US10134605B2
The embodiments herein generally deal with semiconductor processing methods and apparatus. More specifically, the embodiments relate to methods and apparatus for etching a semiconductor substrate. A partially fabricated semiconductor substrate is provided in a reaction chamber. The reaction chamber is divided into an upper sub-chamber and a lower sub-chamber by a grid assembly. Plasma is generated in the upper sub-chamber, and the substrate is positioned in the lower sub-chamber. The grid assembly includes at least two grids, each of which is negatively biased, and each of which includes perforations which allow certain species to pass through. The uppermost grid is negatively biased in order to repel electrons. The lowermost grid is biased further negative (compared to the uppermost grid) in order to accelerate positive ions from the upper to the lower sub-chamber. Etching gas is supplied directly to the lower sub-chamber. The etching gas and ions react with the surface of the substrate to etch the substrate as desired.
US10134600B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device in a plasma processing chamber is provided. An atomic layer etch selectively etches SiO with respect to SiN and deposits a fluorinated polymer. The fluorinated polymer layer is stripped, comprising flowing a stripping gas comprising oxygen into the plasma processing chamber, forming a plasma from the stripping gas, and stopping the flow of the stripping gas. A SiN layer is selectively etched with respect to SiO and SiGe and Si.
US10134596B1
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first layer with a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The apparatus also includes a second layer having a third surface interfacing the second surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface. The apparatus further includes a third layer having a fifth surface interfacing the fourth surface and a sixth surface opposite the fifth surface. The apparatus also includes a fourth layer having a seventh surface interfacing the sixth surface to form a heterojunction, which generates a two-dimensional electron gas channel formed in the fourth layer. Further, the apparatus includes a recess that extends from the first surface to the fifth surface.
US10134595B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a feature of a semiconductor device. In one or more embodiments, the feature is a gate, and the method includes forming a substrate and forming a gate material extending over a major surface of the substrate. The method further includes forming a trench extending through the gate material and into the substrate in a first direction, wherein the trench further extends through the gate material and the substrate in a second direction. The method further includes filling the trench with a fill material and forming individual gates from the gate material, wherein the individual gates extend along a third direction.
US10134588B2
Facilitating throughput in nanoimprint lithography processes by using an imprint resist including fluorinated components and a substrate treated with a pretreatment composition to promote spreading of an imprint resist on the substrate. The interfacial surface energy between the pretreatment composition and air exceeds the interfacial surface energy between the imprint resist and air by at least 1 mN/m, and the contact angle of the imprint resist on the surface of the nanoimprint lithography template is less than 15°.
US10134586B2
A technique includes forming a laminated film on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes forming a first film which contains at least a predetermined element and oxygen, and forming a second film which contains at least the predetermined element, oxygen and carbon. The first film and the second film are laminated to form the laminated film.
US10134568B2
Provided herein are approaches for dynamically modifying plasma volume in an ion source chamber by positioning an end plate and radio frequency (RF) antenna at a selected axial location. In one approach, an ion source includes a plasma chamber having a longitudinal axis extending between a first end wall and a second end wall, and an RF antenna adjacent a plasma within the plasma chamber, wherein the RF antenna is configured to provide RF energy to the plasma. The ion source may further include an end plate disposed within the plasma chamber, adjacent the first end wall, the end plate actuated along the longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position to adjust a volume of the plasma. By providing an actuable end plate and RF antenna, plasma characteristics may be dynamically controlled to affect ion source characteristics, such as composition of ion species, including metastable neutrals.
US10134567B2
In accordance with example embodiments, a plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber configured to peform a plasma process, an upper plate on the chamber, an antenna under the upper plate and the antenna is configured to generate plasma in the chamber, an upper insulator between the upper plate and the antenna and the upper insulator covers a top of the antenna, a lower insulator covering a bottom of the antenna, an antenna support ring configured to fix the antenna to the upper plate, and a metal gasket adhered to the antenna support ring.
US10134565B2
A multi charged particle beam exposure method includes calculating an effective irradiation time, for each of a plurality of control irradiation time periods for controlling an irradiation time of each beam in the multi-beams of a charged particle beam, using a blanking error time of each divided shot of a plurality of divided shots, previously acquired, due to an error of blanking control for each divided shot; generating correlation data representing a relation between the control irradiation time and the effective irradiation time; selecting, using the correlation data, for each irradiation position of a target object, the combination of the divided shots corresponding to the effective irradiation time to be closer to each desired irradiation time; and performing exposure, using the multi-beams, based on the combination of the divided shots selected for each irradiation position of the target object.
US10134563B2
Disclosed is a method of using a charged particle microscope for inspecting a sample mounted on a sample holder. The microscope is equipped with a solid state detector for detecting secondary particles emanating from the sample in response to irradiation of the sample with the primary beam, with the solid state detector in direct optical view of the sample. In some embodiments, the sample is mounted on a heater with a fast thermal response time. The method comprises contactless measurement of the temperature of the sample and/or sample holder using the solid state detector.
US10134552B2
The present disclosure provides methods of fabricating a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) switch. The methods include providing a substrate, forming a first dielectric layer disposed above the substrate, forming a bump above the first dielectric layer, providing a movable member including a top actuation electrode, and forming at least one support member that includes the first dielectric layer and is directly below the top actuation electrode. The top actuation electrode is electrically coupled to the bump.
US10134551B2
A hybrid contactor device that provides the ability to use the device with both AC and DC circuits is provided. The hybrid contactor includes a series-parallel arrangement of mechanical contacts with solid state devices, increasing the switching capacity of the mechanical contacts, and maintains galvanic isolation when open. The hybrid contactor includes two mechanical contacts, and is arranged so that one contact closes shortly before the other. The second contact forms a parallel circuit with an electronic switch.
US10134539B2
A venting system for a keyboard assembly is disclosed. A keyboard assembly including a printed circuit board defining a set of apertures, and a group of switch housings coupled to the printed circuit board. Each switch housing of the group of switch housings may define a switch opening positioned above one of the set of apertures of the printed circuit board. The keyboard assembly may also include a shield defining at least one channel of a venting system formed below the printed circuit board. The at least one channel may be in fluid communication with at least one aperture, and at least one of the switch openings positioned above the at least one aperture.
US10134536B2
A two terminal arc suppressor for protecting switch, relay or contactor contacts and the like comprises a two terminal module adapted to be attached in parallel with the contacts to be protected and including a circuit for deriving an operating voltage upon the transitioning of the switch, relay or contactor contacts from a closed to an open disposition, the power being rectified and the resulting DC signal used to trigger a power triac switch via an optoisolator circuit whereby arc suppression pulses are generated for short predetermined intervals only at a transition of the mechanical switch, relay or contactor contacts from an closed to an open transition and, again, at an open to a close transition during contact bounce conditions.
US10134531B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising an ionic liquid consisting in the combination of a pyrrolidinium cation and a nitrate anion and comprising a solvent selected from lactone solvents, carbonate solvents, nitrile solvents and mixtures thereof. The composition may be used as an electrolyte, for example, for such applications as energy storage devices.
US10134516B2
A sensor ring is provided for a magnetic measuring transducer of an ABS system consisting of at least two annularly arranged functional elements. The first functional element is formed as a ferromagnetic annular disc element with a flat upper side and a flat underside with a multiplicity of openings. The second functional element, as a non-ferromagnetic element, has either been applied on the upper side and/or the underside of the annular disc element and/or has been introduced into the openings, as an annular disc element. The sensor ring is protected from contamination or damage by the non-ferromagnetic covering. The covering may also be produced by encapsulation or filling, wherein the openings in the sensor ring can be filled with plastic and also the side faces can be coated with plastic.
US10134503B2
A semi-conductive crosslinked layer produced from a polymer composition includes at least one polymer A having at least one epoxy function. A cross-linking agent B includes at least one reactive function that can react with the epoxy function of said polymer A in order to allow the cross-linking of said polymer A. The polymer composition also has an electrically conductive filler having a specific surface area BET of at least 100 m2/g according to the ASTM standard D 6556.
US10134491B2
Application of axial seed magnetic fields in the range 20-100 T that compress to greater than 10,000 T (100 MG) under typical NIF implosion conditions may significantly relax the conditions required for ignition and propagating burn in NIF ignition targets that are degraded by hydrodynamic instabilities. Such magnetic fields can: (a) permit the recovery of ignition, or at least significant alpha particle heating, in submarginal NIF targets that would otherwise fail because of adverse hydrodynamic instability growth, (b) permit the attainment of ignition in conventional cryogenic layered solid-DT targets redesigned to operate under reduced drive conditions, (c) permit the attainment of volumetric ignition in simpler, room-temperature single-shell DT gas capsules, and (d) ameliorate adverse hohlraum plasma conditions during laser drive and capsule compression. In general, an applied magnetic field should always improve the ignition condition for any NIF ignition target design.
US10134483B2
A large-scale integrated circuit with built-in self-repair (BISR) circuitry for enabling redundancy repair for embedded memories in each of a plurality of processor cores with embedded built-in self-test (BIST) circuitry. The BISR circuitry receives and decodes BIST data from the embedded memories into fail signature data in a physical-aware form on which repair analysis can be performed. The fail signature data is reformatted into a unified repair format, such that a fuse encoder circuit can be used to encode fuse patterns in that unified repair format for a repair entity for each of the embedded memories. The fuse patterns are reconfigured into the appropriate order for storing in shadow fuse registers associated with the specific embedded memories.
US10134480B1
A voltage generator and a flash memory thereof are provided. The voltage generator is used to provide a work reference voltage having a plurality of reference levels to a word line decoder circuit and includes a plurality of voltage trimming circuits. The voltage trimming circuits are connected in series between the work reference voltage and a ground voltage and respectively receive a trimming code, wherein the voltage levels of the work reference voltages are controlled by the trimming codes received by the voltage trimming circuits to select one of the reference levels.
US10134477B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array that stores data, and control logic. The control logic is configured to control a read operation, a program operation, or an erase operation on the data. The control logic is configured to detect a first power noise based on one of voltage sources to be provided to the memory cell array and a first reference voltage and detect a second power noise based on the one voltage source of the voltage sources and each of the first reference voltage and a second reference voltage. The control logic is configured to determine whether to perform at least one of an operation period of the read operation, an operation period of the program operation, or an operation period of the erase operation, based on whether at least one of the first and second power noises is detected.
US10134476B2
A method for controlling a nonvolatile memory device includes requesting a plurality of first sampling values from the nonvolatile memory device, each of the first sampling values representing the number of memory cells having a threshold voltage between a first sampling read voltage and a second sampling read voltage. The first sampling values are processed through a non-linear filtering operation to estimate the number of memory cells having the threshold voltage between the first sampling read voltage and the second sampling read voltage.
US10134464B1
A decoder is disclosed that is used to select an area of address space in an Integrated Circuit. The decoder uses a hardware shifting module that performs shift operations on constants. Such a structure reduces an overall area consumption of the shifting module. Additionally, the decoder can perform a multi-bit shift operation in a single clock cycle.
US10134457B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for magnetoresistive random access memory. A plurality of read lines are in a read line layer, and a plurality of write lines are in a write line layer. A plurality of spin accumulation lines are in a spin accumulation line layer disposed between a read line layer and a write line layer. Spin accumulation lines may horizontally cross read lines and write lines. A plurality of vertical magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) cells may include polarizers and magnetic tunnel junctions. A vertical MRAM cell may include a polarizer coupled between a spin accumulation line and a write line. A vertical MRAM cell may further include a magnetic tunnel junction coupled between a spin accumulation line and a read line, such that the magnetic tunnel junction and the polarizer are vertically aligned.
US10134454B2
Apparatuses, circuits, and methods are disclosed for biasing signal lines in a memory array. In one such example the memory array includes a signal line coupled to a plurality of memory cells and is configured to provide access to the plurality of memory cells responsive to a biasing condition of the signal line. The memory array also includes a signal line driver coupled to the signal line, the signal line driver configured to provide a biasing signal to the signal line and to provide a preemphasis in the biasing signal responsive to a control signal. The control signal is responsive to an operating condition.
US10134437B2
According to one embodiment, physical position information on errors on a recording medium is acquired, physical position relationship between the errors on the recording medium is calculated based on the position information, and a failure mode related to the errors is determined based on the position relationship.
US10134434B2
A method of making magnetic graphene comprising transferring or growing a graphene film on a substrate, functionalizing the graphene film, hydrogenating the graphene film and forming fully hydrogenated graphene, manipulating the extent of the hydrogen content, and forming areas of magnetic graphene and non-magnetic graphene. A ferromagnetic graphene film comprising film that has a thickness of less than two atom layers thick.
US10134423B2
System(s) and method(s) for classifying noise data of human crowd are disclosed. Noise data is captured from one or more sources and features are extracted by using computation techniques. The features comprise spectral domain features and time domain features. Classification models are developed by using each of the spectral domain features and the time domain features. Discriminative information with respect to the noise data is extracted by using the classification models. A performance matrix is computed for each of the classification model. The performance matrix comprises classified noise elements with respect to the noise data. Each classified noise element is associated with a classification performance score with respect to a spectral domain feature, a time domain feature, and fusion of features and scores. The classified noise elements provide the classification of the noise data.
US10134420B2
An autocorrelation calculating part calculates autocorrelation Ro(i) from an input signal. A predictive coefficient calculating part performs linear predictive analysis using modified autocorrelation R′o(i) obtained by multiplying the autocorrelation Ro(i) by a coefficient wo(i). Here, it is assumed that a case where, for at least part of each order i, the coefficient wo(i) corresponding to each order i monotonically increases as a value having negative correlation with a fundamental frequency of an input signal in a current frame or a past frame increases and a case where the coefficient wo(i) monotonically decreases as a value having positive correlation with a pitch gain in a current frame or a past frame increases, are included.
US10134413B2
Embodiments relate to an audio processing unit that includes a buffer, bitstream payload deformatter, and a decoding subsystem. The buffer stores at least one block of an encoded audio bitstream. The block includes a fill element that begins with an identifier followed by fill data. The fill data includes at least one flag identifying whether enhanced spectral band replication (eSBR) processing is to be performed on audio content of the block. A corresponding method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is also provided.
US10134412B2
A multiresolution coding and modulation system for preserving audio continuity in a digital wireless audio system in harsh RF environments is provided that includes an audio codec that produces codewords having bits differing in perceptual importance coupled with a non-uniform hierarchical modulation scheme. When the wireless audio system is operating in a harsh RF environment, the RF SNR for decoding bits having a high perceptual importance may be decreased while the RF SNR for decoding bits having a low perceptual importance may be increased, while having no adverse effect on the latency of the wireless audio system. The audio may be subjectively degraded instead of muting the audio, which mitigates intermittent interference and multipath fading issues.
US10134407B2
To provide a transmission method of an arbitrary signal using an acoustic sound hardly affecting the mood (quality) of the original acoustic sound even if an arbitrary signal within an audible frequency range is combined into the acoustic sound such as music.The method comprises a step of finding a separable sound, of which a fundamental element (fundamental sound) b2 contributing mainly to recognition of a single sound and an additional element contributing collaterally to recognition of the single sound are separable on temporal axis or frequency axis, among plural sounds composing the acoustic sound, or inserting a separable sound into the plural sounds composing the acoustic sound. The additional element of the separable sound found or inserted is transcribed by a signal pattern b1-1, b1-2 of the arbitrary signal. By means of the acoustic sound of which additional element is transcribed, the arbitrary signal b1-1, b1-2 is transmitted. The additional element may be a sound generated when transmitting vibration energy to a resonance body (resonant body). The fundamental element may be a sound produced according the own resonance mode (resonant mode) by the resonance body (resonant body) receiving the vibration energy.
US10134404B2
An apparatus for generating a decoded two-channel signal includes: an audio processor for decoding an encoded two-channel signal to obtain a first set of first spectral portions; a parametric decoder for providing parametric data for a second set of second spectral portions and a two-channel identification identifying either a first or a second different two-channel representation for the second spectral portions; and a frequency regenerator for regenerating a second spectral portion depending on a first spectral portion of the first set of first spectral portions, the parametric data for the second portion and the two-channel identification for the second portion.
US10134395B2
Techniques for providing virtual assistants to assist users during a voice communication between the users. For instance, a first user operating a device may establish a voice communication with respective devices of one or more additional users, such as with a device of a second user. For instance, the first user may utilize her device to place a telephone call to the device of the second user. A virtual assistant may also join the call and, upon invocation by a user on the call, may identify voice commands from the call and may perform corresponding tasks for the users in response.
US10134391B2
System and method to adjust an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, the method including: receiving social network information from a social network; data mining the social network information to extract one or more characteristics; inferring a trend from the extracted one or more characteristics; and adjusting the ASR engine based upon the inferred trend. Embodiments of the method may further include: receiving a speech signal from a user; and recognizing the speech signal by use of the adjusted ASR engine. Further embodiments of the method may include: producing a list of candidate matching words; and ranking the list of candidate matching words by use of the inferred trend.
US10134389B2
A system is provided that trains a spoken language understanding (SLU) classifier. A corpus of user utterances is received. For each of the user utterances in the corpus, the user utterance is semantically parsed, and the result of this semantic parsing is represented as a rooted semantic parse graph. The parse graphs representing all of the user utterances in the corpus are then combined into a single corpus graph that represents the semantic parses of the entire corpus. The user utterances in the corpus are then clustered into intent-wise homogeneous groups of user utterances, where this clustering includes finding subgraphs in the corpus graph that represent different groups of user utterances, and each of these different groups has a similar user intent. The intent-wise homogeneous groups of user utterances are then used to train the SLU classifier, and the trained SLU classifier is output.
US10134387B2
An image display apparatus, a method for driving the same, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The image display apparatus includes a speech acquirer configured to acquire a speech command created by a user, a speech recognition executor configured to acquire text information which has a phonetic symbol that is the same as or similar to a phonetic symbol of a text-based recognition result corresponding to the acquired speech command and is expressed in a form that is different from a form of the text-based recognition result, and an operation performer configured to perform an operation corresponding to the acquired text information.
US10134379B2
Certain example embodiments relate to an acoustic wall assembly that uses active and/or passive sound reverberation to achieve noise-disruptive functionality, and/or a method of making and/or using the same. With the active approach, sound waves in a given frequency range are detected by a sound masking circuit. Responsive to detection of such sound waves, an air pump (e.g., speaker) is used to pump air in the wall assembly to actively mask the detected sound waves via reverberation and/or the like. The wall assembly may include one, two, or more walls, and the walls may be partial or full walls. With the passive approach, sound waves in a given frequency range are disrupted via features (e.g., holes, slits, etc.) formed in and/or on a wall itself. These techniques may be used together or separately, in different example embodiments.
US10134374B2
A signal processing method includes a first specifying step and a first modifying step. In the first specifying step, a first modification object section for a singing voice of a music is specified based on a temporal change of pitch of singing voice data representing the singing voice or a temporal change of pitch in a score of the music. In the first modifying step, a modifying process is performed to the singing voice data. The modifying process modifies at least one of the temporal change of pitch and the temporal change of volume of the singing voice in the first modification object section which is specified by the first specifying step.
US10134373B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems that operate to perform machine-control of a device based on machine-detected transitions are disclosed.
US10134368B2
A system or a method may be provided that may detect a movement or activity of a user via the user's mobile and/or wearable devices. The system may adjust the display interface based on the user's detected movement or activity. When a user is very active (biking or jogging), the user may have very limited amount of time or attention to interact with a display interface. The movement or activity of the user may be detected by a motion detection device installed on the mobile device or on the wearable device. When the user is active, the display interface may adjust to enlarge the information to make it easier for the user to view, read, or interact with. The system may also select and display important information, without other peripheral information (less important information) when the user is active.
US10134358B2
A head mounted display (HMD) device including a communication processor configured to communicate with a mobile terminal; a display configured to display a content received from the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to in response to an event generated on the mobile terminal, selectively display an object on the display corresponding to the event generated on the mobile terminal, based on a type of the displayed content.
US10134354B2
Detecting when the on-board power supply is powered on or off by an auto activity detection circuit by determining if the reference clock signal (TCLK) is toggling, and, if the reference clock signal is toggling, then charging a capacitor to a high voltage in the auto activity detection circuit based on the toggling reference clock signal, and outputting an on-board power supply activity signal based upon the high voltage by the auto activity detection circuit indicative of whether or not the on-board power supply is active.
US10134350B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register unit, a method for driving the shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The shift register unit comprises a first input module, a first output module, a first reset module, a first storage module and a second reset module. The first input module is configured to output a first pull-up signal to the first output module based on a first input signal. The first output module is configured to output an output signal based on the first pull-up signal and a first clock signal. The first storage module is configured to store the first pull-up signal. The first reset module is configured to reset the first storage module based on a first reset signal. The second reset module is configured to reset the output from the first output module based on a second reset signal. The second reset signal is set to be valid while the first pull-up signal and the first clock signal are valid and a duration in which the second reset signal is valid is shorter than a duration in which the first clock signal is valid.
US10134345B1
The invention provides a luminance adjustment method and apparatus for RGBW LCD, which uses first and second EOTFs to generate a grayscale luminance lookup table for RGBW LCD, and makes the grayscale-luminance relation in lookup table corresponding to the first EOTF within the grayscale interval between 0 and grayscale threshold; the grayscale-luminance relation in lookup table corresponding to the second EOTF within the grayscale interval between grayscale threshold and 255; the curve slope of the second EOTF greater than the curve slope of the first EOTF within the interval between second luminance threshold and maximum luminance value. By adopting different EOTFs for low and high grayscale intervals, the method considers the poor dark state characteristics of LCD and characteristics of RGBW LCD having higher maximum luminance, and improves the display capability of RGBW LCD in details of high grayscale images.
US10134344B2
A liquid crystal television increases or decreases a gradation value when the gradation value of an image signal to be displayed on a liquid crystal panel is within a prescribed range. Further, the liquid crystal television decreases or increases the luminance depending to the gradation value of the image signal based on the increase or decrease in the gradation value. The liquid crystal television applies a voltage depending on the gradation value after the change to the liquid crystal panel, such that a transmittance in the liquid crystal panel is changed (increased or decreased). Further, the liquid crystal television controls each light source to emit light with the luminance after the change, such that the luminance of the light radiated to the liquid crystal panel from the light source is changed (decreased or increased).
US10134340B2
A timing controller includes an input signal processor that receives a data enable signal and a frame frequency information signal, generates one of a first internal data enable signal having a first frame frequency and a second internal data enable signal having a second frame frequency, the first and second frame frequencies being selected based on the frame frequency information signal. A gate control signal output unit generates and outputs a first gate control signal based on the first internal data enable signal or a second gate control signal based on the second internal data enable signal. A data control signal output unit generates and outputs a first data control signal based on the first internal data enable signal or a second data control signal based on the second internal data enable signal. The pulse widths of the first and second internal data enable signals are the same.
US10134338B2
The present disclosure relates to display technology, and provides an inverter, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus, capable of solving the problem that it is difficult to apply Scan Power technology in the display apparatus since a power signal outputted from the inverter has a small current. The inverter comprises: a current amplification module configured to amplify a current of the output terminal of the inverter based on a signal at a first clock signal terminal, a signal at a second clock signal terminal, a signal at a third clock signal terminal, a signal at a fourth clock signal terminal, a signal at a first input signal terminal, and a signal at a second input signal terminal, and to control the output terminal of the inverter to output a high level signal; and a pull-down module configured to control the output terminal of the inverter to output a low level signal. The inverter according to the present disclosure may be applied in a display apparatus employing the Scan Power technology.
US10134335B2
Circuits for programming a circuit with decreased programming time are provided. Such circuits include a storage device such as a capacitor for storing display information and for ensuring a driving device such as a driving transistor drives a light emitting device according to the display information. To increase programming time, the pixel circuits may be pre-charged or a biasing current may be applied to charge and/or discharge a data line and/or the driving device. Aspects of the present disclosure allow for the biasing current to drain partially through the storage device to allow the portion of the biasing current applied to the driving device to remain small while the data line discharges. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides display architectures and operation schemes for display arranged in segments each including a plurality of pixel circuits.
US10134333B2
A display device includes a display panel, a controller, a power supplier, and an initialization voltage generator. The controller generates a power control signal based on an input image. The power supplier generates a variable driving voltage that is changed based on the power control signal. The initialization voltage generator changes an initialization voltage to initialize the pixels based on the variable driving voltage.
US10134331B2
A display device includes: a pixel array unit with pixel circuits disposed in matrix form, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, an electro-optic element, a storage capacitor, and a sampling transistor, with the electro-optic element emitting light by generating a driving current based on information stored in the storage capacitor at the driving transistor to be applied to the electro-optic element; and a control unit, of which the output stage includes a buffer transistor, to output a pulse signal for driving the pixel array unit from the buffer transistor; wherein the pixel array unit and the control unit are formed with long laser beam irradiation to be scanned in the vertical direction or horizontal direction; and wherein with the control unit, the size of the buffer transistor is equal to or greater than the pixel pitch in the scanning direction of the laser beam.
US10134330B2
An apparatus includes a display panel. In one example, the display panel includes an array of subpixels in a first, a second, and a third colors. Subpixels in the first, second, and third colors are alternatively arranged in every three adjacent rows of the array of subpixels. Every two adjacent rows of the array of subpixels are staggered with each other. A first subpixel in one of the first, second, and third colors and a second subpixel in a same color as the first subpixel are offset by 3 units in the horizontal axis and 4 units in the vertical axis. The first and second subpixels have a minimum distance among subpixels in the same color.
US10134327B2
A non-quadrangular display panel includes a plurality of first signal lines disposed in a non-quadrangular display area, wherein the non-quadrangular display area includes a plurality of pixels. A switching circuit is disposed in a peripheral area of the non-quadrangular display panel. The peripheral area is disposed adjacent to the non-quadrangular display area. The switching circuit passes a signal to at least one of the plurality of first signal lines. A plurality of second signal lines is disposed in the peripheral area. At least two adjacent second signal lines are uniformly spaced apart from each other and transmit signals at different times to the switching circuit. A plurality of third signal lines is disposed in the peripheral area orthogonal to the plurality of second signal lines and connected to the switching circuit.
US10134326B2
A display method and a display device are disclosed. The method includes: detecting whether a displayed content in a display screen changes; controlling the display screen to update alternately display data respectively corresponding to a first part and a second part of a display unit in each column of display unit, in response to detecting that the displayed content does not change. The number of updated pixels of the display screen each time may be reduced, while the original refresh frequency is maintained, so the problem that the splash screen phenomena is caused in the display screen by reducing the refresh frequency of the display screen may be solved, thus achieving effects of avoiding the splash screen phenomena of the display screen and of reducing the power consumption of the display screen while maintaining the original refresh frequency of the display screen.
US10134317B2
Provided is a projection device, comprising a light-emitting apparatus, a spatial light modulator, a pixel shifting apparatus, a projection lens, and a control processor; the light-emitting apparatus comprises an excitation light source, a colored-light generating apparatus, and a drive apparatus; the control processor is separately connected to the drive apparatus, the light source, the spatial light modulator, and the pixel shifting apparatus, and is used for: controlling the frequency of periodic motion of the drive apparatus; while the drive apparatus moves the conversion area of the colored-light generating apparatus to pass across the position illuminated by the excitation light, shutting off the light source or controlling the spatial light modulator to enter a non-projecting state. No light passes through the pixel shifting apparatus when it is changing states, thus it is prevented from affecting the contrast. Also provided are a projection control system and a projection control method.
US10134308B2
A mounting member, for supporting a sign holder assembly relative to a substantially horizontal member of a display system, includes a front plate, at least one side panel, and a back support. The front plate selectively receives the sign holder assembly and has a substantially planar primary surface. The at least one side panel is coupled to and extends away from the substantially planar primary surface of the front plate. The back support is coupled to the at least one side panel opposite and spaced from the front plate, at least partially defining use and storage channels each open toward a different one of at least two directions. Each of the use and storage channels are sized to independently and selectively straddle the substantially horizontal member to selectively couple the mounting member to the substantially horizontal member in a different one of a use orientation and a storage orientation.
US10134298B2
System and method can support a simulated movement of a movable object, such as a simulated flight of an unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV). A process, which can be on a user terminal, can receive state information about the simulated flight from a flight simulator that is associated with the UAV. Then, the process can determine flight information for the simulated flight by associating the received state information with context information obtained by the process on the user terminal, and provides the determined flight information to a display that is associated with the user terminal.
US10134293B2
Described are systems, methods, and computer readable medium for a drone navigation system. Exemplary embodiments provide a drone with an imaging device and a computing device in communication with the drone. The computing device receives a selection of a CAD blueprint that includes measurements of an interior portion of a building, and receives a start point and an end point on the blueprint. The computing device analyzes the blueprint and generates a route from the start point to the end point, and determines a first set of instructions in terms of distance and degrees to navigate the generated route. The computing device processes the first set of instructions to generate a second set of instructions in terms of yaw, pitch and roll. The second set of instructions are exported to the drone to cause the drone to navigate the generated route in the building.
US10134289B2
Methods and systems are provided for guiding or otherwise assisting operation of a vehicle to intersect a stabilized approach to a destination. One exemplary method of assisting an aircraft for landing at an airport involves obtaining, from a system onboard the aircraft, a current position of the aircraft and a current velocity of the aircraft, determining a descent strategy for the aircraft from the current position to an initialization point for a stable approach to the airport based at least in part on the current position and the current velocity, and providing indication of the descent strategy on a display device. The descent strategy is determined based on one or more validation criteria associated with the initialization point so that one or more predicted values for one or more characteristics of the aircraft satisfy the one or more validation criteria at the initialization point.
US10134280B1
Systems and methods here utilize various light projecting technologies to inform other drivers of nearby vehicles of information which may allow for safer driving. In some embodiments, the projecting technologies may be used to project laser light onto a driving surface when a vehicle indicates a lane change, to show their intended physical location on the driving surface. In some embodiments, a parked vehicle may indicate a door is about to be opened, by projecting a warning and physical space where the door may swing open, onto the driving surface for other drivers to see. In some embodiments, sensors such as cameras, infra-red and/or radar to locate nearby vehicles, predict their position, and indicate where the vehicle will physically be located in a turn, lane change, or passing situation.
US10134279B1
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to inducing awareness in a driver about a surrounding environment of a vehicle using an augmented reality (AR) system within the vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying one or more potential hazards to the vehicle in the surrounding environment from sensor data collected from at least one sensor of the vehicle. The method includes rendering, within the AR system, a display scenario about the one or more potential hazards by displaying one or more graphical elements that correlate with locations of the one or more potential hazards in the surrounding environment.
US10134278B1
Methods and systems for communicating between autonomous vehicles are described herein. Such communication may be performed for signaling, collision avoidance, path coordination, and/or autonomous control. A computing device may receive data for the same road segment from autonomous vehicles, including (i) an indication of a location within the road segment, and (ii) an indication of a condition of the road segment. The computing device may generate, from the data for the same road segment, an overall indication of the condition of the road segment, which may include a recommendation to vehicles approaching the road segment. Additionally, the computing device may receive a request from a computing device within a vehicle approaching the road segment to display vehicle data. The overall indication for the road segment may then be displayed on a user interface of the computing device.
US10134277B2
A method for prompting traffic condition information, comprising: a server obtaining traffic condition information about a road network (101); a client determining a candidate driving route and sending to the server a traffic condition information request aiming at the candidate driving route, and the server receiving the traffic condition information request, extracting traffic condition information about the candidate driving route from the traffic condition information about the road network, and sending to the client the traffic condition information about the candidate driving route; alternatively, the server actively sending to the client the traffic condition information about the road network (102); and the client displaying the traffic condition information provided by the server (103). The method can prompt traffic condition information in time, thereby improving the reminding efficiency; it can also be applied in various terminal devices, and can be used across platform terminals, thereby having a wide scope of application.
US10134274B2
Various devices, systems, products and methods for customizing a remote control are presented. Sensors are optionally used to aid in the identification of users and user specific remote control configurations and layouts are optionally automatically loaded upon determination that a different user is handling the remote control. The devices, systems, products and methods are useful for minimizing inadvertent changes to system setting and modes due to unanticipated or accidental presses of buttons on a remote control.
US10134263B2
A remote alarm monitoring system (10) for recording and processing alarm event data. The alarm system (10) comprises one or more alarm devices (12) in connection with an interface (14), wherein the interface (14) is configured to receive alarm event data; a server (18) in communication with the interface (14), wherein the server (18) is configured to receive and process alarm event data from the interface (14); and one or more networked client devices (22) in communication with the server (18), wherein the server (18) is configured to transmit a message to the networked client device (22), said message based upon the processed alarm event data.
US10134261B1
A vehicle comprising includes lights and a controller. The controller, responsive to reception of signals indicative of an opening and closing of a door of the vehicle, the vehicle being within boundaries of a predetermined locale, and an item being within the vehicle, blinks the lights.
US10134260B1
Embodiments in the present disclosure may be directed to an off-premises alert system and method for one or more wireless power receivers in a wireless power network. The system and method may include automated software embedded on a wireless power receiver that may be triggered every time a wireless power receiver is turned on. The system and method may be employed in stores where customers may use wireless power receivers to charge their mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and the like, while being inside the store. The method may prevent customers from not returning the wireless power receiver by producing an audible alert in the power receiver. If customer fails to return wireless power receiver, the method may then automatically report details regarding the lost wireless power receiver to an appropriate authority through automatic communication connection through any intervening network cloud-based media.
US10134255B2
Provided is a digital future-now security system, method, and program capable of preventing an improper behavior, etc., of a person who is not excluded by conventional security checks. A digital future-now security system (1000) comprises a behavior pattern DB (115) that accumulates behavior patterns, the behavior pattern is positions of a mobile terminal device (30) on a layout, and stores them as normal patterns, and a behavior pattern determination function unit (112) that determines whether a behavior pattern, at the time of acquisition of positional information of the mobile terminal device (30), corresponds to the “normal pattern” stored in the behavior pattern DB (115), and issues a warning when the behavior pattern deviates from the “normal pattern” and any other mobile terminal device (30) is not present within a predetermined distance from the position.
US10134254B2
The present specification describes a smart security management system for managing the flow of people through security checkpoints in order to optimize overall throughput and efficiency. In an embodiment, the system includes a centralized database which is connected to a plurality of security checkpoints and which uses benchmark response data generated by a specific type of screening devices for a set of individuals. In an embodiment, the response data gathered by similar types of screening devices located at security checkpoints is compared with the benchmark response data stored in a centralized database to provide faster security clearance to individuals.
US10134249B2
A method for sending a message is provided. The method includes: detecting whether a user is located in a target place; if the user is not located in the target place, detecting whether an entrance of the target place is opened; and if the entrance of the target place is opened, sending a prompt message to a device carried by the user.
US10134248B2
In a securing device for attachment of an object which is to be secured, wherein the securing device has a housing with a base plate and a lid as well as means for generating an alarm when the securing device is removed from the object without authorization, wherein the securing device is attached to the object by a double-adhesive strip having a double-adhesive first section and a non-adhesive second section. The first section has an initial adhesiveness which is lost when the strip is stretched. The second section forms a grip for stretching the double-adhesive strip. The double-adhesive strip is attached on one side to the underside of the base plate so that it is covered by the base plate and on the other side to the object. The non-adhesive second section is placed between the base plate and the lid in its closed state such the grip is only accessible only in the open state of the housing. Also disclosed is an object securing system having a housing for being secured to an object by two belts crossing each other, the housing having a base plate, a lid, a locking mechanism and an alarm triggering apparatus. The base plate can be slid between the surface of the object and the belts, so that the belts cross at the center of the base plate to hold the housing on the object. The locking mechanism when in the locked state prevents the base plate from being slid out from between the object and the belts, and an alarm is triggered when the securing device is detached from the object without authorization.
US10134240B1
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a specifically programmed game operating computer system for conducting a personalized game requiring each player to only select a single player-selected game piece to play a personalized instance of the game, where the exemplary system includes following components: a specialized computer machine, including: a non-transient memory, storing program code; and a processor configured to perform: requiring, in real-time, via a graphical interface, each player to select a single player-selected game piece out of a pool of game pieces; receiving, in real time, from each player: a selection of the single player-selected game piece and a player-defined size of a set of drawn game pieces; dynamically self-adjusting, in real time, a personalized self-adjusting payout table; and dynamically conducting at least one drawing where each drawn game piece is selected from a full pool of the pool of game pieces.
US10134237B2
A gaming machine which makes it possible to improve monotonous game play is provided. A gaming machine includes: a display device configured to display a game result by rearranging symbols arranged on video reels; a storage device configured to store a normal mode video reel on which the symbols including a predetermined symbol are arranged and a chance mode video reel on which the number of the predetermined symbol is larger than the number of the predetermined symbol on the normal mode video reel; and a controller configured to perform switching between a game in a normal mode using the normal mode video reel and a game in a chance mode using the chance mode video reel, when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US10134234B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for integrating player tracking and cash access in a casino or other gaming environment. One aspect of the invention allows for fund access and management wherein gaming machines, such as slot machines or on-line virtual gaming machines, receive playable credits directly from a patron's banking or credit card account. Another aspect of the present invention relates to integrating player tracking and cash access transactions by allowing the players to provide a player tracking card for each financial transaction conducted in a gaming environment. In return, the casino issues gaming or bonus points to the players for allowing their transactions to be tracked. Yet another aspect of the present invention consolidates the players' financial account information into a single casino database. Players can subsequently credit or debit cash from the players' financial accounts using any associated customer identification cards or otherwise receive such credits in other forms that permit negotiations, including quasi-cash documents.
US10134229B2
Disclosed is a method for enabling an augmented reality interaction system and a mobile device to overlay a virtual 3D component over a physical 3D component with which the virtual 3D component interacts. The method includes: enabling a user to capture a live camera image of a gaming machine cabinet via a camera on the mobile device; producing a virtual rendering of the gaming machine cabinet; determining virtual 3D components to be displayed over an image of a virtual gaming machine cabinet; comparing a virtual depth rendering of the virtual 3D components to a virtual depth rendering of the virtual gaming machine cabinet; and overlaying virtual 3D components without the subtracted elements onto a live camera image of the virtual gaming machine cabinet on a display of the mobile device.
US10134222B2
An electronic gaming machine comprising a display, a memory storing program instructions for each of a plurality of different games, a game controller for executing the program instructions, the game controller configured to conduct plural game instances in respective ones of a plurality of game areas on the display based on one or more player selections from among the different games, the game controller configured to operate in a first mode when conducting less than a defined number of game instances and a second mode when conducting a defined number of game instances, wherein when operating in the second mode, the game controller is configured to add at least one additional game feature to each of the defined game instances irrespective of the player game selections of games for the respective game areas.
US10134217B2
A secure electronic entity, adapted to store at least one object, includes a unit for measuring the passage of time as from a reference date associated with the object. It includes a unit for storing a life span assigned to the object co-operating with the time measuring unit so as to compare the time elapsed and the life span. It further includes an updating and invalidating unit, to update the object life span or to temporarily or permanently disable the object if the comparison shows that the time elapsed exceeds the life span. The invention is in particular applicable to smart cards.
US10134215B2
A security device for verifying an authenticity of a security document comprises an at least partially transparent substrate with a first surface and a second surface. A first pattern is arranged on the first surface. This first pattern is derivable using a first seed pattern. A second pattern is arranged on said second surface. This second pattern is derivable using the first seed pattern and using a second seed pattern. Transmittances and reflectivities of the first and second patterns are selected such that in a reflection viewing mode, only the first seed pattern is visible. In a transmission viewing mode, however, only the second seed pattern is visible.
US10134212B1
A first user associated with a structure (e.g., a home, a building, etc.) may authorize a second user to access the structure when the first user is not present. The second user may request to access the structure via a text message that includes an access code that was previously provided. The second user may be verified/authenticated based on the telephone number in which the text message was received, the access code, and/or an access schedule that indicates when the second user is authorized to access the structure. The second user may send a second text message indicating a desire to lock/unlock a structure entrance (e.g., a door) to the structure that contains a smart lock. Upon receiving the second text message, a service provider sends an instruction to the smart lock, causing the structure entrance to become locked/unlocked, and allowing the second user to access or secure the structure.
US10134208B2
A method of initializing an electronic lock in the field includes the steps of providing a unique lock identifier for a lock, providing a unique organization identifier for an organization, generating master encryption keys for the organization derived from the unique organization identifier for that organization, communicating the unique organization identifier and master encryption keys for the organization to a remote mobile device, using the mobile device to remotely generate individual encryption keys for the lock utilizing one of the master encryption keys, the unique organization identifier and the unique lock identifier for the one of the plurality of locks, and using the mobile device to remotely program a manager key to communicate the individual encryption keys to the lock. Communicating the individual encryption keys initializes the lock to the organization's lock management system and permits the lock to encrypt and decrypt communications exclusively with the organization's lock management system.
US10134205B2
A portable electronic wireless lock for ensuring the safety of goods, including humanly consumable goods. The lock is controlled by a smartphone, which also acts as a communications hub between the lock and a truckload owner or supervisor. According to the present invention, a truck driver uses a smartphone to interface between a trailer payload supervisor and the payload lock itself, to ensure the safety of the transported goods and comply with regulations such as the Food Safety Modernization Act (“FSMA”). An electronic lock may, according to the present invention, interface electronically to a smartphone, so that while in motion, the smartphone ensures that the lock remains locked and controls its operation. Alternatively, such an electronic lock may be designed to permit only a limited number of locking cycles initiated by a truck driver until a loading supervisor intercedes in compliance with FSMA.
US10134199B2
Techniques for animating a non-rigid object in a computer graphics environment. A three-dimensional (3D) curve rigging element representing the non-rigid object is defined, the 3D curve rigging element comprising a plurality of knot primitives. One or more defined values are received for an animation control attribute of a first knot primitive. One or more values are generated, for a second animation control attribute for a second knot primitive, based on the plurality of animation control attributes of a neighboring knot primitive. An animation is then rendered using the 3D curve rigging element. More specifically, one or more defined values for the first attribute of the first knot primitive and the generated value for the second attributes of the second knot primitive are used to generate the animation. The rendered animation is output for display.
US10134191B2
This disclosure relates to generating a virtual space based on a physical layout of objects. The virtual space may be generated based on the physical layout of objects by one or more of identifying physical objects in a real-world space, determining a physical arrangement of the identified physical objects, determining virtual space content for the identified physical objects and the physical arrangement of the identified physical objects, executing an instance of the virtual space, and/or other operations. The virtual space may include the virtual space content determined based on individual virtual space content associated with the identified physical objects and the physical arrangement of the identified physical objects. The instance of the virtual space may be used to facilitate presentation of one or more views of the virtual space to a user and enable the user to interact with the virtual space.
US10134189B2
To provide an excellent image display device worn on a head or face and used to view images, and an image display method.When displaying an image of a virtual world, such as a movie or computer graphics, with a display unit 309, a head-mounted display 100 temporarily removes the image in a portion specified with a touch panel, and display an image of the real world captured with an outward-facing camera 312. By looking at the image of the real world mixed in with the image of the virtual world, the user is able to perceive the real world and suitably interact with the real world, thereby making it possible to lessen psychological resistance while also avoiding physical harm due to events such as collisions with objects in the real world.
US10134186B2
One embodiment is directed to a user display device comprising a housing frame mountable on the head of the user, a lens mountable on the housing frame and a projection sub system coupled to the housing frame to determine a location of appearance of a display object in a field of view of the user based at least in part on at least one of a detection of a head movement of the user and a prediction of a head movement of the user, and to project the display object to the user based on the determined location of appearance of the display object.
US10134180B2
Method for producing an autostereoscopic display with an optical element and an image forming unit, characterized by the following method steps: provide an optical element preferably generated on a flat substrate, determine position parameters of the optical element using a sensor unit, particularly an optical sensor unit, and deposit the image forming unit onto the back of the optical element based on the position parameters determined. In addition, an autostereoscopic display produced in this manner is disclosed.
US10134179B2
Embodiments include systems and methods for synthesizing, recording, performing and playing back visual music for virtual immersive video playback environments. Virtual music (VM) compositions can include 3D VM instruments, which can be controlled in a highly dynamic and expressive manner using human interface controllers. Some embodiments include novel techniques for controlling, synthesizing, and rendering VM instruments having complex particle system architectures. Some embodiments further provide VM compositional techniques built on four-dimensional modeling constructs that include path-adaptive coordinate systems that define a compositional space-time for modeling, and path-anchored object locators that place objects in the compositional space-time.
US10134175B2
In a computer graphics processing unit (GPU) having a texture unit, when pixel sample locations are based on a non-orthonormal grid in scene space, the texture unit receives texture space gradient values directly, e.g., from a shader unit or generates them from texture coordinates supplied, e.g., by a shader unit, and then applies a transformation to the gradient values configured to adjust the gradient values to those which would arise from the use of a orthonormal screen space grid.
US10134170B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to generate stereoscopic views of a scene for purposes of providing an illusion of depth to the scene. An apparatus for stereoscopic rendering includes a processor component; a vertex shader to generate a plurality of vertices corresponding to primitives that are a representation of the scene to be displayed, the vertex shader transforming a first instance of the plurality of vertices to a first projected space in a first portion of a two-dimensional (2D) area and transforming a second instance of the plurality of vertices to a second projected space in the 2D area, the first portion of the 2D area corresponding to a first stereoscopic view of the scene and the second portion of the 2D area corresponding to a second stereoscopic view of the scene.
US10134169B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for accessing texture objects stored within a texture memory. The method comprises the steps of receiving a texture bind request from an application program, wherein the texture bind request includes an object identifier that identifies a first texture object stored in the texture memory and an image identifier that identifies a first image unit, binding the first texture object to the first image unit based on the texture bind request, receiving, within a shader engine, a first shading program command from the application program for performing a first memory access operation on the first texture object, wherein the memory access operation is a store operation or atomic operation to an arbitrary location in the image, and performing, within the shader engine, the first memory access operation on the first texture object via the first image unit.
US10134164B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus that is capable of generating image data including the original image data, which reflects the geometric features of the original image data, the information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires geometric feature information extracted by analyzing first image data. The generation unit generates second image data and third image data, the second image data being generated on the basis of the geometric feature information, the third image data including a first area and a second area, corresponding image data being placed in the first area, the corresponding image data corresponding to the first image data, the second image data being placed in the second area.
US10134159B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes data. During operation, the system obtains a data set and metadata corresponding to a data model, wherein the data model includes a metric and a set of dimensions associated with the metric. Next, the system applies a set of rules to the data set to obtain a deconstruction of the metric by the set of dimensions. Finally, the system displays the deconstruction in one or more charts to a user independently of a domain of the data set.
US10134154B2
A user interface adaptation module identifies a dominant color of a portion selection of a frame of a video and, based on the dominant color, generates colors for components of a user interface in which the video is displayed. The colors of the user interface components are set based upon the generated colors and upon context information such as a playing state of the video. The setting of the component colors in this way allows the user interface to adjust to complement both the played content of the video and the video's context. In one embodiment, the dominant color is identified by partitioning individual pixels of the portion selection based on their respective colors. In one embodiment, a set of primary color variants is generated based on the dominant color, and different colors are generated for each type of user interface component based on the different primary color variants.
US10134152B2
A method to locate material bodies on an at least 2-dimensional occupancy grid G, having a first resolution stepsize RG, that includes a set of cells represented by vertices and segments connecting these vertices. The method uses a sensor for detecting an obstacle which is positioned at source point S, and includes at least the following steps: acquisition by the sensor of a measurement of the position of a material body detected at a point F; defining the coordinates of a point M by using a space discretized with the aid of a spatial stepsize δ which is finer than the resolution stepsize RG, initializing an integer, error parameter, and calculating the value of the error parameter for at least one first vertex of the cell of the current grid.
US10134150B2
A computing device includes a memory for storing instructions and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to identify a location for a graphical element in a predefined three-dimensional scene using depth information of content included in two or more different two-dimensional representations of the predefined three-dimensional scene. The processor is also configured to produce two or more different two-dimensional representations of the predefined three-dimensional scene including the graphical element.
US10134144B2
A system and method are provided for generating time resolved series of angiographic volume data having flow information. The system and method are configured to receive angiographic volume data acquired from a subject having received a dose of a contrast agent using an imaging system and process the angiographic volume data to generate angiographic volume images. The angiographic volume data is processed to derive flow information by determining a distance between two points along a vessel in the angiographic volume images and determining a phase at each of the two points along the vessel in the angiographic volume images. A flow direction or a velocity of flow within the vessel is determined using the distance between the two points along the vessel and the phase at each of the two points along the vessel.
US10134140B2
A surveillance system 1, which is an example of a surveillance system to which the present invention is applied, includes a surveillance region storage means 2 and an image analyzing means 3. Also, the surveillance system 1 includes an effective area information storage means 4 and an object criterion information storage means 5. A detection subject can be detected efficiently by setting a first step criterion of whether or not a portion of an object in an image is included in a range of a surveillance region and a predetermined second step criterion and determining whether or not these criteria are met.
US10134139B2
Techniques of this disclosure may include processing one or more regions-of-interest (ROI) of an input image through a model of a display processor, calculating a first data integrity check value on the one or more ROI of the input image after processing through the model, processing the input image by the display processor, calculating a second data integrity check value on the one or more ROI by the display processor after the display processor processes the input image, comparing the first data integrity check value to the second data integrity check value, and generating an interrupt if the comparison indicates that the first data integrity check value and the second data integrity check value do not match.
US10134134B2
A method and system for creating a depth signature from plural images for providing watermark information related to the images. The method comprises analyzing a pair of images, each image containing a plurality of elements, identifying a first element in one of the pair of images, identifying plural elements in the other of the pair of images. The method further comprises measuring a disparity parameter between the first element and a set of the plural elements, matching the first element from the set of plural elements, the matched second element having the smallest measured disparity parameter, and computing a signature based at least in part on the measured disparity between the first and second elements.
US10134128B2
Device, method and computer program for detecting optical image data of a patient positioning device
A device (10), a method and a computer program detect an optical image and generate optical image data of a patient positioning device (20). The device (10) is configured to detect optical image and generate optical image data of a patient positioning device (20) and to determine the position of at least two partial segments (20a; 20b; 20c; 20d) of the patient positioning device (20) on the basis of the image data. The device (10) has, further, an interface (16) for outputting information on the position of the at least two partial segments (20a; 20b; 20c; 20d).
US10134116B2
In one embodiment, a method includes a computing device accessing a deconvolution function for a point spread function describing at least part of a user's eyesight. The computing device applies the deconvolution function to an image to be displayed on a display to the user. The computing device then displays on the display the image as deconvolved.
US10134114B2
Apparatus and methods for video image post-processing for segmentation based interpolation. In one embodiment, a computerized apparatus is utilized in order to obtain a first frame of video data; segment one or more objects within the first frame of video data; obtain a second frame of video data; segment one or more objects within the second frame of video data; match at least a portion of the one or more objects within the first frame of video data with the one or more objects within the second frame of video data; compute the motion of the pixels for the matched portion of the one or more objects; compute the motion of pixels associated with a background image; and generate an interpolated frame of video data, the interpolated frame of video data residing temporally between the first frame of video data and the second frame of video data.
US10134112B2
A system for displaying information from a mobile computer in a vehicle is provided. The system is comprised of a screen, means for projecting images from the mobile computer onto the screen, means to determine a driver of the vehicle's position with respect to the vehicle, and means to adjust the orientation of the images on the screen based upon the position of the driver. The screen is transparent and is mounted on the vehicle. The screen is viewable from inside the vehicle and from outside the vehicle. The system is configured to reverse the orientation of the images on the screen based upon the driver being in front of the vehicle.
US10134104B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can determine a depth of rendering a user interface (UI) element organized as a tree structure including one or more elements, wherein each element of the one or more elements is associated with a customary rendering logic and an alternative rendering logic. Whether an element in the tree structure is at a boundary for rendering the UI element can be determined based on the depth of rendering the UI element. In response to determining that the element is at the boundary for rendering, the element can be rendered according to the alternative rendering logic associated with the element.
US10134103B2
A method of data processing, the method comprising receiving, at a graphics processing unit (GPU), a command stream, the command stream including one or more commands to be performed by the GPU and at least one command stream marker, the at least one command stream marker indicating a workload type of the command stream, determining, by the GPU, an operation algorithm for the GPU based on the at least one command stream marker prior to executing the command stream, and executing, by the GPU, the command stream based on the operation algorithm.
US10134097B2
The present invention relates to a smart grid system and a method for distributing resources in the system. The smart grid system according to the present invention comprises at least one non-shiftable device; at least one controllable device; and at least one shiftable device; wherein price data are provided at each stage, the non-shiftable device is always provided with its resource requirements, the controllable device is provide with resources in the range of its resource requirements, and the shiftable device has its nominal resource requirements but not allowed to be provided with resources at the stage when resource price is highest.
US10134096B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a social network coupon platform, a request to display coupon data regarding a particular coupon that is provided by a coupon provider, wherein a user that is registered with a social network provider initiated the request; in response to receiving the request, sending, from the social network coupon platform, the coupon data to be displayed to the user; receiving, at the social network coupon platform, from the social network provider, profile data that includes profile information of the user; in response to receiving the profile data, allowing the user access to the particular coupon; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US10134092B1
A method and system may assess the damage to insured properties in a neighborhood using aerial images captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or from a satellite device. The neighborhood may be selected by identifying a neighborhood affected by a catastrophe and having a large concentration of properties which are insured by a particular insurance provider. Aerial images of the entire neighborhood may then be captured and received from the UAV or the satellite device. For each insured property in the neighborhood, a condition and the extent and/or severity of the damage may be automatically determined based on the received aerial images. The aerial images along with indications of the extent of the damage may be displayed.
US10134091B2
A system configured to determine an insurance premium associated with an account that covers at least one vehicle and at least one driver comprising a computer memory that stores biographical information; a processor that receives information associated with telematics data associated with at least one of the vehicle(s), concerning use of the at least one vehicle(s); the processor further configured to determine discrete segments of use by at least one vehicle(s), and to determine a driver signature associated with each of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to generate a driver risk assessment responsive to the at least one of the discrete segments of use; the processor further configured to calculate pricing information based at least in part on the at least one risk assessment and the biographical information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the pricing information to a user device or user transmission device.
US10134085B2
A bidding system for a mobile device includes a database module for selecting a target audience including a plurality of registered customers to deliver content, a streaming module connected to the database module for serving content to the plurality of registered customers, and a priority module connected to the streaming module for implementing a content delivery schedule. The database module assists a user in identifying a product or service to offer to the plurality of registered customers, assists the user in matching the product or service to the selected plurality of registered customers, and assists the user in designating an auction parameter applicable to the product or service offered. The streaming module delivers an auction notification to a registered customer via the mobile device. The registered customer enables the delivery of a content program including auction data to the mobile device according to a schedule implemented by the priority module.
US10134083B2
Methods for generating and sharing a virtual body model of a person, created with a small number of measurements and a single photograph, combined with one or more images of garments. The virtual body model represents a realistic representation of the users body and is used for visualizing photo-realistic fit visualizations of garments, hairstyles, make-up, and/or other accessories. The virtual garments are created from layers based on photographs of real garment from multiple angles. Furthermore the virtual body model is used in multiple embodiments of manual and automatic garment, make-up, and, hairstyle recommendations, such as, from channels, friends, and fashion entities. The virtual body model is sharable for, as example, visualization and comments on looks. Furthermore it is also used for enabling users to buy garments that fit other users, suitable for gifts or similar. The implementation can also be used in peer-to-peer online sales where garments can be bought with the knowledge that the seller has a similar body shape and size as the user.
US10134075B1
Comparative decision systems and methods are disclosed for gathering and mining data representative of purchase decisions. One disclosed comparative decision system detects when a user is comparing items and provides the user with the ability to create a research note storing comparative information for the alternative items. The system displays information about items according to a variety of factors. The user can customize the factors and enter information for each alternative item according to the various factors. Some information may be pre-populated by the system. The research note may be made visible to other users, and may be suggested to another user based on the note's expected helpfulness and relevance to that user. One disclosed method for mining data stored within research notes identifies which factors are given higher relative priorities by users considering a purchase. Another mining method analyzes the effects of price changes on item popularity.
US10134062B2
Systems and methods for a multi-state advertisement displayed at a fixed position on a primary display space of a display device, such as an electronic device with a display. The fixed position advertisement remains in its fixed position in view of the user as the user scrolls the web page in various directions. A plurality of events trigger a change in the state of the multi-state advertisement, with the change in state resulting in a change of the advertisement content, shape, size, style and appearance. An embodiment deploys an initial video in combination with a billboard. When the interstitial video ends, the fixed position advertisement is sized down to a less obtrusive size, with the billboard and the interstitial video replaced with a navigation bar.
US10134047B2
Universal synchronization of profiles of audience members targeted for the delivery of content. A unique global identifier may be assigned to and used to manage a profiled audience member. This identifier may also be associated to an authoritative identifier and cookie information used in connection with the collection of profile data. An authoritative identifier may be received in connection with activity, and might not be accompanied by a global identifier. The authoritative identifier may then be used to identify the global identifier, which in turn may be used to identify the cookie related information of record for the profiled audience member. Comparing the cookie related information to previously retained cookie information may be used to determine that the cookie information for a particular, profiled audience member has changed, so that it can be restored.
US10134046B2
Sharing of content by users via the network is facilitated. Sharing suggestions are made to a user, the sharing suggestions including making a suggestion of one or more users with whom the user might wish to share content. A user's influence on other users and the user can be prompted to share content with other users based on the identified influence.
US10134043B2
Systems and methods for wirelessly accessing a network are set forth in this disclosure. Specifically, this disclosure sets forth systems and methods for using advertising to regulate wireless access to a network.
US10134041B2
A user conducts activities, such as researching a product online or visiting a store that sells the product. A user then utilizes a risk analysis system to receive and store user activity data for the user's activities. When a purchase attempt is made with the user's financial account, a merchant sends a transaction request to the risk analysis system. The risk analysis system locates a record for the user and determines whether the product is identified in the user activity data. If the product is identified, the risk analysis system provides a risk score to the merchant indicating that the transaction is unlikely fraudulent. Alternatively, identification of the product provides a positive factor among multiple factors considered in a transaction risk analysis. An absence of the product in the activity can be used as a neutral or negative factor among multiple factors considered in a risk analysis of the transaction.
US10134036B1
A transaction is conducted between a merchant site and a customer's electronic device using a payment processor. The merchant site is associated with a client-side application and a server-side application. The client-side application executes on the customer's electronic device. The client-side application electronically sends payment information retrieved from the customer's electronic device to the payment processor. The client-side application does not send the payment information to the server-side application. The payment processor creates a token from the payment information sent by the client-side application. The token functions as a proxy for the payment information. The payment processor electronically sends the token to the client-side application. The client-side application electronically sends the token to the server-side application for use by the server-side application in conducting the transaction. The payment information can thus be used by the server-side application via the token without the server-side application being exposed to the payment information.
US10134022B1
A device may receive receipt information associated with items in an order. The receipt information may include item identifiers and price descriptors associated with the items in the order. The device may receive product information associated with the items in the order. The product information may include product identifiers based on images of the items in the order and object descriptors. The device may map a first item identifier for a first item in the order and a first product identifier for determining that the first item corresponds to a first price descriptor and a first object descriptor. The device may map a second item identifier for a second item in the order and a second product identifier for determining that the second item corresponds to a second price descriptor and a second object descriptor. The device may assign the first and second items to respective first and second sub-receipts.
US10134016B2
Systems and processes for real-time instant funding solutions for miscellaneous income are disclosed. The method of funding miscellaneous income includes securely transmitting a funding information file or a real time funding transaction request with miscellaneous funding information to a funding card processing system using real-time web services APIs which are externally accessible by an external computing system, e.g., point of sale, time and labor or payroll system. The method further includes processing the funding information file with the funding card processing system, which includes at least identifying client information and a user receiving miscellaneous income contained within the miscellaneous funding information. The method further includes funding a payroll card of the identified user with the miscellaneous income received with the miscellaneous funding information of the funding information file.
US10134013B2
A processor may determine that a particular computer-readable vehicle repair order (RO) (e.g., including first and second RO portions) corresponds to an existing cluster of ROs due to the particular RO including RO data that refers to a particular vehicle symptom. The processor may determine that the first RO portion includes first data representative of a non-specific vehicle component and may then responsively also determine that the second RO portion includes second data that the at least one processor can use to determine a specific vehicle component associated with the particular RO. Responsively, the processor may determine the specific vehicle component based on the first and second data and may then add the particular RO to a different cluster of ROs that is arranged to contain ROs that correspond to the particular vehicle symptom and to the specific vehicle component.
US10134012B1
A method of determining emissions from a one or more equipment operated by a user for a period. The method includes storing engine data for of the one or more equipment and receiving the utilization of each of the one or more equipment over the period. The emissions are then calculated for each of the one or more equipment based, at least in part, on each of the engines' utilization and engine data. The total of the calculated emissions is then determined.
US10134007B2
Techniques are described with regard to determining and controlling a location and status of assets directly and/or indirectly. The techniques may be used to track and control the respective locations and status of any number of objects. Applications include but are not limited to tracking dry and refrigerated trailers and their status in a supply-chain yard; tracking pallets and boxes and their status in a warehouse; tracking items in a retail environment; tracking finished goods and work in progress in and around a manufacturing plant; tracking vehicles in a parking lot; tracking cargo and equipment at an airport; tracking equipment in a lay down yard; etc. In all cases the laborious and error prone data gathering is replaced with automated data collection methods reducing cost, increasing accuracy, and increasing efficiency.
US10134004B1
Described is a multiple-camera system for use in capturing images of users within a materials handling facility and processing those images to monitor the movement of users. For large materials handling facilities, a large number of cameras may be required to monitor the facility. Processing of the data generated from a large number of cameras becomes difficult. The implementations described herein include a hierarchy that allows image data from any number of cameras within a materials handling facility to be processed without substantially increasing the processing time needed or sacrificing processing capabilities.
US10134003B1
An inventory, disposition, and order management system and method utilizes multiple data sources to obtain complementary and augmented product data to determine an enhanced set of product data that reflects product inventory and disposition history information in a supply chain. The system and method can utilize the complementary and augmented product data to formulate recommended orders to achieve product dealer sales goals. The system and method compare the product data obtained from the data sources and reconcile any discrepancies. In at least one embodiment, the product data includes product identification data, product inventory data, product configuration data, and product disposition history data. Obtaining data from multiple sources allows the system and method to develop more accurate and complete data through an audit and reconciliation process as opposed to data obtained from a single source.
US10134002B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing personalized delivery services by a carrier providing a package delivery service. For example, a consignee may indicate a delivery preference to be applied to delivery of a package, such as indicating a specific location where the package is to be left upon delivery, if the consignee is not present to accept the package. In one embodiment, the consignee may be notified by the carrier of the scheduled delivery of the package, and may be linked to the carrier's web site to indicate a delivery preference. Alternatively, the delivery preference may be indicated by the consignee proactively accessing the web site. After conveying a delivery preference, the carrier's systems communicate the delivery preference at the appropriate time to a portable computing device which informs the delivery personnel of the consignee's delivery preference. Other embodiments allow the consignor to indicate delivery preferences.
US10134000B2
Some embodiments of a system for communicating vehicle information can provide equipment for use inside a fleet vehicle to facilitate prompt and efficient transfer of vehicle and driver information. In particular embodiments, the system may include an electronic onboard recorder mountable in a vehicle and a mobile communication device that is configured to wireless communication with the electronic onboard recorder.
US10133998B2
A method for providing incentive to mentors of at-risk mentees is described. The method includes the steps of determining an at-risk mentee's prospects in the absence of mentoring, and then tracking behavior and progress in a period of time, determining the mentee's achievement of important milestones, avoidance of costs to society, and/or income and income tax payments during the same period of time, and calculating a financial incentive to the mentee's mentor, wherein the amount of the financial incentive is calculated based on the mentee's behavior, achievement of important milestones, avoidance of costs to society, and/or income tax payments during the period of time.
US10133997B2
Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for generating analytical graphs that display a visualization of multiple transaction objects processed concurrently in a computer system. An object lifecycle analysis tool identifies one or more transaction objects having a specified identifier. Each transaction object corresponds to an instance of a common transaction having been processed. The analysis tool retrieves transition state information corresponding to each transaction object and sorts the transition state information in chronological order. The analysis tool generates a graph based on the sorted transition state information. The generated graph allows a user to easily identify performance issues (e.g., concurrency bottlenecks) in a transaction management system.
US10133994B2
In a computer implemented method for management of materials on a construction site, a status of a project which uses at least one material is determined by a computer system. A report is generated by the computer system. The report identifies a vehicle, from a vehicle pool, to be utilized to move the material and defines a load of the material which is to be moved by the vehicle, according to a mass haul plan, from a first location to a second location. The vehicle is identified based on results of a simulation. The status of the project is automatically updated by the computer system based on an actual size and an actual drop-off location of the load of the material moved by the vehicle. The computer system updates the report based on the updating of the status of the project.
US10133993B2
Techniques for generating an expert database and verifying an expert using member data are described. A search request can be received from a device of the user. The search request can include a specific skill associated with the expert. Additionally, profile data can be accessed from a database in the online social network. Additionally, an expert recommendation process can determine an expert from the members of the online social network based on the search request and the profile data of the members. Moreover, social graph data can be accessed from a second database in the online social network. Furthermore, a connection path process can determine the connection path between the user and the expert based on the social graph data. Subsequently, the determined expert and the determined optimal path between the user and the expert can be presented on a display of the device.
US10133990B2
Examples described may enable rearrangement of pallets of items in a warehouse to an optimal layout. An example method includes receiving real-time item information including pallet locations in a warehouse and real-time inventory of items arranged on the pallets; determining a likelihood of demand for future access to the pallets based on a pallet relocation history and item receiving/shipment expectations; based on the real-time item information and the likelihood of demand, determining an optimal controlled-access dense grid layout in which distances of the pallets from a center of the layout are related to the likelihood of demand; receiving real-time robotics information and using the real-time robotics information to determine an amount of time to rearrange the pallets to the optimal layout; and, based on the amount of time to rearrange the pallets being less than a threshold, causing the robotic devices to rearrange the pallets to the optimal layout.
US10133977B2
A holder for a product package includes a substrate having an inside surface, with opposing end portions of the substrate being folded upwards. The holder also includes a securing member disposed on at least one of the end portions, the securing member configured to secure the product package within the end portions of the substrate. The holder also includes a RFID tag disposed on the substrate.
US10133976B2
A substrate for contactless transaction card, which is equipped with an integrated chip (IC) connected to at least one organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and an inductively powered tag.
US10133971B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image processor configured to perform first image processing on image data having a first resolution and to add tag data to a target pixel where second image processing is to be performed; a resolution converter configured to convert the image data into image data having a second resolution higher than the first resolution, and to perform the second image processing based on arrangement of the image data having the first resolution and the tag data; a pulse generator configured to generate an on-off modulation signal and an application-current switching signal in accordance with the image data having undergone the second image processing; and a light source driver configured to drive the light source in accordance with a current setting value output from an application current setter depending on the application-current switching signal and the on-off modulation signal.
US10133955B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for detecting objects in image data are provided. In embodiments, a computing device may generate a plurality of blocks from a captured image. Each block may represent a corresponding region of the captured image. The computing device may extract a first feature from at least one block of the plurality of blocks; determine a second feature based at least on the first feature; and determine a third feature based on the second feature. The computing device may determine, as a matching image, a stored image from among a plurality of stored images including an object that has greatest maximum correlation with the third feature. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10133953B2
A system and method for enabling graphic-based interoperability with a run-time application is configured to, during a design-time (DT) mode: receive a DT application image; identify DT visual objects within the DT application image; generate DT bounding shape objects in which each DT bounding shape object bounds one or more DT visual objects identified within the DT application image; define bounding shape properties for the DT bounding shape objects; and store as a scene, data relating to the DT application image, the DT visual objects, the DT bounding shape objects, and the bounding shape properties, for later recall; and during a run-time (RT) mode: recall the scene stored during the DT mode; capture a RT application image; identify RT visual objects within the RT application image based on the scene; generate RT bounding shape objects, and apply the bounding shape properties to the generated RT bounding shape objects.
US10133951B1
Image data may be downloaded or otherwise obtained. An application executing on the computing device (or at least in communication with the computing device) can analyze the image data to recognize objects represented in the image data as well as determine locations or regions of the image that include the representations. Candidate regions of interest (e.g., bounding boxes) that include at least one detected object can be generated. A single region—a representative region—can be determined from the candidate regions based on user and/or application-defined criterion. The criteria may help ensure that the representative region includes statistical properties that at least satisfy threshold property levels, such as being a consistent estimator of the candidate regions. Notions of “average” or “median” regions can be applied to generate the representative region. The representative region can be associated with a confidence score, which can reflect inconsistency in the candidate regions, and therefore can be associated with a property of the candidate regions and not of the representative region alone.
US10133942B2
A method for driver identification including recording a first image of a vehicle driver; extracting a set of values for a set of facial features of the vehicle driver from the first image; determining a filtering parameter; selecting a cluster of driver identifiers from a set of clusters, based on the filtering parameter; computing a probability that the set of values is associated with each driver identifier of the cluster; determining, at the vehicle sensor system, driving characterization data for the driving session; and in response to the computed probability exceeding a first threshold probability: determining that the new set of values corresponds to one driver identifier within the selected cluster, and associating the driving characterization data with the one driver identifier.
US10133936B2
Disclosed and described herein is a system and a method for thermal detection of static and moving objects.
US10133931B2
Techniques for collecting and presenting information using a wearable device involve receiving criteria information data that specifies one or more criteria for providing information to a user of a wearable device; receiving information indicative of a field of view of the user of the wearable device; detecting that an object in the field of view is associated with one or more attributes that satisfy the user-specified criteria; responsive to detection, executing a rule associated with one or more attributes that satisfy the user-specified criteria; and based on execution of the rule, causing an informational depiction to be presented via a display of the wearable device that visually eliminates or enhances the detected object in the field of view of the user.
US10133922B2
A camera system comprises an image capturing device and an object classification module connected to the image capturing device. The object classification module is operable to determine whether or not an object in an image is a member of an object class. The object classification module includes multiple decision steps configured in a cascade configuration, wherein at least one of the multiple decision steps is operable to (a) accept an object as a member of the object class, (b) reject an object as a member of the object class, and (c) call on a next step to determine whether or not an object is a member of the object class.
US10133921B2
A system, methods, and apparatus for generating pattern recognition classifiers are disclosed. An example method includes identifying graphical objects within an image of a card object, for each identified graphical object: i) creating a bounding region encompassing the graphical object such that a border of the bounding region is located at a predetermined distance from segments of the graphical object, ii) determining pixels within the bounding region that correspond to the graphical object, iii) determining an origin of the graphical object based on an origin rule, iv) determining a text coordinate relative to the origin for each determined pixel, and v) determining a statistical probability that features are present within the graphical object, each of the features including at least one pixel having text coordinates and for each graphical object type, combining the statistical probabilities for each of the features of the identified graphical objects into a classifier data structure.
US10133917B2
A data-to-be-recorded generating section generates a piece of data-to-be-recorded by associating an emotion level of a user estimated through an emotion level estimating section with a piece of lifelog data obtained through a lifelog data obtaining section. A log managing section manages whether the piece of data-to-be-recorded should be stored in a memory device based on a selectivity based on the emotion level.
US10133909B2
A composite substrate sensor device comprises: a first substrate sensing chip having an upper surface, a lower surface, side surfaces and sensing circuit cells; a second substrate surrounding the first substrate sensing chip; an insulating layer set comprising insulating layers and disposed on upper surfaces of the second substrate and the first substrate sensing chip on a virtual common plane; sensing electrode cells disposed on an upper surface of the insulating layer set on a physical common plane substantially parallel to the virtual common plane; and interconnect wires formed in the insulating layer set and electrically connecting the sensing electrode cells to the sensing circuit cells, respectively, so that the sensing circuit cells sense an electric field variation of an approaching object through the sensing electrode cells and the interconnect wires.
US10133906B2
The present invention provides an audio device and a display device. The audio device comprises a vibrating diaphragm, an ultrasonic emitting element and a processing unit. The vibrating diaphragm is used for converting an acoustical signal into an electrical signal or converting an electrical signal into an acoustical signal, receiving a reflected wave signal of an ultrasonic signal generated by the ultrasonic emitting element after reflected from the a surface of an object to be detected, converting the reflected wave signal into an electrical signal, and sending the electrical signals to the processing unit. The processing unit is used for processing the converted electrical signals to obtain surface feature information of the object to be detected.
US10133905B2
A capacitive fingerprint sensing unit and enhanced capacitive fingerprint reader using the capacitive fingerprint sensing units are disclosed. The enhanced capacitive fingerprint reader includes a number of capacitive fingerprint sensing units, forming a fingerprint sensing array; a conductive element; and an excitation signal driver, for providing excitation signals to the conductive element. By increasing the thicknesses of a first inter-metal dielectric layer and a second inter-metal dielectric layer in fingerprint sensing units in the enhanced capacitive fingerprint reader, sensitivity of the enhanced capacitive fingerprint reader can be improved.
US10133899B2
A baggage management system according to an embodiment includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores a baggage terminal identification corresponding to a baggage terminal which is provided with a baggage that is a subject of a baggage management event. The storage unit also stores a clock time of the baggage management event, the clock time being stored in association with the baggage terminal identification. The processor receives a search condition corresponding to the baggage terminal identification. The processor identifies the clock time stored in the storage unit in association with the baggage terminal identification that corresponds to the search condition. The processor identifies a video file of a video recording recorded at the identified clock time. A display unit displays the identified video file.
US10133895B2
A reader contains a housing with a window having a peripheral rim. The housing has a device for reading coded information which generates a field projecting through the window towards the outside of the housing, and has a device for visually indicating the result to a user. The visual indication device generates an indication appearing substantially at least on the window, on a portion of the peripheral rim of the window, or on a portion of the housing adjoining laterally the peripheral rim of the window. The housing portion is at least on the left side, right side, or below the window. Additionally, a camera based checkout security system includes at least a checkout security camera and a fixed position reader of coded information. The checkout security camera generates a camera field of view directed towards the window of the fixed position reader of coded information.
US10133893B2
Plasmonic-surface antenna systems are described in which resonators, or cells, are closely arranged but do not touch. At least a portion of a radiating surface includes a plurality of cells (operative as resonators) placed very close together to one so that a surface (plasmonic) wave causes near replication of the current of one cell in an adjacent cell. Cells with one or more fractal shapes may be used as a fractal plasmonic surface (FPS). Systems and/or methods are described of using plasmonic surfaces or fractal plasmonic surfaces for radiofrequency identification (RFID). A PS or FPS may act as an intermediary array of antennas, which can serve to connect an RFID reader with one or more RFID tags. Structures including cages are described that can include one or more surfaces that are each an FPS. Methods of power transfer are described.
US10133878B2
A stochastic privacy service provider may provide users with a guaranteed upper bound on a probability that personal data will be accessed while enabling the services to collect data that can be used to enhance its services. Users may receive incentives to become participants in a stochastic privacy program. The stochastic privacy provider may employ one or more probabilistic and decision-theoretic methods to determine which participants' personal data should be sought while guaranteeing that the probability of personal data being accessed is smaller than the mutually agreed upon probability of access. The probability of access may be on a per time basis. The stochastic privacy provider may access coalescenses of the personal data of sets of multiple people, where a maximum probability is given for accessing statistical summaries of personal data computed from groups of people that are of at least some guaranteed size.
US10133852B2
Disclosed is a method and system for prediction of an optimized crystal structure using an evolutionary algorithm that includes inputting characterization information of a chemical structure and input parameters, generating a first generation of crystal structures from the characterization information using symmetrical initialization, optimizing the chemical structure of the first generation of crystal structures according to the input parameters, inputting the optimized first generation of crystal structures into a niching algorithm, producing a child group of crystal structures from the parent group of crystal structures using a variation operator, and adding the child group of crystal structures to an optimal group of crystal structures to form a next generation, with the niching algorithm selecting an optimal group of crystal structures and a parent group of crystal structures from the first generation of crystal structures, with an antiseed created for population diversity and every structure produced by the evolutionary algorithm being stored together with a width and a height of the Gaussian parameter as the antiseed.
US10133851B2
Disclosed herein are a method for constructing an extended R-MO library with mutually exclusive molecular orbital distribution, calculation method of molecular orbital distributing region and a system using the same. The molecular orbital distributing region estimation method using a molecular orbital library with a mutually exclusive orbital distribution can accurately molecular orbital distributing regions in a quantitative manner by means of an extended R-MO library that expresses intrinsic molecular distributing region properties in various patterns. In addition, the coverage of the quantitative molecular orbital distribution estimation method can be extended to the systemic utilization of molecular orbital information in developing materials.
US10133846B2
A similar case retrieval apparatus includes: a lesion portion acquirer that acquires partial images including lesion portion images, an image feature extractor that extracts image features of each of the plurality of partial images; a location information acquirer that acquires location information of each of the partial images; a lateral position determiner that determines the right organ or the left organ in which each of the lesion portions exists based on the location information; a unilateral distribution identifier that determines whether or not a distribution of the lesion portions is a unilateral distribution; and a similar case retriever that retrieves case data from a case database including both case data for the unilateral distribution in the right organ and case data for the unilateral distribution in the left organ when the unilateral distribution identifier identifies that the distribution of the lesion portions is the unilateral distribution.
US10133843B2
Systems and methods for removing jump discontinuities in growth data are provided. A first approximation to a received data set is determined by applying a non-linear regression process to a non-linear function that models the data set to determine parameters, including a step discontinuity parameter. A second approximation to the data set is also determined by applying a regression process to a second non-linear function to determine parameters, including a step discontinuity parameter, of the second function. One of the approximations is selected based on an information coefficient determined for each of the approximations. If a confidence interval for the step discontinuity parameter includes zero, no correction is made, and if includes zero, then a correction is made. For a correction, the portion of the data curve prior to the step change is replaced with appropriate portion of the selected approximation to produce a shift-corrected data set.
US10133842B1
Disclosed are techniques for multi-mode, multi-corner physical optimization of electronic designs. These techniques identify an electronic design and a global set of views. Timing information is characterized with the global set of views for the electronic design. A set of active views is generated at least by pruning one or more views from the global set of views for a first node in the electronic design while maintaining the one or more views for a second node in the set of active views. The electronic design is then associated with the set of active views that is stored in a data structure in a non-transitory computer accessible storage medium.
US10133841B1
Disclosed are techniques for implementing three-dimensional or multi-layer integrated circuit designs. These techniques identify an electronic design and a plurality of inputs for implementing connectivity for the electronic design. Net distribution results may be generated at least by performing one or more net distribution analyzes. A bump in a bump array may then be assigned to a net that connects a first layer and a second layer in the electronic design based in part or in whole upon the net distribution analysis results.
US10133832B2
A technique enables simulation of a process performed on an underground formation. The technique comprises forming a cut-out portion in a rock sample and placing a jacket around the rock sample. A sealing collar is inserted into the cut-out portion, and the rock sample is capped between the sealing collar and the jacket. Simulation testing can then be performed on the rock sample through the sealing collar while applying pressure to the rock sample. The sealing collar may be affixed in the cut-out portion.
US10133830B2
A system and method is provided for scaling and constructing a multi-dimensional (e.g., 3D) building model using ground-level imagery. Ground-level imagery is used to identify architectural elements that have known architectural standard dimensional ratios. Dimensional ratios of architectural elements in the multi-dimensional building model (unscaled) are compared with known architectural standard dimensional ratios to scale and construct an accurate multi-dimensional building model.
US10133825B2
A portal is connected to a social backend. The portal comprises an integration component communicating with the social backend. Functionality of the social backend is integrated into the portal system by creating at least one portal object that is associated with at least one social object. The integration component comprises a portal listening component listening to events triggered by running applications of the portal, and creates an event list by filtering events associated with the social backend. A backend processing component keeps portal applications in synchronization with the social backend regarding changes on a portal side. A backend query component queries application programming interfaces of the social backend for current social objects and their states. A portal model processing component calculates actions based on passed in states of current social objects from the backend query component, and invokes corresponding application programming interface calls on the portal.
US10133823B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system displays initial search results based on a query and enables selection by a user of an item within the search results. The system determines refined search results based on behavior of the user with respect to the initial search results. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for presenting revised search results based on user behavior while examining the results in substantially the same manners described above.
US10133819B2
A video ingest, search and delivery solution is provided in which videos and their associated metadata are ingested based on ingest criteria. Moments in the metadata are identified by parsing comments in the metadata for comments that reference a time in the video. Moments are recorded with the referenced time and the text of the comment. Videos are rated and may be delivered to users based at least in part on the rating. Moments may be displayed together with the video by displaying the text of moments at the associated time in the video as the video is being delivered. The text of moment records may be searched based on search parameters received form a user to identify videos to deliver to the user.
US10133813B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed at predicting values for an electronic form. In embodiments, the method can include forming synonym groupings of form field labels for a number of users. The synonym groupings can be based on an analysis of the similarity of form field values that are associated with form field labels. In embodiments a predictive model may be generated from these synonym groupings. The predictive model can correlate the synonym groupings of one user with synonym groupings of one or more additional users to enable a determination of one or more predicted form field values for the one user based on a queried form field label even though the one user may have never submitted an electronic form with the queried form field label. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10133810B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating automatic program recommendations based on user interactions. In some embodiment, control circuitry processes verbal data received during an interaction between a user of a user device and a person with whom the user is interacting. The control circuitry analyzes the verbal data to automatically identify a media asset referred to during the interaction by at least one of the user and the person with whom the user is interacting. The control circuitry adds the identified media asset to a list of media assets associated with the user of the user device. The list of media assets is transmitted to a second user device of the user.
US10133809B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ranking search results. One of the methods includes identifying one or more sessions for a query and associating watch times of the respective resources watched in the sessions with the query. One or more watch time signals are calculated for a first resource and the query based on the watch times associated with the query. A first search result responsive to the query is obtained, wherein the first search result identifies the first resource and has an associated score S. A new score S′ is calculated based on a least S and a watch time function, the watch time function being a function of the one or more watch time signals. The new score S′ is provided to a process for ranking search results including the first search result.
US10133808B2
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, decomposing the input query into a plurality of different subqueries, and conducting a search in one or more data sources to identify at least one candidate answer to each of the subqueries. A ranking function is applied to each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for each of these candidate answers; and for each of the subqueries, one of the candidate answers to the subquery is selected based on this ranking. A logical synthesis component is applied to synthesize a candidate answer for the input query from the selected the candidate answers to the subqueries. In one embodiment, the procedure applied by the logical synthesis component to synthesize the candidate answer for the input query is determined from the input query.
US10133807B2
Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
US10133804B2
A content item block replication protocol for multi-premises hosting of digital content items. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises: receiving, from a server, a server journal entry identifying one or more content item blocks of a content item represented by the server journal entry; storing a replication log entry corresponding to the server journal entry in a replication log, the replication log entry identifying the one or more content item blocks of the content item represented by the server journal entry and identifying a block server; and either offering to send the one or more content item blocks identified in the replication log entry to the block server identified in the replication log entry, or downloading the one or more content item blocks identified in the replication log entry from the block server identified in the replication log entry.
US10133802B2
Various methods and apparatuses are described for performing high speed translations of data. In an example embodiment, record layout detection can be performed for data. In another example embodiment, data pivoting prior to field-specific data processing can be performed.
US10133793B2
An interactive tag cloud provides an intuitive interface to large data volumes. Where the data is a large table, an overview afforded by the tag cloud may contain relevant table information ranked by priority and volume, represented in different categories. The tag cloud may be used to filter that big data in an efficient manner. This allows an ordinary (i.e., non-developer) user of the database to quickly assess high level contours of the data volumes, and also to filter that data in order to focus on specific tasks. The interactive tag cloud visualization may indicate data priority according to frequency of incidence of a dimension in database records, or according to other criteria such as importance derived from date information. The tag cloud affords visibility to aggregated big data content and also of filtered data, prior to the user having to immediately drill down in order to access details thereof.
US10133786B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for recommending target object information, a system for recommending target object information, a client for recommending target object information, a server for recommending target object information, and a computer program product for recommending target object information. A method for recommending target object information is provided. The method includes receiving a target object informational recommendation request including information pertaining to a plurality of short-listed objects selected, determining historical selection information on the plurality of short-listed objects, the historical selection information including a historical count, a selection count, or both, and sending the part or all of the short-listed object historical selection information to a client.
US10133783B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing constraint driven database searching. At least one constraint is received for a search of one or more databases comprising one or more datasets, each comprising multiple entry fields. The one or more databases comprising the one or more datasets may be accessed and searched based on the constraint to identify one or more dataset entries that contain the at least one constraint in one of multiple entry fields. A visual representation of the identified dataset entries may be provided to the user as results of the constraint driven database search. Additional constraints may be accepted to further narrow the results of constraint driven database search. The results may be exported and made accessible for later retrieval and/or cached for use in subsequent searches.
US10133764B2
A method of managing a storage system having one or more storage devices includes receiving a request to access, in a tiered data structure, a data object and one or more attributes of the data object and processing the access request. The request includes a first key value for the data object and respective second key values for the one or more attributes of the data object. Modified key values for the attributes of the data object are generated in accordance with at least a portion of the first key value and used to access tree entries for the data object attributes in one or more leaf nodes of the tiered data structure. A tree entry for the data object is also accessed from the same set of one or more leaf nodes.
US10133759B1
Described are techniques for storing data objects heterogeneously, among multiple data stores, based on the values associated with one or more data object characteristics. A central device, entity, or network may receive data objects and determine a data store in which to store each data object. One or more rules that correspond to a received data object may be determined, a rule including expressions that associate characteristics of data objects to threshold values. The rules may specify particular data stores in which to store data objects based on the outcome of the expressions. The central device may generate a communication configured to access the determined data store(s) based on data store characteristics specific to the data store(s) and provide the data objects to the determined data stores. Data objects may be moved to other data stores responsive to a modification to a rule or to characteristics of a data object.
US10133755B2
Various of the disclosed embodiments concern systems and methods for applying legal analytics. In some embodiments, a legal analytics platform retrieves legal data from an electronic database, analyzes some or all of the legal data, and identifies interesting patterns and results of statistical analyzes. In order to permit searching of the legal data, metadata elements or tags can be generated for legal entities and legal events. In some embodiments, the legal analytics platform identifies timestamps in the legal data and performs time-based statistical analysis. Results of the statistical analyzes can be presented to a user via a graphical user interface (GUI), which may also allow the user to interact with the legal analytics platform and search one or more databases of legal data.
US10133754B2
The disclosure is directed to content sharing. An aspect defines a filter having at least one parameter for receiving content and detects a content device. The content device is a peer device with sharable content. The aspect further queries the content device for desired content from the sharable content and receives the desired content from the content device. The desired content matches the at least one parameter.
US10133745B2
Disclosed embodiments include a method (system and non-transitory computer storage readable medium) for load-balancing a distributed database. The distributed database includes one or more storage machines configured to store a plurality of partitions, where each partition includes key-value pairs. In one embodiment, the distributed database prepares for load-balancing by determining a partition to redistribute (or repartition) and generating smaller partitions of the determined partition. In one aspect, each of the smaller partitions is smaller than the determined partition. The redistribution of the partition can occur, when an amount of requests to access one or more key-value pairs stored in the database increases beyond a predetermined request level or when the size of a partition exceeds a predetermined size. Key-value pairs of the determined partition can be split into different sets of key-value pairs, and each set of key-value pair is copied to a corresponding smaller partition.
US10133736B2
Embodiments relate to an artificially intelligence platform to resolve an analogy. representation. The aspect of providing a resolution to the analogy includes receiving a communication that includes an analogy. An analogical phrase within the communication is identified and an anaphora within the phrase is detected. The entity to the anaphora is denoted and utilized to resolve an explanation of the analogy. A template or structure is created and populated with both an action term and the entity identifying the anaphora. A contextual response that correlates to a sentiment reflected in the analogy phrase is retrieved and is utilized as an explanation of the analogy. A response is communicated as output, with the response including the populated structure and the explanation.
US10133735B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for training a model to accurately determine whether two phrases are conversationally connected. A media guidance application may detect a first phrase and a second phrase, translate each phrase to a string of word types, append each string to the back of a prior string to create a combined string, determine a degree to which any of the individual strings matches any singleton template, and determine a degree to which the combined string matches any conversational template. Based on the degrees to which the individual and combination strings match the singleton and conversational templates, respectively, strengths of association are correspondingly updated.
US10133734B2
Computer-implemented methods can transform a corpus of meaningful text sequences into a generalized computer-usable repository of neurolinguistic information that can be applied by one or more computer systems. The computer system(s) can use the neurolinguistic information to neurolinguistically analyze meaningful text sequences to derive statistical information and identify dominant cognitive motivation orientations expressed in those text sequences. The identified dominant cognitive motivation orientations can be used to improve the efficacy of both human-generated and machine-generated communications. The computer system(s) thereby transform a meaningful text sequence into actionable information about the dominant cognitive motivation orientation(s) of the author of that text sequence within the context in which the text sequence was composed. Computer systems and computer-program products for implementing the methods are also described.
US10133733B2
The autonomous avatar driver is useful in association with language sources. A sourcer may receive dialog from the language source. It may also, in some embodiments, receive external data from data sources. A segmentor may convert characters, represent particles and split dialog. A parser may then apply a link grammar, analyze grammatical mood, tag the dialog and prune dialog variants. A semantic engine may lookup token frames, generate semantic lexicons and semantic networks, and resolve ambiguous co-references. An analytics engine may filter common words from dialog, analyze N-grams, count lemmatized words, and analyze nodes. A pragmatics analyzer may resolve slang, generate knowledge templates, group proper nouns and estimate affect of dialog. A recommender may generate tag clouds, cluster the language sources into neighborhoods, recommend social networking to individuals and businesses, and generate contextual advertising. Lastly, a response generator may generate responses for the autonomous avatar using the analyzed dialog. The response generator may also incorporate the generated recommendations.
US10133728B2
The system that performs semantic parsing may automatically extract complex information from databases. Complex information may comprise nested event structures. In one example process, a processor may receive unannotated text and may access a natural-language database that includes nested events. The processor, in performing semantic parsing, may automatically generate syntactic trees that include annotations that represent the semantic information. In particular, the natural-language sentences and the database include nested event structures.
US10133724B2
A grammatically diverse test set of natural language sentences for a deep question answering system is provided by analyzing a given sentence to characterize its syntactical classification, and adding the sentence to the test set if its classification is sufficiently different from other sentences already in the test set. A particular sentence may be selected for inclusion according to a desired syntactic distribution. Multiple sentences having the exact same classification may be allowed subject to a maximum number of such sentences. The test set is adapted to an element of interest by characterizing each syntactical classification relative to the element of interest. The analysis derives a parse tree, identifies a particular node of the tree corresponding to the element of interest, and extracts syntactic information by traversing the tree starting at the particular node and ending at the root node of the tree according to different traversal schemes.
US10133723B2
This invention discloses a novel system and method for determining the geneology of versions of a document by inspection of content extracted from the document. In one embodiment that is compatible with Microsoft™ Word ™, the invention extracts the RSID values from each version of a document and then applies logical rules to the extracted set of RSID values to determine which versions are ancestors of the other versions.
US10133717B2
A mobile communication device and a method for managing images, associated geographic location data, and associated supplemental information, in which geographic location data is generated based on a current location of the mobile communication device; a map corresponding to the generated geographic location data is displayed; a plurality of images and associated supplemental information corresponding to each image in a list mode are displayed in a first user interface, wherein the displayed associated supplemental information comprises description information and a street address; a selection of the plurality images, the associated description information, and the associated street address is received; the selected associated location information is displayed in a second user interface, wherein the second user interface comprises an editing mode; and the supplemental information is edited in the edit mode by receiving note information and the note information is associated with the selected associated description information.
US10133715B2
A semantic based document editor is provided. An application such as a document processing application displays previews of a document. The previews include semantic styles. In response to a selection of one of the previews, a semantic style associated with the selected preview is applied to a section of the document. The semantic style is rendered in the selected preview. A suggestion is displayed on the section. The suggestion identifies the section. The suggestion is also formatted based on the semantic style.
US10133708B2
A method and system for processing electronic documents. A temporary computer object is created. An address of a first electronic document is obtained. A first tag, a second tag, and the address of the first electronic document are copied into a header of the created temporary computer object. Selected text from the first electronic document is obtained. The first and second tag respectively mark the beginning and the end of the header. The address of the first electronic document is disposed between the first and second tags. The selected text and a third tag are copied into the created temporary computer object. The third tag marks the end of the created temporary computer object. The selected text is disposed between the header of the created temporary computer object and the third tag. The created temporary computer object is stored in a second electronic document.
US10133706B2
In an electronic book system 1 distributing electronic books to browsing devices 30A, 30B, and 30C via a communication network 50, the acquirer of a distribution server 20 acquires the context of operation by a first user who is provided with first candidate pages contained in an electronic book in a previewable manner. The designator of the distribution server 20 designates second candidate pages based on the context of operation acquired by the acquirer and the first candidate pages. The provider provides the second candidate pages designated by the designator to a second user in a previewable manner.
US10133704B2
Content items are obtained and dynamically arranged in tiles within columns (e.g. columns of a same size) on a display. The obtained items, along with previously obtained items that have not been rendered, are sorted based on a time such as a creation time and a modified time for the item. A determination is made using the sorting as to whether any of the items are ready to render. The determination of whether an item is ready to render may be made before all of the content items are obtained. A layout within the tile(s) for the column for the ready to render items is determined. For example, the items may be placed in tiles based on their content (e.g. text content placed in smaller sized tiles as compared to rich content). The items ready to render are then sent for rendering.
US10133695B2
A High Speed Link System providing network and data transfer capabilities, implemented via standard input/output (I/O) device controllers, protocols, cables and components, to connect one or more Host computing systems, comprising a System, Apparatus and Method is claimed; and described in one or more embodiments. An illustrative embodiment of the invention connects two or more Host systems via USB 3.0 ports and cables, establishing Network, Control, Data Exchange, and Power management required to route and transfer data at high speeds, as well as resource sharing. A Link System established using USB 3.0 operates at the full 4.8 Gbps, eliminating losses inherent when translating to, or encapsulating within, a network protocol, such as the Internet Protocol. Method claimed herein describes how two or more connected Host systems, detect one another, and establish separate communication and data exchange bridges, wherein control sequences from the Hosts' application direct the operation of the Apparatus.
US10133689B2
This technology provides a method for fabricating an electronic device. A method for fabricating an electronic device including a variable resistance element, which includes a free layer having a variable magnetization direction; a pinned layer having a first non-variable magnetization direction, and including first ferromagnetic materials and a first spacer layer interposed between adjacent two first ferromagnetic materials among the first ferromagnetic materials; a tunnel barrier layer interposed between the free layer and the pinned layer; a magnetic correction layer having a second magnetization direction which is anti-parallel to the first magnetization direction; and a third spacer layer interposed between the magnetic correction layer and the pinned layer, and providing an anti-ferromagnetic exchange coupling between the magnetic correction layer and the pinned layer.
US10133681B2
Systems and methods for using encryption keys to manage data retention are described. In one embodiment, the systems and methods may include receiving data such as user data from a host of the storage drive, encrypting the data using an encryption key, writing the encrypted data to the storage drive, and retaining the encrypted data on the storage drive based at least in part on a validity of the encryption key.
US10133670B2
In an example, a system-on-a-chip comprises a plurality of multi-core processors, such as four dual-core processors for eight total cores. Each of the processors connects to shared resources such as memory and peripherals via a shared uncore fabric. Because each input bus for each core can include hundreds of data lines, the number of lines into the shared uncore fabric can become prohibitive. Thus, inputs from each core are multiplexed, such as in a two-to-one configuration. The multiplexing may be a non-blocking, queued (such as FIFO) multiplexing to ensure that all packets from all cores are delivered to the uncore fabric. In certain embodiment, some smaller input lines may be provided to the uncore fabric non-multiplexed, and returns (outputs) from the uncore fabric to the cores may also be non-multiplexed.
US10133667B2
Techniques related to efficient data storage and retrieval using a heterogeneous main memory are disclosed. A database includes a set of persistent format (PF) data that is stored on persistent storage in a persistent format. The database is maintained on the persistent storage and is accessible to a database server. The database server converts the set of PF data to sets of mirror format (MF) data and stores the MF data in a hierarchy of random-access memories (RAMs). Each RAM in the hierarchy has an associated latency that is different from a latency associated with any other RAM in the hierarchy. Storing the sets of MF data in the hierarchy of RAMs includes (1) selecting, based on one or more criteria, a respective RAM in the hierarchy to store each set of MF data and (2) storing said each set of MF data in the respective RAM.
US10133663B2
Data is stored on a non-volatile storage media in a sequential, log-based format. The formatted data defines an ordered sequence of storage operations performed on the non-volatile storage media. A storage layer maintains volatile metadata, which may include a forward index associating logical identifiers with respective physical storage units on the non-volatile storage media. The volatile metadata may be reconstructed from the ordered sequence of storage operations. Persistent notes may be used to maintain consistency between the volatile metadata and the contents of the non-volatile storage media. Persistent notes may identify data that does not need to be retained on the non-volatile storage media and/or is no longer valid.
US10133662B2
A storage controller is configured to implement an atomic storage operation comprising a plurality of separate storage operations on a non-volatile storage medium. The storage controller may store persistent indicators to identify data that pertains to the atomic storage operation. An invalid shutdown may occur before the atomic storage operation is complete. A restart and recovery operation comprises a first scan of the non-volatile storage medium to identify data of the failed atomic storage operation. A physical trim note is stored on the non-volatile storage medium to identify the data of the failed atomic storage operation. The data may be identified by media address. Storage metadata is reconstructed in a second scan, which excludes the data and/or operations of the failed atomic storage operation.
US10133658B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reclaiming storage space in a storage environment. In one aspect, the method includes actions of aggregating data that is indicative of access to one or more data objects, determining a future storage cost associated with each of a plurality of data objects, determining an access window for each of the plurality of data objects, identifying a data object based on (i) the future storage cost that satisfies a predetermined threshold and (ii) a data object access window, providing a notification to a user device that requests feedback from a user indicating whether the data object can be deleted, and in response to receiving data that indicates that the data object can be deleted, generating an instruction to cause deletion of the data object upon the expiration of the access window.
US10133657B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method may include identifying a fault at a fault location in a software program using a test suite. The method may also include determining multiple textual similarity scores by determining a textual similarity score with respect to each of multiple repair candidates for the fault. In addition, the method may include sorting the repair candidates based on the textual similarity scores. The method may also include selecting a particular repair candidate from the repair candidates based on the sorting. Moreover, the method may include implementing the particular repair candidate at the fault location based on the selection of the particular repair candidate.
US10133654B1
A method for firmware debug trace capture includes creating a hand-off block (“HOB”), capturing first debug trace statements during a boot sequence of a computer and writing the first debug trace statements to the HOB. A trace memory buffer can be created and the first debug trace statements can be copied from the HOB to the trace memory buffer. Second debug trace statements are captured during the boot sequence and appended to the trace memory buffer. In some configurations, the first debug trace statements can be written to the HOB during the pre-Extensible Firmware Interface initialization (“PEI”) phase of the boot sequence and the second debug trace statements can be written to the trace memory buffer during the driver execution (“DXE”) phase of the boot sequence.
US10133650B1
A method for automated application programming interface (API) validation includes extracting API information from an API repository. The API information is used to generate a test case for the automated API validation. The API information may include a parameter placeholder, parameter information related to a parameter of an API endpoint, an API endpoint of the API, an endpoint description, a description of the API, a description of the parameter, response information, an authentication requirement information, and an API name. The method includes resolving the parameter of the API endpoint. The method includes communicating to a native API system a request using the sample parameter value for the parameter. The method includes comparing a response from the native API system with the response information to validate the API. The method includes verifying integrity of a software application implementing the API endpoint for use with a native software application.
US10133644B2
A method and system permit a backup entity of a redundant apparatus of a communication system that shares control of hardware resources or other network resources with an active entity to indirectly determine a status of the active entity based upon behavior and reaction to actions it takes in connection with resources it shares control of with the active entity. Such a method and system permit the backup entity to deduce the state of the active entity without having any a hardware connection or other communication connection with the active entity.
US10133643B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for performing a failover between a first storage system and a second storage system. Data is synchronized between the first storage system and the second storage system. A failover is performed from the first storage system to the second storage system in response to a failover event at the first storage system while synchronizing the data. A determination is made that a first storage unit of the first storage system is inoperable and that that a second storage unit of the first storage system is operable in response to the failover event. In response to determining that the second storage unit is operable, a resynchronization is initiated to copy updates to a second storage unit of the second storage system mirroring the second storage unit of the first storage system to the second storage unit of the first storage system.
US10133632B2
A method for determining completion of a data migration that results from a distributed agreement protocol (DAP) change within a distributed storage network (DSN). The method begins by transferring, in accordance with the DAP change, encoded data slices to one or more other storage units within the DSN. The method continues by maintaining a storage unit migration tracking repository that tracks migration of the encoded data slices. The method continues by maintaining a storage pool migration tracking repository based on the storage unit migration tracking repositories of the plurality of storage units. The method continues by maintaining a DSN migration tracking repository based on the storage pool migration tracking repositories of the plurality of storage pools. The method continues by indicating completion of the data migration as a result of the DAP change based on information within the DSN tracking repository.
US10133631B2
A method includes identifying an encoded slice for rebuilding. The method further includes determining whether the set of encoded slices is stored in an encrypted section of a vault or within an unencrypted section of the vault. The method further includes, when the set of encoded slices is stored in the unencrypted section of the vault, determining whether the set of storage units have viewing rights. The method further includes, when the set of storage units does not have the viewing rights, enabling a restricted rebuilding process to rebuild the encoded slice. The method further includes, when the set or storage units does have the viewing rights, enable an unrestricted rebuilding process to rebuild the encoded slice.
US10133629B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for implementing redundancy in memory controllers. The disclosed systems and methods utilize a row of memory blocks, such that each memory block in the row is associated with an independent media unit. Failures of the media units are not correlated, and therefore, a failure in one unit does not affect the data stored in the other units. Parity information associated with the data stored in the memory blocks is stored in a separate memory block. If the data in a single memory block has been corrupted, the data stored in the remaining memory blocks and the parity information is used to retrieve the corrupted data.
US10133620B2
A processor includes physical storage locations, and a register rename unit that includes a plurality of register rename storage structures. At a given time, each of a complete group of physical storage location identifiers is to be stored in one, but only one, of the plurality of register rename storage structures, unless there is an error. Each of the complete group of physical storage location identifiers is to identify a different one of the physical storage locations. The register rename unit is to detect an error when a first value, which is to be equal to an operation on the complete group of the physical storage location identifiers with no errors, is inconsistent with a second value. The second value is to represent the operation on all physical storage location identifiers that are to be stored in the plurality of register rename storage structures at the given time.
US10133615B2
Serving resources. A method includes receiving from a client, a request for one or more operations to be performed. The method further includes attempting to perform the one or more operations. The method further includes determining that the one or more operations are not complete at a present time. As a result, the method further includes sending a message to the client indicating that the client should attempt to obtain status information for the one or more operations at a predetermined later time. The method further includes receiving a request from the client for status information about the one or more operations. The method further includes repeating sending a message to the client and receiving a request from the client for status information.
US10133610B2
A temperature-aware task scheduling method, system, and computer program product, includes the GPU, receiving a request to execute the task, collecting task information including an intensiveness factor of a computation by an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and a memory usage of a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) for the task, obtaining a temperature of the ALU and a temperature of the DRAM, and accepting the task to the GPU based on the intensiveness factor, the ALU temperature, and the DRAM temperature.
US10133608B2
A cloud services brokerage platform system includes a virtual data center (VDC) and an architecture management interface. The virtual data center (VDC) includes a plurality of resource groups. Each one of the resource groups includes one or more VDC resources. Each one of the VDC resources is associated with a respective set of resource group specification parameters. The architecture management interface enables an architectural layout of the one or more VDC resources to be displayed. The architectural layout includes a visual depiction of the one or more VDC resources of each one of the resource groups. An arrangement of the visual depiction is dependent upon the respective set of resource group specification parameters.
US10133607B2
A method for migrating network entities to a cloud computing infrastructure includes receiving an indication of at least one node of a plurality of nodes to migrate from an enterprise network to a cloud computing infrastructure, identifying one or more related nodes of the plurality of nodes that have direct and indirect communication relationships with the indicated node, and adding the indicated node and at least one node of the related nodes for the indicated node to a migration group. The method includes preparing a migration-configuration file for each node of the migration group, the migration-configuration file comprising service level agreement (SLA) information, deploying a migration agent to each node of the migration group, and migrating the migration group to the cloud computing infrastructure, wherein each node of the migration group is migrated using a corresponding migration-configuration file to generate an SLA for each node of the migration group with a provider of the cloud computing infrastructure in view of SLA information from the corresponding migration configuration file.
US10133605B2
The estimation of a computing capacity of a machine. The computing capacity is estimated by iteratively adding and removing calibrated computer processes on the machine, and performing a sum of computing loads of processes that execute on the machine. In order to characterize the ability of a machine to run in parallel a number of processes having a defined computing load, the processes are associated to a condition of success.
US10133595B2
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for producing a task reminder on a device. One method includes detecting, by use of a processor, a task to be completed via a user account in an environment that does not enable the task to be completed. The method also includes tagging the task as an incomplete task. The method includes directing information to be stored. The information associates the incomplete task with the user account, and the information is used to produce a reminder to complete the incomplete task.
US10133594B1
Techniques and mechanisms provide a flexible mapping for physical functions and virtual functions in an environment including virtual machines.
US10133584B2
The present disclosure describes several embodiments, e.g., a method, a baseboard management controller (BMC) system, a computer-readable non-transitory medium, for managing boot images for a computer system. These embodiments may include obtaining, by a BMC of the BMC system, a first boot image for the processor-based system, storing, by the BMC of the BMC system, the first boot image at a first location in a memory element of BMC system, and informing, by the BMC of the BMC system to a bus-to-memory bridge, first location information indicating a first location at which the first boot image is stored. The present disclosure also describes the bus-to-memory bridge which interfaces between a bus of the processor-based system and the memory element of the BMC system to allow one or more processors of the processor-based system to access the memory element of the BMC system to obtain boot image(s).
US10133579B2
An apparatus including first and second reservation stations. The first reservation station dispatches a load micro instruction, and indicates on a hold bus if the load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory. The second reservation station is coupled to the hold bus, and dispatches one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on the load micro instruction for execution after a number of clock cycles following dispatch of the first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on the hold bus that the load micro instruction is the specified load micro instruction, the second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of the one or more younger micro instructions until the load micro instruction has retrieved the operand. The resources include system memory, coupled an out-of-order processor via a memory bus.
US10133573B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing a multivalue reduction using a parallel processing device. One of the methods includes performing a parallel M-value reduction by parallel processing units of a parallel processing device. A plurality of initial reductions are performed in serial, each initial reduction operating on data in a different respective register space of at least M register spaces. Data is moved from the M register spaces so that all results from the plurality of initial reductions are in a same first register space. One or more subsequent reductions are performed in parallel to compute M final values, each subsequent reduction operating only on data in the first register space.
US10133570B2
A processor includes packed data registers, and a decode unit to decode a data element selection and consolidation instruction. The instruction is to have a first source packed data operand that is to have a plurality of data elements, and a second source operand that is to have a plurality of mask elements. Each mask element corresponds to a different data element in the same relative position. An execution unit is coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to store a result packed data operand in a destination storage location that is to be indicated by the instruction. The result packed data operand is to include all data elements of the first source packed data operand, which correspond to unmasked mask elements of the second source operand, consolidated together in a portion of the result packed data operand.
US10133560B2
A method for optimizing source code comprises optimizing the source code of files from a computer program at link-time, and receiving, at a linker, a customized linker script defining output sections for files of an executable version of the files of the computer program. The method comprises adding, to intermediate representation files having global or local symbols, metadata comprising default section assignment information for the symbols and recording, for symbols in machine code files, an origin path and an output section. The method further comprises parsing, by the compiler, the intermediate representation files, recording the symbols and related symbol information comprising default section assignment and dependency information of the intermediate representation files, assigning output sections to the symbols based on the default section assignments and instructions from the customized linker script, and linking optimized code of the files of the computer program based on the assigned output sections.
US10133557B1
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for analyzing and/or transforming code (typically, source code) to reduce or avoid redundant or unnecessary power usage (e.g., power cycling, resource leak bugs, and/or unnecessarily repeated activity) in the device that will ultimately execute the application defined by the source code. The disclosed methods can be implemented by a software tool (e.g., a static program analysis tool or EDA analysis tool) that analyzes and/or transforms source code for a software application to help improve the performance of the software application on the target device. The disclosed methods, apparatus, and systems should not be construed as limiting in any way.
US10133556B1
A virtual technical building block software development tool and a software development interface that speed accurate and quality software design are provided. The tools develop enterprise software architecture designs, and utilize a library of symbols and a virtual template. The library of symbols includes service oriented architecture symbols and enterprise application integration symbols. The template includes multiple sections to be displayed on a computing device screen. Each section includes a blank space bounded by a frame, and all of the sections are vertically aligned with one another to guide design flow. The sections of the template include, from top to bottom vertically, (1) a technical capabilities section; (2) an interaction sequence section; (3) a service topology section; (4) an integration flow section; and (5) a logging section. The technical building block software development tool streamlines software development and significantly reduces implementation and design time, and ensures reproducible quality of design.
US10133549B1
Example systems and related methods may relate to a synchronous first-in-first-out (FIFO) data buffer. The synchronous FIFO data buffer may include a counter. The counter may (i) receive a plurality of signals and (ii) output a count of total entries in the FIFO. The FIFO may further include a status generator that may (i) receive the plurality of signals and the count of total entries, and (ii) outputs a status signal. The FIFO may further include a selection generator that may (i) receive the count of total entries, the write signal, and the read signal, and (ii) output a data enable signal and a multiplexor selection signal. The FIFO may further include a scalable N×M flip-flop memory structure. N may be a number of entries in the memory structure and M may be a number of bits using flip-flops.
US10133547B2
A method and device for obtaining a sound, wherein an information representative of a speed of a first object moving on a first surface is obtained. The obtained speed information is used with one or more reference sounds to obtain the sound. The one or more reference sounds are associated with a determined speed of displacement of a second object moving on a second surface, the first surface being different from the second surface.
US10133543B2
A method is performed at an electronic device. While media is playing, the device detects a contact at a touch-sensitive surface location associated with a first media playback control. If the device is operating in a first media playback mode, the device performs a media playback operation associated with the first media playback control when a characteristic intensity of the contact remains below a first intensity threshold. If the device is operating in a second media playback mode, and a characteristic intensity of the contact exceeds the first intensity threshold, the device performs the media playback operation associated with the first media playback control. If the device is operating in the second media playback mode and the characteristic intensity of the contact remains below the first intensity threshold, the device continues playing the media on the device without performing the media playback operation associated with the first media playback control.
US10133539B2
Sensor data generated by one or more sensors associated with a digital content playback device can be used to identify that a modification to a current audio content item being supplied to a user by the digital content playback device is indicated. The current audio content item can be modified accordingly. Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and the like are also described.
US10133538B2
An audio file analyzer computing system includes technologies to, among other things, localize audio events of interest (such as speakers of interest) within an audio file that includes multiple different classes (e.g., different speakers) of audio. The illustrative audio file analyzer computing system uses a seed segment to perform a semi-supervised diarization of the audio file. The seed segment is pre-selected, such as by a human person using an interactive graphical user interface.
US10133537B2
An apparatus including a home automation system, a memory device of the home automation system containing a plurality of musical performances, a processor that recognizes a command from a user to play one of a plurality of musical performances and a processor that receives a verbal input at least partially mimicking a portion of one or more of the plurality of musical performances from the user, matches the verbal input with one or more of the plurality of musical performances and plays a matching musical performance.
US10133524B2
An electronic apparatus includes circuitry and a wireless communication device. The circuitry controls the electronic apparatus to transition between a first power mode in which the electronic apparatus performs predetermined functions, and a second power mode in which the electronic apparatus consumes power less than that of the first power mode. The wireless communication device outputs a notification signal via a short-range wireless communication when the electronic apparatus is in the second power mode, and outputs a return request signal in response to a connection request signal transmitted from an external device that has received the notification signal to establish a short-range wireless communication connection with the external device. The circuitry causes the electronic apparatus to transition from the second power mode to the first power mode when the wireless communication device outputs the return request signal.
US10133523B2
A controller in a control device is configured to perform: acquiring a first value from a printer, the first value being related to a residual quantity of printing material remaining in a first cartridge at a first calendar date; acquiring a second value from the printer, the second value being related to a residual quantity of printing material remaining in a second cartridge at a second calendar date, the second cartridge being attached to the printer later than detachment of the first cartridge; estimating a third calendar date using the first value, the second value, the first calendar date, and the second calendar date, the third calendar date being a calendar date when a third value related to the residual quantity of printing material remaining in the second cartridge is assumed to be smaller than a prescribed quantity; and executing an output process according to the third calendar date.
US10133516B2
One or more computing devices may comprise congestion management circuitry, one or more client file system request buffers, and DESS interface circuitry. The one or more client file system request buffers is/are operable to queue first client file system requests of a first priority level and second client file system requests of a second priority level, where the first priority level is higher priority than the second priority level. The DESS interface circuitry is operable to determine a choking level according to the load on a plurality of DESS resources. Individual load values of the DESS resources are mapped to a composite load value using a first function. The composite load value is mapped to a congestion contribution using a second function. And, the congestion contribution is mapped to a choking level using a third function.
US10133514B2
Writing data to storage utilizing a diverged thread for asynchronous write operations is provided. On a first thread, an analysis engine analyzes and identifies changed information to write to storage and an I/O manager copies the writes into buffers and places the buffers into a queue, while on a second thread, a flushless transactional layer (FTL) drive executes the writes to storage. By allowing the analysis to continue and enqueue writes on a first thread while the writes are written to storage on a second thread, the CPU and I/O of the system are utilized in parallel. Accordingly, efficiency of the computing device is improved.
US10133503B1
Data blocks may be received and a hash value for a first data block of the data blocks may be determined. A location of a duplicate of the first data block being stored at a storage resource based on the hash value for the first data block may be determined. A first performance metric associated with retrieving a second stored data block that is proximate to the duplicate of the first data block stored at the storage resource may be determined and a second performance metric associated with retrieving a second hash value corresponding to the second stored data block may be determined. The second stored data block proximate to the duplicate of the first data block may be retrieved in response to the first performance metric not exceeding the second performance metric.
US10133492B2
An electronic system includes: a storage device, configured to receive an interface command including: an interface control unit including a command processor configured to analyze a logical block address (LBA) command and a key-value command, one or more logical processors, coupled to the interface control unit, configured to execute the LBA command, the key-value command, or a combination thereof, and a non-volatile storage, coupled to a logical processor, configured to execute the LBA command and the key-value command independently or concurrently; wherein: the logical processor is configured to compile a detailed status after completing the LBA command or the key-value command; and the interface control unit, connected to a device coupling structure, is configured to respond to the interface command by sending the detailed status to a device driver.
US10133487B2
A mechanism is provided for providing information about fragmentation of a file on a sequential access medium by a computer system is disclosed. An actual time for reading the file recorded on the sequential access medium is estimated based on a physical position of the file. A total length of the file on the sequential access medium is calculated based on a physical length of each data piece constituting the file. An expected time for reading the file by assuming that the file is rewritten continuously is estimated based on the total length of the file. Information about the fragmentation of the file is then provided based on the actual time and the expected time.
US10133484B2
A hierarchal storage management method is provided. The method includes detecting a first portion of a first file being deleted from a hybrid storage device including a hard disk drive (HDD) memory device, a solid state drive (SSD) memory device, and an archival storage memory device. A first set of memory blocks associated with the first portion of the first file is identified. The first set of memory blocks are determined to reside on the SSD memory device. In response, the first set of memory blocks are transferred from the SSD memory device to a first portion of the hybrid storage device.
US10133476B2
A method for controlling a screen of a user terminal includes the follows. A touch operation on a screen is detected in a black screen state. When a preset condition is met, the screen is controlled to switch from the black screen state to a bright screen state in which the screen brightness is the target brightness value. A user terminal is also provided.
US10133475B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for navigating or browsing through images, such as contact images, on electronic devices, such as portable electronic device having a touch screen display. In one embodiment, users of electronic devices are able to browse through contact images to locate a particular contact within a plurality of contacts available (e.g., stored) on the electronic devices.
US10133472B2
System, method, and computer program product to generate a clip of a media file on a device having a touch input component, the media file comprising a plurality of segments, by outputting for display a first segment of the media file, responsive to receiving: (i) input indicating to generate the clip of the media file using the first segment, and (ii) a first swipe gesture on the touch input component: identifying a subset of segments, of the plurality, based on a direction of the first swipe gesture, the first subset of segments including a destination segment, and outputting for display each of the subset of segments, and responsive to receiving input selecting the destination segment as part of the clip of the media file, generating the clip of the media file, the media clip including each segment of the media file between the first and the destination segment.
US10133469B2
A method for controlling the display device includes the steps of outputting a first application graphical user interface (GUI), selecting a first image displayed on a first section of the first application GUI, moving the selected first image to a photo printer folder displayed on a second section of the first application GUI, mapping a specific time, at which the first image is moved to the photo printer folder, to the first image, and storing the mapped result to a storage module, outputting a second application GUI connected to the photo printer folder, displaying the first image on a first section within the second application GUI, displaying at least one image in accordance with an order based upon a storage time order on a second section within the second application GUI and displaying at least one editing icon on a third section within the second application GUI.
US10133465B2
A display apparatus includes an input unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a first setting screen which is for receiving a setting value of a job inserted into an image forming apparatus and displays execution in a first operational environment. The display unit displays a second setting screen which is for receiving a setting value of the job, displays execution in a second operational environment different from the first operational environment, and displays a smaller number of setting items than that of the first setting screen. The control unit controls the display unit to display the second setting screen, and controls the display unit to display the first setting screen obtained by applying a setting value which is input by the input unit and obtained through the second setting screen when the user presses a defined button in the second setting screen.
US10133461B1
A method for enhancing interaction between a customer and a customer service representative of a company is provided. A graphical user interface (GUI) of a windows control tool is displayed. A type of an interaction between the customer and the customer service representative at a computer operated by the company is determined. One or more applications associated with the type of interaction are launched based on a predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. One or more application windows corresponding to the launched applications are arranged on a screen based on the predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. The windows control tool is configured to control the one or more application windows based on customer service representative's input. The GUI of the windows control tool displays a plurality of window objects corresponding to the one or more launched applications.
US10133456B2
A communication terminal includes a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, a function selecting screen that contains a first icon for receiving a selection of a first communication function and a second icon for receiving a selection of a second communication function. The first communication function is to provide communication using a signaling protocol for connecting to or disconnecting from a destination of communication and an encoding protocol for encapsulating communication data in IP packets. The second communication function is to provide communication using the same signaling protocol and a different encoding protocol. The communication terminal also includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of the first icon or the second icon; and a starting unit configured to start the first communication function and the second communication function in response to the selection of the first icon and the second icon, respectively.
US10133452B2
The present disclosure is directed to performing data science operations. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a data science system that improves data science operations as well as enhances a user's experience in performing data science operations. For example, the data science system provides an improved framework that enables a data source to be paired with one or more algorithms to create a data science operation. In many instances, the data science operation outputs visual results, such as charts and graphs, that are easy for the user to understand. Further, using the framework, the data science system provides tools that enable the user to further customize data science operations.
US10133447B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for determining user input of a presentation. Specifically, aspects disclosed herein provide differentiating between interacting with selectable objects within a slide and scrolling between slides, editing a selectable object within a slide, scrolling between slides, viewing off slide content, zooming out from a slide view, and zooming in to a slide view.
US10133439B1
A method for displaying content in a computing device, including: displaying a set of partially overlapping panels in a viewable area of a display; detecting a first input associated with an element in a first panel of the set of overlapping panels; displaying, on the display, an indication that the element is selected; and displaying, in response to the first input and concurrently with the indication, a second panel partially overlapping the first panel and adjacent to at least one edge of the viewable area of the display, where the second panel includes content relevant to the selected element.
US10133425B2
A touch device is provided, including a first substrate and a circuit board. The first substrate includes a touch sensing structure and a plurality of first electrodes. The touch sensing structure is disposed on the first substrate. The first electrodes are arranged along a first direction. The first electrodes are disposed on the first substrate and electrically connected to the touch sensing structure, a first gap is formed between two adjacent first electrodes, and a minimum distance between the two adjacent first electrodes is a gap distance. The circuit board is partially overlapping the substrate in a vertical projection direction, the circuit board including a plurality of second electrodes corresponding to the first electrodes. One of the two adjacent first electrodes has a first electrode side edge facing the first gap. One of the second electrodes has a second electrode side edge located in the first gap.
US10133422B2
The touch window includes a substrate divided into an active area and an unactive area; a first sensing electrode extending in a first direction on the active area of the substrate and including a plurality of first electrode parts and a connection part; a second sensing electrode extending in a second direction different from the first direction on the active area of the substrate and including a plurality of second electrode parts; an insulating layer disposed on top surfaces of the first electrode part of the first sensing electrode and the connection part to expose the second electrode part of the second sensing electrode; and a bridge electrode disposed on the insulating layer and connected to the exposed second electrode part of the second sensing electrode, wherein the insulating layer includes an open part.
US10133421B2
Capacitive sensing devices that provide short settling time and fast response without creating undesirable visual effects are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the capacitive sensing device includes a pixel layer stacked with a conductive sensor layer and a metal interconnect layer. The conductive sensor layer has a plurality of sensor electrodes, each of which includes one or more common electrodes. The plurality of sensor electrodes has an areal extent in which an active area of the sensor electrodes is configured to detect input events. The metal interconnect layer is disposed in the active area and includes routing traces. The routing traces are coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes and extend from within a first region defined by the areal extent of the plurality of sensor electrodes to a second region outward of the areal extent of the plurality of sensor electrodes.
US10133417B2
Disclosed is an in-cell touch type touch display device and a method of driving the same, which prevent an error of a touch operation from being caused by the delay of a touch report occurring in a large-screen touch display device. The touch display device includes a touch panel, including a plurality of touch sensors, and a driving circuit unit. The driving circuit unit may include a plurality of source/touch driving ICs and a touch IC. The plurality of source/touch driving ICs may supply a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch sensors. The touch IC may perform a touch operation based on touch reports received from the plurality of source/touch driving ICs.
US10133416B2
A frequency division modulated touch detector having row and column conductors arranged such that the path of the row conductors cross the paths of the column conductors, and signal emitters associated with each row, the emitters being adapted to transmit a signal having a specific frequency and initial phase on each row conductor, and a receiver associated with each column to receive signals present on the column conductor. A signal processor is adapted to determine an in-phase and a quadrature component for each of the transmitted signal found in the received signals, and to project a vector representing the transmitted frequencies at their initial phase onto the respective in-phase and quadrature component to determine a measurement for each transmitted signal on each column, and create a heat map reflecting those measurements, the heat map thus containing data reflective of touch.
US10133415B2
Provided is a driving circuit for a touch display apparatus. The driving circuit includes: a main control unit, providing image data for image display at a first speed; a driving unit, receiving the image data and sending display data to the touch display apparatus according to the received image data; a data buffering module, disposed in the driving unit, sending the display data at a second speed higher than the first speed, and forming, due to the difference between the second speed and the first speed, a pause time for stopping sending the display data to the touch display apparatus during the process that the main control unit provides the image data; and a touch detection unit, performing touch detection of the touch display apparatus in the pause time.
US10133406B2
A touch sensor includes a sensing pattern including a first pattern and has unit patterns connected with each other through connection parts thereof, and a second pattern having separated unit patterns, and bridge electrodes connecting the separated unit patterns, wherein at least a portion of a boundary between the first pattern and the second pattern includes convex parts of a curved line and concave parts of a curved line between the convex parts, and the convex part of the first pattern and the concave part of the second pattern face each other, and the concave part of the first pattern and the convex part of the second pattern face each other. The touch sensor has excellent touch sensitivity while suppressing an occurrence of cracks in the sensing pattern due to a stress concentration during bending, and preventing the sensing pattern from being viewed by a user.
US10133405B2
A touch-sensing-enabled display module is provided. In the module, a display panel has an electroluminescent layer, such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) layer, sandwiched between cathode electrodes and anode electrodes. The anode electrodes transmit touch-sensing signals induced at the display panel. The MSN performs multiplexing and summing on the touch-sensing signals to produce output-channel signals for touch sensing. The multiplexing and the summing are reconfigurable such that the touch-sensing signals are dynamically selected for summing to produce one or more output-channel signals. A touch controller measures the output-channel signals to generate touch data. The module further includes a display driver for driving the cathode and anode electrodes. By using the MSN, the display panel is able to provide adaptive sensor reconfiguration. One particular advantage of adaptive sensor reconfiguration is that the signal-to-noise ratio of a touch signal is improved, increasing accuracy in touch detection.
US10133403B2
Devices and methods for improving image quality and decreasing power consumption of an electronic display are provided. The electronic device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels configured to display an image, and to operate at multiple refresh rates. The electronic device also includes a processor configured to instruct the display panel to transition between the multiple refresh rates based at least in part on a blur effective width of the image.
US10133395B2
Provided are a wired electrode that can reduce a resistance generated in a signal line and reduce occurrence of disconnection, and a touch screen panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The wired electrode for the touch screen panel includes a contact unit electrically connected to one end of an electrode pattern generating a touch signal; a bonding unit configured to transmit the touch signal detected in the electrode pattern by contacting an external driving circuit; and a signal line unit configured by a plurality of first signal lines connected to the contact unit and a plurality of second signal lines connected between the plurality of first signal lines and the bonding unit to connect the contact unit and the bonding unit.
US10133390B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, a substrate including the pixel circuit, a display panel, and an electronic device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a pixel unit and a pressure sensing unit. The pixel unit is connected to a scan line and a data line, and is configured to write in an image signal provided through the data line according to a signal provided through the scan line. The pressure sensing unit is connected to the scan line, and includes a detection electrode, a reference module, an amplification module, a reset module, a switch module, and a signal reading line.
US10133388B2
An input device (101) according to the present invention includes a touch sensor (104) that detects contact, a display unit (103), a pressure detection unit (106) that detects pressure on the touch sensor (104), a memory unit (105) that stores indication information indicating existence of notification information, and a control unit (108) that controls the display unit (103) to display the indication information stored in the memory unit (105) when data based on pressure on the touch sensor (104) becomes equal to or greater than a threshold, thereby displays indication information in accordance with a user's desire.
US10133387B2
The present invention is directed to an integrated cable module for force sensors adaptable to a pressure-sensitive touch panel. The module includes an integrated cable and a cable frame. Specifically, the integrated cable has signal lines for transferring sense signals of the force sensors. The integrated cable has a number of branches, and an assembling part that assembles the branches. The cable frame has an opening window, and has a groove used for placing the integrated cable.
US10133369B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a processor of a stylus, a tilt direction of the stylus based on respective first signal strengths at a plurality of receivers. The tilt direction comprises a direction of the stylus along an axis of a touch-sensing device. The method further includes generating, by the processor of the stylus, a response signal comprising information indicative of the tilt direction of the stylus.
US10133368B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input and display device, an ink stroke provided to an input overlay application; providing a display of the ink stroke on the input and display device; converting the ink stroke input into a converted input for an underlying application; providing the converted input to the underlying application; detecting a user input associated with the converted input; and reverting to the ink stroke on the input and display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10133365B2
A method of displaying an image is provided, the method including displaying an item for providing content or information regarding the content and a pointed location corresponding to a received input; determining a distance from the pointed location to the item; determining an amount or a type of information corresponding to the item to display, based on the determined distance; and displaying information corresponding to the item, based on the determined amount or type of information.
US10133350B1
An electroconductive touchscreen glove including a thumb pocket and an index finger pocket separated therefrom by a gap and leaves a user's other fingers exposed. An electroconductive contact layer, disposed on each of an entire front end and tip of the respective thumb pocket and the index finger pocket, is contactable with and operationally communicable with a capacitive touchscreen of an electronic device, such as a cellular phone or an iPad®, for example, to permit the user's direct control the actions of the touchscreen. First and second zippers are disposed on the thumb and index finger pockets, respectively. A connector body, such as a linked chain, has first and second ends attached to a slider on the first and second zippers, respectively, to secure the pockets on the user's thumb and index finger and to prevent the pockets from getting separated and misplaced or lost during non-use of the glove.
US10133345B2
A field of view of a virtual environment is visually presented via a near-eye display from a first perspective. A begin-adjustment command is received. A peripheral region of the field of view that surrounds a wearer's gaze target is dimmed, via the near-eye display, based on the begin-adjustment command. A navigation command is received. The field of view of the virtual environment is adjusted from the first perspective to a second perspective based on the navigation command. An end-adjustment command is received. The peripheral region of the field of view is brightened, via the near-eye display, based on the end-adjustment command. The field of view of the virtual environment is visually presented, via the near-eye display, from the second perspective.
US10133343B2
An apparatus for creating movement in a virtual reality for a user includes a computer includes a virtual reality headset in communication with the computer that is worn on the head of the user so the user sees the virtual reality shown by the headset and produced by the computer in the headset. The apparatus includes a foot controller in communication with the computer against which the user moves at least one of his feet to create control signals with the foot to cause movement in the virtual reality. A method for creating movement in a virtual reality for a user having the steps of the user seeing the virtual reality shown by a virtual headset and produced by a computer in the headset, a virtual reality headset in communication with the computer that is worn on the head of the user. There is the step of the user moving at least one of his feet against a foot controller to create control signals with the foot to cause movement in the virtual reality by the computer, the foot controller in communication with the computer. A computer software program for creating movement in a virtual reality for a user.
US10133342B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for selecting an Augmented Reality (AR) object on a head mounted device (HMD) are presented. In some embodiments, an HMD may define a Region-of-Interest (ROI) based on a gesture formed by at least one hand of a user. Subsequently the HMD may display to the user a shape on the HMD. In at least one arrangement, the shape outlines the ROI. Additionally, the HMD may display to the user a plurality of AR objects, each of the plurality of AR objects being associated with a target inside the ROI. Furthermore, the HMD may reduce the size of the ROI based on a first movement of the at least one hand of the user to form a reduced-sized ROI. In at least one arrangement, the reduced-sized ROI is used to select a specific AR object from the plurality of AR objects.
US10133341B2
An apparatus and a corresponding method of operating the apparatus are disclosed. A component of the apparatus is capable of operating in one of at least two power modes and component power control circuitry which is communicatively coupled to the component causes the component to operate in a selected power mode of those power modes. A system power controller controls operation of the component power control circuitry by setting a power mode lock condition therein. When the power mode lock condition is met the component power control circuitry cannot change the selected power mode of the component. Power control over the component is thus partially delegated from the system power controller to the component power control circuitry.
US10133328B2
A device may include multiple power supplies that are cooled by a system fan. The power supplies may be cross-connected to supply power to one another and the device may monitor temperatures of the power supplies. Based on the temperatures of the power supplies, the device may determine whether any of the power supplies are likely to be on fire. The device may shut off the fan when a power supply is determined to be likely to be on fire.
US10133322B1
A computer assembly, having a generally parallelepiped shape with regard to a set of three orthogonal axis XYZ, includes a mother board and an auxiliary board, a first cooling loop with a first heat-intake exchanger in contact with at least one processing unit of the mother board, and a first heat-discharge exchanger, and fluid connections, a second cooling loop with a second heat-intake exchanger in contact with at least one processing unit of the auxiliary board, and a second heat-discharge exchanger, and fluid connections. The first heat-discharge exchanger comprises a first strength member extending at least along a plane XZ and a plurality of first air-cooled fins. The second heat-discharge exchanger comprises a second strength member extending at least along a plane YZ a plurality of second air-cooled fins. The first strength member is fixed to the second strength member to form thereby the structural chassis of the computer assembly.
US10133314B2
A portable electronic device having several features is disclosed. The device can include a retention member that retains flexible circuits extending from a top portion to a bottom portion of the device, thereby allowing some components to be moved from a top portion of the device to a bottom portion. The device may include a cover plate can be secured with a display in the top portion to cover the retention member and other internal components. The device can include an omni-directional port designed to receive a connector different orientations and provide power to the device. The device can include a flexible keyboard having butterfly keycaps. The device can include an array of openings for an audio driver, with some of the array including through holes and blind holes. The device can also include a touch pad having a force feedback sensor and a haptic device.
US10133306B2
According to various embodiments, a mounting device may be provided. The mounting device may include: a first arm, wherein the first arm is rotatable around an axis; a second arm, wherein the second arm is rotatable around the axis; wherein the first arm includes at least one first engagement member configured to engage with a further device; and wherein the second arm includes at least one second engagement member configured to engage with the further device.
US10133298B2
A memory system including a memory controller with channel interfaces connecting memory groups via channels. Each channel interface communicates control, address and/or data (CAD) signals to a channel-connected memory group synchronously with a slave clock derived from an input clock. The various slave clocks being uniquely generated by application of channel interface specific phase/frequency modulation or temporal delay, such that the respective CAD signals are characterized by skewed transition timing.
US10133293B2
A circuit can have a low mirror input voltage and fast settling while providing a large current mirror gain. The circuit can include a current source, a first current mirror device having a first transistor and a second transistor and electrically coupled with the current source, a third transistor electrically coupled with the first transistor, a second current mirror device having a fourth transistor and a fifth transistor and electrically coupled between the third transistor and the second transistor, and an output device electrically coupled with the first and second current mirror devices.
US10133289B1
A voltage regulator circuit comprises: a pass transistor comprising a gate, a source, and a drain; an error amplifier comprising an output port coupled to the gate of the pass transistor, a first input port, and a second input port; a feedback circuit coupled to the drain of the pass transistor, and coupled to the first input port of the error amplifier to provide a feedback voltage at the first input port of the error amplifier; a sink transistor comprising a gate, a source, and a drain coupled to the drain of the pass transistor; a sink gate voltage circuit coupled to the gate of the sink transistor to provide a gate voltage at the gate of the sink transistor; and a pass gate sensing circuit coupled to the output port of the error amplifier to provide current to the sink gate voltage circuit.
US10133283B2
An HVAC controller that can detect if a user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by a building's wireless local area network is disclosed. Depending on whether or not the user's mobile wireless device is currently connected to and recognized by the building's wireless local area network, the HVAC controller basis its control on unoccupied or occupied settings.
US10133281B1
Systems and methods are provided for least one leading drone configured to move to a leading drone future location based on a future location of a base station. A set of base station future locations may form a base station path for the base station to traverse. Also, a set of leading drone future locations may form a leading drone path for the leading drone to traverse. The base station's future location may be anticipated from a prediction or a predetermination. The leading drone, navigating along the leading drone path, may collect sensor data and/or perform tasks. Accordingly, the leading drone may move ahead of the base station in motion, as opposed to following or remaining with the base station.
US10133273B2
Systems and methods to provide location specific assistance are presented. A condition at a geographic location may be identified that is sensed in an environment of a vehicle and that a first autonomous vehicle control system is unable to, without location specific assistance, perceive, interpret and/or react to if navigating an area. A course at the geographic location that was previously determined by a second autonomous vehicle control system and/or followed by a person-driven vehicle when the condition was present at the geographic location may be found. The vehicle may be caused to follow the course previously determined by a second autonomous vehicle control system and/or followed by the person-driven vehicle.
US10133263B1
Defect inspection methods and systems that use process conditions to dynamically determine how to perform defect inspections during a semiconductor manufacturing process are disclosed. A defect inspection method may include: obtaining process conditions from a process tool utilized to process at least one wafer; determining whether to perform defect inspection of a layer, a wafer, or a high risk area/spot within the at least one wafer based on the process conditions obtained; bypassing the defect inspection when it is determined not to perform the defect inspection; and performing the defect inspection after the at least one wafer is processed by the process tool when it is determined to perform the defect inspection.
US10133261B2
A sit-stand desk includes a frame located on a floor surface; a panel having an upper work surface and being selectively vertically displaceable in respect to the frame; and a vertical-displacement drive mechanism mechanically connected between the frame and the panel. Activation of the drive mechanism vertically displaces the panel with respect to the frame. The sit-stand desk also includes a control circuit selectively activating the drive mechanism to vertically displace the panel according to prescribed displacement instructions in response to receipt of a trigger signal and a pressure mat located on the floor surface adjacent to the frame on which a user stands. The pressure mat includes a pressure sensor in communication with the control circuit and configured to measure a presence of the user adjacent to the desk.
US10133259B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically detecting three-dimensional shaping in a three-dimensional model of a sheet-metal part. Therein, data of a three-dimensional model of the sheet-metal part, which extends in a plane spanned by a first direction and a second direction, is detected, wherein the sheet-metal part comprises a bulge in a third direction which is different from the first and the second directions. Then, a horizontal cut is made through the bulge, as well as a vertical cut perpendicular to the plane spanned by the directions, so that closed cross-sectional contours of the bulge are formed. After a transformation, e.g., a Fourier transformation, of the cross-sectional contours, a tool that produces the bulge can be allocated to the Fourier coefficients.
US10133258B2
A control apparatus for controlling a machine tool on the basis of a machining program is provided with a program analysis unit which analyzes an input machining program, a process table creation unit which, on the basis of the results of the analysis by the program analysis unit, creates a process table that sequentially lists processes according to the execution flow of the machining program, and a display unit which displays the process table created by the process table creation unit.
US10133257B2
A method analyzing a machine having a rotating shaft includes generating an electric measurement signal dependent on mechanical vibrations from the shaft rotation; sampling the measurement signal to generate a digital measurement data signal; performing a decimation of the digital measurement data signal to achieve a digital signal having a reduced sampling frequency, where the decimation includes controlling the reduced sampling frequency such that the number of sample values per revolution of the shaft is kept at a substantially constant value, and receiving the digital signal at an enhancer input performing a correlation in the enhancer so as to produce an output signal sequence where repetitive signals amplitude components are amplified in relation to stochastic signal components, and performing a condition analysis for analyzing the condition of the machine dependent on the digital signal having a reduced sampling frequency.
US10133255B2
A novel motor controller controls a stepping motor and includes a command value calculator to calculate and output a speed command value and an angle command value based on a reference clock. A control method selector is included to select one of the open-loop control and the closed-loop control in accordance with the speed command value. A command value output unit is included to output a first target value as the first current command value when the open-loop control is selected and outputs a second target value as the second current command value when the closed-loop control is selected. The motor controller controls the stepping motor based on the first target value when the open-loop control is selected and the second target value when the closed-loop control is selected.
US10133253B2
An operation limiting device applicable to a wide variety of machine tools and which improves the freedom of setting an operation limiting area. Two or three drive axes (Xa, Za) in different directions are designated from among a plurality of drive axes in the machine tool and the designated drive axes (Xa, Za) form the two or three dimensional coordinate system. An area (Ar) for limiting the operation of the mobile body is set in the two or three dimensional coordinate system. A drive axis (Xa) which is in operation is determined, and in the two or three coordinate system including the drive axis which is in operation the operation of the mobile body is limited when the mobile body enters into the limiting area (Ar).
US10133252B2
To provide a network unit that includes a diagnosis-information management unit that transmits a diagnosis-information transmission request by designating a destination network number while assuming a value other than a station number; a routing control unit that holds routing information indicating correspondence between a destination control network and identification information, and that relay-controls the diagnosis-information transmission request received from the diagnosis-information management unit, another network unit connected to the same programmable logic controller, or a control network connected to the network unit in accordance with the routing information; and a diagnosis-information creation unit that creates the diagnosis information when the diagnosis-information transmission request having a network number of the control network connected to the network unit as the destination network number is received, and it transmits the created diagnosis information to a sender of the diagnosis-information transmission request.
US10133250B2
Techniques are described for implementing automated control systems that manipulate operations of specified target systems, such as by modifying or otherwise manipulating inputs or other control elements of the target system that affect its operation (e.g., affect output of the target system). An automated control system may in some situations have a distributed architecture with multiple decision modules that each controls a portion of a target system, and may further have one or more components that interacts with one or more users to obtain a description of the target system, including restrictions related to the various elements of the target system, and one or more goals to be achieved during control of the target system. The component(s) then perform various automated actions to generate, test and deploy one or more executable decision modules to use in performing the control of the target system based on the user-specified information.
US10133244B2
Apparatus for producing finished dental restorations at the dentist's chair side from 3D CAD data. These restorations may be manufactured from ceramics, metals and polymers via subtractive means i.e. milling and grinding. A polar compact mechanism has been employed with the implementation of an inverse kinematic transform in the machine control to allow Cartesian programming. The margin following tool path is very computationally intensive and requires many minutes of calculation time and numerical control programs in excess of 10 mb for a typical restoration. Conventionally this would require the user to wait several minutes before running the machine which would increase the wait time for both the patient and the doctor. This problem is solved by allowing the program to be generated in parallel with the machine in the process of actually cutting the restoration.
US10133242B2
A method for transmitting electrical energy is proposed in which between two electrical units electrical current is transmitted by means of a superconductive cable system (4). The two ends of the superconductive cable system (4) are each connected in a current conducting manner to one of the electrical units. A normally conductive cable system. (5) is arranged parallel to the superconductive cable system (4). The function of the superconductive cable system (4) is monitored by a control unit (10). During normal operation. only one end of the normally conductive cable system (5) is connected in a voltage conducting manner to one of the electrical units. In case of a malfunction of the superconductive cable system (4), a first signal (12) of the control unit (10) initially connects the other end of the normally conductive cable system (5) to the other electrical unit, so that the normally conductive cable system (5) becomes current conducting, and the superconductive cable system (4) is subsequently switched off by at least one of the electrical units.
US10133226B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit and an apparatus main body. The fixing unit includes a first rotator, a second rotator, a temperature sensor, a switching mechanism, a switching sensor, and a unit side connector. The temperature sensor outputs a temperature signal corresponding to a temperature of the first rotator. The switching mechanism switches pressure of a fixing nip. The switching sensor outputs a switching signal corresponding to a position of the switching mechanism. The unit side connector is connected to the temperature sensor and the switching sensor. The apparatus main body includes a main body side connector and a controller. The main body side connector is connected to the unit side connector. The controller determines a state of attachment of the fixing unit to the apparatus main body on a basis of the temperature signal and the switching signal.
US10133224B2
An image formation apparatus includes: a replaceable part attached to an image formation device and including an information storage unit having unique identification information stored therein; an error detector which detects an occurrence of an anomaly; an error code storage unit having a first error code and a second error code stored therein, each code indicating a content of error display concerning the anomaly; and a controller which determines whether the replaceable part is of a first type or a second type based on the identification information. The controller outputs a first notification signal indicating a content corresponding to the anomaly of the first error code if the replaceable part is of the first type when the error detector detects the anomaly, and outputs a second notification signal indicating a content corresponding to the anomaly of the second error code if the part is of the second type.
US10133218B2
A phase control device includes: at least one switching element connected to an AC power source, the switching element being capable of: turning on and off at specified timings; delivering AC power to a load upon turn-on and cutting it off upon turn-off; and keeping an on-time from the start to the end of turn-on and an off-time from the start to the end of turn-off, the on-time and off-time being variable; a timing setting portion that sets a turn-on and turn-off timing for turning on and off the switching element; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the turn-on and turn-off timing are on at a phase within a first or second phase range; and a processor that starts turning on and off the switching element at the turn-on and turn-off timing, the processor being capable of adjusting the on-time and off-time depending on the judgment result.
US10133214B2
A toner case includes a case main body, a rotator, a transmitter, a moving mechanism and a shutter. The case main body has a discharge port. The rotator is stored in the case main body and rotates around a rotation axis. The transmitter is arranged outside the case main body. As the shutter moves along a rotation axis direction of the rotator from a closing position where the shutter closes the discharge port to an opening position where the shutter opens the discharge port, the moving mechanism moves the transmitter from a first position to a second position which is arranged at an outside of the first position in the rotation axis direction. As the shutter moves from the opening position to the closing position, the moving mechanism moves the transmitter from the second position to the first position.
US10133200B2
Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner comprising a toner base particle containing a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous vinyl resin and a crystalline polyester resin; a weight-average molecular weight of the electrostatic image developing toner is in the range of 50000 to 90000, when calculated from a chromatogram which represents a molecular weight distribution and is measured by gel permeation chromatography; a ratio of content of a resin component having a molecular weight of 100000 or more is in the range of 10 to 20% by area, in the chromatogram which represents the molecular weight distribution; the crystalline polyester resin has a melting point in the range of 65 to 85° C.; and, a ratio of content of the crystalline polyester resin in the binder resin is in the range of 5 to 20% by mass.
US10133197B2
A lithographic apparatus including: a projection system with an optical axis; an enclosure with an ambient gas; and a physical component accommodated in the enclosure, wherein: the lithographic apparatus is configured to cause the physical component to undergo movement relative to the enclosure, in a predetermined direction and in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; the lithographic apparatus is configured to let the physical component maintain a predetermined orientation with respect to the enclosure during the movement; the movement induces a flow of the ambient gas relative to the component; the physical component has a surface oriented perpendicularly to the optical axis; the component includes a flow direction system configured to direct the flow of ambient gas away from the surface.
US10133191B2
A method of determining a process window for a lithographic process, the process window describing a degree of acceptable variation in at least one processing parameter during the lithographic process. The method includes obtaining a set of output parameter values derived from measurements performed at a plurality of locations on a substrate, following pattern transfer to the substrate using a lithographic process, and obtaining a corresponding set of actual processing parameter values that includes an actual value of a processing parameter of the lithographic process during the pattern transfer at each of the plurality of locations. The process window is determined from the output parameter values and the actual processing parameter values. This process window may be used to improve the selection of the processing parameter at which a subsequent lithographic process is performed.
US10133189B2
A liquid immersion member is used in a liquid immersion exposure apparatus which exposes a substrate by exposure light via a first liquid between an emitting surface of an optical member and the substrate, and is capable of forming a liquid immersion space on an object movable below the optical member. The liquid immersion member includes a first member that is disposed at at least a portion of surrounding of the optical member; a second member that is capable of being opposite to the object and is movable outside an optical path of the exposure light; and a protection part that protects the optical member. The protection part decreases a change in pressure which the optical member receives from the liquid in the liquid immersion space.
US10133181B2
An electron source is formed on a silicon substrate having opposing first and second surfaces. At least one field emitter is prepared on the second surface of the silicon substrate to enhance the emission of electrons. To prevent oxidation of the silicon, a thin, contiguous boron layer is disposed directly on the output surface of the field emitter using a process that minimizes oxidation and defects. The field emitter can take various shapes such as pyramids and rounded whiskers. One or several optional gate layers may be placed at or slightly lower than the height of the field emitter tip in order to achieve fast and accurate control of the emission current and high emission currents. The field emitter can be p-type doped and configured to operate in a reverse bias mode or the field emitter can be n-type doped.
US10133177B2
An exposure method of exposing a plurality of exposure regions on a substrate includes the steps of acquiring first reference information indicating a reference height of the substrate, measuring heights of some exposure regions among the plurality of exposure regions, acquiring temporary height information indicating a temporary height of the substrate on the basis of a measurement result in the measuring step, and exposing one exposure region among the plurality of exposure regions after the substrate is moved on the basis of second reference information indicating a reference height of the one exposure region and a difference between the first reference information and the temporary height information.
US10133170B2
An air conditioner having a projector and a method for controlling the same output an image to a display plate of the air conditioner and to the periphery of the air conditioner.
US10133165B2
According to the present invention, there is provided an optical device comprising, a plurality of light sources each operable to provide a light beam; at least one beam combiner which is operable to combine the light beams from the plurality of light sources, to provide a combined light beam; a beam splitter, which is arranged to receive the combined light beam and to split the combined light beam into a primary light beam and a secondary light beam, wherein one or more characteristics of the secondary light beam are indicative of one or more characteristics of the primary light beam, wherein the beam splitter comprises a first surface through which the primary light beam is emitted from the beam splitter and a second surface through which the secondary light beam is emitted from the beam splitter; a mirror component which comprises a mirror, wherein the mirror component is arranged such that the mirror can reflect the primary light beam which is emitted through the first surface of the beam splitter and wherein the mirror can oscillate about at least one oscillation axis to scan the primary light beam; wherein the optical device further comprises a photodiode which is configured to receive the secondary light beam and to detect one or more characteristics of the secondary light beam, wherein the photodiode is configured to be offset from being parallel to at least one of the first surface or second surface of the a beam splitter, to reduce the amount of parasitic light which is directed to the mirror. There is further provided a corresponding method of projecting an image.
US10133164B2
A projection display apparatus of the present disclosure includes a solid state light source that emits blue light in a first wavelength range; a wheel having a light-emitting body that emits emission light in a second wavelength range closer to the longer wavelengths than the first wavelength range is and adjacent to the first wavelength range, in response to irradiation with the blue light; a light uniformizing element that uniformizes the blue light and the emission light; a light modulation element that modulates light uniformized by the light uniformizing element; and a projection unit that projects the light modulated by the light modulation element. An end of the light-emitting body that the blue light enters has a dichroic coating that partly reflects the blue light and transmits emission light.
US10133159B2
Provided is a projection type image display device including an antivibration device 4 suppressing a vibration of a projection lens 2. The antivibration device 4 includes an antivibration base fixed to a display device body 1 and a friction sliding mechanism 8 provided on the antivibration base. The friction sliding mechanism 8 attenuates a vibration of the projection lens 2 by causing a lens-side sliding member 14 moving in synchronization with the projection lens 2 and a base-side sliding member 11 corresponding to a part of the antivibration base to contact each other in a pressed state so that both sliding members 14 and 11 frictionally slide on each other.
US10133157B2
An imaging control device includes a first communication module, a second communication module, and a generation unit. The first communication module receives first image data from a master imaging device. The first image data is generated by the master imaging device on the basis of second imaging-setting information. The generation unit generates first imaging-setting information from the second imaging-setting information stored in a storage module. The second communication module transmits the first imaging-setting information to two or more slave imaging devices.
US10133156B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for windows integration with cover glass and for processing cover glass to provide windows for electronic devices are disclosed. Transparent windows such as a transparent camera window, a transparent illuminator window and/or a transparent display window can be integrated into the cover glass. The apparatus, systems and methods are especially suitable for cover glasses, or displays (e.g., LCD displays), assembled in small form factor electronic devices such as handheld electronic devices (e.g., mobile phones, media players, personal digital assistants, remote controls, etc.). The apparatus, systems and methods can also be used for cover glasses or displays for other relatively larger form factor electronic devices (e.g., portable computers, tablet computers, displays, monitors, televisions, etc.).
US10133155B2
There is provided an imaging device that includes a body and a viewfinder. The viewfinder is movable in two or more directions, between an encased position and a operative position. The viewfinder is encased inside the body at the encased position. The viewfinder is projected outside the body at the operative position.
US10133148B2
Disclosed is a nonlinear optical material (NLO) for use in deep-UV applications, and methods of fabrication thereof. The NLO is fabricated from a plurality of components according to the formula AqByCz and a crystallographic non-centrosymmetric (NCS) structure. The NLO material may be fabricated as a polycrystalline or a single crystal material. In an embodiment, the material may be according to a formula Ba3ZnB5PO14.
US10133141B2
Consistent with the present disclosure, both arms of an MZ interferometer are “double-folded” and are bent in at least two locations to define first and second acute inner angles. Accordingly, the arms of the MZ interferometer may have substantially the same length, and, further, the MZ interferometer has a more compact geometry. In one example, the arms parallel each other and have a serpentine shape, and, in a further embodiment, the arms parallel one another and have a Z-shape. Accordingly, since the temperature of a PIC upon which the MZ interferometer is provided does not vary significantly over such short distances, the temperatures of both arms is substantially the same.
US10133137B2
A liquid crystal display device includes upper and lower pixels; gate lines in electrical connection with the adjacent pixels and extending in a row direction, and data lines which cross the gate lines; and a reference voltage line including a vertical portion which passes through the adjacent pixels, and horizontal portions which alternately extend from the vertical portion. Each of the adjacent pixels includes first and second thin film transistors (TFTs) each in electrical connection with a gate line and a data line which correspond to a respective pixel; and a pixel electrode including a first subpixel electrode in connection with an output terminal of the first TFT, and a second subpixel electrode in connection with an output terminal of the second TFT. The horizontal portions of the reference voltage line are in electrical connection with the second subpixel electrodes of the adjacent pixels.
US10133134B2
An array substrate, including: data lines, scan lines intersecting the data lines; and a plurality of pixel regions; where each of the plurality of pixel regions includes first and second light transmission regions and a light shielding region between the first and second light transmission regions, a first electrode is disposed in the first light transmission region, a second electrode is disposed in the second light transmission region, and a thin film transistor is disposed in the light shielding region, where a drain electrode of the thin film transistor is electrically connected with the first electrode and the second electrode; the data line corresponding to each of the plurality of pixel regions includes a first portion and a second portion extending in two different directions, respectively, the first portion is connected with the second portion via a first connection portion located at the light shielding region.
US10133132B2
In an IPS mode liquid crystal display device, an interlayer insulating film is formed on a common electrode formed in a planar shape, and a pixel electrode is formed on the interlayer insulating film. The distance between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate is determined by a columnar spaces. The pixel electrode includes one comb-shaped electrode and a contact part. The tip of the comb-shaped, electrode overlaps the columnar spacer as seen in a plan view. The columnar spacer is present in, the area in which an electric field that allows the liquid crystal molecules to rotate backward occurs when a voltage is applied to the pixel electrode, so that the reverse rotation of the liquid crystal molecules does not occur, and it is possible to prevent the domain from occurring.
US10133130B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided. A liquid crystal display device comprising, a substrate, and a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate, wherein the pixel electrode includes first cutout portions, which are disposed along edges of the pixel electrode, and second cutout portions, which are disposed closer than the first cutout portions to a center of the pixel electrode, and each of the second cutout portions includes first and second extensions, which extend in different directions and are connected to each other.
US10133124B2
The array substrate comprises a transparent substrate and a film layer which covers the transparent substrate and which is provided with a groove, wherein the film layer is further provided with protrusions which extend from sidewalls of the groove and are away from a bottom surface of the groove; and wherein the groove is used for accommodating frame adhesive. The frame adhesive is injected into a surface of a film layer along the groove, and part of the frame adhesive can flow into the groove and fill the groove. After the frame adhesive is solidified, a clamping connection can be formed between the frame adhesive in the groove and the film layer, so that the frame adhesive and the array substrate can be connected with each other more firmly.
US10133123B2
Provided is a liquid crystal photo alignment agent including: a solid including at least one of a polyimide polymer, cyclobutane dianhydride (CBDA) or diamine; a first solvent including at least one of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyl formamide, γ-butyrolacton or propylene carbonate; and a second solvent including at least one of propylene glycol monobutyl ether, dipropylene glycol monomethyl ether, propylene glycol n-propyl ether, diethylene glycol diethyl ether or diacetone alcohol, wherein the first solvent is included in an amount of about 50 wt % to about 80 wt % based on the total weight of the liquid crystal photo alignment agent; and the second solvent is included in an amount of about 15 wt % to about 40 wt % based on the total weight of the liquid crystal photo alignment agent. Also provided is a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal photo alignment agent.
US10133122B2
A display apparatus, including a first substrate, a second substrate and a display medium, is provided. The first substrate includes a gate line, a first data line and a second data line. The first data line and the second data line intersect with the gate line to define a pixel including a pixel electrode layer and a common electrode layer. The common electrode layer at least includes a first slit having first and second end portions, and a second slit having third and fourth end portions. A largest distance from the edge of the first end portion near the first data line to the first data line is defined as a first distance. A largest distance from the edge of the second end portion near the first data line to the first data line is defined as a second distance, which is larger than the first distance.
US10133116B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second display substrates. The first display substrate further includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, a first color filter and a second color filter disposed below and overlapping the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, respectively, a first thin film transistor, and a contact portion connecting the first thin film transistor to the first pixel electrode. The first color filter and the second color filter contact each other, and one of the first color filter and the second color filter includes an indented portion partially surrounding the contact portion. A portion of the one of the first color filter and the second color filter is spaced apart from a portion of the other with the contact portion disposed therebetween.
US10133115B2
A color filter and a manufacturing method thereof, as well as a liquid crystal display panel are disclosed. The color filter comprises a color resistance layer, a flat layer, and a first black matrix, wherein the flat layer is coated on the color resistance layer, and the first black matrix is arranged in the flat layer. According to the present disclosure, the critical angle of the color shift phenomenon of the color filter can be increased effectively, and thus the color shift phenomenon of the liquid crystal display panel under wide viewing angles can be alleviated.
US10133114B2
A display device includes: a base substrate including a pixel area at which an image is displayed; a light blocking pattern on the base substrate; a thin film transistor on the light blocking pattern; a gate line connected to the thin film transistor and lengthwise extending in a first direction; a data line connected to the thin film transistor and lengthwise extending in a second direction; and a pixel electrode in the pixel area and spaced apart from the gate line in the second direction. The light blocking pattern includes: a first light blocking pattern lengthwise extending in the first direction; and a second light blocking pattern overlapping the thin film transistor. The first light blocking pattern overlaps the gate line and the pixel electrode spaced apart from each other in the second direction.
US10133110B2
The present invention relates to a color purity improvement film (a color gamut enhancing film) that can improve the color purity of a liquid crystal display device, and a liquid crystal display device having the same. According to the present invention, a liquid crystal display device that blocks unnecessary wavelengths other than RGB wavelengths so as to improve color gamut and color purity may be provided by introducing a combination of dyes that absorb a particular Wavelength band to the inside of an adhesion layer or a coating layer of a as liquid crystal display device.
US10133107B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a face housing, a touch device and a protective cover plate. The face housing includes a bottom wall and a side wall; a cavity is formed by the surrounding of the bottom wall and the side wall; the side wall includes a first positioning surface which is a curved surface. The touch device is within the cavity and the protective cover plate is arranged to be attached to the touch device. The protective cover plate includes a second positioning surface which is a curved surface; and the second positioning surface is attached to the first positioning surface, so that the protective cover plate is attached to the face housing. The first positioning surface is set on the face housing and curved surface, the second positioning surface is correspondingly set on the protective cover plate and curved surface. As the positioning action of the second positioning surface and the first positioning surface, the protective cover plate is accurately attached to the face housing when attaching. The problem of misplacement or displacement in the attaching process of the protective cover plate and the face housing is avoided. A terminal is also provided.
US10133102B1
A fast detachable placement seat structure for a display, that comprises: a flat panel display and a placement seat. The placement seat includes: a support plate, a bottom seat, a cable placement portion, and a fast detachable mechanism. The fast detachable mechanism includes at least a fastening portion, and at least a locking portion. The flat panel display is disposed in an electronic device. The bottom base is connected to the support plate to form an angle with the support plate, and is used for receiving circuits. The flexible design mentioned able is able to achieve fewer components required, simple structure, easy assembly/detachment, to save time for assembly and repair, and reduce production cost significantly. As such, that fast detachable placement seat structure for a display can be used in various electronic products having flat panel displays.
US10133099B2
A device substrate manufacturing method includes forming a debonding layer on a carrier substrate. An inorganic adhesive layer is formed on at least a portion of the debonding layer. A process substrate is formed on the carrier substrate. A device is formed on the process substrate, and the process substrate is separated from the carrier substrate.
US10133094B1
An optoelectronic device and method of making the same. The device comprising: a substrate; a regrown cladding layer, on top of the substrate; and an optically active region, above the regrown cladding layer; wherein the regrown cladding layer has a refractive index which is less than a refractive index of the optically active region, such that an optical mode of the optoelectronic device is confined to the optically active region.
US10133093B2
The invention relates to doping capsules which have a substance which displays a decreasing transparency with increasing temperature within a defined temperature range due to physicochemical interactions with the polymer matrix to be doped. Likewise, the invention relates to composite systems which have a polymer matrix doped with the doping capsules. The capsules according to the invention are used for sun protection or heat reflection.
US10133082B2
A 3D grating, a color filter substrate, a display device and a control method thereof are provided. The 3D grating comprises: a first transparent electrode layer; a second transparent electrode layer; and an electrochromic material layer formed between the first transparent electrode layer and the second transparent electrode layer; wherein the first transparent electrode layer comprises a pattern of strip-shaped electrodes, which comprises a plurality of strip-shaped electrodes and an electrode wire electrically connected with each of the strip-shaped electrodes in the pattern; and wherein the electrochromic material layer is configured to be non-transparent when it is in an electric field and to be transparent when it is not in an electric field, or the electrochromic material layer is configured to be transparent when it is in an electric field and to be non-transparent when it is not in an electric field.
US10133071B2
Disclosed herein is a lens for a wearable projection system. The lens includes a lens blank and a holographic optical element. The holographic optical element can be removably attached to the lens. The holographic optical element is aligned to a position on the lens surface based on temporary alignment marks projected onto the lens.
US10133069B2
There is provided a vehicle display device capable of simplifying a configuration for a passenger. A ring member is provided to be closer to the front side (opposite to the passenger) than a half mirror, and thus the configuration for the passenger can be further simplified than the half mirror, thereby achieving a simple appearance. The ring member is visually confirmed through the half mirror thereby to display the ring member and an image in combination like a configuration in which a decorative member is provided to be closer to the passenger than the display as conventionally.
US10133065B2
The present invention relates to a heads up display system for a vehicle interior that includes a light modifying panel configured to cyclically transition between a substantially light transmissive state that facilitates light passage through the light modifying panel and a partially reflective state that facilitates light reflection toward a occupant of a vehicle. The heads up display system also includes a pulsating light source configured to cyclically project an image onto the light modifying panel, and a controller configured to control the pulsating light source and the light modifying panel so that the image is projected onto the light modifying panel while the light modifying panel is in the partially reflective state.
US10133064B2
The present invention relates to an optical projection system for a display, and more particularly to an optical projection system for a head-up display with improved light efficiency.
US10133061B2
A laser device is provided. The laser device includes: a laser tube having an opening in both ends thereof, and a fixing apparatus on at least one of the ends of the laser tube. The opening in at least one of the ends of the laser tube is sealed by the fixing apparatus. A movable assembly and a window are provided on the fixing apparatus. The window is movable relatively to the opening of the laser tube when being driven by the movable assembly, to change a transmission position of a laser light generated by the laser tube on the window.
US10133059B2
The current invention concerns an apparatus and a method for positioning an optical element, said apparatus comprising a positionable part to which the optical element can be mounted; a base part; a suspension system, said positionable part being mounted on said base part in a movable manner with said suspension system; an actuation system for actuating movement of said positionable part with respect to said base part; and a control system for controlling movement of said positionable part.
US10133058B1
A method for fabricating an electrowetting display may include forming pixel electrodes on a support plate; depositing a first layer on the pixel electrodes; etching portions of the first layer to form pixel walls that partition pixel regions; depositing a second layer on the pixel electrodes and the pixel walls; etching portions of the second layer to form spacers on tops of the pixel walls; and depositing a hydrophobic layer to at least partially cover the pixel electrodes.
US10133053B2
A method of generating in-focus images of measurement locations of a sample holder in a microscopy imaging system is provided. A camera array is positioned at a first distance from the sample holder. A first image of a measurement location is acquired using an imaging device disposed on the camera array. A candidate output image associated with the imaging device is developed in accordance with the first image. The camera array is positioned at a second distance from the sample holder and a second image of the measurement location is acquired using the imaging device. A portion of the candidate output image is updated in accordance with a portion of the second image in accordance with a selection criterion. The updated candidate image is transmitted.
US10133050B2
A sample observation device includes an illumination optical system and an observation optical system, and the illumination optical system includes a light source, a condenser lens and an aperture member, and the observation optical system includes an objective lens and an imaging lens, and the aperture member has a light-shielding part or a darkening part and a transmission part, and the aperture member is disposed so that the light-shielding part or the darkening part includes an optical axis of the illumination optical system, and an image of an inner edge of the transmission part is formed inside of an outer edge of the pupil of the objective lens, and an image of an outer edge of the transmission part is formed outside of the outer edge of the pupil of the objective lens.
US10133048B2
This patent application pertains to the optical laser microscopy field and proposes a simplified yet specific optical laser coupling method. The proposed method allows for a sensible reduction in size and complexity of laser based microscopes and related applications, especially in the area of nano particles detection and optical biosensing. Particularly the optical laser coupling proposed method can detect optical signals generated from sub-diffractive nanoparticles located in liquid solution on a standard glass coverslip. Thanks to the small size of the required components and to the usage of standard air-lens objective, without the presence of oil or special prism, this method can be easily embedded into a small, lightweight and portable device, which can properly operate even in absence of gravity.
US10133045B2
High-resolution 3D optical polarization tractography (OPT) images of the internal fiber structure of a target tissue. Manipulation of dual-angle imaging data of the fiber orientation inside a target tissue leads to the determination of 3D imaging properties of the target tissue, allowing transmission of the 3D image properties of the target tissue to an OPT processor to produce high-resolution 3D images.
US10133040B2
A first lens group (G1) having a positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having a negative refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group (G4) having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens group (G5) having a positive refractive power are arranged in order along an optical axis from an object, and distances between each lens group change when zooming, and the first lens group (G1) is composed of two lenses, and the following expression (1) is satisfied: 0.07
US10133038B2
A camera system including a telephoto lens module is provided. The telephoto lens module includes a first image sensor, a first assembly, and a second assembly. The first assembly includes a first driving mechanism and a reflecting member connected to the first driving mechanism. The first driving mechanism is configured to drive the reflecting member to rotate around a first axis and a second axis. The second assembly is disposed between the first assembly and the first image sensor, including a second driving mechanism and a first lens. The second driving mechanism is configured to drive the first lens to move along a third axis. The first, second, and third axes are not parallel to each other. When light enters the telephoto lens along the first axis, light is reflected by the reflecting member and through the first lens along the third axis to the first image sensor.
US10133036B1
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10133033B2
An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
US10133029B2
A lens including a first set of cavity regions, a second set of cavity regions and a third set of cavity regions is provided. The first set of cavity regions includes a first cavity region and a second cavity region, and a first reflection curved surface of the first cavity region faces a second reflection curved surface of the second cavity region. The second set of cavity regions includes a third cavity region and a fourth cavity region, and a third reflection curved surface of the third cavity region faces a first reflecting plane of the fourth cavity region. The third set of cavity regions includes a fifth cavity region and a sixth cavity region, and the first reflecting plane faces a refraction curved surface of the fifth cavity region and a refraction plane of the sixth cavity region. A light source apparatus is also provided.
US10133022B2
An optical device includes a fixed tube that has a straight groove extending in a first direction parallel to an optical axis of the optical device, a cam ring that has a cam groove extending in a second direction intersecting to the first direction, a cam follower that is engaged with the straight groove and the cam groove, a lens unit that moves in conjunction with the cam follower in the first direction, and an auxiliary cam follower that is engaged with the straight groove and that is not engaged with the cam groove. When the fixed tube and the cam ring relatively rotate, the lens unit moves in the first direction. Further, the lens unit is fixed to the cam follower and the auxiliary cam follower.
US10133015B1
An optical connector includes an optical filter 36 that is disposed between an end surface and a lens, and includes a through-hole that transmits part of the output light, when an inner diameter of the through-hole of the optical filter is denoted by B, a distance from the end surface to the optical filter in the optical axis direction is denoted by L, a maximum transmitted light output angle of transmitted light that passes through the through-hole and has a smaller angle than a maximum output angle α of output light is denoted by α′, and an outer diameter of a core of an optical fiber is denoted by A, B=2×L×tan α′−A, and L>A/tan α′/2 are satisfied.
US10133006B1
A system of soft contacting rotational interfaces with long service life, maintenance free, and high reliability, comprises a RF rotary joint and a single channel fiber optic rotary coupler and more particularly, a system having a plurality of conductive fiber brush bundles, a fiber optical wire and a coaxial conductor for transferring RF and optical signal(s) concurrently between relatively rotatable objects.
US10133005B2
A wavelength selective switch (WSS), including an input optical fiber collimation array, a first optical switching engine, a dispersion device, an optical path converter, a second optical switching engine, a third optical switching engine, and an output optical fiber collimation array. A first beam is input from a first port of the input optical fiber collimation array. The first optical switching engine performs angle deflection on the first beam on a first plane. The dispersion device demultiplexes, on a second plane, the angle-deflected first beam into multiple sub-wavelength beams. The second optical switching engine performs angle deflection on the multiple sub-wavelength beams that are obtained by demultiplexing. The dispersion device multiplexes, on the second plane, the angle-deflected multiple sub-wavelength beams. The third optical switching engine performs angle deflection on the multiplexed multiple sub-wavelength beams on the first plane.
US10133003B1
A method of fabricating a polymer waveguide (PWG) is presented. The method includes preparing a polymer waveguide (PWG) sheet having a surface with partially exposed cores and partially exposed cladding, the cladding covering the cores and preparing a first dicing tape, the first dicing tape being an ultraviolet (UV) cut type dicing tape defining separation lines on a back side thereof. The method further includes placing the partially exposed cores of the PWG sheet on the first dicing tape to prevent the surface of the PWG sheet from atmospheric contaminations and placing a tape side of the first dicing tape attached to the PWG sheet on a second dicing tape.
US10132994B2
Methods and systems for writing a Bragg grating along a grating region of an optical fiber through a polymer coating of the optical fiber are provided. A light beam of ultrafast optical pulses is impinged on the grating region, the ultrafast optical pulses being characterized by writing wavelength at the grating region to which the polymer coating is substantially transparent The light beam is diffracted through a phase mask so as to form an interference pattern defining the Bragg grating at the grating region of the optical fiber. The light beam is also focussed such that the intensity of the optical pulses is below a damage threshold within the polymer coating, and above an FBG inscription threshold within the grating region of the fiber. Optical fiber having Bragg gratings and improved mechanical are also provided.
US10132992B2
Presented is a multiparameter automated luminaire comprised of a plurality of light engine modules, a plurality of which by design homogenize light emitted by its light sources more fully than at least one of the light engine modules, which is intentionally designed to noticeably not fully homogenize the light emitted by its light sources. In the preferred embodiment, the non homogenizing light engine module also includes light modulators optionally engagable to more fully homogenize the light output from that light engine module.
US10132984B2
Disclosed is an optical sheet assembly comprising: a first optical sheet which comprises a first base film and a first optical pattern formed on the first base film, light being incident on the first base film; a second optical sheet which comprises a second base film and a second optical pattern formed on the second base film, the light exiting from the first optical sheet being incident thereon; and a third optical sheet which comprises a third base film and a third optical pattern formed on the third base film, the light exiting from the second optical sheet being incident thereon, wherein the first to third optical patterns perform light condensing or diffusing function, the first optical sheet is joined with the second optical sheet, and the second optical sheet is joined with the third optical sheet.
US10132983B2
A lamp comprising: a solid-state lighting element; a light guide having two oppositely arranged outer surfaces and a circumferential edge joining the respective circumferences of the two outer surfaces, the light guide being arranged to couple in light emitted by the solid-state lighting element at the circumferential edge; and two slits arranged in the light guide and adapted to couple light out from the light guide, wherein each of the two slits extends from one of the outer surfaces to the other one of the outer surfaces, the two slits at least partly crossing each other inside the light guide.
US10132979B2
A lamp bar fixation device and a backlight source provided with the lamp bar fixation device are provided. The lamp bar fixation device comprises a back plate, a positioning clamp and a spacer, wherein the back plate is provided thereon with a positioning slot for receiving a lamp bar, the positioning clamp is positioned above the positioning slot, and the spacer is detachably mounted in the positioning clamp so as to fix the lamp bar. The lamp bar fixation device effectively improves assembling efficiency of the lamp bar and has a good heat dispersion performance. Meanwhile, the lamp bar fixation device facilitates the detachment of the lamp bar, and enables the lamp bar to be replaced without a risk of being damaged, and rework performance can be improved.
US10132978B2
The present invention has an object to provide a production method that can prevent side etching and delamination of an anisotropic dye coating formed by an application process, thereby providing a polarizing element that exhibits durable performance and rugged reliability and that is less affected by a solvent or the like used in a production process after formation of the anisotropic dye coating, which leads to improved flexibility of the production process. The present invention also provides a polarizing element that includes a substrate, an anisotropic dye coating, and a resin composition layer, wherein the anisotropic dye coating and the resin composition layer are sequentially layered on the substrate, wherein the top surface and all side surfaces of the anisotropic dye coating are covered with the resin composition layer, and wherein the anisotropic dye coating and the resin composition layer are not formed on portions of the substrate.
US10132977B2
A wire grid polarizer plate includes: a transparent substrate through which incident light is transmitted; and a partition wall member on the transparent substrate and at which first polarized light is transmitted and second polarized light perpendicular to the first polarized light is reflected. The partition wall member is defined by: first partition walls spaced apart from each other on the transparent substrate, the first partition walls formed of a first metal; second partition walls respectively on the first partition walls, the second partition walls formed of a second metal having strength greater than that of the first metal; and third reinforced partition walls respectively on the second partition walls and having a stepped cross-sectional structure, the third partition walls formed of an oxide of the first metal, the oxide of the first metal having strength greater than the strength of the second metal.
US10132973B2
An elliptically polarizing plate includes a polarizing plate and a retardation plate. The elliptically polarizing plate satisfies the following: 0.8≤P(450)/P(650)≤1.2 P(550)≥0.7 Re(450)
US10132969B2
This disclosure generally relates to retroreflective articles and methods of making such articles.
US10132968B2
A mirror substrate includes a transparent substrate, a plurality of first mirror patterns arranged on the transparent substrate and spaced apart from each other, each of the first mirror patterns including a phase compensation layer and a first mirror layer sequentially stacked on the transparent substrate, and a second mirror layer disposed on the transparent substrate and between neighboring ones of the first mirror patterns, the second mirror layer having a second thickness less than a first thickness of the first mirror layer.
US10132963B2
An optical element includes an optical surface having a multilayer film. The multilayer film comprises a stack that includes a first film having a first refractive index for a used wavelength and a second film having a second refractive index for the used wavelength smaller than the first refractive index. Outermost layers of the stack are configured by the first films. A film configuration of the stack has symmetry along with a stack direction. The predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
US10132962B2
This invention relates to a method of manufacturing an optical sheet, including: (S1) forming a single layer by feeding a curable resin composition, (S2) obtaining the single layer having a transferred nanopattern on a surface thereof by passing the single layer formed in (S1) through a release mold having a nanopattern having a pitch of 50 to 500 nm and an aspect ratio of 1.0 to 5.0, and (S3) curing the single layer having the transferred nanopattern obtained in (S2).
US10132950B2
A system and method for geophysical data collection, for use with resistivity and induced polarization. The system and method include the use of a single voltage reference wire to which all voltage recorders or nodes are connected by means of a piercing wire connector, the voltage recorders providing a measurement of the potential voltage between the reference wire and the ground and allowing for calculation of relative voltage potentials between adjacent recorders.
US10132945B2
Disclosed is a method for characterizing the evolution of a sub-surface volume. The method comprises providing a first and second surveys of the reservoir with a first and second sets of seismic traces, constructing an analytic filter operable to shift one or more seismic traces in dependence of a model parameter; and performing an inversion to obtain estimates of the model parameter such that the analytic filter aligns said first survey and said second survey. The analytic filter may be a plane wave destruction filter, and be such that the model parameter is a function of the analytic filter and is not a function of one or more of said second set of seismic traces.
US10132942B2
TOF-PET detector systems, and methods for imaging photon-emitting samples using the detector systems, are provided. The TOF-PET detector systems use large-area photodetectors with extremely high time-resolution and an approach to data collection and analysis that allows for the use of inexpensive low-density scintillator materials. The TOF-PET detector systems are characterized by their ability to identify, on a statistical basis, the transverse and depth location of the first of the series of energy deposition events that are generated when a gamma photon enters the low-density scintillator material.
US10132930B2
Systems and methods for maintaining a health-related action database are disclosed. The method may include receiving first information corresponding to a health-related action of a first user on a first computing device; wirelessly transmitting the first information from the first computing device; receiving second information corresponding to a health-related action of a second user on a second computing device; wirelessly transmitting the second information from the second computing device; receiving the first information and the second information using a third computing device; and updating a database on the third computing device with the first information and the second information, where the first information comprises a description of the health-related action of the first user, and the second information comprises a description of the health-related action of the second user.
US10132923B2
A method and system for controlling the transmission of power of request-response messages implemented by a system to prevent collisions between a first aircraft and a second aircraft. The method comprises measuring at least the value, referred to as the quality value, of a quantity representative of the reception quality of the transponder of the second aircraft and, implemented by the anti-collision device of the first aircraft, and a control step to control the transmission power of the radio-frequency signals carrying the request-response messages according to the quality value or values contained in the response messages sent by the transponder.
US10132917B2
A position location system is described for determining position of mobile tags attached to assets or people. Zone tags are installed in the venue to assist in position location estimation of mobile Tags. One embodiment describes systems and methods for the zone tags to automatically determine their position location. Another embodiment describes systems and methods to detect that a zone tag has been moved and to determine the new position of the moved zone tags. Another embodiment describes systems and methods whereby mobile tags determine a list of zone tags with which to make range measurement for determining the mobile tag's position location.
US10132902B2
A method for an object in a magnetic resonance image (MRI) system for providing at least one velocity indicative magnetic resonance image (MRI) with motion correction of the object is provided. Velocity encoding gradients in at least one spatial direction are provided from the MRI system. Spatial frequency data resulting from the encoding gradients are acquired through the MRI system. Image signals are provided by the MRI system. Image data resulting from the image signals are acquired through the MRI system. At least one motion corrected and velocity indicative magnetic resonance image is created from the acquired spatial frequency data and image data.
US10132896B2
In a magnetic resonance measurement apparatus, a plurality of transmission signals are combined to generate a digital combined signal. The digital combined signal is converted into an analog combined signal by a D/A converter. The signal includes, for example, a first pulse of a rectangular shape and a second pulse of a mountain shape. During measurement, an operation of a dynamic variable attenuator is changed immediately after the first pulse. With this process, the second pulse is suppressed, and a suppressed second pulse is generated.
US10132894B2
A method of investigating an object using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) equipment includes generating a one-dimensional projection of the object for each of a plurality of echoes utilizing echo train signal indications resulting from pulse sequences, and utilizing the plurality of one-dimensional projections, for each of the plurality of echoes, generating NMR image data for at least one location in the object. The NMR image data may be displayed. The displayed data may include a T2 decay curve, a T2 value display, a T2 distribution graph, or petrophysical data for at least one object location.
US10132891B2
A PET-MRI system for imaging an object is provided. The PET-MRI system includes a magnetic resonance imaging sub-system, a positron emission tomography sub-system, an optical sensor, and a data processing controller. The magnetic resonance imaging sub-system includes a surface coil that acquires magnetic resonance signals from the object. The positron emission tomography sub-system acquires PET emissions from the object. The optical sensor detects at least one of a spatial location and a shape of the surface coil. The data processing controller communicates with the magnetic resonance imaging sub-system, the positron emission tomography sub-system, and the optical sensor, and utilizes at least one of the detected spatial location and the detected shape of the surface coil to correct the acquired PET emissions for attenuation.
US10132870B2
A system for dynamic discharging to detected derated battery cells. In such a system, a battery cell capacity, cell voltage, as well as a time to discharge are used in combination to identify good or bad battery cells. More specifically, during a dynamic discharge cycle, an accumulated discharge capacity value is calculated and monitored by a charge level battery gas gauge via analog to digital (A/D) converters and an internal discharge time value is monitored. One of the values is assigned as a fixed value and the other value is used to identify good or bad batter cells.
US10132866B2
A method is disclosed for testing a latching solenoid of a switch and a testing device for carrying out the method is disclosed. The switch includes a switching contact, formed by contact elements mechanically separated from one another when the switching contact is open; an electronic trip unit, to respectively monitor the current passing via the contact elements and test whether a current-dependent tripping condition is satisfied; and an actuator, to separate contact elements after actuation, the trip unit actuating the actuator via the latching solenoid when the tripping condition is satisfied; and an electrical energy store, to charge to a voltage before the tripping and to be discharged via the latching solenoid. After a period of time after the tripping, the voltage of the energy store is compared with a reference value and a fault signal is output if the voltage of the energy store is above the reference.
US10132865B2
A semiconductor chip, a test system, and a method of testing the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a pulse generator configured to generate a test pulse in response to a test request; a logic chain comprising a plurality of logic devices serially connected to each other and transferring the test pulse sequentially; and a detector configured to detect a logic level of an output signal of each of the logic devices and output a detection result indicating a degree of an inter-symbol interference (ISI).
US10132863B2
Roughly described, a method of powering down a portion of an integrated circuit chip, the portion of the integrated circuit chip comprising a plurality of peripheral circuits, each peripheral circuit being connected to a respective debug unit, the method comprising: prior to power down, extracting from each debug unit configuration information of that debug unit; storing the configuration information of the debug units in a memory on the integrated circuit chip during power down of the portion of the integrated circuit chip; and on power up, restoring the configuration information of each debug unit to that debug unit prior resuming operation of that debug unit and the peripheral circuit connected to that debug unit.
US10132859B2
A device (100) for activating an electrical consumer (105) includes a controllable current source (140) for providing a control current, a switching unit (115) for controlling a consumer current as a function of the control current, and a sampling unit (145) for determining a time delay between an activation of the current source (140) and the enabling or interruption of the current flow by the switching unit (115). Furthermore, a processing unit (135) is provided, which is configured to determine that the current source (140) is defective if the time delay lies outside a predetermined range.
US10132850B2
A system for testing a ground fault detection system in an electric circuit establishes a ground connection between a bus and the ground via an inverter and a load by closing an inverter switch of the inverter and a grounding switch disposed between the load and the ground, determines whether the ground connection is detected, and determines a fault in the ground fault detection system responsive to the first ground connection not being detected by the ground fault detection system. Optionally, a ground fault may be identified by determining three phase voltages provided from each of plural inverters, determining symmetrical components of the three phase voltages for each of the inverters, and identifying a ground fault in one or more of the inverters while powered by the power supply based on the symmetrical components.
US10132843B2
A detector for detecting an occurrence of a current strength of interest of a current of a signal to be sensed includes a magnetoresistive structure and a detection unit. The magnetoresistive structure varies a resistance depending on a magnetic field caused by the current of the signal to be sensed. Further, the detection unit generates and provides a current detection signal indicating an occurrence of the current strength of interest based on a detected magnitude of the varying resistance of the magnetoresistive structure.
US10132837B2
There is described a test block intended to be implanted in the circuit connecting an apparatus to be tested such as an electricity meter or a protective relay and a power source supplying the apparatus to be tested such as an intensity sensor and/or a voltage sensor, the test block comprising a base including a plurality of inner electric circuits capable of allowing the transmission of information from the power source to the apparatus to be tested and a protective cover intended to be removably assembled with the base in order to form a closed enclosure in which the inner electric circuits are housed. The base and the protective cover are configured such that the removal of the protective cover gives access to a receiving site delimited by the base and capable of receiving, by plugging, a test plug independent of the test block and electrically linked to a test equipment, in particular a voltmeter and/or an ammeter and/or a dummy current source. The base and the protective cover comprise electrically conductive elements linked to each other and configured so as to ensure a continuity and magnetic shielding closure such that the enclosure delimited by the base and the protective cover is a Faraday cage protecting the inner electric circuits relative to the magnetic fields external to the enclosure delimited by the base and the protective cover.
US10132834B2
A probe as an accessory of an electronic device that measures electrical properties is revealed. The probe sends the signals detected to a display. The probe includes a first detection part and a second detection part. The first detection part detects voltage of an appliance and sends signals to a display for showing messages related to voltage. The second detection part measures temperature of an electrical device and transmits signals to a display for showing messages related to temperature.
US10132833B2
A multiple conduction path probe can provide an electrically conductive signal path from a first contact end to a second contact end. The probe can also include an electrically conductive secondary path and an electrically insulated gap between the signal path and the secondary path. A probe assembly can comprise multiple such probes disposed in passages in substantially parallel electrically conductive guide plates. In some configurations, the probe assembly can include one or more secondary probes disposed in passages of the conductive guide plates and electrically connected to one or both of the guide plates. Some of the probes can be electrically insulated from the guide plates and thus provide signal paths, and others of the probes can be electrically connected to the guide plates and thus provide secondary paths.
US10132829B2
An inertial measurement system is disclosed. The inertial measurement system has an accelerometer processing unit that generates a calibrated accelerometer data. The inertial measurement system further includes a magnetometer processing unit generates a calibrated magnetometer data, and a gyroscope processing unit generates a calibrated gyroscope data. Using the calibrated accelerometer data, the calibrated magnetometer data, and the calibrated gyroscope data, the inertial measurement system generates a heading angle error indicative of the accuracy of the heading angle error.
US10132827B2
A micro inertial measurement system includes a housing, a sensing module, and a damper. The sensing module includes a rigid sensing support, a measuring and controlling circuit board mounted on the rigid sensing support and an inertial sensor set on the measuring and controlling circuit board. The inertial sensor includes a gyroscope and an accelerometer. The sensing module is mounted in the housing. The damper is mounted in the housing and set in the gap between the sensing module and the inside wall of the housing. By use of the above-mentioned structure, the noise immunity of the inertial measuring system can be greatly improved, and the volume and weight of the inertial measuring system can be greatly reduced.
US10132824B2
A system includes a device having a first surface configured to be exposed to airflow about an exterior of an aircraft, the device including a first self-compensating heater configured to heat the first surface, a first current monitor configured to sense a first measurement value representing electrical current flow through the first self-compensating heater, one or more processors, and computer-readable memory encoded with instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive aircraft flight condition data and produce an icing condition signal based upon the first measurement value and the aircraft flight condition data.
US10132814B2
Described herein are methods and systems for distinguishing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and celiac disease. The methods and systems can utilize the detection of anti-vinculin antibodies and anti-CdtB antibodies to distinguish IBS from IBD and celiac disease. Further described are methods for selecting a therapy to treat IBS, IBD or celiac disease.
US10132809B2
A method is described for diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis by studying the levels of expression of novel markers, including ALOX15 or metabolites thereof, TNFAIP6, FLG, SLURP1, or CRISP3. Also described are methods for treating eosinophilic esophagitis.
US10132806B2
Antigens derived from citrullinated 14-3-3 and uses thereof in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
The present invention provides citrullinated 14-3-3η peptides and antibodies thereto and methods of using same to evaluate arthritic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.
US10132805B2
A method for determining the amount of specific analyte of a sample which may show interferences by photometric assays, wherein the analyte is quantified from the change in the optical signal of the reaction mixture after the interaction of the analyte with analyte specific reagents. Multiple calibration curves are generated for multiple wavelengths for the specific analyte. An interference test is performed simultaneously to the determination of the specific analyte, for quantifying the amount of interfering substances present in the sample. The amount of each interfering substances is compared to predetermined cut-off values. The optical signal for the specific analyte is measured in the reaction mixture at multiple wavelengths over the complete reaction time, and a calibration curve is selected depending on the interfering substances. The amount of specific analyte is quantified by comparison with the selected calibration curve for the chosen wavelengths.
US10132802B2
Assay cassettes and testing devices that can be used to provide rapid, accurate, affordable, laboratory-quality testing at the point of care. Such assay cassettes and testing devices are designed to provide rapid, quantitative test results in a point-of-care setting or the like. Likewise, such assay cassettes and testing devices may eliminate or replace expensive, centralized clinical testing equipment and technical personnel. Such testing device may include automated data reporting and decision support. Methods for performing point of care diagnostic tests are also disclosed.
US10132794B2
The present invention is related to the field of bio/chemical sensing, assays and applications. Particularly, the present invention is related to collecting a small amount of a vapor condensate sample (e.g. the exhaled breath condensate (EBC) from a subject of a volume as small as 10 fL (femto-Liter) in a single drop), preventing or significantly reducing an evaporation of the collected vapor condensate sample, analyzing the sample, analyzing the sample by mobile-phone, and performing such collection and analysis by a person without any professionals.
US10132778B2
A pair of electrodes is connected to a test specimen in order to apply an electric current to the test specimen in the direction of a conductive fiber of each conductive fiber woven fabric of a plurality of prepregs as targets for verification of the presence or absence of waviness, among a plurality of prepregs constituting the test specimen composed of a conductive composite material, and then a magnetic field sensor is relatively scanned over the test specimen, while applying an electric current between the pair of electrodes, to determine a portion of the test specimen where a magnetic field variation is detected by the scanning of the magnetic field sensor as a portion where waviness of the conductive fibers of the conductive fiber woven fabric of the plurality of prepregs as targets for verification of the presence or absence of waviness is present. Thus, it is possible to grasp, for example, the condition of fibers of the conductive composite material in the test specimen as a whole.
US10132769B2
The present invention generally relates to doped, metal oxide-based sensors, wherein the doped-metal oxide is a monolayer, and platforms and integrated chemical sensors incorporating the same, methods of making the same, and methods of using the same.
US10132768B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a gas sensor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention including: a) forming a pair of photoresist electrodes spaced apart from each other and a photoresist wire connecting upper portions of the pair of photoresist electrodes to each other by exposing and developing a first photoresist coated on a substrate; b) forming a pair of carbon electrodes and a carbon wire that are connected to be integrated with each other, by pyrolyzing the pair of photoresist electrodes and the photoresist wire; and c) forming metal oxide nanowires on a surface of the carbon wire.
US10132766B2
Method for the isobaric transfer of a fluid from a deposit and device for implementing such a method
The invention relates to method for transferring under pressure a fluid extracted from the deposit by means of a sampling vessel (5) wherein the fluid sample is maintained at the reservoir pressure or extraction pressure, as well as to the method for determining at least one thermodynamic characteristic of this fluid, particularly a method for determining phase transition envelops. The invention also refers to a method combining the implementation of the scanning thansitiometry with spectroscopic or analytical techniques, eventually in the presence of a fluid in a supercritical state. The invention similarly refers to a device for implementation of the above-referred methods.
US10132761B2
A method capable of constructing an accurate three-dimensional image is offered. The method comprises the step (S10) of obtaining a first series of tilted images which are constituted by electron microscope images or elemental mapping images of a sample (S) at different tilt angles and which have been obtained by tilting the sample in angular increments, the step (S14) of obtaining a second series of tilted images which are constituted by electron microscope images or elemental mapping images of the sample at different tilt angles and which have been obtained by rotating the sample about an axis (P) perpendicular to a surface (Sf) of the sample and then tilting the sample in angular increments, and the step (S16) of constructing the three-dimensional image on the basis of the first and second series of tilted images.
US10132752B2
A hand-held biosensor including a housing having a lower handgrip portion and an upper target portion extending substantially perpendicular to the lower handgrip portion. An electromagnetic radiation emitter is received within the lower handgrip portion for emitting a laser beam toward a band pass filter received within the upper target portion. The band pass filter is configured to reflect the laser beam toward a target, and to permit passage therethrough of fluorescence emissions from the target. A photo-detector is received within the upper target portion of the housing and is configured to receive the fluorescence emissions from the target. A signal display is configured to provide an indication of fluorescence spectral data from the photo-detector. An adapter may be releasably coupled to the upper target portion of the housing for receiving atmospheric air.
US10132749B1
A method for measuring turbidity and chlorine content of a liquid. The method includes shaking the liquid in a sample holder, using a shaker assembly, and removing bubbles including micro bubbles from the liquid using the micro-bubble removing shaker, retaining a sample volume of the liquid, and at least nearly simultaneously executing at least two of detecting illumination from the sample volume by a first detector operable for detecting illumination from the sample volume at a 90-degree angle with respect to an illumination beam generated by an illuminator and impinging on the sample volume, thereby measuring a turbidity of the sample volume, detecting illumination from the sample volume of liquid by a second detector operable for detecting illumination from the sample volume of liquid at a 180-degree angle with respect to the illumination beam, thereby measuring chlorine content of the sample.
US10132739B2
A particle manipulation system uses a MEMS-based, microfabricated particle manipulation device which has an inlet channel, output channels, and a movable member formed on a substrate. The movable member moves parallel to the fabrication plane, as does fluid flowing in the inlet channel. The movable member separates a target particle from the rest of the particles, diverting it into an output channel. However, at least one output channel is not parallel to the fabrication plane. The device may be used to separate a target particle from non-target material in a sample stream. In the event that the microfabricated particle manipulation device malfunctions as a result of a particle of debris becoming lodged in the microfabricated particle manipulation device, the system may invoke a recovery algorithm, that includes vibrating the microfabricated particle manipulation device using a pulse train at a frequency near its mechanical resonance.
US10132737B2
This method for characterizing a state of adhesion of the particles is applied via a system including a source of spatially coherent light and a photodetector array, the particles being contained in a liquid medium, the liquid medium being delimited by a transparent surface, the particles being able to adhere to the transparent surface. The method includes: illuminating the medium with the source of spatially coherent light; acquiring at least one image by the photodetector array, the image being formed by radiation transmitted by the illuminated medium and including at least one elementary diffraction pattern, each elementary diffraction pattern corresponding to waves diffracted by a particle during the illumination of the medium; and computing, from at least one acquired image and for at least one particle, a primary indicator characterizing the state of adhesion of the particle to the transparent surface.
US10132735B2
There is provided a microparticle sorting device that automatically optimizes a fluid stream.There is provided a microparticle sorting device that includes a voltage supply unit that supplies a driving voltage to a vibratory element that applies vibration to an orifice that produces a fluid stream, a charge unit that imparts charge to at least some droplets ejected from the orifice, deflecting plates, arranged opposing each other with the fluid stream S therebetween, that vary a travel direction of the droplets, and a first image sensor that acquires an image of the droplets passing between the deflecting plates. The microparticle sorting device is equipped with a controller that detects the droplets in the image, sets a standard band corresponding to a width of the droplets before imparting the charge, and controls the driving voltage of the voltage supply unit so as to further decrease a quantity of the droplets detected in areas within a designated number of pixels from the standard band from among the droplets after imparting the charge.
US10132734B2
Process for evaluating the mechanical performance of a filler gel, comprising the step consisting in subjecting a sample of this gel to oscillating mechanical stresses making it possible to determine the elastic modulus G′ and to deliver a score representative of the integration of G′ over the stress and/or the deformation strain within a stress and/or strain interval that includes values of the modulus G′ encountered beyond the linear viscoelasticity plateau.
US10132727B2
Method for monitoring the odorous emissions of a plurality of zones (2, 3, 4, 5) of a given site (6); the method provides for the use of an electronic nose, and comprises a plurality of selective feeding steps, during each of which a respective sample coming from a relative zone is selectively conveyed to the electronic nose so as not to convey other gas samples coming from other zones to the electronic nose; according to some aspects of the invention, the selective feeding steps are repeated several times and the order of succession of the selective feeding steps is modified so as to control zones of particular interest more often.
US10132725B2
An automated system for sampling seeds generally includes an automated sampling station having a sampler configured to remove material from a seed while protecting germination viability of the seed, a seed conveyor configured to receive the seed from out of the sampling station after the material is removed from the seed, and a sample conveyor configured to receive the material removed from the seed. The sample conveyor is configured to locate the material removed from the seed in a sample container, and the seed conveyor is configured to locate the seed from which the material is removed in a seed container so as to facilitate a one-to-one correspondence between the seed and the material removed from the seed.
US10132720B2
Described is a wheel service machine (1) comprising: a shaft (3) rotating about a relative longitudinal axis (A), and a contact element (4), connected to the shaft (3) for rotating integrally with it and designed to make contact with the rim (2a) supported by the shaft (3); a locking device (5), which can be removably coupled to the shaft (3) and designed to slide relative to the shaft (3) along the longitudinal axis (A) and lock the rim (2a) interposed between the contact element (4) and the locking device (5); a fastening element (6) movably connected to the shaft (3) for moving parallel to the longitudinal axis (A) and designed for coupling with the locking device (5), for pulling it in movement; actuator (7) positioned on the machine and connected to the fastening element (6), wherein the locking device (5) comprises an emitter (8) designed for generating a wireless control signal, received by a wireless signal receiver (9) connected to the actuator (7), activates them for moving the locking device (5).
US10132717B2
An automation cell incorporating elements for performing secondary operations on a machined part is adapted to be disposed adjacent to a machining center for performing the primary operations on the part. The cell incorporates a robotic arm capable of being moved into position with respect to the machining center so as to load machined parts into the machining center and unload primarily machined parts for the performance of secondary operations in the cell. In a preferred embodiment the automation cell performs roll check operations on the primarily machined gear by bringing it into meshed engagement with a master gear and rotating the meshed gears and employing a sensor to monitor the roll-out of the machined gear.
US10132711B2
A system and a method for stability measurement and optimization are provided. For example, the method includes loading an object onto a tilting device that includes one or more sensor devices, collecting resting corner weight values from the one or more sensor devices, tilting the object using the tilting device, collecting tilted corner weight values from the one or more sensor devices while tilting the object using the tilting device, calculating, using a data processor of the tilting device, a center of gravity value based on the resting corner weight values, the tilted corner weight values, and dimensions of the object, generating, using the data processor, a tipping angle based on at least the center of gravity value and the dimensions of the object, and generating, using the data processor, a recommendation to adjust the tipping angle.
US10132706B2
An electronic device having a pressure detection system is disclosed. The electronic device may include one or more elements designed to detect pressure exerted on the electronic device. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes a membrane and a detection mechanism, both of which bend in response to a pressure change at the membrane. The membrane may be electrically coupled with a circuit that detects the bending of the membrane and correlates the bending with a pressure change at the membrane. A can may be hermetically sealed with the membrane and surround the circuit to shield the circuit from liquid ingress. In some embodiments, a light transmitter and light receiver are used to detect the bending of the membrane. The light may reflect from the membrane at different angles, based upon a shape of the membrane, and contact the receiving element at different locations, corresponding to pressure change.
US10132702B2
Claw portions opposing a magnet are disposed on inner edges of a first yoke and a second yoke. Wall portions are disposed on outer edges of the first yoke and the second yoke so as to extend in an axial direction. A distal end of the wall portion and another distal end of the other wall portion are spaced apart from each other in the axial direction and disposed to oppose each other. A magnetic sensor is disposed between the distal ends in the axial direction. End faces oblique to the axial direction are disposed on the distal ends and a distance between the distal ends on a radially inner side is made shorter than a distance between the distal ends on a radially outer side.
US10132693B2
A solder degradation information generation apparatus related to a motor drive circuit that includes a power supply, a converter, a smoothing capacitor, and an electric motor is disclosed. The solder degradation information generation apparatus includes a semiconductor element that forms an upper arm of the converter and is bonded to a substrate via a solder, the substrate being cooled by a coolant, a measuring unit configured to measure a temperature of the semiconductor element and a processing device that generates information indicating a degradation state of the solder based on a measurement result of the measuring unit that is obtained during a period in which the smoothing capacitor is charged.
US10132685B2
A detection device for a microscope comprises a dispersive element in the beam path of light and a selection element. The selection element separates a beam path of a spectral portion of the light from the beam path of the light. The detector device furthermore comprises a focusing optical unit configured to focus the beam path of the spectral portion of the light onto a sensor. By way of example, the microscope may be a confocal microscope.
US10132682B2
The invention relates to a microscope having an acousto-optic apparatus (13) that, with a mechanical wave that is characterized by a preferably adjustable frequency, removes from a polychromatic and collinear detected light bundle (18) portions of illuminated light, scattered and/or reflected at a sample, having an illuminating light wavelength associated with the frequency. The microscope is notable for the fact that a crystal (30) of the acousto-optic apparatus in which the mechanical wave propagates, and the propagation direction of the mechanical wave, are oriented relative to the detected light bundle incident into the crystal in such a way that the acousto-optic apparatus deflects, with the mechanical wave, both the portion of the detected light bundle having the illuminating wavelength and a first linear polarization direction, and the portion of the detected light bundle having the illuminating wavelength and a second linear polarization direction perpendicular to the first polarization direction, and thereby removes them from the detected light bundle.
US10132681B2
A noise reduction apparatus includes a first delaying/combining unit configured to output first and second pulse light beams, and a second delaying/combining unit configured to branch the first pulse light beam into two pulse light beams to output third and fourth pulse light beams and branch the second pulse light beam into two pulse light beams to output fifth and sixth pulse light beams.
US10132654B2
Embodiments provide a method for determining sine or cosine correction values for an error compensation in an angle sensor. At least three pairs of values for at least three rotation angle values of an angle sensor are detected. Each pair of values includes a rotation angle value and an associated measurement signal value. The associated measurement signal value includes a sine component and a cosine component. The sine correction value for an offset error of the sine components of the measurement signal values is determined by adding the sine components of two detected measurement signal values. The cosine correction value for an offset error of the cosine components of the measurement signal values is determined by adding the cosine components of two detected measurement signal values. The sine correction value for the offset error of the sine components or the cosine correction value for the offset error of the cosine components is provided for error compensation.
US10132649B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for contactlessly detecting the absolute position of an element which can move relative to magnetosensitive sensors and has a magnetic field source fastened on the movable element, wherein two magnetosensitive sensors in a plane which are spatially offset in the direction of movement are arranged at a distance from the magnetic field source. Provision is made for the apparatus to be redundant such that said apparatus has two sensor elements, wherein two such magnetosensitive sensors are arranged in each sensor element.
US10132640B2
This invention concerns a method of determining a route using map data comprising a plurality of navigable paths, the map data divided into a plurality of regions. The method comprises using at least one processing apparatus to: receive an origin and a destination on the map data and a travel time, determine a route from the origin to the destination using the map data and minimum cost data that identifies minimum cost paths between regions of the map data. The minimum cost data identifies more than one minimum cost path between a pair of the regions if different minimum cost paths exist between the pair of regions at different times and determining a route comprises identifying from the minimum cost paths for the pair of regions comprising the origin and destination, the minimum cost path having a lowest cost at the travel time.
US10132638B2
Route search systems, methods, and programs search for a recommended route for transfer with switching between a plurality of transportation modes. The systems, methods, and programs acquire link information for specifying a link for transfer by each of the plurality of transportation modes and connection information related to connection between links for transfer by different transportation modes, and set a condition for switching from a first transportation mode to a second transportation mode, which is different from the first transportation mode, on the basis of a combination of the first transportation mode and the second transportation mode. The systems, methods, and programs search for the recommended route for transfer with switching between the plurality of transportation modes on the basis of the link information, the connection information, and the set condition, the recommended route connecting links for transfer by different transportation modes.
US10132636B2
The present invention concerns a system for contactless determination of the position and orientation of a first mobile object (M) relative to a reference mark (RP) carried by a second fixed or mobile object (P), in a disturbed electromagnetic environment comprising a transmitting antenna (E) with ferromagnetic cores (E-1) having magnetic permeability higher than 10, incorporating sensors (E-3) for measuring the magnetic field Xu actually emitted by the axes of the ferromagnetic cores. A means (4-4) for extracting the signal correlated with the ambient noise XBR (Tk−KbTe)—from the sensors (Sb) fixed in the platform (P), forms, with measurement Xu of the emitted magnetic induction, a complete model of the measured fields, making it possible to extract, without errors, the six parameters relative to the field model without disturbances.
US10132632B2
The present invention relates to a micromachined hemispherical resonance gyroscope, which includes a resonant layer, wherein the resonant layer comprises a hemispherical shell whose top point of the hemispherical shell is its anchor point; several silicon hemispherical electrodes are arranged around the hemispherical shell, the silicon hemispherical electrodes include driving electrodes, equilibrium electrodes, shielded electrodes and signal detection electrodes or quadrature correction electrodes, the hemispherical shell and the several silicon spherical electrodes which surround the hemispherical shell constitute several capacitors. The hemispherical resonance micromechanical gyroscope utilizes a processing method on the basis of silicon micromachining, which leads to small size and low production cost, as well as batch production capacity, meanwhile its sensitivity is independent of amplitude and its driving voltage could be very low, as a result its output noise could be significantly reduced, and its accuracy is better than the gyroscope products in the prior art.
US10132614B2
An optical fiber includes multiple optical waveguides configured in the fiber. An interferometric measurement system mitigates or compensates for the errors imposed by differences in a shape sensing optical fiber's response to temperature and strain. A 3-D shape and/or position are calculated from a set of distributed strain measurements acquired for a multi-core optical shape sensing fiber that compensates for these non-linear errors using one or more additional cores in the multicore fiber that react differently to temperature changes than the existing cores.
US10132612B2
A method and assembly for determining the thickness of layers of a sample stack influencing the intensity of reflected light from a light source. The thickness is determined from the intensity detected by an array detector with a plurality of detector elements in lines and columns. The detector comprises a plurality of sections in the form of parallel stripes, the stripes detecting the light reflected by the sample stack of layers simultaneously. Light of one selected wavelength range only is detected by each of the plurality of sections of the detector. The image of the sample stack on the detector or of the parallel stripes is moved in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the parallel stripes such that each point of the sample stack is detected at least once in each of the different wavelength ranges.
US10132611B2
A method and system for acquiring three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of a surface is provided. The method includes providing the scanner configured to emit a light from the light source and reflect the light onto the surface, the scanner further being configured to determine with a processor a three-dimensional coordinate of a point on the surface based at least in part on a first and second angle measuring device and a reflection of the light from the surface. An image is acquired of the surface with a camera and a feature is identified. A first area is identified having a high information content and a first arc segment is determined. The surface is scanned by rotating a motor at a first speed during the first arc segment and at a second speed during a second arc segment, the second speed being greater than the first speed.
US10132608B2
A method for calibrating a device for actuating one or several elements to be actuated of a structure, with the actuating device comprising one or several actuators, characterised in that it comprises the following successive steps:(b1) placing the structure, in particular the element or elements to be actuated of the structure, in a predetermined reference position,(b2) activating a calculation unit to automatically calibrate the actuator or actuators of the actuating device, with the calculation unit able to determine, for the actuator or actuators, the minimum and maximum end stops that define its or their authorised range of movement using the predetermined reference position of the structure, taken as the origin position.
US10132602B2
A munition includes a composite case, a blast cone housed by the composite case, a grenade aft of the blast cone and housed by the composite case, a first attenuator forward of the blast cone, and a second attenuator aft of the blast cone and forward of the grenade.
US10132598B2
A ballistic protection structure has a first ballistic layer made of a textile of synthetic fibers and a second ballistic layer comprising a first holding element on which slender metallic structures in the form of flat sheets and/or straight filiform elements are restrained. The metallic structures are restrained at different points of the first holding element and protrude therefrom generally perpendicularly. The free ends of the slender metallic structures are restrained to the first textile layer.
US10132581B2
Belt/Metallic Link Chain Loaded Ammunition Feeder in a Remote Controlled Weapon Station (RCWS). The feeder includes a feeding mechanism for routing chained ammunition from ammunition reservoir means towards the weapon's bullets entrance opening. The feeding mechanism has a first chute assembly for routing chained ammunition from the ammunition reservoir means towards the region of the RCWS's elevating/lowering axis, and a second chute assembly for continuing routing the chained ammunition from the region of the elevating/lowering axis towards the entry opening of the bullets entrance of the weapon. The chained ammunition traverses over the elevating/lowering axis region by passing from the first chute assembly to the second chute assembly. The first chute assembly remains static and the second chute assembly is dynamic and propelled together with the mounting bracket assembly around the elevating/lowering axis.
US10132567B2
A skimmer (100) for removing a slag layer (24) from hot metal (6) in a ladle (2) during a process of metal purification such as steelmaking. The improved skimmer (100) is a steel framework covered in reinforced refractory, having a system of internal piping (60) that at one end is attached to a source of gas and at a second end terminating at one or more ports (64). The improved skimmer (100) is attached to a boom for a prior art skimming machine. In use, the improved skimmer (100) is moved along a top surface (6a) of the hot metal, though the slag layer, and predetermined flows of gas are forced into the piping system and expelled through the port or ports to move the slag layer out from the back of ladle so it can be skimmed into a slag pot (4).
US10132554B2
An air conditioner includes a cabinet forming an external appearance of the air conditioner and is provided with an opening, and a cover to open and close the opening. The cover includes a cover body to cover the opening and includes a first cover body and a second cover body that are spaced apart from each other, and a spacing rib provided between the first cover body and the second cover body such that the first cover is spaced apart from the second cover body.
US10132551B2
A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet, a freezer compartment disposed within the refrigerator cabinet, a fresh food compartment disposed within the refrigerator cabinet, an ice making compartment remote from the freezer compartment, and a fresh food compartment duct riser extending upwardly along a back of the fresh food compartment. The refrigerator further includes a shroud associated with a freezer compartment evaporator, an ice compartment supply duct leading from the shroud to the ice making compartment, and an ice compartment return duct leading from the ice making compartment towards the freezer compartment evaporator. The ice compartment supply duct has a split pathway and is positioned behind the fresh food compartment duct riser.
US10132544B2
An ice-making device for a refrigerator. The ice-making device includes an ice tray, an ice-storing unit, and a slide. The slide is configured to guide ice pieces discharged from the ice tray toward the ice-storing unit. The ice-storing unit includes an ice storage part configured to accommodate the ice pieces released from the ice-making unit and a drive device configured to drive a delivery member for discharging the ice pieces from the ice storage part. The ice tray extends to a location above the drive device.
US10132540B2
A motor operated valve apparatus includes: a motor driven valve; a drive unit configured to drive the motor; a control unit configured to control the drive unit; and a communication unit configured to communicate with an external controller. The control unit starts control of the motor operated valve according to a command from the external controller; drives the motor in a valve closing direction at start of the control, detects a load on the motor based on a drive pulse output by the drive unit for driving the motor, and sets a driven state when the detected load reaches a predetermined reference value to be a valve switching point of a valve section; and drives the motor relative to the valve switching point of the valve section to perform control so that an opening degree of the valve section becomes a value corresponding to a control command value.
US10132513B2
Provided is a rotator structure of a nanomist-generating device which generates a nanomist by rotating a rotator having a conical shape, wherein a lower portion of the rotator is immersed in water and mist-scattering ports are disposed in an upper portion; the device generates a nanomist by scattering the water through the ports, the water being drawn up along an inner wall surface of the rotator by rotating the rotator; and a radius at an upper end of the ports is an upper portion radius R1, a height to the upper end of the ports from a waterline L is a drawing height H, and a mean angle between a horizontal line and the inner wall surface is a side surface mean angle θ1; and the angle θ1 is set within θ±5% of θ for θ satisfying a basic structure equation −R1 sin3 θ+2 H cos θ sin2 θ+H cos3 θ=0.
US10132508B2
An electronic converter unit (30, 86, 87) for being arranged external to a pump unit (10) is described. The pump unit (10) includes a housing (12), which comprises a signal source (16, 18) for emitting a signal. The electronic converter unit (30, 86, 87) comprises a signal detector (40) for measuring the signal emitted from the signal source (18) of the pump unit (10). The electronic converter unit (30) further comprises a converter unit (41) for converting said signals to electrical signals, and transmitting means (42) for transmitting the electrical signals to an external communication unit (50). The electronic converter unit (30, 86, 87) is further configured to operate in a signal converter mode (30) and a signal repeater mode (86, 87).
US10132504B1
An embodiment of an electric heating element is disclosed, including an electrically resistive inner heating element, an electrically resistive outer heating element, and a thermostat positioned along a cold leg of the inner heating element. The thermostat is configured to selectively allow electrical current to be delivered to the inner heating element while maximum electrical current, for example, continues to be provided to the outer heating element. The thermostat cycles the electrical current on and off when detecting maximum and minimum desired temperatures radiated from the electric heating element. The inner heating element has a pair of cold legs that extend parallel to a pair of cold legs of the outer heating element, some or all of which may be supported by a terminal bracket.
US10132496B1
This invention provides a system and method for efficiently and completely combusting oil in mixture with particulate solids. A furnace (kiln) having a feed nozzle with a lead screw drives the mixture from a feed hopper. This nozzle includes forced-air jets/ports at its tip providing makeup air and allowing atomization of the mixture. The nozzle thereby directs the mixture into a rotating combustion chamber that is tilted downwardly from the front toward a solid waste outlet port at the rear. Uncombusted fuel and air backflow to an upper, secondary chamber near the primary chamber front, and are completely combusted at a high temperature. Gasses exit a flue that can include a heat exchanger. This heat exchanger can be operatively connected to a heating device or other mechanism that converts the heat into usable energy. The nozzle can include a cone with axially tilted air ports about its perimeter.
US10132493B2
The current disclosure relates to steam generation and supply apparati and associated control systems. Particularly, the current disclosure relates to such steam generation supply apparati and associated control systems that are used for enhanced oil recovery. Certain embodiments are provided including methods and associated control systems related to the startup as well as main steam pressure header control or maintenance of a desired steam quality for such steam generation systems during normal operation.
US10132492B2
A system includes the HRSG having an economizer disposed along a fluid flow path, and a drum disposed along the fluid flow path downstream of the economizer. The HRSG also includes a drum level control module configured to modulate an amount of the fluid provided to the drum along the fluid flow path and a supplemental control module configured to control an amount of the fluid in a different manner than the drum level control module. The heat recovery steam generator also includes a drum level event controller configured to monitor a rate of change of a level of the fluid in the drum. If the rate of change is over a threshold value, a signal goes to the supplemental control. If the rate of change is less than or equal to the threshold value, the signal goes to the drum level control module.
US10132487B2
The present application is directed to heat sinks for light emitting devices. In particular, the heat sinks can provide effective heat dissipation in a variety of different orientations and positions. In one exemplary heat sink, different groups (110, 120, 130, 140) of essentially parallel fins (112, 122, 132, 142) can be separated and disposed at particular angles to form fluid channels (114, 124, 134, 144, 108 and 109) that enable fluid flow in different directions and orientations.
US10132486B2
A lamp includes at least one LED, an at least partially optically transmissive enclosure, a heat sink connected to the enclosure for dissipating heat from the LED, and a reflector for reflecting light along the longitudinal axis of the lamp either toward or away from the heat sink.
US10132476B2
According to at least one aspect, a lighting device is provided. The lighting device comprises a circuit board, a light emitting diode (LED) mounted to the circuit board and configured to emit light, a lens disposed over the LED having a bottom surface facing the circuit board, a top surface opposite the bottom surface, and a lateral surface between the top and bottom surfaces, and an elastomer encapsulating at least part of the circuit board. The elastomer may not be in contact with at least part of the lateral surface of the lens so as to form a gap between the elastomer and the lateral surface of the lens.
US10132474B2
In an object verifier having a housing and an object holder, an object may be placed in the object holder for observation by an operator. The object is illuminated using a collimated beam of white light that is generated by a light generator. The collimated beam of white light is passed through a beam splitter with the two portions of the collimated beam of white light presented to the object at a 90 degree angle one from the other. The interior of the housing includes a reflective surface for maximal illumination of the object. The observer may view the illuminated object through a viewing window and/or through a magnification window. The magnification window provides for the viewing of the object in greater detail.
US10132472B2
An apparatus for generating light-based special effects viewable in daylight. The apparatus includes a barrel with opaque sidewalls defining an interior space accessible via a muzzle. The apparatus includes a light element positionable within the interior space and further includes a light positioning assembly. The apparatus includes a trigger element operable to receive user input to initiate operations of the light element and the light positioning assembly. A controller is provided that responds to the user input to operate the light positioning assembly to first move the light element out of the interior space through the muzzle and to second retract the light element back into the interior space. The controller concurrently operates the light element to generate the light when the light element is moved out of the interior space and to terminate the generating of the light when the light element is retracted back into the interior space.
US10132470B2
Described are an improved automated luminaire 12 and luminaire systems 10 employing an improved output Fresnel lens 46 with an optically planar surface 34 combined with an articulable stippling plate 47. The stippling plate 47 may be inserted and removed immediately behind and adjacent to the planar rear surface of the lens 46 in order to transform the optical system from beam optics to wash optics or immediately adjacent to another articulable lens system 29 directly the light beam toward the previously described Fresnel lens. Further embodiment may include an articulable beam spreader.
US10132465B2
Metalenses and technologies incorporating the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the metalenses are in the form of a hybrid multiregion collimating metalens that includes a first region and a second region, wherein the hybrid multiregion collimating metalens is configured to collimate (e.g., visible) light incident thereon. In some instances the first region includes an array of first unit cells that contain subwavelength spaced nanostructures, such that the first region functions as a subwavelength high contrast grating (SWHCG), whereas the second region includes an array of second unit cell, wherein the array of second unit cells includes a near periodic annular arrangement of nanostructures such that the second region approximates the functionality of a locally periodic radial diffraction grating. Lighting devices including such metalenses are also disclosed.
US10132458B2
A lighting device provides a lighting unit for emitting useful light and a sensor. The unit includes a laser diode for emitting pump radiation and a phosphor element, which during operation is irradiated by the laser diode and thereby excited and serves for converting the pump radiation into conversion light, which conversion light at least proportionally forms the useful light. The sensor monitors the pump radiation conversion and at the same time detects a conversion light intensity, and is arranged with respect to the phosphor element of the unit so that a portion of the useful light and a measurement portion of the conversion light is incident on the sensor. The lighting device operates so that the phosphor element at least at times is irradiated in a pulsed manner and thereby excited so that between two pulses the conversion light intensity detected by the sensor decreases by at least 10%.
US10132457B2
A light harvester or collector collects solar radiation from an unshaded location adjacent a growing plant. The light harvester can be either imaging (e.g., parabolic reflectors) or non-imaging (e.g., compound parabolic concentrator). The concentrated solar radiation is projected into a light transmitter that conducts the light through the plant's outer canopy and into the inner canopy to a diffuser which disperses and reradiates the light into the inner canopy. The diffused light transforms a non-productive, potentially leafless zone of the plant into a productive zone so that more fruit can be produced per volume of land surface. The system can prevent transmission of infrared into the inner canopy so that the inner canopy zone is not heated and the amount of water lost to transpiration is reduced. The system can also modify other spectral components to affect plant development and to control pests and diseases.
US10132455B2
The invention comprises a submersible solar lighting source, which incorporates photovoltaic panels, batteries, a lighting system and control in one and the same sealed, thin planar unit that allows illumination of the swimming pool during the night, and which has a slim design such that it can be adhered or fastened to the wall, steps or bottom of the swimming pool, allowing convenient wiring-free installation that does not interfere with the use of the pool.
US10132447B2
A pressure vessel refueling system enables consistent mass flow rates and reduces the in-tank temperature rise caused by the heat of compression as gas is added to a vessel. The system includes a pressure vessel having a first gas inlet/outlet port and an interior cavity, and a nozzle is in fluid communication with the first gas inlet/outlet port. The nozzle and the pressure vessel are thermally coupled such that Joule-Thomson expansion of a gas flowing through the nozzle cools the interior cavity and contents of the pressure vessel.
US10132427B1
A multi-stiffener for civil engineering and construction includes an outer pipe member, an inner pipe member, an inner pipe position adjusting pin and a positioning member. The outer pipe member includes an outer pipe strut plate provided at one end of the outer pipe member, a pair of slot-shaped symmetrical guide holes extending in a longitudinal direction from a position spaced apart by a predetermined distance from an open end of the outer pipe member, and a height-adjustment-purpose external thread formed around the guide holes. The inner pipe member includes an inner pipe strut plate provided at one end of the inner pipe member and a plurality of symmetrical through-holes formed at specific intervals from the inner pipe strut plate. The inner pipe position adjusting pin is configured to penetrate the guide holes of the outer pipe member and the through-holes of the inner pipe member.
US10132426B2
A system for recovering hose, including a hose receptacle having an open top portion for receiving a hose and attached hose couplings. The system further including a first device having a hose recovery means comprising an upper roller and a lower roller, at least one of the upper or lower rollers being powered, and a lifting arm operably coupled to the upper roller for moving the upper roller between a first position and a second position, the upper roller being closer to the lower roller when in the first position than when in the second position. Additionally, a platform having the first device arranged thereon and capable of moving above the receptacle along a first axis and a second axis to deposit the hose in the receptacle, and a platform moving means for moving the platform along the first axis and the second axis, wherein the first axis has first axis limits and the second axis has second axis limits, the first axis limits and second axis limits being substantially coextensive with dimensions of the open top portion of the hose receptacle.
US10132419B2
A valve device which comprises a valve housing having a plurality of shifting tongues and a valve slide that can move longitudinally in the valve housing. The valve slide is made with diameter sections which co-operate with the shifting tongues depending on an axial position of the valve slide. At least one of the diameter sections is made with at least one, at least approximately groove-like recess that extends in the circumferential direction of the valve slide. The groove-like recesses are functionally connected to an axial bore extending in the valve slide essentially in the axial direction, by way of at least one radial bore extending at least approximately in the radial direction in the valve slide.
US10132410B2
A sealing assembly for mating two sections of an electrical device enclosure is disclosed. The enclosure includes a top and bottom joinable section. The sealing assembly includes a first sealing section disposed on the top joinable section that has both first and second upper projecting lip extensions. The second upper projecting lip extension has a height less than the first upper projecting lip extension and forms a channel therebetween. A second sealing section is disposed on the bottom joinable section, and includes a downward projecting lip extension and channel. The downward projecting lip extension is offset from the first section first upward projecting lip extension when the top and bottom joinable sections are joined. At that point the downward projecting lip extension engages within the channel of the first sealing section, and the second upper projecting lip extension of said first sealing section is engaged within the second sealing section channel. The second sealing section channel can include a compressible gasket for waterproofing.
US10132409B2
A seal inserted into a circular opening in a work piece from a first direction for sealing a component inserted into the circular opening from a second direction is disclosed. The seal body has a ring shape and includes an upper edge and a lower edge. An upper seal extends radially outward and downward from the upper edge of the seal body, a lower seal extends radially inward and upward from the lower edge of the seal body, and a clip secures the seal to the circular opening.
US10132403B1
A transmission oil cooler transfers heat between Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) and engine coolant. During initial vehicle warm-up, heat is transferred from the engine coolant to the ATF, assisting the transmission warm-up. A priority valve may limit the flow of coolant to the transmission oil cooler until the coolant temperature is sufficient to ensure adequate cabin heating performance. After both the engine and transmission have reached normal operating temperatures, heat is transferred from the ATF to the engine coolant. An auxiliary radiator pre-cools the engine coolant before it enters transmission oil cooler. This increases the cooling of the ATF and avoids coolant temperature increase during aggressive maneuvers. When the ATF temperature is below a threshold, a coolant control valve diverts coolant around the auxiliary radiator.
US10132387B2
A mechanical engagement mechanism has regulation states out of a first state in which at least one of a plurality of rotating elements is rotatable only in a first direction and a second state in which the at least one of the plurality of rotating elements is not rotatable in both of the first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction and a reverse gear position is to be established. A non-traveling gear position is to be established in the first state or in the second state. A processor is to switch the regulation states of the mechanical engagement mechanism from the second state to the first state when oil pressure that is detected by an oil pressure sensor becomes lower than a predetermined oil pressure after switching a shift position from the reverse gear position to the non-traveling gear position is detected.
US10132376B2
A disk brake arrangement includes a retraction mechanism for positively retracting brake pads after application to the brake rotor. Preferably the retraction mechanism is energized by movement of a hydraulically actuated piston for applying one or more brake pads. In an embodiment a drag sleeve is associated with the piston to compensate for brake pad wear and provide a more constant retraction force for retraction of the brake pads.
US10132371B2
A bicycle disc brake rotor that further increases heat dissipation has a rotation axis. The bicycle disc brake rotor includes at east one outer circumferential portion, which includes at least one brake surface, and first and second inner circumferential parts, which are coupled to the outer circumferential portion. Each of the first and second inner circumferential parts is at least partially located radially inward from the outer circumferential portion with respect to the rotation axis. The first and second inner circumferential parts are arranged to form a gap in between in an axial direction that extends parallel to the rotation axis. At least one of the first and second inner circumferential parts includes at least one cooling enhancement section. The cooling enhancement section includes at least one opening that is in communication with the gap.
US10132370B2
In a non-excitation operative brake, a friction plate faces the inner disk part of an attraction plate made from a magnetic material, and an electromagnet faces the outer disk part of the attraction plate. A part for generating a brake force acting on a hollow shaft is located on an inner circumferential side in a radial direction of the attraction plate, while a part for magnetically attracting the attraction plate so as to release the brake force is located on an outer circumferential side in the radial direction of the attraction plate. A flat non-excitation operative brake having a reduced length in the direction of an axis line can be realized.
US10132367B2
A viscous clutch head may be replaced by selecting a viscous clutch head and a mount adapter. The viscous clutch head and the mount adapter may be selected from a group of universal modular fan drives and from a group of mount adapters. The mount adapter of a threaded type or a flange and bolt type may be selected. Depending on the viscous clutch head to be replaced, a fan adapter and/or a pilot adapter may also be selected from a group of fan adapters and from a group of pilot adapters. Accordingly, a range of models of viscous fan clutch systems may be replaced by using a limited number of parts. These parts may be stored on a tool cart. As different models of viscous fan clutch systems may be replaced using a limited number of parts, the in-stock inventory of replacement parts may be reduced.
US10132361B2
A method for manufacturing a propeller shaft comprising: a shaft portion of a circular tube shape; and a joint assembly to be joined to a transfer gear box side or a differential gear box side of the shaft portion, the joint assembly comprising a shaft-side joint to be joined to the shaft portion and an other-member-side joint to be coupled to a transfer gear box or to a differential gear box, the method having: a press fitting step of pressing the shaft-side joint of the joint assembly into the shaft portion, in a state in which the shaft-side joint and the other-member-side joint have been assembled into the joint assembly; and a welding step of welding the shaft portion and the joint assembly, after the press fitting step.
US10132344B2
An anchor bolt inserted in a mounting hole includes: a shaft including an expanded diameter portion formed on its distal end, the expanded diameter portion having a tapered outer peripheral surface; a sleeve, into which the shaft is inserted from the proximal end side of the shaft, such that the sleeve covers an outer peripheral surface of the shaft, the sleeve including an expandable portion, which is configured to bend outwardly along the expanded diameter portion when pushed from an insertion complete state of the shaft; and a fitting piece connecting the shaft and the sleeve. A first recessed groove is formed in a peripheral surface of the sleeve. A ring, which contacts an inner peripheral wall of the mounting hole, is fitted in the first recessed groove.
US10132343B2
A joint exhibits high tensile strength. The joint includes a solid rod having a slit or opening into which a wedge is inserted. The rod and wedge are inserted into a fitting. The internal surface of the fitting has a contour which continuously and nonlinearly varies with distance along the fitting. The wedge has a dimension having a similar contour. The shape of the contour can be described by a polynomial of order two or higher. The joint can be used to construct a sucker rod for an oil well, or it can be used in other applications. The joint can support high tensile loads, over long distances, while occupying a very narrow tubing bore.
US10132340B2
A system for carrying or using a device includes the device and at least one attachment apparatus. The device may include at least one attachment element. The attachment apparatus may include a length of material and at least one attachment point arranged on an end of the length of material. The at least one attachment point may include at least one magnetic feature configured to attach and detach the device and the length of material. The material can include but is not limited to cloth, metallic (magnetic and non-magnetic), fibrous material, and so forth.
US10132338B2
In accordance with an example embodiment, a system for managing a unique hydraulic system warmup method is described. A warmup system controller is central to the system and provides an interfacing point for communication to hardware components and a machine operator. The warmup system issues commands based on sensor inputs in light of defined rules and/or known physical properties of hydraulic fluids. Hydraulic system warmup is managed by the warmup system controller, which is configured to issue commands to affect hydraulic pumps and valves. By way of a controller managed process, the system functions to maximize hydraulic system pressure and limiting release of pressures in the lines, such that the pumps are able to maintain maximum pressure for a sufficient period of time.
US10132336B1
A method and apparatus for controlling torsional rotation and/or stiffness of a member by the use of artificial style activation elements.
US10132334B2
A system, including a magnetorheological (MR) fluid locking system, including a housing, a piston disposed in the housing, wherein the piston is configured to move axially within the housing, an MR fluid disposed in the housing, an MR fluid pump fluidly coupled to the housing, wherein the MR fluid pump is configured to pump the MR fluid into the housing, and an electromagnet configured to magnetize the MR fluid to control axial movement of the piston.
US10132333B2
One example of an actuation system includes a pneumatic muscle connected to a component to be actuated. The system also includes an actuation member connected in series to the pneumatic muscle and valve connected to the pneumatic muscle to control a pressure in the pneumatic muscle. The system also includes a positioning mechanism connected to the component to control a movement of the component and a controller connected to the pneumatic muscle, the valve, and the positioning mechanism, the controller to control actuation of the component by controlling the pressure in the pneumatic muscle.
US10132330B2
A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.
US10132329B2
A vacuum pump comprises a vacuum exhaust section, the vacuum exhaust section including a stator, and a rotor having a rotor cylindrical section, the rotor cylindrical section discharging gas in cooperation with the stator, a suction port; a base; an exhaust port disposed on the base, wherein at least a part of the exhaust port faces an outer peripheral surface of the stator, and gas sucked through the suction port by the vacuum exhaust section is discharged through the exhaust port; and a conductance increasing function section formed on at least one of the outer peripheral surface of the stator and an inner peripheral surface of the base, the outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface facing an exhaust path for gas discharged by the rotor cylindrical section and the stator leading to the exhaust port.
US10132322B2
A method of operating and cleaning a compressor comprising the following steps: passing a first fluid through the compressor, the first fluid comprising gas from a separator wherein the compressor is operating to compress the first fluid passed therethrough, mixing well fluid bypassed from upstream of the separator with the gas from the separator to produce a second fluid comprising gas and liquid wherein the gas and liquid are from at least one well; and passing the second fluid through the compressor, wherein the second fluid is passed through the compressor for a limited time period to clean a surface inside the compressor, the compressor operating to compress the second fluid passed therethrough.
US10132320B2
A resin magnet, a magnetic pole position detection resin magnet, and a sleeve bearing, which is disposed inside the resin magnet, are integrally molded together with a thermoplastic resin in a rotor portion. At the same time, an impeller attachment portion is formed by the thermoplastic resin.
US10132316B2
A scroll compressor includes a housing having therein a discharge pressure region, a compression pressure region and a suction pressure region; a fixed scroll to form a discharge chamber as the discharge pressure region; and a movable scroll cooperating with the fixed scroll to form a compression chamber as the compression pressure region. The discharge pressure region includes an oil separation chamber connected to at least one of the compression pressure region and the suction pressure region through an oil supply passage having a flow restrictor. The flow restrictor is provided by a gap between an oil supply hole formed in the fixed scroll and an insertion member inserted in the oil supply hole. The gap is in the form of a spiral groove provided in at least one of an inner peripheral surface of the oil supply hole and an outer peripheral surface of the insertion member.
US10132307B2
A malfunction diagnosing device that includes pistons arranged in a circumferential direction and discharges oil with rotation in the circumferential direction is provided, including: a pressure sensor for detecting a pressure value of oil discharged from a hydraulic pump in rotation; a speed sensor for detecting a rotation phase of the hydraulic pump at a time when a pressure value of oil is detected by the pressure sensor; a phase calculation part; and a rendering part for rendering a model of a relationship between pressure values of oil detected by the pressure sensor and rotation phases of the hydraulic pump detected by the speed sensor and the phase calculation part to thereby obtain pulsating waveform data. This makes it possible to diagnose a malfunction of the hydraulic pump without influence of a change in a rotation speed of the hydraulic pump.
US10132304B2
A method for controlling an electrical drive of an electrically driven air compressor of a motor vehicle and a corresponding control circuit. A prevailing load torque of the air compressor that is applied at a drive shaft of the compressed air compressor is estimated as a function of at least one operating parameter and is fed forward as an estimated disturbance variable to the control circuit of the electrical drive to reduce a control error produced as a result of the prevailing load torque.
US10132294B2
Method for feeding electric power into an electric supply grid by means of a wind farm, wherein the wind farm feeds into the supply grid from an interconnecting network and via a transformer, with the first interconnecting network having a interconnecting network voltage and the supply grid having a grid voltage, wherein feeding takes place based on a virtual measured voltage and a voltage of a virtual measurement point is calculated as the virtual measured voltage.
US10132285B2
A starter battery voltage step-up device (LPF) intended to prevent a drop in the battery voltage (Vbat) produced by a current surge in a power circuit of the starter when the starter is powered on. The device comprises a casing of magnetic material (C, YO, CM, CM′), a primary winding circuit (W1) intended to be inserted in series in the power circuit, and a short-circuited secondary winding circuit (W2), in which the primary winding circuit (W1) and/or the secondary winding circuit (W2) comprises a winding formed by at least one flat conductor (3) wound on edge. The invention also relates to the corresponding combination (1) of a starter and a voltage step-up device.
US10132284B2
An ignition device is provided for an idle stop & go system (ISG)-equipped vehicle using a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as a fuel. A separately installed auxiliary LPG switch detects the ON/OFF state of the LPG switch, drives fuel cut-off solenoid valves, and switches on/off together with the LPG switch. The ON/OFF state of the LPG switch can be determined based on an output voltage of the auxiliary LPG switch, and then ISG control can be implemented. After the fuel cut-off solenoid valves are driven, the fuel pipeline pressure remains in the state before the idle stop to improve the engine starting performance upon restarting. Also, in an emergency, the LPG and auxiliary LPG switches are simultaneously switched off, the fuel cut-off solenoid valves are quickly switched off and the fuel pump motor is stopped to quickly cut off the fuel supply and prevent a secondary accident in advance.
US10132276B2
A drawer type air cleaner having increased maintenance convenience is provided. The drawer type air cleaner includes a door that is configured to open or close an opening of filter receiving cavity formed in air cleaner body that suctions exterior air and discharges fresh air and a filter disposed in the filter receiving cavity and configured to filter out foreign substances from the exterior air and convert the exterior air into fresh air. The filter having a packing is disposed in the filter receiving cavity and thus provides an airtight seal between the filter and the filter receiving cavity. A filter protector is interlocked with an operation of closing the door to convert the filter from an incompletely coupled state when the filter disposed in the filter receiving cavity and is unable to compress the packing into a fully coupled state to a state when the filter compresses the packing.
US10132272B2
A carburetor for a gas powered internal combustion engine having a plurality of pressure reducing stages for reducing the pressure of the gas phase in a liquified petroleum gas storage bottle prior to the mixing of the gas phase of the liquified petroleum gas with ambient air.
US10132269B2
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block made of a first material having a plurality of cylinders and an insert made of a second material having a greater stiffness and a lower thermal coefficient of expansion than the first material and casted-in-place into the cylinder block. For each cylinder of the cylinder block, the insert includes a bolted anchor having a first threaded bore suitable to be engaged by an head bolt for fixing a cylinder head to the cylinder block, and a second threaded bore suitable to be engaged by a cap bolt for fixing a main bearing cap to the cylinder block, and a lubrication gallery connected to a plurality of the anchors.
US10132265B2
A fuel injection device comprising electricity-generating means generating electricity by rotation of an engine and outputting a predetermined signal, and a solenoid valve injecting fuel; the valve being opened as a result of a drive current applied to a coil, and the fuel being injected into an intake passage of the engine at a predetermined timing during the rotation of the engine; to ensure that the flow rate required during high-speed operation ca be adequately provided in a fuel injection device for injecting/supplying fuel to an engine. The electricity-generating means is an alternating current generation means attached to the engine in a crank angle position at which an output is generated in synchronization with the intake timing of the engine; the signal is an injection command signal applied to the solenoid valve as an alternating-current drive current; and the applied voltage increases with increased engine speed.
US10132261B2
A mass air flow measurement apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a plurality of pressure sensors disposed at different locations along an air intake path of the internal combustion engine, each pressure sensor adapted to sense a pressure of air flowing into the internal combustion engine and output an electrical signal as a pressure signal corresponding to the sensed air pressure; a carburetor having a plurality of booster venturis, the carburetor rendered permanently inoperable to mix fuel with air flowing in the air intake path, a body of the carburetor configured to accept one or more of the plurality of pressure sensors for each of the plurality of booster venturis; and a calculation section that receives the pressure signals and generates a mass air flow signal as an output signal to an engine management system to control an electronic fuel injection system based on the received pressure signals.
US10132253B2
The present disclosure relates to internal combustion engines. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods and devices for controlling the combustion processes taking place in the cylinders of an internal combustion engine. A method for controlling a combustion process in an internal combustion engine may include: measuring an actual camshaft position; measuring the actual rail pressure; calculating a phase correction value based on the measured actual rail pressure and a mass of fuel to be injected; calculating corrected actual camshaft positions based on the measured actual camshaft position and the respective phase correction value; calculating a mass of air depending on the determined corrected actual camshaft position; and calculating a fuel injection mass based on the mass of air determined for each cylinder.
US10132242B2
A gas turbine engine assembly includes first and second annular members having different first and second thermal expansion coefficients connected together with dual arm V brackets. Brackets include first and second arms angularly spaced apart from a bracket centerline and extending axially away from bracket bases attached to a first one of the first and second annular members. Arms are attached to a second one of the first and second annular members. A turbine frame includes struts extending between outer and inner rings. An annular mixer and centerbody substantially made from a ceramic matrix composite materials is connected to and supported by the outer and inner rings with first and second sets respectively of the dual arm V brackets. Bracket bases of the first and second sets are attached to the outer and inner rings respectively. Arms of the first and second sets are attached to mixer and centerbody respectively.
US10132240B2
A multi-functional fuel nozzle (10) for a combustion turbine engine is provided. An annular fuel-injecting lance (12) may include a first fluid circuit (14) and a second fluid circuit (16). One of the first and second fluid circuits during a liquid fuel operating mode of the combustion turbine engine may convey a liquid fuel. The other of the first and second fluid circuits may convey a selectable non-fuel fluid. An atomizer (30) is disposed at the downstream end of the lance. The atomizer may have a first ejection orifice (32) responsive to the first fluid circuit to form a first atomized ejection cone (34), and a second ejection orifice (36) responsive to the second fluid circuit to form a second atomized ejection cone (38). The first and second ejection cones (34, 38) formed with the atomizer may be concentric cones that intersect with one another over a predefined angular range.
US10132231B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is configured, when regenerative processing by an electric supercharger is executed, to control the opening degree of a throttle valve, the opening degree of an intake bypass valve and the power generation load on a motor generator to set the opening degree of the intake bypass valve and the power regeneration load so that a second intake pressure which is an intake pressure downstream of an electric compressor and upstream of a turbo compressor does not fall below a second specific pressure value, based on a request intake air flow rate of the internal combustion engine and the second intake pressure.
US10132229B2
An expansion tank for a motor-vehicle cooling system has an inlet port and an outlet port and is provided with a plastic shell having a container and two protruding collars, respectively at the two ports; at least one of the collars defines a seat, which is engaged by a tubular insert coaxial to the collar; elastically deformable teeth are provided for snap-coupling the tubular insert and the shell to each other and axially retaining the tubular insert in the seat.
US10132218B2
The present disclosure relates to engines for a motor vehicle and some embodiments include a method for operating an exhaust train of a motor vehicle engine including: measuring a particle concentration downstream of a particle filter at a first operating point; determining the filter efficiency at the first operating point; changing operation of the engine to a second operating point to increase the particle emissions; measuring the particle concentration downstream of the filter at the second operating point; determining the filter efficiency at the second operating point; determining a difference between the efficiency levels; detecting an offset error, if the difference exceeds a defined threshold; and identifying a particle sensor as defective if an offset error is detected, rather than identifying the particle filter as defective.
US10132211B2
The invention relates to a rotor for a camshaft adjuster for rotation about a rotation axis. The rotor has an inner sheath and an outer sheath and at least one control vane, pointing at least substantially radially away from the rotation axis, having a first control vane side and a second control vane side. The rotor furthermore has a first liquid channel system and a second liquid channel system, wherein the first liquid channel system opens in a first liquid channel opening and the second liquid channel system opens in a second liquid channel opening. The rotor comprises: a first sintered joining part, a second sintered joining part which is joined to the first sintered joining part and an insert part which is inserted in an intermediate chamber which is formed by at least one of a first recess of the first sintered joining part and a second recess of the second sintered joining part. The invention further relates to a parts set and to a method for producing a joined component.
US10132210B1
A camshaft phaser, including: a stator to receive rotational torque from an engine and including a radially inwardly facing surface and a slot in the radially inwardly facing surface; a rotor to non-rotatably connect to a camshaft, to be connected to an electric motor and including a first radially outwardly extending protrusion; and a spring non-rotatably connected to the stator and including a first portion disposed in the slot. The electric motor is arranged to rotate the rotor with respect to the stator. In a first circumferential position of the rotor with respect to the stator: no portion of the spring is disposed in the indent; and a second portion of the spring extends radially inwardly past the radially inwardly facing surface. In a second circumferential position of the rotor with respect to the stator, the second portion of the spring is disposed in the indent.
US10132202B2
An adjustable camshaft can be used in valve drives of internal combustion engines, amongst other places. The adjustable camshaft may include an outer shaft and an inner shaft that is concentric with and rotatably supported in the outer shaft. A cam having a cam bore may be rotatably supported on an outer surface of the outer shaft so as to form a slide bearing gap between the cam and the outer shaft. The cam may be rotatably-fixed to the inner shaft so that the inner shaft and the cam rotate with one another. Furthermore, the adjustable camshaft may include an oil channeling groove disposed beneath the cam in the outer surface of the outer shaft. In many cases, at least one side of the oil channeling groove may be exposed such that it extends beyond the slide bearing gap and the cam.
US10132196B2
Gas turbine engine systems involving I-beam struts are provided. In this regard, a representative strut assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first I-beam strut having first and second flanges spaced from each other and interconnected by a web, the first strut exhibiting a twist along a length of the web.
US10132193B2
A duct assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a casing body that extends between a flange and a wall, a first discrete cooling passage formed in the casing body and a second discrete cooling passage circumferentially spaced from the first discrete cooling passage. At least one of the first discrete cooling passage and the second discrete cooling passage includes an axial portion and a tangential portion configured to turn a cooling fluid communicated in each of the first and second discrete cooling passages.
US10132185B2
A gas turbine engine assembly comprising a rotor, a gas path component, and a carrier. The rotor includes a shaft adapted to rotate about an axis and a gas-path component that extends from the shaft for rotation therewith about the axis. The carrier extends around the gas-path component to block gasses from passing over the gas-path component during rotation of the rotor.
US10132184B2
A seal assembly includes a seal arc segment that defines radially inner and outer sides. The radially outer side includes radially-extending sidewalls and a radially inner surface that joins the radially-extending sidewalls, with the radially-extending sidewalls and the radially inner surface defining a pocket. A rail shield has radially-extending walls that line the radially-extending sidewalls. A spring is configured to bias the rail shield radially inward.
US10132183B2
A method of working a brush seal assembly for a turbine engine is disclosed and includes the steps of removing an alignment tab from a used brush seal assembly, restoring at least one dimension of the alignment tab to a desired condition and attaching the restored alignment tab to a new brush seal assembly.
US10132180B2
The invention relates to a mold for injecting a layer of abradable material, such as silicone, inside an inner shroud of an axial-flow turbomachine. The mold comprises a circular wall or tubular wall extending axially and two annular walls extending radially outwardly from the axial ends of the axial wall. Each radial wall of the mold comprises an annular hook in contact with the outer surface of the shroud so as to hold the mold against the shroud. The injection pressure presses the hooks against the shroud, providing a seal. The walls form an annular molding cavity inside the inner shroud in combination with the inner shroud. The invention also relates to a method for molding an abradable layer inside the shroud with the aid of the mold. The latter is deformed by spreading apart the hooks so as to fit over the shroud.
US10132176B2
A method of fabricating airfoil cluster includes providing an airfoil cluster that has a pair of spaced-apart airfoils that extend from a common platform wall. The airfoil cluster is then divided through the common platform wall to provide separate first and second airfoil segments. At least one cooling hole is then formed in at least one of the first and second airfoil segments. The segments are then metallurgically fused together in a distinct metallurgical joint in the common platform wall.
US10132169B2
A rotor blade for a gas turbine that is configured for use within a row of samely configured rotor blades attached to and circumferentially spaced about a rotor disc. The rotor blade may further include: an airfoil defined between pressure and suction faces; and a midspan shroud comprising a pressure wing and a suction wing extending from the airfoil. The pressure wing and the suction wing of the midspan shroud may be configured so to cooperatively form an interface between installed neighboring ones of the rotor blades within the row of samely configured rotor blades. The interface may include a first one of the pressure wing and the suction wing disposed as an upstream wing and a remaining other one of the pressure wing and the suction wing disposed as a downstream wing. The interface may include the upstream wing and the downstream wing configured as a downstream narrowing step.
US10132158B2
An example apparatus includes a drill bit body and a leg extending from the drill bit body. A journal may extend from the leg, with a gamma ray detector at least partially within the journal. In certain embodiments, the gamma ray detector may be confined within a pressure protective cavity at least partially within the arm of the journal. In certain embodiments, the gamma ray detector may be a scintillator aligned with at least one of a photomultiplier, photodiodes, or phototransistors.
US10132157B2
A system for ranging between two wellbores. The target wellbore includes a conductive body (e.g., casing) disposed within a portion of the target wellbore. A second wellbore includes an electromagnetic field sensing instrument positioned within the wellbore. A current delivered to the conductive body in the target wellbore results in a magnetic field emanating from the target wellbore. The electromagnetic field sensing instrument is utilized to measure an electromagnetic gradient based on the magnetic field, which electromagnetic gradient can be utilized to determine the range between the wellbores.
US10132156B2
Downhole distributed pressure sensor arrays include sensor housings each comprising at least one pressure sensor in a pressure housing. Downhole pressure sensors include a housing, at least one pressure sensor in a pressure housing portion of the housing, and at least one isolation element positioned at an outer wall of the housing.
US10132140B2
A method for injecting a portion of a drilling fluid waste into a well includes separating solids from the drilling fluid waste to produce a filtered drilling fluid waste. A cross-sectional dimension of at least a portion of the solids is reduced. The filtered drilling fluid waste is combined with the at least a portion of the solids that were reduced in dimension to produce a slurry. A property of the slurry is measured. The property is adjusted in response to measuring the property. The slurry is injected into the well.
US10132134B2
An annular seat structure, for use in subterranean well stimulation operations, is operative in conjunction with associated expansion control structure to permit a predetermined number of fracture plug members to axially pass therethrough. In an illustrated embodiment thereof, the annular seat structure is movable between a retracted position having a first interior diameter, and a resiliently expanded position having a second, larger interior diameter. The seat structure has an annular array of rigid ring segments interdigitated with annular gaps that receive radially outwardly projecting portions of an annular resilient liner secured to radially inner surfaces of the rigid ring segments, the outwardly projecting liner portions being secured to circumferentially facing surfaces of the rigid ring segments. An annular spring member coaxially circumscribes the rigid ring segment array, is received in notches formed in the rigid segments, and resiliently biases the seat structure toward its retracted position.
US10132131B2
A drilling well pulling tool comprising a longitudinal body having an inner cavity. A sleeve is slideably disposed about a portion of the longitudinal body, the sleeve moveable from a first position to a second position. A dog member is retractable from an extended position to a retracted position relative the body when the sleeve is moved from the first position to the second position. A release lug abuts and resists movement of the sleeve from the first position, the lug releasable to the inner cavity thereby permitting slideable movement of the sleeve. An electromechanical actuator releases the release lug upon actuation.
US10132124B2
Disclosed is a tubular pipe string element having a pin connector and a box connector complementary to the pin connector. The pin and box connectors are rotationally engageable with the respective box and pin connectors of another pipe string element and have complementary anti-rotation devices that cooperate to prevent unintentional relative rotation between the connectors. The anti-rotation devices may include saw-tooth profiled, radially extending teeth and a steep trailing tooth flank angle for the pin member, and at least one detent member formed on the pipe string element for the box connector. When securing the pin and box connectors, the leading flanks of the teeth engage with the detent members while allowing the connectors to rotate into a fully connected position. The steep trailing tooth flank is trapped by the detent member when in the fully connected position to prevent unintentional release of the connection.
US10132123B2
A drill-pipe communication assembly includes a first drill pipe segment. A conductor extends at least partially along a length of the first drill pipe segment. An antenna is electrically coupled to the first drill pipe segment. The antenna facilitates wireless transmission of signals from the first drill pipe segment to an adjacent second drill pipe segment.
