on the score. If a test event has occurred, then financial transaction devices involved in the test event can have their profiles updated to reflect that they have been probed. If a financial transaction device that has been probed is used in a subsequent transaction, then a specialized fraud scoring model can be used to provide an improved fraud risk score.
US10102520B1
A method includes receiving, on an electronic payment device, a radio frequency signal from a mobile electronic device. The radio frequency signal is used to control an activation of an electric current to one or more color producing components on the electronic payment device. The electric current is transmitted to the one or more color producing components. The one or more color producing components display a color when the electric current is transmitted to the color producing components.
US10102512B1
Methods and Systems comprise accessing user account information in a source user account for a first financial institution. Payee data is scraped from the source user account. The payee data is temporarily stored. It is determined whether the user entering the user credential information has logged off the source website. The temporarily stored payee data is inserted into a target user account for a second financial institution.
US10102509B2
A system, method, device and interface for providing and redeeming an electronic coupon that provides for authenticating access of a user to an electronic coupon server, receiving selection from the user of at least one of an event, transportation, secured location, good, authorization, and service, generating a reservation number corresponding to the selection, encrypting the reservation number based on a first string of characters that is uniquely associated with a mobile device that will be utilized for redeeming the electronic coupon, transmitting the encrypted reservation number to the mobile device, retrieving a second string of characters from the mobile device, wherein the second string of characters corresponds to the first string of characters, decrypting the encrypted reservation number on the mobile device using the retrieved second string of characters, generating the electronic coupon from the decrypted reservation number, and presenting the electronic coupon to an authentication device for redemption.
US10102505B2
A server-implemented method, a terminal-implemented method and a device for acquiring business card information are provided. The server-implemented method includes: receiving a request for acquiring business card information sent by a terminal of a first user, and the request for acquiring business card information includes facial feature information of a target user; determining identity information of the target user according to the facial feature information of the target user; verifying the request for acquiring business card information sent by the terminal of the first user; sending business card information corresponding to the identity information of the target user to the terminal of the first user if the request for acquiring business card information sent by the terminal of the first user is verified successfully.
US10102502B2
A method for tracking referrals using a third party applicant tracking system (ATS). The method include receiving a request to display a web page at a URL from a client used by a job candidate, where the URL is associated with a job at a company and the job candidate. The method further includes providing to the client a web page associated with the URL that includes a description of the job and a link to an ATS, receiving a request for a web page corresponding to the job, where the request is initiated by selection of the link. The method further includes making a determination that the ATS is a third party ATS and, in response, generating a third party referral URL, a unique identifier associated with the job, and an identifier associated with a source type, and providing the third party referral URL to the client.
US10102500B2
A serialization service module is provided for configuring an asset management system to provide a secure means of generating, assigning to chips (or other electronic objects or devices), and tracking unique serial numbers. To provide this service, a controller connects through a secure, encrypted connection to appliances at a manufacturer's location. Agents can then request serial number values from an appliance by product name. The serial numbers are generated by the appliance, metered, and provided to the agents. The serial numbers are then injected sequentially into each die in a chip manufacturing process using the agent. A log is reported to the controller.
US10102499B2
A movable Tower Inventory System which contains a number of RFID antennas mounted vertically along the tower. The Tower Inventory System is the moved along the front of storage racks to acquire information from RFID tags affixed to assets positioned on the storage rack. This information enables the determination of the x, y and z location values for each unique RFID number stored in the RFID tags.
US10102490B2
A computer manages methods for determining workload placement in a computing environment. The computer receives a plurality of workloads with associated information, wherein the associated information for each workload contains at least: contract information, billing information, and resource availability information. The computer determines a profitability factor for each workload of the plurality of workloads, wherein the profitability factor is at least based on the billing information. The computer determines a penalty factor for each workload of the plurality of workloads, wherein the penalty factor is at least based on the contract information. The computer determines a preference factor for each workload of the plurality of workloads, wherein the preference factor is at least based on the resource availability information. The computer assigns a priority ordering for each of the workloads from the plurality of workloads.
US10102488B2
A system for managing a value chain includes a planning application that receives planning data from a number of entities included in a value chain and automatically generates a plan according to the planning data. At least two of the entities do not directly communicate planning data to one another. The system also includes a manager application that receives the plan and automatically identifies one or more exceptions in the plan, communicates planning data relating to the exceptions to one or more of the entities, receives instructions from one or more of the entities regarding how the exceptions are to resolved, and automatically modifies the planning data in response to the instructions.
US10102486B1
A method and apparatus for presenting enhanced video at multiple presentment devices are disclosed. The video signal is received to be displayed at a variety of presentment devices. The presentment devices that are capable of displaying the video signal are identified and the video signal is transmitted to the identified presentment devices.
US10102484B2
A system, method and apparatus provide management of power to meet demand of consumers that consume the power. An interface is configured to receive a pricing signal that indicates a price for the power. Wherein the interface is configured to control an appliance coupled to the interface to shift adjusting power consumption sooner in time than the appliance is predetermined to shift its power consumption.
US10102481B2
A continuous electronic data stream of unlabeled data instances is received and fed into both a stream-based selection strategy and a pool-based selection strategy. The stream-based selection strategy is continuously applied to each of the unlabeled data instances to continually select stream-based data instances that are to be annotated. Additionally, the pool-based selection strategy is periodically applied to a pool of data obtained from the unlabeled data instances, to periodically select pool-based data instances that are to be annotated. Each time the pool-based selection strategy is applied, these methods automatically replace the stream-based data instances with the pool-based data instances. Also, these methods provide, on demand, access to allow a user to annotate the stream-based data instances and the pool-based data instances.
US10102478B2
Each computer of a peer-to-peer (P2P) network performs an iterative computer-based modeling task defined by a set of training data including at least some training data that are not accessible to the other computers of the P2P network, and by a set of parameters including a shared parameter. The modeling task optimizes an objective function comparing a model parameterized by the set of parameters with the training data. Each iteration includes: performing an iterative gradient step update of parameter values stored at the computer based on the objective function; receiving parameter values of the shared parameter from other computers of the P2P network; adjusting the parameter value of the shared parameter stored at the computer by averaging the received parameter values; and sending the parameter value of the shared parameter stored at the computer to other computers of the P2P network.
US10102477B2
A method, computer program product, and system for generating flavor profile models are provided. An alpha flavor model is determined. An electrode signal is transmitted to a taste simulator based on the alpha flavor model. User feedback is received. A variance between the alpha flavor model and the user feedback is determined. The variance is compared to a predetermined threshold. In response to determining that the variance is greater than the predetermined threshold, a beta flavor model is generated.
US10102467B1
Various embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for over sampling a RF carrier signal, the method including receiving, by an ADC, the RF carrier signal, sampling, by the ADC, the RF carrier signal using the selected clock signal which is at least quadruple the RF carrier signal, down sampling, by a RF-DSP, the RF carrier signal by a factor of two to generate I channel data and Q channel data, mixing down, by the RF-DSP, the I channel data and the Q channel data, and outputting, by the RF-DSP, the I channel data and Q channel data to a baseband DSP.
US10102465B2
A QR code is combined with a base image, preserving useful functionalities of both the base image and the QR code. For example, the base image remains clearly visible and recognizable by humans; the transparent QR code remains readable by scanners; machine image search can distinguish the base image from the combined image; and faces of the combined image are usable by machine face recognition programs. A QR code is generated with transparencies for different regions. An inner portion and outer shell portion for each module each may have different transparencies. Inner portion size relative to outer shell size is selectively adjustable. The generated QR code image may be combined with a given base image such as a face or company logo using the transparency values of the QR code image to make the two images appear as overlaid on one another with varying degrees of transparency.
US10102463B2
In a two-dimensional code generation device (100), a white point determiner (111) determines a white point in an environment to output a two-dimensional code. A threshold acquirer (112) acquires a threshold of lightness used by a reading device for reading multiple cells in binary, the threshold being represented in a device-independent color space that is based on the white point determined by the white point determiner (111). A two-dimensional code generator (113) generates a two-dimensional code expressing information by a distribution pattern of multiple cell dots formed by coloring the multiple cells in a color of lightness equal to or higher than the threshold acquired by the threshold acquirer (112) and in a color of lightness lower than the threshold.
US10102458B2
An image processing apparatus for storing, in an intermediate data memory, intermediate data generated from print data, and processing the intermediate data is provided. The image processing apparatus has a configuration in which, in a case where it is determined that a size of a work memory exceeds a block size after processing for creating a first bit map is started, and where the processing for creating the first bit map is switched to processing for creating a second bit map, when the processing for creating the first bit map is started, processing for creating a bit map is started without delay by using a bit map memory in advance from the work memory.
US10102451B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating a pseudo-CT prediction model using multi-channel MR images. An exemplary system may include a processor configured to retrieve training data including multiple MR images and at least one CT image for each of a plurality of training subjects. For each training subject, the processor may determine at least one tissue parameter map based on the multiple MR images and obtain CT values based on the at least one CT image. The processor may also generate the pseudo-CT prediction model based on the tissue parameter maps and the CT values of the plurality of training subjects.
US10102436B2
There is provided an image processing device capable of recognizing a presence of an object with low visibility on a combined image, a warning device and a method for processing an image. The image processing device includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a first image capturing an area around a mobile object including a first area and a second image capturing an area around the mobile object including a second area adjacent to the first area; a contour detector configured to perform a contour detection to the first and second images; and a determiner configured to detect, if a first contour detected on the first image extends to a boundary with the second image on a combined image including at least a part of the first image and at least a part of the second image, whether or not a second contour is detected on an extension of the first contour on the second image.
US10102432B2
Disclosed is an image recognition method including: producing a distribution of first pixel value range by acquiring a distribution of pixel values of a plurality of pixels of a first selected block in a first surveillance image from previous M images; producing a distribution of second pixel value range by acquiring a distribution of pixel values of the pixels of the first selected block from previous N images, wherein N and M are positive integers, and N
US10102427B2
A method of biometric recognition is provided. Multiple images of the face or other non-iris image and iris of an individual are acquired. If the multiple images are determined to form an expected sequence of images, the face and iris images are associated together. A single camera preferably acquires both the iris and face images by changing at least one of the zoom, position, or dynamic range of the camera. The dynamic range can be adjusted by at least one of adjusting the gain settings of the camera, adjusting the exposure time, and/or adjusting the illuminator brightness. The expected sequence determination can be made by determining if the accumulated motion vectors of the multiple images is consistent with an expected set of motion vectors and/or ensuring that the iris remains in the field of view of all of the multiple images.
US10102421B2
A method for face recognition in the video comprises: performing feature extraction on a target face in multiple image frames in the video to generate multiple face feature vectors respectively corresponding to the target face in the multiple image frames; performing time sequence feature extraction on the plurality of face feature vectors to convert the plurality of face feature vectors into a feature vector of a predetermined dimension; and judging the feature vector of the predetermined dimension by using a classifier so as to recognize the target face.
US10102413B2
A biometric imaging device includes a processor that outputs an instruction of an operation position on an input device, in response to detection of a first input to the input device, and a camera that captures a biometric image after the detection of the first input.
US10102409B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a personal mobile terminal device with fingerprint identification function, comprising: a cover plate layer covering the front face of the personal mobile terminal device, comprising a first region corresponding to a display region and a second region except the first region; a fingerprint identification electrode pattern formed on the back face of a fingerprint identification functional region which is located in the second region of the cover plate layer; and a fingerprint identification chip which is electrically connected with the fingerprint identification electrode pattern. The fingerprint identification electrode pattern is formed on the back face of the cover plate layer, so that the whole panel is integrally formed, simplifying manufacturing process and improving aesthetics.
US10102404B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor configured to execute an application, and a display configured to display a first window corresponding to the application, wherein, in response to a specified event, the processor is further configured to adjust a transparency of the first window and to output, to a lower layer than a layer of the first window, a second window overlapping at least a part of an area of the first window.
US10102398B2
A method for obfuscating data includes: reading values occurring in one or more fields of multiple records from a data source; storing a key value; for each of multiple of the records, generating an obfuscated value to replace an original value in a given field of the record using the key value such that the obfuscated value depends on the key value and is deterministically related to the original value; and storing the collection of obfuscated data including records that include obfuscated values in a data storage system.
US10102392B2
A drive recorder according to an embodiment includes a capture unit and an access controller. The capture unit captures an outside of a vehicle. The access controller sets access limitation, which limits an access from a person other than an occupant of the vehicle, for traveling images of the vehicle. The traveling images are captured by the capture unit and stored in a storage medium. When an event arising from the vehicle meets a predetermined condition that indicates at least level of urgency, the access controller removes the access limitation.
US10102391B2
This disclosure proposes techniques for graphics processing. In one example, a graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to access a memory according to one of an unsecure mode and a secure mode. The GPU may include a memory access controller configured to direct memory transactions from at least one hardware unit of the GPU to an unsecure memory unit or a secure memory unit based on the unsecure mode or secure mode and a resource descriptor associated with a memory resource.
US10102390B2
Contents of a memory may be authenticated using redundant encryption. In some examples, data to be stored by a memory is encrypted with two unique encryption keys—a first encryption key is used generate a cipher text and a second encryption key (different than the first encryption key) is used to generate an authentication tag. The cipher text and authentication tag are stored by the memory. At a later time, the cipher text and authentication tag may be retrieved from the memory and decrypted using the respective encryption keys. After decrypting the cipher text and the authentication tag, the data retrieved from the memory may be authenticated by comparing the plaintext generated by decrypting the cipher text and with the plaintext generated by decrypting the authentication tag. A match between the plaintext indicates the data was not corrupted or modified during storage in the memory.
US10102367B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide entities with the ability to remotely detect behavior associated with malware and identify compromised user-sessions, regardless of the malware variant or family, and independently of the page structure.
US10102365B2
An approach is described for authenticating a user. An associated method includes displaying a dynamic image on a display screen, detecting a user interaction with the displayed image, and detecting a duration of the detected user interaction. The method further includes comparing the detected user interaction and the detected duration with a stored user interaction and a stored duration. The method further includes authenticating the user upon determining that the detected user interaction matches the stored user interaction and the detected duration matches the stored duration. In an embodiment, the method further includes transmitting the detected user interaction and the detected duration to a remote device. In such embodiment, the method step of comparing the detected user interaction and the detected duration with the stored user interaction and the stored duration is performed by the remote device.
US10102358B2
Techniques for implementing face-controlled liveness verification are provided. In one embodiment, a computing device can present, to a user, a sequential series of targets on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device, where each target is a visual element designed to direct the user's attention to a location in the GUI. The computing device can further determine whether the user has successfully hit each target, where the determining comprises tracking movement of a virtual pointer controlled by the user's gaze or face pose and checking whether the user has moved the virtual pointer over each target. If the user has successfully hit each target, the computing device can conclude that the user is a live subject.
US10102354B2
An application feature store may be integrated with an application. The feature store may be accessed by a user through a feature storefront hosted within the application. The user may search the feature store for additional desired features available for the augmentation of the productivity application.
US10102353B2
A digital resource protection apparatus, includes: a configuring module to configure N encryption index values for a digital resource to be encrypted, wherein N is an integer greater than 0; and a digital logic control module configured to perform a logic encryption of the digital resource through a preset digital logic circuit, by using one or more of the N encryption index values and the digital resource as input parameters of the preset digital logic circuit.
US10102350B1
The present invention provides a system and method for protecting data stored in the control registers of an integrated circuit, such as a television chip. The system and method use one or more selectively activated read protection modules to prevent the control registers from being read unless a predetermined key or password is entered. The password or key may be stored in password registers within the chip. A key access generator will enable read access of the control registers if correct values are written to the appropriate password registers. The key access generator may enable read access for a predetermined period of time or until it receives another input.
US10102338B2
A system includes a plurality of nanopore cells. Data corresponding to nanopore states of the plurality of nanopore cells is received. The data is analyzed to determine a compressed output size of the data given at least one compression technique. It is determined whether the compressed output size exceeds a data budget. In the event it is determined that the compressed output size exceeds the data budget, the data is modified. The modified data is outputted.
US10102336B2
Various embodiments perform stable gene analysis of transcriptome sequencing data. In one embodiment, a plurality of datasets each including transcriptome sequencing data are received by a processor. Each of the plurality of datasets includes a plurality of genes and a respective ranking value for each of the plurality of genes. A plurality of rank normalized input datasets is generated based on assigning, for each of the plurality of datasets, a rank to each of the plurality of genes. One or more longest increasing subsequence (LIS) of ranks are identified between each pair of the plurality of rank normalized input datasets. A set of stable genes from the plurality of genes is identified based on each of the one or more LIS of ranks across the plurality of rank normalized input datasets.
US10102333B2
Various embodiments select markers for modeling epistasis effects. In one embodiment, a processor receives a set of genetic markers and a phenotype. A relevance score is determined with respect to the phenotype for each of the set of genetic markers. A threshold is set based on the relevance score of a genetic marker with a highest relevancy score. A relevance score is determined for at least one genetic marker in the set of genetic markers for at least one interaction between the at least one genetic marker and at least one other genetic marker in the set of genetic markers. The at least one interaction is added to a top-k feature set based on the relevance score of the at least one interaction satisfying the threshold.
US10102329B2
A method and apparatus of validating a test pattern for at-speed testing of at least one integrated circuit, IC, design. The method comprises calculating at least one weighted rise activity, WRA, value for at least one region of the IC design based at least partly on rising gate transitions within the at least one region of the IC design when the test pattern is applied thereto, calculating at least one weighted fall activity, WFA, value for the at least one region of the IC design based at least partly on fall gate transitions within the at least one region of the IC design when the test pattern is applied thereto, and validating the test pattern based at least partly on the WRA value and the WFA value.
US10102326B1
A method for designing a system on a target device includes generating a solution for the system. A solution for a module of the system identified by a user is preserved. The preserved solution for the module is implemented at a location on the target device identified by the user.
US10102325B2
A method for determining the power consumption of a programmable logic device, in which at least one configuration parameter is determined in accordance with a predefined configuration and at least one device parameter is determined in accordance with the programmable logic device. The predefined configuration is designed such that the programmable logic device exchanges data with a computing unit through at least one interface pin and receives data from at least one signal source and/or sends it to at least one signal receiver through at least one interface pin. At least one data characteristic of the data exchanged between the computing unit and the programmable logic device as well as at least one signal characteristic of the data received from the at least one signal source and/or sent to the at least one signal receiver are determined.
US10102322B2
A method implemented by computer, for selecting representative paths for the analysis of the behavior of an integrated circuit according to a predefined analysis strategy, comprises the identification of the set of paths of the integrated circuit having logic gates and the construction of a list of the set of the paths. The method comprises: the selection of several criteria related to the behavior of the integrated circuit, chosen from among the following types: topology, usage, sensitivity, environment, criticality; the determination of values of the selected criteria for each of the identified paths; the application of a correlation function to aggregate the set of the values of criteria to define an aggregation criterion value; and the selection of a subset of representative paths from among the list of the paths, as a function of the value of the aggregation criterion of the paths and of the predefined analysis strategy.
US10102320B2
A predictive electronic circuit design system, method, and apparatus provide the ability to design an electronic circuit. An electronic computer aided design (CAD) environment server computing device is connected to the Internet and includes a machine learning module program. The machine learning module program has a netlist analyzer program, a database, and a classifier and predictor program. The netlist analyzer program receives a circuit netlist for a designed circuit from a user, characterizes the circuit netlist, and sends characterization data to the database. Characterization data from multiple users for multiple designed circuits are stored in the database. The classifier and predictor program uses design goal data, the characterization data for multiple designed circuits, and simulation results, to calculate and produce predictions and proposals for the user to make design changes to the designed circuit in order to better meet or exceed design goals.
US10102312B2
A method for determining performance levels of at least one turbine engine propeller in an incident air flow (V) including an axial component (Vz) and a tangential component (VΘ), the propeller being modelled by a defined generalized theoretical model (Mg), for plural blade angles (ß) of the propeller, by a set of adimensional coefficients, including at least one generalized advance coefficient (Jg), a generalized power coefficient (CPg), and a generalized traction coefficient (CTg) defined by formulae: { J g = v z u - v θ C Tg ( β ) = T ( β ) ρ · ( u - v θ ) 2 · D 2 C Pg ( β ) = P ( β ) ρ · ( u - v θ ) 3 · D 2 wherein the generalized theoretical model (Mg) of the propeller is parameterized with input conditions of the turbine engine, including at least the axial component (Vz), the tangential component of the incident air flow (VΘ), the blade angle (ß) and the drive speed (u) of the propeller; and at least the traction performance level (T) and power performance level (P) of the propeller are derived from the parameterized generalized theoretical model (Mg).
US10102310B2
A system having a processor is provided that visually manipulates objects displayed on a touch screen or other display device responsive to inputs through the touch screen or other input device. The processor causes a display of a plurality of selectable candidate directions of constraint with respect to a movable portion of an object on a workspace. Responsive to a selection of one of the directions of constraint and motion inputs at input positions on the workspace that are spaced apart from the movable portion, the processor causes the movable portion to move along a path only in directions corresponding to the selected directions of constraint with an amount of motion produced from the motion inputs that is based at least in part on a distance between the input positions and the movable portion along a direction normal to the selected directions of constraint.
US10102306B2
Generating replay of a webpage is provided. In response to determining that a document object model (DOM) replay of the webpage is a differential DOM replay, a base DOM of the webpage, base DOM differentials of the webpage, and user interactions with the webpage are retrieved. The base DOM of the webpage is patched with the base DOM differentials of the webpage to generate a patched DOM corresponding to the webpage. The user interactions with the webpage are overlaid on the patched DOM to generate the replay of the webpage.
US10102292B2
There is disclosed a computer implemented method for processing a search query, the method executable by a search engine server, search engine server coupled to a crawled web resource database and a communication network. The computer implemented method aims at placing lower ranked web resources (for example, due to lack of prior user interaction with these web resources, as they may be new, etc) on the upper positions of the SERP to attract more user feedback to gather information about the lower ranked web resources. In this way, the search engine provider may improve the search results mix by giving a chance to get user feedback (and, hence, improve their scores) for more potentially highly relevant web resources (which may yet lack user interaction data to allow proper high scoring).
US10102283B2
An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: storing means for storing audio data and related information corresponding to the audio data; receiving means for acquiring electronic program guide information indicating programs scheduled to be broadcasted; and program selecting means for executing comparison processing for comparing predetermined related information corresponding to predetermined audio data among the audio data and the electronic program guide information and selecting, on the basis of a result of the comparison processing, a predetermined program from the broadcast-scheduled programs indicated by the electronic program guide information.
US10102280B2
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for determining an expertness level for a target keyword. The method includes preparing a document set associated with the target keyword, identifying, for each document in the document set, a category to which the document in the document set belongs, and determining an expertness level for the target keyword, based on a degree of dispersion of the identified categories. Each document in the document set may be associated with a category, and a graph which defines relations among the identified categories is generated from the identified categories to obtain the degree of dispersion of the identified categories. On condition that the degree of dispersion is lower, the expertness level for the target keyword may be determined to be higher or a higher expertness level is assigned to the target keyword.
US10102279B2
A computerized method for searching one or more information sources and identifying and reporting characterized information can comprise searching one or more data sources for a user-provided search target. The method can also comprise receiving one or more data results from the search of the one or more data sources. Additionally, the method can comprise classifying the one or more data results based upon the association of the user-provided search target with a derogatory attribute. The derogatory attribute can be determined based upon the content within each of the one or more data results. The method can comprise displaying an indication of at least a portion of the classified one or more data results with an indication of a cumulative ranking for each of the one or more data results.
US10102273B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a post of an online social network, extracting keywords from the content of the first post and the metadata associated with the first post, determining topics associated with each extracted keyword, calculating a topic-score based on a relevance of the topic to the post for each topic, generating a suggested keyword query corresponding to the post, the suggested keyword query comprising extracted keywords corresponding to each topic having a topic-score greater than a threshold topic-score, and sending the post and the suggested keyword query to a client device of a first user for display.
US10102272B2
Systems and methods for enhancing user experience in a search environment are provided. The method includes ranking documents which have multiple zones wherein one zone in a document dominates rest of the zones in the document.
US10102271B2
An example method comprises receiving historical information of episodes, constructing event sets from the historical information, categorizing each event with general labels and synthetic labels, learning an event metric on the events by using the general and synthetic labels to perform dimensionality reduction to associate a vector with each event and to determine an angle between every two vectors, determining an event set metric using distances between each pair of event sets, deriving a sequence metric on the episodes, the sequence metric obtaining a preferred match between two episodes, deriving a subsequence metric on the episodes, the subsequence metric is a function of the event set metric on subsequences of each episode, grouping episodes into subgroups based on distances, for at least one subgroup, generating a consensus sequence by finding a preferred sequence of events, and the episodes of the subgroup, and generating a report indicating the consensus sequence.
US10102268B1
A system for efficiently responding to proximity queries may include a memory storing an index for searching a graph-based data store, the index including posting lists for one or more proximity ranges compatible with a space. A posting list can include one or more entities of a type compatible with the space, each entity having a location within the space, the location being a basic unit in a location hierarchy for the space and, for each entity, at least one node in the location hierarchy that falls within the proximity range of the posting list with reference to the location of the entity. The system may also include a memory storing instructions that cause the system to use the index to respond to a query that includes a query proximity range for the space. The space can be a geographic space or a time space.
US10102256B2
A method and system for improving an Internet based search is provided. The method includes generating an intent domain associated with a subject based intent classification. An unstructured data analysis process is executed with respect to a content corpus being associated with the subject based intent classification and a search phase entered in a search field of a graphical user interface with respect to a domain specific search query for specified subject matter. In response the subject based intent classification is determined to be associated with the search query and the subject based intent classification is compared to search results data. A subset of search results of the search results data correlating to the subject based intent classification is determined and ranked resulting in a ranked list. The subject based intent classification and the ranked list are presented to a user.
US10102253B2
Elements of a database object are stored among a plurality of different storage regions, each storage region being associated with a first value range indicating upper and lower range values for element values within that storage region. An index is generated and maintained for one or more second value ranges that include range values that comprise subsets of the first value ranges. A query is processed that includes a query value and one or more storage regions to be read is determined by using one of the index and the first value ranges based on the query value relative to a second value range.
US10102251B2
A lockless open collection data structure used to create a sequence of collection records. The sequence of collection records may be inserted into a data stream for purposes of assisting in subsequent processing of the data stream in a parallel manner, by collection. The open collection data structure is re-usable for multiple collections of data items within the data stream. The use of the open collection data structure may occur while a data stream that includes multiple different types of data items is being evaluated. The open collection data structure is used to track an expandable collection definition of a currently open collection. Upon detecting that the collection definition is no longer expandable, the collection record is created based on state within the open collection data structure. Once the collection record for a collection has been created, the open collection data structure becomes available for the next collection record.
US10102247B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for precision adaptive trajectory query plan optimization. The mechanism identifies precision needs based on query instances and maps trajectory point data to the precision needs to form a precision support skeleton data structure. The mechanism generates an optimized query plan and executes the optimized query plan on the precision support skeleton data structure to identify at least one passing trajectory that passes the query. The mechanism then queries the trajectory point data for the at least one passing trajectory.
US10102238B2
A multi-user search system with methodology for instant indexing. In one embodiment, for example, a system for instant indexing includes a token store storing sets of tokens for current versions of documents. The system further includes a tokenizer server configured to tokenize new versions of the documents and to generate sets of tokens for the new versions of the documents, an instant indexer configured to determine tokens to use to index the documents based on identified differences between the sets of tokens for the new versions of the documents and the sets of tokens for the current versions of the documents, and to generate index mutations including the tokens to use to index the documents, an index mutation journal configured to store the generated index mutations in association with timestamps, and an index mutation server configured to provide, to index servers, from the index mutation journal, generated index mutations for the index servers that are associated with timestamps that are newer than specified timestamps.
US10102236B2
A computer implemented method for data mining and providing business intelligence data including generating by an analytics server one or more dimensions from source data imported from a computer readable medium, wherein the one or more dimensions define categories into which portions of the normalized data can be grouped; generating by the analytics server one or more measures from the source data linked to the one or more dimensions; storing by the analytics server the one or more dimensions and the one or more measures in a plurality of tables arranged in one of a snowflake and a star schema; determining by the analytics server relationship information between one or more measures and one or more dimensions in each of the plurality of tables; storing by the analytics server the relationship information on the computer readable medium; calculating by the analytics server a total cost of at least one product based on the relationship information; and, querying by a computer system in communication with the analytics server for the change in total cost of the at least one product based on a change in any one of the measures.
US10102229B2
A data integration system provides a secondary validation data store that may be used as a staging area for testing and validating data integrations for a set of structured data. Ontology data that defines a schema for integrated data may be modified and tweaked. The secondary validation data store is more efficient than a production system for such schema modifications. Once the ontology data is satisfactory, the structured data and the ontology data may be loaded into a production system.
US10102227B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method that facilitate searching and/or browsing of images by clustering, or grouping, the images into a set of image clusters using facets, such as without limitation visual properties or visual characteristics, of the images, and representing each image cluster by a representative image selected for the image cluster. A map-reduce based probabilistic topic model may be used to identify one or more images belonging to each image cluster and update model parameters.
US10102225B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a content item posted by a user. Time data associated with the content item can be acquired. A profile picture can be identified, based at least in part on the time data, out of a set of profile pictures associated with the user. The profile picture can be provided in association with the content item.
US10102210B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for migration data from a source to a target in the background using an optimal number of threads. In one implementation, a file system operation request is received at the target. The file system operation request specifying a read request for a directory having a directory level migration attribute on the target that is marked. An optimal number of threads is allocated for migrating the directory. Metadata for content in the directory is obtained from the source using the optimal number of threads. A directory entry for a file in the directory is created on the target using the metadata, the directory entry for the file associated with a file level migration attribute that is marked.
US10102209B2
A system and method for generating a submittal register for various construction projects or other items is disclosed. Among other things, the system and method include inputting the construction project specifications in a file format, such as PDF, into a web application interface to convert the same to a text file, applying an algorithm to the text file, identifying all required submittals into a spreadsheet, running a quality control check of the generated spreadsheet, applying an analysis program to the spreadsheet, generating final submittal register by the program, and delivering the final submittal register.
US10102208B2
Apparatus, computer-readable storage media, and methods are disclosed for allowing wireless communication device users to retrieve and view photographs, videos, and other media content using mobile computing platforms for display using a slideshow application. According to one disclosed embodiment, a method of performing a client-side slideshow application on a wireless communication device comprises, based on detecting that that wireless communication device is connected to a charging device, automatically invoking a slideshow application operable to display a series of images using the wireless communication device. The method further comprises transmitting a request for images via the Internet and receiving a series of images selected based at least in part on the request, adding at least one image from the series of images to an image playlist, and displaying at least a portion of the image playlist sequentially using the slideshow application on the wireless communication device.
US10102203B2
Provided is a method, device, and computer-readable medium for converting a string of characters in a first language into a phonetic representation of a second language using a first data structure that maps graphemes in the first language to one or more universal phonetic representations based on an international phonetic alphabet, wherein the first data structure comprises a plurality of first nodes with each first node of the plurality of first nodes having a respective weight assigned that corresponds to a likely pronunciation of a grapheme, and a second data structure that maps the one or more universal phonetic representations to one or more graphemes in the second language, wherein the second data structure comprises a plurality of second nodes with each second node of the plurality of second nodes having a respective weight assigned that corresponds to a likely representation of a grapheme in the second language.
US10102190B2
Memory conserving versioning of an electronic document is provided. Client versioning factors are analyzed by a client versioning engine and server versioning factors are analyzed by a server versioning engine for determining when an electronic document should be stored as a new version. Accordingly, new versions of an electronic document are only created when determined to be sufficiently important, thus reducing the amount of memory required for increased version payload.
US10102189B2
Provided are methods, devices, and computer-readable media for generating a string of characters based on a set of rules; parsing the string of characters into string of graphemes; determining one or more phonetic representations for one or more graphemes in the string of graphemes based on a first data structure; determining at least one grapheme representation for one or more of the one or more phonetic representations based on a second data structure; and constructing the phonetic representation of the string of characters based on the grapheme representation that was determined.
US10102188B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for receiving a common schema definition language (CSDL) document that describes an Internet-accessible service, processing the CSDL document through a CSDL parser to provide a CSDL object document, processing the CSDL object document through a text document generator to provide a human-readable text document, and transmitting the human-readable text document for display to a user.
US10102177B2
To provide a serial communication system that can flexibly or easily change a system configuration. For example, when coupled to first and second serial buses, a motor module transmits a first signal to the second serial bus. Subsequently, the motor module transmits a first command containing a candidate address to the first serial bus; meanwhile, the motor module searches for an address where an acknowledgement is not received in response to the first command. The motor module transmits the search result address to the second serial bus. A control unit at the reception of the first signal changes to a sleep state that stops communications with the first serial bus and receives an address as a search result from the second serial bus.
US10102175B2
Apparatus and methods for digital bus operation. In one embodiment, the digital bus is a bidirectional, time-division multiplexing (TDM) audio bus operation, and a bus technology is described that enables multi-drop (e.g., multiple device, multiple node, etc.) connectivity for real-time audio over a small form factor interface (e.g., as few as two (2) wires). Specifically, an exemplary tri-level signaling scheme provides bidirectional functionality, real-time clock edges, audio data, in a multi-drop topology in one implementation.
US10102165B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes assigning a time budget to each of a plurality of virtual functions in a single-root input/output (SRIOV) environment, where a first time budget of a first virtual function indicates a quantity of cycles on an engine of the SRIOV environment allowed to the first virtual function within a time slice. A plurality of requests issued by the plurality of virtual functions are selected by a computer processor, where the selecting excludes requests issued by virtual functions that have used their associated time budgets of cycles in a current time slice. The selected plurality of requests are delivered to the engine for processing. The time budgets of the virtual functions are reset and a new time slice begins, at the end of the current time slice.
US10102164B2
A mapping technique sets coalescing latency values for computing systems that use multiple data queues having a shared base timer. A computing system having at least one receive queue and at least one transmit queue receives user-provided coalescing latency values for the respective queues, and converts these user-provided latencies to coalescing latency hardware register values as well as a base timer register value for the shared base timer. The hardware register values for the coalescing latencies together with the shared base timer register value determine the coalescing latencies for the respective queues. This mapping technique allows a user to conveniently set coalescing latencies for multi-queue processing systems while shielding the user settings from hardware complexity.
US10102163B2
The invention relates to a bus participant device (30) for receiving and transmitting data telegrams (18) via a serial data bus (12) according to a master/slave method, wherein the bus participant device (30) is configured to function, in a slave mode, as a slave (16) on the data bus (12) by means of a slave unit (36) that is part of the bus participant device (30), wherein the bus participant device (30) comprises a master unit (38) that can be activated. In particular, by means of the slave unit (36) and/or the master unit (38), a transmission of data telegrams (18) via the data bus (12) can be monitored for a malfunction of an active bus master (14). Preferably, subject to a result of the monitoring process, an activation of the master unit (38) by means of the slave unit (36) or the master unit (38) can be effected. The invention further relates to a method for operating a serial data bus (12), and to various safety-critical devices.
US10102160B2
A data processing system includes an interrupt controller having a priority level arbitrator and trigger circuitry. The priority level arbitrator and the trigger circuitry operate in parallel to process interrupt signals received by an interrupt signal receiver. The trigger circuitry generates a trigger signal initiating interrupt processing before the priority level arbitrator has completed its arbitration determination at an arbitration-completed time. If the interrupt processing triggered by the trigger signal was inappropriate, then is terminated once the result of the arbitration is known after the arbitration-completed time.
US10102158B1
Methods and apparatus relating to the transfer of data for processing and/or the transfer of the resulting processed data are described. Some features relate to a processing system which performs data transfers under control of a Dynamic Sequence Controller (DSC). In various embodiments a sequence of operational codes is used to control data transfer with the status of data source and destination locations taken into consideration. Modification of the op code sequence used to control the dynamic sequence controller and thus the transfer of data can be performed asynchronously to control of processing units which can be controlled via a command and control bus used to control the function of operators which process the data provided via the data bus.
US10102156B2
A display apparatus including a display that displays messages includes a message retrieval unit that retrieves messages by accessing a message management server, a display method selection unit that selects a display method for the retrieved messages in response to a count of the retrieved messages, and a display controller that performs control to display on the display the messages retrieved from the message management server in the display method selected by the display method selection unit. The display method selection unit selects a first display method that displays the retrieved messages while scrolling the retrieved messages repeatedly if the count of the retrieved messages is equal to or below a display switching threshold value, and selects a second display method that displays the retrieved messages while scrolling the retrieved messages if the count of the retrieved messages is above the display switching threshold value.
US10102143B2
A data processing system 2 includes an address translation cache 12 to store a plurality of address translation entries. Eviction control circuitry 10 selects a victim entry for eviction from address translation cache 12 using an eviction control parameter. The address translation cache 12 can store multiple different types of entry corresponding to respective different levels of address translation within a multiple-level page table walk. The different types of entry have different eviction control parameters assigned at the time of allocation. Eviction from the address translation cache is dependent upon the entry type, as well as the subsequent accesses to the entry concerned and the other entries within the address translation cache.
US10102123B2
Embodiments of the invention relate a hybrid hardware and software implementation of transactional memory accesses in a computer system. A processor including a transactional cache and a regular cache is utilized in a computer system that includes a policy manager to select one of a first mode (a hardware mode) or a second mode (a software mode) to implement transactional memory accesses. In the hardware mode the transactional cache is utilized to perform read and write memory operations and in the software mode the regular cache is utilized to perform read and write memory operations.
US10102120B2
Technologies for performing garbage collection in database systems, such as multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) database systems, are described. For example, different garbage collection techniques can be used separately or in various combinations, including interval garbage collection, group garbage collection, table garbage collection, and combinations. For example, a particular type of combination, called hybrid garbage collection, uses technique from interval garbage collection and group garbage collection, or from interval, group, and table garbage collection.
US10102114B1
A system for testing candidate code to determine if the candidate code is approved for deployment to a production environment. The system may include a code testing engine configured to test a first code set of previously approved code to a testing server and a production environment including multiple production servers. At a deployment time, the code testing engine may then deploy candidate code to the testing server, while the production servers execute the first code set. Performance data for a time period before the deployment time and after the deployment time is collected. Latency data sets are fetched from the performance data sets and compared using multiple statistical tests. If the multiple statistical tests generate passing results, the candidate code is approved for deployment to the production environment.
US10102098B2
A method and a system for recommending an application parameter setting and a system specification setting in a distributed computation are provided. The method includes the following steps. An application information, a framework information and a system information are received. Whether a performance model which includes a relationship of a performance, the application information, the framework information and the system information is stored in a storage unit is determined. The application parameter setting and the system specification setting are obtained according to the performance model, if the performance model is stored in the storage unit.
US10102092B2
A testing method for testing a plurality of devices under test (DUT) includes transmitting first testing routine signals from a first backend controller to a testing front end module via a wired data connection between the first backend controller and a first testing signal interface of the testing front end module, transmitting second testing routine signals from a second backend controller to the testing front end module via a wired data connection between the second backend controller and a second testing signal interface of the testing front end module, prioritizing one of the first and second testing routine signals according to predefined priority criteria in the testing front end module, and generating testing signals in the testing front end module on the basis of the prioritized testing routine signals.
US10102090B2
A method and system are provided for chip testing. The method includes ascertaining a baseline for a functioning chip with no stress history by performing a non-destructive test procedure on the functioning chip. The method further includes repeating the test procedure on a chip under test using a threshold derived from the baseline as a reference point to determine a stress history of the chip under test. The test procedure includes ordering each of a plurality of functional patterns by a respective minimum operating period corresponding thereto, ranking each pattern based on at least one preceding available pattern to provide a plurality of pattern ranks, and calculating a sum by summing the pattern ranks. The sum calculated by the ascertaining step is designated as the baseline, and the sum calculated by the repeating step is compared to the threshold to determine the stress history of the chip under test.
US10102086B2
A computer-implemented method for distributing a plurality of data partitions among a cluster of computer nodes includes dividing a database into a plurality of primary partitions, storing the primary partitions on a plurality of nodes associated with a computer network, duplicating the primary partitions to create a plurality of secondary partitions and storing the secondary partitions on the nodes, wherein the primary and secondary partitions are substantially evenly distributed among the nodes, each secondary partition is stored on a different node than its corresponding primary partition, diversity exists with respect to each secondary partition and the node where it is stored, the primary partitions are available to serve a system workload, and one or more secondary partitions corresponding to one or more primary partitions of a failed node are available to be upgraded to primary status to maintain workload balancing and data availability after one of the computer nodes fails.
US10102079B2
A single system merges primary data storage, data protection, and intelligence. Intelligence is provided through in-line data analytics, and data intelligence and analytics are gathered on protected data and prior analytics, and stored in discovery points, all without impacting performance of primary storage. As data is written it is automatically mirrored for data protection as part of a High Availability (HA) process. Real-time analysis is done in-line with the HA processing, enabling a variety of data analytics. Data content can be mined from within files or blocks. The gathered intelligence is used to tag objects with extended metadata, enabling both valuable search options and rapid restore options. Data recovery begins with metadata restoration, followed by near-instantaneous access to “hot” regions of data being restored, allowing site operation to continue or resume while a restore is ongoing.
US10102073B2
Systems and methods for providing automatic system stop and boot-to-service OS for forensic analysis. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: detect an Indicator of Compromise (IoC); send, to a server, a message including the IoC; receive, from the server, a recovery instruction; and boot into a service OS identified in the recovery instruction, wherein the service OS is distinct from a main OS included in the IHS.
US10102069B2
A method includes identifying a data object for retrieval. The data object is encoded in accordance with first encoded parameters and stored as a plurality of sets of encoded data slices in a set of storage units. The method further includes determining whether an access metric regarding the data object exceeds an access threshold. When the access metric is equal to or exceeds the access threshold, the data object is further encoded in accordance with second encoding parameters and stored as a second plurality of sets of encoded data slices in a second set of storage units. The method further includes issuing retrieval requests to the second set of storage units regarding the second plurality of encoded data slices in accordance with a read threshold of the second encoding parameters. The method further includes recovering the data object from the second plurality of encoded data slices.
US10102052B2
Dumping resources can include identifying a resource associated with a computing device, dumping the resource associated with the computing device, determining whether the resource has changed since the resource has been dumped, and dumping the resource, prior to a crash of the computing device occurring, when the resource has changed since the last dump.
US10102039B2
Converting a hybrid flow can include combining each of a plurality of task nodes with a plurality of corresponding operators of the hybrid flow and converting the combined plurality of task nodes and the plurality of corresponding operators of the hybrid flow to a data flow graph using a code template.
US10102037B2
Techniques are disclosed for managing lock contention in a multithreaded processing system. In one embodiment, a method includes tracking an amount of time that a lock on a first thread prevents a second thread from execution. The method also includes, if the amount of time is greater than a first threshold, storing the amount of time and an address associated with the lock. The method includes dispatching a third thread that utilizes the address associated with the lock. The method also includes increasing the hardware priority of the third thread during a lock operation.
US10102036B2
Allocating threads to processors based, at least in part, on identifiers for thread sets and applications. A thread is paired with an application and, using the identifier for the application, an ID pairing is allocated to a processor.
US10102028B2
A method of acknowledging receipt of an event block object is provided. First connection information for connecting to an event stream processing (ESP) engine executing at a first computing device is received. A first connection to the ESP engine is established using the received first connection information. Second connection information for connecting to a publishing client executing at a second computing device is received. A second connection to the publishing client is established using the received second connection information, wherein the first connection differs from the second connection. An event block object is received from the ESP engine using the established first connection, wherein the event block object includes a unique identifier for the event block object. Successful processing of the event block object is determined. Responsive to the successful processing determination, an acknowledgment message including the unique identifier is sent to the publishing client using the established second connection.
US10102025B2
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a method, performed by a resource management server, for resource allocation in a virtualization environment. The resource management server includes a non-transient computer readable medium and a processor to execute computer executable instructions stored on the non-transient computer readable medium, so that when the instructions are executed, the resource management server performs the method of: (a) determining an average service rate for each virtual machine (VM) pool running an application; (b) predicting a workload of the application; (c) determining a set of collaborative VMs to serve the application in order to satisfy a service level requirement, the set of collaborative VMs comprising a number of selected VMs from the VM pools running the application; and (d) distributing incoming application requests of the application among the VMs in the set of collaborative VMs.
US10102023B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing fair unidirectional multi-queue virtual machine migration are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include maintaining a current scan identifier for each of a plurality of streams used to migrate a virtual machine from a first hypervisor to a second hypervisor, determining when a current scan identifier of a first stream and a current scan identifier of a second stream are associated with different memory states of the virtual machine, and adjusting processing of memory updates when the current scan identifiers are associated with different memory states of the virtual machine. The adjusting may be performed, for example, by pausing processing on each stream having a current scan identifier subsequent to the earliest current scan identifier determined for the streams, and processing memory updates on each stream having a current scan identifier matching the earliest current scan identifier.
US10102021B2
A management system and method that generally allocates a virtual function to a virtual function definition of a virtual server, where the virtual function definition of the virtual server is previously assigned with a unique function identifier, and assigns the unique function identifier to the virtual function in response to the allocating of the virtual function, where the unique function identifier causes a discovery of the virtual function by the virtual server.
US10102018B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for introspective application reporting to facilitate virtual machine movement between cloud hosts. A set of aggregate usage history data can record consumption of processor, software, or other resources subscribed to by one or more users in a or clouds. A cloud management system can host a cloud-based operating system which can support a set of virtual machines via a set of guest operating systems that are virtualized in the operating system. One or more of the virtual machines can be configured with an introspection daemon which is configured to inspect the application set and configuration state of the associated virtual machine. The introspection daemon can generate an introspection report containing application inventories, execution states, and other information and transmit that report to the kernel of the cloud-based operating system. The kernel can receive that report and generate a set of migratable virtual machine images via a virtual machine image manager or other logic. Migrations of the encoded virtual machines and/or applications can be initiated at kernel level.
US10102005B2
An external intrinsic interface. A processor may include a core including a plurality of functional units, an intrinsic module located outside the core, and an interface module to perform relaying between the intrinsic module and a functional unit, among the plurality of functional units.
US10101998B2
A Vector Checksum instruction. Elements from a second operand are added together one-by-one to obtain a first result. The adding includes performing one or more end around carry add operations. The first result is placed in an element of a first operand of the instruction. After each addition of an element, a carry out of a chosen position of the sum, if any, is added to a selected position in an element of the first operand.
US10101997B2
Techniques are disclosed for managing vector element ordering. One technique includes receiving an assembler command from a source file, wherein the assembler command indicates a vector element order for one or more subsequent machine instructions in the source file. The technique includes determining whether the vector element order comprises a big-endian (BE) order or a little-endian (LE) order. If the vector element order comprises a BE order, the technique includes assembling one or more subsequent machine instructions and placing the machine instructions in a BE section of a file. If the vector element order comprises a LE order, the technique includes assembling one or more subsequent machine instructions and placing the machine instructions in a LE section of the file.
US10101995B2
Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for transforming data manipulation code into data workflow. Data manipulation code for a data science process is written in a data manipulation programming language. The data manipulation code defines input instructions, data manipulation instructions, and output instructions. A learning module automatically transforms the data manipulation code into a data workflow representative of the data science process. The level of detail for a data workflow can be tailored for an intended audience and/or for subsequent editing with an editor program (e.g., a drawing program). Aspects of the invention address the disconnection between designing a data science process and documenting the data science process. The creation of data workflows is automated, virtually eliminating manual operations and providing significant productive gains for data scientists, data engineers, developers, and program managers.
US10101993B2
A local monitoring system of a computer system to be monitored may receive a monitoring solution agent code portion and a first monitoring solution agent content portion. Version D may be assigned to the first content portion, and a status of version D may be set to active such that new end user sessions are initialized with a local agent comprising the code portion and version D. A second content portion may be uploaded and assigned to be version A. Responsive to an end user request, the status of version D may be set to ready and the status of version A may be set to active such that new sessions are initialized with an agent comprising the code portion and version A. A third content portion may then be uploaded and assigned to be version B. Responsive to an end user request, the status of version A may be to ready and the status of version B may be set to active such that new sessions are initialized with an agent comprising the code portion and version B. When sessions using version A no longer exist, version A may be deleted.
US10101989B2
In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment comprises a plurality of host machines, one or more virtual disks comprising a plurality of storage devices, a virtualized file server (VFS) comprising a plurality of file server virtual machines (FSVMs), wherein each of the FSVMs is running on one of the host machines and conducts I/O transactions with the one or more virtual disks, and a virtualized file server backup system configured to back up data stored in a VFS located a cluster of host machines to an object store, and retrieve the backed-up data as needed to restore the data in the VFS. The object store may be located in a public cloud. The object store may include a low-cost storage medium within the cluster. An FSVM of the VFS may provide an object store interface to low-cost storage media.
US10101984B1
Some embodiments of the present invention monitor and track usage patterns of various applications (apps) distributed among multiple mobile devices owned by a user. The data gathered during monitoring is stored in a mobile app usage repository. If the user considers installing a new app, a cognitive app analysis engine compares features and functionality of the new app against the usage patterns in the repository, to formulate recommendations as to which mobile device(s) the app should be installed on. The analysis engine provides its recommendations to the user, and may additionally perform automated installation of the app on the recommended device(s).
US10101981B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for managing application delivery in a network. A device intermediary to a client and one or more servers that provide a plurality of applications, receives a request from the client to access a first application of the plurality of applications. The device holds the request and retrieves, while holding the request, configuration information for an instance of the first application from a configuration repository. The device configures a virtual internet protocol (“VIP”) server using the configuration information for the instance of the first application. The device processes the request via the VIP server.
US10101974B2
An application development platform transmits to a content provider system instructions that provide a user interface for developing an application that specifies a first multi-step communication flow between a communications device and a communications system. The platform receives from parameters of a program functionality for inclusion in the application, and selects one or more recommended program modules based on the parameters. The platform transmits instructions that provide a user interface for displaying the one or more recommended program modules. The platform receives data indicating a user selection of a particular program module. In response, the platform transmits instructions that provide a user interface for enabling user configuration of the particular program module. The platform receives modified parameters of the particular program module and determines a second multi-step communication flow between the communications device and the communications system based on the first multi-step communication flow and the modified parameters.
US10101972B1
Creating, executing, and managing flow plans by performing at least the following: creating a trigger for a design-time flow plan that activates when one or more computing conditions are met, define a plurality of action instances for the design-time flow plan that execute after the trigger activates, wherein one or more of the action instances comprise a respective sequence of step instances associated with respective inputs and outputs, save the design-time flow plan within a data model, convert the saved design-time flow plan into a run-time flow plan, and execute one or more operations within the run-time flow plan, wherein the execution of the one or more operations within run-time flow plan occurs simultaneously when the data model is updated with a modified design-time flow plan, and wherein the one or more operations includes a dynamic mutable operation.
US10101957B2
An image processing device performs image processing on image data for projection into a projection area. The image processing device comprises a memory and an image processor. The memory at least temporarily stores image data. The image processor specifies a certain area that is part of the projection area and extends from one end of the projection area, and corrects the image data so as to satisfy a certain condition on the basis of the specification of the certain area. The certain condition is that the correction amount A for the brightness of the image data portion to be projected into the certain area and the correction amount B for the brightness of the other image data portion in the projection area satisfy the relation A
US10101951B2
An image processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs image data. A receiving unit receives an instruction on a mode for saving color material to be consumed by printing the image data. A processing unit performs processing for increasing a width of a line constituting a white character included in image data in a case when the receiving unit receives the instruction on the mode for saving a color material to be consumed by printing.
US10101945B1
A computer-implemented method is disclosed to enhance command burst tolerance in a SCSI system. The method starts with receiving an initiator timeout value at a SCSI target, where the SCSI target is communicatively coupled with a SCSI initiator through a set of communication links, and where the initiator timeout value is associated with a timeout duration after which the SCSI initiator times out if receiving no response from the SCSI target after sending a SCSI command. After receiving the initiator timeout value, the SCSI target determines how long a SCSI command has been pending to be processed at the SCSI target. The SCSI target then returns a response for the SCSI command to the SCSI initiator within the timeout duration associated with the initiator timeout value even if the SCSI command is pending to be processed at the SCSI target.
US10101944B2
A data writing method for a solid state storage device is provided. The solid state storage device includes a flash memory with plural blocks. The data writing method includes the following steps. Firstly, a flush command is received. Then, host write data in a buffer are stored into an open block of the flash memory according to a program order. Then, a garbage collection is performed to acquire collected write data from a close block of the flash memory and temporarily store the collected write data into the buffer. Then, the host write data and the collected write data in the buffer are stored into the open block of the flash memory according to the program order.
US10101942B1
A system and method is disclosed for managing data in a garbage collection operation using a hybrid push-pull technique. The system includes multiple non-volatile memory sub-drives associated with a specific data type and shared volatile memory garbage collection buffer sized to only receive a predetermined amount of host data of a single data type and associated large data chunk correction data. A controller identifies and accumulates valid data of a single data type from the source block and combines it with XOR data for that valid data to generate a protected data stripe in the buffer. The controller writes the protected data stripe to the sub-drive containing data of the same data type. Only after writing the protected data stripe to the appropriate sub-drive, the controller repeats the process in the same source block for the same or different data type of data.
US10101941B2
For handling data mirror invalid timestamped write activities, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a data mirror that mirrors write activities from a first storage device at a first site to a second storage device at a second site. The apparatus includes a time monitor that retrieves a timestamp for each of the mirrored write activities and monitors a reference clock in a storage control session as a comparison to validate the timestamp for each of the mirrored write activities. If the timestamp of a mirrored write activity is outside of a pre-determined parameter range, then the time monitor identifies the mirrored write activity as having a missing timestamp, assigns a next logical timestamp to the mirrored write activity, and prepares the mirrored write activity for inclusion in a consistency group associated with the next logical timestamp.
US10101940B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for identifying a data portion for relocation from a first storage device to a second storage device. The data portion is migrated from the first storage device to the second storage device. A read request is received on the second storage device for specific data included within the data portion. The specific data is not present in a backend cache system associated with the second storage device. The specific data is requested from the second storage device and a backend cache system associated with the first storage device.
US10101932B1
A method and system for checkpointing at least one application in an application group. At least one full checkpoint and at least one incremental checkpoint are created for the application in the application group. The at least one incremental application checkpoint is merged against the at least one full application checkpoint, and checkpointing across all applications in the application group is synchronized. A storage checkpoint is taken for at least one of the full checkpoint and the incremental checkpoint, and memory and storage checkpoints are synchronized and consistent.
US10101925B2
A memory controller implemented within a non-volatile data storage device with improved efficiency for executing data invalidation commands is disclosed. In one embodiment, the non-volatile data storage device in communication with a host device and comprises a processor, a memory device that includes a plurality of physical storage locations, a cache memory configured to store a map table and a count value. The controller is configured to receive a data invalidation request from the host device where the request includes an execution parameter. Based on the execution parameter, the controller executes the invalidation request in an efficient and flexible manner.
US10101923B2
According to the embodiments, a nonvolatile memory device is configured to store a normal operating system, and store a bootloader. A host device is capable of initiating the normal operating system by using the bootloader. The host device is configured to determine whether a first condition is established based on information obtained from the nonvolatile memory device; and rewrite, when determined the first condition is established, the bootloader so that an emergency software is initiated when booting the host device. The emergency software is executed on the host device. The host device is capable of issuing only a read command to the nonvolatile memory device under a control of the emergency software.
US10101920B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are related to systems and methods for attributing disk Input/Output (IO) to one or more system entities. A disk IO attribution context is generated that defines disk IO utilization parameters for a system entity. A pointer is attached to the system entity that points to the disk IO attribution context. The pointer is exposed to system components of an underlying computer system. The pointer prompts the system components to report the disk IO utilization parameters when the system components have performed a disk IO operation for the system entity. The disk IO utilization parameters reported by the one or more system components are recorded in the disk IO attribution context.
US10101919B2
A chipset implemented in a server node of a server system and including an embedded management controller is disclosed. The chipset also includes a northbridge and southbridge. The embedded management controller collects inner-node information of the server node for server system management. The embedded management controller is coupled to a baseboard management controller, and the baseboard management controller is outside the server node and communicates with a remote console through network.
US10101917B1
Described are techniques for evaluating a plurality of caching techniques. Cache decision engines (CDEs) are executed where each CDE uses a different caching technique. The CDEs includes a first CDE that performs data caching in accordance with a plurality of I/O operations and one or more other CDEs each simulating data caching in accordance with the plurality of I/O operations. Sets of performance data are determined with a different one of the sets of performance data determined for each of the CDEs thereby denoting measured performance for the CDE. Using the sets of performance data, it is determined whether any of the one or more other CDEs each simulating data caching has better performance than the first CDE.
US10101909B2
A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory chips each including a plurality of memory blocks grouped as one or more super blocks, wherein the memory blocks each include a plurality of pages suitable for storing write data requested from a host, and a controller suitable for checking a size of the write data and free pages of the super blocks, determining a first super block corresponding to the checked size of the write data based on the checked free pages among the super blocks, and programming the write data in memory blocks of the first super block.
US10101903B2
An example information search method includes: obtaining a plurality of paths on a screen of a mobile terminal generated by sliding two or more fingers on the screen, in which one finger corresponds to one path; determining whether the plurality of paths is consistent; if the determining result is positive, generating a search interface calling signal; and displaying a search interface based on the search interface calling signal. Thus, the techniques of the present disclosure enhance information search efficiency.
US10101900B2
Provided is an information processing device including: a display unit configured to display a screen including an operation target to be subjected to a contact operation; a first detection unit configured to detect an object on the display unit; a second detection unit configured to detect an operation unavailable region among display regions of the screen based on a detection result obtained by the first detection unit, the operation unavailable region being a region in which an operation using the operation target is unable to be performed; and a change processing unit configured to change a configuration of the screen based on priority that is set for each operation target and to allow the operation target to be displayed in an operation available region, the operation available region being a region other than the operation unavailable region.
US10101899B2
A wireless communication device, system and methods are presented. The wireless communication device includes a display unit, a transmitting unit, a touch input, a storage unit and an execution unit. The display unit displays screens comprising display objects related to one or more applications. The touch input acceptance unit accepts a touch input. The storage unit stores screen information comprising icons related at least to the applications, disposition information of the icons on the screens, and acquisition source information for the applications. The execution unit causes the transmitting unit to transmit screen information associated with the screens selected based on input accepted by the touch input acceptance unit.
US10101896B2
A remote control device of a heat pump system is useable to switch an operating state of the heat pump system. The remote control device includes a touch screen and physical keys provided separately from the touch screen. The touch screen is configured and arranged to display a plurality of touch keys displayed by words, graphics, or symbols associated separately with any of a plurality of set items. The physical keys include at least two function keys. A number of the function keys is fewer than a number of the touch keys. The function keys are assigned a common function utilized when the operating state is switched. The remote control device further includes a common function setting part configured and arranged to assign the common functions to the function keys.
US10101895B2
Data pertaining to at least one user-specific color value can be accessed for output of at least one of red light, green light, and blue light, and images can be presented on a display based at least in part on the at least one user-specific color value.
US10101888B2
An architecture is described that can enhance and/or simplify tactile-based I/O transactions in connection with a user-interface (UI) of limited form factor. In particular, the architecture can monitor a position of a selector object such as an operator's finger relative to a UI display as the selector object hovers or moves above the UI display. Based upon this position, an analogous coordinate in the UI display can be determined, and a portion of the UI display substantially centered at the coordinate can be modified. As one example, the UI display can be modified to increase the magnification scale (e.g., a virtual magnifying glass) of the portion of the display indicated by the selector object.
US10101884B2
A wearable device configured to pair with a plurality of electronic devices via a wireless network and to display a graphics user interface that includes a plurality of home screens corresponding to the plurality of electronic devices.
US10101876B2
A mobile terminal including a display unit having a main display region exposed on a front surface and an auxiliary display region exposed on a lateral surface; and a controller configured to display at least one display object on the main display region, and move the at least one display object from the main display region to the auxiliary display region in response to a received move command.
US10101873B2
A portable terminal is provided with: a display device; a sensor configured to detect the orientation or position of the portable terminal; a data storage unit configured to store data; and a display control unit configured to display on the display device an icon or object that corresponds to the data stored in the data storage unit. The display control unit acquires information regarding the orientation or position of the portable terminal from the sensor and determines a display mode of the icon or object in accordance with a change in the orientation or position of the portable terminal.
US10101870B2
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for customizing user experience on a per-user basis. In some implementations, the technique involves: collecting feedback information from a user pertaining to the user's interaction with a program feature; determining a modification to be made to the program feature based on the feedback information; making the modification; notifying the user of the modification; and receiving the user's post-modification assessment of the modification. The technique enables a program provider to quickly modify program features in an automated manner, with no (or reduced) effort by human developers, and at consequent reduced cost. In addition, the technique improves the users' experience with the program features since the program modifications are tailored to each user's preferences.
US10101865B2
A wiring body includes a conductive portion that includes a contact surface having a concave-convex shape, and an adhesive layer stacked on the contact surface. The conductive portion further includes a top surface facing the contact surface that contains conductive particles. The adhesive layer includes a smooth portion with a smooth main surface provided at a constant thickness, and a protrusion that protrudes from the main surface toward a side of the conductive portion provided on the smooth portion to correspond to the conductive portion. The protrusion comes into contact with the contact surface and includes a concave-convex surface complementary to the concave-convex shape of the contact surface. The contact surface is positioned on a side of the top surface with respect to the main surface and a unit length of the contact surface is larger than a unit length of the top surface.
US10101864B2
The present disclosure, pertaining to the communications field, discloses a touch screen terminal and a near field communication method thereof. The method includes: detecting, by the first touch screen terminal, whether a second touch screen terminal having a large-area contact is present; if the second touch screen terminal having a large-area contact is present, performing an approach detection for the second touch screen terminal by using a first signal strength threshold, and otherwise, performing an approach detection for the second touch screen terminal by using a second signal strength threshold; and when the approach detection is successful, carrying out data transmission with the second touch screen terminal.
US10101861B2
A touch panel module in which a conductive film in which a mesh conductive layer composed of a mesh-like metal electrode is formed on a support, a λ/4 plate, a polarizing plate, and a protective layer are arranged in this order. A λ/4 plate is further arranged on a side of the conductive film opposite to the protective layer. The touch panel module has a visible light diffuse reflectivity of 2% or less, which is measured from the protective layer.
US10101859B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided, each including multiple touch-control electrodes independent from each other and multiple electrode coils. A position of each electrode coil corresponds to a position of one touch-control electrode. Since the touch-control electrodes and the electrode coils are integrated into the array substrate and the touch panel needs not to be separately arranged outside the display device, the thickness of the display device may be effectively reduced. In addition, the touch-control structure includes the touch-control electrodes and the electrode coils, i.e., a self-capacitive structure and an inductive structure, enabling the display device to work in both the capacitive touch-control mode and the inductive touch-control mode; hence, the display device can be applicable to different applications by switching between the two touch-control modes, broadening the application range of the display device.
US10101857B2
A sensor module can include a sensor that is configured to detect any given input or environmental conditions, such as, for example, touch or force inputs. The sensor module can be included in an electronic device. Methods for producing the sensor module are disclosed.
US10101842B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for driving a touch display apparatus and the touch display apparatus, wherein the quality of the screen display of the touch display apparatus is ensured, by controlling a backlight to be turned on during a first time phase of a time unit, controlling the backlight to be turned off during a second time phase of the time unit, and transmitting, by the chip, a touch driving signal to the touch driving electrodes during a third time phase of the time unit, wherein there is a first relationship between the second time phase and the third time phase.
US10101841B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for diagnosing an electronic device using a force sensing assembly are provided.
US10101839B2
According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
US10101834B2
An array substrate, a touch display device, and a driving method are provided. The array substrate includes a data line layer which includes a plurality of first touch electrodes; a common electrode layer which includes a plurality of second touch electrodes; and a first switch signal line. Each first touch electrode includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of first switch elements, a control terminal (a) of the first switch element is connected to the first switch signal line, a first terminal (b) of the first switch element is connected one of the data lines in the first touch electrode, and a second terminal (c) of the first switch element is connected another of data lines in the first touch electrode, so that all of the data lines in the first touch electrode are electrically connected to each other upon the first touch electrode being turned on.
US10101831B1
The subject technology provides embodiments for flinging digital content between proximate computing devices. The computing devices may each have varying display characteristics depending on the specifications of the device. A first computing device may display an interface including representations of digital items. A user may perform a flinging gesture on a touch-sensitive display screen on the first computing device, which selects at least one digital item for sharing with another proximate computing device in a direction of the flinging gesture. Some embodiments further provide for capturing multiple representations of digital items, which may then be stored as snapshots. A given snapshot, including such representations of digital items, can then be shared to one or more other proximate computing devices.
US10101824B2
A portable writing apparatus includes a writing instrument carriage to hold a writing instrument and an actuator system coupled to the writing instrument carriage to move the writing instrument carriage. A controller is electrically coupled to the actuator system, and the controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the controller to perform operations including: receiving input data including a user's handwritten characters; and controlling the actuator system to move the writing instrument carriage in response to the input data. The writing instrument carriage traces a shape of the user's handwritten characters.
US10101817B2
Techniques for interaction detection are described herein. The techniques may include detecting, via a depth sensing module, a physical object at a plane of a display. The techniques may also include detecting, via the depth sensing module, a reflection of the physical object at the plane of the display. An interaction module may identify an interaction of the physical object with the display based on a meeting point of the detected physical object and the detected reflection.
US10101811B2
A system providing various improved processing techniques for haptic feedback is described. An acoustic field is defined by one or more control points in a space within which the acoustic field may exist. Each control point is assigned an amplitude value equating to a desired amplitude of the acoustic field at the control point. Transducers are then controlled to create an acoustic field exhibiting the desired amplitude at each of the control points. When human skin interacts with the acoustic field, vibrations of the skin are interpreted by mechanoreceptors being excited and sending signals to the brain via the nervous system. Improved processing techniques allow for more efficient real-world operation.
US10101810B2
A thermoelectric display including an array of thermoelectric devices is used to provide output to a user in the form of thermal feedback. The thermal feedback may be used to provide navigation cues to the user to enable eyes-free navigation. The thermal feedback may be used to provide target acquisition cues to enable the user to accurately target a contact point on a touchscreen. The thermal feedback may be used to convey an emotive aspect of a message to the user. The thermal feedback may be used to identify to the user a caller associated with an incoming call. The thermoelectric display may be, alternatively or additionally, used to provide input to another device, such as a mobile device to which the thermoelectric display is operatively coupled.
US10101809B2
Systems, articles, and methods for improved capacitive electromyography (“EMG”) sensors are described. The improved capacitive EMG sensors include one or more sensor electrode(s) that is/are coated with a protective barrier formed of a material that has a relative permittivity εr of about 10 or more. The protective barrier shields the sensor electrode(s) from moisture, sweat, skin oils, etc. while advantageously contributing to a large capacitance between the sensor electrode(s) and the user's body. In this way, the improved capacitive EMG sensors provide enhanced robustness against variations in skin and/or environmental conditions. Such improved capacitive EMG sensors are particularly well-suited for use in wearable EMG devices that may be worn by a user for an extended period of time and/or under a variety of skin and/or environmental conditions. A wearable EMG device that provides a component of a human-electronics interface and incorporates such improved capacitive EMG sensors is described.
US10101808B2
A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable information recording medium displays information to a user. Market data having a first portion and a second portion is displayed on a display unit of a trading device. A user focus area is detected, at the trading device. The user focus area is associated with one of the first and second portions of the market data. A first priority is assigned to the one of the first and second portions of the market data and a second priority is assigned to another one of the first and second portions of the market data. The first priority is higher than the second priority. The market data in the first and second portions is updated as a function of the first and second priorities, respectively.
US10101802B2
Various methods and apparatus are described herein for enabling one or more users to interface with virtual or augmented reality environments. An example system includes a computing network having computer servers interconnected through high bandwidth interfaces to gateways for processing data and/or for enabling communication of data between the servers and one or more local user interface devices. The servers include memory, processing circuitry, and software for designing and/or controlling virtual worlds, as well as for storing and processing user data and data provided by other components of the system. One or more virtual worlds may be presented to a user through a user device for the user to experience and interact. A large number of users may each use a device to simultaneously interface with one or more digital worlds by using the device to observe and interact with each other and with objects produced within the digital worlds.
US10101796B2
A method of estimating power consumption of a processor includes accessing an electronic system level (ESL) model of the processor, the ESL model including a plurality of functional blocks, identifying a plurality of processor events by tracing activity of the plurality of functional blocks for a plurality of machine code instructions, and calculating a first power consumption value based on the plurality of processor events. The method also includes identifying a plurality of cycles by analyzing a plurality of micro-code operation codes corresponding to the plurality of machine code instructions, calculating a second power consumption value based on the plurality of cycles, and calculating a total power consumption value from the first power consumption value summed with the second power consumption value.
US10101787B1
Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a share of power consumption by an application executing on a server. The method includes obtaining metrics relating to operation of the server and obtaining metrics relating to server resource utilization attributable to the application. A transformation is then performed using the metrics relating to operation of the server and server resource utilization attributable to the application to determine the respective share of power consumption by the application executing on the server. Additionally, greenhouse-gases attributable to the application also may be calculated.
US10101777B1
A device can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a display housing that includes a display operatively coupled to the processor; a keyboard housing that includes a keyboard operatively coupled to the processor, a retractable camera operatively coupled to the processor, and a socket mechanism that translates the retractable camera between a retracted state and an extended state; and a hinge that couples the display housing to the keyboard housing.
US10101774B2
Embodiments provide mechanisms for actuating the retraction of the keys of a retractable keyboard based on the angle of the rotation of a coupled display, such as in a 2-in-1 IHS (Information Handling System) that may be operated as a tablet or a laptop. In a first mode, where the display of the IHS is in a laptop configuration, the provided mechanisms actuate the retractable keys to their extended positions allowing use of the IHS as a laptop. As the user rotates the display to various tablet configurations, the provided mechanisms actuate the keycaps to a second mode, in which the keycaps are retracted and may be further disabled to promote use of IHS as a tablet. Certain embodiments utilize a gear and cam mechanism to link the rotation of the display to the actuation of the keycaps. Certain other embodiments utilize a gear and crank mechanism.
US10101765B2
An example system includes a bask input/output system (BIOS) and a battery having a fuel gauge timer. The BIOS is associated with a real-time clock, and the BIOS uses timer information from the fuel gauge timer to update the real-time clock.
US10101763B2
A data storage device includes a controller and a memory die. The controller includes a host interface and a memory interface. A method includes receiving a message from a host device via the host interface. The message indicates that the host device is to perform a first adjustment process associated with the host interface. The method further includes performing a second adjustment process associated with the memory interface in response to receiving the message indicating that the host device is to perform the first adjustment process.
US10101762B2
An electronic device includes a current comparator to generate an output current based upon a difference between a current flowing in an output branch and a current flowing in an input branch. A pair of transistors is coupled to an output of the current comparator. A first amplifier has inputs coupled to the pair of transistors and to a reference voltage, the first amplifier being configured to subtract the reference voltage from a voltage across the pair of transistors and output a difference voltage. A second amplifier has inputs coupled to the difference voltage and to the reference voltage, the second amplifier being configured to subtract the difference voltage from the reference voltage and output a pulse skipping mode reference signal.
US10101750B2
Methods and apparatus of tracking moving targets from air vehicles are disclosed. An example method in response to an estimated speed and an estimated location of a moving target, determines a detectability zone surrounding the moving target; and causes an air vehicle to follow the moving target outside of the detectability zone.
US10101746B2
A road-model-definition system suitable for an automated-vehicle includes a lidar-unit and a controller. The lidar-unit is suitable to mount on a host-vehicle. The lidar-unit is used to provide a point-cloud descriptive of an area proximate to the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the lidar-unit. The controller is configured to: select ground-points from the point-cloud indicative of a travel-surface, tessellate a portion of the area that corresponds to the travel-surface to define a plurality of cells, determine an orientation of each cell based on the ground-points within each cell, define a road-model of the travel-surface based on the orientation of the cells, and operate the host-vehicle in accordance with the road-model.
US10101736B1
An example method includes receiving data representing a target rotational position of an output shaft of a brushless motor configured to control a rotational position of the output shaft with continuous resolution, determining a plurality of control signals via an algorithm configured for open-loop control of the rotational position of the output shaft, and providing the plurality of control signals to respective input terminals of the brushless motor to cause the brushless motor to rotate the output shaft to the target rotational position. An example system includes a brushless motor comprising an output shaft, and a control module configured to provide a plurality of control signals to respective input terminals of the brushless motor via an algorithm configured for open-loop control of a rotational position of the output shaft. The system is configured to control the rotational position of the output shaft with continuous resolution.
US10101735B2
The present invention provides a modular system and method for real-time evaluation and monitoring of a machining production line overall performances, calculated from each given metal workpiece, consumable tool and machine. The present invention is configured for an iterative and incremental calculation and evaluation of the machining production-line overall performances, by incrementally evaluating individual workpiece's performances, consumable tools'performances and machine's performances, extracted from the data of a plurality of workpieces and machines. The present invention is further configured for comparing the workpiece's performances to a similar workpiece's best performance, extracted from the evaluation of a plurality of the data similar workpieces. The present invention is further configured for the identification of significant process faults and their cause. The present invention is further configured for the analysis of the applied engineering-plan effectiveness, using a defined engineering score.
US10101722B2
A method of determining a radius of a cutting end of a tool for a turning machine using a touch probe is provided. One of the cutting end and the touch probe is movable relative to a reference frame having a first axis and a second axis and having a reference point trackable in the reference frame. The method comprises establishing a first contact point and recording a first coordinate of the reference point on the first axis; establishing a second contact point and recording a second coordinate of the reference point on the second axis; establishing a third contact point and recording a third coordinate of the reference point on the first axis and a fourth coordinate of the reference point on the second axis upon contact; and determining a radius of the cutting end based on the first, second, third and fourth coordinates.
US10101713B2
An energy analysis apparatus that analyzes behaviors of a plant. The apparatus includes a processor coupled with a memory device and configured to execute instructions to provide (1) a plant information input unit for accepting inputs of device information indicating device models configuring the plant, and connection information indicating connection between the device models, (2) a plant analysis condition input unit for accepting an input of a plant analysis condition, and (3) a first-order predicate logical expression generation unit for generating a first-order predicate logical expression on the basis of the device information, the connection information and the plant analysis condition.
US10101710B2
An electronic timepiece includes a clocking unit, a storage unit, a setting selection unit which selects, as daylight saving time implementation information, daylight saving time implementation rule or user setting that specifies whether to implement summer time, and a local time acquisition unit which acquires local time at a predetermined point. The local time acquisition unit includes a movement determination unit which determines, when the setting selection unit selects the user setting, whether a previous point and a new point belong to a predetermined range in which local time counted at the previous point is equal to local time counted at the new point, and a daylight saving time implementation information switching unit which acquires local time on the basis of the daylight saving time implementation rule when the previous point and the new point do not belong to the predetermined range.
US10101709B2
A time register includes: a pair of inputs coupled to a pair of input clocks; a pair of tri-state inverters for producing a pair of level signals; and a pair of outputs coupled to the level signals for producing a pair of output clocks, wherein the tri-state inverters are responsive to a pair of state signals and the pair of input clocks for holding or discharging the level signals.
US10101707B2
Provided is a method and an apparatus for correcting a distortion of a three-dimensional (3D) hologram, in which the method is performed by the apparatus and includes generating a sliced two-dimensional (2D) section of a hologram by slicing the hologram while performing translation in an optical axis direction, obtaining a sharp sliced image of the hologram from a sequence of images of generated sliced 2D sections using a focusing function of a camera, and analyzing a distortion of the obtained sliced image, and using such a method and apparatus may enable correction of a distortion of a 3D hologram independently from a display structure.
US10101704B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a medium on which an image is to be formed; a placing portion capable of placing the medium; a power generator configured to generate electricity from heat generated inside the image forming unit; and an illumination unit configured to be lit with the electricity generated by the power generator and to be capable of irradiating at least the placing portion with light.
US10101698B2
An information processing apparatus having a touch panel capable of detecting multi-touch operations detects a touch event based on an operation by a user on the touch panel, and generates a single touch event based on a detected multi-touch event. Then, the information processing apparatus transmits the generated single touch event to an application not supporting multi-touch events. Thus, conventional operabilities can be maintained even in a case where an application not supporting multi-touch events is operated.
US10101694B2
A fixing device includes: a first heater including a first glass tube, a first heating body, and a first lead portion; a second heater including a second glass tube, a second heating body, and a second lead portion; a frame including first and second fixing surfaces; and a first terminal member including a first connection portion and a first fixed portion; and a second terminal member including a second connection portion and a second fixed portion. The first and second heaters are elongated in an elongated direction and arrayed in a first array direction. The first and second lead portions are fixed to the first and second connection portions, respectively. The first and second fixed portions are fixed to the first and second fixing surfaces, respectively, and arrayed in a second array direction. The first array direction is inclined relative to the second array direction when viewed in the elongated direction.
US10101691B2
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a pressing rotator, and a guide. The pressing rotator forms a fixing nip with the fixing rotator. The guide guides a recording medium to the fixing nip. The guide includes a guide surface that contacts a surface of the recording medium against a guide the recording medium. The guide surface is provided parallel to a line tangent to the fixing rotator and the pressing rotator.
US10101689B2
An image forming apparatus charges toner on a transfer belt by using a first brush and collects the toner, in which a second brush is provided on the upstream side of the first brush, and the amount of inroad of the second brush into the transfer belt is larger than the amount of inroad of the first brush into the transfer belt.
US10101682B2
Toner particles each include a toner core, a shell layer covering a surface of the toner core, and a plurality of wax particles. The toner core contains a binder resin and does not contain a wax. The wax particles are each located on a surface of the shell layer. The toner core and each of the wax particles are bonded together through covalent bonds within the shell layer. The covalent bonds include a first amide bond and a second amide bond. The shell layer contains a vinyl resin. The vinyl resin includes a constitutional unit (1-1), a constitutional unit (1-2), and a constitutional unit (1-3). An amide bond included in the constitutional unit (1-1) is the first amide bond. An amide bond included in the constitutional unit (1-2) is the second amide bond.
US10101681B2
Provided is a toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin and a wax, wherein the wax concentrations near the outermost surface of the toner and in the surface layer region below the outermost surface are controlled, so that the wax moves with high efficiency to near the outermost surface during heating.
US10101678B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate which serves as an outermost surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor. The electrophotographic photoreceptor satisfies YC−YA≥0.1 MPa, YC−YB≥0.1 MPa, and YC≤4.5 MPa, where YA, YB, and YC (MPa) represent the Young's moduli of a surface of the photosensitive layer determined by nanoindentation at an indentation depth of 500 nm at end portions A and B extending from a position 10 mm to a position 70 mm from the respective edges of the photosensitive layer toward the center of the photosensitive layer in an axial direction of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and a central portion C extending from a position 20 mm in front of and to a position 20 mm behind the center of the photosensitive layer in the axial direction of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, respectively.
US10101673B2
A drive unit drives a wafer stage in a Y-axis direction based on a measurement value of an encoder that measures position information of the wafer stage in the Y-axis direction and based on information on the flatness of a scale that is measured by the encoder. In this case, the drive unit can drive the wafer stage in a predetermined direction based on a measurement value after correction in which a measurement error caused by the flatness of the scale included in the measurement value of the encoder is corrected based on the information on the flatness of the scale. Accordingly, the wafer stage can be driven with high accuracy in a predetermined direction using the encoder, without being affected by the unevenness of the scale.
US10101664B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for generating an illumination beam. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a vacuum chamber configured to hold a target material, an optical element positioned within the vacuum chamber or within a wall of such vacuum chamber, and an illumination source system for generating at least one excitation source that is focused on the target in the vacuum chamber for generating a plasma in the vacuum chamber so as to produce illumination radiation. The apparatus further includes a debris protection system for flowing gas out of a plurality of nozzles and away from the optical element at a velocity towards the plasma so as to prevent debris from reaching such optical element.
US10101663B2
An imprint apparatus performs includes an irradiation unit which irradiates a resin on a substrate with light, and a control unit which controls the irradiation unit. The imprinting is performed in an edge shot region, including an edge of the substrate, of a plurality of shot regions on the substrate. The edge shot region includes a pattern forming region where a pattern is to be formed, and a near-edge region closer to a side of the edge than the pattern forming region, and the control unit controls the irradiation unit to irradiate the resin which spreads from a position on the pattern forming region to a position on the near-edge region as the pattern surface comes into contact with the resin in the pattern forming region.
US10101660B2
In a method of forming patterns, an object layer is formed on a substrate. Guide patterns are formed on the object layer. A brush layer is formed using a brush polymer on surfaces of the guide patterns. The brush polymer includes at least one of a first brush polymer and a second brush polymer. The first brush polymer includes a hydrophobic repeating unit and a hydrophilic terminal group having at least two hydroxyl groups. The second brush polymer includes a hydrophobic repeating unit and a hydrophilic random repeating unit having a hydroxyl group. A self-aligned layer is formed using a block copolymer on the brush layer to form blocks aligned around the guide patterns. At least a portion of the blocks is transferred to the object layer.
US10101651B1
A photo mask assembly including a photo mask, a first adhesive layer adhered with the photo mask, a pellicle frame and a pellicle is provided. The pellicle frame includes a plurality of recesses for accommodating the first adhesive layer. The pellicle frame is adhered with the photo mask through the first adhesive layer accommodated in the plurality of recesses. The pellicle is disposed on the pellicle frame. The pellicle frame is between the pellicle and the first adhesive layer. An optical apparatus including the above-mentioned photo mask assembly is also provided.
US10101644B2
An illumination system includes a light source assembly including a first excitation light source, a second excitation light source, a dichroic element, a wavelength conversion element, a first collimating element and a second collimating element. The first and second excitation light sources provide first and second excitation beams, respectively. The dichroic element is disposed between the first excitation light source and the second excitation light source. The second excitation beam is transmitted toward the first excitation light source through the dichroic element. The wavelength conversion element is disposed between the first excitation light source and the dichroic element. The wavelength conversion element converts the first and second excitation beams into a wavelength conversion beam and transmits it toward the dichroic element.
US10101639B2
Disclosed is a housing for a portable handheld electronic device such as a cellphone. The device has a housing, having a left side and right side. At least one of the left side and right side is provided with integral surface features or surface structures to enhance gripping the cellphone, preferably along the entire length of the phone or within about the top half or one third of the phone.
US10101634B2
The present invention concerns a laser scanning system (18) comprising: —a first acousto-optical deflector (30) deflecting a beam in a first direction (X) to obtain a first deflected beam and comprising a first acousto-optical crystal on which is applied an acoustic wave whose frequency varies over time according to a first law of command, and —a second acousto-optical deflector (32) deflected the first deflected beam in a second direction (Y), defining an angle comprised between 85° and 95° with the first direction, and comprising a second acousto-optical crystal on which is applied an acoustic wave whose frequency varies over time according to a second law of command, characterized in that the first law of command and the second law of command are chosen so that the average speed of the laser scanning system (18) is superior to 10 radians per second.
US10101632B1
A dual layer e-screen includes a top layer of a transparent lenticular or parallax material backed by an e-screen made of a material with controllable grey scales such as electronic paper. The top layer is controllable compensates for ambient lighting by creating a controllable surface that allows for uniform light distribution across the screen, while providing for adaptive contrast levels that selectively darken areas where light is not needed to more accurate display shadows from projected images. The eScreen can be additionally arranged to dynamically alter the gray scale matched to the video being shown to support viewing high dynamic range video through a projector. The gray scale used for each pixel element is biased to the ambient lighting conditions to remove the ambient light from the HDR video playback.
US10101619B2
A display device has a transistor including a gate terminal, a first input-output terminal and a second input-output terminal, the gate terminal connected to a scanning signal line and the first input-output terminal connected to a video signal line, a photoconductive element including a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal connected to the second input-output terminal of the transistor and the second terminal connected to a first power line, and a light-emitting element including a third terminal and a fourth terminal, the third terminal connected to the second input-output terminal of the transistor and the fourth terminal connected to a second power line.
US10101613B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate spaced apart from and opposite to the first substrate; a first lower alignment layer formed on an upper surface of the first substrate; a first upper alignment layer formed on a lower surface of the second substrate; a second alignment layer formed in an array on either or both of an upper surface of the first lower alignment layer and a lower surface of the first upper alignment layer; a polymer barrier positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, the polymer barrier formed on the array of the second alignment layer; and a liquid crystal positioned between the polymer barriers.
US10101612B2
A polarization selection color filter includes: a first color conversion layer including a plurality of first quantum rods absorbing light of a first wavelength and emitting light of a second wavelength that is longer than the first wavelength; and a second color conversion layer including a plurality of second quantum rods disposed on the first color conversion layer, absorbing the light of the second wavelength and emitting light of a third wavelength that is longer than the second wavelength. The polarization selection color filter is applicable to a color filter array of a display device and may improve a contrast ratio.
US10101598B2
The invention relates to a referencing device (1, 100) intended to be fixed to an eyeglass frame in order to spatially reference said frame, said device (1, 100) having a transverse bar (2, 102), a central extension (5), two lateral markers (3) and a central marker (4), each marker (3, 4) consisting of a light area (12) and a darker area (11). The main characteristic of a clip according to the invention is that it comprises at least one mobile fastening member (7, 8) which is able to move along at least one slide (9, 10) of the bar (2, 102).
US10101594B2
Disclosed is an optical image stabilization (OIS) structure that prevents camera shake occurring in a smartphone camera, and a camera module having the same. The OIS structure includes: a base housing provided with an OIS coil; a lens housing disposed over the base housing to be apart therefrom; and an OIS leaf spring for allowing the base housing and the lens housing to be elastically coupled to each other.
US10101589B2
There is provided an optical element including: a substrate; and a plurality of microlenses formed on the substrate. A reflecting surface of the microlens is an aspherical surface and asymmetrical with respect to an optical axis of the microlens. A pitch between adjacent ones of the microlenses is 10 to 230 μm. A depth of the microlens is 3.2 to 15.4 μm.
US10101588B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to speaker assemblies for head worn computers.
US10101585B2
According to one of aspects, a display device includes: a display unit configured to three-dimensionally display an object by displaying images respectively corresponding to both eyes of a user by being worn; a detection unit configured to detect a real body that operates the object; and a control unit configured to change the object according to movement of the real body, and perform order processing for ordering a product corresponding to the object.
US10101577B2
A flash thermography device for generating an infrared image of a turbine component located inside a turbine, wherein the turbine includes at least one inspection port. The device includes a flash source that generates a light pulse that heats the turbine component and an infrared sensor for detecting thermal energy radiated by the turbine component. The device also includes a borescope having a sensor end, a viewing end that includes the flash source and an interior hollow that extends between the sensor and viewing ends. The borescope is positioned in the inspection port such that the viewing end is located inside the turbine. Thermal energy radiated from the turbine component is transmitted through the hollow to the infrared sensor to enable generation of the infrared image. The device further includes a reflector located on the viewing end that directs the light pulse toward the turbine component and a flash power supply for energizing the flash source.
US10101574B2
An optical coupler for mounting at a distal end of an optical imaging device includes a visualization section and an attachment section. At least one surface of the visualization section has a roughness that does not interfere with a video capture system of an optical imaging device.
US10101563B1
A five-piece optical lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens element with a positive refractive power, a second lens element with a negative refractive power, a third lens element with a negative refractive power, a fourth lens element with a negative refractive power, a fifth lens element with a positive refractive power. Such arrangements not only can be applied to a portable electronic product, but also has a long focal length, high pixel and low height.
US10101559B2
A monolithic optical mount having a bore for accommodating an optical element, the bore including: a first ridge located at a first position on the inside circumference of the bore; a second ridge located at a second position on the inside circumference of the bore; and a flexure extending from along the inside circumference of the bore to a point beyond a threaded hole which passes through from the outside circumference of the bore to the inside circumference of the bore; wherein the flexure is actuated by turning a screw in the threaded hole thereby adjusting an amount of force pushing against a point on the flexure by a tip of the screw.
US10101546B2
An optical module includes: a photonic device emitting or receiving a light wave; an optical waveguide for transmitting the light wave; a lens focusing the light wave; a mirror for changing a traveling direction of the light wave to optically couple the photonic device with the optical waveguide; a manipulation lever for manipulating an orientation of the mirror; a support spring for supporting the mirror; and a substrate integrated with the mirror, the manipulation lever, and the support spring. The support spring couples the mirror with the substrate so as to allow the mirror to change the orientation thereof with movement or rotation along at least two axes. The manipulation lever extends from the mirror in a direction in which the manipulation lever avoids approaching the optical waveguide.
US10101545B2
A connector for a traceable cable having a tracing optical fiber, and a cable assembly having the same. The connector includes a connector housing and a light pipe positioned at least partially within the connector housing. The light pipe has at least one tracing optical fiber interface configured to be optically coupled to the tracing optical fiber. The light pipe also has at least one tracer light interface optically accessible from outside of the connector housing. The light pipe defines an optical path configured to direct tracer light from the at least one tracing optical fiber interface to the at least one tracer light interface. The at least one tracer light interface is configured to receive and emit the tracer light directed by the optical path.
US10101543B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relates to an indexing terminal including a multi-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location, a first single-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location and a second single-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location. The multi-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location includes a plurality of fiber positions with one of the fiber positions optically coupled to the first single fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location.
US10101539B2
An optical fiber adapter according to the present disclosure includes a main body, a first shutter member, a second shutter member, an inner housing, a first elastic member and a second elastic member. The first elastic member includes a first base portion, a first driving portion and a first connecting portion. The first connecting portion connects the first base portion with the first driving portion. The second shutter member includes a second base portion, a second driving portion and a second connecting portion. The second connecting portion connects the second base portion with the second driving portion. The inner housing is positioned within the main body through the first opening. The first shutter member is attached to and is driven to move by the first driving portion. The second shutter member is attached to and is driven to move by the second driving portion.
US10101537B2
A transceiver connector may include a bottomside connector. The bottomside connector may include a first ground pin adjacent to an edge of the bottomside connector, a first high-speed differential input pin adjacent to the first ground pin, a second high-speed differential input pin adjacent to the first high-speed differential input pin, a second ground pin adjacent to the second high-speed differential input pin, a serial interface data line pin adjacent to the second ground pin, a serial interface clock pin adjacent to the serial interface data line pin, a third ground pin adjacent to the serial interface clock pin, a first high-speed differential output pin adjacent to the third ground pin, a second high-speed differential output pin adjacent to the first high-speed differential output pin, and a fourth ground pin adjacent to the second high-speed differential output pin.
US10101521B1
A multilayered illuminated laminate system including a light source positioned proximate to an edge of a light panel that includes a series of reflective paint in the shape of diamonds of increasing size is provided. The system further includes a diffuser sheet of sufficient opacity that it obscures the diamond pattern on the bottom surface of the light panel and a reinforced panel formed from fiberglass that bestows the system with scratch, abrasion, impact, and chemical resistance to meet or exceed current regulatory requirements. The light source is positioned within a clamp mount that contains the light panel, diffuser, and reinforced panel in frictional engagement without the need for an adhesive. A graphic can be positioned between the diffuser sheet and the reinforced panel to increase the aesthetic appearance of the system exterior surface, as well as moderate the intensity of the light it emits.
US10101515B2
A polarizing optical article formed by selectively applying a conductive coating to a portion of a structured surface formed of a series of linear peaks and valleys.
US10101480B2
Methods and systems to separate seismic data associated with impulsive and non-impulsive sources are described. The impulsive and non-impulsive sources may be towed through a body of water by separate survey vessels. Receivers of one or more streamers towed through the body of water above a subterranean formation generate seismic data that represents a reflected wavefield produced by the subterranean formation in response to separate source wavefields generated by simultaneous activation of the impulsive source and the non-impulsive source. Methods and systems include separating the seismic data into impulsive source seismic data associated with the impulsive source and non-impulsive source seismic data associated with the non-impulsive.
US10101476B2
Provided are an X-ray data processing apparatus and a method and a program therefor which can eliminate the influence of the phenomenon that the statistical variation of a count value after distribution is estimated differently from that at another position and can prevent the influence of correction from remaining. An X-ray data processing apparatus 200 that corrects the count value of X-ray intensity detected by a pixel array type detector includes a storage unit 220 to store a correspondence relationship of the shape and the position of a virtual pixel with respect to the shape and the position of an actual pixel, and a distribution unit 260 to distribute the count value of the actual pixel to the virtual pixel using a correspondence relationship in which randomness is provided to the stored correspondence relationship, and outputs the count value distributed to the virtual pixel as a correction result.
US10101474B2
A positron emission tomography (PET) apparatus and method employs a plurality of radiation detectors (20) disposed around an imaging region (16) and configured to detect 511 keV radiation events emanating from the imaging region. A calibration phantom is disposed in the imaging region. One or more processors are configured to: acquire and store listmode data of the phantom; measure a random rate for each line of response (LOR) from the listmode data using a coincident 511 keV events detector (34) with a time offset (54); determine a singles rate for each detector pixel from the random event rate, for example via a histogram plotting singles rate for each detector pixel; compute a live time factor of each LOR; compute a dead time correction factor as the reciprocal of the live time factor; and correct images according to the dead time correction factor.
US10101469B2
A radiation image acquisition device includes: a radiation source which emits radiation; a wavelength conversion member which generates scintillation light according to incidence of the radiation emitted from the radiation source and transmitted by an object; first imaging means which condenses and images the scintillation light emitted from an entrance surface for the radiation in the wavelength conversion member; and second imaging means which condenses and images the scintillation light emitted from a surface opposite to the entrance surface in the wavelength conversion member, wherein one of the first imaging means and the second imaging means condenses the scintillation light emitted from the entrance surface or the opposite surface in a direction of a normal thereto, and wherein the other condenses the scintillation light emitted from the entrance surface or the opposite surface in a direction inclined with respect to a direction of a normal thereto.
US10101467B2
This invention relates to a sensor device consisting of long period gratings made of rare-earth doped double clad fiber, which is written by CO2 laser irradiation while the fiber is held static, for gamma dose measurement in the range of 150 Gy-2.5 kGy, extendable to 20 kGy, which measurements are real-time and can be from remote locations. The sensor device has high wavelength dip shift sensitivity of at least 2.8 nm/kGy, and its radiation-induced changes are near permanent. The gratings demonstrate negligible temperature sensitivity and the shifts recorded show negligible annealing at room temperature.
US10101456B2
The invention relates to the measurement of the speed of an aircraft by Doppler laser anemometry, the aircraft being equipped with a LiDAR using coherent detection. According to the invention, the measurement method comprises the following steps: emission by the lidar of a laser beam, reception by the lidar of a signal backscattered by particles present in the path of the beam emitted and generation of the corresponding heterodyne signal, processing of the heterodyne signal by the processor unit which comprises the following sub-steps: time-frequency analysis of the heterodyne signal, estimation of the speed of the aircraft based on the time-frequency analysis, wherein the step for processing the heterodyne signal comprises a statistical test sub-step with: estimation of a statistical function from the TFR of the heterodyne signal, estimation of a reference statistical function from the TFR of the noise associated with the heterodyne signal, calculation of a difference between the statistical function from the TFR of the heterodyne signal and the reference statistical function from the TFR of the noise.
US10101433B2
A system and method of locating a key fob with respect to a vehicle includes: detecting short-range wireless signals communicated between the key fob and a plurality of nodes at the vehicle using an IEEE 802.11 protocol; calculating the distance of the key fob relative to each of the nodes attached to the vehicle based on the detected short-range wireless signal; and determining the location of the key fob based on the distance of the key fob relative to each of the nodes.
US10101430B2
The invention is a system and method for heliostat mirror control. Here, each heliostat mirror generates a low intensity “signal beam”, directed at an angle off from the heliostat mirror's high intensity and sensor blinding “main beam” of reflected solar energy. The low intensity signal beams may be created by reflecting a small portion of the incident solar light at an angle from the main beam, by reflected artificial light, or from lasers shinning onto mirrors from known locations. The signal beams are detected by optical sensors mounted way from the main heliostat receiver focus, and can be used in a closed loop control system to efficiently ensure that individual heliostat mirrors in a heliostat array accurately track sunlight and direct the sunlight to a central receiver. Because heliostat mirrors need not be taken “off sun” for positioning, the system allows heliostat arrays to be run at high efficiency.
US10101424B2
Accelerated 3D multispectral imaging (MSI) on a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system uses phase-encoding in two dimensions and frequency-encoding in the third. The method generates randomized k-space undersampling patterns that vary between different spectral bins to determine k-space samples to be acquired in each spectral bin; orders k-space samples into echo trains that determine gradient waveforms; initializes the gradient waveforms, RF waveforms, and timing information; plays the gradient and RF waveforms using the timing information to excite and refocus different spatial and spectral bin regions; acquires undersampled MRI signal data on the MRI system from the spatial and spectral bin regions; uses robust principal component analysis to reconstruct on-resonance images and off-resonance images represented as sets of low rank and sparse matrices from the undersampled MRI signal data; combines the on-resonance images and off-resonance images to yield a final image; and presents the final image on a display.
US10101423B2
Methods and systems for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectra of samples having unresolved peaks are described. The methods and systems allow for the creation nuclear spin singlet states in nearly-equivalent spin pairs, for example, using continuous spin-locking with a nutation frequency matched to the coupling strength between spins. The invention relates generally to the field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy can be used as a tool for determining the chemical structure and/or geometry of a molecule in a sample. In many samples, however, resonance frequencies of different nuclei fully or partially overlap, which makes chemical identification of molecule(s) in a sample difficult or impossible.
US10101420B2
A cryostat arrangement (1), with a vacuum container (2) and an object (4) to be cooled, is provided, wherein the object (4) to be cooled is arranged inside the vacuum container (2) comprising a neck tube (8) leading to the object (4) to be cooled. A closed cavity (9) is formed around the cooling arm (10) of a cold head (11), wherein the cavity (9) in normal operation is filled at least partly with a first cryogenic fluid (34), and wherein a first thermal coupling component (15) is provided for the thermal coupling of the first cryogenic fluid (34) in the cavity (9) to the object (4) to be cooled. The cryostat arrangement (1) further comprises a pump device (14), to which the cavity (9) is connected, and with which the cavity (9) is configured to be evacuated upon failure of the cooling function of the cold head (11). Various cryostat configurations are provided.
US10101418B2
The embodiments relate to a method and a receiving system for an imaging magnetic resonance tomography system. The receiving system includes at least one multiplexer entity for a plurality of receive signals, which respectively come from an antenna of a local coil and may be switched to an analog-digital converter, wherein sampling rates (e.g., 20 MS/s per Ch, 40 MS/s per Ch, 80 MS/s per Ch) of an analog-digital converter for the sampling of a receive signal may be changed.
US10101415B2
A method for operating a magnetic resonance apparatus by a safety unit, taking into account persons fitted with an implant, a safety unit, a safety system, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a computer program product are provided. The magnetic resonance apparatus includes a first part and a second part. The first part is operated separately from the second part and includes the safety unit. During an examination of a person fitted with an implant, the safety unit checks that the magnetic resonance apparatus, in a restricted operating mode, is complying with implant-conformant limit values.
US10101414B2
Thin film resistive sensors typically include a number of resistive components. These components should be well matched in order for the sensor to provide accurate readings. When a sensor is incorporated within an integrated circuit, the resistive components may be formed over, or under, metallic traces that form part of other components. As a result, the thin film resistive components are subjected to different levels of stress. This disclosure provides a structure that is arranged to mitigate the effects of stress.
US10101407B2
A method and system for diagnosing battery system problems in a vehicle, where the method distinguishes between problems of various battery system components. More particularly, battery connection problems such as loose connections, corroded battery terminals, etc., may be distinguished from battery system problems as a whole. Load related readings that generally reflect the performance of the battery system during a cranking event and one or more non-load related readings may be gathered and used to determine whether there is a battery system problem and whether there is a battery specific problem. If load related readings and/or non-load related readings fail to indicate a battery specific problem, a battery connection problem may be diagnosed.
US10101401B2
An energy storage device management method for deciding an SOC estimated value includes: preparing first and second SOC estimation methods for estimating an SOC; and employing a predetermined value as the SOC estimated value when a first SOC region and a second SOC region are different. V-SOC correlation between a voltage and the state of charge of the energy storage device is sectioned into a plurality of SOC regions. The first SOC region is the SOC region that the SOC estimated by the first SOC estimation method belongs to, and the second SOC region is the SOC region that the SOC estimated by the second SOC estimation method belongs to. The predetermined value is set to a value close to a boundary value on a side close to the first SOC region of boundary values sectioning the second SOC region, or a value between the boundary value and an intermediate value of the second SOC region.
US10101399B2
An apparatus for estimating a residual capacity of a storage battery including an electrode whose stage structure is changed based on a state of includes a current monitor configured to monitor a current value flowing in the storage battery; a voltage monitor configured to monitor a voltage value of the storage battery; a Coulomb counter configured to integrate the current value monitored by the current monitor; a differentiation circuit configured to detect a differential value of the voltage value monitored by the voltage monitor; a reset detecting circuit configured to reset an accumulated error due to current integration of the Coulomb counter using an inflection point of the differential value detected by the differentiation circuit; and a residual capacity estimating part configured to estimate a residual capacity of the storage battery based on a value of the Coulomb counter.
US10101396B2
A machine control system and a method of detecting a current sensor malfunction include obtaining a first current signal from a first current sensor corresponding with a first phase of a multi-phase machine, obtaining a second current signal from a second current sensor corresponding with a second phase of the multi-phase machine, and obtaining a position signal indicating an angular position of a rotor of the multi-phase machine corresponding with values of the first current signal and the second current signal. A determination is made of whether the current sensor malfunction occurred in the first current sensor or the second current sensor based only on the values of the first current signal and the second current signal at four of the angular positions of the rotor.
US10101392B2
System and method for performing scan test on multiple IC devices by site-multiplexing. Multiple test sites of an ATE are coupled to multiple DUTs through a multiplexer. A scan test includes a scan-in/out phase and consecutive launch/capture cycles. Each site performs scan in/out in parallel on the corresponding DUT. In each launch/capture cycle, a respective site drives/captures data from a DUT while the remaining sites are inactive. The multiplexer allows the active site to borrow test channels assigned to other test sites such that all the test data of a DUT can be driven/captured in the launch capture cycle despite the test channel limitation of the active test site. As the tester channels receive interleaved data of the multiple sites, each strobe edge of a receive channel is assigned to a particular test site and used to quickly identify a failure site without post-processing test data.
US10101391B2
A system and method for sharing a communications link between multiple protocols is described. A system includes a communications interface configured to exchange information with other systems using at least one of a plurality of protocols; a protocol select register that stores a value that selects a protocol from among the plurality of protocols to become an active protocol; and a state machine accessible to the communications interface, the state machine used to control the exchange of information through the communications interface according to the active protocol. The active protocol is used by the communications interface to exchange information while the remaining protocols of the plurality of protocols remain inactive. The state machine sequences through a series of states that cause the communications interface to operate according to the active protocol, and that are designated as inert sequences under the remaining protocols.
US10101386B2
Semiconductor process excursions may be monitored by fabricating functional circuitry on a plurality of semiconductor devices and then testing the functional circuitry of the plurality of semiconductor devices using a sequence of test patterns. A cumulative failure curve may be determined that has points of discontinuity based on results of testing with the sequence of test patterns. A point of discontinuity magnitude at a selected location in the cumulative failure curve may be compared to an expected discontinuity magnitude. Process excursion analysis may be indicated when a point of discontinuity magnitude exceeds an expected magnitude threshold.
US10101382B2
In at least some embodiments, a system comprises a socket gate terminal configured to receive a first voltage to activate and inactivate a device under test (DUT) coupled to the socket gate terminal. The system also comprises a socket source terminal configured to provide a reference voltage to the DUT. The system further comprises a socket drain terminal configured to provide a second voltage to the DUT to stress the DUT when the DUT is inactive. The socket drain terminal is further configured to receive a third voltage to cause a current to flow through a pathway in the DUT between the socket drain terminal and the socket source terminal when the DUT is active. The socket drain terminal is further configured to provide a fourth voltage indicative of a resistance of the pathway in the DUT when the DUT is active and is heated to a temperature above an ambient temperature associated with the system.
US10101376B2
Some embodiments are directed to an electromagnetic interference (EMI) indicator includes an ultra-wideband detector, preferably having a bandwidth of at least 30 MHz to 6 GHz. At least one antenna is provided for receiving EMI. Each antenna has receiver protection, a logarithmic receiver to convert the EMI signal into a direct voltage proportional to the magnitude of the EMI signal, a peak/average detector, and a controller connected to the output of the receiver for generating a signal when the direct voltage developed in the detector exceeds a pre-set threshold voltage using, for example, a carefully defined algorithm. The peak/average detector and controller are connectable to an indicator, which is activatable by the controller, which stores EMI event data in a non-volatile memory store.
US10101367B2
A microelectronic test device comprising an organic substrate, a probe holder, and an interposer disposed between the organic substrate and the probe holder, wherein the interposer has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is less than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the organic substrate. The interposer may effectively decouple the organic substrate from probes in the probe holder, which may substantially reduce or eliminate probe misalignment due to the coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch between the organic substrate and other components of the microelectronic test device and to provide require stiffness to the organic substrate.
US10101366B2
A protective relaying system and a data collection method thereof capable of enhancing a data collection efficiency and effectiveness is provided. The protective relaying system may include a plurality of protective relaying modules respectively connected to a switch to control the operation of the switch; a server module coupled to one of the plurality of protective relaying modules, and connected to the plurality of protective relaying modules, respectively, to sequentially collect and store data of the plurality of protective relaying modules; and a remote monitoring unit connected to the server module to collectively receive and collect the stored data of the plurality of protective relaying modules from the server module.
US10101362B2
A probe module, which is provided between a tester and a DUT for transmitting electrical signals therebetween, includes a signal transmitting member, a plurality of probes, a positioning member, and a signal connector. The signal transmitting member has a circuit and two grounding. The probes are electrical connected to the circuit and the groundings of the signal transmitting member. The positioning member is made of an insulating material, and provided on the probes. The signal connector is adapted to be electrically connected to the tester, wherein the signal connector has a signal transmission portion and a grounding portion; the signal transmission portion is electrically connected to the circuit of the signal transmitting member, and the grounding portion is electrically connected to the at least one grounding of the signal transmitting member.
US10101357B2
An accelerometer comprises a support, a first mass element and a second mass element, the mass elements being rigidly interconnected to form a unitary movable proof mass, the support being located at least in part between the first and second mass elements, a plurality of mounting legs securing the mass elements to the support member, at least two groups of movable capacitor fingers provided on the first mass element and interdigitated with corresponding groups of fixed capacitor fingers associated with the support, and at least two groups of movable capacitor fingers provided on the second mass element and interdigitated with corresponding groups of fixed capacitor fingers associated with the support.
US10101351B2
Methods and systems for processing samples in an analyzer utilizes a track system with a plurality of track portions. A queue of samples for processing can be handled on a first portion, while priority samples may be handled on another portion. An instrument in a module may process samples in queues and priority samples. The instrument may process priority samples while a queue of samples remains on the first portion and resumes processing the queue of samples along the first portion upon completion of processing the priority sample.
US10101346B2
In accordance with embodiments, a transport mechanism transports a first sample container to a sample aspiration position. A setting part may set a second sample container, that accommodates a sample to be measured, with priority over a measurement of a sample in a first sample container. A nozzle may be capable of moving a sample from a first sample container at a sample aspiration position, and aspirating the sample from the second sample container. A detector may detect components of the sample. A controller may control a transport mechanism such that the first sample container moves to a position distant from the sample aspiration position, when the first sample container has been transported and when sample aspiration of the second sample container is required. A controller may execute control to move the nozzle above the sample aspiration position in state in which the first sample container is distant from the sample aspiration position.
US10101338B2
The invention relates to biomarkers and a method of diagnosing or monitoring depression, anxiety disorder or other psychotic disorder.
US10101334B2
The current disclosure provides specific peptides, and derived ionization characteristics of the peptides from the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and/or antigen Ki67 (Ki67) proteins that are particularly advantageous for quantifying the ER, PR, and/or Ki67 proteins directly in biological samples that have been fixed in formalin by the method of Selected Reaction Monitoring/Multiple Reaction Monitoring (SRM/MRM) mass spectrometry. Such biological samples are chemically preserved and fixed wherein the biological sample is selected from tissues and cells treated with formaldehyde containing agents/fixatives including formalin-fixed tissue/cells, formalin-fixed/paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue/cells, FFPE tissue blocks and cells from those blocks, and tissue culture cells that have been formalin fixed and or paraffin embedded. A protein sample is prepared from a biological sample using the Liquid Tissue™ reagents and protocol, and the ER, PR, and/or Ki67 proteins are quantitated in the Liquid Tissue™ sample by the method of SRM/MRM mass spectrometry by quantitating in the protein sample at least one or more of the peptides described for one or more of the ER, PR, and/or Ki67 proteins. These peptides can be quantitated if they reside in a modified or in an unmodified form. An example of a modified form of an ER, PR, and/or Ki67 peptide is phosphorylation of a tyrosine, threonine, serine, and/or other amino acid residues within the peptide sequence.
