US10142749B2
Among other things, one or more non-transitory machine-readable media storing instructions are described. The stored instructions are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising analyzing an effect of noise in a spatial unit on sound in the spatial unit, at least part of the sound being produced by audio signals; selecting an adjustment curve among a group of adjustment curves based on one or more characteristics of the noise; and determining an amount of adjustment to be made to the audio signals based on the analyzed effect and the selected adjustment curve.
US10142746B2
A hearing prosthesis including an actuator. The actuator includes a material that deforms in response to an electrical signal and that is adapted to, upon implantation in a recipient, transmit vibrations representative of a sound signal to an organ of the recipient, wherein the material is at least partially exposed to at least one of body tissue and fluid of the recipient.
US10142745B2
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, adapted for being arranged at least partly on a user's head or at least partly implanted in a user's head is provided. The hearing device comprises an own voice detector comprising first and second signal strength detectors for providing signal strength estimates of first and second electric input signals. The own voice detector comprises a comparison unit operationally coupled to the first and second signal strength detectors and configured to compare the signal strength estimates of the first and second electric input signals and to provide an indication of the difference between said signal strength estimates; and a control unit for providing an own voice detection signal indicative of a user's own voice being present or not present in the current sound in the environment of the user, the own voice detection signal being dependent on said signal strength comparison measure.
US10142742B2
In one embodiment, an audio system can replace a portion of an audio signal within a first range of frequencies, with an amplitude modulated noise signal comprising frequencies within the first range of frequencies and having a volume envelope corresponding to a volume envelope of the audio signal within a second range of frequencies.
US10142736B2
An electroacoustic transducer includes: a diaphragm having two pairs of longitudinal split tubular surfaces; a converter that performs conversion between vibration of the diaphragm and an electric signal; and a supporter supporting the diaphragm. The two pairs of longitudinal split tubular surfaces form valleys and ridge portions. In each pair of the two pairs of longitudinal split tubular surfaces, one-side portions of the respective longitudinal split tubular surfaces form a valley. Another-side portion of the split tubular surface of each one of the two pairs and an other-side portion of the split tubular surface of the other of the two pairs form a ridge portion. The two pairs of longitudinal split tubular surfaces are arranged in at least one of a state in which the valleys are orthogonal to each other and a state in which the ridge portions are orthogonal to each other.
US10142724B2
A sound output device has a sound output unit outputting sound to an exterior, a battery attachment unit to which an electric tool battery is attached, and a case supporting the sound output unit and the battery attachment unit. The case includes a first inner wall structure defining a first inner space accommodating the sound output unit, and a second inner wall structure defining a second inner space different from the first inner space. The second inner wall structure is configured to resonate the sound output of the sound output unit.
US10142721B2
This application describes methods and apparatus for selectively clamping a signal path (106) for an analog audio signal to a clamp voltage, e.g. ground. Voltage clamping circuitry (200) is disclosed having a first switching device (201) in series with a second switching device (202) between a node of the signal path and the clamp voltage. The clamping circuitry is configured to be operable in: a first state where the first and second switching devices are both on to electrically connect the signal path to the clamp voltage; and also a second state to electrically disconnect the signal path from the clamp voltage. In the second state one of the first and second switching devices is configured to block conduction when the voltage at said node of the signal path is positive and the other switching device is configured to block conduction when the voltage at said node of the signal path is negative.
US10142712B2
Embodiments describe transceiver architectures to enable ‘loopback’ operation, thereby allowing or on-chip or intra module characterization of the transceiver. This includes but is not limited to tests such as bit error rate (BER) characterization, received power characterization and calibration of filters (MUX, DMUX etc.) present in the transceiver. Embodiments may also describe architectures for superimposing low-speed data on to the signal coming out of a transmitter, which in turn enables low frequency communication between network elements in the external link.
US10142707B2
In a computing device for streaming media content, information relating to a video bitstream is transmitted to a client device for displaying a user interface. An input signal is received from the client device indicating a desired start time in the video bitstream. Based on the start time, a target key frame is identified within the video, the target key frame comprising a nearest key frame in the video bitstream preceding the desired start time. A target frame header comprising a nearest header frame in the video preceding the target key frame is identified within the video bitstream. If necessary, the target key frame is converted to a first frame type. Only the target frame header, the target key frame, and video bitstream that follows the converted target key frame is sent to the client device, where the original frame referencing encoded in the video bitstream is utilized.
US10142697B2
Various enhanced interactive TV experiences are supported by a real-time TV service that can interact over a network with applications running on interactive TV platforms. The real-time television service enables data, video, and communication user interface (UI) elements to be supported alongside the linear TV content in three discrete navigational states, each with a specific role aligning to user intent. In the case of one particular UI element—a focused companion panel—a live stream of personalized data is supported that enhances the user's comprehension and awareness of live events. The real-time TV service can further enable users to opt in to certain customizable events and be served notifications on the TV screen on which their attention is directed, and follow the notification into an application that lands them on a specific piece of content that satisfies specific conditions.
US10142696B2
There is provided a system having a memory and a processor to establish a viewing group having a plurality of users, provide an ordered list of a plurality of media contents, make a first media content in the ordered list of the plurality of media contents available for viewing by each of the plurality of users in the viewing group, track a viewing progress of the first media content by each of the plurality of users in the viewing group, and make a second media content in the ordered list of the plurality of media contents available for viewing by each of the plurality of users in the viewing group based on one or more rules related to the viewing progress of the first media content by each of the plurality of users in the viewing group.
US10142695B2
A system for facilitating access to items of content presents recommendations to a user. Items of content may include movies and television shows. Recommendations may include access plans specifying a plurality of digital media services, where each specified digital media service provides availability to items of content included in a user defined set. Further, recommendations may be based on one or more use defined constraints. User defined constraints may include a user budget for accessing items of content during a specific time period.
US10142691B2
Currently delivered content data of contents are received and are each able to be output to an output unit. An estimated value for evaluating a posting status of posted information, that is posted on a Web page in association with the content, is computed. Based on the estimated value, it is determined whether or not a switching condition for switching a main content among the contents, that is being output to the output unit, to a sub-content among the contents, that is not being output to the output unit, is satisfied. If it is determined that the switching condition is satisfied, information utilized to switch the content is output to the output unit.
US10142682B2
An image display device includes an antenna built in the image display device to receive a broadcast service signal, a display unit configured to display a screen corresponding to the received broadcast service signal, and a controller configured to determine whether reception sensitivity of the broadcast service signal received through the antenna is equal to or less than reference sensitivity, to acquire broadcast reception information for receiving the broadcast service signal upon determining that the reception sensitivity of the received broadcast service signal is equal to or less than the reference sensitivity, and to display a position of the antenna corresponding to the acquired broadcast reception information on the display unit.
US10142677B2
An entry device for a cable television (CATV) network includes an input port configured to receive CATV signals from the CATV network, a first splitter electrically connected to the input port, an active signal path electrically connected to the first splitter, a passive signal path electrically connected to the first splitter, a second splitter electrically connected to the active signal path, and active ports electrically connected to the second splitter. The active ports are configured to communicate with one another via the second splitter. The entry device also includes a passive port electrically connected to the passive signal path and configured to communicate with the input port via the passive signal path, a filter configured to block multimedia over coaxial alliance (MoCA) signals from proceeding to the input port, and a signal bypass path configured to transmit the MoCA signals between the active ports and the passive port.
US10142671B2
Disclosed herein is a user interface apparatus for vehicles including light sources, a touch sensor to sense touch, light guides to transfer light generated by the light sources, and a top cover to cover the light sources, the touch sensor and the light guides and to transmit light emitted from the light guides to the interior of a vehicle. The light sources includes a first light source and at least one second light sources, the light guides includes first and second light guides to receive light generated by the first light source and to transfer the light to first and second regions and at least one third light guide configured to receive light generated by the at least one second light source and to transfer the light to a third region, and light generated by the first light source is dispersed and provided to the first and second light guides.
US10142667B2
A server apparatus includes a storage, an acquisition unit, and a controller. The storage stores association information that associates access information on the program processing apparatus corresponding to user identification information with the user identification information. The acquisition unit acquires the user identification information and program-specifying information that specifies a broadcast program. The controller specifies the access information on the association information from the user identification information. Then, the controller causes the program processing apparatus to perform processing regarding the broadcast program specified by the program-specifying information acquired by the acquisition unit by using the access information.
US10142650B2
The method includes determining at least one candidate motion vector associated with a neighboring block of said current block. A prediction motion vector is determined from the candidate motion vector, and the current block is coded from the prediction motion vector. The prediction motion vector is determined according by determining, for the candidate motion vector, a corrective motion vector so as to minimize a distortion calculated between the neighoboring block successively coded and reconstructed and a prediction block motion compensated by the at least one candidate motion vector modified by the corrective motion vector. The prediction motion vector is then determined from the candidate motion vector modified by the corrective motion vector.
US10142644B2
A system for decoding a data stream, comprising: a first decoder configured to decode the data stream at a first rate so as to generate a first stream of frames for playback and arranged to continue generating the first stream despite encountering an error in a particular frame; a second decoder operable to decode the data stream at a second rate so as to generate a second stream of frames; and a controller configured to: detect the error and cause the second decoder to decode the data stream from the particular frame in dependence on error correction data, the second rate being faster than the first rate such that the second stream catches up with the first stream; determine when the second decoder catches up with the first decoder; and cause the second decoder to operate at the first rate so as to generate the second stream for playback.
US10142640B2
Method and apparatus for using small-sized buffer in compression/decompression with block prediction
A buffer device is used by a compressor/decompressor with block prediction for storing information needed to encode/decode a pixel line. Vector information (e.g., final block prediction vector information and/or partial block prediction vector information) of at least one later pixel group is computed while a current pixel group is being encoded/decoded. The buffer device does not need to store vector information of all pixel groups of one pixel line at the same time. For example, one pixel line is composed of M pixel groups; and when the compressor/decompressor is encoding/decoding the current pixel line, final/partial vector information sets of at most K pixel groups are allowed to be stored in the buffer device simultaneously, where K is a positive integer smaller than M.
US10142637B2
A method and apparatus for parallel processing of at least two bins relating to at least one of a video and an image. The method includes determining scan type of at least a portion of the at least one of video and an image, analyzing neighboring position of a bin, removing dependencies of context selection based on the scan type and position of location being encoded in a transform, and performing parallel processing of that least two bins.
US10142631B2
An adaptive offset filter (60) adds an offset to the pixel value of each pixel forming an input image. The adaptive offset filter (60) refers to offset-type specifying information, sets offset attributes for a subject unit area of the input image, decodes an offset having a bit width corresponding to an offset value range included in the set offset attributes, and adds the offset to the pixel value of each pixel forming the input image.
US10142620B2
Systems and methods provide a retro-reflective screen covered with a screen material. The retro-reflective screen has a plurality of retro-reflective screen elements positioned within the screen material. At least one of the plurality of retro-reflective screen elements is oriented so as to have an incident angle that is less than 45 degrees. Additionally, a portion of the screen material that corresponds to the at least one screen element has an incident angle that is greater than the incident angle of the at least one screen element. Additionally, the system also comprises at least one projector that (i) generates light characterizing an image or video and (ii) projects the light onto the retro-reflective screen.
US10142617B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate for implementing 2D/3D display switch. The array substrate includes M*N pixel units arranged in an array form, and M and N are positive integers. Each pixel unit includes at least a first pixel subunit A and a second pixel subunit B, the M*N pixel units include at least 2M*N pixel subunits. During the 2D display, the first pixel subunit A and the second pixel subunit B of the pixel unit in an mth row display identical image information, m is a positive integer less than or equal to M. During the 3D display, the first pixel subunit A of the pixel unit in the mth row and the second pixel subunit B of the pixel unit in an (m−1)th row display identical image information, and m is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to M.
US10142616B2
An eyeglass-less 3D display device, and a device and method that compensate for a displayed margin of error are provided. The display device acquires an image of an integral image display (IID) image captured by a single camera, and compensates for a margin of error which arises due to a discrepancy between the designed position of a micro lens array located on one surface of a 2D panel and the actual position thereof, so as to provide a high-quality 3D image.
US10142604B2
This invention performs encoding with high encoding efficiency while suppressing image quality degradation when RAW image data obtained by imaging is to be encoded. Hence, an imaging apparatus that encodes an image captured by an image sensor includes a plane converting unit configured to convert RAW image data of a Bayer array obtained by the image sensor into a plurality of planes each comprised of a pixel of a single component, a frequency transforming unit configured to generate a plurality of subbands by frequency-transforming each of the obtained planes, a non-linear converting unit configured to non-linearly convert coefficient data forming each of the subbands based on camera information related to imaging in the imaging apparatus, and an encoding unit configured to encode by quantizing the coefficient data obtained by the non-linear conversion by the non-linear converting unit.
US10142595B2
A driving assistance device includes a camera, a moving object detector, a candidate reflection region detector, a predetermined position brightness detector and a cause determiner. The moving object detector and the candidate reflection region detector set a detection region for detecting, from image data captured by the camera, an existence of an adjacent vehicle in an adjacent lane. The predetermined position brightness detector detects a candidate light projecting object which projects light with brightness equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value. The cause determiner determines whether or not there exists a candidate light projecting object which indicates the existence of the adjacent vehicle in the detection region.
US10142591B1
This disclosure is directed to facilitating voice and video communication between users independent of a location or a device. A communication request can specify users, who may be identified and located in their respective environments. For example, users can be identified and located using facial recognition imaging techniques and/or by monitoring a radio frequency (RF) signal associated with a device that is carried or worn by a user. After determining a location of a user, individual devices can be configured as a functionally grouped device to allow the users to communicate. For example, capabilities of a television, microphone, speaker, and imaging device can be combined to allow a video communication between users. Further, as a user moves around his or her environment, the location of the user can be tracked and additional functionally grouped devices can be provided for seamless communication.
US10142582B2
A system and circuit for television power state control are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power management circuit is coupled to a television and interposed between a video feed and an image display engine as well as between an audio feed and a speaker. The power management circuit selectively alternates the television between three states: powered ON /operating state (first state); power standby state (second state); and no/low power state (third state). Utilized with a television in a commercial application, the system and circuit are employed to provide accelerated turn-on time to receive an image for user interaction, while providing sufficient control to maintain energy power savings.
US10142578B2
Providing communication includes receiving, via a set-top box of a first communication device, a call request message via a network from a second communication device, sending, via the set-top box, a notification message to a remote control device of the first communication device while a television set is turned off, providing, via the remote control device, a user prompt in response to the sending of the notification message, and establishing, via the remote control device, a communication connection through the set-top box with the second communication device after receiving a call response, the remote control device being wirelessly connected to the set-top box.
US10142576B2
A control device may include a control unit to switch an output information to a predetermined output information, when a transition of contents of a controlled device is detected.
US10142575B2
An image sensor comprises a first die with an array of pixels and a second die. The first die and second die are stacked together. A first in-pixel part of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) outputs at least one current signal. The first in-pixel part of the ADC is a Differential Transconductance Amplifier includes a first differential input for receiving the analog signal and a second differential input for receiving a reference signal. There is at least one output bus connected between the first in-pixel part of the ADC on the first die and the second part of the ADC on the second die. The first part of the ADC is adapted to output the at least one current signal to the at least one output bus, and the second part of the ADC is adapted to receive the at least one current signal and to generate a digital signal.
US10142571B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions for each of a plurality of microlenses, performs readout control using one of a first readout method of reading out a plurality of image signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions corresponding to each of the microlenses, and a second readout method of reading out an added image signal from the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions corresponding to each of the microlenses, determines whether an image signal is read out using the first readout method or the second readout method, adds the plurality of image signals read out using the first readout method, and adjusts the added image signal obtained through the addition by an increased amount of the black level that has increased due to the addition as an adjustment value.
US10142565B2
A flash thermography device for generating an infrared image of each of a plurality of rotating turbine components located inside a turbine. The device includes an infrared sensor for detecting thermal energy radiated by each component. The device also includes a borescope having a viewing end located on a longitudinal axis of the borescope. The borescope is positioned in an inspection port to locate the viewing end inside the turbine such that at least one component is within a field of view of the viewing end. In addition, the device includes a flash source that generates a plurality of light pulses corresponding to the number of components that rotate during a single rotation of the rotor, wherein the light pulses are oriented substantially transverse to the longitudinal. Thermal energy radiated from each component is transmitted through the borescope to the infrared sensor to enable generation infrared images.
US10142560B2
Systems and methods for implementing array cameras configured to perform super-resolution processing to generate higher resolution super-resolved images using a plurality of captured images and lens stack arrays that can be utilized in array cameras are disclosed. An imaging device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one imager array, and each imager in the array comprises a plurality of light sensing elements and a lens stack including at least one lens surface, where the lens stack is configured to form an image on the light sensing elements, control circuitry configured to capture images formed on the light sensing elements of each of the imagers, and a super-resolution processing module configured to generate at least one higher resolution super-resolved image using a plurality of the captured images.
US10142550B2
A method for controlling an imaging system comprising a variable focal length (VFL) lens having first and second operating resonant frequencies, a lens controller, and a camera is disclosed. The first frequency provides a larger optical power variation and large focus range, at the expense of aberration in the imaging system. The second frequency provides a smaller optical power variation and small focus range, but provides low aberration in the imaging system. The method comprises: providing an extended focus range demand to the lens controller and, in response, configuring the lens controller to operate the VFL lens at the first resonant frequency (e.g., to provide a large autofocus search range). The method further comprises: providing an accurate image demand signal to the lens controller and, in response, configuring the lens controller to operate the VFL lens at the second resonant frequency (e.g., to provide low aberration images).
US10142547B2
To provide an electronic device capable of a variety of display. To provide an electronic device capable of being operated in a variety of ways. An electronic device includes a display device and first to third surfaces. The first surface includes a region in contact with the second surface, the second surface includes a region in contact with the third surface, and the first surface includes a region opposite to the third surface. The display device includes first to third display regions. The first display region includes a region overlapping with the first surface, the second display region includes a region overlapping with the second surface, and the third display region includes a region overlapping with the third surface. The first display region has a larger area than the third display region.
US10142542B2
Embodiments of the present illuminated sign may comprise a front panel having text that indicates that an area adjacent the illuminated sign is protected by video surveillance, an illumination source located behind the front panel, a camera, a communication module configured to receive and transmit wireless communication signals, and a power source providing power to the illumination source, the camera, and the communication module. The camera may comprise a front-facing camera and a rear-facing camera, or an omnidirectional camera.
US10142538B2
A focusing device for a camera having a lens includes a LIDAR module, a camera interface and a controller communicably coupled to the LIDAR module and the camera interface. The controller receives data from the LIDAR module, displays one or more targets using the data from the LIDAR module via a user interface, receives a target selection via the user interface, determines a focus setting using the LIDAR data, the target selection and a camera operational data, and sends the focus setting to the camera interface. The camera interface receives the focus setting and drives the lens of the camera to focus on the target selection using the focus setting.
US10142533B2
Technologies for managing access to image data streams generated by a plurality of image sensors of an image sensor array include a camera driver module. The camera driver module limits exposure to a user to all but one of the image sensors of the image sensor array. In some embodiments, the image sensor array may include a single primary image sensor that is exposed to the user and one or more secondary sensors that are not exposed to the user. In other embodiments, the image sensor array may include more than one primary image sensor and any number of secondary image sensors. In such an embodiment, only one of the primary image sensors are exposed to the user, and none of the secondary image sensors, if available, are exposed to the user. Other embodiments are described herein and claimed.
US10142521B2
Disclosed is a method that includes receiving an audio video stream, decoding the audio video stream to yield decoded video and decoded audio, transmitting the decoded video on a video cable to a display, transmitting a signal, such as, for example, a signal on an audio channel of the video cable, identifying an impulse response based on a received signal responsive to the transmitting of the signal, identifying a delay amount based on the impulse response and transmitting the decoded audio to a loudspeaker according to the delay amount. The cable can include an HDMI cable with the audio return channel (ARC) capability.
US10142512B2
A server device transmits picture image data to an image printing device, and transmits, to a portable terminal, moving image data corresponding to the picture image data. The server device includes a storage unit storing the picture image data and the moving image data, a picture-image data transmission unit transmitting the picture image data to the image printing device, a storage location information transmission unit transmitting storage location information of the moving image data to the image printing device, and a moving-image data transmission unit transmitting the moving image data to the portable terminal that has read, from a printed matter on which the picture image data and a code image obtained by coding the storage location information are printed by the image printing device, the code image, that has acquired the storage location information from the read code image, and that has accessed the server device.
US10142509B2
A scanning device comprises a scan assembly, a control processor and an output interface. The scan assembly comprises two scanner modules for scanning front and reverse sides of a data medium to obtain front side analog data and reverse side analog data. The control processor electrically connected to the scan assembly controls the scan assembly, and executes an analog-to-digital converting process to convert the front side analog data and the reverse side analog data into front side digital data and reverse side digital data. The output interface electrically connected to the control processor outputs even sets of digital data, comprising the front side digital data and the reverse side digital data, to an image forming apparatus, so that the image forming apparatus performs even-set data typesetting and outputting after the even sets of digital data are completely outputted. An image forming system using the scanning device is also disclosed.
US10142501B2
A multifunction peripheral (MFP) acquires a display setting of an operation unit in the MFP, which is associated with a user at a client terminal, when accessed from the client terminal. The MFP performs control so that display of an operation screen of the MFP in the client terminal becomes display according to the acquired display setting of the operation unit.
US10142499B2
A sample image and a folder name of a selected saving destination folder are obtained, and character recognition processing is performed on the sample image to obtain character strings. When it is determined that the same character string as the folder name of the saving destination folder exists among the obtained character strings, an area where the same character string is detected as an enlargement area, and the identified enlargement area, the sample image, and the folder name are registered while being associated with one another. When a target image on which distribution processing is performed is obtained, a sample image similar to the obtained target image is identified, and an enlargement area registered while being associated with the identified sample image is identified. An area of the target image corresponding to the enlargement area identified by the identification unit is enlarged and displayed on a folder specification screen.
US10142498B2
An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to the one or more image forming apparatuses through a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that registers an image forming job that is received from one of the image forming apparatuses in association with information on a user who has authority to execute the image forming job, acquires information on a location of the user, determines whether or not the user is located at a first area based on the information on the location of the first user to generate a first determination result, and determines an operation to be performed on the image forming job based on the first determination result.
US10142497B2
It is made possible to print an image stored in an image processing apparatus by a printing apparatus without requiring a complicated operation. By a printing apparatus operating as a first access point by fixed authentication information, in the case where the communication is controlled in a first mode for performing a wireless LAN connection with an image processing apparatus storing the fixed authentication information, a beacon signal including a specific SSID included in the fixed authentication information is transmitted, and in the case where the image processing apparatus receives printing instructions, a connection without intervention of a second access point different from the printing apparatus and the image processing apparatus is established with the printing apparatus by using the fixed authentication information and an image to be printed is transmitted to the printing apparatus on a condition that a beacon signal including the specific SSID is detected.
US10142495B2
A system and method for managed device data collection includes a data collector controller for control of monitoring activity of networked multifunction peripherals. A user interface includes a display rendering a plurality of processor rendered interactive user configuration screens. Displayed configuration screens solicit and receive corresponding user input. The configuring screens facilitate setting device user interaction including setting a network address, network connectivity testing, modification of device certificates, changing network settings, and a testing discovery, registration or data transfer mechanism for multifunction peripheral device data collection. A data storage stores user selection data received via rendered configuration screens and the processor outputs stored user selection data as configuration data for data collection from the multifunction peripherals.
US10142491B1
A system, method and program product for implementing a cellular resource sharing support system. A system is disclosed that includes: a behavior analysis system that collects usage data from a set of mobile devices in a cellular network; a subscription manager that computationally generates offers to mobile device owners to avail excess compute resources of the mobile devices to a resource sharing services system; a device manager that tracks the real-time availability and usage of participating mobile devices that are associated with mobile device owners that have accepted offers to avail excess compute resources; and an account manager that calculates a compensation for participating mobile devices.
US10142483B2
Technologies for adaptive audio communications include a telecommunications device configured to collect session data of a communication session that includes an audio stream between a user of the telecommunications device and at least one other user of a remote telecommunications device. The telecommunications device is further configured to determine a session context of the communication session based on the collected session data, determine whether the session data includes an anomaly, and adjust, in response to a determination that the anomaly was detected, at least one of a portion of the audio stream of the communication session and a setting of the telecommunications device based on the anomaly. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10142481B2
A method for transferring information indicative of a voicemail to a recipient includes receiving a message via a voicemail system transmitted from a remote device. The method also includes storing the message in a memory associated with the voicemail system. The method further includes transmitting a voicemail notification indicator to a recipient via a designated radio frequency band for receipt by a recipient having access to a radio receiver.
US10142480B2
A messaging application receives a sequence of user-consumable messages directed to at least one destination user. The messages are stored in non-volatile storage comprising one or more non-volatile storage devices, and the messages consist of a number of consumed messages having been consumed by the destination user, and a number of unconsumed messages not yet having been consumed by the user. An automatic message manager is configured to implement different respective retention policies for the consumed messages and the unconsumed messages. The retention policy for the consumed messages comprises automatically determining when the number of consumed messages exceeds a threshold for consumed messages, and in response automatically deleting at least one of the consumed messages from the non-volatile storage so as to bring the number of consumed messages back within the threshold for consumed messages.
US10142474B2
A computer-implemented system and method for facilitating interactions via automatic agent responses is provided. Communication during an interaction between a user and an agent is monitored and a request from the user is identified during the interaction. A list of candidate responses to the request is compiled and provided to the agent. Time is measured upon providing the list to the agent and a predetermined amount of time is applied to the measured time. When the measured time exceeds the predetermined amount of time and the agent has failed to provide a response to the user, one of the candidate responses from the list is automatically selected and provided to the user.
US10142467B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that allow entities to set up and send targeted calls and other communications over a network.
US10142466B1
Systems and methods which provide enhanced call handling for special called numbers, such as emergency dispatch numbers, are disclosed. An enhanced call handling application of embodiments monitors a native calling application to determine if a call attempt has been made with respect to a number for which enhanced call handling is provided and makes one or more determinations with respect to the success of the attempt. When it is determined that the call attempt was not successful or may not have otherwise been satisfactory to the user, the enhanced call handling application of embodiments operates to facilitate initiating the call via an alternative network, such as by prompting the user regarding initiating the call via the alternative network or by autonomously initiating the call via the alternative network.
US10142463B2
Aspects of the invention determining a threat score of a call traversing a telecommunications network by leveraging the signaling used to originate, propagate and terminate the call. Outer-edge data utilized to originate the call may be analyzed against historical, or third party real-time data to determine the propensity of calls originating from those facilities to be categorized as a threat. Storing the outer edge data before the call is sent over the communications network permits such data to be preserved and not subjected to manipulations during traversal of the communications network. This allows identification of threat attempts based on the outer edge data from origination facilities, thereby allowing isolation of a compromised network facility that may or may not be known to be compromised by its respective network owner. Other aspects utilize inner edge data from an intermediate node of the communications network which may be analyzed against other inner edge data from other intermediate nodes and/or outer edge data.
US10142460B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing power for a mobile device. In one embodiment, an example mobile device may include at least one memory, at least one processor, a first rechargeable battery, a second rechargeable battery, and one or more solid state relays. The at least one memory may store computer-executable instructions, and the at least one processor may be configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions. The first rechargeable battery may be configured to power the at least one processor, and the second rechargeable battery may be configured to power the at least one processor. The one or more solid state relays may be electrically coupled to the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery and configured to transition between a first state in which the one or more solid state relays form a series connection between the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery and a second state in which the one or more solid state relays form a parallel connection between the first rechargeable battery and the second rechargeable battery.
US10142456B2
An operating method of user equipment configured to personalize use of service is provided. The user equipment includes a storage that stores personalization management information including pieces of personalization information and pieces of service operator information corresponding to each of the pieces of personalization information. The operating method includes accessing the storage to read the personalization management information and, from the personalization management information, detecting personalization information and service operator information matched to reference information registered in the user equipment, and determining whether a user is able to use the service, by using user information that is received from the outside and a result of the detection.
US10142454B2
A method for providing a customized user interface for group communication at a communication device is provided. An electronic processor determines a list of communication groups with which a user identifier of the communication device is registered and identifies a communication group type for each communication group in the list based on service capabilities of the respective communication group. The electronic processor assigns a set of communication group types for the user identifier and determines a type of group communication application to be configured at the communication device. The electronic processor then generates user interface elements as a function of the set of communication group types and the type of group communication application and configures the group communication application including the user interface elements at the communication device for supporting group communication.
US10142444B2
A telecommunications device, operable in a system comprising one or more servers, the device being a client device in the system. The device is constructed and adapted to: provide a client configuration state for the client device to the one or more servers; and obtain from the one or more servers a first sub-network configuration, comprising at least one path from the one or more servers to the client device, and being based on the client configuration state and on at least one other client configuration state of at least one other client device. The device can use a path specified in the first sub-network configuration to obtain at least one resource via the one or more servers.
US10142443B1
The invention relates to automatically integrating a device in a networked system so that a user does not have to set-up or configure the new device. A basic idea of the invention is to provide an automatic copying procedure of the functionality of a device of a networked system to a new device, which is integrated in the networked system. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for copying the functionality of a device of a networked system to a new device, comprising the automatically performed steps of detecting a new device to be integrated in the networked system, determining a reference device of the networked system, and copying the functionality of the reference device to the new device.
US10142439B2
A method includes performing, by a processor of a database server: intercepting an operating system supervisor call involving a request for information associated with an information Management System (IMS) database from a secondary storage device, the IMS database being embodied in the secondary storage device; determining whether the information that was requested is stored in a cache memory embodied in a primary storage device; retrieving the information that was requested responsive to determining that the information that was requested is stored in the cache memory; executing the operating system supervisor call to perform a read of the secondary storage device to obtain the information that was requested responsive to determining that the information that was requested is not stored in the cache memory; and storing the information that was requested in the cache memory responsive to executing the operating system supervisor call to obtain the information that was requested.
US10142436B2
Described herein are techniques and systems for controlling a broadcast mode and a timer mode to update data stored in respective caches of multiple cache servers. When a cache server is operating in the broadcast mode, the cache server receives a data update or a notification of a data update from a broadcast server. When a cache server is operating in the timer mode, the cache server updates its cache without the use of, or reliance upon, the broadcast server. A cache server is configured to operate in the broadcast mode based on a determination that the broadcast server is capable of broadcasting (e.g., sending) messages and/or data updates to the cache servers. In contrast, a cache server is configured to operate in the timer mode based on a determination that the broadcast server is incapable of broadcasting messages and/or data updates to the cache servers.
US10142434B2
A network optimizer receives, from a client device, a request for a network resource including a first version identifier identifying a first version of the network resource. A request for the network resource is transmitted to a far end network optimizer with a second version identifier that identifies a second version of the network resource. The network optimizer receives, from the far end network optimizer, a response that includes a first differences file that specifies first difference(s) between the second version with a most current version of the network resource. The response does not include the entire network resource. The network optimizer transmits to the client device a second response including a second differences file that identifies differences between the most current version of the network resource and the first version of the network resource causing the generation of an updated version of the network resource at the client device.
US10142432B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for redirection of a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE. A multi-subscriber identification module user equipment (multi-SIM UE) may intelligently determine when to redirect a SIP INVITE message to control on which of multiple networks a communication session is established. The multi-SIM UE may receive a SIP INVITE from a first user equipment (UE) requesting to establish a SIP session on a first network, the SIP INVITE including a first network address of the multi-SIM UE that is associated with a first SIM of the multi-SIM UE. The multi-SIM UE may, based at least in part on determining that a redirection criterion is satisfied, transmit a SIP redirection response including a second network address of the multi-SIM UE on a second network that is associated with a second SIM of the multi-SIM UE.
US10142430B1
A push notification delivery system includes a server system including a processor, a network interface, and memory storing program instructions having code segments for receiving a received push notification, code segments for determining at least one of a favorable push time and a favorable message format based upon a database of received push information developed from a plurality of prior sent push notifications, and code segments for pushing the message to the destination in accordance with the at least one of a favorable push time and a favorable message format. A method for delivering push notifications includes receiving a received push notification including a message and a destination, sending a sent push notification derived from the received push notification to the destination in accordance with at least one favorable condition, receiving received push information related to the sent push notification, and storing the received push information in a database.
US10142421B2
A device management system facilitates an automatic pairing of an electronic device with a management account. The device management system receives a public network address associated with a computer device on a private network accessing the management account. The system retrieves the metadata including a public network address associated with a registration of the electronic device with the device management system. The public network address registered with the metadata is provided by a router on the private network and therefore should match the public network address used by computer devices on the private network. The management account is paired with the electronic device if the electronic device has the same public network address as the computer device accessing the management account. Pairing the management account to the electronic device allows the management account to communicate with the electronic device over the public network through the device management system.
US10142420B2
A web server may be installed to a telematics control unit of a vehicle. The telematics control unit and a plurality of vehicle controllers may be connected to a vehicle bus. The web server may be programmed to host a plurality of web applications configured to expose telematics functions of the vehicle controllers to a mobile device connected to the web server, and authenticate the mobile device to access to the web applications.
US10142418B2
A monitoring unit acquires load information on a Tier pool that includes therein a plurality of volumes. A maximum performance calculating unit calculates an entire bandwidth of the Tier pool on the basis of the load information on the Tier pool acquired by the monitoring unit. A bandwidth management unit calculates each individual bandwidth such that the sum of the individual bandwidths allocated to each of the volumes corresponds to the entire bandwidth calculated by the maximum performance calculating unit and allocates each of the calculated individual bandwidths to each of the volumes.
US10142412B2
Multi-thread processing of search responses is disclosed. An example method may include transmitting, by a computer system, a search request to a plurality of search peers of a data aggregation and analysis system; receiving a plurality of data packets from the plurality of search peers; parsing, by a first processing thread of the computer system, one or more data packets of the plurality of data packets, to produce a partial response to the search request; and processing, by a second processing thread of the computer system, the partial response to produce a memory data structure representing an aggregated response to the search request.
US10142405B2
Techniques for optimizing a plurality of parallel network connections for a digital content stream through a network between a plurality of content servers and a content player. Embodiments determine an indication of network performance for each of the plurality of parallel network connections. Additionally, upon determining that a first one the plurality of parallel network connections is underperforming, based on whether the indication of network performance associated with the first parallel network connection satisfies a threshold level of performance, the first parallel network connection is dropped. Upon determining that a total throughput for the digital content stream is less than a minimum threshold of network performance, embodiments select a content server with which to establish a new parallel network connection, based on historical network performance data associated with the selected content server, and also establishing the new parallel network connection to the selected content server.
US10142392B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving system responsiveness while increasing efficiency and scalability of network communication by combining reliable and unreliable network transports. A method and system is provided for client polling a status server to see if there is new data, receiving a notification that there is new data, sending a client request to a server premises which retrieves the new data from a database and returns the new data to the client. Communication with the status server uses an unreliable packet or a reliable packet, whereas communication between the client and the server premises uses reliable transport. A redundant cluster of status servers and methods is provided.
US10142383B2
A method of distributing media content using mobile communication devices including providing media access cards which promote selected media content to users of such devices whereby a user may access a web server associated with the media access cards and download application software enabling access to selected media content via a mobile device, the media access cards including a machine readable identification number code that identifies media content associated with the card whereby the application software facilitates reading and transmitting the code to a web server via the mobile device, receiving the identification number with the web server and using the identification number to locate a table value in a database wherein a plurality of media access cards identification numbers are associated with a media content table value, using the table value to identify media codes associated with the selected content server which transmits media to the mobile device.
US10142381B2
The invention is based, in part, on a system for allowing at least one client to real-time monitor and, or playback at least one real-world recognized event via at least one processor-controlled video camera, said system comprising: a processor; a non-transitory storage medium coupled to the processor; encoded instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: detect a threshold-grade event from audio-video data of a real-world environment captured from a processor-controlled video camera by an event detection module within an event management system applying event detection parameters; analyze the threshold-grade event for categorization into any one of a recognized event by an event recognition module within the event management system applying event recognition parameters; transmit at least any one of a single stream of the recognized event and, or a single stream of a audio-video sequence succeeding and, or preceding the recognized event to a client device; and facilitate at least any one of a user defined playback of the single stream of the recognized event, user defined monitoring of the audio-video sequence preceding and, or succeeding the recognized event, and, or remote provisioning of the processor-controlled video camera, whereby the playback and, or provisioning is facilitated via a client device user interface.
US10142380B2
Online conferencing involving video and audio in which automatic actions such as recording and broadcasting is performed by adding a visualized representation of the action into the online conference area of a user interface. The action appears as a visualization in the contacts portion of the user interface, some of which contacts may represent individuals that may be joined into a conference. Recording or broadcasting the action may thus be efficiently performed in a consistent manner as how individuals are added into an online conference, thereby taking advantage of muscle memory of the participant.
US10142379B2
A social networking system includes pages created by users for providing content related to topics of interest. An interaction engine captures data and maintains analytical information about how users interact with pages and posts. When a user takes an action such as liking a page or a post, the interaction engine updates the page's activity history to reflect the activity and information about the user who took the action. The interaction engine also measures the reach of pages and posts, by determining how and from where each user viewed the page and its contents. The interaction engine further tracks the community's interest in pages and posts by determining how many unique users create stories that include a page or its content. An insights module uses the data obtained by the interaction engine to synthesize graphical reports about page interactions and present the reports to page administrators.
US10142378B2
A virtual identity and context module may generate a virtual identity for a user. Virtual identities for different categories of users may be sourced from disparate identity services. For example, a first authentication of the user provided by a first identity service may be identified. A first virtual attribute field of the virtual identity may be populated or filled based on a first attribute field associated with the first identity service. A second identity service associated with the user may also be identified. A second virtual attribute field of the virtual identity may be populated or filled based on a second attribute field associated with the second identity service. Access to an application may be provided to a user based on the virtual attribute fields of the virtual identity that has been generated for the user.
US10142370B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to generate a security assertion document associated with a container image, and to use the security assertion document to determine whether a container image is suitable for use to assemble a corresponding container for execution in a host environment. In an example method, the generated security assertion document includes a security assertion resulting from an assessed policy rule. In the example method, the security assertion document is separate from the container image such that the generation of the security assertion document does not alter the container image itself. In an example method, the contents of the security assertion document may be analyzed and/or verified in relation to the associated container image in connection with determining whether or not to use the container image to assemble a corresponding container for execution in the example host environment.
US10142364B2
An internal network can include a plurality of linked internal nodes, each internal node being configured to communicate with other internal nodes or with one or more external servers over an external network. The internal network can analyze the configuration of the internal nodes and the network traffic between internal nodes of the internal network and external servers. Based on the analysis, a network vulnerability score measuring the vulnerability of the internal network to attack can be determined. If the vulnerability score is below a threshold, the internal network can be isolated from the external network, for example by preventing internal nodes from communicating with or over the external network.
US10142356B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that relate to network security to monitor and report threats in network traffic of a datacenter. For example, one embodiment discloses a method of receiving, by a first security microservice, a first channel data encapsulation packet encapsulating a first encapsulation context and a first encapsulated data, performing a security service on the first encapsulated data using the first encapsulation context, transmitting by the first security microservice a second channel data encapsulation packet to a second security microservice, wherein the second channel encapsulation packet comprises a request for security services, receiving by the first security microservice a response from the second security microservice comprising a second security microservice context, a second security microservice timestamp, and a second security microservice load. The first security microservice further generates a timestamp and a load included in a response to the first channel data encapsulation packet.
US10142350B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to transmit an application to a terminal apparatus in accordance with information regarding a status, the information including at least one of location information of the terminal apparatus and time information, permit the terminal apparatus to execute a plurality of functions of the application, the plurality of functions including a first function and a second function when the status identified by the information regarding the status matches a first condition that specifies at least one of and a first location range a first time range, and permit the terminal apparatus to execute the first function and prohibit the terminal apparatus to execute the second function, when the status identified by the information regarding the status does not match the first condition and matches a second condition that specifies a second time range or a second location range.
US10142342B2
Implementations relate to authentication of end devices in networks. In some implementations, a method includes receiving identity information at an edge configuration device from an end device via a connection, where the identity information identifies the end device or one or more users associated with the end device. A request is sent from the edge configuration device to an access control server connected to the network in response to receiving the identity information, where the request requests authentication for the end device. Authentication is received at the edge configuration device from the access control server for the end device to connect to a network connected to the edge configuration device.
US10142338B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for online authentication of online attributes. One method includes receiving an authentication request from a rely party, the authentication request including identity information to be authenticated and credential information to be authenticated; determining whether a user account is associated with the received identity information by accessing an internal database; accessing user data of the user account determined to be associated with received identity information; determining authentication data to obtained from a user associated with the user account based on the user data of the user account and the credential information to be authenticated; transmitting a request for authentication data; receiving authentication data associated with the user; transmitting authentication data associated with the user; and receiving an authentication result from the verification data source server for the user associated with authentication data.
US10142332B2
A wearable device is provided for authentication that includes a memory element and processing circuitry coupled to the memory element. The memory element configured to store a plurality of user profiles. The processing circuitry is configured to identify a pairing between the wearable device and a device. The processing circuitry is configured to identify a user of the wearable device. The processing circuitry also is configured to determine if the identified user matches a profile of the plurality of user profiles. The processing circuitry is also configured to responsive to the identified user matching the profile, determine if the profile provides authorization to access the device. The processing circuitry is also configured to responsive to the profile providing authorization to the device, send a message to the device authorizing access to the device.
US10142330B2
A computer-based locking system using changing passcodes includes an application server and an application in electronic communication with the application server. The application runs on a computing device. The application may request an input passcode from the application server based on a lock ID. The application server retrieves an algorithm from a database using the lock ID and generates the input passcode using the algorithm with a time as the input. A lock includes a passcode interface and a locking mechanism with the passcode interface being capable of capturing the input passcode. The lock executes the algorithm locally to generate a local passcode based on current time. The lock releases the locking mechanism in response to the input passcode matching the local passcode.
US10142326B2
A received security token includes first access control attributes and a signature of a first identity provider of a first security domain. Additional access control attributes provided by a second identity provider of a second security domain are added into the received security token. The received security token with the added additional access control attributes is re-signed, with a private key associated with a certificate of a second service provider in the second security domain. The re-signing is an assertion in the second security domain that the added additional access control attributes have been provided by the second identity provider of the second security domain. The re-signed received security token is issued for consuming, using the added additional access control attributes, by any service provider in the second security domain.
US10142317B2
A system and method for processing entitlement rights are disclosed. The method, in one aspect, provides for storing content at a first time, receiving a request for playback of the content at a second time, and processing a user right associated with the content to authenticate the user right in response to the request for playback, wherein the user right is authenticated based upon a state of the user right at the first time.
US10142302B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing the resetting of online identities or accounts of users of Internet web pages. One method includes: receiving, through an electronic device, a request to reset login information to access a web page associated with the user's online account; determining that an IP address associated with the request is not identified as being suspicious; receiving user data intrinsic to the user's request; automatically verifying two or more values of the data intrinsic to the user's request as being indicative of a level of trust of the identity of the user; and transmitting, to the user over the Internet, a subset of options to reset the login information, the subset being selected based on the level of trust.
US10142298B2
A method for protecting data flows between pairs of branch nodes in a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method involves establishing secure connections between a SD-WAN controller and branch nodes in a plurality of branch nodes, wherein each branch node advertises a half-key to the SD-WAN controller via its secure connection, distributing advertised half-keys to branch nodes in the plurality of branch nodes via the established secure connections, wherein the advertised half-keys distributed to each branch node are the half-keys advertised by peer branch nodes of the branch node, and encrypting payloads for transmission from a first branch node in the plurality of branch nodes to a peer branch node in the plurality of branch nodes using a shared secret key, the shared secret key generated using the half-key of the first branch node and the distributed half-key of the peer branch node.
US10142290B1
Customers of a computing resource service provider may utilize computing resources of the computing resources service provided to implement one or more computer systems. Furthermore, the customer may cause a host-based firewall to be executed by the one or more computer systems. The host-based firewall may collect network traffic information. The customer may then be provided with the network traffic information and be prompted to provide decisions associated with the network traffic information. The decisions may be used to generate a set of rules which may be enforced by the host-based firewall.
US10142282B2
Methods and apparatus for processing DNS request in a gateway with WAN and LAN interfaces. The gateway receives a first DNS request from a host via the LAN interface. The gateway selects DNS servers according to predefined selection policies and selects access networks that are authorized to send new DNS requests. The new DNS requests and the first DNA request have the same content. The gateway transmits the new DNS requests to corresponding DNS sever of the selected access networks through the selected access networks and via the WAN interfaces that are connected to the selected access networks. The gateway then identifies valid DNS responses from DNS responses received from the corresponding DNS server. The gateway selects one of the identified valid DNS responses and generates a first new DNS response with the same content thereof. The gateway sends the first new DNS response to the host.
US10142281B2
In one embodiment, a method comprising by one or more computing devices, transmitting, from a first mobile device, a first message that includes a first user identifier corresponding to a first user of the first mobile device, wherein the first user identifier corresponds to a user account of the first user in a social-networking system, receiving, at the first mobile device, one or more second messages that includes a second user identifier corresponding to a second mobile device within a direct radio connectivity of the first mobile device, wherein the second user identifier corresponds to a respective user account of a second user in the social-networking system, and storing, at the first mobile device, information received in the second message for access by one or more applications hosted on the first mobile device.
US10142279B2
A computing device with processor(s) and memory obtains user-specific models corresponding to a user of the computing device, where the user-specific models are configured to determine respective listing priorities for message logs based on a respective set of parameters generated based at least in part on previous behavioral data corresponding to the user. The computing device obtains a request from the user to display a listing of message logs with message logs of at least two distinct message types. In response to obtaining the request, the computing device: determines listing priorities for the message logs in the listing of message logs according to user-specific models corresponding to the least two distinct message types; determines a presentation order for the listing of message logs based on the determined listing priorities and a prioritization preference of the user; and presents the listing of message logs in the determined presentation order.
US10142272B2
Embodiments described herein provide approaches for presenting browser content to a user. Specifically, a way for customizing content having an informational topic provided in a web browsing experience is provided. Content having the informational topic to be displayed to a user in a web browsing experience is analyzed, with the user being a member of the online community. The web browsing experience is customized based on extracted browsing behaviors of an online community. Content is displayed to the user at a level of detail and technological depth that is commensurate with a knowledge level of one or more members of the online community while hiding other content.
US10142271B2
A communication system, method and communication terminal are configured to facilitate private outputting of content of a message or communication session. A communication terminal can be configured via data included in a message or via a privacy setting to output content of data from a communication session or message in accordance with a pre-selected privacy setting or one or more privacy rules. For instance, a communication terminal may be configured to suppress a text to speech function for certain text messages, email messages, instant messages, or social networking messages that it receives having the privacy parameter set therein. As another example, a user may set the privacy parameter in his or her terminal so that any such message received by that terminal is output in accordance with the privacy setting or rules. A detection of nearby people can affect how certain content may be output via a terminal.
US10142265B2
A setup that allows special communication between the user and the specific user is provided. The server in an embodiment includes an information storage unit, an event reservation management unit, a virtual space management unit, and a video chat control unit. The virtual space management unit causes a standby screen to be displayed, the standby screen being a screen for standing by for the video chat with the specific user and including user information of a plurality of users standing by for the video chat. The video chat control unit specifies, in accordance with a predetermined rule, one user from the plurality of users standing by for video chat, and causes the communication for video chat to be performed between the terminal of the specified user and the terminal of the specific user.
US10142258B2
Methods and apparatus of delegating instructions or data from a CU to an NOC node in a network on chip (NOC) is disclosed. The NOC node executes the delegated instructions or processes the delegated data. An NOC controller (NCC), which is operatively coupled to the CU and the NOC node, facilitates delegating the instructions or data from the CU to the NOC node.
US10142255B1
Techniques for efficiently managing resources are described. In an example, a computer system may access a forecast for demand associated with utilizing a service during a time period, where the service is available from service sources grouped in clusters. The computer system may identify resources scheduled to facilitate the service. Based on a scheduled start time for utilizing a resource, the forecast, and an allocation of remaining resources to the clusters, the computer system may allocate the resource to a first cluster and may provide a notification about the allocation to an associated client device. At a subsequent time during the time period, the computer system may re-allocate the resource to a second cluster based on a current utilization of the resource, an update to the forecast, and the allocation of the remaining resources. A respective notification may be provided to the client device.
US10142254B1
A method for routing is disclosed. The method comprises establishing an overlay network, comprising a plurality of network elements and an overlay controller; wherein the overlay controller is in communication with each network element via a secure tunnel established through an underlying transport network; receiving by the overlay controller, information from each service-hosting network element information said information identifying a service hosted at that service-hosting network element, and label associated with the service-hosting network element; identifying by the overlay controller, at least one policy that associates traffic from a site with a service; and causing by said overly controller, the at least one policy to be executed so that traffic from the site identified in the policy is routed using the underlying transport network to the service-hosting network element associated with the said service.
US10142250B2
A method of control Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) reporting and discovery using AT commands is proposed. In communications networks, the MTU of a communication protocol of a layer is the size (in bytes or octets) of the largest protocol data unit that the layer can pass onwards. In an IP network, IP packets may be fragmented if the supported MTU size is smaller than the packet length. In accordance with one novel aspect, the packet data protocol (PDP) context of a packet data network (PDN) connection comprises MTU information. By introducing MTU information to the PDP contexts, TE can use AT commands to query MTU parameters from the network and thereby avoid fragmentation. TE can also use AT command to set MTU parameters and thereby control MTU discovery.
US10142243B2
The present solution is directed towards systems and methods for prioritizing data streams transmitted between intermediary devices. In some implementations, the system can temporarily reprioritize data streams based on their compression characteristics. The system can also reprioritize the data packets within specific traffic classes and then prioritize each of the individual traffic classes.
US10142242B2
Described herein are techniques for limiting transmission of plurality of messages from one or more self-organizing network (SON) tools to a network support node based at least in part on performance information and on either or both of priorities associated with the plurality of messages or priorities associated with the SON tool(s). The performance information is associated with performance of a network support node.
US10142239B2
Techniques are disclosed for handling withdrawals of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) join synch routes used to synchronize multicast group join requests. In one example, a first provider edge (PE) router of a plurality of PE routers on an Ethernet segment of an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) receives, from a second PE router, a withdrawal of a BGP join synch route. In response, the first PE router determines whether a disruption event or a multicast state timeout event at the second PE router caused the withdrawal. If the disruption event caused the withdrawal, the first PE router retains a multicast state for the multicast group and forwards multicast traffic for the multicast group to a customer edge (CE) router multi-homed to the plurality of the PE routers. If the multicast state timeout event caused the withdrawal, the first PE router deletes the multicast state and stops forwarding the multicast traffic.
US10142237B2
A data flow control method and communication device operable to communicate using a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT are described. In a data flow control method, data flow congestion is detected. The congestion can be detected on a first communication link associated with the first RAT. The communication device can be controlled to enter a reduced power operating mode for communications via the first communication link. The entry of the reduced power mode can induce a base station supporting the second communication link associated with the second RAT to perform one or more data flow control operations. A data flow control method can include dropping data packets on a lower protocol layer to induce a higher protocol layer to perform a data flow control operation. The data flow control operation can induce the network to reduce data flow.
US10142236B2
Systems and methods for managing congestion in a network are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving delay information relating to one or more network points wherein the delay information represents one or more of link level delay, connection level delay, and class of service level delay. The method can also comprise comparing delay information to a threshold and if the delay information exceeds the threshold, executing a congestion control process associated with the one or more network points.
US10142230B2
A computer-implemented method for transmitting messages associated with IPv4 addresses on an IPv6 network comprising: receiving, in a first message from an IPv4 network, an IPv4 address of a component in the IPv4 network; parsing the IPv4 address into a plurality of elements; creating a new host name for the IPv4 address based on the parsed plurality of elements; sending, to a domain name server (DNS) associated with the IPv6 network, a request to perform a DNS lookup of the host name; responsive to the DNS lookup request, receiving an IPv6 address; and processing the first message as if it were originally received with the IPv6 address.
US10142218B2
A physical host executes a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that instantiates a source virtual machine (VM). In response to the VMM receiving from the source VM a packet specifying a first destination address of a destination VM and a second destination address of a default gateway, the VMM determines whether the packet can be communicated to the destination VM without the packet being routed by the default gateway. In response to the VMM determining that the packet can be communicated to the destination VM without the packet being routed by the default gateway, the VMM forwards the packet to the destination VM such that the packet bypasses routing by the default gateway.
US10142204B2
Various aspects described herein are directed to different techniques for: evaluating server system reliability, vulnerability and component compatibility using crowdsourced server and vulnerability data; generating automated recommendations for improving server system metrics; and automatically and conditionally updating or upgrading system packages/components.
US10142195B1
Implementations are provided herein for offering partitioned performance within a distributed file system. Core resource consumption per work item can be tracked independently. Discriminative data already known by the file system surrounding the context of the work item can be used to determine a reference resource accounting specification applicable to the work item. When processing the work item, a detailed resource record can be generated that inventories the resources used in processing the work item. The resource record associated with the work item can be recorded into a set of resource accounting tokens that track activity resource consumption at a granular level. A universal table of resource accounting tokens can be dynamically updated upon the processing of work items and generation of associated resource records throughout the distributed file system.
US10142194B2
A method and apparatus are provided for interoperably performing a service. The method includes searching, by the portable terminal, external devices; identifying a service interoperation device corresponding to a characteristic of the service among the searched external devices; recommending the service interoperation device; and performing the service in interoperation with the recommended service interoperation device.
US10142191B2
A content delivery network (CDN) includes a single autonomous CDN partitioned into multiple virtual CDNs, the multiple virtual CDNs being organized into a CDN hierarchy. Each virtual CDN is allocated separate physical resources. Within the CDN hierarchy, at least one parent virtual CDN has at least one child virtual CDN. A parent virtual CDN grants at least one privilege to at least one child virtual CDN.
US10142190B2
Some embodiments provide a system that includes a first network area, a second network area, and a third network area. The first network area includes a first master node and a first set of switches for forwarding network data through the first network area. The first master node is configured to manage the first set of switches. The second network area includes a second master node and a second set of switches for forwarding network data through the second network area. The second master node is configured to manage the second set of switches. The third network area includes a controller configured to manage the first and second sets of switches through the first and second master nodes.
US10142174B2
In certain embodiments, a Service Deployment Infrastructure (SDI) request engine is disclosed. The SDI request engine performs the tracking, management and provisioning of services subscribed to by customers of the cloud infrastructure system. The SDI request engine is deployed to process large volumes of provisioning requests and deliver time critical applications for customers. The SDI request engine translates each request into a list of tasks of various sizes based on the requirement and configuration of the request. In some embodiments, the SDI request engine imposes control and management on both request and task levels in order to execute, rollback, retry or fail a task automatically and accurately.
US10142162B2
Modifying a behavior of a mobile application running on a mobile data processing system is provided. Information regarding a system function of the mobile data processing system is retrieved. It is determined whether the information regarding the system function meets a criterion of a policy trigger corresponding to the system function. In response to determining that the information regarding the system function does meet a criterion of the policy trigger corresponding to the system function, an action is performed to modify the behavior of the mobile application running on the mobile data processing system that corresponds to the system function meeting the criterion of the policy trigger.
US10142160B1
A controller may fulfill hardware address requests that are sent by source end hosts in a network to discover hardware addresses of destination end hosts. The controller may use network topology information to determine how to process the hardware address requests. The controller may retrieve a requested hardware address from a database of end hosts. If the controller is able to retrieve the hardware address of a destination end host from the database of end hosts, the controller may provide the source end host with a reply packet that contains the requested hardware address. If the controller is unable to retrieve the requested hardware address, the controller may form request packets to discover the address of the second end host and/or to discover a packet forwarding path between the source end host and the destination end host.
US10142152B2
An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using a bootstrap and a preamble are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving on a BICM output signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a bootstrap and a preamble using the time-interleaved signal.
US10142129B1
In general, techniques are described for filtering duplicate broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) packets in a network in which EVPN traffic is tunneled, using a tunneling protocol such as VXLAN or NVGRE, over an IP core network to provide network virtualization overlay (NVO) between provider edge (PE) devices that operate as Network Virtualization Endpoints (NVEs) for the NVO/Virtual Tunnel Endpoints (VTEPs) for the tunneling protocol.
US10142124B2
A system includes a bus system to connect a number of components in a chain-like structure. A first control device (e.g., microcontroller or microprocessor) is configured to control the components in a first mode of the system. A second control device (e.g., microcontroller or microprocessor) is configured to control a first subset of the components in a second mode of the system.
US10142123B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a presence of a plurality of mobile devices at a geographic location; determining an entertainment option to be played at the geographic location based on the identified plurality of mobile devices; and based on the determination, selecting an entertainment option to be played at the geographic location.
US10142109B2
Example embodiments relate to instantiating containers. For example, in an embodiment, integrity of a container image may be verified by executing a verification program using verification information associated with the container image. Provenance of the container image may be verified by checking a log associated with the container image. A container may be instantiated from the container image by loading a file system associated with the container image. The file system associated with the container image may be isolated from the verification information and the log.
US10142101B2
Embodiments of an invention for hardware enforced one-way cryptography are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes a processor key location, instruction hardware, and execution hardware. The processor key location is to hold a processor key. The instruction hardware is to receive a first instruction in an instruction set of the processor. The first instruction is to encrypt input data with the processor key and return a handle. The instruction set lacks a second instruction corresponding to the first instruction to decrypt the handle with the processor key to return the input data. The execution hardware is to perform, in response to receipt of the first instruction by the instruction hardware, encryption of the input data with the processor key and to return the handle.
US10142100B2
A system for managing user-controlled security keys in cloud-based scenarios is provided. In some implementations, the system performs operations comprising receiving an information request from a user device via a network, and generating a database query based at least in part upon the information request. The operations can comprise generating a request for a secret key for decrypting encrypted data when the database query requests the encrypted data and/or generating a request for a secret key for encrypting data when the database query requests to encrypt data. The operations can also comprise providing the request to a security key management entity via a network, receiving secret key information from the security key management entity via the network, and using the secret key information to form decrypted data or encrypted data. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US10142098B2
A processing system includes a processor to construct an input message comprising a plurality of padding bits and a hardware accelerator, communicatively coupled to the processor, comprising a first plurality of circuits to perform a stage-1 secure hash algorithm (SHA) hash based on the input message, wherein the hardware accelerator comprises a first data path coupled between a first reference node and a first input node of the first plurality of circuits to feed a first padding bit of the plurality of padding bits to the first input node.
US10142091B2
System and method of frame alignment at a receiver with power optimization mechanisms. A framer uses one or more comparators to search for the FAW in the incoming data, with each comparator configured to serially compare multiple windows of a parallel M-bit block (as provided from a parallel data bus) with the FAW. Multiple comparators in the framer may operate in parallel to search for the FAW at different windows. This configuration can significantly reduce the comparator count and so the gate count as well as the chip area in a framer. Power consumption can be advantageously reduced as one comparator operating serially consumes less power than multiple comparators in parallel because less gate toggling is involved.
US10142090B1
Octagonal phase rotator apparatus is provided for producing an output signal that is phase dependent on a digital control code. The apparatus includes an I-mixer, a Q-mixer, and first and second IQ-mixers. The I-mixer is responsive to I-control bits of the digital control code. The Q-mixer is responsive to Q-control bits of the digital control code. The first and second IQ-mixers are respectively responsive to one or more IQ1-control bits and one or more IQ2-control bits of the digital control code. The I-mixer comprises an I-DAC for steering current between a positive phase IP and a negative phase IN of an in-phase (I) signal wherein the one or more I-control bits control switching of a first current unit between IP and IN, and a set of amplifiers for weighting the phases IP and IN, in dependence on current steered to each phase by the I-DAC, to produce a weighted I-signal.
US10142086B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a repeater device having a first coupler to extract downstream channel signals from first guided electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium of a guided wave communication system. An amplifier amplifies the downstream channel signals to generate amplified downstream channel signals. A channel selection filter selects one or more of the amplified downstream channel signals to wirelessly transmit to the at least one client device via an antenna. A second coupler guides the amplified downstream channel signals to the transmission medium of the guided wave communication system to propagate as second guided electromagnetic waves. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10142077B2
A terminal device capable of providing a method for determining PUCCH resources used for notification of response signals indicating error detection results for downlink line data, when ARQ is applied during communications using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated to the uplink unit band and when downlink data allocations are instructed using an ePDCCH. In this device, a control unit (208) determines A/N resources on the basis of whether a channel used for transmitting downlink control information (DCI) is a PDCCH or an ePDCCH.
US10142072B2
A UE can receive Zero Power Channel State Information Reference Signal (ZP-CSI-RS) configuration information for an aperiodic ZP-CSI-RS of a serving cell. The UE can receive Downlink Control Information (DCI) on a physical control channel in a subframe of the serving cell. The DCI can indicate whether a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) of the UE in the subframe of the serving cell is rate-matched around resource elements indicated by the ZP-CSI-RS configuration information. The UE can decode the PDSCH in the subframe of the serving cell based on rate-matching around the resource elements indicated by the ZP-CSI-RS configuration when the DCI indicates the PDSCH of the UE is rate-matched around the resource elements indicated by the ZP-CSI-RS configuration.
US10142068B2
Methods for wireless communications over a wideband carrier are provided. Time-frequency resources of the wideband carrier within a transmission time interval are divided into multiple time-frequency resource blocks. Each of the time-frequency resource blocks corresponds to a group of contiguous subcarriers of the wideband carrier and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols. Data streams may be scheduled to be transmitted in different time-frequency resource blocks, and may be destined for different user equipments or the same user equipment. Baseband processing operations may be performed on data streams scheduled in different time-frequency resource blocks independently from one another. Separate control channels or one common control channel may be configured for data transmissions in different time-frequency resource blocks.
US10142066B1
Various illustrative embodiments pertain to a signal quality evaluation system having a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and a signal quality evaluator. The DFE receives an input signal containing symbols that represent digital data and uses the symbols to generate multiple detection thresholds. Each detection threshold is one of several detection thresholds that can be generated by the DFE by processing one or more symbols present in the input signal prior to a current clock cycle of a clock that is recovered from the input signal. The signal quality evaluator uses the detection thresholds provided by the DFE to detect transitions in the input signal. The signal quality evaluator may execute jitter measurements and/or time interval error (TIE) measurements by evaluating the transitions in the input signal.
US10142064B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for enhanced coverage machine type communication (MTC). Various embodiments may include systems and methods for scheduling a starting subframe, timing sequence, or resource for various transmissions with repetition to achieve a coverage extension target for MTC. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10142058B2
A method for a first communication device transmitting data to a second communication device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: the first communication device generating a safety unique identifier by using a unique identifier of the first communication device and a unique identifier of the second communication device, in order to confirm the validity of connection between the first communication device and the second communication device; the first communication device calculating a data error detection code for detecting an error by using the safety unique identifier and the data; the first communication device generating a packet comprising the data and the data error detection code; and the first communication device transmitting the packet to the second communication device.
US10142056B2
In a transmission method according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a cyclic shift is applied to each row of an interleaver matrix in which each of a plurality of rotation components of each section is replaced with a cell, in which two rotation components are set to a real component and an imaginary component, by using (cyclic shift value k×floor(Q/max{D,(NRF×NC)}/2)) cells allocated to the row, and a value of k mod NRF varies in at least two rows of one section portion of a combined complex interleaver matrix in the cyclic shift.
US10142054B2
A communication unit (2020) performs directly wireless communicates with a portable terminal (3000). A collection information acquisition unit (2040) acquires collection information. A division transmission unit (2060) generates multiple pieces of partial collection information by dividing the collection information, and transmits pieces of partial collection information being different from each other to multiple portable terminals (3000). A redundancy transmission unit (2080) transmits the same collection information to the multiple portable terminals (3000). An index value acquisition unit (2100) acquires any one or two of a reliability index value and a capacity index value of the portable terminal (3000). Based on any one or two of the reliability index value and the capacity index value of each portable terminal (3000), a transmission control unit (2120) selects the division transmission unit (2060) or the redundancy transmission unit (2080) to perform the transmission.
US10142047B2
An optical transmission apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a wavelength division multiplexing optical signal including a first optical signal modulated based on a first modulation system and a second optical signal modulated based on a second modulation system with a higher multi-level degree than the first modulation system; a wavelength selective switch configured to attenuate power of the first optical signal to a first level and attenuate power of the second optical signal to a second level lower than the first level; an optical amplifier configured to amplify the wavelength division multiplexing optical signal including the first optical signal and the second optical signal output from the wavelength selective switch; and a transmitter configured to transmit the wavelength division multiplexing optical signal amplified by the optical amplifier.
US10142039B2
A calibration architecture that enables accurate calibration of radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) chips used in transceiver RF systems in a relatively simple testing environment. Embodiments of the invention include one or more on-chip switchable internal calibration paths that enable direct coupling of a portion of the on-chip circuit to an RF test system while isolating other circuitry on the chip. Some embodiments allow interconnection of switchable internal calibration paths between separate IC chips. Still other embodiments utilize internal switches and antenna mutual coupling to provide over-the-air calibration, alone or in combination with direct signal coupling via internal calibration paths. Periodic self-calibration of an RF IC can be performed after initial factory calibration, so that adjustments in desired performance parameters can be made while such an IC is embedded within a final system, and/or to take into account component degradation due to age or other factors.
US10142037B2
A measurement device 100 includes a measurement section 10 and the like, and the measurement section 10 includes an SA 14 that receives a signal for measuring transmission characteristics with a frequency in a predetermined frequency band from a DUT 1, an SG 15 that outputs a signal for measuring reception characteristics with a frequency in a predetermined frequency band to the DUT 1, a band storage section 16 that stores information on a frequency band handled by the measurement section 10, and a band setting section 12 that sets a frequency band handled by the SA 14 and the SG 15 on the basis of information of a frequency band handled by other measurement sections 20, 30, and 40.
US10142036B2
Certain aspects are directed to a configuration sub-system for telecommunication systems. The configuration sub-system can include a test signal generator, a power measurement device, at least one additional power measurement device, and a controller. The test signal generator can be integrated into components of a telecommunication system. The test signal generator can provide a test signal to a signal path of the telecommunication system. The power measurement device and the additional power measurement device can respectively be integrated into different components of the telecommunication system. The power measurement device and the additional power measurement device can respectively measure the power of the test signal at different measurement points in the signal path. The controller can normalize signals transmitted via the telecommunication system by adjusting a path gain for the signal path based on measurements from the power measurement device and the additional power measurement device.
US10142034B2
An electronic device (101, 200, 300, 400) is provided comprising optically transmissive electrical components (102, 103, 205-210, 303, 304, 405-410, 413-418) and optically transmissive computer structures such as boards (105, 201-203) or enclosures (302, 311-313). The components of the electronic device communicate through optical signals (212, 214, 309, 314, 422, 428) that propagate freely within the electronic device. That is, the optical signals are not guided and may or may not travel through the optically transmissive structures and components. This enables increased communication paths and reduced number of physical connections between various parts of the electronic device. The components may be placed in a single plane or in a three-dimensional layout and still communicate via the light signals. The invention enables an adaptable layout of an electronic device which is easily constructed.
US10142032B2
A silicon photonics based temperature-insensitive delay line interferometer (DLI). The DLI includes a first arm comprising a first length of a first material characterized by a first group index corresponding to a first phase delay to transfer a first light wave with a first peak frequency and a second arm comprising a second length of a second material characterized by a second group index corresponding to a second phase to transfer a second light wave with a second peak frequency with a time-delay difference relative to the first light wave. The first phase delay and the second phase delay are configured to change equally upon a change of temperature. The time-delay difference between the first light wave and the second light wave is set to be inversed value of a free spectral range (FSR) to align at least the first peak frequency to a channel of a designated frequency grid.
US10142020B2
In one embodiment, such a method may include receiving a visible light signal by a sensor of a terminal device from a transmitter which transmits the visible light signal by a light source changing in luminance. The terminal device may transmit a request signal for requesting content associated with the visible light signal, from the terminal device to a server, and receive a content from the server. The content may include time points and data to be reproduced at the time points. Thereafter the terminal device may reproduce data included in the content and corresponding to a time point of a clock included in the terminal device.
US10142012B2
A dedicated satellite to reduce the cost and increase the rate and reliability of data transmission from space to ground is provided. For each client satellite producing data in Earth orbit, a dedicated relay satellite is provided. The relay satellite may fly near the client satellite and receive data from the client satellite by RF communication. The relay satellite may transmit the data to a ground terminal or to another satellite using a laser communication system. Because the relay satellite is not physically connected to the client satellite, the attitude-control requirements of an optical communication system are not imposed on the client satellite. The relay satellite may also be deployed from the client satellite. The relay satellite may allow downlinking large amounts of data for new satellite operators without an existing ground network and for established satellite operators seeking higher data rates, lower latency, or reduced ground system operating costs.
US10142002B2
A method of handling multiuser channel quality indicators (MU-CQIs) for a communication device comprises transmitting a highest MU-CQI periodically to a network; and transmitting at least one MU-CQI aperiodically to the network according to a request transmitted by the network.
US10141997B2
One or more beamsteering matrices are applied to one or more signals to be transmitted via multiple antennas. After the one or more beamsteering matrices are applied to the one or more signals, the plurality of signals is provided to a plurality of power amplifiers coupled to the multiple antennas. Signal energies are determined for the plurality of signals provided to the plurality of power amplifiers, and relative signal energies are determined based on the determined signal energies. Output power levels of the plurality of power amplifiers are adjusted based on the determined relative signal energies.
US10141994B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may help reduce sector sweep time. In some cases, the techniques involve generating frames for transmission during a sector sweep procedure, each frame including an address field being determined based on at least one of a transmitter address of the apparatus or a receiver address of an intended recipient of the generated frames and having fewer bits than at least one of the transmitter address or the receiver address. In some cases, the techniques involve using different frame formats for initiator and responder frames transmitted during the sector sweep procedure.
US10141993B2
A radio communication device includes a plurality of antenna arrays each configured to generate a steerable antenna beam according to a respective beamforming codeword, wherein each of the plurality of antenna arrays is configured to obtain the respective beamforming codeword from a single-antenna-array steering codebook that is reused by each of the plurality of antenna arrays, and a beamforming circuit configured to weight signals for the plurality of antenna arrays to coordinate the steerable antenna beams from a subset of the plurality of antenna arrays to form a combined antenna beam in a first steering direction.
US10141991B2
A transmitter may initiate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications with a receiver in which a number of codewords used in MIMO transmissions may be selected to provide enhanced communications for a particular service that is associated with the MIMO transmission. In cases where a lower-latency service is identified, a MIMO transmission may be configured with one codeword transmitted over multiple spatial layers, which may provide lower processing latency at a receiver relative to processing of multiple codewords. In cases where a mobile broadband service is identified, a MIMO transmission configured with two (or more) codewords may be transmitted over multiple spatial layers, which may provide increased data throughput relative to a single codeword MIMO transmission. A codeblock size for a transmission also may be selected based at least in part on a service associated with the transmission.
US10141990B2
A method for determining a precoding matrix indicator, user equipment, and a base station are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: receiving a first reference signal set sent by a base station, where the first reference signal set is associated with a user equipment-specific matrix or matrix set; selecting a precoding matrix based on the first reference signal set, where the precoding matrix is a function of the user equipment-specific matrix or matrix set; and sending a precoding matrix indicator to the base station, where the precoding matrix indicator corresponds to the selected precoding matrix. In the embodiments of the present invention, CSI feedback precision can be improved without excessively increasing feedback overhead, thereby improving system performance.
US10141987B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for feeding back, by a terminal, reference signal information in wireless communication using a two-dimensional active antenna system including a plurality of antennas. Particularly, the method for feeding back reference signal information comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a reference signal configuration including identifiers of a plurality of reference signals having a first reference signal set and a second reference signal set; receiving the plurality of reference signals to which the precoding is applied; measuring reference signal received power (RSRP) for each of the plurality of reference signals; and transmitting, to the base station, information on at least a part of the first reference signal set and information on at least a part of the second reference signal set, on the basis of the measured RSRP. In addition, the precoding for the terminal is determined on the basis of the information on at least a part of the first reference signal set, and the interference information for the terminal can be determined on the basis of the information on at least a part of the second reference signal set.
US10141986B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A signal transmission and reception method implemented by a terminal of a mobile communication system is provided. The terminal receives first information including a request for beam related information from a base station and transmits second information including the beam related information based on the first information to the base station. The terminal changes at least one of a Tx beam or a Rx beam associated with the base station, based on the first information and the second information.
US10141978B2
In a disclosed embodiment, a power line communication (PLC) transmitter includes a forward error correction (FEC) encoder that receives payload data and adds parity information to the data to create an encoded output, a fragmenter that receives the encoded output from the FEC encoder and segments the encoded output into a plurality of fragments, a fragment repetition encoder that receives the plurality of fragments from the fragmenter and copies each of the fragments a selected number of times, and an interleaver that receives the copies of the plurality of fragments from the fragment repetition encoder and interleaves the copies of the plurality of fragments for transmission on a power line.
US10141975B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether communications are encrypted, determining a communication type for the communications according to sensitivity criteria, encrypting the communications according to the communication type to generate encrypted communications, and transmitting to a second network device the encrypted communications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10141969B2
A mobile electronic device protection case provides protection to mobile electronic devices. Mobile electronic devices include, but are not limited to, cellphones, tablets, or similar electronic devices. The mobile electronic device protection case is easily attachable and detachable from the mobile electronic device. While protecting the mobile electronic device, the present invention leaves a majority of the mobile electronic device exposed in order to highlight the aesthetic of the mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device protection case includes a plurality of corner protectors to engage the corners for the mobile electronic device to protect the mobile electronic device from lateral impacts to the corners. Each corner protector of the plurality of corner protectors include a first clip support and a second clip support to secure the corner protector to either side of the mobile electronic device.
US10141965B2
The present invention refers to a method for configuring a radio communication channel between at least a first and a second devices wherein said devices comprise a physical data port and radio communication means, said method comprising the following steps: a step of setting in contact the physical data port of said at least first and second devices in order to establish a physical connection between the physical data ports of said at least first and second devices; a step of configuration data exchange through the physical connection; a step of radio communication channel configuration.
US10141963B2
A method of operating a receiver includes a controller of the receiver determining whether a full initialization or a partial initialization of the receiver is needed; the controller adjusting alternating current (AC) characteristics and direct current (DC) characteristics of the receiver in a full initialization mode, and the controller adjusting the DC characteristics of the receiver in a partial initialization mode when the controller determines the partial initialization is needed.
US10141959B2
Radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuit (RFIC) chip(s) allow for the integration of multiple electronic circuits on a chip to provide distributed antenna system functionalities. RFIC chips are employed in central unit and remote unit components, reducing component cost and size, increasing performance and reliability, while reducing power consumption. The components are also easier to manufacture. The RFIC chip(s) can be employed in distributed antenna systems and components that support RF communications services and/or digital data services.
US10141956B2
A duplexing system including: a duplexer; an antenna capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals; a transmitter adapted to couple electromagnetic signals to said antenna for transmission; a receiver capable of receiving electromagnetic signals; wherein the duplexer includes a first transmission line and a second transmission line, wherein a portion of said first transmission line is placed in proximity to a portion of said second transmission line, wherein one end of said first transmission line is connected to a first duplexer port coupled to said antenna and the second end of said first transmission line is connected to a second duplexer port coupled to said transmitter; and wherein one end of said second transmission line is connected to a third duplexer port coupled to said receiver and the second end of said second transmission line is coupled to ground or to a fourth duplexer port coupled to ground.
US10141950B2
A method and system for decoding low density parity check (“LDPC”) codes. A method and system for decoding low density parity check (“LDPC”) codes. An LDPC code decoder includes decoding circuitry configured to process blocks of an LDPC matrix. The decoding circuitry includes a control unit that controls processing by the decoding circuitry. The control unit is configured to cause the decoding circuitry to process blocks of a layer of the LDPC matrix out of order.
US10141948B2
To convert a first stage input to a digital output, a delta-sigma modulator, an analog-to-digital converter and an associated signal conversion method based on an MASH structure are provided. The analog-to-digital converter includes the delta-sigma modulator and a sample and hold circuit. The delta-sigma modulator includes a first signal converter, a second signal converter and a digital cancellation logic. The first signal converter converts the first stage input to a first converted output. The first signal converter shapes a first stage quantization error to generate a second stage input. The first stage input and the second stage input are analog signals. The second signal converter converts the second stage input to a second converted output. The digital cancellation logic generates a digital output according to the first converted output and the second converted output.
US10141947B2
In the conventional technique, only an output having a bandwidth identical to the bandwidth of individual DACs has been obtained even by using a plurality of DACs. Also, even when the output of a bandwidth broader than the individual DAC is obtained, there has been a problem associated with asymmetricity of a circuit configuration. In a signal generating device of the present invention, a plurality of normal DACs are combined to realize an analog output of a broader bandwidth beyond the output bandwidth of the individual DACs, and the problem of the asymmetricity of the circuit configuration is also resolved. A desired signal is separated into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal in a frequency domain, and a series of operation of constant (r)-folding the amplitude of the high-frequency signal and shifting it on the frequency axis to superimpose it on the low-frequency signal are made in a digital domain. The output of each DAC is switched by an analog multiplexer.
US10141941B2
According to a first example aspect there is provided a charge pump circuit that includes a first chopper circuit configured to switch first and second chopper circuit outputs between first and second chopper circuit inputs at a chopping frequency, wherein successive input signals at the first chopper circuit input are output alternatively at the first and second chopper circuit outputs in successive cycles of the chopping frequency and successive input signals at the second chopper circuit input are output alternatively at the second and first chopper circuit outputs in successive cycles of the chopping frequency. A differential charge pump is configured to receive the signals output from the first and second chopper circuit outputs and produce corresponding first and second charge pumped signals.
US10141937B2
A method includes: receiving error signals from a signal wrapper of a programmable fabric, wherein the programmable fabric and the signal wrapper are integrated in a programmable logic device (PLD); looking up one or more lookup tables storing rows of pre-calculated data and obtaining a matching pre-calculated data corresponding to the error signals; and generating a compensated output signal using the matching pre-calculated data to drive a switch of the power regulator. The pre-populated data stored in the one or more lookup tables are programmably changed by programming a plurality of parameters of the programmable fabric and loading the pre-populated data to the one or more lookup tables via the signal wrapper.
US10141935B2
On-die termination (ODT) control enables programmable ODT latency settings. A memory device can couple to an associated memory controller via one or more buses shared by multiple memory devices organized ranks of memory. The memory controller generates a memory access command for a target rank. In response to the command, memory devices can selectively engage ODT for the memory access operation based on being in the target rank or a non-target rank, and based on whether the access command includes a Read or a Write. The memory device can engage ODT in accordance with a programmable ODT latency setting. The programmable ODT latency setting can set different ODT timing values for Read and Write transactions.
US10141933B2
An electric device, which includes a first switch-unit providing a first internal circuit signal, a first delay circuit unit outputting a second internal circuit signal which is generated by delaying the first internal circuit signal, a first AND logic outputting a first repair-signal generated by a logical AND operation between the first internal circuit signal and the second internal circuit signal, a first OR logic outputting a second repair-signal generated by a logical OR operation between the first internal circuit signal and the second internal circuit signal, and a second switch-unit selecting one of the first repair-signal and the second repair-signal according to a third internal circuit signal generated by an operation including a logical AND operation between the first repair-signal and the second repair-signal and providing the selected one as an output signal through an output terminal, is released.
US10141932B1
Apparatuses for providing external terminals of a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: a pad included in a pad formation area that receives a power voltage; a sub-threshold current reduction circuit (SCRC) included in a peripheral circuit area including a via disposed on a first side of the peripheral circuit area, and a wiring that couples the pad to the via. The SCRC further includes: a voltage line coupled to the via; a logic gate circuit that propagates a signal; an SCRC voltage line coupled to the logic gate circuit; and a SCRC switch disposed in proximity to the via and couples the SCRC voltage line to the voltage line.
US10141927B2
A switch architecture having open reflective unselected ports. Signals can be selectively coupled between a common port and at least one selectable port through series connected switches. When one or more port is selected, the remaining ports are opened. In addition, associated “shuntable” switches from each of the selectable ports to ground are always open, regardless of the ON or OFF state of the series switches; thus, there is no normally active connection of the selectable ports to ground, but the presence of the shuntable switches provides electrostatic discharge protection for all ports. Embodiments of the invention allow configurability between a traditional architecture and an open reflective unselected port architecture, and include integrated circuit and field effect transistor embodiments.
US10141924B2
A semiconductor circuit including a PMOS transistor that includes a first source connected to a power supply, a first drain, and a first gate to which a fixed potential is supplied; an output circuit that outputs a first output signal, which is a reset signal or a power-on signal, and that outputs a second output signal according to a potential of the first drain; a constant current source connected to the first drain; and an NMOS transistor that includes a second source to which a fixed potential is supplied, a second drain connected to the first drain, and a second gate to which the second output signal from the output circuit is applied.
US10141922B2
A comparator includes a current mirror module, a comparison module and a buffering and outputting module. The current mirror module provides a bias current to the comparison module. The comparison module comprises a positive input end, a first negative input end and a second negative input end, the positive input end connects to an external terminal, the first negative input end and the second negative input end input a low threshold voltage and a high threshold voltage, respectively. The comparison module compares a voltage of the positive input end to the low threshold voltage and the high threshold voltage, and outputs a comparison result to the buffering and outputting module.
US10141918B2
A signal processing apparatus includes: a difference signal acquirer configured to obtain a difference signal reflecting a change in an input signal at a preset time interval based on a reference signal; a signal amplifier configured to amplify the difference signal; and a signal restorer configured to generate an output signal by converting the amplified difference signal to a digital signal and the digital signal.
US10141905B2
A method is provided for producing a volume gain applied by an amplifier to at least one audio signal according to a desired volume gain selected by a user, which includes calculating a standardized total slow sound level from at least one audio signal, calculating maximum slow volume gain and minimum slow volume gain as the quotient of the product of the desired volume gain by maximum slow gain, respectively by minimum slow gain, divided by the standardized total slow sound level, determining a first minimum out of the desired volume gain and the maximum slow volume gain, determining a second minimum out of the desired volume gain multiplied by a maximum volume gain and the minimum slow volume gain, determining as a slow volume gain the maximum of the first and second previously determined minima, and calculating the volume gain according to the slow volume gain.
US10141902B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus having a first connector and a signal processing circuit. The first connector is configured to receive a second connector so that connecting terminals at respective portions of the first and second connectors are coupled together. The signal processing circuit is configured to generate a first output signal at a first amplification gain, determine a first load resistance value at a first connecting terminal of the second connector that is configured to receive the first output signal when coupled to the first connector, and set the first amplification gain based on the first load resistance value.
US10141893B2
The input stage (16) of a high-fidelity amplifier (10) with high linearity and a low distortion rate comprises: —an input (12) for the digital signal to be converted;—a voltage output (26) for the converted voltage;—a digital/analog converter (20), the input of which forms the input (12) for the digital signal to be converted, the digital/analog converter (20) having access to a signal terminal (24);—a voltage current conversion resistor (36) arranged between the voltage output (26) and a reference potential; and—a current/voltage converter (22) that has a voltage output and is arranged between the signal terminal (24) and the voltage outlet (26). The current/voltage converter (22) comprises a transistor (46). The source of the transistor (46) is only connected to the signal terminal (24) of the digital/analog converter (20).
US10141889B2
In a sensor reader, an IC chip has a function for amplifying and outputting a sensor signal from each sensor element included in a sensor array, and includes a plurality of channel amplifiers connected each of the sensor elements. When an output switch is closed and the IC chip is in the outputting state, channel switches operate sequentially, and sensor amplification signals are output sequentially from the channel amplifiers. When the output switch is open and the IC chip is in the non-outputting state, a bias current of an operational amplifier of the channel amplifier is decreased, the IC chip is set to a low power consumption state, and gain of the operational amplifier is decreased.
US10141881B2
An apparatus for controlling an inverter is disclosed. The apparatus for controlling the inverter contained in an inverter system configured to drive a motor determines a slip frequency to be used for compensation of a frequency of a first reference voltage, not only using a first reference voltage (including an amplitude and frequency) of the first reference voltage applied to the inverter, but also using an output current of the motor or a rotor speed of the motor. The apparatus determines not only a frequency of a second reference voltage obtained by compensation of the slip frequency, but also an amplitude of the second reference voltage corresponding to the frequency of the second reference voltage.
US10141878B2
A controller for a sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor having a rotor using a permanent magnet, the rotor rotating by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing through an armature is provided. The controller is configured to apply a pulse voltage for generating a magnetic field vector for searching for the initial position to each of search sections obtained by dividing a target range, narrow down a target range in such a manner that a search section in which a largest amount of current flows through the armature by application of the pulse voltage is selected as a subsequent target range, and repeat the application processing and the narrow-down processing to estimate the initial position.
US10141871B2
A control method which is deployed in a control installation of an electric motor, the control installation including a first converter controlled for the application of the first voltage pulse edges to an electric motor of a first pulse width modulation, obtained by comparing a first carrier signal, applied at a first chopping frequency, with a first modulating signal, a second converter controlled of a second pulse width modulation, obtained by comparing a second carrier signal, applied at a second chopping frequency, with a second modulating signal. The control method involves the determination of a notional optimum phase-shift angle on the basis of the first chopping frequency and the second chopping frequency.
US10141868B2
A method and apparatus for providing multi-phase power. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a cycloconverter controller for determining a charge ratio based on a reference waveform; and a cycloconverter, coupled to the cycloconverter controller and to a multi-phase AC line, for selectively coupling an alternating current to each line of the multi-phase AC line based on the charge ratio.
US10141867B2
A switching control circuit of a power converter according to the present invention comprises an input circuit and a clock generator. The input circuit is coupled to receive a feedback signal for generating a switching signal. The clock generator generates a clock signal to determine a switching frequency of the switching signal. The feedback signal is correlated to an output of the power converter. The switching signal is coupled to switch a transformer of the power converter for regulating the output of the power converter. The pulse width of the switching signal is reduced before the switching frequency of the switching signal is changed from a low frequency to a high frequency.
US10141866B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for a multi-level inverter to convert direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC). The inverter may comprise first, second and third capacitors electrically coupled in series between a positive DC rail and a negative DC rail. A first pole switch bank of the inverter may comprise a plurality of first pole switches. A first pole may be electrically coupled to the first pole switch bank. A control circuit may comprise at least one processor that is programmed to alternately switch the first pole switch bank to a first state of the first pole switch bank in which the first pole is electrically coupled to the positive DC rail, a second state of the first pole switch bank in which the first pole is electrically coupled between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, a third state of the first pole switch bank in which the first pole is electrically coupled between the second capacitor and the third capacitor, a fourth state of the first pole switch bank in which the first pole is electrically coupled to the negative DC rail.
US10141863B2
According to one embodiment, a controller determines the polarity of the input voltage detected by an input voltage detector. Then, when the polarity of the input voltage is positive, the first switch is subject to pulse driving, and when the polarity of the input voltage is negative, the second switch is subject to pulse driving, where the pulse driving is carried out at an on/off timing determined on the basis of the respective detection outputs of an input voltage detector, an input current detector, an output voltage detector, and an output current detector.
US10141862B1
A power device supply includes an inverter, a converter, and a cooling system. The inverter is configured to convert direct electrical current into alternating electrical current. The converter has an inductor and is configured to amplify voltage. The cooling system has top, bottom, and intermediate cooling plates. The cooling system is arranged such that the inverter and inductor are interleaved with the plates and such that the inverter and inductor are disposed on opposing sides of the intermediate cooling plate.
US10141858B2
A power converter for an electric locomotive includes an insulating transformer, an AC/DC converter, an inverter, a PWM controller, and a voltage controller. The insulating transformer is supplied with high-voltage AC power from an AC overhead wire to convert a high voltage to a low voltage and output low-voltage AC power. The AC/DC converter receives the low-voltage AC power and performs AC/DC conversion. The inverter receives an output from the AC/DC converter and performs DC/AC conversion for supply to a load. The PWM controller outputs a PWM control signal having a predetermined pattern, the pattern for removing specific harmonic components from an output of the inverter or attenuating the specific harmonic components to at most a predetermined level. The voltage controller controls a DC output voltage of the AC/DC converter to control an output voltage of the inverter.
US10141855B2
A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.
US10141852B2
A circuit for use in an LLC converter to control diode conduction time includes a secondary side controller, the secondary side controller configured to monitor voltage, measure a diode conduction time for the LLC converter, in response to determining that the diode conduction time is greater that a target time, increase the on-time for the first switch, and in response to determining that the diode conduction time is less than a target time, decrease the on-time for the first switch.
US10141849B1
An apparatus that includes first and second parallel converter branches, each parallel converter branch including an input node, N output nodes, a plurality of switches, a converter output node, and control logic. The control logic generates a first set of switch signals to control the switches of the first parallel converter branch and a second set of switch signals to control the second parallel converter branch, the first set switch signals and the second set of switch signals having respective duty cycles to cause each of the first and second parallel converter branches to output the DC output voltage on each of the N output nodes.
US10141846B2
A method of controlling a power converter, including executing a plurality of cycles, including: turning on a first switch during a first period, the first switch coupled to a power supply and a switch node; turning on a second switch during a second period, the second switch coupled to the switch node; turning on a third switch at a first time during the second period and turning the third switch off at a second time after the second period by a first open signal including a high discharge signal followed by a lower discharge signal, the third switch coupled to an auxiliary node and to a second inductor coupled to the auxiliary node; and turning on a fourth switch at a third time after the second time and turning the fourth switch off during the first period of a succeeding cycle, the fourth switch coupled to the auxiliary node.
US10141837B2
Device and method for energy harvesting using a self-oscillating power-on reset start-up circuit. The device for energy harvesting comprises a start-up circuit for generating self-oscillation and initial boosting of an input voltage from an energy source during a start-up phase; a main boost circuit for boosting the input voltage during a steady state phase; a clock generator circuit for generating clock signals which control voltage boosting of the main boost circuit during the steady state phase; and a switching circuit coupled to the start-up circuit, the main boost circuit and the clock generator circuit for switching powering of the clock generator circuit between the start-up circuit and the main boost circuit such that the clock generator circuit is powered by only one of the start-up circuit and the main boost circuit at any point in time.
US10141833B2
A power management method includes generating a power related value; notifying a power management controller if the power related value has passed a threshold; and performing a power control operation by the power management controller. The power control operation prevents an over current event.
US10141828B2
A maximum power point tracking method includes: configuring a voltage tuning direction of a power converter by a process circuit such that the input voltage of the power converter changes in a positive or a negative trend; detecting the corresponding input voltage and input current of the power converter sequentially to obtain multiple powers; and when the powers decrease for N times continuously, change the voltage tuning direction of the power converter such that the change of the input voltage switches from positive trend to negative trend, or from negative trend to positive trend, in which N is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
US10141824B2
A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing, a substrate engaging with the housing, a vibration unit received in the housing, an elastic member suspending the vibration unit, and a coil assembly interacting with the vibration unit. The vibration unit further includes a slot for receiving a fixing part of the elastic member, and the slot includes a volume recessed toward a direction far away from the fixing part.
US10141821B2
A motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a first rotor core including a plurality of first claw-like magnetic poles, a second rotor core including a plurality of second claw-like magnetic poles, and a magnetic field magnet arranged between the first and second rotor cores. The first and second claw-like magnetic poles are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. The magnetic field magnet causes the first and second claw-like magnetic poles to function as magnetic poles different from each other. The stator includes a first stator core including a plurality of first claw-like magnetic poles, a second stator core including a plurality of second claw-like magnetic poles, and a coil section arranged between the first and second stator cores. The stator is configured to cause the first and second claw-like magnetic poles of the stator to function as magnetic poles different from each other and switch polarities of the magnetic poles on the basis of energization to the coil section. At least ones of the claw-like magnetic poles of the rotor and the claw-like magnetic poles of the stator are formed in a shape in which circumferential centers of distal end portions are shifted in the circumferential direction with respect to circumferential centers of proximal end portions.
US10141817B2
In one embodiment, an electric machine includes a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets and rotatable about a central axis of the machine. The machine further includes a stator including a cylindrical stator shell and a plurality of stator windings positioned at the stator shell and located radially inboard of the plurality of permanent magnets. A plurality of heat sink segments are secured to a radially inboard surface of the stator shell. Each heat sink segment of the plurality of heat sink segments includes a base portion located at the radially inboard surface and a plurality of fins extending radially inwardly from the base portion.
US10141815B2
A variable pressure electric generator, including a gas cooled rotor arranged along a centerline of the generator; a gas cooled core arranged coaxially and surrounding the rotor; a plurality of coils arranged within the core; a stator frame arranged to fixedly support the core and rotationally support the rotor; a gas cooling system that circulates a cooling gas within the generator; a pressurizing system that operatively pressurizes the cooling medium to a maximum pressure of 2 bar relative to atmospheric pressure, wherein the pressurizing system continuously determines the cooling medium pressure based upon operational requirements; and a low pressure frame that surrounds a plurality of the rotor and an entirety of the core and stator windings, the frame configured to operatively contain an internal pressure of 2 bar relative to atmospheric pressure.
US10141807B2
Electric motors are disclosed. The motors are preferably for use in an automated vehicle, although any one or more of a variety of motor uses are suitable. The motors include lift, turntable, and locomotion motors.
US10141806B2
A stator arrangement for an electrical motor has several windings (28) which are arranged on a winding carrier (26) of plastic. A groove (32) extends in the peripheral direction and is open to the axial end-side and in which at least one electrical conductor (30) electrically connecting two of the windings (28) is arranged. The groove (32) is formed on at least one axial end-side (20) of the winding carrier (26). An electric motor including the stator arrangement as a pump assembly with such a stator arrangement are also provided.
US10141804B2
A system for an axial field rotary energy device can include modules that each are an axial field rotary energy device. The modules can be connected together for a desired power input or output. Each module can include a housing having an axis. The housing can be mechanically coupled to at least one other module. In addition, the housing can be electrically coupled to one other module. Rotors can be rotatably mounted to the housing. Each rotor can include magnets. The housing also can have stators. Each stator can include a printed circuit board (PCB) having PCB layers comprising coils.
US10141803B2
An axial field rotary energy device can include a rotor having an axis of rotation and a magnet; a stator coaxial with the rotor, the stator can have a printed circuit board (PCB) having a plurality of PCB layers that are spaced apart in an axial direction, each PCB layer can include a coil having only two terminals for electrical connections, each coil is continuous and uninterrupted between its only two terminals, each coil consists of a single electrical phase, and one of the two terminals of each coil is electrically coupled to another coil with a via to define a coil pair; and each coil pair is electrically coupled to another coil pair with another via.
US10141795B2
An electric motor is provided for use in an electromechanical transmission that utilizes automatic transmission fluid. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets can include magnetic particles coated with hydrogen impermeable material. According to an alternative embodiment, the entire permanent magnet or the rotor itself can be coated with hydrogen impermeable material. According to a further alternative embodiment, the permanent magnet particles can be secured by a binder that includes a hydrogen storage compound that prevents hydrogen from affecting magnetic properties of the permanent magnet.
US10141784B2
A power receiving device includes: a ferrite member including a plurality of pieces of ferrite at least some of which are spaced from adjacent pieces of ferrite; a power receiving coil disposed on a lower surface side of the ferrite member; and a power receiving capacitor disposed on an upper surface side of the ferrite member. The power receiving capacitor has a closed loop circuit including first and second wiring connections and a plurality of capacitor elements connected in parallel between the first wiring connection and the second wiring connection. When the power receiving capacitor and the ferrite member are viewed from the lower surface side of the ferrite member, the closed loop circuit is located behind and within a perimeter of one of the pieces of ferrite. A power transmitting device has a mirror structure to the power receiving device.
US10141780B2
A smart grid monitoring device with multi-agent function is provided, which may include a measurement module, a communication module and a control module. The measurement module may measure at least one real-time electric signal of a power transaction system or an electric unit. The control module may execute a self-developed program to provide at least one agent functionality and then control the electric unit according to the at least one real-time electric signals measured; the communication module can transmit the at least one real-time electric signal to other monitoring devices or the main computer of the power dispatch transaction system, and can control the electric unit according to the at least one electric signal. The communication module can receive electric demand signals from the power company or other monitoring devices of the power dispatch transaction system via the main computer to execute the electricity transaction with the bidding mechanism.
US10141778B2
A redundant power includes a main power circuit for generating main power, a main power isolation unit, an auxiliary power circuit for generating auxiliary power, an auxiliary power isolation unit and a micro control unit. The main power isolation unit and auxiliary power isolation unit receive and output the main power and auxiliary power respectively. The micro control unit transmits a cold redundant signal to the main power circuit and auxiliary power circuit when receiving the cold redundant signal and outputs first and second disable signals to the main power isolation unit and auxiliary power isolation unit respectively. In response to the cold redundant signal, the main power circuit and auxiliary power circuit reduce levels of the main power and auxiliary power respectively. The main power isolation unit and auxiliary power isolation unit are disabled according to the first and second disable signals respectively.
US10141776B2
Systems and methods for controlling power distribution are provided. The method includes receiving a power command, wherein the power command requests a discharge from one or more BESS units, and wherein the one or more BESS units are housed in one or more temperature controlled rooms. For each of the one or more temperature controlled rooms, a lowest energy remaining of the one or more BESS units in the temperature controlled room is determined; a low threshold is determined based on the determined lowest energy remaining and a floor; a limit is determined based on the determined low threshold; and the limit is assigned to each of the one or more BESS units housed in the temperature controlled room. The method includes causing the power command to be at least partially satisfied by the one or more BESS units based on the assigned limits.
US10141772B2
A communication device includes a substrate, a magnetic sheet disposed above an upper surface of the substrate, a first coil disposed above an upper surface of the magnetic sheet, a second coil having a portion facing an edge surface of the substrate in a direction parallel with the upper surface of the substrate, and an electronic component disposed on the upper surface of the substrate. The electronic component is configured to generate noise. The magnetic sheet has a portion overlapping the second coil viewing from above. The electronic component is exposed from the magnetic sheet viewing from above. This communication device has a small size and prevents influence of noise generated by the electronic component.
US10141771B1
Disclosed is a system including RF circuitry configured to generate an RF signal; a plurality of unit cells configured to receive the RF signal and to cause an RF energy signal having a center frequency to be present within the unit cells; and receiver circuitry configured to charge an electronic device in response to an antenna of the electronic device receiving the RF energy signal when the antenna is tuned to the center frequency and positioned in a near-field distance from one or more of the unit cells.
US10141763B2
A soft start amplifier provides a soft-start function that controls a battery charging current in a feedback loop charging circuit by selecting the lowest voltage between a soft start voltage and an error derived control voltage. The lowest voltage is used as a control signal for controlling the battery charging current in the feedback loop charging circuit. The error voltage is a difference between a voltage proportional to the charging current and a voltage proportional to the target charging current while the soft start voltage is a voltage configured to ramp up with time. Using the lower voltage of the error voltage and the soft start voltage reduces the inrush current that may occur when the error derived control voltage spikes to the supply voltage in an attempt to correct the initial difference between the target charging current and a measured charging current.
US10141762B2
The all-solid-state battery system that has an all-solid-state battery, the all-solid-state battery having a positive electrode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer and a negative electrode active material layer, and a control device that controls the lower limit discharge potential of the positive electrode active material layer of the all-solid-state battery. The positive electrode active material layer and/or the solid electrolyte layer have a sulfide solid electrolyte. In addition, the positive electrode active material layer has an olivine-type positive electrode active material. In addition, the capacity of the negative electrode active material layer is lower than the capacity of the positive electrode active material layer. In addition, the control device controls the lower limit discharge potential of the positive electrode active material layer during normal use of the all-solid-state battery to within the range of 1.6 V vs. Li/Li+ to 2.1 V vs. Li/Li+.
US10141759B2
A battery fuel gauge apparatus comprises a protection device coupled to a battery pack, a current mirror device, wherein a first terminal of the current mirror device is connected to a first terminal of the protection device through a first switch and a second terminal of the current mirror device is connected to a second terminal of the protection device through a second switch, a sensing device coupled to the current mirror device, a transistor coupled to the sensing device and an operational amplifier comprising a first input coupled to the protection device, a second input coupled to the current mirror device and an output coupled to the transistor.
US10141757B2
A floor stand for supporting one or more mobile device charging stations for charging one or more mobile devices, including a vertical support member having an upper end and a lower end, wherein the one or more mobile device charging stations are supported on the vertical support member.
US10141753B2
A storage battery system relating to the present invention includes N PCSes. Each of the N PCSes is connected to an individual storage battery module group. The storage battery module group is formed by connecting one or more storage battery modules in parallel. A maximum power storage capacity of the storage battery modules configuring at least one storage battery module group is different from a maximum power storage capacity of the storage battery modules configuring the other storage battery module groups. A controller determines charge/discharge amounts of the individual PCSes on the basis of a charge/discharge request from an EMS, the maximum power storage capacity of the storage battery module, the number of the storage battery modules and a storage battery capacity ratio.
US10141736B2
A method for identifying the type of faults occurred on a power line, characterized in that it comprises: calculating a fault point voltage on fault points based on terminal voltage and fault locations of the power line; adopting the fault point voltage corresponding to a maximum transition resistance as a setting value; comparing the fault point voltage on fault points with the setting value; and identifying the type of fault as a permanent type or a transient type based on the result of the comparison.
US10141724B2
An apparatus of sliding a submodule includes a sliding rail part installed on one side of a cabinet; a submodule capable of being entered into or withdrawn from the cabinet; and a sliding guide part installed at one side of the submodule and slidingly moved by the sliding rail part. The sliding rail part may include a rail body, first and second extending parts extending from opposite ends of the rail body, and first and second sliding rails connected to the first and second extending parts respectively and protruding toward the sliding guide part.
US10141720B2
A nitride semiconductor laser element includes an electron barrier layer between a p-side light guide layer and a p-type clad layer. The electron barrier layer has a bandgap energy larger than that of the p-type clad layer. The p-side light guide layer is made of AlxGa1−xN containing no Indium, where 0≤x<1. A film thickness dn of the n-side light guide layer and a film thickness dp of the p-side light guide layer satisfy relationships dp≥0.25 μm and dn≥dp.
US10141705B2
A diode pumped, solid state laser is provided that can produce over 16 billion, 15 mJ, 10 ns Q-Switched laser pulses with a low measured decay rate. The laser can be integrated into a global biomass measuring instrument, and mounted on the International Space Station (ISS).
US10141698B2
A circuit board for a high speed communication jack including a rigid circuit board in the housing having a substrate, a plurality of vias extending through the substrate with each via being configured to accommodate a pin on the housing, a plurality of traces on a middle layer in the substrate, with each trace extending from a corresponding one of the plurality of vias, a first shielding layer on a first side of the middle layer in the substrate, a second shielding layer on a second side of the middle layer in the substrate, and a third shielding layer adjacent to the second shielding layer.
US10141695B2
The electrical connection device includes: a housing, a first contact end, a second contact end, a first connector connectable to the first contact end, and a second connector connected to the second contact end. The electrical connection device may also include an electrical disconnection switch located between the first contact end and the first connector. In addition, the electrical connection device may also include a movable conduction engagement device that is moveable relative to the housing. The conduction engagement device also includes a magnetic element that moves free ends of the first contact end and the first connector of the electrical disconnection switch. The device also includes a mating electrical connection device including a first mating contact end and a second mating contact end, wherein the first and second contact ends make electrical contact with respective mating first and second contact ends of the mating electrical connection device.
US10141679B2
A waterproof attachment portion to an enclosure is formed to implement the reduction in height, reduction in size, and positive waterproof effects at the same time. An electrical connector includes: an electrically conductive contact; an insulating housing for holding the contact; a metal shell which includes an opening opened frontward to allow a mating connector to be inserted therein and accommodates the housing; and a sealing member which is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the metal shell and protruded frontward from the metal shell.
US10141677B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, which has at least two body units. Each two body unit accommodates and is fixed with multiple terminals, and the at least two body units are spliced to each other. Each body unit has at least two edge portions, and the insulating body is provided with at least four fixing portions such that each of the edge portions is provided with at least one fixing portions. At least four metal members are correspondingly and fixedly provided on the at least four fixing portions respectively. At least two metal sheets are provided outside the at least two body units. Each metal sheet is soldered and fixed to at least one metal member provided on each body unit. By soldering and fixing the metal members and the metal sheets together, the overall structure of the electrical connector is firmer, and flatness is higher.
US10141675B2
A belt connector is provided. The belt connector is configured to electrically connect a conductor of an electrode belt to a male portion of a snap connector electrode connected to a biometric device. The belt connector includes a frame, a fastener, and an engaging member. The frame includes a receiving hole having radial flexibility. The receiving hole is configured to receive and fasten the frame to a protrusion of the male portion of the snap connector electrode. The fastener is configured to fasten the frame to a first end of the electrode belt. The engaging member is adjacent to the receiving hole and engages the conductor of the electrode belt by the conductor passing through the receiving hole. When the male portion of the snap connector electrode penetrates the receiving hole, the conductor is forced into contact with a lateral surface of the male portion of the snap connector electrode.
US10141671B2
A reversible plug connector includes a plug housing having a housing contact disposed on an inner surface of the plug housing, a moveable plug insulator disposed within the plug housing, the moveable plug insulator having an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface with a metallic conductor exposed on both the upper surface and the lower surface. The moveable plug insulator is configured to be vertically displaced in response to the reversible plug connector being inserted into a receptacle connector such that a portion of the metallic conductor is brought into contact with a receptacle contact on the receptacle connector and another portion of the metallic conductor is brought into contact with the housing contact, and thereby the housing contact is electrically connected to the receptacle contact. A corresponding system is also disclosed herein.
US10141669B2
A plug connector includes a housing having a mating end and a cable end. The mating end is configured to be mated with a header connector in a mating direction. A tab terminal is held in the housing at the mating end. The tab terminal has a leading edge configured to be mated with the header terminal of the header connector when the plug connector is mated to the header connector. The leading edge is tapered such that the tab terminal sequentially mates with the header terminal during mating.
US10141664B2
An electrical distribution block transfer electrical power from a primary conductor to one or more tap conductors. The distribution block includes a base, a conductor block, first and second sidewalls, and a lid. The conductor block and the first and second sidewalls are connected to the base and the lid is connected to the first and second sidewalls. The conductor block includes one or more apertures for receiving more primary conductors and one or more apertures for receiving tap conductors.
US10141663B1
A coaxial cable connector comprising a connector body, a dielectric component, and a conductor component is provided. The connector body has a threaded outer surface, a radially protruding head portion, and an altered hex-shaped end portion. The altered hex-shaped end portion and radially protruding head portion surround the first body opening end of the connector body. The connector body further comprises a through-hole having a radially inner protruding end portion on an inner surface of the first connector body end. The dielectric component has a cylindrical center tube, a radially protruding head end portion, and a plurality of flexible snap hooks. The plurality of flexible snap hooks slide along guide passageways of the radially inner protruding end portion of the through-hole, fittably hooking and locking against an annular inner lock back wall thereof. The first conductor component extends through the cylindrical center tube of the dielectric component.
US10141658B2
An antenna module includes a multilayer board, a phased array antenna that includes antenna elements arranged on an outer face of a second conductor layer included in the multilayer board and adjusts one or more beam directions of the antenna elements, a radio frequency (RF) chip that is arranged on an outer face of first conductor layers included in the multilayer board and outputs the radio frequency signal, a matching circuit that is arranged on the outer face of the first conductor layers and adjusts matching between impedance of the antenna elements and impedance of the RF chip, a through hole that couples the first conductor layers and the second conductor layer, and one or more vias that are on an outer side in a diameter direction of the through hole and couples the first conductor layers.
US10141656B2
A structural antenna array may include a core including intersecting wall sections, wherein the core further includes antenna elements formed on a first surface of the wall sections, and feed elements formed on a second surface of the wall sections, a distribution substrate layer coupled to the core and in electrical communication with the antenna elements and the feed elements, a first skin coupled to the core opposite the distribution substrate layer, and a second skin coupled to the distribution substrate layer opposite the first skin.
US10141654B2
A tracking antenna system for discrete radio frequency spectrums includes a reflector, a pedestal supporting the reflector, a radome assembly enclosing both, a first feed for gathering radio waves within a first of discrete RF spectrums that is removably disposed in front of the reflector at the focal point, a first RF module operably connected to the first feed for converting the first gathered radio waves to first electronic signals, a feed mount for removably supporting the first feed and configured to removably support a second feed for gathering radio waves within a second of discrete RF spectrums, and a module mount for removably supporting the first RF module and configured to removably support a second RF module for converting the second radio waves to second electronic signals. A method of using the tracking antenna system adaptable for discrete radio frequency spectrums is also disclosed.
US10141645B2
An antenna comprising first and second radiating elements disposed in a collinear configuration on a dielectric substrate, wherein the first radiating element comprises a feed point. A first inter-element phasing section is conductively coupled to the first and second radiating elements, and has a meander line configuration adapted such that the first and second radiating elements radiate electro-magnetic radiation in-phase over a first range of frequencies. Third and fourth radiating elements are disposed in a collinear configuration on the substrate, and the third radiating element is electromagnetically coupled in parasitic relation to the first radiating element. A second inter-element phasing section is conductively coupled to the third and fourth radiating elements, and has a meander line configuration adapted such that the third and fourth radiating elements radiate electromagnetic radiation in-phase over a second range of frequencies which is different from the first range of frequencies.
US10141628B2
An active antenna device includes a terminal for receiving a signal to be transmitted, and an antenna for generating a radio signal based on the signal to be transmitted. The active antenna device further includes a controller that is configured to control the antenna depending on the intended properties of the radio signal. The active antenna device includes a coupler between the terminal and the antenna that is configured to decouple a signal portion from the signal to be transmitted. The active antenna device further includes an energy converter that is connected between the coupler and the controller and configured to provide a power signal for the operation of the controller based on the decoupled signal portion.
US10141611B2
Devices, systems, and techniques for identifying a dendrite material within a battery. The method comprising receiving, by a battery management system, an output from sensing circuitry within the battery indicative of a first voltage level, detecting, by the battery management system, a change from the first voltage level to a second voltage level that is indicative of an internal short within a sensing sheet, determining by the battery management system, a resistance and a two-dimensional position of the internal short within the sensing sheet, and identifying, by the battery management system, a dendrite material based on the resistance of the internal short.
US10141608B2
Provided are an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery containing the same. The electrolyte for a secondary battery according to the present invention has excellent high-temperature stability, excellent low-temperature discharge capacity, and excellent life cycle characteristics.
US10141601B2
The present invention provides an electrolyte for electrochemical device and the electrochemical device thereof. The electrolyte comprises 9.95˜19.95 wt % of a salt; 80.0˜90.0 wt % of a non-aqueous solvent; 0.05˜10.00 wt % of an additive comprising a compound represented by below formula (I) or (II): wherein X1, R1, and R4˜R10 is defined as herein. Besides, the present invention also provides a method for enhancing cycle life of electrochemical device which accomplished by adding said additive to an electrolyte of electrochemical device.
US10141592B2
A resin-framed membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell includes a stepped membrane electrode assembly and a resin frame member. The stepped membrane electrode assembly includes a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode, and a cathode electrode. The resin frame member surrounds an outer periphery of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane and includes an inner protruding portion that protrudes from an inner peripheral base portion toward the cathode electrode and that has a thickness. The inner protruding portion has an adhesive application portion to which an adhesive is applied so as to surround a part of the inner protruding portion. The part is in contact with the stepped membrane electrode assembly. A thickness of a cathode diffusion layer is larger than a thickness of an anode diffusion layer.
US10141591B2
A fuel cell system comprises a controller configured to: (i) calculate a torque target value of a compressor and an opening position target value of a pressure regulation valve from a flow rate target value of a cathode gas and a pressure target value of a cathode gas flow path, the flow rate target value of the cathode gas and the pressure target value being determined according to a required power output of a fuel cell stack; (ii) calculate a torque feedback value of the compressor from a difference between a flow rate measurement value and the flow rate target value of the cathode gas, and control the compressor using a torque command value obtained by adding the torque target value and the torque feedback value; and (iii) calculate an opening position feedback value of the pressure regulation valve from a difference between a pressure measurement value and the pressure target value of the cathode gas flow path, and control an opening position of the pressure regulation valve using an opening position command value obtained by adding the opening position target value of the pressure regulation valve and a delayed opening position feedback value that is obtained by delaying the opening position feedback value. This configuration suppresses the hunting of the flow rate and the pressure.
US10141582B2
A novel method to produce thin films spatially disposed on desired areas of workpieces is disclosed. Examples of include the formation of a yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) film formed on a desired portion of a stainless steel interconnect for solid oxide fuel cells by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). A number of methods to produce the spatially disposed YSZ film structures are described including polymeric and silicone rubber masks. The thin film structures have utility for preventing the reaction of glasses with metals, in particular alkali-earth containing glasses with ferritic stainless steels, allowing high temperature bonding of these materials.
US10141575B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes a current collector and an electrode layer. The electrode layer is disposed on the current collector and includes lithium fluoride. A first content of lithium fluoride in a first region is 0.02% by weight or more and less than 2% by weight. The first region is adjacent to an interface between the electrode layer and the current collector, and has a first thickness equal to 20% with respect to a thickness of the electrode layer. A second content of lithium fluoride in a second region is from 2% by weight to 10% by weight. The second region is adjacent to a surface on a reverse side of the electrode layer, and has the first thickness.
US10141571B2
To improve cycling characteristics of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery by obtaining a nickel-cobalt composite hydroxide having a sharp particle size distribution as a precursor, a slurry including a nickel-cobalt composite hydroxide obtained by continuously supplying an aqueous solution that includes at least nickel and cobalt, an ammonium ion donor aqueous solution and a caustic alkali aqueous solution to a reaction vessel and reacting, is continuously extracted and separated into a large particle size portion and s small particle size portion by classification, and the small particle size portion is continuously returned to the reaction vessel. As a result, a nickel-cobalt composite hydroxide is obtained that is expressed by the general formula: Ni1-x-yCoxMy(OH)2 (where, 0.05≤x≤0.50, 0≤y≤0.10, 0.05≤x+y≤0.50, and M is at least one kind of metal element selected from among Al, Mg, Mn, Ti, Fe, Cu, Zn and Ga, and that satisfies the relationships (D50−D10)/D50≤0.30, and (D90−D50)/D50≤0.30 among D10, D50 and D90 of this composite hydroxide.
US10141565B2
Provided is a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery excellent in durability, the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode active material, the surface of which is coated with a film formed of an inorganic solid electrolyte, wherein a change in volume of the positive electrode active material during charge and discharge is reduced to prevent deterioration of the film with which the surface of the positive electrode active material is coated. In a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode active material, the surface of which is coated with a film formed of an inorganic solid electrolyte, the positive electrode active material is a lithium-containing composite oxide having a spinel structure, and contains at least one of Ti and Mg as an additional element.
US10141559B2
A porous interlayer for a lithium-sulfur battery includes an electronic component and a negatively charged or chargeable lithium ion conducting component. The electronic component is selected from a carbon material, a conductive polymeric material, and combinations thereof. In an example, the porous interlayer may be disposed between a sulfur-based positive electrode and a porous polymer separator in a lithium-sulfur battery. In another example, the porous interlayer may be formed on a surface of a porous polymer separator.
US10141558B2
A separator for a lithium-ion battery includes a substrate, a coating, and a middle layer formed between the substrate and the coating. The middle layer includes a part of the substrate and a part of the coating. The substrate contains a base polymer, a first polymer, and a first inorganic material. The coating contains a second polymer and a second inorganic material. The first polymer and the second polymer independently contain an acid radical in a side chain thereof. The first inorganic material is reactive with the first polymer via a first neutralization reaction, and the second inorganic material is reactive with the second polymer via a second neutralization reaction. A method for preparing a separator for a lithium-ion battery and a lithium-ion battery are also provided.
US10141556B2
Improved battery separators, batteries, and systems, as well as methods relating thereto are disclosed herein for use in various lead acid batteries such as valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries that include one or more AGM layers. The improved battery separators described herein may provide a battery system with an advantage of a significantly decreased acid filling time and a significantly increased acid filling speed. Various improved batteries, methods and systems are described herein using such improved battery separators that increase acid filling speed and decrease acid filling time for a VRLA battery.
US10141555B2
Provided is a multi-layered porous film which includes a functional layer having a controlled thickness in a length-wise direction thereof and which is suitable as a separator for batteries. The multi-layered porous film includes a base film, and a functional layer containing both an inorganic filler and a binder resin, the functional layer being formed on the base film, wherein a difference between a maximum basis weight and a minimum basis weight of the multi-layered porous film in a length-wise direction thereof is equal to or smaller than 2 grams/m2, the basis weight being measured every 100 meters interval. The separator fabricated by cutting a film roll comprised of a multi-layered porous film into pieces each having a given length has small lot-based fluctuation in quality, and makes it possible to fabricate a battery having a small fluctuation in quality.
US10141548B2
A method for producing a battery packaging material, the method including the steps of: providing a battery packaging material including a laminate in which at least a base material layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer containing a polyolefin resin are laminated in this order; and confirming that the intensity ratio X=P/Q is in the range of 0.05 to 0.80 where P is a peak intensity P at 1650 cm−1 originating from C═O stretching vibration of the amide group of an amide-based lubricant, and Q is a peak intensity Q at 1460 cm−1 originating from bending vibration of the group —CH2— of the polyolefin resin, each of which is measured from an absorption spectrum obtained by splitting reflected light in irradiation of the surface of the sealant layer with an infrared ray, and P/Q is a ratio of the peak intensity P to the peak intensity Q.
US10141546B2
Disclosed is an inner case of a battery module assembly in which four battery modules, each having a plurality of cylindrical secondary battery cells (hereinafter, also referred to as ‘cells’), are electrically connected in series. The inner case includes a side frame making contact with two facing sides among sides of the battery module assembly, an upper frame making contact with an upper surface of the battery module assembly, and an electrode post electrically connected to an electrode of the battery module assembly and located at a top of the upper frame. Therefore, it is possible to provide an inner case of a stable and economic battery module including a plurality of secondary battery cells.
US10141545B2
Bead blasting the inner, contact surface of an electrochemical cell casing to render the inner surface thereof essentially contamination free and suitable as a current collector is described. The casing is preferably of stainless steel and houses the alkali metal-halogen couple in a case-positive configuration.
US10141544B2
A highly reliable display device or electronic device is provided. The display device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a protective film over the second electrode. The protective film includes a first insulating film and a second insulating film over the first insulating film. The first insulating film includes one or more of aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide, and zirconium oxide, and the second insulating film includes one or more of aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide, and zirconium oxide. A composition of the first insulating film is different from a composition of the second insulating film. A water vapor transmission rate of the protective film is lower than 1×10−2 g/(m2·day).
US10141534B2
A novel compound according to the present invention may improve the capability of transporting electrons to a light-emitting layer in a light-emitting device, and may improve the light-emitting efficiency and increase the lifespan of the light-emitting device by using the compound.
US10141529B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and resulting structures for enhancing drive current and increasing device yield in n-type carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNT FETs) with scaled contacts using a wetting layer. In some embodiments of the invention, a nanotube is formed over a surface of a substrate. An insulating layer is formed over the nanotube such that end portions of the nanotube are exposed. A low work function metal is formed over the end portions of the nanotube and a wetting layer is formed between the low work function metal and the nanotube.
US10141526B2
A flexible device is provided. The hardness of a bonding layer of the flexible device is set to be higher than Shore D of 70, or preferably higher than or equal to Shore D of 80. The coefficient of expansion of a flexible substrate of the flexible device is set to be less than 58 ppm/° C., or preferably less than or equal to 30 ppm/° C.
US10141524B2
A novel phosphorescent organometallic iridium complex is provided in which a coordination position of a ligand with respect to a metal can be controlled in synthesis. A novel phosphorescent organometallic iridium complex is provided which can keep high quantum efficiency and can emit phosphorescence in the blue to green wavelength region. A phosphorescent organometallic iridium complex which includes a structure represented by General Formula (G1) and whose ligand is a 4H-1,2,4-triazole compound which has an unsubstituted phenyl group at the 3-position, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group at the 4-position, and a phenyl group at the 5-position. In the phenyl group at the 5-position, an alkyl group is bonded to at least one of the ortho-positions, and the other of the ortho-positions, the meta-positions, and the para-position are substituted or unsubstituted.
US10141523B2
The present invention relates to a novel solution processable red-emitting iridium (III) complex. In the iridium (III) complex, a quinoline-thiophene derivative is introduced as a main ligand and a picolinic acid derivative substituted with a halogen, a substituent having electron transporting properties or a substituent having hole transporting properties is introduced as an ancillary ligand at the para-position relative to the nitrogen atom of picolinic acid. The iridium (III) complex is a red phosphorescent compound that is highly electrically stable, exhibits excellent luminescent properties and high luminance, and has high color purity. In addition, the iridium (III) complex has improved solubility in organic solvents and good resistance to heat, ensuring excellent interfacial properties with electrodes. Therefore, the iridium (III) complex is useful as a light emitting material for an organic electroluminescence device. The present invention also relates to an organic electroluminescence device including the iridium (III) complex.
US10141517B2
This charge-transporting material, which includes a charge-transporting substance, halo-tetracyanoquinodimethane, and a complexing agent comprising an amide compound such as 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone, for example, and capable of forming a complex with halo-tetracyanoquinodimethane, and in which the halo-tetracyanoquinodimethane and complexing agent form a complex, makes it possible to provide a thin film having excellent charge-transporting properties and to realize an organic EL element having low drive voltage when said thin film is applied to a hole injection layer.
US10141512B2
The invention relates to conducting and semi-conducting photoreactive compounds, represented by the general formula (I), to the use of these compounds for the preparation of oriented and/or orientation layers; and to their use in the construction of unstructured and structured optical, electro optical or optoelectronic elements and multi-layer systems.
US10141506B2
In one embodiment, a capacitor-like structure is constructed that includes an RF co-sputtered TMO layer. The capacitor-like structure includes a first electrode (e.g., a bottom electrode) constructed of a first metal (e.g., Pt), a RF co-sputtered TMO layer on the first electrode including a first oxide and a second oxide (e.g., a RF co-sputtered Al2O3—NiO layer), and a second electrode constructed of a second metal (e.g., Pt) in contact with the co-sputtered TMO layer. The capacitor-like structure is resistively switchable due to formation and rupture of CFs through the RF co-sputtered TMO layer in response to application of a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode. The RF co-sputtered TMO layer may be grown using at least one direct oxide target (e.g., a NiO target) in a noble gas (e.g., Ar) atmosphere.
US10141503B1
A metal liner is deposited conformally to a pore within a first dielectric material of a semiconductor device. The pore extends through the first dielectric material to a top surface of a first metal electrode. The metal liner is etched such that the metal liner only substantially remains on sidewalls of the pore. A phase change material is selectively deposited within the pore of the first dielectric layer to substantially fill the pore with the phase change material. The selective deposition of the phase change material produces a growth rate of phase change material on the metal liner at a substantially greater rate than a growth rate of the phase change material on exposed surfaces of the first dielectric material.
US10141498B2
A magnetoresistive stack/structure and method of manufacturing same comprising wherein the stack/structure includes a seed region, a fixed magnetic region disposed on and in contact with the seed region, a dielectric layer(s) disposed on the fixed magnetic region and a free magnetic region disposed on the dielectric layer(s). In one embodiment, the seed region comprises an alloy including nickel and chromium having (i) a thickness greater than or equal to 40 Angstroms (+/−10%) and less than or equal to 60 Angstroms (+/−10%), and (ii) a material composition or content of chromium within a range of 25-60 atomic percent (+/−10%) or 30-50 atomic percent (+/−10%).
US10141491B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing an undivided base having a first main surface and a second main surface on the opposite side from the first main surface, the undivided base having conductive patterns disposed on the first main surface and conductive patterns disposed on the second main surface; mounting a plurality of light emitting elements on the conductive patterns on the first main surface; forming a light reflecting member that integrally covers side surfaces of the light emitting elements and the first main surface of the undivided base; and, after the forming of the light reflecting member, forming at least one groove on the second main surface of the undivided base at a position corresponding to a space between the light emitting elements so that the groove reaches the first main surface and the undivided base is divided into a plurality of base members.
US10141482B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting chip that includes a semiconductor layer at a first surface. A transparent film is provided on the semiconductor layer and forms an interface therewith. A phosphor resin layer, including a resin and a phosphor, is provided on the transparent film. A refractive index of the transparent film is greater than a refractive index of the semiconductor layer.
US10141481B2
The present invention relates to a color-converting substrate of a light-emitting diode and a method for producing same, and more specifically to a color-conversion substrate of a light-emitting diode capable of completely protecting the quantum dots (QDs) supported in the interior from the exterior as hermetic sealing is possible, and a method for producing the color-converting substrate. To that end, provided are a color-conversion substrate of a light-emitting diode and a method for producing same, the color-conversion substrate of a light-emitting diode comprising: a first substrate arranged on a light-emitting diode; a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate; a first sealing material disposed on the upper surface of the first substrate so as to section a grooved accommodating space having the first substrate as the bottom surface thereof; QDs filling the accommodating space; and a second sealing material, disposed between the second substrate and the first sealing material, having a shape corresponding to the first sealing material, wherein the second sealing material is made of material having a comparatively higher laser absorption rate in the infrared region than that of the first sealing material.
US10141480B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a light emitting diode chip including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a light emitting structure arranged on the first surface of the substrate and including an active layer arranged between a first conductive-type semiconductor layer and a second conductive-type semiconductor layer, a distributed Bragg reflector arranged on the second surface of the substrate, the distributed Bragg reflector to reflect light emitted from the light emitting structure, and a metal layer arranged on the distributed Bragg reflector, wherein the distributed Bragg reflector has a reflectivity of at least 90% for light of a first wavelength in a blue wavelength range, light of a second wavelength in a green wavelength range, and light of a third wavelength in a red wavelength range.
US10141478B2
A light emitting device including a substrate, a first conductive layer on the substrate, a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, a metal layer on the second conductive layer, a light emitting structure on the metal layer and the second conductive layer, the light emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer containing AlGaN, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer containing AlGaN, a first electrode on the light emitting structure, and a passivation layer disposed on a side surface of the light emitting structure. Further, the metal layer directly contacts with the light emitting structure, the second conductive layer directly contacts with the light emitting structure, a portion of the passivation layer is disposed on a top surface of the light emitting structure, a width of the second conductive layer greater than a width of the metal layer, and a distance between a top surface of the substrate and a bottom surface of the metal layer at a center portion of the metal layer is different from a distance between the top surface of the substrate and the bottom surface of the metal layer at a side portion of the metal layer.
US10141474B2
A solar cell module includes a substrate; an absorber layer formed over the substrate; a porous alumina passivation layer formed on an upper surface of the absorber layer; a buffer layer conformably formed over the passivation layer; and a transparent conducting oxide layer conformably formed over the buffer layer.
US10141458B2
A photon detection device includes a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) including a multiplication junction defined at an interface between n doped and p doped layers of the SPAD in a first region of a semiconductor layer. A vertical gate structure surrounds the SPAD in the semiconductor layer to isolate the SPAD in the first region from a second region of the semiconductor layer on an opposite side of the vertical gate structure. The SPAD laterally extends within the first region of semiconductor layer to the vertical gate structure. An inversion layer is generated in the SPAD around a perimeter of the SPAD proximate to the vertical gate structure in response to a gate bias voltage coupled to the vertical gate structure. The inversion layer isolates the SPAD from the second region of the semiconductor layer on the opposite side of the vertical gate structure.
US10141457B2
A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type, an emitter region having a second conductive type different from the first conductive type and positioned at a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor region positioned directly on a second surface opposite the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a charge accumulation layer on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, and containing impurities of the first conductive type, a first electrode positioned on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and coupled to the emitter region, and a second electrode positioned on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate and coupled to the semiconductor substrate.
US10141456B2
The invention disclosure describes a manufacturing method for realizing so-called JBS areas for a unipolar power diode on the basis of diamond. In this special method, an n-doped layer is applied to the typically p-doped drift region, e.g. by means of epitaxial layer growth. The applied n-doped layer is then removed again in defined areas. A photolithographic mask may be applied and the n-doped layer is removed by dry or wet chemical etching. Having structured the JBS areas, the Schottky metal is applied to the entire surface. The resulting JBS structure shields an electric field generated by an applied reverse voltage from the Schottky transition. The reverse voltage from which the Schottky transition is fully shielded can be adjusted by altering the distance between the JBS areas.
US10141454B2
Various transistors, such as field-effect transistors, and methods of fabricating the transistors are disclosed herein. An exemplary transistor includes a phosphorene-containing layer having a channel region, a source region, and a drain region defined therein. A passivation layer is disposed over the phosphorene-containing layer. A source contact and a drain contact extend through the passivation layer, such that the source contact and the drain contact are respectively coupled with the source region and the drain region. A gate stack is disposed over the channel region. In some embodiments, the gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer, where the gate dielectric layer extends through the passivation layer and contacts the channel region. In some embodiments, the gate stack includes a gate electrode layer disposed over the passivation layer, and a portion of the passivation layer serves as a gate dielectric layer of the gate stack.
US10141449B2
The embodiments of the present invention provides an oxide TFT, an array substrate and a display device, an oxide channel layer of the oxide TFT comprises a front channel oxide layer and a back channel oxide layer, a conduction band bottom of the back channel oxide layer being higher than a conduction band bottom of the front channel oxide layer, and a band gap of the back channel oxide layer being larger than a band gap of the front channel oxide layer. In the oxide TFT, the array substrate and the display device provided in the present invention, it is possible to accumulate a large number of electrons through the potential difference formed between oxide channel layers of a multilayer structure so as to increase the carrier concentration in the oxide channel layers to achieve the purpose of improving TFT mobility without damaging TFT stability.
US10141448B1
Techniques for forming VFETs with differing Lg using fins of the same height are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VFET device includes: patterning (first/second) fins having a uniform fin height in a substrate; forming bottom source/drains at a base of the fins; forming first bottom spacers on the bottom source/drains; selectively forming second bottom spacers (as a dopant source) at the base of the second fins; driving dopants from the bottom source/drains into the first fins and also from second bottom spacers into the second fins to form bottom junctions having a height H1 and H2, respectively, wherein H2>H1; forming gates along the fins, wherein the gates along the first/second fins have Lg1/Lg2, wherein Lg1>Lg2 based on H2>H1; forming top spacers above the gates; and forming top source and drains above the top spacers. VFET devices are also provided.
US10141430B1
The present disclosure provides a method of forming a semiconductor device structure. The method includes determining a threshold voltage distribution profile along a height of a silicon germanium (SiGe) fin structure over a semiconductor substrate; determining a germanium (Ge) concentration profile to counteract the threshold voltage distribution profile according to a correlation between Ge concentration and threshold voltage in the SiGe fin structure; forming a SiGe epitaxial layer with the Ge concentration profile along a thickness of the SiGe epitaxial layer; etching the SiGe epitaxial layer to form the SiGe fin structure; and forming, on the SiGe fin structure, a field-effect transistor having a uniform threshold voltage along the height of the SiGe fin structure.
US10141424B2
Method of manufacturing a structure with semiconducting bars suitable for forming one at least one transistor channel, including the following steps: a) make a semiconducting structure, composed of an alternation of first bars based on a first material and second bars based on a second material, the second material being a semiconducting material, then b) remove exposed portions of the structure based on the first material through an opening in a mask formed on the structure, the removal being made by selective etching in the opening of the first material relative to the second material, so as to expose a space around the second bars, then c) grow a given semiconducting material (25) around the second bars (6c) in the opening, the given semiconducting material having a mesh parameter different from the mesh parameter of the second material (7) so as to induce a strain on the sheaths based on the given semiconducting material.
US10141419B2
A method includes forming isolation regions extending into a semiconductor substrate, and recessing the isolation regions. A portion of the semiconductor substrate between the isolation regions protrudes higher than the isolation regions to form a semiconductor fin. A dummy gate electrode is formed to cover a middle portion of the semiconductor fin, with an end portion of the semiconductor fin uncovered by the dummy gate electrode. The dummy gate electrode includes a lower dummy gate electrode portion, and an upper dummy gate electrode portion including polysilicon over the lower dummy gate electrode portion. The lower dummy gate electrode portion and the upper dummy gate electrode portion are formed of different materials. Source/drain regions are formed on opposite sides of the dummy gate electrode. The dummy gate electrode is replaced with a replacement gate electrode.
US10141414B1
A gate electrode structure of a transistor element may be provided as a series connection of a negative capacitor portion and a floating electrode portion. When forming the negative capacitor portion, the value of the negative capacitance may be adjusted on the basis of two different mechanisms or manufacturing processes, thereby providing superior matching of the positive floating gate electrode portion and the negative capacitor portion. For example, the layer thickness of the ferroelectric material and the effective capacitive area of the dielectric material may be adjusted on the basis of independent manufacturing processes.
US10141413B2
Some embodiments relate to a silicon wafer having a disc-like silicon body. The wafer includes a central portion circumscribed by a circumferential edge region. A plurality of sampling locations, which are arranged in the circumferential edge region, have a plurality of wafer property values, respectively, which correspond to a wafer property. The plurality of wafer property values differ from one another according to a pre-determined statistical edge region profile.
US10141411B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of silicon carbide, and a temperature sensor portion. The semiconductor substrate includes a portion in which an n-type drift region and a p-type body region are laminated. The temperature sensor portion is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and is separated from the drift region by the body region. The temperature sensor portion includes an n-type cathode region being in contact with the body region, and a p-type anode region separated from the body region by the cathode region.
US10141390B2
An organic light-emitting apparatus includes a substrate including an active area, a dead area, and a pad area, a display unit disposed in the active area and including thin-film transistors, pixel electrodes, and a portion of a common electrode, a first voltage supply unit disposed on the dead and pad areas and electrically contacting the common electrode, a second voltage supply unit overlapping the common electrode, and spaced apart and electrically insulated therefrom, and an insulating layer disposed between the common electrode and the second voltage supply unit, in which a portion of the common electrode that overlaps the first voltage supply unit is closer to the pad area than that of a portion of the common electrode that overlaps the second voltage supply unit, and an end portion of the insulating layer contacts an end portion of the first voltage supply unit adjacent to the active area.
US10141385B2
A TFT substrate for a display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first scanning lines and a plurality of data lines thereon. A conductive layer is applied above the first scanning lines and at least one electrically insulating layer between the plurality of first scanning lines and the conductive layer. A touch sensing layer is placed above the conductive layer. The conductive layer forms a plurality of second scanning lines and a plurality of touch traces. Each touch trace is electrically coupled to the touch sensing layer. Each second scanning line is electrically coupled to one first scanning line by extending through the at least one electrically insulating layer.
US10141384B2
An organic electroluminescent panel includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of banks. The pixels each include a plurality of subpixels. The subpixels each include an organic electroluminescent element that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The banks define each of the subpixels in each of the pixels. The organic electroluminescent element in each of the subpixels is provided in a gap between adjacent two of the banks, and the following relational expression is satisfied: y≤0.0001714x2+0.0151429x+0.2914286 where y denotes a height, from a bottom surface of the gap, of a pinning position at which a surface of the organic material layer and one of the banks are in contact with each other, and x denotes a width of the bottom surface of the gap.
US10141376B2
Example embodiments relate to an organic photoelectronic device that includes a first electrode, a light-absorption layer on the first electrode and including a first p-type light-absorption material and a first n-type light-absorption material, a light-absorption auxiliary layer on the light-absorption layer and including a second p-type light-absorption material or a second n-type light-absorption material that have a smaller full width at half maximum (FWHM) than the FWHM of the light absorption layer, a charge auxiliary layer on the light-absorption auxiliary layer, and a second electrode on the charge auxiliary layer, and an image sensor including the same.
US10141363B2
When a trench that penetrates a semiconductor substrate in a scribe region in a solid-state imaging element of a back side illumination type, occurrence of contamination of the solid-state imaging element caused by an etching step for foaming the trench or a dicing step for singulating a semiconductor chip is prevented. When a silicide layer that covers a surface and the like of an electrode of a transistor is formed, in order to prevent formation of the silicide layer that covers a main surface of the semiconductor substrate in the scribe region, the main surface of the semiconductor substrate is covered with an insulation film before a forming step for the silicide layer.
US10141360B2
An imaging system includes a pixel array of pixel cells with each one of the pixel cells including a photodiode disposed in a semiconductor material, a global shutter gate transistor, disposed in the semiconductor material and coupled to the photodiode, a storage transistor disposed in the semiconductor material, an optical isolation structure disposed in the semiconductor material to isolate a sidewall of the storage transistor from stray light and stray charge. The optical isolation structure also includes a deep trench isolation structure that is filled with tungsten and a P+ passivation formed over an interior sidewall of the deep trench optical isolation structure. Each one of the pixel cells also include control circuitry coupled to the pixel array to control operation of the pixel array and readout circuitry coupled to the pixel array to readout image data from the plurality of pixels.
US10141358B2
A device including a gate structure formed over a semiconductor substrate, the gate structure having extensions, a device isolation structure formed into the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate structure, wherein the extensions are over a portion of the device isolation structure, and source/drain regions on both sides of the gate structure, the source/drain regions being formed in a gap in the device isolation structure and being partially enclosed by the extensions of the gate structure.
US10141357B2
A photosensor substrate achieves TFT property stabilization and further improvement in sensor performance. The photosensor substrate includes a substrate 7, a photoelectric transducer 4, and a transistor 2. The transistor 2 includes a semiconductor layer 22, a drain electrode 23 and a source electrode 21 facing each other in a direction parallel to a plane of the substrate with the semiconductor layer 22 interposed therebetween, a gate insulating film 15 covering the semiconductor layer 22, the drain electrode 23, and the source electrode 21, and a gate electrode 24 facing the semiconductor layer 22 with the gate insulating film 15 interposed therebetween. The photoelectric transducer 4 includes a lower electrode 41 connected to the drain electrode 23 via a contact hole CH1 provided in the gate insulating film 15, a semiconductor film 42, and an upper electrode 43.
US10141351B2
An array substrate is disclosed. The array substrate includes: a substrate adopting an organic material; an isolation layer adopting a metal material, and the isolation layer is formed on the substrate; and a buffering layer formed at a side of the isolation layer away from the substrate. In the array substrate of the present invention, in a high-temperature PECVD process, a pollution problem caused by the plasma directly bombarding the substrate made of an organic material can be avoid. A display device applying the array substrate and a manufacturing method for an array substrate are also disclosed.
US10141350B2
The present disclosure discloses an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes: a substrate; and a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines disposed on the substrate, the data lines and the gate lines being configured to define a plurality of pixel units. Each pixel units includes: a pixel electrode; a thin film transistor electrically connected to the data line and the gate line and configured to drive the pixel electrode; and a resin layer disposed on the data line and/or the gate line and provided with at least one gas discharging structure each having an opening facing away from the substrate.
US10141348B2
Provided are a display device its method of manufacturing. The device includes a base; first and second thin-film transistors (TFT) on the base, adjacent to each; an organic layer covering the first and second TFT, including a first and second opening overlapping the drain electrodes of the first and second TFT, respectively; a common electrode on the organic layer comprising a common electrode opening overlapping the first opening and another common electrode opening overlapping the second opening; an insulating layer on a bump spacer which is on the common electrode; a first and second pixel electrode on the insulating layer overlapping the common electrode and electrically connected to the first and second TFT, respectively, wherein a minimum distance between the bump spacer and the common electrode opening is substantially equal to a minimum distance between the bump spacer and the other common electrode opening.
US10141344B2
A semiconductor device having favorable electric characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and second transistor. The first transistor includes a first conductor over a substrate; a first insulator thereover; a first oxide thereover; a second insulator over thereover; a second conductor including a side surface substantially aligned with a side surface of the second insulator and being over the second insulator; a third insulator including a side surface substantially aligned with a side surface of the second conductor and being over the second conductor; a fourth insulator in contact with a side surface of the second insulator, a side surface of the second conductor, and a side surface of the third insulator; and a fifth insulator in contact with the first oxide and the fourth insulator. The second transistor includes a third conductor; a fourth conductor at least part of which overlaps with the third conductor; and a second oxide between the third conductor and the fourth conductor. The third conductor and the fourth conductor are electrically connected to the first conductor.
US10141343B2
An object is to control composition and a defect of an oxide semiconductor, another object is to increase a field effect mobility of a thin film transistor and to obtain a sufficient on-off ratio with a reduced off current. A solution is to employ an oxide semiconductor whose composition is represented by InMO3(ZnO)m, where M is one or a plurality of elements selected from Ga, Fe, Ni, Mn, Co, and Al, and m is preferably a non-integer number of greater than 0 and less than 1. The concentration of Zn is lower than the concentrations of In and M. The oxide semiconductor has an amorphous structure. Oxide and nitride layers can be provided to prevent pollution and degradation of the oxide semiconductor.
US10141341B2
The present invention provides a thin-film-transistor (TFT) array panel and manufacturing method of the same. The TFT array panel comprises a flexible baseplate, a buffer layer, and a display-element layer. The buffer layer is disposed on the flexible baseplate, a stress-elimination portion is disposed on the buffer layer, the stress-elimination portion is used to eliminate a stress of the flexible baseplate; the display-element layer is disposed on the buffer layer. The present invention is able to decrease the stress of the flexible baseplate, to prevent too large of a stress of the flexible baseplate.
US10141339B2
Embedded security circuits formed by directed self-assembly and methods for creating the same are provided herein. An example integrated circuit includes a set of one or more fin field effect transistor devices unrelated to one or more security devices of the integrated circuit; and an embedded security circuit structure comprising an array of fin field effect transistor devices related to the one or more security devices of the integrated circuit, wherein the array comprises a combination of (i) one or more fin field effect transistor devices with unbroken fin channels and (ii) one or more fin field effect transistor devices with broken fin channels, and wherein the combination forms a distinct code to be associated with the integrated circuit.
US10141332B2
A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device includes forming a first stacked structure, forming a first hole penetrating the first stacked structure, forming a reflective metal pattern in the first hole, filling an etch stop layer in the first hole and over the reflective metal pattern, forming a second stacked structure over the first stacked structure, and forming a second hole penetrating the second stacked structure to expose the etch stop layer.
US10141315B2
An IC may include an array of memory cells formed in a semiconductor, including memory cells arranged in rows and columns, each memory cell may include a floating body region defining at least a portion of a surface of the memory cell, the floating body region having a first conductivity type; a buried region located within the memory cell and located adjacent to the floating body region, wherein the buried region has a second conductivity type, wherein the floating body region is bounded on a first side by a first insulating region having a first thickness and on a second side by a second insulating region having a second thickness, and a gate region above the floating body region and the second insulating region and is insulated from the floating body region by an insulating layer; and control circuitry configured to provide electrical signals to said buried region.
US10141310B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of isolation features on a semiconductor substrate, thereby defining a first set of semiconductor features, performing an etching process on the first set of semiconductor features such that larger semiconductor features are etched deeper than smaller semiconductor features, after the etching process, forming anti-punch-through features on surfaces of the exposed features of the first set of semiconductor features, forming a semiconductor layer over the anti-punch-through features, and forming transistors on the semiconductor layer of each of the features of the first set of semiconductor features.
US10141309B2
CMOS inverters including gate-all-around vertical transistors are fabricated without requiring center gate contacts, thereby allowing close positioning of the transistors. The gate contact and the drain contact of the transistors are shared. Wiring of inverter input, output and power supply lines is simplified.
US10141307B2
A semiconductor device includes an isolation layer, first and second fin structures, a gate structure and a source/drain structure. The isolation layer is disposed over a substrate. The first and second fin structures are disposed over the substrate, and extend in a first direction in plan view. Upper portions of the first and second fin structures are exposed from the isolation layer. The gate structure is disposed over parts of the first and second fin structures, and extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. The source/drain structure is formed on the upper portions of the first and second fin structures, which are not covered by the first gate structure and exposed from the isolation layer, and wraps side surfaces and a top surface of each of the exposed first and second fin structures. A void is formed between the source/drain structure and the isolation layer.
US10141296B2
In a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) layout, an empty region in the IC layout is identified by a processor circuit, wherein the empty region is a region of the IC layout not including any active fins. A first portion of the empty region is filled with a first plurality of dummy fin cells, wherein each of the first plurality of dummy fin cells is based on a first standard dummy fin cell, and wherein the first standard dummy fin cell has a first gate width and comprises a first plurality of partitions. A second portion of the empty region is filled with a second plurality of dummy fin cells, wherein each of the second plurality of dummy fin cells is based on a second standard dummy fin cell, and wherein the second standard dummy fin cell has a second gate width and comprises a second plurality of partitions.
US10141292B2
A display device includes: a display panel driven to display an image, the display panel including a substrate including a display area at which the image is displayed; a terminal pad on the substrate and through which a driving signal is applied to the display area; a driving chip through which the driving signal is applied to the terminal pad; and a non-conductive film which fixes the driving chip to the substrate. The driving chip includes: a non-conductive elastic support body projected from a surface of the driving chip; a bump wiring on the non-conductive elastic support body, the bump wiring directly contacting the terminal pad to apply the driving signal to the terminal pad; and a dispersed particle on the non-conductive elastic support body.
US10141290B2
A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. The method includes: forming at least two bottom conductive lines on an array substrate; disposing at least four micro light emitting devices respectively on the bottom conductive lines; forming at least one filling material covering the micro light emitting devices; forming at least four openings in the filling material by photolithography, such that the micro light emitting devices are respectively exposed by the openings; and forming at least two upper conductive lines on the filling material, wherein the upper conductive lines are electrically connected to the micro light emitting devices through the openings, and the upper conductive lines and the bottom conductive lines cross at the micro light emitting devices.
US10141289B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower package with a lower semiconductor chip on a lower package substrate, and an upper package with an upper semiconductor chip on an upper package substrate. The upper semiconductor chip has a plurality of chip pads and the upper package substrate has a plurality of substrate pads. The upper package is stacked on the lower package. The chip pads have a first pitch and the substrate pads have a second pitch greater than the first pitch. The upper package substrate has a plurality of connection lines that electrically connect the substrate pads to the chip pads.
US10141285B2
A system and method form charge patterns on micro objects. The system and method employ a micro object including a rectifying device. The rectifying device exhibits an asymmetric current-voltage (I-V) response curve. Further, the system and method employ a device external to the micro object to induce the flow of charge through the rectifying device.
US10141284B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor wafer bonding, and more particularly to direct bonding by contacting surfaces of the semiconductor wafers. In one aspect, a method for bonding a first semiconductor substrate to a second semiconductor substrate by direct bonding is described. The substrates are both provided on their contact surfaces with a dielectric layer, followed by a CMP step for reducing the roughness of the dielectric layer. Then a layer of SiCN is deposited onto the dielectric layer, followed by a CMP step which reduces the roughness of the SiCN layer to the order of 1 tenth of a nanometer. Then the substrates are subjected to a pre-bond annealing step and then bonded by direct bonding, possibly preceded by one or more pre-treatments of the contact surfaces, and followed by a post-bond annealing step, at a temperature of less than or equal to 250° C. It has been found that the bond strength is excellent, even at the above named annealing temperatures, which are lower than presently known in the art.
US10141280B2
Structures and formation methods of a package structure are provided. The package structure includes a semiconductor die and a substrate bonded to the semiconductor die through a first bonding structure and a second bonding structure therebetween. The first bonding structure and the second bonding structure are next to each other and the second bonding structure is wider than the first bonding structure. The first bonding structure has a first under bump metallurgy (UBM) structure and a first solder bump thereon, and the second bonding structure has a second UBM structure and a second solder bump thereon. The second UBM structure has a maximum width larger than that of the first UBM structure, and the second solder bump has a maximum width larger than that of the first solder bump.
US10141273B2
In a semiconductor device according to an embodiment, a second semiconductor chip is mounted on a first rear surface of a first semiconductor chip. Also, the first rear surface of the first semiconductor chip includes a first region in which a plurality of first rear electrodes electrically connected to the second semiconductor chip via a protrusion electrode are formed and a second region which is located on a peripheral side relative to the first region and in which a first metal pattern is formed. In addition, a protrusion height of the first metal pattern with respect to the first rear surface is smaller than a protrusion height of each of the plurality of first rear electrodes with respect to the first rear surface.
US10141272B2
A semiconductor apparatus including a semiconductor device, an on-semiconductor-device metal pad and a metal interconnect each electrically connected to the semiconductor device, a through electrode and a solder bump each electrically connected to the metal interconnect, a first insulating layer on which the semiconductor device is placed, a second insulating layer formed on the semiconductor device, a third insulating layer formed on the second insulating layer, wherein the metal interconnect is electrically connected to the semiconductor device via the on-semiconductor-device metal pad at an upper surface of the second insulating layer, and the metal interconnect penetrates the second insulating layer from its upper surface and is electrically connected to the through electrode at an lower surface of the second insulating layer. This semiconductor apparatus can be easily placed on a circuit board and stacked, and can reduce its warpage even with dense metal interconnects.
US10141271B1
A method of reducing electromagnetic interference in a semiconductor device includes: forming at least one functional circuit in a substrate of the semiconductor device; forming an integrated micro-shielding structure in the semiconductor device, the micro-shielding structure extending vertically through the substrate between a front surface and a back surface of the substrate and surrounding the functional circuit, the micro-shielding structure being configured to reduce radio frequency (RF) emissions in the semiconductor device and/or RF coupling between different functional parts of the functional circuit.
US10141256B2
A device includes gates and a first conductive segment. A first distance is present between a first gate of the gates and the first conductive segment. A second distance is present between a second gate of the gates and the first conductive segment. The first distance is greater than the second distance.
US10141252B2
A semiconductor package includes: a passivation layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the passivation layer defining a through hole extending from the first surface to the second surface, the through hole being further defined by a first sidewall and a second sidewall of the passivation layer; a first conductive layer on the first surface of the passivation layer and the first sidewall; a second conductive layer on the second surface of the passivation layer and the second sidewall; and a third conductive layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.
US10141251B2
An electronic package is provided. The electronic package includes a substrate and a plurality of vias defined by a corresponding plurality of pre-defined via patterns. The electronic package further a metal built-up layer disposed on portions of the substrate to provide a plurality of pre-defined via locations and the plurality of pre-defined via patterns of the plurality of vias. Also, the electronic package includes a first conductive layer disposed on at least a portion of the metal built-up layer. Moreover, the electronic package includes a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer, where the plurality of vias is disposed at least in part in the metal built-up layer, the first conductive layer, and the second conductive layer.
US10141249B2
An intelligent power module (IPM) has a first, second, third and fourth die paddles, a first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), a tie bar, a metal slug, a plurality of spacers, a plurality of leads and a molding encapsulation. The molding encapsulation encloses the first, second, third and fourth die paddles, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth MOSFETs, the tie bar and the plurality of spacers. A bottom surface of the metal slug is exposed from the molding encapsulation. A process for fabricating the IPM comprises preparing the first, second, third and fourth die paddles, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth MOSFETs, the tie bar, the plurality of leads, the metal slug and the plurality of spacers and applying a molding process to form the molding encapsulation.
US10141245B2
The present disclosure relates to a high-power acoustic device with improved performance. The disclosed acoustic device includes a substrate, a die-attach material, and an acoustic die. The substrate includes a substrate body and a die pad on a top surface of the substrate body. The die-attach material is a sintered material and applied over the die pad. The acoustic die is coupled to the die pad via the die-attach material. Herein, the acoustic die includes a die body and a metallization structure, which is sandwiched between the die body and the die-attach material.
US10141238B1
A semiconductor power device including a base plate, a semiconductor power die disposed on the base plate, an input lead by way the semiconductor power die receives an input signal, an output lead by way an output signal generated by the semiconductor power die is sent to another device, and at least one thermal substrate disposed on the base plate adjacent to the semiconductor power die, wherein a set of electrodes of the semiconductor power die are thermally and electrically coupled to a metallization layer on the thermal substrate. The thermal substrate may be comprised of a relatively high thermal conductivity material, such as beryllium-oxide (Be), silicon-carbide (SiC), diamond, aluminum nitride (AlN), or others. The thermal substrate produces at least one more heat path between the active region of the semiconductor power die and the base plate so as to reduce the effective thermal impedance.
US10141230B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer on a substrate having a {100} crystallographic surface orientation, forming a second semiconductor layer on the substrate, patterning the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer into a first plurality of fins and a second plurality of fins, respectively, wherein the first and second plurality of fins extend vertically with respect to the substrate, covering the first plurality of fins and a portion of the substrate corresponding to the first plurality of fins, and epitaxially growing semiconductor layers on exposed portions of the second plurality of fins and on exposed portions of the substrate, wherein the epitaxially grown semiconductor layers on the exposed portions of the second plurality of fins increase a critical dimension of each of the second plurality of fins.
US10141227B1
Methods and systems for achieving semiconductor-based circuits or systems having multiple components with one or more matched or similar characteristics or features are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, a system includes a processing device that includes first, second, and third circuitry. The first circuitry is configured to generate control signals that at least indirectly cause a pick and place head mechanism to attempt to pick up and place at least some of first and second dice. The second circuitry is configured to assess whether attempts to implement one or more of first and second dice should be skipped based upon wafer map information. Further, the third circuitry is configured to determine whether a second position of a first one of the second dice is sufficiently proximate to a first position so that it would be appropriate to implement the first one of the second dice.
US10141219B2
A method for producing layers of solid material is contemplated. The production method may include the following:Providing a solid body to be split into a number of layers of solid material, introducing or generating defects in the solid body in order to determine a first detachment plane (8) along which a first layer of solid material is separated from the solid body, providing a receiving layer for holding the layer of solid material on the solid body, applying heat to the receiving layer in order to generate, in particular mechanically, stresses in the solid body, due to the stresses a crack propagating in the solid body along the detachment plane, which crack separates the first layer of solid material from the solid body, then providing a second receiving layer for holding another layer of solid material on the solid body reduced by the first layer of solid material, introducing or generating defects in the solid body in order to determine a second detachment plane (9) along which a second layer of solid material is separated from the solid body, applying heat to the second receiving layer in order to generate, in particular mechanically, stresses in the solid body, due to the stresses a crack propagating in the solid body along the second detachment plane, which crack separates the second layer of solid material from the solid body.
US10141215B2
An apparatus includes a needle and a needle actuator to move the needle to a position at which the needle presses an electrically-actuatable element into contact with a circuit trace. When the needle presses the electrically-actuatable element into contact with the circuit trace, a dampener, arranged with the needle and the needle actuator, dampens a force applied to the electrically-actuatable element.
US10141209B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for generating a processing gas by bubbling a raw material liquid with a carrier gas. The processing gas generated by the bubbling is taken out from a vapor-phase portion above a liquid-phase portion of the raw material liquid through a taking-out unit. A first temperature adjusting unit performs a temperature adjustment of the liquid-phase portion and a second temperature adjusting unit performs a temperature adjustment of the vapor-phase portion such that the temperature of the vapor-phase portion is higher than the temperature of the liquid-phase portion.
US10141207B2
A vacuum processing apparatus includes a processing chamber inside a vacuum vessel, a plasma forming chamber above, a dielectric plate member having multiple through-holes for introducing particles of plasma to the processing chamber between the processing chamber and the plasma forming chamber above a sample stage upper surface in the processing chamber, heating lamp arranged around an outer periphery of the plate member to irradiate an electromagnetic wave to the wafer to heat, and a ring-shaped window member for transmitting the electromagnetic wave from the lamp. The apparatus performs, from the through-holes to the wafer, supplying particles of plasma formed in the plasma forming chamber to form a reaction product, extinguishing the plasma and heating the wafer to desorb the product, and supplying particles, formed in the plasma forming chamber, of the plasma of cleaning gas to the plasma forming chamber, the processing chamber, and the window member.
US10141203B2
An electronics package includes a lower insulating layer, an upper insulating layer coupled to the lower insulating layer, and a conductive contact pad coupled to a second surface of the upper insulating layer. An electrical component is positioned within an opening formed through the upper insulating layer. A first interconnect layer extends through at least one via in the lower insulating layer to electrically couple with at least one contact pad on the electrical component and a second interconnect layer extends through at least one via in the upper insulating layer and electrically couples the first interconnect layer to the conductive contact pad.
US10141198B2
An electronic package including a middle patterned conductive layer, a first redistribution circuitry disposed on a first surface of the middle patterned conductive layer and a second redistribution circuitry disposed on a second surface of the middle patterned conductive layer is provided. The middle patterned conductive layer has a plurality of middle conductive pads. The first redistribution circuitry includes a first patterned conductive layer having a plurality of first conductive elements. Each of the first conductive elements has a first conductive pad and a first conductive via that form a T-shaped section. The second redistribution circuitry includes a second patterned conductive layer having a plurality of second conductive elements. Each of the second conductive elements has a second conductive pad and a second conductive via that form an inversed T-shaped section.
US10141194B1
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes the following steps. A first polysilicon layer is formed on a substrate. A planarization process to the first polysilicon layer is performed. A first etching back process to the first polysilicon layer is performed after the planarization process. A second etching back process to the first polysilicon layer is performed after the first etching back process. A first wet clean process to the first polysilicon layer is performed after the first etching back process and before the second etching back process.
US10141192B2
When a nitride semiconductor layer into which impurity ions have been implanted is subjected to annealing after a protective film is provided on the nitride semiconductor layer, vacancy defects may be disadvantageously prevented from escaping outside through the surface of the nitride semiconductor layer and disappearing. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a nitride semiconductor layer is provided. The manufacturing method includes implanting impurities into the nitride semiconductor layer, performing a first annealing on the nitride semiconductor layer at a first temperature within an atmosphere of a nitrogen atom containing gas without providing a protective film on the nitride semiconductor layer, forming the protective film on the nitride semiconductor layer after the first annealing, and after the protective film is formed, performing a second annealing on the nitride semiconductor layer at a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature.
US10141191B2
The present invention generally describes one ore more methods that are used to perform an annealing process on desired regions of a substrate. In one embodiment, an amount of energy is delivered to the surface of the substrate to preferentially melt certain desired regions of the substrate to remove unwanted damage created from prior processing steps (e.g., crystal damage from implant processes), more evenly distribute dopants in various regions of the substrate, and/or activate various regions of the substrate. The preferential melting processes will allow more uniform distribution of the dopants in the melted region, due to the increased diffusion rate and solubility of the dopant atoms in the molten region of the substrate. The creation of a melted region thus allows: 1) the dopant atoms to redistribute more uniformly, 2) defects created in prior processing steps to be removed, and 3) regions that have hyper-abrupt dopant concentrations to be formed.
US10141190B2
In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device according to an embodiment, an oxide film is formed on a semiconductor layer containing an impurity. A heat treatment is performed on the semiconductor layer to diffuse part of the impurity into the oxide film with hydrogen plasma treatment on the oxide film or with ultraviolet irradiation on the oxide film. After the heat treatment, the oxide film is removed.
US10141188B2
A method is disclosed to prepare a substrate for photolithography. The method includes forming an underlayer over a surface of the substrate; depositing an interface hardmask layer on the underlayer using one of a vapor phase deposition process or an atomic layer deposition process; and forming a layer of extreme UV (EUV) resist on the interface hardmask layer, where the interface hardmask layer is comprised of material having a composition and properties tuned to achieve a certain secondary electron yield from the interface hardmask layer. Also disclosed is a structure configured for photolithography. The structure includes a substrate; an underlayer over a surface of the substrate; an interface hardmask layer disposed on the underlayer; and a layer of EUV resist disposed on the interface hardmask layer. The interface hardmask layer contains material having a composition and properties tuned to achieve a certain secondary electron yield from the interface hardmask layer.
US10141185B2
An oxide semiconductor includes an oxide having a layered structure expressed by an expression of a product of [(AO)(ZO)mi(BO)(ZO)ni]i from i=1 to L. In the product, an atom A is a positive monovalent element, an atom Z is a positive divalent element, an atom B is a positive trivalent element, L is a positive integer, and mi and ni are independent integers greater than or equal to zero. A sum from i=1 to L of (mi+ni) is not zero.
US10141184B2
Crystal growth of GaN is performed on a growth layer (103a) in a state in which the main surface is set to an N-polarity, thereby forming a boule (104) made of a GaN crystal. GaN is epitaxially grown using each growth island as a nucleus forming the growth layer (103a) by an MOVPE method using ammonia and trimethylgallium as source gases in accordance with a continuous process using an MOVPE apparatus used in the formation of a buffer layer (102).
US10141170B2
A device for mass spectrometry comprises an ionization source, a mass analyzer fluidly coupled to the ionization source and an electronic data acquisition system for processing signals provided by the mass analyzer. The electronic data acquisition system comprises at least one analog-to-digital converter (10) producing digitized data from the signals obtained from the mass analyzer and a fast processing unit (47) receiving the digitized data from said analog-to-digital converter (10). The fast processing (47) unit is programmed to continuously, in real time inspect the digitized data for events of interest measured by the mass spectrometer; and the electronic data acquisition system is programmed to forward (23) the digitized data representing mass spectra relating to events of interest for further analysis and to reject the digitized data representing mass spectra not relating to events of interest. The device allows for maintaining efficiency at high speed by eliminating all processing times (idle time in acquisition) for data segments that do not contain information about events.
US10141169B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying a precursor ion without using any a priori precursor ion information. In one method, a sample is analyzed using a tandem mass spectrometer, producing at least one measured product ion spectrum from a precursor mass-to-charge ratio range. The at least one measured product ion spectrum are received. A subset of measured product ions is selected from the at least one measured product ion spectrum. A list of candidate compounds is created by searching a dictionary of potential compounds that includes one or more predicted product ions for each of the potential compounds using the subset of measured product ions. A candidate compound on the list is selected as the identified compound. In another method, the measured product ions are assumed to correspond to shortened forms of the peptide and a protein database is searched for shortened forms of the peptide.
US10141167B2
An ion sensor comprises an electron repelling electrode to be placed at a negative electric potential, and an ion repelling electrode to be placed at a variable positive electric potential. The electron repelling electrode is formed by a diaphragm element having a diaphragm opening for the passage of an ion beam. The ion repelling electrode forms a blind hole which faces the diaphragm opening with its open hole end and the hole surface of which forms a collector face for detecting impinging ions. With such an ion sensor it is possible, for example, to test the energy spectrum of the ions contained in an exhaust plasma plume of an ion thruster.
US10141160B2
A secondary projection imaging system in a multi-beam apparatus is proposed, which makes the secondary electron detection with high collection efficiency and low cross-talk. The system employs one zoom lens, one projection lens and one anti-scanning deflection unit. The zoom lens and the projection lens respectively perform the zoom function and the anti-rotating function to remain the total imaging magnification and the total image rotation with respect to the landing energies and/or the currents of the plural primary beamlets. The anti-scanning deflection unit performs the anti-scanning function to eliminate the dynamic image displacement due to the deflection scanning of the plural primary beamlets.
US10141152B2
Chamber connection methods and apparatus are provided. In some embodiments, a signal wire is attached to a drift chamber by feeding a signal wire through an end of the drift chamber; feeding the signal wire through the dielectric tube; extending the dielectric tube outwardly from the drift chamber end; and at a location on the outside of the drift chamber end, setting the extending dielectric tube and signal wire together to thereby fit the signal wire to the drift chamber end and gas seal the dielectric tube end. In some other embodiments, the drift chamber is a muon drift tube. In some embodiments, drift tube end cap assemblies with and without gas ports are provided for attaching the signal wire to the drift tube.
US10141146B2
A switch comprises a first elastic element, an actuator-element mechanically coupled to a first side of the first elastic element, and a first switching conductor, mechanically coupled to a second side of the first elastic element. The switching conductor is configured for moving between a first conductor position and a second conductor position. The actuator-element is configured from moving between a first actuator-element position and a second actuator-element position separated by a predefined actuator-element lift, thereby moving the first side of the first elastic element. The first elastic element moreover is configured for converting a movement of the first side of the first elastic element by the predefined actuator-element lift into the movement of the second side of the first elastic element with a predefined elastic force.
US10141134B2
A key switch includes a key top; a pair of links that support the key top such that the key top is capable of being elevated and lowered; and a switch that opens and closes a contact point with respect to an elevating operation of the key top, wherein each of the links includes two arms, a connection portion that connects the two arms, two first shafts respectively formed at outer portions of the two arms, and two second shafts respectively formed at inner portions of the two arms, and wherein the key top includes at least four first support portions each being provided with a first guide groove in which the respective first shaft is slidable, and at least four second support portions each being provided with a second guide groove in which the respective second shaft is slidable.
US10141133B2
Disclosed are various embodiments relating to an electronic device that includes a key An electronic device may include a housing having a through-hole formed therein. A key may be exposed through the through-hole and configured to be pressed. A key switch may be located on a rear surface of the key, wherein the key structure may be configured to enable the key to be pressed and to detect the press of the key. Moreover, a structure provided on a lower portion of the housing may be able to bear a pressure exerted by a user when pressing the key in a direction opposite the housing. Further, a dummy detachably provided between the housing and the structure, wherein the dummy, when being attached, may support the key and the key switch such that both are capable of being pressed in the through-hole toward the direction of the structure.
US10141131B2
A panel-type control button, including: a press key base, a press key panel, a switch board and a springback key. The press key panel is snap-fitted on the front surface of the press key base, and one end of the press key panel is rotatably mounted at one end of the press key base. The switch board is located on the back surface of the press key base, and is provided thereon with a switch element. The springback key is located above the switch element of the switch board. When the press key panel is pressed, the press key panel comes into contact with the springback key and triggers the switch element on the switch board, and further controls the opening and closing of the switch element. The springback key provides a springback force for the press key panel to reset.
US10141130B2
An apparatus includes a cabinet with a door. A circuit interrupting device is installed in the cabinet. A plate on the door is operative to shift the circuit interrupting device between ON and OFF conditions upon movement of the plate between ON and OFF positions. A handle on the door is linked with the plate to move the plate between the ON and OFF positions upon movement of the handle between corresponding positions. Additionally, a latch is supported the door for movement into and out of a locked position in which the latch blocks movement of the plate to the ON position. A driving member is moveable against the latch to move the latch into the locking position against the bias of a spring. A key moves the driving member against the latch.
US10141125B2
The present invention improves bug plug technology by providing a rotatable contact head to align contact surfaces in parallel. The parallel alignment avoids pitting of the surfaces by eliminating sparking gaps, improves the surface area-in-contact, and lengthens the useful life of the contact components. The novel features include minimizing heel-toe incursion during contact.
US10141121B2
An electric energy storage device is provided, which includes first and second conductor layers, and positive and negative electrodes. Each of the first and second conductor layers has both surfaces coated with ionic or dipole material. A bilayer is comprised of the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer and ionic material layer sandwiched between them. A multilayer structure is comprised of millions of bilayers which are stacked together one by one. The positive electrode is attached to the first conductor layer and the negative electrode is attached to the last conductor layer. The first conductor layer is stacked on top of the second conductor layer with a nanometer-scale interval and with the ionic material layer inbetween, forming a bilayer structure and a quantum heterostructure. The first and second conductor layers form a bilayer configured to store electrical energy in the bilayer in a form of binding energy.
US10141106B2
The invention relates to a heavy-current transformer (12), in particular for a power source (10) in order to provide a welding current of a resistance welding device (1), with at least one primary winding (13) and at least one secondary winding (14) with center tapping, and to a transformer element, a contact plate (29) and a secondary winding (14) for such a heavy-current transformer (12) as well as a method for the manufacturing thereof. For reduction of losses and improvement of efficiency, at least four contacts (20, 21, 22, 23) are provided to form a multi-point contacting, said contacts (20, 21, 22, 23) being formed by four contact faces within which the at least one primary winding (13) and the at least one secondary winding (14) are arranged in a series/parallel connection.
US10141103B2
A power supply circuit includes a DC-DC converter and a choke coil. The choke coil includes a pair of coils wound in mutually opposite directions, and the coils are connected between a DC power source and the DC-DC converter. In the choke coil, a self-resonating frequency in a common mode is higher than a self-resonating frequency in a normal mode. In the choke coil, a normal mode impedance at the highest frequency in an AM band is higher than a common mode impedance at the lowest frequency in an FM band.
US10141098B2
A coil component has a core having a winding core portion and first and second flange portions, a plurality of wires wound around the winding core portion, and a plurality of electrode portions disposed on the first and second flange portions. The first wire and the third wire cross each other on the first flange portion. The first flange portion has a groove at a position of crossing of the first wire and the third wire. The first wire on the lower side passes through the groove so that the first wire and the third wire are separated from each other.
US10141096B2
An energy saving device with at least one inductive capacitive reactor for residential use and similar low amperage uses functions as a multifaceted transformer with inductive and capacitor functionalities iteratively. It includes a stacked group of hollow centered continuous loop components sequentially arranged as follows: (i) a first ferrite toroidal component; (ii) a first separator component, being a doped separator component; (iii) a non-magnetic conductive metal toroidal component having a plurality of protrusions with notches between said protrusions; (iv) a second separator component, selected from the group consisting of doped and non-doped; (v) a second ferrite toroidal component.
US10141093B2
A reactor that includes a coil made of a wound coil wire; a magnetic core on which the coil is arranged, and that forms a closed magnetic path, wherein the magnetic core has an inner core section that is arranged on an inside of the coil; and a heat dissipating sheet that is interposed at least partially between an inner circumferential surface of the coil and an outer circumferential surface of the inner core section that is opposite to the inner circumferential surface of the coil, wherein the heat dissipating sheet is in contact with the coil and the inner core section.
US10141090B2
A resin composition which includes (A) an epoxy resin, (B) a curing agent, and (C) carbon nanotubes, wherein the carbon nanotubes contain therein semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes in an amount of 70% by weight or more. A cured product of a paste made from the resin composition can be used to form a varistor element.
US10141087B2
The wiring harness production mounting, includes: at least one screen for displaying data aiding in the production of wiring harnesses, and at least one attachment surface associated with the at least one display screen, the at least one attachment surface being configured to receive at least one cable-routing element.
US10141085B2
A conductor joint for joining a copper conductor to a fiber-structured heating element whose dimensions are length (L)>>width (W)>>thickness (T), and which heating element comprises carbon fiber strands, wherein the copper conductor is transversely disposed to the longitudinal direction (L) of the heating element to form a layered structure in the thickness direction (T), on both sides of the heating element, the copper conductor comprising strands separable from each other. The strands of the copper conductor, the number and diameter of which are suitable for transferring a power of more than ten kW, are quantitatively substantially evenly distributed on both sides of the heating element, the strands are disposed in a planar manner in such a way that the strands substantially lie in one plane, adjacent to each other, and the ends of the strands extend, in the width direction (W) of the heating element, beyond the heating element, wherein the portions of the ends of the strands extending beyond the heating element overlap each other, and an electric joint is formed between the lateral faces of these overlapping strands.
US10141074B2
A vascular assessment apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to receive a stenotic model having measurements of a coronary vessel tree of a subject, the stenotic model created from a set of medical images recorded before the subject underwent a stent procedure. The apparatus is also configured to receive a post-medical image of the coronary vessel tree of the subject after the stent has been placed into the coronary vessel tree and identify vascular features within the post medical image that correspond to vascular features that are provided among the set of medical images. The apparatus is further configured to modify geometrical information for the corresponding vascular features in the stenotic model to create an updated stenotic model from the identified vascular features of the post medical image and calculate an index indicative of vascular function, based, at least in part, on the updated stenotic model.
US10141065B1
A semiconductor device comprises an embedded flash memory with row redundancy. The embedded flash memory comprises a memory bank that includes multiple physical sectors, where each physical sector comprises a plurality of erase sectors. In the memory bank, multiple portions of an additional erase sector are respectively distributed among the multiple physical sectors. The multiple portions of the additional erase sector are configured as a row-redundancy sector for the memory bank.
US10141058B1
A method of healing a plurality of non-volatile semiconductor memory devices on a multi-chip package is disclosed. The multi-chip package can be heated to a temperature range having a temperature range upper limit value and a temperature range lower limit value. The temperature of the multi-chip package can be kept essentially within the temperature range for a predetermined time period by monitoring a thermal sensing element with a sensing circuit outside of the multi-chip package. The thermal sensing element may be located near the components with the lowest failure temperature to ensure the multi-chip package is not damaged during the healing process.
US10141050B1
A method for page writes for triple or higher level cell flash memory is provided. The method includes receiving data in a storage system, from a client that is agnostic of page write requirements for triple or higher level cell flash memory, wherein the page write requirements specify an amount of data and a sequence of writing data for a set of pages to assure read data coherency for the set of pages. The method includes accumulating the received data, in random-access memory (RAM) in the storage system to satisfy the page write requirements for the triple or higher level cell flash memory in the storage system. The method includes writing at least a portion of the accumulated data in accordance with the page write requirements, from the RAM to the triple level cell, or the higher level cell, flash memory in the storage system as an atomic write.
US10141047B2
A static random access memory (SRAM) comprises a plurality of memory cells each having a pair of cross-coupled inverters, a first of the inverters being supplied by first and second power supply rails and a second of the inverters being supplied by third and fourth supply rails, an input of the second inverter being coupled to a first bit line via a first transistor; and a power supply circuit adapted to apply a first voltage difference across the first and second power supply rails and a second voltage difference across the third and fourth power supply rails, the second voltage difference being greater than the first voltage difference.
US10141046B2
A memory cell comprising includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, an electrically floating body transistor fabricated on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, and a charge injector region. The floating body transistor is configured to have more than one stable state through an application of a bias on the charge injector region.
US10141043B1
The present disclosure provides a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The DRAM includes a plurality of banks, a power source and a control device. Each of the banks includes a plurality of subarrays. The control device derives information on a quantity of operated subarrays among the subarrays, and determines how much electrical energy to provide based on the information. The power source provides the resultant amount of electrical energy based on the determination from the control device.
US10141036B2
The invention provides a semiconductor memory device and a reading method thereof, which are capable of suppressing a peak current when pre-charging a bit line are provided. The reading method of a flash memory of the present invention includes steps of: pre-charging a selected bit line; and reading a voltage or a current of the pre-charged selected bit line. The step of pre-charging is performed by pre-charging a sense node SNS to Vcc−Vth at a time t1, pre-charging a node TOBL to VCLAMP2 at a time t2, pre-charging the node TOBL to VCLAMP1 at a time t5, and pre-charging the sense node SNS to Vcc at a time t6.
US10141035B1
The memory cell includes a read selection transistor, a program selection transistor, and an anti-fuse capacitor. The read selection transistor has a first terminal coupled to a bit line, a second terminal, and a control terminal coupled to a read word line. The program selection transistor has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the read selection transistor, a second terminal coupled to a high voltage control line, and a control terminal coupled to a program word line. The anti-fuse capacitor has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the read selection transistor, and a second terminal coupled to a low voltage control line.
US10141034B1
Providing for an electronic memory apparatus having high-density, non-volatile memory arrays in conjunction with a high-speed communication interface is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the electronic memory apparatus can include multiple banks of two-terminal memory, communicatively connected to a modified dynamic random access memory bus and configured to operate according to a modified communication protocol. In one or more embodiments, the high-speed communication interface can comprise more than ten command and address pins to identify individual memory banks (or subsets of memory banks) of the multiple banks of memory, to facilitate bank-specific addressing for memory array operations. In some embodiments, the electronic memory can facilitate status information for subsets of memory banks to facilitate informed array operations, increasing duty cycle of the memory device.
US10141026B1
According to a method, an access request for a configuration module in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) may be received. The configuration module may be operable to configure functionality of the FPGA based on configuration information stored thereon. It may be determined whether the access request conforms to a specification specifying access control related to the configuration module. In response to determining that the access request conforms to the specification, the access request may be transmitted to the configuration module for access of the configuration information.
US10141025B2
A method, device and computer-readable medium are provided for adjusting video playing progress in the field of video processing. The method for adjusting video playing progress includes: acquiring a keyword inputted by a user; determining at least one matching keyframe corresponding to the keyword in a target video, which includes at least one keyframe; displaying the at least one matching keyframe; and adjusting displaying progress of the target video to target displaying progress, when a selection operation on a keyframe of the at least one matching keyframe is detected, where the target displaying progress corresponds to the keyframe as indicated by the selection operation.
US10141019B2
An optical disc drive (ODD) including a housing, a tray, a panel, a first linkage, and a second linkage is provided. The tray is movably disposed at the housing to move into or move out of the housing. The panel is connected to the tray and located at a side of the housing. The first linkage is rotatably disposed on the panel and located between the housing and the panel. The second linkage is rotatably disposed on the panel and located between the first linkage and the panel. By rotating the first linkage with respect to the panel in a first rotating direction, the second linkage is pushed by the first linkage and rotates with respect to the panel in a second rotating direction opposite to the first rotating direction so as to actuate the tray to move out of the housing.
US10141012B1
A manual to automatic record player conversion includes a base unit and a blade that attaches to the tone arm. The base unit includes a movable a piston that engages the blade in order to move the tone arm upward, to specified locations on the record, or to the rest position. The position of the blade is detected by locating a reflective strip on the blade using an optical sensor, so that the piston remains positioned under the blade. The piston uses a tapered cone structure to engage a slot in the blade, compensating for any inaccuracies in position of the piston with respect to the blade. The base unit may be structured to interact with a remote control through Bluetooth or other wireless connectivity. The remote control may be a software program or “app” that is operated through a smart phone, tablet computer, or other computer.
US10141006B1
Described are techniques for automatically improving the accessibility of webpages and other content using machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. Webpage data may include visual data used to render visible elements and audio data used to render audible elements, such as digitized speech representative of at least a portion of the visible elements. In some cases, text data may be generated based on the audio data. The audio data may be modified based on target text strings, patterns, and characteristics determined in the text data, or the audio data may be analyzed directly. Additionally, user interactions with particular visible elements and corresponding audible elements may be compared. If the user interactions for a visible element exceed the user interactions for a corresponding audible element, the audio data associated with the audible element may be modified.
US10141003B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to noise level estimation. A method for noise level estimation is disclosed. The method includes, responsive to an increase of a signal level of a noise signal, calculating an impulsive noise probability of the noise signal, the impulsive noise probability indicating a likelihood that the noise signal is an impulsive noise. The method also includes determining a variable smoothing factor for noise level estimation based on the impulsive noise probability, the variable smoothing factor being associated with a previous estimated level of the noise signal. The method further includes smoothing the noise signal with the variable smoothing factor so as to determine a current estimated level of the noise signal. Corresponding system and computer program products are also disclosed.
US10141001B2
An apparatus includes a first calculator configured to determine a long-term noise estimate of the audio signal. The apparatus also includes a second calculator configured to determine a formant-sharpening factor based on the determined long-term noise estimate. The apparatus includes a filter configured to filter a codebook vector to generate a filtered codebook vector. The filter is based on the determined formant-sharpening factor, and the codebook vector is based on information from the audio signal. The apparatus further includes an audio coder configured to generate a formant-sharpened low-band excitation signal based on the filtered codebook vector.
US10140996B2
In general, techniques are described for signaling layers for scalable coding of higher order ambisonic audio data. A device comprising a memory and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may be configured to store the bitstream. The processor may be configured to obtain, from the bitstream, an indication of a number of layers specified in the bitstream, and obtain the layers of the bitstream based on the indication of the number of layers.
US10140994B2
Disclosed are a frame error concealment method and apparatus and an audio decoding method and apparatus. The frame error concealment (FEC) method includes: selecting an FEC mode based on at least one of a state of at least one frame and a phase matching flag, with regard to a time domain signal generated after time-frequency inverse transform processing; and performing corresponding time domain error concealment processing on the current frame based on the selected FEC mode, wherein the current frame is an error frame or the current frame is a normal frame when the previous frame is an error frame.
US10140992B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media are provided for voice authentication. The method includes receiving, on a mobile device, a speech sample from a user as part of a request for a restricted-access resource separate from the mobile device. When the user has previously established an identity with the mobile device, the method includes transmitting the speech sample along with the request to an authentication server which compares the speech sample to a previously established speech profile associated with the user and providing access to the restricted-access resource based on a response to the request from the authentication server if the speech sample from the user matches the speech profile on the authentication server with a minimum certainty threshold.
US10140984B2
A method and an apparatus for processing voice data. A specific implementation of the method includes: receiving voice data sent by a user terminal; extracting a voiceprint characteristic vector in the voice data; matching the voiceprint characteristic vector with a registered voiceprint vector prestored by the user, and generating a matching degree between the voiceprint characteristic vector and the registered voiceprint vector; determining whether the matching degree is greater than or equal to a preset update threshold; and updating the registered voiceprint vector by using the voiceprint characteristic vector and the voice data in response to determining that the matching degree is greater than or equal to the preset update threshold. This implementation enhances accuracy of a registered voiceprint vector of a user.
US10140976B2
Methods and systems for language processing includes training one or more automatic speech recognition models using an automatic speech recognition dictionary. A set of N automatic speech recognition hypotheses for an input is determined, based on the one or more automatic speech recognition models, using a processor. A best hypothesis is selected using a discriminative language model and a list of relevant words. Natural language processing is performed on the best hypothesis.
US10140954B2
A method for determining a residual image level of a display device and a detection device. The method includes: lighting the display device based on a setting image type, and setting a plurality of detection positions on the display device based on the setting image type; converting a display image on the display device into a grayscale image with a setting level; detecting an actual brightness value of each detection position within a setting time after converting into a grayscale of the setting level; for each detection position, acquiring a brightness variation index of the detection position based on the acquired actual brightness value and a corresponding predetermined relationship between the actual brightness value and a theoretical brightness value of the grayscale of the setting level; and acquiring an residual image level of the display device in the grayscale of the setting level based on the acquired brightness variation index.
US10140950B2
The present disclosure provides a display device driving method and the like that can suppress degradation of display quality at the time of switching to a video based on a video signal from an external signal source. The display device driving method according to the present disclosure includes: receiving a training signal transmitted from an external signal source; after receiving the training signal, transmitting a lock signal to the external signal source at a timing based on an internal synchronization signal of the display device; after transmitting the lock signal, receiving a video signal that is transmitted from the external signal source and is synchronous with an external synchronization signal; and displaying a video by using the video signal received from the external signal source.
US10140948B2
The present disclosure provides a method for adjusting gate driving voltages for a gate driving circuit, output terminals of the gate driving circuit being connected with gate lines, an input terminal of the gate driving circuit being connected with a propel link gate (PLG) wiring. The method includes determining a voltage-drop value at an electrical connection point along the PLG wiring with respect to an input terminal of the PLG wiring, the electrical connection point connecting an input terminal of the gate driving circuit with the input terminal of the PLG wiring; and compensating the gate driving voltage on the input terminal of the gate driving circuit based on the voltage-drop value.
US10140944B2
A display device for improving display quality includes a pulse compensator, a gate driver, a source driver and a display panel. The pulse compensator generates a clock signal of which amplitude decreases when peripheral temperature increases and increases when peripheral temperature decreases. The gate driver outputs a gate driving signal to the display panel based on the clock signal, wherein an amplitude of the gate driving signal decreases when the peripheral temperature increases and the amplitude of the gate driving signal increases when the peripheral temperature decreases. The source driver provides a gray-scale voltage based on gray-scale data, and the display panel displays an image corresponding to the gray-scale voltage in response to the gate driving signal. Therefore, the deterioration in the drive capability of the gate driver depending on the peripheral temperature may be prevented and display quality of the display device may be improved.
US10140941B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for adjusting a screen refresh frequency and a display. The method comprises: acquiring and storing a current frame of picture signal; calculating a similarity value between the current frame of picture signal and a previous frame of picture signal; and acquiring a screen refresh frequency for the current frame of picture signal based on the similarity value according to a preset relationship between similarity values and screen refresh frequencies, so as to realize adjustment of the screen refresh frequency.
US10140940B2
According to one embodiment, a display device has a display area and pixels forming a matrix pattern. Each of the pixels has a display element and a capacitive element series circuit, and a capacitive element series circuit includes a first capacitive element and a second capacitive element. Some switches in a boost control circuit are controlled by a gate signal during one pulse period of an input source signal at least two times. The switches include, a switch being opening and/or closing in a first half of the pulse period, and a switch being closing and/or opening in a second half of the pulse period.
US10140923B2
The present application provides a pixel driving system of AMOLED and a pixel driving method of AMOLED. The pixel driving system of AMOLED includes a pixel driving circuit of a 4T1C architecture, and an initialization voltage supply module electrically connected to the pixel driving circuit, by providing a high level of an initialization signal from the initialization voltage supply module at the light emission stage in the pixel driving circuit to effectively compensate the threshold voltage of the driving thin film transistor, so that the current flowing through the organic light emitting diode is stabilized while reducing the leakage current of the gate and the source of the driving thin film transistor in the light emission stage, the stability of the compensation data in the light emission stage, to enhance the compensation effect.
US10140922B2
A pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes input module, compensation module, drive module, light emitting module and control signal input module. The input module is configured to transmit a signal of a data voltage terminal to the compensation module under control of first gate signal terminal. The compensation module is configured to compensate for a threshold voltage of the drive module under control of the input module and a threshold voltage control terminal. The drive module is configured to drive the light emitting module to emit light under control of first control signal terminal. The control signal input module is configured to transmit a signal of second voltage terminal or third voltage terminal to the first control signal terminal under control of second control signal terminal and third control signal terminal.
US10140918B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an actively driven organic light-emitting display apparatus to eliminate a defect in which the current flowing through the lighting device in the actively driven organic light-emitting display apparatus is affected by the instable current caused by the instable threshold voltage of the drive transistor, so that the current flowing through the lighting device is accurate and make the brightness of the whole actively driven organic light-emitting display apparatus be even. The display apparatus comprises a light emitting device, a light emitting device drive unit, a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a current control unit and a resistor which constitute a feedback loop. An input terminal of the current control unit is input a data signal to control that the current of the light emitting device is only associated with the resistor, voltage of the input data signal and the supply voltage.
US10140913B2
The shift register unit comprises: a gate drive signal output terminal, a first clock signal input terminal, a second clock signal input terminal, a low level input terminal, a pull-up control unit, a pull-down unit, a pull-down node control unit and a pull-down control node control unit. In a pull-down holding phase of a display period, a first clock signal input through the first clock signal input terminal and a second clock signal input through the second clock signal input terminal have opposite phases. When the first clock signal has a high level, the pull-down control node control unit controls the pull-down control node to be connected to the first clock signal input terminal. When the second clock signal has a high level, the pull-down control node control unit controls the pull-down control node to be connected to the low level input terminal.
US10140910B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register, a gate line driving circuit, an array substrate and a display apparatus. The shift register comprises: an inputting circuit for controlling a potential of a pulling up node (PU); a pulling down driving circuit for controlling the potentials of the PU and a pulling down node to be different; a resetting circuit for pulling down the PU and a signal outputting terminal (Output); a first outputting circuit for pulling down the Output; a second outputting terminal for outputting a signal from a clock signal terminal via the Output; a controlling circuit for connecting the second outputting circuit with the PU when the PU is at a high level and pulling the first terminal of the second outputting circuit down to a potential as twice as the potential of the low level signal terminal when the PU is at a low level.
US10140904B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display panel and a driving method thereof and a display device. The display panel comprises: a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit including six colors of sub-pixels: a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel, a blue sub-pixel, a cyan sub-pixel, a fuchsine sub-pixel and a yellow sub-pixel, wherein, in the six colors of sub-pixels, three colors of sub-pixels and the other three colors of sub-pixels are arranged in an overlapping manner in a light exiting direction perpendicular to the display panel.
US10140889B2
A model for practicing transabdominal pre-peritoneal (TAPP) and total extraperitoneal (TEP) approaches for laparoscopic hernia repairs is provided. The model simulates an insufflated space between the abdominal muscles and peritoneum. A spring layer may be incorporated to provide a realistic resiliency to the model while in the simulated insufflated configuration. At least one hole is provided in the model from which synthetic tissue protrudes to simulate a hernia. The model is used to selectively simulate direct, indirect and femoral inguinal hernias as well as incisional hernias by removably placing the protruding simulated tissue into any one of several openings. The model contains all important anatomical structures and sits on a base frame or is connected to a rigid simulated pelvis. When located inside a laparoscopic trainer with an angled top cover, the model provides an ideal simulation for teaching and practicing laparoscopic hernia repair.
US10140887B2
Techniques described herein relate to generating braille output and/or visual display output based on received mathematical expression input. Data corresponding to one or more mathematical expressions may be received via expression input devices or visual display devices, and may be converted to braille output characters for display on refreshable braille devices. Additionally, mathematical expression input data may be received via refreshable braille display devices and converted to output characters for display on visual display devices. In some embodiments, mathematical expression input data may be converted first to content markup, and then converted from the content markup to presentation markup and/or braille output characters. Further mathematical expression input data, such as updates to previously displayed expressions, may be received from an initial input device, visual display device, or refreshable braille device, and the updated expression data may be converted to visual output characters and/or braille output characters.
US10140880B2
A method of automated ranking of segments of learning materials includes calculating a window similarity between first-window content of a first window in a learning material and second-window content of a second window in the learning material. The method may also include in response to the window similarity between the first-window content of the first window and the second-window content of the second window meeting a similarity threshold, generating a first segment that includes at least the first-window content and the second-window content. The method may include calculating a first-segment consistency measurement for the first segment based on a first-segment similarity between the first-segment content in the first segment and a knowledge point. The method may also include ranking the first segment with respect to one or more of the following: a second segment in the learning material and a third segment in a different learning material, wherein the ranking of the first segment is based on one or more of the following: a quality measurement, a learning material type of the learning material, a length of the first segment, and the first-segment consistency measurement of the first segment.
US10140875B1
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus for joint optimization of multi-UAV task assignment and path planning. The method comprises: obtaining the location information of a plurality of UAVs and a plurality of target points, the dispersion of groundspeed course angle, and motion parameters of each UAV and wind field; constructing an initial population based on the location information, the dispersion of groundspeed course angle and a preset genetic algorithm; determining the flight status of each UAV and the flight time taken by each UAV to complete a path segment of the corresponding Dubins flight path based on the initial population and the motion parameters, obtaining the total time taken by all the UAVs corresponding to each chromosome to complete the task based on the flight time of the path segment; and subjecting the chromosomes in the initial population to crossover and mutation based on the genetic algorithm and, when a predetermined number of iterations is reached, selecting the optimal Dubins flight path as the joint optimization result. In the embodiments of the present invention, the UAV flight path planning problem is combined with the actual flight environment of the UAV, so that the optimal flight path obtained is superior to the solution in which the UAV speed is constant.
US10140874B2
A system of virtual sightseeing using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and methods of making and using same. The virtual sightseeing system can include a plurality of UAVs arranged over a geographical area of interest in one or more ground configurations. In response to a sightseeing request, one or more UAVs are activated and deployed to a sightseeing region of interest. The UAVs travel to the region of interest and, upon arriving, acquire data for presentation in real-time. The data can include both visual and non-visual data from the region of interest and can be presented in integrated fashion in a virtual reality terminal. The virtual sightseeing is supervised by an operational subsystem that is responsible for efficient allocation of UAVs in response to multiple sightseeing requests. Even if physically separate, the subsystems of the virtual sightseeing system can communicate via a data communication subsystem, such as a wireless network.
US10140871B2
A wireless system for a mine performs a management of the quality of wireless communication at each point in the mine at a time point closer to a current time while maintaining the operating state of each dump truck. The wireless system is provided with a server, wireless base stations and dump trucks in the mine. The server contains fleet operations management information and communication quality information, and the dump trucks each include a GPS and a wireless terminal. The server specifies an update target point where the communication quality information requires an update. Then, the server specifies one of the dump trucks, which is plan to travel through the update target point, from the fleet operations management information, calculates a time at which the dump truck would arrive at the update target point, and performs communication trigger processing to make the dump truck transmit wireless data.
US10140870B1
A vehicle for maneuvering an occupant of the vehicle to a destination autonomously as well as providing information about the vehicle and the vehicle's environment for display to the occupant.
US10140865B2
A system may include a storage device that stores a set of instructions and a processor in communication with the storage device. When executing the set of instructions, the processor may be configured to cause the system to obtain, from a user terminal, a first geographical location via a network and obtain a second geographical location associated with a virtual parking region. The first geographical location may be determined by the user terminal according a GPS signal. The virtual parking region may include parking space for vehicles. The processor may also be configured to cause the system to determine whether a distance between the first geographical location and the second geographical location is less than a threshold and obtain information associated with the virtual parking region in response to the determination that the distance is less than the threshold.
US10140854B2
An instance of probe data that was captured by sensors of a probe apparatus onboard a vehicle is received. Previous instances of probe data captured by the probe apparatus onboard the vehicle are accessed and the instance of probe is analyzed based on the previous instances of probe data. A current traffic state is determined for the vehicle based on the analysis. In an example embodiment, the analysis comprises generating a hidden Markov model based on speed data of the probe data. A Viterbi-path is obtained corresponding to the instance of probe data and the previous instances of probe data. The current traffic state is defined based on the Viterbi-path. The current traffic state may be used to determine traffic information/data for a road segment and/or predict a future traffic state for the vehicle. Traffic management decisions and/or routing decisions for the vehicle may be made based thereon.
US10140839B1
An alarm system communicator monitors alarm event data output from an alarm panel to a communications path, irrespective of whether the alarm system communicator is in an active or a passive mode. The alarm event data is forwarded to a remote central monitoring station (CMS) over another communications path while the alarm system communicator is operable in the active mode, and not forwarding the alarm event data to the CMS while operable in a passive mode. At least a portion of the alarm event data is forwarded to a secondary monitoring station (SMS), at least while the CMS communications module is in the passive mode. Further, there may be forwarding of at least a portion of the alarm event data to the SMS, irrespective of whether the alarm system communicator is in the active mode or the passive mode.
US10140838B2
A method for generating and transmitting a reminder message includes obtaining a unique user profile. The user profile includes a user identification (ID) indicative of a unique user, an object ID indicative of a unique object, and a device ID indicative of a unique mobile device. The processor is configured to predict a spatial relationship between the user, the object, and the mobile device. The prediction is based, in part, on the user ID, the object ID, and the device ID, where the prediction includes a geographic location for the user, the object, and/or the mobile device. The processor compares a location of at least two of the user, the object and the mobile device with the prediction of the user's spatial relationship with the object and the mobile device. The processor transmits a reminder message when the prediction of the spatial relationship exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10140835B2
In one embodiment, a computing device receives vector data from a plurality of vector-identifying sensors distributed across an area associated with the computing device. The computing device may then determine an amount of vectors within the area based on the vector data, and compares the amount of vectors to a threshold associated with the area. In response to the amount being greater than the threshold, the computing device may then trigger a remediation alarm, accordingly.
US10140834B2
A mobile transceiver having an asset-based alarm profile and a method of operation are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of operating a mobile transceiver: sending to an asset tracking service a message including a device identifier (ID); receiving from the asset tracking service an alarm profile assigned to the device ID, wherein the alarm profile defines a plurality of alarms, each alarm including a trigger condition and one or more actions; storing the alarm profile in a memory of the mobile transceiver; and applying the alarm profile.
US10140831B2
An air filtration for detecting hazardous particles includes a housing having an air flow pathway extending therethrough. The housing is configured to receive air flow from an inlet of the housing and to expel air flow from an outlet of the housing. A pair of electrodes are positioned within the air flow pathway. A sensor system is operatively connected to the pair of electrodes to measure electrical current flowing therebetween. A processor is operatively connected to the sensor system to compare the measured electrical current with a stored baseline current. An alarm is operatively connected to the processor. The processor activates the alarm when the measured electrical current is different than the stored baseline current.
US10140825B1
An anti-theft device for monitoring Type C USB connector. An alarm module has a first terminal and a second terminal. A male plug has a first conductive member in electrical communication with the first terminal and a second conductive member in electrical communication with the second terminal. When the male plug is positioned within the receptacle, a closed electric circuit forms between the first and second conductive members. The alarm module supplies an electric current to the first terminal and monitors the electric current flowing to the second terminal. Responsive to detecting an interruption in the electric current flowing between the first and the second terminals, the alarm module transmits an alarm signal.
US10140821B2
A device having indirect visual indicators to communicate information about states of operation is disclosed herein. The visual indicators may output a visual indication based on operational states of the device or other systems associated with the device. In some examples, a thermostat may include a downcast light that outputs a visual indication based on a mode of operation of the thermostat or a mode of operation of an associated heating, cooling, and ventilation (HVAC) system. Various characteristics of the visual indication may be altered to output different information. In some examples, a color of the visual indication may change based on the modes of operation or the visual indication may be pulsed based on the modes of operation.
US10140819B2
Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic.
US10140817B2
Devices, systems and methods are provided to enable casino operators to provide printed tangible items for patron uses, such as lottery tickets. Such embodiments accept tangible indicators of financial consideration from patrons, such as currency or tickets associated with certain verifiable values, such as valid and winning lottery tickets and other forms of consideration which a patron can provide to a casino in exchange for one or more points.
US10140813B2
Systems and methods for a gaming machine are provided. A gaming machine includes a game world engine, and a real world engine. The game world engine provides an entertainment game including a plurality of levels, generates a trigger based on a player using an enabling element of the entertainment game, accumulates game world credit based on the player's use of the enabling element, determines a progress from a first level of the entertainment game to a second level of entertainment game on the basis of the game world credit, and selects a level real world credit play table on the basis of the progress. The real world engine receives the trigger from the game world engine and executes a gambling game to determine a gambling outcome using the random number generator, the level real world credit pay table, and a wager of an amount of the real world credit.
US10140809B2
A system for interactive gaming among a plurality of players includes a host computer system and a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system via a network. The plurality of player terminals are located at a plurality of licensed gaming locations. The plurality of player terminals are configured to engage the plurality of players in a common interactive game operated by the host computer system. The plurality of player terminals include means for dispensing player winnings from the player terminal.
US10140805B2
A method of conducting a wagering game includes: conducting a base game on an electronic gaming machine; detecting a first trigger condition in the base game; initiating a feature game in response to the first trigger condition; detecting a second trigger condition in the feature game; granting access to a plurality of bonus feature game levels in response to the second trigger condition; and determining an outcome of the feature game.
US10140801B2
A device for controlling dispensing of items, includes a frame 34; at least one drawer 16 slidably mounted to the frame, the drawer having a plurality of storage sections 21; a plurality of access panels 3, each associated with one of the storage sections; control means operable to control movement of each of the access panels 3 relative to the associated drawer 16 (such as by controlling an actuator rod 210 and a latch 50) so that, when the drawer 16 is opened, the access panel 3 is either in a first mode which prevents access to its associated storage section 21 or in a second mode which allows access to its associate storage section 21.
US10140795B2
Disclosed herein are a food storage apparatus with improved security performance due to performing of a lock/unlock function from far away and a method of controlling the same. Also, provided are a food storage apparatus which allows a user far away to take appropriate measures by reporting approach of an unauthorized person, opening of a door, etc. or to check a thief or stolen food and a method of controlling the same. The food storage apparatus includes a body in which a storage space for storing food is formed, a door installed on the body to be openable, a locking unit which locks the door, a communication unit which communicates with an external terminal to receive a locking command, and a control unit which controls the locking unit to lock the door when the locking command is received from the terminal.
US10140794B2
A lock device is configured to receive a credential from a mobile device. The lock device is configured to monitor the distance between the mobile device and the lock device. The lock device is configured to detect an intent action by a user of the mobile device and unlock the lock device if the mobile device is within a predetermined distance from the lock device and the intent action is an approved intent action.
US10140792B1
An access control device configured to store a list of user identifiers and user attribute data, receive a set of access criteria specifying one or more attributes, receive and identify a user identifier via a data input component, determine an access status of the user identifier based on the access criteria, and present the access status in such a way as is perceivable by a user of the access control device.
US10140791B2
A user interface method for an automated door lock, including providing a sensor operable to identify two-dimensional locations of an object within a detection plane that extends outward from a door, providing an unlocker operative to automatically unlock the door, identifying, by a processor coupled with the sensor and the unlocker, a linear movement of the object within the detection plane, in a first direction of motion, further identifying, by the processor, a linear movement of the object within the detection plane, in a second direction of motion substantially orthogonal to the first direction of motion, and activating, by the processor, the unlocker in response to the identifying and the further identifying.
US10140790B2
Disclosed is a data recorder unit and system for a vehicle. The system includes at least one video camera device configured to generate video data associated with the vehicle and/or its surroundings, and wirelessly transmit at least a portion of the video data. The data recorder unit includes a data recorder enclosure, a data processing unit located in the enclosure and configured to: wirelessly receive at least a portion of the video data from the at least one video camera device, process at least a portion of the video data, and generate processed video data based at least partially on the video data, and at least one storage device comprising at least one crash-hardened memory in communication with the at least one data processing unit and configured to store at least a portion of at least one of the video data and the processed video data.
US10140787B2
A method for determining whether an error is present or not in a motor vehicle, a discrete state, in which the motor vehicle is presently in, being ascertained with the aid of a state machine, a decision being made, depending on the ascertained discrete state, whether an error is present or not, whereby the states of the state machine include acceptable states and unacceptable states, then, if the ascertained discrete state is an unacceptable state, the motor vehicle is transferred into an acceptable state.
US10140786B2
A method and apparatus are provided for autonomously detecting and reporting anomalies in actions of an autonomous mobile node, or in behaviors of a swarm of autonomous mobile nodes to an operator. The autonomous mobile node may experience anomalies or unexpected situations due to various failures or external influence (e.g. natural weather phenomena, enemy threats). During a training phase a prediction model and a structured model may be established from measurement data received from one or more sensors of an autonomous mobile node or a swarm of nodes while executing an action or behavior under normal circumstances. A prediction model forecasts the expected outcome of an action or behavior, and structured model helps quantify the similarity of a learned action or behavior to the currently observed situation. Based on the measurement data applicable models can be used for an action or behavior for anomaly detection in the action or behavior.
US10140779B2
An athlete measures sprint time by locating a smartphone having a camera and clock start button which is first activated at the finish line. The sprint end time is recorded by a photo stamp time app. This sprint end time activates a video trigger causing the smartphone to send a RF stop event signal to a wrist mounted motion sensor worn by the athlete. A sensor timer is started via the start event by track or self starting. In track starting, the athlete pushes a start button on the sensor to initiate a variable 2-5 second delayed sound READY-SET-GO series of beeps to start the sprint. In self starting, the sensor detects threshold motion parameters of the sprinter's start which activates the sensor's free running clock and saves the start time. The time base on the sensor is used to calculate run time.
US10140778B2
A ticket dispensing module comprising an elongate ticket dispensing aperture provided within a face of the ticket dispensing module, the elongate ticket dispensing aperture being a hole elongate in a plane parallel to the face when a door of the ticket dispensing module closed; and a housing body having opposed first and second faces with complementary slideable engagement elements, the first slideable engagement element of a first housing body engageable with the second slideable engagement element of a corresponding, second housing body, by relative displacement of the housing bodies along a direction of elongation of their slideable engagement elements, wherein at least one of the slideable engagement elements is tapered along its direction of elongation, wherein the slideable engagement elements of the first and second faces of the housing bodies are configured to prevent separation of the housing bodies transverse to the direction of relative displacement when they are engaged.
US10140773B2
Systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for placing and rendering virtual objects in three-dimensional environments. The techniques include providing, by a device, a view of an environment of a first user. A first computing system associated with the first user receives an instruction to display, within the view of the environment of the first user, a virtual marker at a specified position of the environment of the first user, the specified position derived from a second user's interaction with a three-dimensional (3D) model of at least a portion of the environment of the first user. The device displays, within the view of the environment of the first user, the virtual marker at the specified position of the environment of the first user.
US10140772B2
Embodiments are directed to visualizing electromagnetic (EM) particle emissions in a computer-generated virtual environment. In one scenario, a computer system accesses portions of data representing EM particle emissions emitted by a virtualized EM particle emitter. The computer system generates a particle visualization that includes at least a portion of the EM particle emissions being emitted from the virtualized EM particle emitter within the virtual environment. The particle visualization includes an indication of the EM particle emissions' interactions with other virtual or non-virtual elements in the virtual environment. The computer system then presents the generated particle visualization in the computer-generated virtual environment. In some cases, the computer system further receives user input intended to interact with virtual elements within the virtual environment. In response, the computer system updates the generated particle visualization based on the user's interaction with the virtual element.
US10140770B2
The disclosure includes a system and method for wireless data sharing between a mobile client device and a three-dimensional heads-up display unit. A system may include a three-dimensional heads-up display unit (“3D HUD”) installed in a vehicle. The system may include a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: establish a peer-to-peer video stream between a mobile client device and the vehicle; generate live video data for providing a video stream for causing a screen of the mobile client device to display visual content of the 3D HUD that includes substantially live images depicting what the driver of the vehicle sees when looking at the 3D HUD; and stream the live video data to the mobile client device to cause the screen of the mobile client device to display the video stream that depicts what the driver of the vehicle sees when looking at the 3D HUD.
US10140760B1
A method for consistent identification of numbered elements in multi-layered views captured from a 3D model may include generating a three dimensional (3D) model in a 3D model viewer displayed through a machine display through operation of a 3D modeler, configuring a feature mapper with a model feature definition to define at least one subregion of the 3D model as a model feature; mapping the model feature to a feature identifier in a mapping; generating an edge wireframe projection of a model view of the 3D model; determining visible sub-regions associated with model features in the edge wireframe projection; applying the edge wireframe projection to a background layer of a technical drawing; and rendering the feature identifier with a lead line originating from visible sub-regions on a defined feature foreground layer of the technical drawing.
US10140758B1
A method and apparatus is provided for forming a model of a structure. Input data comprising a set of values for a set of attributes is received. The set of values for the set of attributes is matched to a number of texture decks in a plurality of texture decks. A texture deck in the plurality of texture decks is associated with a set of assigned attributes. Each assigned attribute in the set of assigned attributes is assigned at least one assigned value. A texture deck from the number of texture decks is selected as a final texture deck for use in forming the model of the structure.
US10140757B2
A map having surfaces that are depicted at different levels that are not related to topography, with boundaries between the surfaces, where the boundaries are disposed at travel ways. The travel ways form cliff faces in the map between the surfaces, with information items disposed on the cliff faces at positions corresponding to items of interest at locations along the travel ways where the information items are disposed.
US10140746B2
Provided is an image processing device. A feature point detection unit detects a feature point from moving image data. An association processing unit associates the feature point with additional information, the feature point being selected based on feature point selection information for selecting one or at least two feature points that display the additional information displayed to be accompanied with the feature point. A motion analysis unit analyzes a changing behavior of the feature point through reproduction of moving image data. A data generating unit generates data indicating change content to change display of the additional information associated with the feature point based on motion information indicating the behavior of the feature point analyzed by the motion analysis unit and a display scenario indicating a change pattern to change the additional information added to the feature point according to the behavior of the feature point.
US10140742B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to automatic generation of dynamically changing layouts for a graphical user-interface. Specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure employ analysis of an image associated with the view (e.g., either the current view or a future view) of the graphical user-interface to determine colors that are complementary to the image. The colors are applied to the view, such that the color scheme of the view matches the image.
US10140736B2
A graphics processing system for generating a render output using an input curve defined in a world space includes processing circuitry configured to determine a portion of a canonical curve defined in canonical space that corresponds to the input curve and the transformation needed to map the input curve to the portion of the canonical curve. For sampling points in the world space surrounding the input curve, the processing circuitry is configured to transform the sampling points from the world space to the canonical space using the determined transformation between the world space and the canonical space; and determine, in the canonical space, the closest point on the determined portion of the canonical curve to the transformed sampling point. The system also includes processing circuitry capable of using the determined closest points on the canonical curve for the transformed sampling points in the canonical space when generating a render output.
US10140734B2
Described here is a system and method for image reconstruction that can automatically and iteratively produce multiple images from one set of acquired data, in which each of these multiple images corresponds to a subset of the acquired data that is self-consistent, but inconsistent with other subsets of the acquired data. The image reconstruction includes iteratively minimizing the rank of an image matrix whose columns each correspond to a different image, and in which one column corresponds to a user-provided prior image of the subject. The rank minimization is constrained subject to a consistency condition that enforces consistency between the forward projection of each column in the image matrix and a respective subset of the acquired data that contains data that is consistent with data in the subset, but inconsistent with data not in the subset.
US10140730B2
Various display control methods and apparatuses are provided. A method comprises acquiring planar mapping relationship information between an imaging plane and a display plane, and deform-displaying the display content on the display plane at least according to the planar mapping relationship information, to reduce a deformation degree of an image formed by the deformed display content on the imaging plane. A requirement for alignment precision of an imaging device required by the imaging plane is reduced to acquire an image of the display content deformed less to some extent, and users' operational convenience is increased.
US10140726B2
An image processing apparatus comprises: a detecting unit to detect, respectively from plural images obtained by imaging with plural imaging units a space in which plural persons exist, positions of the persons on the images; an associating unit to perform association of a same person in the plural images; a person position estimating unit to estimate positions of the persons in the space, based on the positions of the persons on the images detected from the plural images and a result of the association by the associating unit; a direction estimating unit to estimate eye directions of the persons, based on the plural images; and a distribution estimating unit to estimate a spatial distribution of positions gazed by the plural persons, based on the estimated positions of the plural persons in the space and the estimated eye directions of the plural persons.
US10140720B1
An optical correlator includes a first spatial light modulator arranged to receive light from a light source and configured to selectively attenuate the light; a first focusing layer arranged to receive the selectively-attenuated light from the first spatial light modulator and configured to focus the selectively-attenuated light; a first spacer layer substantially transparent to the light from the light source, the first focusing layer being disposed on the first spacer layer; a second spatial light modulator arranged in a Fourier optical relationship with respect to the first spatial light modulator and configured to selectively attenuate the focused light from the first focusing layer to provide twice-attenuated light, the second spatial light modulator being disposed on the first spacer layer opposite the first focusing layer; a second spacer layer substantially transparent to the light from the light source, the second spatial light modulator being disposed on the second spacer layer and positioned between the first and second spacer layers; a second focusing layer disposed on the second spacer layer opposite the second spatial light modulator and arranged to receive light from the second spatial light modulator and configured to focus the twice-attenuated light to provide focused, twice-attenuated; and a sensor array arranged to receive light from the second focusing layer and configured to detect spatial intensity variations of the focused, twice-attenuated light.
US10140710B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to estimating the key image degree of adequacy of a captured image as a function of tissue image features and a degree of abnormality based on the tissue image features for each image of a real-time series of images captured by an imaging system, and automatically identifying key images based on the key image degree of adequacy. In an illustrative example, the image may be captured by an ultrasound imaging device. The tissue may be, for example, breast tissue examined to detect cancer. In various implementations, the key image degree of adequacy may be determined based on tissue features representative of diseased tissue, and a key image may be selected based on a degree of abnormality determined as a function of the diseased tissue features. Various examples may advantageously provide faster, less expensive, and more accurate initial disease detection by non-radiologist operators.
US10140707B2
Systems and methods to acquire first two-dimensional projection images of a patient volume using first imaging parameters, acquire second two-dimensional projection images of the patient volume acquired using second imaging parameters, generate, using a first image reconstruction technique, a first three-dimensional image based on the first two-dimensional projection images, receive one or more indications of features of the patient volume identified by an operator in the first three-dimensional image, generate, using a second image reconstruction technique, a second three-dimensional image based on the second two-dimensional projection images, perform automated feature extraction on the second three-dimensional image to automatically extract information associated with features of the patient volume, and generate a feature report of the patient volume based on the one or more indications of features and the information associated with features.
US10140704B2
A surgical instrument navigation system is provided that visually simulates a virtual volumetric scene of a body cavity of a patient from a point of view of a surgical instrument residing in the cavity of the patient, wherein the surgical instrument, as provided, may be a steerable surgical catheter with a biopsy device and/or a surgical catheter with a side-exiting medical instrument, among others. Additionally, systems, methods and devices are provided for forming a respiratory-gated point cloud of a patient's respiratory system and for placing a localization element in an organ of a patient.
US10140701B2
A reconstruction unit (a pre-processor, a reconstruction unit and an image processor) generates a reconstruction image based on output from the X-ray detector. A correction parameter storage stores correction parameters in time series, the correction parameters being used for correction by which noise or artifact is reduced in processing performed by the reconstruction image unit. A correction parameter analysis unit determines whether or not an abnormal condition occurs based on a temporal change in the correction parameters stored in the correction parameter storage. A notification unit issues a notification indicating the occurrence of an abnormal condition where the correction parameter analysis unit determines that the abnormal state has occurred.
US10140700B2
According to embodiment, an image processing apparatus comprising a specifying unit and a display controller. The specifying unit that specifies an acquisition position of an indicator relating to blood flow on a blood vessel-containing image collected by a medical image diagnostic apparatus. The display controller that displays the acquisition position on the blood vessel-containing image and displays the indicator on a display unit in association with the acquisition position.
US10140697B2
A radiation imaging system includes a radiation imaging device, a reconstruction unit and a detection unit. The reconstruction unit generates at least two of a differential phase image, an absorption image and a small-angle scattering image based on periodic pattern images of a subject obtained by the imaging device. The detection unit performs regression analysis on at least two images of (a) the differential phase image, a differential absorption image of the absorption image and a differential small-angle scattering image of the small-angle scattering image or (b) a phase image of the differential phase image, the absorption image and the small-angle scattering image; calculates a value of an indicator indicating a relationship between the at least two images; and detects image quality deterioration due to change in relative position of the imaging device and the subject based on the value.
US10140696B2
A method includes determining, at an image processing device, object quality values for a plurality of objects based on portions of image data corresponding to an image. Each portion corresponds to an object of the plurality of objects represented in the image. The method includes accessing, via the image processing device, object category metrics associated with an object category corresponding to each object of the plurality of objects. The method also includes determining, with the image processing device, image processing for the image based on comparisons of the object quality values for each object to corresponding object category metrics.
US10140686B2
Information indicating at least one defective pixel in an imaging device for obtaining a radiographic image, based on characteristic information indicating an output fluctuation of each pixel caused by an accumulation state of an electric charge by a dark current in the imaging device. The radiographic image is corrected based on the information indicating the defective pixel.
US10140678B2
Techniques to improve graphics processing unit (GPU) performance by introducing specialized code paths to process frequent common values are described. A shader compiler can determine instruction that, during operation, may output a common value and can introduce an enhanced shader instruction branch to process the common value to reduce overall computational requirements to execute the shader.
US10140676B2
An advance indication part performs an advance indication of operation of a robot by using a movable part in correspondence to an operation program or a command supplied to the robot. When the advance indication part performs the advance indication, a user detection part detects a user in a predetermined area of movement of the movable part based on a picture image taken by a camera. When the user detection part detects the user, a recognition check part checks whether the detected user has recognized the advance indication of the advance indication part. When the recognition check part determines that the detected user has not recognized the advance indication yet, a recognition promotion part promotes the detected user to recognize the advance indication or an operation of the robot.
US10140674B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed toward a computer-implemented interactive diagnostic medical records system operated in conjunction with at least one user device. Interactive processing components provide collaborative interaction between a user and at least one database, the collaboration including deployment of a search module in response to a query associated with the user device, and a diagnostic inquiry module comprising an interactive sequence of at least two linked inquiries transmitted to the user device. In one embodiment, the diagnostic inquiry module is operable to assign a value or “weight” to the user responses to the interactive sequence of at least two linked inquiries. User interface tools may further be associated with the user device for accepting input from the diagnostic inquiry module and correspondingly displaying output as determined by the interactive processing components.
US10140670B2
Energy management methods and systems based on financial impact are disclosed herein, wherein an energy management system at a site monitors metered energy consumption, establishes a peak consumption level, determines whether energy consumption will result in an increased peak consumption level, and if it will, calculates the financial value and costs of mitigating an increase in the peak consumption level, including an increase in demand charge prospectively avoided, and mitigates the peak in consumption to the peak consumption level using an energy storage system or other energy providing device if the value of mitigating the peak offsets the inherent costs. Embodiments may further use confidence factors or incremental changes to a peak consumption level to optimize the process and utilize energy devices to their greatest effectiveness.
US10140668B2
An approach to generate and execute an e-commerce gift offer for a social network contact as a function of integrating social network data into a web site offering goods or services for sale within a network computing environment is provided. In response to the user selecting an item offered for sale by the web site, aspects search personal data associated with the user that is acquired from a different, social network web site to determine an indication that another user listed within the acquired personal data has an interest in also acquiring the selected item, and present an offer to the user to select the item for an additional gift purchase for such other user as a recipient. Further aspects use the acquired personal data to narrow down retailers to those that provide delivery service to a current residence of the other user for execution of the gift purchase.
US10140666B1
A computer-implemented method for the targeted gathering of tax data for use with tax preparation software includes a computing device presenting to the user a plurality of interview questions or statements. The computing device creates a user profile based on the responses to the interview questions or statements. The computing device identifies highly relevant tax topics based on user profile and executes a user interface manager to automatically generate interview questions or statements on said highly relevant tax topics. The user then confirms whether other tax topics apply to the user. The computing device executes a tax calculation engine of the tax preparation software configured to compute a tax liability or refund amount.
US10140662B2
A computer system configured to generate data to provide an interactive graphical interface for display on a remote user device is configured to provide an interactive graphical interface including first and second screen areas, and icons for user manipulation, each icon corresponding to a user goal. Icons corresponding to user goals of a first set are displayed within the first screen area, and icons corresponding to user goals of the second set are displayed in the second screen area. A gap is calculated and displayed based on data associated with icons and stored data. Responsive to receipt of data indicative of drag and drop movement of an icon between the first and second screen areas, the gap is recalculated and a resized gap is displayed.
US10140659B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to improving the efficiency of an electronic trading system for interest rate swaps (“IRS”) by allowing for IRS contracts to be funded in a base currency while the cash flows, e.g. coupon payments, price alignment interest, variation margin, are denominated in a local currency different from the base currency. Thereby cash flows may be netted and offset minimizing the magnitude of funds needed to be moved and reducing the number of transactions processed by the electronic trading system as well as the consumption of computational resources thereby. Furthermore, the disclosed embodiments facilitate entering into IRS transactions is a currency different from the currency of cash flows while eliminating Herstatt risk due to volatility of foreign exchange rates, which allows for increased off shore participation and thereby increased transaction volume.
US10140652B2
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.
US10140651B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for displaying item information relative to selection regions of an item image. An image of an item is rendered upon a display of a client. The image is divided into multiple selection regions. The selection regions may be determined by the client dynamically. A selection of a first point upon the image of the item is received. Additional information related to the item is requested from a server based at least in part on the selection of the first point. The additional information is mapped to the first point by way of an association with a second point upon the image. The additional information related to the item is rendered upon the display.
US10140641B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein offer assistance to customers shopping at a real-world shopping venue carrying mobile devices connected to a communication network. This involves tracking a physical action of a customer present at the real-world shopping venue and determining to offer assistance to the customer based on the tracked physical action. Based on determining to offer assistance to the customer, a notification is sent to a mobile device of the customer. The notification identifies that live support is available to assist the customer while the customer is present at the real-world shopping venue.
US10140637B2
Systems and methods for determining a customer selection include receiving customer location information from at least one beacon device of a plurality of beacon devices that are located in a physical merchant location. The customer location information is collected by the at least one beacon device from a customer device that is associated with a customer. Customer selection indication data that is indicative of at least one physical gesture made by the customer is also received, and may be collected, for example, by cameras, object detection devices, communications between customer devices, etc. The customer location information and the customer selection indication data is then analyzed to determine a first product location in the physical merchant location that the customer is selecting, and a first product that is associated with the first product location in a database is determined. Information about the first product may then be sent to the customer device.
US10140635B2
A first calculating unit calculates a load current of each distribution facility based on a sending voltage in a power source facility and load information on power consumption facilities in an electrical circuit including the power source facility, the distribution facilities, and the power consumption facilities connected to one another to form the electrical circuit. A second calculating unit calculates the amount of power loss in each distribution facility based on the calculated load current of each distribution facility.
US10140634B2
A system and method for providing financial account messages to customers while accessing web sites is disclosed. Methods, systems and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention enable a financial account issuer to provide an application to customer's computer system over a network. The application may be configured to provide various messages associated with the customer's financial account provided by the financial account issuer while the customer browses web sites. The financial account messages may be configured to provide interactive and dynamically changing account status information based on attempted purchases of goods and/or services by the customer at merchants' web sites. The application may also be configured to provide rating information associated with web sites accessed by the customer.
US10140633B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for placing content in a user interface depending upon a likely location of the gaze of a user. Coordinates are determined that correspond to an area of interest in a viewport of a first user interface. At least one content item of interest is identified and the content items of interest placed in the area of interest.
US10140630B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer system, a request to solicit one or more users to generate media content for a campaign; identifying, by the computer system, a plurality of content creating users; obtaining demographic data for a plurality of content consuming users who have accessed the media content that was generated by the plurality of content creating users; determining distributions of the plurality of content consuming users across a plurality of demographic categories; selecting, by the computer system, a portion of the plurality of content creating users based on a comparison of i) the one or more parameters for the campaign and ii) the distributions of the plurality of content consuming users across the plurality of demographic categories; and providing information that identifies an opportunity to generate media content for the campaign.
US10140620B2
Mobile device based systems and methods are provided for combined delivery system that will allow shoppers to search and pay for their purchases, redeem coupons and earn reward points via the web or a mobile device or portable device to engage in social networking integration & mobile: services, payment, wallet, express checkout, money transfer, social media widgets, keywords, coupons, instant messaging marketing, voting, eCards, short codes, commerce, shopping, push content, geo-mobile, and geo-social services (collectively referred to as “Mobile Services”) with access to advertisements, daily deal coupons and free or discounted printable coupons, products & services, clickable advertisements & mobile advertisements by geo-target location from merchants, business owners, B2B business directory, retailers and major brands around the world, in combination with geospatial website for a multidimensional representation of information and/or scalable versions of web content associated with entities providing and/or members of the service and/or social networking.
US10140618B2
A vehicle weight detection method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include calculating a first difference between a first expected weight of a vehicle and a first current weight of the vehicle based on On-Board Dash (OBD) input data, calculating a second difference between a second expected weight of the vehicle and a second current weight of the vehicle based on a spring-mass-damper mechanical algorithm using vehicle data received from a user device, a comparing circuit configured to compare each of the first difference and the second difference to a predetermined weight difference threshold value, and a location checking circuit configured to checks if a location of the vehicle matches a location in a list of verified weight change locations of a database if the comparing circuit detects at least one of the first difference and the second difference is greater than the predetermined weight difference threshold value.
US10140617B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for storing and presenting warranties to one or more customers. Within the method, a computer system may store at least one warranty. Subsequently, a point-of-sale system forming part of the computer system may initiate a point-of-sale transaction involving a customer. The computer system may then determine that a first product forming part of the point-of-sale transaction corresponds to a first warranty of the least one warranty and offer to display the first warranty. In response to the offer, the computer system may receive a request to display the first warranty from a computing device corresponding to the customer. Accordingly, the computer system may present the first warranty to the customer via the computing device.
US10140615B2
Embodiments are directed to optimizing the secure provisioning of credentials to mobile devices through use of risk decision non-overrides. In some embodiments, a service provider receives a request from a wallet provider to provision a credential associated with an account to a mobile device. The request includes a first risk level associated with the provisioning. The service provider receives a second risk level associated with the provisioning request from an issuer of the account. Based upon determining that a non-override condition exists, the service provider uses the first risk level from the wallet provider and accordingly causes a user authentication to occur. A non-override condition may be determined based upon scenario indicators received within the provisioning request. In some embodiments, the non-override condition may be ignored when the first risk level indicates medium risk and the second risk level indicates high risk.
US10140601B2
In some examples, portable electronic device sales, provisioning, and user care may include authenticating a user associated with a user portable electronic device. A user portable electronic device connector may be used to communicatively connect to a portable electronic device receptacle of the user portable electronic device, and transfer data and/or configurations associated with the user portable electronic device to a data storage. Options to purchase a new portable electronic device may be displayed. Selection of a new portable electronic device may be received from a display of at least one new portable electronic device, and the selected new portable electronic device may be configured by transferring, from the data storage, the data and/or the configurations associated with the user portable electronic device to the selected new portable electronic device.
US10140598B2
In order to make it more difficult to obtain numbers that can be used to conduct fraudulent transactions, a portion of a real account number is encrypted. The encrypted portion of the account number is used to generate a new account number, a new expiration date, and a new verification value. This information can be determined using processor that may reside in a point of sale terminal, a smart card, or a computer operated by a user. The new account number, the new expiration date, and the new verification value can be used in a payment transaction. A server computer in a central payment processing network may determine that the new account information is not the real account information, and may subsequently generate a modified authorization request message using the real account information and may send it to an issuer for approval. The transmission of data is more secure, since real account information is not sent from the merchant to the payment processing network.
US10140597B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods that help validate and process payment instruments for different products, such as but not limited to credit card payments, mortgage payments, or any other type of payment. The payment amount from a payment instrument may be determined from a multiple locations on the payment instrument. In addition, a payment amount may be determined from a remittance document that accompanies the payment instrument, such as a remittance coupon that is mailed along with a check. The amount in the remittance courtesy box, the minimum amount due, the last payment made, and the full balance remaining may all be captured and used to validate the amount on the payment instrument. Moreover, one or more confidence scores for the amounts on the payment instrument and remittance document may be used to validate the payment amount.
US10140594B2
A system and method for scheduling a plurality of event programs, including: for each event program, generating a program calendar that enables a corresponding program administrator to assign a priority tier to each of a set of event slots in the corresponding event program; for each event program, generating an administrator dashboard that enables the corresponding program administrator to assign a priority tier to each of a set of schedulees for the corresponding event program; and for each schedulee, generating a schedulee calendar that enables the corresponding schedulee to schedule only the event slots assigned a priority tier that match to the priority tier assigned to the corresponding schedulee.
US10140578B1
A computer-implemented method of managing questions and answers on a computer-hosted service. The method includes a computing device receiving text based tax question and answer pairings and inputting the tax question and answer pairings into a content model executed by the device and outputting a content score for each tax question and answer pairing based on the model. The content score comprises a number within a range. One end of the range corresponds to product content and another end of the range corresponds to general tax content. The device outputs an answer quality score for the tax question and answer pairings based at least in part on the content score and votes assigned to each respective question and answer pair, wherein votes comprises up votes and down votes. The device may generate a FAQ list stored in a database based at least in part on the answer quality score.
US10140577B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium contains an event processing control program for event processing that processes received event data in accordance with processing rules and outputs output data. The program causes a computer to execute a process that includes obtaining first assessment values pertaining to output data by the event processing for a first type of events, periodically by a first period. A correlation coefficient value of first and second received event data is periodically calculated by a second period longer than the first period. The first and second received event data are received event data of the first type and of a second type different from the first type, respectively. A second filtering condition pertaining to the second received event data is set based on the correlation coefficient value and a first filtering condition that pertains to the first received data and is specified from the assessment values.
US10140570B2
A microprocessor-controlled tamper evident wrapping system detects tampering and records data related to a tampering event. Upon sealing an object or material within a layered composite material comprising alternating nonconducting and conducting layers, one or more microprocessors electrically coupled to conducting layers of the composite material arm the system and initiates a clock function. If the package is punctured, cut, or otherwise damaged, that event is detected and recorded by the microprocessor(s) and a reset function is activated for the next potential event. The system may be interrogated by a user to view and download a tampering event log, which may provide time, date, location, and/or other parameters associated with tampering events.
US10140559B1
Methods and systems for printing clear tagged objects on clear plane are described herein. In an example, the system draws a bounding box for each block of text/graphic objects. Within each bounding box, an occupancy percentage of foreground pixels (tagged as clear objects) is computed against background pixels. If the computed occupancy percentage falls below a defined threshold value, then that text/graphic object is considered for application of dilation. Thus, the device described herein doesn't check the size of the text/graphic objects; rather checks for the occupancy percentage of the text/graphic objects within a bounding box. While constructing the clear plane to support flood clear, the clear values corresponding to the dilated pixels (pixels considered for dilation) will be intelligently modified. In this way, only intended and logically desired text/graphic objects undergo for dilation.
US10140558B2
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causes a computer to execute: a) analyzing unconverted first page description language data to determine whether a repetitive pattern image portion is included in the first page description language data; b) separating the repetitive pattern image portion from the first page description language data when it is determined that the repetitive pattern image portion is included in the first page description language data; c) generating first partial data in a second page description language; d) generating second partial data in the second page description language based on a portion other than the repetitive pattern image portion of the first page description language data; and e) generating converted data that relates to the first page description language data and is second page description language data based on the first partial data and the second partial data.
US10140536B2
This invention disclosures a fingerprint identification apparatus and biometric signals sensing method using the same. The fingerprint identification apparatus comprises: a photoelectric sensor, a light module and an identification unit in which the photoelectric sensor with a fingerprint sensing face is to transform light intensity signals into electronic signals; the light module is to produce test light; the identification unit is electrically connected with the photoelectric sensor, wherein, there are different sensing modes with corresponding actions; in the first sensing mode, the identification unit senses a fingerprint image by the photoelectric sensor; in the second mode, the identification unit senses a spectrum by the photoelectric sensor to determine the blood glucose information. Therefore, this fingerprint identification apparatus can detect the fingerprint and blood glucose at the same time.
US10140535B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display configured to display a content, an input unit configured to obtain a photographed image of a user, a storage configured to store feature information of each pre-classified age stage and a processor configured to compare a feature part in the photographed image with the feature information of each age stage stored in the storage, and calculate an age matching probability the feature part with each age stage. The processor selects a plurality of age stages among all age stages by comparing the age matching probability with a preset threshold value, controls the display to display a combined content which includes a plurality of recommended contents corresponding to each of the selected plurality of age stages.
US10140534B2
An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor array and a control system. The control system may be configured to acquire first image data generated by the ultrasonic sensor array corresponding to at least one first reflected ultrasonic wave received by at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor array from a target object during a first acquisition time window. The control system may be configured to acquire second image data generated by the ultrasonic sensor array corresponding to at least one second reflected ultrasonic wave received by at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor array from the target object during a second acquisition time window that is longer than the first acquisition time window. The control system may further be configured to initiate an authentication process based on the first image data and the second image data.
US10140531B2
A method and a device for determining a warning condition on the basis of brake light detection. Image data are received from a front camera of a vehicle. It is determined whether a brake light of a preceding vehicle is active. An initiation threshold is lowered or a confidence value is raised if the brake light is active. An estimated risk value is derived from the image data of the front camera and a warning signal is produced, if the estimated risk value exceeds the initiation threshold.
US10140529B2
A method for detecting a lane line is provided. The method includes: determining candidate lane line regions in a lane image by filtering the lane image; extracting center points for each candidate lane line region; obtaining a fitting curve of each candidate lane line region by performing curve fitting on the center points of each candidate lane line region; classifying the candidate lane line regions as rectilinear and curvilinear candidate lane line regions according to a slope angle of the fitting curve of each candidate lane line region; dividing the candidate lane line regions into groups based on the classifying result; and determining two groups, which meet a first predetermined condition, as target groups, and recognizing candidate lane line regions in the target groups as lane line regions. Besides, an apparatus and a device for detecting a lane line are further provided.
US10140523B2
A setting method of a counting flow path is applied to an image monitoring system and a related computer-readable media. The counting flow path is utilized to determine whether an object passes through a monitoring area. The setting method includes drawing two boundaries on a video frame correlative to the monitoring area to define the counting flow path, detecting relative position between a first angle control point and a second angle control point of the counting flow path, adjusting an angle formed by virtual lines stretching from the boundaries according to the relative position between the said angle control points, and utilizing an initial point and a final point detected by the counting flow path while the objects moves into or out of the counting flow path to determine whether the object passes through the counting flow path.
US10140522B2
A fully convolutional pyramid network and method for object (e.g., pedestrian) detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, the object detection system is a pedestrian detection system that comprises: a multi-scale image generator to generate a set of images from an input image, the set of images being versions of the input image at different scales; a human body-specific fully convolutional network (FCN) model operable to generate a set of detection results for each image in the set of images that is indicative of objects that are potentially of human bodies; and a post processor to combine sets of detection results generated by the FCN model for the set of images into an output image with each object location determined as potentially being a human body being marked.
US10140521B2
Method, system, apparatus and computer readable medium for re-identifying a query objection moving from a first camera view to a second camera view. The method comprises the steps of accessing a first set of image frames (Q) captured from the first camera view and a second set of image frames (C) captured from the second camera view; selecting a first representative frame (QR) from the first set of image frames and a second representative frame (CR) from the second set of image frames based on a plurality of intra-camera object appearance distances between frame pairs in each set of image frames; and re-identifying the candidate object in the second camera view as the query object in the first camera view based on at least one inter-camera object appearance distance (D) calculated between the first representative frame and the second representative frame.
US10140519B2
A method for generating a summary video sequence from a source video sequence is disclosed. The method comprises: identifying, in the source video sequence, event video sequences, wherein each event video sequence comprises consecutive video frames in which one or more objects of interest are present; extracting, from video frames of one or more event video sequences of the event video sequences, pixels depicting the respective one or more objects of interest; while keeping spatial and temporal relations of the extracted pixels as in the source video sequence, overlaying the extracted pixels of the video frames of the one or more event video sequences onto video frames of a main event video sequence of the event video sequences, thereby generating the summary video sequence. A video processing device configured to generate the summary video sequence is also disclosed.
US10140518B1
Systems and methods are provided for auditing content information for a media work. In embodiments, content information for a plurality of media works that identifies entities associated with each media work may be maintained. In an embodiment, a request to identify a particular media work may be received. One or more words included in a segment of the particular media work may be identified where the segment is configured to be presented. In accordance with at least one embodiment, the one or more identified words may be filtered based on a set of rules to correct errors. An identity of the particular media work may be determined based at least in part on the filtered one or more words and the content information for the plurality of media works.
US10140517B2
Embodiments of the present invention analyze and score each image associated with a group to determine representative image or images for the group. Such analysis can include detecting objects shown in the images, determining the quality of the images, and/or contextually analyzing the images as a group. In some embodiments, each image in a group (e.g., an event) of images can be analyzed by one or more image analysis modules that calculate a score for the image based on a different image characteristic. A composite image score can then be calculated based on the various image characteristic scores to identify the image or images to be used as to represent the group.
US10140516B2
Managing a plurality of images may include generating, using a processor, clusters of images from a plurality of images having locations and timestamps. The clusters may represent events and may be generated according to a distance metric based upon geographic distance and time difference between consecutive pairs of the plurality of images sorted according to time. Selected clusters may be merged, using the processor, into a merged cluster representing a trip based upon geographic distance between the clusters and unique dates within the clusters. The plurality of images may be displayed, using the processor, organized according to the trip.
US10140509B2
An information processing device includes a data processing unit that executes analysis of images which are captured from different viewpoints. The data processing unit executes an object distance calculation process in which pattern-irradiated images of a plurality of different viewpoints are applied, and an object detection process in which non-pattern-irradiated images are applied.
US10140508B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for annotating video tracks obtained from video data streams. Video tracks are treated as positive if they contain at least one region of interest containing a particular person, and negative if the video track does not contain a region of interest containing the particular person. Visual similarity models are trained using the positive bags.
US10140506B2
Described herein is an apparatus and method for gait recognition. The apparatus includes circuitry that is configured to receive a gait sequence including a predetermined number of image frames of a subject. The received gait sequence is processed to generate a gait-energy-image (GEI). A plurality of Gabor filter responses is computed by convoluting the generated GEI with a bank of Gabor filters, wherein the filter bank includes a first predetermined number of unique scales, and a second predetermined number of unique orientations. Further, the circuitry is configured to partition, each Gabor filter response of the computed plurality of Gabor filter responses, into a predetermined number of overlapping regions and extract, a predetermined number of statistical features only from the overlapping regions, the extracted statistical features corresponding to texture content of the subject. The circuitry eventually recognizes the subject based on a classification of the extracted statistical features.
US10140500B2
A fingerprint recognition method includes determining a code corresponding to a query image based on features of blocks in the query image, obtaining information corresponding to the determined code from a lookup table, and verifying the query image based on the obtained information.
US10140494B1
A system and method for authenticating an item, including a photoluminescent material disposed on or in a substrate and capable of absorbing an incident radiation from a radiation source and emitting an emitted radiation having a spectral signature with a decay time after removal of the radiation source, and a photoauthentication device capable of being disposed in contact with the substrate and including the radiation source and a camera, where, in connection with providing the incident radiation and measuring the emitted radiation, the photoauthentication device is translated across the substrate while the photoauthentication device is disposed in contact with the substrate, and after translation across or over the substrate and the radiation source is not providing the incident radiation, the photoauthentication device is static with respect to the substrate and the camera is disposed over the photoluminescent material emitting the emitted radiation when the emitted radiation is measured.
US10140491B1
Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards barcode readers that implement multiple circuit boards for housing various electronic components. In an embodiment, the present invention is a handheld barcode reader that includes: a handle portion; a head portion positioned on a top of the handle portion; a window positioned within the head portion; a first circuit board extending at least partially through the handle portion, the first circuit board defining a first plane, the first circuit board including a decode assembly; and a second circuit board positioned behind the first plane relative to the window, the second circuit board including an imaging assembly having an imaging sensor, the imaging sensor operable to capture image data over a field of view (FOV), the FOV extending through the first plane and the window.
US10140480B2
A counter to monitor an amount of tool use that includes a fluid passage (23) with an inlet (21) and an outlet (22). A piston (30) and sensor target (50) (e.g., magnet) are positioned along the passage and are biased towards a first position by a biasing member (40). When the tool is not in operation, the piston and sensor target are located at a first position due to the biasing force. When the tool is in operation, fluid moves along the fluid passage. A force applied by the moving fluid on the piston and sensor target overcomes the force applied by the biasing member and moves the piston and sensor target along the fluid passage to a second position. A sensor is configured to sense the sensor target at the second position. A processing circuit (62) determines the tool usage based on the detection of the sensor target at the second position by the sensor.
US10140477B2
A method for obfuscating keys is provided. The method includes identifying that a memory is subject to one of a core dump or an hibernation and overwriting a key in unencrypted form in the memory, responsive to the identifying, wherein at least one method operation is performed by a processor. A system and a computer readable media are also provided.
US10140475B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating write-protected virtual access to a target computing device, wherein the use and inspection of the computer device may occur without altering the digital data thereon, are disclosed. In an aspect, a user inserts a virtualization media device, which will boot the computer system in a write-protected mode. The computing device will operate through an operating system on the target computing device and instantiate the subject computer through a virtual machine environment. Such virtualization will protect target computing device files from accidental alteration during, for example, investigatory searches of the target computing device storage device.
US10140474B2
Improved techniques for context information management are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor element, a selection component for execution by the processor element to select a context information item, a random number generator to generate a random number, and an anonymization component for execution by the processor element to generate a random key based on the random number and send a message associating the context information item with the random key. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10140461B2
The techniques and systems described herein reduce the amount of storage resources consumed by containers by creating placeholder files in container namespaces. The placeholder files are associated with read-only access to corresponding shared files stored in a read-only namespace. The read-only namespace can be accessible to multiple different containers. This increases the storage density for a storage unit because more containers can be executed from the same storage unit. The techniques and systems described herein further reduce the amount of storage resources consumed by containers by creating placeholder directories. The techniques and systems described herein also reduce the amount of memory storage resources consumed by containers to execute files by using a shared execution memory area.
US10140453B1
A vulnerability records manager (VRM) receives respective vulnerability data sets (VDS) from a first and second vulnerability information collector. Each VDS comprises values of a different set of attributes defined in a vulnerability taxonomy specification. The VRM normalizes the VDSs to generate a first and second vulnerability record comprising a particular plurality of attributes defined in the specification, and stores the vulnerability records in a repository. In response to a request received via a programmatic interface, the VRM transmits contents of the vulnerability records to an automated risk analyzer or a reporting/presentation component.
US10140450B1
A method of real-time data security of a communications bus, the method comprising the steps of: reading at least an early portion of a message being transmitted over a communications bus, determining whether the message is suspicious, according to at least one rule applied on the read early portion of the message, and upon determining that the message is suspicious, corrupting at least a part of the message.
US10140443B2
An example method is provided for a computing device to select an authentication source. The method may comprise receiving a request to authenticate a user account and determining multiple authentication sources that are capable of processing the request. The multiple authentication sources may be associated with respective performance indicators. The method may also comprise selecting a particular authentication source to process the request, wherein the particular authentication source is selected from the multiple authentication sources based on the performance indicators. The method may further comprise processing the request using the particular authentication source to authenticate the user account.
US10140433B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for searching and delivering program content are described herein. A search request may be received from a first user device. One or more content sources in a distributed digital communication network may be searched for program content that satisfies the search criteria. Responsive to determining that the search was unsuccessful, the one or more content sources may be monitored for changes to determine whether at least one change satisfies the search criteria. Data indicative of the at least one matching result may be delivered to a second user device. A selection of a program content item associated with one of the at least one matching result may be received. According to one or more aspects, the selected program content item may be delivered to the second user device.
US10140430B1
Techniques to provide mobile access to content are disclosed. A request from a mobile application running on a mobile device to access content is received at a connector node. A user credential associated with the request is used to identify at the connector node a policy associated with the request. A policy metadata associated with the policy is provided from the connector node to the mobile application running on the mobile device. The mobile application may include application code that is responsive to the policy metadata to perform, with respect to the request to access content, an action indicated by the policy.
US10140425B2
The invention provides an improved method to predict the solubility of a drug or other molecule in a solid polymer or other matrix at any temperature. The instant invention provides a method to determine the difference in specific enthalpy, specific entropy and specific Gibbs energy between a solid solution and the unmixed components, as well as a method to use those data to predict the solubility of a drug or other molecule in a solid polymer or other matrix. The method uses known thermodynamics equations and thermal analysis data, such as obtained from DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) at temperatures that are lower than the temperature at which the solubility is predicted. The method allows prediction of the drug-in-polymer solubilities without the use of elevated temperatures, but still avoids impractically long experiments. The instant invention can predict the solubility at many temperatures, but is particularly useful in the pharmaceutical sciences to predict the solubility of a drug in a polymer at typical storage temperatures, which are typically near room temperature or below.
US10140423B2
Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for modifying characteristics of a medical device via a mobile device are provided. In embodiments, data communicated by an infusion device providing an infusion to a patient is provided to a mobile device associated with a clinician. A notification associated with the infusion device is received and communicated to the mobile device. Confirmation of the notification is received from the clinician via the mobile device and the notification is communicated to the infusion device. Characteristics of the infusion are automatically modified in accordance with the notification.
US10140422B2
A method of identifying insights related to the occurrence of an adverse health outcome of interest, comprises extracting electronic clinical data associated with historical healthcare encounters. The method also comprises defining patient groups based upon similar data patterns present in the extracted electronic clinical data wherein the patient groups have varying likelihood for the adverse health outcome. Still further, the method comprises deriving hypothesized etiological explanations for why one or more patient groups have higher likelihood when compared to other patient groups. Optionally, the method comprises identifying clinical interventions that are intended to reduce the likelihood of the adverse outcome for certain patient groups.
US10140417B1
A method includes receiving external data including a plurality of data points indicative of a plurality of respective states of an environment external to a vehicle. The external data is data that was received by the vehicle from a handheld mobile communication device external to the vehicle (e.g., a mobile communication device of a pedestrian) via a wireless link, and is indicative of objects sensed by the handheld mobile communication device. The method also includes storing the external data in a memory, generating a virtual model of an event (e.g., accident) involving at least one vehicle using the stored plurality of data points, and causing the virtual model of the event to be displayed.
US10140413B2
A computer-implemented method for configuring a hardware verification system is presented. The method includes receiving, in the computer, a first code representing a first design including a first latch configured to be evaluated in accordance with a first signal, when the computer is invoked to configure the verification system. The method further includes changing, using the computer, the first code into a second code representing a second design, the changing further including transforming, using the computer, the first latch into a second latch configured to be evaluated in accordance with a second signal different from the first signal after the first signal is received at the second latch, when the second code for the second design is compiled for programming into the hardware verification system.
US10140411B2
A method for designing a system to be implemented on a target device, the method including generating bounding boxes on the target device for nets in the system where a bounding box identifies routing resources available for routing a corresponding net in the bounding box. The nets in the system are assigned to a plurality of threads to be routed. The threads are executed so that a plurality of the nets are routed in parallel within their corresponding bounding box.
US10140400B2
Methods and systems for defect prediction are provided. The method includes receiving feature data of an integrated circuit (IC) and process condition data of a production process associated with the IC, and determining a care area associated with the IC using the feature data, the process condition data, and a defect prediction technique, wherein the care area includes a potential defect and is inspected by a high-resolution inspection system. Based on the provided methods and systems, care areas can be generated incorporating actual process conditions when the inspected IC is being manufactured, and fast and high-resolution IC defect inspection systems can be implemented.
US10140394B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include methods for reducing or eliminating the impact of tuning disturbances during prediction of lamp failure. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring data of a lamp module for a process chamber using one or more physical sensors disposed at different locations within the lamp module, creating virtual sensors based on monitoring data of the lamp module, and providing a prediction model for the lamp module using the virtual sensors as inputs.
US10140390B1
A system for executing agnostic multi-user CAx environments includes a host computer including a processor and a memory. The processor and memory are configured to operate a multi-user CAx environment. The host computer is configured to communicate with a plurality of local computers, each of the local computers including at least one CAx software package and being configured to operate a local CAx environment of the multi-user CAx environment. A feature list is stored within the memory of the host computer, the feature list includes a list of each feature of a part file. A deletion prevention module is stored within at least one of the memory of the host computer and a memory of each of the local computers. The deletion prevention module is configured to prevent deletion of a prior feature currently accessed by at least one local CAx environment.
US10140387B2
A method and apparatus for managing variations in a product structure for a product. In one illustrative embodiment, a product management system for managing variations in a product structure for a product comprises a model. The model comprises a primary hierarchical organization and a number of optimized product variant structures. The primary hierarchical organization comprises a group of domain master objects. The number of optimized product variant structures comprises a group of domain configuration objects in which each domain configuration object in the group of domain configuration objects represents a configuration for a component represented by a corresponding domain master object in the group of domain master objects.
US10140386B2
A data visualization system and related methods may include generating a multi-dimensional graphical object, in which a tessellated arrangement of columns represents an underlying hierarchical data set. Parent-child relationships may be represented by adjacency of columns with respect to an X-Y plane. Magnitudes of underlying values and/or expressions may be represented by Z-axis heights of the columns.
US10140380B2
An inmate facility management system with a shared storage device and a processor configured to receive data and search requests from multiple disparate facility systems. The processor has an interface to translate data from the multiple disparate facility systems and store the data in the shared storage device. The processor executes booking requests, warrant requests and release requests using the shared storage device.
US10140377B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to data processing and collection, further relate to a data processing method and a corresponding system, a data collecting method and a corresponding system. Particularly, the data processing method of the present invention comprises: obtaining position data; obtaining a position-function mapping relationship; and converting the position data into user behavior data according to the position-function mapping relationship. As compared to the prior art, at least one embodiment of the present invention has at least one of the following advantages: first, to collect user operations on a mobile terminal in a non-intrusive manner; second, to facilitate analysis performed on various applications of the mobile terminal.
US10140369B2
A computer implemented system for collating and presenting multi-format information in a user-desired format is envisaged. The system stores information related to clients along with additional their personal information in a transient repository. These stored items of information are usually in different formats, including text format, image format and video format, which are then converted by the system into a format desired by the user of the system or into a pre-defined format. An input module present in the system accepts form a user, a desired output information format type and a client identifier corresponding to the client whose information needs to be collated. Based on the client identifier, the system converts the stored client related information in the desired format and then collates and displays the converted information for further processing.
