US10149565B2
Method and systems are provided for a reconfigurable hanger for holding or hanging objects. In one example of the reconfigurable hanger, two portions that may be angled relative to one another may be connected by a hinge that provides a stopping point when the two portions form an obtuse angle relative to one another. The first portion may include a flexible pad to provide friction when in contact with a supporting surface and a hooked end may be arranged on the second portion to prevent an object from sliding off the reconfigurable hanger.
US10149552B2
A folding lock assembly for use in a frame for a portable child enclosure that includes a body housing first and second hinges for connecting a pair of equal-length side frame members. The respective hinges are limited in the degree of pivotal movement permitted each between a locked position in which the frame members are linearly aligned and a folded position in which the frame members are substantially parallel. The first hinge permits angular rotation less than 90 degrees while the second hinge permits angular rotation greater than 90 degrees. The differences in the range of hinge rotation offset the distal ends of the frame when the connected members are folded to eliminate a pinch point between frame end members. A latching mechanism is provided to maintain the hinges in a locked configuration wherein one hinge is locked by the position of the second hinge. Releasing the second hinge allows the first hinge to pivot as well.
US10149546B2
A cushion pad of a vehicle seat including: a cushion member including a soft pad and a hard pad which is harder than the soft pad, the soft pad being integrated with the hard pad so as to wrap the hard pad without covering a mounting side surface of the hard pad, wherein a groove, which is opened to the mounting side and having a size large enough to receive an exuding piece generated during molding of the soft pad, is provided in a periphery of the mounting side surface of the hard pad.
US10149542B2
Support column system for supporting at least one computer installation, and support column therefor
The invention relates to a support column system (100) for supporting at least one computer installation (101, 102), wherein the support column system comprises the following: a) at least one elongate support column (1) which is arranged for vertical fitting; b) at least one vertical fastening means (7) which is arranged for fastening the support column (1) vertically to a floor, a ceiling, or a wall of a room, or for fastening said support column (1) to a roller platform; c) at least one first support installation (2) that is fastened to the support column (1), for supporting at least one visual output device (101) of the computer installation; d) at least one second support installation (3) that is fastened to the support column (1), for supporting at least one manual input device (102) of the computer installation; characterized in that the support column (1) in the cross section is configured as a multi-chamber profile, wherein the multi-chamber profile has at least one closed front chamber (12) and one rear chamber (11) that is open toward a rear side (R) of the support column (1), wherein the front chamber (12) is separated from the rear chamber (11) by at least one internal separating wall (13) of the multi-chamber profile.
US10149521B2
Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting the fit of a wearable electronic device are disclosed. In many embodiments, a tensioner associated with a wearable electronic device can control one or more actuators that are mechanically coupled to either the housing or to a band attached to the wearable electronic device. In one example, in response to a signal to increase the tightness of the band, the tensioner can cause the actuator(s) to increase the tension within the band.
US10149519B2
A wristwatch strap connector for engagement of either of a two piece watch band formed in two sections, or, a single piece watch band formed in a single section to a wristwatch case. The connectors are employed in pairs and each connector is adapted at a first end to engage one side of the watch band case. Once the connectors are engaged, a user can connect either a one piece or two piece watch band to the wristwatch.
US10149518B1
An attachment strap for a wearable electronic device is disclosed. The attachment strap attaches the wearable electronic device to a wearer, and may attach to a wrist of a wearer. The attachment strap includes two bands which attach to a clasp. The clasp operates in an open and closed configuration. When in the closed configuration, the clasp may not present a visible indication of its mechanism.
US10149514B2
A system for securing shoes to the feet using a one pull shoe closure arrangement. Each embodiment of the system uses a squared-cord arrangement that extends between the lateral and medial sides of the shoe. The various embodiments arrange a single draw strap connected to one or more squared-cord portions to draw in and tighten the sides of the squared-cord arrangement. A single pull strap in a first embodiment is redirected from a lateral orientation to a longitudinal orientation where it is drawn back and secured on the heel portion of the shoe. Alternate embodiments pull a shorter draw strap laterally to a point of securement on the side of the shoe. Further alternate embodiments pull a draw strap longitudinally along a midline at the top of the shoe to a point of securement back onto the squared-cord arrangement.
US10149492B2
The invention generally provides novel no-bake grain products and methods of preparation of the same. Specifically, a no-bake food product with a toasted appearance and flavor and a method of providing a toasted appearance and flavor to a no-bake food product. The no-bake food product includes granola bars, clusters, cereal, instant hot cereal and snacks.
US10149489B2
The invention relates to a polypeptide for the hydrolytic cleavage of zearalenone and/or at least one zearalenone derivative, said polypeptide being a hydrolase having an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1-15 or a functional variant thereof, wherein the sequence of the functional variant is at least 40% identical to at least one of the amino acid sequences. The invention also relates to: an additive containing the polypeptide; an isolated polynucleotide that encodes the polypeptide; and a method for the hydrolytic cleavage of zearalenone and/or of at least one zearalenone derivative using the polypeptide.
US10149488B2
A machine (10) for the production and dispensing of food products such as ice cream and the like comprises a tub (11) containing a cylindrical evaporator (12) of a refrigerating circuit (13) and motor-driven helical mixer (14) which rotates coaxially inside the evaporator. The tub is also provided at the front with a tap (15) for dispensing the product through a dispensing outlet (16) which is arranged above a front zone of the machine which receives a container (18) for holding a measured amount of product. Behind the receiving zone the machine has, in the form of a single module (20), a control panel provided with means (21) for displaying information about the machine, pushbuttons (22) for operating the machine and a sensor (23) which detects the presence of an object which is placed in the vicinity of the receiving zone and activates the machine so as to prepare it for dispensing via the tap when the presence of an object is detected.
US10149487B2
Methods, processes, apparatus, devices, kits and systems for crystallizing liquid to form slush inside of supercooled to below 32 F closed beverage bottles or cans, beverages in fountain dispensers, desserts, and food items by transmitting ultrasonic signals in short time spans, while allowing for optional illuminating the effects when the supercooled liquid is crystallized into slush.
US10149485B2
A method and processing device for processing an organ package taken out from slaughtered poultry is provided. The device uses at least two cooperating rollers that define a nip between the rollers for selectively allowing preselected organs from the organ package to pass through the nip. During operation, the rollers rotate in opposite directions in order to convey the organ package and simultaneously promote that the preselected organs pass through the nip. The rollers have a cross-sectional diameter, the value of which varies as seen in the longitudinal direction of the rollers and depends on the location of the cross-section between an entrance portion and an exit portion of the rollers so as to provide each of the rollers with a superficial curved contour.
US10149481B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods related to controlling arthropods. Embodiments of the invention include compositions for controlling an arthropod, which can include one or more plant essential oils and methods for using these compositions. The plant essential oils, when combined, can have a synergistic effect.
US10149478B2
The present invention provides a formulation characterised by the simultaneous presence in cyclodextrin based supramolecular complexes, of two components, one of which is a neonicotinoid selected from the group consisting of Thiacloprid and Thiamethoxam and the other possesses an activity synergistic with the first, enhancing its effectiveness. The synergistic component that is able to synergistically enhance the activity of the active principle is piperonyl butoxide, and. Processes for preparing said formulation and its use for the activities herein indicated are further aspects of the present invention.
US10149469B2
Disclosed herein is a decoy apparatus comprising: a body (or structure) shaped to resemble at least a portion of an animal and at least a partially iridescent paint, wherein at least a portion of said body is painted such that a paint scheme is applied to said body which mimics the look and colors of the avian animal as found in nature, and where the paint is capable of emitting different colors when light reflects upon the paint. In one or more embodiments, pearl flakes are added to a clear finish coat of paint to allow for the color shift.
US10149468B2
A robotic orchard spraying system having autonomous delivery vehicles (ADV), each autonomously delivering an amount of a premixed solution over a non-overlapping path verified by a forward-looking sensor, video, or both. Also, a mobile control center, configured to wirelessly inform the autonomous delivery vehicle of the path within the areas and to confirm that the autonomous delivery vehicle is following the path within the area. Additionally, a mapper vehicle generates the path within the area, the mapper vehicle being configured to communicate information about the path and the area to the command center. The mapper vehicle senses the path with a forward-looking LiDAR sensor, and senses the area with a GPS sensor. Moreover, a nurse truck has a reservoir of premixed solution for replenishing a tank of the ADV. ADVs and the control center communicate over a radio network, which may be a mesh network, a cellular network, or both.
US10149463B2
A device for use during fishing configured to be connected to the user's fishing line to attract fish. The device is shaped to be moved through the water and generally include a head and a tail. A channel extends through at least a portion of the device and is sized to receive the fishing line. The device is constructed from multiple sections. The sections are selectively positionable between a closed configuration with the sections connected together to connect the device to the fishing line, and an open configuration with the sections being separated to remove the device from the fishing line.
US10149460B1
A pet location monitoring and deterrent system is provided. The system includes a first pet collar assembly that transmits a first RF signal. The system includes a first pillar assembly having a first control module, a first RF receiver module, an infrared photodetector array, a first wireless transceiver circuit, and a first warning light. The system includes a second pillar assembly having a second control module, a second RF receiver module, an infrared phototransmitter array, and a second wireless transceiver circuit. The first and second pillar assemblies are disposed a predetermined distance apart from one another such that a warning area is defined in front of and proximate to the first and second pillar assemblies and a keep-out area is defined behind and proximate to the first and second pillar assemblies.
US10149455B2
An improved animal feeder with an insertable feed restrictor. An example embodiment includes: a barrel into which animal feed may be deposited, the barrel including a first locking mechanism, the barrel being generally cylindrical; and a feed restrictor configured for removable insertion into the opening of the barrel, the feed restrictor being generally cylindrical with an open upper end and a round side surface, the feed restrictor including a second locking mechanism, the diameter of the feed restrictor being slightly less than the diameter of the barrel, the round side surface being configured to slide adjacent to an inner round surface of the barrel, the feed restrictor being configured to prevent feed extraction between the inner round surface of the barrel and the round side surface of the feed restrictor, the height of the feed restrictor being sufficient to prevent inversion of the feed restrictor while inserted in the barrel, the feed restrictor including a plurality of feed access holes arranged on a lower surface of the feed restrictor, the feed restrictor being configured to float on top of the animal feed deposited in the barrel, the feed restrictor being further configured to freely spin laterally and freely slide longitudinally in the barrel, the feed restrictor being further configured to lock into the barrel when the second locking mechanism is not properly configured relative to the first locking mechanism.
US10149444B2
A plant draw-in device and a plant body transplantation system that can draw roots of plant bodies into holes reliably with a simple structure, so that there is no need of monitoring or manual operation for roots insertion and the production efficiency can be improved. The plant draw-in device 110 includes a draw-in tube 111 that can be disposed below a hole 121, a draw-in member 113 provided such as to be capable of protruding from the draw-in tube 111, and a drive unit 114 that reciprocally moves the draw-in member 113 such as to come out from, and retract into, the draw-in tube 111. The draw-in member 113 is formed such that a portion thereof protruding from the draw-in tube 111 deforms and spreads outward.
US10149442B2
In some embodiments, an automated planter apparatus may include a reservoir container having a base with a sidewall coupled to and extending away from the base. A reservoir cavity may be disposed within the reservoir container and may be formed and bounded by the sidewall and base. A support lid may be configured to extend over and cover all or portions of the reservoir cavity. One or more receptacles may be disposed within the support lid, and each receptacle may be in fluid communication with the reservoir cavity. One or more pumps may be in fluid communication with the reservoir cavity and each receptacle. A plant container may be removably coupled within a receptacle. A processing unit may be in electrical communication with each pump and be configured to activate and control each pump.
US10149441B2
The present disclosure relates to a strawberry growth method and system using upper and lower strawberry growth modules wherein the most superior runner is selected from the mother strawberry plant on the upper level and then is guided into the lower level and the most superior runner becomes a new superior mother strawberry plant, thereby to produce improved fruits quality and yield.
US10149440B2
One embodiment is a work machine including a frame extending along a length, a width and a height. Front and rear ground contacting wheels are rotatably coupled with the frame. A linkage is coupled with the frame and a tool mount coupled with the linkage. A suspension element accommodates movement of the tool mount in response to external force. An actuator system is structured to move the tool mount through translation and/or rotation. An edging tool assembly is coupled with the tool mount and includes a ground working implement.
US10149435B2
A combine includes: a yield measurement container (32) having a yield receiving opening (32a) for receiving at least some of grains supplied to a grain tank (15) which accumulates grains obtained by threshing, a yield discharge opening (32b) for discharging received grains, and a yield shutter (34) for opening and closing the yield discharge opening (32b); a yield measurement section for detecting, while the yield shutter (34) is closed, that a predetermined volume of grains has been accumulated in the yield measurement container (32) and then outputting a detection signal; a time calculation section for calculating, based on the detection signal, an accumulating time required to accumulate the predetermined volume of grains; and a yield calculation section for calculating a yield per unit travel based on a travel speed and the accumulation time.
US10149433B2
A combination blade and cord weed cutter-trimmer head apparatus that incorporates a mounting head, having a base plate, that mounts an electric or gas motor, its motor shaft extending downwardly, and through an adapter connects with generally through the cutter blade, with the shaft extending further downwardly for connecting with the string trimmer head of the device. Thus, the device can cut thicker weeds and brush through the application of its cutter blade, and can cut the shortened weeds down to an acceptable level through the usage of the string trimmer. Slip clutches may be incorporated within the device, to allow the motor shaft to continue rotating, in the event that the cutter blade encounters an unmovable obstacle, that prevents its rotation. In a further embodiment, the lines of the string trimmer may extend radially outwardly from the cutter blades, through integral channels provided therein, to provide simultaneous cutting at the same level by both the cutter blade, and the string trimmer, during usage. In a further embodiment, the string trimmer head may locate above the cutter blade both securing onto the motor shaft and held by the adapter to provide for cutting of both weeds and brush during usage.
US10149431B2
A sickle cutting system is mounted on a header for forward travel over ground having a standing crop thereon and includes a cutter bar with a plurality of knife guards and at least one sickle bar with a drive system for driving the sickle bar through repeated cycles of reciprocating movement from start-up of the system through to a shut-down. The drive system includes an arrangement to halt the sickle bar on shut-down at a predetermined position of the knife blades relative to the knife guards and preferably the position where the blades lie intermediate two knife guards. The system can be halted by either a physical stop member at the required position or by detecting the position of the sickle bar during operation and causing it to halt the required position. The detection can be carried out by counting pulses generated by markers on a rotary member of the drive system.
US10149425B2
A pneumatic precision seed drill has a multiplicity of seeding hearts 1 for holding pivoting separating devices 3 exposed to a pressure difference between their inner space 21 and their exterior space 22. A multiplicity of holes 17-20 intended for the accumulation of seeds is arranged in the device 3. The separating device 3 is formed by a pair of separating plates 4, 5 connected to one another at their outer edge 38, 39 that are arranged offset in a tangential direction to one another to produce a spread seed row and are assigned to separate outlets 23, 24 for the discharge of the seed from the seeding heart 1 in the direction of the sowing coulter.
US10149422B2
A farming system includes a field engagement unit. The field engagement unit includes a support assembly. The support assembly includes one or more work tool rail assemblies. The field engagement unit additionally includes one or more propulsion units which provide omnidirectional control of the field engagement unit. The field engagement unit additionally includes one or more work tool assemblies. The one or more work tool assemblies are actuatable along the one or more work tool rail assemblies. The farming system additionally includes a local controller. The local controller includes one or more processors configured to execute a set of program instructions stored in memory. The program instructions are configured to cause the one or more processors to control one or more components of the field engagement unit.
US10154620B2
A manufacturing method of a casing is provided. First, a plate, a frame and a main shell are provided, wherein the plate has an adhering region and at least one thermal fusion region, and the frame has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. Then, the plate is stacked on the first surface of the frame, wherein the thermal fusion region is overlapped with the frame, and the adhering region is not overlapped with the frame. The main shell is adhered to the adhering region of the plate and the second surface of the frame. The thermal fusion region is fixed to the frame by thermal fusion. In addition, a casing manufactured through the above-mentioned method is also provided.
US10154618B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel; a housing; a printed circuit board; a boss that penetrates a first through hole in the printed circuit board and protrudes from a surface of the housing, the surface being attached to the printed circuit board; a shield cover; and a male screw. The shield cover includes: a top plate; side plates; and a contact piece formed by folding a part of one of the side plates inward and including a protrusion in contact with a ground pattern of the printed circuit board and a claw facing the top plate. The protrusion causes the claw to protrude toward the printed circuit board. The male screw is fastened to the boss from the outside of the top plate.
US10154617B2
An electronic assembly, including an encasement joined from at least two casing parts, wherein at least one gap region between two mutually adjoining casing parts is hermetically sealed by a metal layer that is electrodeposited onto the sections of the adjoining casing parts abutting the gap region and bridges the gap region.
US10154614B1
A preheat damper preheats ambient air being directed to an air handling unit of a data center to mitigate ice accumulation caused by the ambient air. The ambient air can be preheated upstream of a mist eliminator, which removes moisture from the ambient air upstream of the air handling unit, to mitigate ice accumulation in the mist eliminator. The preheat damper directs exhaust air from an exhaust air plenum. The preheat damper can be adjusted based on the ambient temperature, and can be upstream of a return damper which directs exhaust air from the exhaust air plenum based on characteristics of the cooling air supplied to cool data center equipment. The return damper can be adjusted in counter-opposition with one or more intake dampers to maintain cooling air characteristics, and concurrently with the preheat damper to direct ambient air to the air handling unit through the exhaust air plenum.
US10154604B2
A mechanical assembly in a drawer may include a handle rotationally coupled to a cover and configured to rotate between a closed position and an open position relative to the cover. The mechanical assembly may also include a spring latch mechanically coupled to the cover and having a spring force for maintaining the spring latch in a biased position in the absence of mechanical force opposing the spring force, the spring latch having its most significant dimension in a direction perpendicular to a direction of translation of the drawer when the drawer is inserted and removed from a corresponding chassis. The mechanical assembly may further include a cam mechanically coupled to the handle and responsive to rotational motion of the handle such that in the closed position of the handle, the spring latch is in its biased position, and as the handle is rotated between the closed position and the open position, the cam causes the spring latch to deflect from its biased position in a direction perpendicular to the direction of translation.
US10154601B2
Various embodiments of a modular electromechanical device are described herein. The modular electromechanical device includes a chassis and a plurality of functional modules that can be connected to the chassis. Each module is associated with a different functionality. The functionality of the modular electromechanical device is defined based on various attributes including the functionality of the different functional modules that are connected to the electromechanical device, the sequence in which the different functional modules are connected to the electromechanical device, the specific attachment structures used to attach the functional modules to the electromechanical device, or a pattern of traces formed within the chassis.
US10154600B1
A cover locking structure includes a covered body and a cover. The covered body includes a locked surface part which is parallel to a covered surface. The cover includes an operation part and a lock piece having a locking surface part to be locked with the locked surface part. The lock piece has a taper part formed by notching an operation part side of an edge part gradually larger toward the operation part.
US10154599B2
A redistribution film for IC package is disclosed, which comprises a top redistribution layer configured on top of a bottom redistribution layer. The top redistribution layer is fabricated following PCB design rule, and the bottom redistribution layer is fabricated following IC design rule. Further, the interface between the top redistribution layer and the bottom redistribution layer is optionally made roughed to increase bonding forces therebetween.
US10154585B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive coating film formed on a polyimide-based insulating substrate by using a metal powder paste which can exhibit a good conductivity and good adhesion to the insulating substrate. By forming a resin cured layer having a solvent-soluble content of not more than 20% by weight and a thickness of not more than 5 μm on a polyimide-based insulating substrate; forming a metal powder-containing coating layer on the resin cured layer by using a metal powder paste; and then subjecting the resulting coating layer to heat treatment with superheated steam, it is possible to obtain a conductive coating film which can exhibit a good conductivity and good adhesion to the insulating substrate.
US10154584B2
A method of producing a non-planar conforming circuit on a non-planar surface includes creating a first set of conforming layers. The first set of conforming layers is created by applying an oxide dielectric layer to the surface, applying a conductive material layer to the oxide dielectric layer, applying a resist layer to the conductive material layer, patterning the resist layer according to a desired circuit layout, etching the surface to remove exposed conductive material, and stripping the resist layer. The process may be repeated to form multiple layers of conforming circuits with electrical connections between layers formed by blind microvias. The resulting set of conforming layers can be sealed.
US10154575B2
The invention provides a lighting system (100) comprising a first lighting element (10) and a control unit (50), wherein: a) the first lighting element (10) is configured to provide first lighting element light (11) with controllable lighting intensity, wherein the first lighting intensity can be selected from a plurality of values in the range of 0-I, with I being a predetermined first lighting element maximum intensity; b) the control unit (50) is configured to maintain a first lighting element intensity, during a first predetermined period at an intensity value larger than zero when a general lighting intensity is below a predetermined first threshold level; c) the control unit (50) is further configured to maintain the first lighting element intensity during a second predetermined period at an intensity value a*y*I when the general lighting intensity level is y*I, y being the factor the general lighting intensity is below I, with 0
US10154573B2
Provided is a lighting system which includes: luminaires; a controller which manages the luminaires; and interfaces which relay communication between the luminaires and the controller, and groups the luminaires into groups. The interface has one or more ports to each of which corresponding one or more of the luminaires are connected. The controller receives a selection of one of a first option for grouping, into a group, one or more sets of luminaires connected respectively to one or more interfaces included in the interfaces or a second option for grouping, into a group, one or more sets of luminaires connected respectively to one or more ports included in the plurality of ports of the interfaces. The controller determines that the grouping is performed according to the one of the first and second options selected in the receiving; and displays information indicating a result of the grouping on a display.
US10154571B2
Disclosed is a lamp holder, which includes a front housing, a rear housing detachably connected to one end of the front housing, an end cap detachably connected to the other end of the front housing and a first connecting cap provided in the rear housing for connecting with a lamp, and further includes a compression spring, a conducting sheet and a conducting pole for contacting with an external power source. When one end of the lamp holder is connected with an external lamp socket, the conducting pole can keep a good electrical connection with the external power source due to the action of the compression spring; and when the other end of the lamp holder is connected with the lamp, the resilient sheet can keep a good electrical connection with the lamp due to the resilient sheet.
US10154569B2
In a first embodiment, a lighting fixture is configured as a power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device (PD), which is capable of facilitating Ethernet-based communications with and receiving power from a PoE device, such as a PoE switch, over a single cable. In a second embodiment, a lighting fixture is configured as a PoE power source equipment (PSE) device, which is capable of facilitating Ethernet-based communications with and supplying power to one or more control elements.
US10154565B1
A lighting system comprises a plurality of lights, a sensor for measuring a light level associated with each light, and at least one controller for generating a light output from at least one light of the plurality of lights. The controller is adapted for adjusting the light output from the at least one light by an incremental amount to bring the measured light level closer to a target light level, which may correspond to an overall brightness for the space including the lights. Related methods are also disclosed.
US10154561B2
A method implemented by a communication device for controlling light emitted from a linear lighting device comprising a plurality of linearly distributed controllable light sources, the method comprising: displaying an image on a display of the communication device; receiving an input indicating an area of the image; analyzing the image area to derive a sequence of colors; generating a control signal based on the derived 5 sequence of colors; and transmitting the control signal to the linear lighting device to control the plurality of controllable light sources to emit light in accordance with the derived sequence of colors.
US10154557B2
The present invention involves use of at least two unidirectional elements to provide flow paths for the positive half cycle and the negative half cycle of the AC power input, respectively, and the at least two LED modules are integrated in the flow path of the positive half cycle and the negative half cycle, respectively, and a multi-stage driver module is integrated, so that when the positive half cycle or the negative half cycle is conducting, the at least two LED modules are lit up in different alternating orders, thereby rendering the light emission of the at least two LED modules substantially identical in an AC power cycle in terms of power and brightness. The invention overcomes the problem of uneven brightness of the LED lighting apparatus using a conventional multi-stage driver device.
US10154556B2
A light emitting diode (LED) driving circuit including a dimmer modulating an AC voltage input depending on a selected dimming level, a rectifying unit performing a full-wave rectification for an AC voltage to generate and output a driving voltage, first and second dimming level detecting units receiving the driving voltage of the rectifying unit to detect the selected dimming level, and outputting first and second dimming level signals depending on the detected dimming level, a first driving module controlling a first LED light emitting unit using the first dimming level signal of the first dimming level detecting unit, and a second driving module controlling a second LED light emitting unit using the second dimming level signal of the second dimming level detecting unit, in which the first and second driving modules control the first and second LED light emitting units, respectively.
US10154555B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for systems and methods that provide for a power outage lighting management within an environment, comprising a power outage detection device adapted to detect a power outage condition and to wirelessly transmit power outage indication data to a plurality of lighting systems within the environment, where at least one of the plurality of lighting systems include an LED light source that is powered by an internal power source.
US10154548B2
A heating cooker includes a body casing, a heating chamber, a magnetron that supplies microwaves into the heating chamber, a cooling fan that delivers cooling air flow to the magnetron, an air discharge duct that is for discharging discharge air from inside of the heating chamber to outside, a first guiding channel that guides into the heating chamber a portion of the cooling air flow from the cooling fan which has flowed out to a downstream side after cooling the magnetron, and a second guiding channel that guides toward the air discharge duct another portion of the cooling air flow from the cooling fan which has flowed out to the downstream side after cooling the magnetron.
US10154547B2
The core metal for resin welding improves bonding strength between an outer peripheral resin member and the core metal. The outer peripheral resin member 30 is welded to the peripheral surface 21 of the core metal 20 by fitting the core metal into a fitting hole 31 of the outer peripheral resin member 30, preparing the outer peripheral resin member 30 providing the fitting hole 31 with a smooth internal wall surface; preparing the core metal 20 wherein streaky protrusions 26 and smooth portions 25 are provided; allowing the top parts of the protrusions 26 to contact, and the smooth portions of the core metal 20 to face the smooth internal wall surface; and induction heating to weld the outer peripheral resin member 30 to the protrusions 26 and the smooth portions 25.
US10154543B2
Embodiments include a flexible fabric heater. The fabric heater has a conductive base fabric having elastic properties. The base fabric may be coupled to electrical terminals. A elastomeric layer may be applied on the base fabric. The elastomeric layer may have elastic properties and includes a liquid-resistant material. A first thermal layer may be applied proximate edges along the electrical coupling between the fabric heater and the electrical terminals. The first thermal layer can have heat-resistant properties.
US10154539B2
Various aspects of a system and method to share cellular communication networks to route calls are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a first communication device that receives a call establishment request via a first communication network that connect the first communication device with a second communication device. The call establishment request includes a subscriber identification number associated with a third communication device. Thereafter, a routing of a call between the second communication device and the third communication device is enabled by use of the subscriber identification number, via a second communication network associated with a first subscriber module of the first communication device. The establishment and/or routing of the call is based on the received call establishment request.
US10154536B2
A communication device and a method for connecting to a closed subscriber group (CSG) in a by storing received CSG information in a database in order to expedite CSG selections. The communication device is configured to store the CSG scan results, including supported radio access technologies (RATs) for each CSG cell, in a database and query the database for the CSG scan results upon manual selection of a CSG cell. After detecting a CSG cell, the communication device may further be configured to trigger a switch to the CSG cell after determining that the CSG cell is the highest ranked cell on its frequency, retrieving the CSG information from the database stored from a prior selection to the CSG cell, and performing a criteria check to ensure that the CSG cell is suitable for cell selection.
US10154530B2
Provided are a device-to-device (D2D) operation method carried out by a terminal in an RRC connection state in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. The method is characterized by: determining whether a radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment process is problematic; and transmitting a D2D signal using an exception resource, when the RRC connection establishment process is determined to be problematic.
US10154506B2
manage medical body area network (MBAN) channels to provide differentiated A system (120) and method (150) quality of service (QoS) based on patient acuity level. An available set of channels to be used by a plurality of MBAN systems (52) is identified (154). Channel access rules describing a set of channels for each of a plurality of MBAN priorities are generated (156). The plurality of MBAN priorities are based on patient acuity level. The channel access rules are communicated (158) to the plurality of MBAN systems (52). An MBAN system (52) of the plurality of MBAN systems (52) uses a channel from the set of channels corresponding to an MBAN priority assigned to the MBAN system (52). A hub device (60) configured to use the system (120) and method (150) is also provided.
US10154503B2
A method performed by a network node for adapting an allocation of radio resources to at least one wireless device for D2D communications. The at least one wireless device is located in a cell served by the network node. The network node obtains a measurement of interference level on allocated D2D radio resources to the at least one wireless device. The network node also adapts the allocation of radio resources for D2D communications, based on the obtained measurement.
US10154502B2
System and method for managing the spectrum of a multi-channel wireless communication system. Information related to other channels and bands is exchanged between a client associated to a first channel of the multi-channel wireless communication system and a multi-channel access point. The information includes, inter alia, capabilities of the access point and the client, working channel information of the access point, link quality metrics of the client in the other bands etc.
US10154495B2
Embodiments provide a channel selection method and a transmit end, and the method includes: ranking multiple channels, and generating a backoff count value; sequentially decrementing, from an initial timeslot, the backoff count value in each timeslot according to a ranking sequence of the channels and busy/idle states of all the channels until the backoff count value is 0; and selecting, from the multiple channels according to a result of the decrement performed on the backoff count value and a busy/idle state of at least one of the multiple channels, a channel that is used by the transmit end for sending data. The method and the transmit end can improve channel utilization.
US10154493B2
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.
US10154491B2
Methods and apparatuses for transmitting information of uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration in presence of carrier aggregation are provided. The method comprises: in response to a decision of transmitting the information of UL-DL configuration, determining one or more component carriers to carry the information of UL-DL configuration based on a predefined rule; and transmitting a message, including the information of UL-DL configuration, on the determined one or more component carriers. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided.
US10154489B2
A method operating a wireless communication system including a radio interface having limited radio resources. The method includes: arranging for one or more communication devices of first type to communicate data to/from a first type source via the radio interface; arranging for one or more communication devices of second type to communicate data to/from a second type source via the radio interface; restricting use of the radio resources by the one or more communication devices of second type during a specified data transmission period by allocating more of the radio resources to the first type of communication devices than the communication devices of second type; and restricting use of the radio resources by the one or more communication devices of first type outside the specified data transmission period by allocating more of the radio resources to the second type of communication devices than the communication devices of first type.
US10154476B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus is configured to transmit user data in a first symbol of a first symbol type. The first symbol type has a first symbol duration, a first frequency bandwidth, and a first tone plan. The first tone plan includes a first valid start tone index, a first valid end tone index, and a first set of DC tones. The apparatus is further configured to transmit an LTF in a second symbol of a second symbol type. The second symbol type has a second symbol duration, a second frequency bandwidth, and a second tone plan. The second tone plan includes a second valid start tone index, a second valid end tone index, and a second set of DC tones.
US10154474B2
An MBMS or eMBMS service may be transmitted in multiple MBSFN areas each using a different operating frequency. These MBSFN areas may be contiguous or discontiguous. The operating frequencies for the different MBSFN areas may be selected with the aim of utilizing a minimum set of frequencies for each service, thereby allowing for maximizing overall capacity which can be achieved by the available frequencies. A mechanism of selecting the operating frequencies which locally avoids utilization of frequencies which offer only low performance is proposed.
US10154473B2
A method and apparatus for providing vibration alerts to a user of a communication device uses a vibration alert application executing on the communication device that analyzes messages received by the communication device to select a corresponding vibration pattern to be used in alerting the user. An indication of the vibration pattern is transmitted to a vibration alert accessory that is associated with the communication device. The vibration alert accessory controls a vibration motor to perform the indicated vibration pattern.
US10154463B2
The described apparatus and methods may include a controller configured to determine power required for at least one of a plurality of carriers, and generate at least one of a plurality of power control commands for at least one of the plurality of carriers based on the determination.
US10154459B2
A communication apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate in a first communication mode in which a memory of the communication apparatus is accessed by another communication apparatus, a detection unit configured to detect an access from the another communication apparatus to the memory of the communication apparatus, and a shift unit configured to shift an operation mode of the communication apparatus in response to a condition including at least the access to the memory detected by the detection unit.
US10154457B2
A method for managing radio transmission in an endpoint device in a network includes: receiving, at a first endpoint device, a message requesting wake up of the first endpoint device; establishing a connection between the first endpoint device to a second endpoint device connected to the network; determining, at the first endpoint device, whether a secure command is received from the second endpoint device via the established connection within a predetermined period of time; and based on the received secure command, establishing a connection between the first endpoint device and the network via radio transmission, wherein the first endpoint device is configured to turn off radio transmission if the secure command is not received within the predetermined period of time.
US10154448B2
A wireless communication device includes a wireless transceiver to wirelessly receive and transmit radio frequency (RF) signals and sample a signal representative of the received RF signal over a predetermined time period. The receiver stores the sampled signal in a memory. After the predetermined time period, a processor, coupled to the wireless transceiver and the memory, concurrently searches the sampled signal for multiple communication signals each operating according to a corresponding one of multiple, different mobile communication standards. If one of the communication signals is found, the WCD attempts to connect wirelessly with a communication network from which the found communication signal originates.
US10154422B2
Methods and systems are disclosed which allow testing essential performance parameters of broadband communications systems, while using test channels of lower bandwidth, allowing thus lower cost hardware (or use of legacy test system). In particular, the methods and systems allow testing of EVM in digital systems, especially OFDM systems. The methods and systems readily apply to test equipment for production lines, such as IC testers of final product testers.
US10154419B2
A method and a device are disclosed for controlling at least one data connection and/or one data transmission through the at least one data connection for a mobile radio device. Control information that was previously collected by one or more agents coupled to the mobile radio device is taken into account in the control of the data connection and/or the data transmission. The control information contains route- and/or user-specific information. The collecting of data is carried out by an agent, which is preferably designed to be self-learning.
US10154413B1
A security access system that uses a masking signal transmitted simultaneously with a transmission from a remote Fob or smartphone to mask the transmitted code signal. The remote unit acts in the classical way, as a transmitter only. However, the Base has both receive and transmit functionality. The added transmitter within the Base is used to create a self-generated masking signal. This signal, while fully known to the base, is unknown to any other receiver (including that of an eavesdropper) in the area. Thus only the Base Receiver can subtract out this added signal from the composite signal it receives to recover the access code.
US10154411B2
A machine implemented method of authenticating a communication channel between a first device and a second device by providing proof of proximity between both devices, the method comprising: generating, at the first device, an acoustic authentication signal to be received at the second device via a solid body acoustic coupling established between the first device and the second device thereby providing proof of proximity between both devices and so authenticating the communication channel between the first device and the second device.
US10154404B2
A method for provisioning an embedded universal integrated circuit entity within an electronic device includes: in a first step, the embedded universal integrated circuit entity is initialized after being activated by a microprocessor; in a second step, the embedded universal integrated circuit entity transmits a secret information to the microprocessor; in a third step, the secret information is stored in a memory area; and in a fourth step, an initial communication contact, using radio link capabilities provided by a radio module, is established between, on the one hand, the electronic device and the embedded universal integrated circuit entity, and, on the other hand, the mobile communication network or a server device.
US10154403B2
According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a method of providing a multi-IMSI solution for a subscriber having a mobile device in an operating mobile network, the mobile device being fitted with a SIM card having an IMSI and a baseband component, the mobile device comprising a corresponding baseband processor to enable the SIM card to communicate with a home network, run by a home network operator, related to the IMSI via the baseband processor. The method comprises fitting a SIM card overlay to the SIM card, the overlay acting as a proxy between the SIM card and the mobile device's baseband processor, the overlay comprising a primary (“pilot”) sponsor IMSI that is related to a sponsor network, run by a sponsor network operator, with a temporary activation Ki, determining when the mobile device has roamed out of the home network and into a foreign network having an agreement with a sponsor network associated with the sponsor IMSI.
US10154395B2
Provided are a terminal and a service providing device, an electronic wallet system including the same, a control method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program recorded thereon. That is, according to the present invention, instead of directly sharing a content including personal information displayed in a specific app, such as an electronic wallet app, installed in the terminal with an SNS or the like, the same content, which does not include personal information and is previously stored in the service providing device so as to correspond to the content, is shared through an SNS corresponding to the terminal, so that it is possible to improve convenience of a user and enhance availability of contents.
US10154393B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a communication network for collecting information in the surroundings of a motor vehicle, in which a request message is transmitted, and the request message is received by a first outside vehicle, and a first response message is transmitted by the outside vehicle to the motor vehicle, wherein the request message of each first outside vehicle is transmitted to at least one respective second outside vehicle, wherein a second response message is transmitted by means of the respective second outside vehicle to the first outside vehicle and from there is transmitted to the motor vehicle, wherein a current position of the respective outside vehicle is transmitted with the response messages, and wherein, depending on the response messages, a network plan of the communication network is determined by the motor vehicle, and on the basis of the network plan, a unique transmission path to one of the outside vehicles is established for another request message of the motor vehicle for collecting information from one of the outside vehicles.
US10154387B2
The invention relates to a method of initiating a conversation, the method comprising the following steps: obtaining (3030) a presentation content; then, once said content has been obtained, sending (3040) said content to a telecommunications terminal that is to be called; and a calling telecommunications terminal calling (3060) said telecommunications terminal that is to be called, the call (3060) including the calling terminal sending an identifier of the terminal that is to be called to a telephone switch; the method being characterized in that the step of obtaining and then sending the content are also performed by said calling telecommunications terminal.
US10154385B2
In implementations of creating a communication group, a mobile device can receive a selection to enable communication of location information between devices that correspond to entities from a group of entities associated with a user of the mobile device. The mobile device can receive location information that describes a physical location or proximity of the devices that correspond to the entities, and present in a user interface on a display device, a visual representation that indicates at least one of the entities is at a location within a pre-set distance of the mobile device. A communication group can be created that includes the entities selected from the group of entities associated with the user of the mobile device. The mobile device can also communicate the location information of the mobile device to all of the devices that correspond to the entities as a group communication based on the communication group.
US10154366B2
A method for exchanging data with a mobile communication network using a group of cloned subscriber identity modules includes: receiving, by the mobile communication network, a first attachment request from a user equipment and/or machine type communication (MTC) device corresponding to a second cloned subscriber identity module; rejecting, by the mobile communication network, the first attachment request based on a user equipment and/or MTC device corresponding to a first cloned subscriber identity module still being attached to the mobile communication network, and transmitting, by the mobile communication network, a waiting time information indicative of a waiting time interval to the user equipment and/or MTC device corresponding to the second cloned subscriber identity module; and receiving, by the mobile communication network, a second attachment request from the user equipment and/or MTC device corresponding to the second cloned subscriber identity module after the waiting time interval has elapsed.
US10154361B2
An apparatus comprising: a directional analyser configured to determine a directional component of at least two audio signals; an estimator configured to determine at least one virtual position or direction relative to the actual position of the apparatus; and a signal generator configured to generate at least one further audio signal dependent on the at least one virtual position or direction relative to the actual position of the apparatus and the directional component of at least two audio signals.
US10154358B2
An audio apparatus adaptable to a user position is provided. The audio apparatus may include a plurality of sub-modules placed at separate locations from one another, each sub-module of the plurality of sub-modules including a loudspeaker configured to generate sound and a communicator configured to perform communication. The first sub-module among the plurality of sub-modules may include a processor that processes an audio signal to be output as sound through the loudspeaker of the first sub-module, determines a user's position with respect to each of the plurality of sub-modules, and changes a state of the sound being output from the loudspeaker of the first sub-module in accordance with the determined position of the user.
US10154355B2
A hearing device includes: a first antenna; a first transceiver coupled to the first antenna and configured to wirelessly receive one or more audio streams from an audio system, the one or more audio streams including a first audio stream; a primary processing unit; an acoustic output transducer coupled to an output of the primary processing unit; a secondary processing unit with a first input coupled to an output of the first transceiver for receiving a first wireless input signal representative of the first audio stream from the first transceiver; a position controller for determining position data, the position controller having an output for sending a position control signal to the secondary processing unit; and at least one microphone coupled to the secondary processing unit; wherein the secondary processing unit is configured to process the first wireless input signal from the first transceiver based on the position control signal.
US10154353B2
Signal processing methods for predicting the intelligibility of speech, e.g., in the form of an index that correlate highly with the fraction of words that an average listener (amongst a group of listeners with similar hearing profiles) would be able to understand from some speech material are proposed. Specifically, solutions to the problem of predicting the intelligibility of speech signals, which are distorted, e.g., by noise or reverberation, and which might have been passed through some signal processing device, e.g., a hearing aid are described. In summary, the disclosure present solutions to the following problems: 1. Monaural, non-intrusive intelligibility prediction of noisy/processed speech signals 2. Binaural, non-intrusive intelligibility prediction of noisy/processed speech signals 3. Monaural and binaural intelligibility enhancement of noisy speech signals.
US10154351B2
A hearing aid communication system and a hearing aid communication method thereof are disclosed. The hearing aid communication method includes the following steps: determining whether the sound-providing apparatus is providing a digital signal; when the sound-providing apparatus is providing a digital signal, establishing a connection with the hearing aid; determining whether the digital signal has a sound signal; if the digital signal has the sound signal, further informing the hearing aid able to execute a streaming mode; receiving the digital signal to be transferred to the hearing aid; when the sound-providing apparatus has stopped providing the digital signal with a sound signal, notifying the hearing aid that it can stop executing the streaming mode; and when the sound-providing apparatus is not providing the digital signal, breaking the connection with the hearing aid.
US10154350B2
A micro-speaker is disclosed. The micro-speaker includes a frame with a hollow space, a diaphragm attached to the frame, a voice coil with a lead, a yoke received in the hollow space, a magnet received in the yoke. The yoke includes a base wall in shape of rectangle with two long boundaries and two short boundaries. The base wall includes a first portion locating at the middle of the base wall and two second portions locating at two ends of the first portion and extending to the two short boundaries respectively. The first portion has a thickness greater than the second portion. The second portion of the base wall provides an extra space for at least part of the lead so as to avoid the lead bumping against the base wall.
US10154348B2
The systems and methods described herein relate to, among other things, a transducer capable of producing acoustic and tactile stimulation. The transducer includes a rigid mass element disposed on the diaphragm of a speaker. The mass element may optionally be removable and may have a mass selected such that the resonant frequency of the transducer falls within the range of frequencies present in an input electrical audio signal. The systems and methods advantageously benefits from both the fidelity and audio performance of a full-range speaker while simultaneously producing high-fidelity, adjustable and palpable haptic vibrations.
US10154345B2
A microphone arrangement and a method using the microphone arrangement for recording surround sound in a mobile device, where the microphone arrangement comprises a first and a second microphone and arranged at a first distance to each other and configured to obtain a stereo signal, and comprises a third microphone configured to obtain a steering signal together with at least one of the first and second microphone or with a fourth microphone. The microphone arrangement also comprises a processor configured to separate the stereo signal into a front stereo signal and a back stereo signal based on the steering signal.
US10154340B2
A microphone structure has a diaphragm; a frame of which an inside is processed in a shape of a semispherical surface, a parabolic surface, or a conical surface; an acoustic transducer that converts sound pressure into an electric signal; and a wire that transmits the electric signal from the acoustic transducer to outside. A sound pressure input surface of the acoustic transducer is disposed on a bottom surface portion of the semispherical surface, the parabolic surface, or the conical surface inside the frame. The diaphragm and the frame, and the frame and the wire include waterproof mechanisms preventing ingress of water.
US10154336B2
To reduce the driving loss in the diaphragm, and to ensure a good sound output in the wide bandwidth. It includes a circular coil bobbin at least partly disposed between a yoke and a magnet, a coil wound around the coil bobbin, the coil being configured to be moved with the coil bobbin where a driving current is supplied to the coil, a piezoelectric element having one end coupled to one end of the coil bobbin in a movement direction, the piezoelectric element being configured to be expanded and contracted and moved in a direction same as the movement direction where an electric current is supplied to the piezoelectric element, and a diaphragm having an inner circumference part coupled to another end of the piezoelectric element, and a coupled part of the diaphragm to the piezoelectric element and a coupled part of the piezoelectric element to the coil bobbin are positioned on a straight line in the movement direction.
US10154329B2
A computing device may include an audio output device installed in a base housing. A front volume of the audio output device may be defined in part by an inner facing surface of a housing of the computing device, with an audio output port defined by an opening in the housing. In some computing devices, the opening defining the audio output port may also accommodate a hinge assembly rotatably coupling the housing to a display. A path from the audio output device to the audio output port may be defined in part by a support pad that guides sound out through the audio output port toward the user, and may also function as a support pad supporting the computing device on a work surface when operating in a tablet mode.
US10154323B2
A network appliance may include a signal splitter that splits an incoming signal into multiple portions. The signal splitter can direct one portion of the incoming signal to a switching fabric and another portion of the incoming signal to an optical switch. By monitoring the power intensity of the portion of the incoming signal received by the switching fabric, the network appliance can seamlessly switch between a bypass traffic path and a pass-through traffic path without losing network traffic caused by gaps in network connectivity. Such a configuration also enables the network appliance to maintain an accurate record of the logical connectivity state even when the network appliance is in the bypass state (i.e., when network traffic bypasses the switching fabric of the network appliance).
US10154317B2
An improved backhaul protocol is provided, as well as computer-implemented systems and methods for autonomously broadcasting video data, audio data, or video and audio data during an event, wherein the broadcasting can be scheduled in advance and from a remote location (e.g., using a web browser), and wherein the video/audio data is streamed to a remote user over a network using the improved backhaul protocol.
US10154315B2
A system and method is disclosed to transmit electronic information to a user of a step-top box. The system includes a database that stores user registration and product information data. A set-top box is also provided that communicates with a remote controller with a touch screen and a server broadcasts the product information data to a plurality of set-top boxes for display on touch screens of remote controller communicating with the set-top boxes, respectively, without the product information being designated for a specific user of one set-top box. The server also transmits updated product information data that replaces a portion of the original product information data. Furthermore, a processor compares data relating to a transaction request from a user of one set-top box with user registration data stored in the database to identify the user, and that generates customized transaction data that is transmitted to the identified user.
US10154310B2
A method executes at a server system with one or more processors and memory. The server receives demographic information for a plurality of household members. The demographic information includes at least age and gender. The server receives television viewing information for the household. The server identifies one or more television viewing sessions from the television viewing information and selects one of the television viewing sessions. The server identifies one or more television programs tuned during the selected televisions viewing session and accesses demographic skew data for at least a subset of the television programs tuned. The demographic skew data for a television program identifies fractions of viewers of the television program from predefined demographic segments. The server associates a household member with the television viewing session at least in part by correlating the demographic skew data of the television programs tuned with the demographic information of the first household member.
US10154303B2
An entry adapter configured to allow downstream and upstream external signals to be received by the entry adapter, allow the downstream and upstream external signals to be conducted to a server interface of an internal client-server network, allow client signals to be conducted to a client interface of the internal client-server network, and including a frequency band blocking device configured to allow low frequency band signals to be conducted to the server interface, preserve downstream signal strength to the server interface, allow high frequency band signals to be conducted to the client interface, and block the high frequency band signals from being conducted to the external network.
US10154300B2
Apparatus and methods for obtaining a content item in a mobile environment include receiving a content item of a first type and content management information that corresponds to the content item. The content management information specifies a destination storage location for content items of the first type, and the destination storage location is different from a default storage location for the content items of the first type. Further, these aspects include storing the content item on the communication device at the destination storage location based on the content management information, and executing an application on a computing platform of the communication device. The application interacts with the content item at the destination storage location based on the content management information. Additional apparatus and methods relating to distributing content are also disclosed.
US10154299B2
Split-type televisions provided in this invention relate to the field of television, and separately configures the master control module and the display in the television, the display is mainly used to play the audio and video data, and the master control module is mainly used to receive and process the audio and video data; the master control module and the display are separately configured in the physical structure, thus it allows users to carry out the operations like repairing, maintenance, upgrading and replacement on them separately; at the same time, since the display (the screen terminal) is provided with the power adapter for the master control module, and as long as the master control module is connected to the display, the power adapter will be able to supply power to the master control module, thus achieving the master control module and the display configured separately share the same power source.
US10154296B2
Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.
US10154281B2
A method processes keypoint trajectories in a video, wherein the keypoint trajectories describe motion of a plurality of keypoints across pictures of the video over time, by first acquiring the video of a scene using a camera. Keypoints and associated feature descriptors are detected in each picture. The keypoints and associated features descriptors are matched between neighboring pictures to generate keypoint trajectories. Then, the keypoint trajectories are coded predictively into a bitstream, which is outputted.
US10154275B2
There is provided systems and methods for embedding data into a video content. A system includes an encoder, a memory storing the encoder, and a hardware processor configured to execute the encoder from the memory. The hardware processor is configured to execute the encoder from the memory to obtain the data, determine a plurality of pixels in the video content, and embed the data into the video content by inverting the plurality of pixels in the video content according to the data. The system further includes a decoder for decoding the video content to obtain the data.
US10154274B2
A method for decoding an encoded video representation from a bitstream, the method comprising decoding an identifier indicating that all samples within a scope of the bitstream have been coded with a prediction restriction; determining that the scope covers a region of interest within a picture; decoding at least a first coding unit preceding said region of interest in decoding order in a parse mode such that syntax elements belonging to said at least first coding unit are parsed, but a sample reconstruction process of said syntax elements is omitted; and decoding at least a second coding unit belonging to said region of interest such that syntax elements belonging to said at least second coding unit are parsed and a sample reconstruction process is performed to said syntax elements.
US10154270B2
The image decoding method includes determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of a left block and an upper block are used, when the signal type is a first type; and the context is determined under a third condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used and a hierarchical depth of a data unit to which the control parameter of the current block belongs is used, when the signal type is a third type, and the third type is one or more of (i) “merge_flag”, (ii) “ref_idx_l0” or “ref_idx_l1”, (iii) “inter_pred_flag”, (iv) “mvd_l0” or “mvd_l1”, (v) “intra_chroma_pred_mode”, (vi) “cbf_luma”, and (vii) “cbf_cb” or “cbf_cr”.
US10154268B2
In one implementation, a method operates by receiving neighboring reconstructed first-color pixels and current reconstructed first-color pixels of a current first-color block and receiving neighboring reconstructed second-color pixels of a current second-color block collocated with the current first-color block. The method then determines linear model (LM) parameters according to a linear model for one or more LM Intra modes. The method then receives input data associated with current second-color pixels of the current second-color block and generates a cross-color Intra predictor from the current reconstructed first-color pixels of the current first-color block using the LM parameters associated with a LM Intra mode selected from said one or more LM Intra modes. Finally, the method applies cross-color Intra prediction encoding or decoding to the current second-color pixels of the current second-color block using the cross-color Intra predictor for the selected LM Intra mode.
US10154256B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for calibrating a flash for image capture. An example method may include receiving, from a camera, a first image of a scene captured with a first flash light source emitting light with a first color temperature and with a second flash light source emitting light with a second color temperature different from the first color temperature. The first flash light source and the second flash light source may be derived based on a first flash calibration setting of a number of stored flash calibration settings. The example method may also include determining a difference between a desired color characteristic for the first flash calibration setting and a color characteristic of the first image. The example method may further include adjusting the first flash calibration setting based on the determined difference.
US10154253B2
A multi-view display system or optical vortex 3D display in a multi-view or multilayer embodiment or configuration. The new 3D display system encodes and decodes images into independent modes of optical angular momentum (OAM). In some embodiments, the 3D display system uses pixel-based OAM. In such systems, transformation optics are used to sort the OAM modes. These transformation optics convert the OAMs' spiral wavefronts to linear gradient wavefronts, which are then deflected by a simple lens. The transformation optics, thus, are used in image-based (per pixel) decoding/sorting. In other embodiments, the 3D display system uses image-based OAM. In such systems, convolution of the OAM modes with the image is used rather than the direct modulation of the OAM mode and the image (as used in the prior system discussed above) for image-based encoding and decoding/sorting of images in different OAM modes.
US10154247B2
A virtual reality communication system includes a first computing device and a second computing device. The first computing device includes a first camera configured to capture at least one image, and a connector. The second computing device includes a second camera configured to capture the at least one image, a docking connector configured to receive the connector of the first computing device, an image processor configured to combine the at least one image of the first camera with the at least one image of the second camera by correcting color to generate a three dimensional image, and a synchronizing module configured to synchronize the at least one image captured by the first camera with the at least one image captured by the second camera and adjust an intraocular distance between the first camera and the second camera.
US10154232B2
In a communication event between a first user and one or more second users via a communication network. A plurality of video streams is received via the network at a computer connected to the network. Each of the streams carries a respective moving image of at least one respective user. The computer causes the respective moving image of a first of the video streams to be displayed at a user device of the first user for a first time interval. The computer detects, in the respective moving image of a second of the video streams that is not displayed at the user device in the first time interval, a change in the visual content thereof. In response to detecting said change in the visual content, the computer causes at least the second video stream to be displayed at the user device for a second time interval.
US10154229B2
A game apparatus as a video reproduction controlling apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU executes a reproduction control of a DVD. In the middle of reproducing the DVD, a content such as an video, a voice, etc. are reproduced. In a case that a reproduction operation such as pause, reproduction, fast reverse, fast forward, heading, etc. is not prohibited, in response to an instruction of the reproduced screen displayed on the monitor with a controller, an operation panel for reproduction operation is displayed. On the other hand, while a menu is reproduced or in a case that a screen button is displayed in accordance with the reproduction, the reproduction operation is prohibited, and even if the reproduced screen is instructed with the controller, the operation panel is not displayed.
US10154217B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject and outputs imaging signals; an image signal generation unit that generates image signals indicative of images to be displayed in respective lines of a display unit based on the imaging signals, and outputs the generated image signals to the display unit; and a timing control unit that controls timings, in which the image signal generation unit outputs the image signals, based on an output completion signals indicative of lines corresponding to the image signals, which are completely output from the image signal generation unit to the display unit, and write completion signals indicative of lines corresponding to the image signals which are generated by the image signal generation unit.
US10154214B2
An image sensor having improved signal-to-noise ratio and reduced random noise and an image processing system are provided. The image sensor includes a pixel array including a pixel connected to a column line and configured to provide an analog pixel signal to the column line in response to at least one row control signal, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that receives and converts the analog pixel signal into a corresponding digital pixel signal. The pixel includes a group of sub-pixels simultaneously selected by the at least one row control signal, such that each one of the sub-pixels in the group of sub-pixels provides a sub-pixel signal, and the analog pixel signal is an average of the sub-pixel signals provided by the group of sub-pixels.
US10154213B2
An imaging sensor may include an array of imaging pixels and at least two rows of dark pixels. Each imaging pixel may include a photodiode that generates charge in response to incident light. Each dark pixel may include a photodiode that is shielded from incident light by shielding material. The at least two rows of dark pixels may be sampled simultaneously and averaged to obtain an average dark pixel charge level. The average dark pixel charge level may be subtracted from each imaging pixel charge level to correct the imaging pixel charge levels for noise. Each column of dark pixels may include a column line that is coupled to first and second readout circuits. Each column line may be coupled to first and second current sources. Each column line may be coupled to at least one capacitor.
US10154212B2
An imaging device includes a photodiode having a first electrode and a second electrode, a first transistor that controls electrical connection between the first electrode and a first wiring line through which first voltage is supplied, and a second transistor that controls electrical connection between the first electrode and a second wiring line through which second voltage different from the first voltage is supplied, and voltage at the second electrode is read with the first transistor and the second transistor turned off.
US10154210B2
A global shutter imaging pixel may have a single source follower transistor. The source follower transistor may be coupled to a floating diffusion region and a charge storage region. In order to read out samples from the charge storage region without including a second source follower transistor in each pixel, the samples may be transferred to floating diffusion regions of adjacent pixels. Alternatively, a transistor may be configured to transfer charge from the charge storage region to the floating diffusion region of the same pixel, thus reusing a single source follower transistor. These types of pixels may be used for correlated double sampling, where a reset charge level and integration charge level are both sampled. These pixels may also operate in a global shutter mode where images are captured simultaneously by each pixel.
US10154202B2
An apparatus for illuminating a scene to be captured includes an illumination source configured to illuminate the scene; an adaptive optical element configured to be controlled to change an illumination in the scene by the illumination source; and a controller configured to determine an illumination pattern corresponding to the scene, and configured to control the adaptive optical element to change the illumination in the scene by the illumination source based on the determined illumination pattern.
US10154201B2
A method for adjusting photographic images is disclosed, comprising, upon photographing an image by means of a photographic lens, detecting the intensity of the ambient light in the environment, sequentially projecting the light source of different color to a photographic object with an active light source, and acquiring different reflection feedback values according to the projected light source of different colors; then, based on the intensity of the ambient light and the intensity range of light source projected on the photographic object from the active light source, performing adjustments on the acquired photographic image. In this way, in an environment where the light source is weak or insufficient, after the adjustments, it is possible to present an image resolution that the image should demonstrate in an environment having normal light sources, and for the nocturnal photography, by processing the image of dimmer peripheries, it is further possible to present a colorful and clear image.
US10154198B2
An image capture device that includes an adjustment circuit configured to monitor image parameters, generate updated image settings for the image capture device in response to the monitored image parameters, and transmit the updated image settings to one or more processors. The updated image settings configure the one or more processors to determine whether to transition the image capture device from a dynamic scene mode to a static scene mode based on a first image parameter included in the monitored image parameters, wherein the first image parameter is different from a second image parameter used to determine to transition the image capture device from the static scene mode to the dynamic scene mode, and to suspend generation of all or less than all of the updated image settings in response to determining to transition the image capture device from the dynamic scene mode to the static scene mode.
US10154194B2
A video capture and formatting system including a plurality of lenses, a digital sensor, and an editing unit. The lenses capture light from a defined viewable area and are curvilinear in nature. The sensor receives the light from the lenses and senses the color, exposure, and travel distance of each photon. The sensor generates image data representing the visual characteristics of the image and the photon travel distance for each pixel. The editing unit processes image data from the sensor and blends the images from each lens together by matching the photon distance around the sides of each lens image data. The editing unit forms a master format having a two dimensional equi-rectangular image with depth perception provided from the photon travel distance of each pixel.
US10154188B2
A master camera device and a plurality of slave camera devices are directly connected through a network, and form one network segment. The master camera device performs multicast communication with each slave camera device, and acquires information representing a transmission condition from each slave camera device. In a case where a worsening transmission condition relative to a predetermined threshold is detected from a transmission condition of each slave camera device and a transmission condition of the master camera device, the master camera device performs multicast communication with each slave camera device, and controls an encoding level representing a degree of encoding process, sequentially from an encoder having a lower priority, including the encoder of the master camera device, to improve the transmission condition. Thus, by an efficient communication, the transmission condition is improved from an initial stage having an unstable transmission condition, to obtain a preferable real-time image.
US10154184B2
A camera module includes a circuit carrier, an image sensor chip arranged on the circuit carrier and an optics module with an optics housing accommodating a lens. Provision is made for the optics housing to be embodied with at least three press-fit pins, the optics housing to be connected to the circuit carrier by way of the three press-fit pins with a predetermined distance from the circuit carrier, wherein the circuit carrier is embodied with at least three press-fit holes for establishing a press-fit connection by the press-fit pins. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing the camera module.
US10154178B2
An imaging apparatus includes: a camera portion; a lens cover that includes a light receiving hole and covers the camera portion; a ring gear that is attached to the lens cover while surrounding the light receiving hole and is rotatable using the center of concentric circles formed by the ring gear; and a pair of light shielding plates that are attached to a cover outer surface, each of the pair of light shielding plates including an inclined rack, and opening and closing the light receiving hole with the inclined racks meshing with opposite ends in a radial direction of the ring gear.
US10154175B2
The present technology relates to a circuit board, an imaging device, and an electronic apparatus capable of suppressing the generation of a noise in a conductor loop according to a magnetic field on the periphery of a side end portion of a conductor group. A circuit board of the present technology includes: a conductor group, in which a conductor through which a current flows in a first direction and a conductor through which a current flows in a second direction are aligned in a third direction. A conductor of at least one end portion of the conductor group in the third direction suppresses an induced electromotive force generated in the conductor loop in accordance with a magnetic field generated on the periphery of the conductor group in the third direction. The present technology can be, for example, applied to an imaging device and an electronic apparatus.
US10154170B2
An image processing apparatus including a display unit includes a processor and a memory storing instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the image processing apparatus to function as a detection unit that detects occurrence of a sheet jammed inside the image processing apparatus and a display control unit that displays a screen based on detection of the occurrence of the jammed sheet. The screen includes a first region for displaying work that a user carries out to remove jammed sheets from inside the image processing apparatus and a second region for displaying work that the user carries out after removing the jammed sheets from inside the image processing apparatus.
US10154169B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method, system, and computer program for increasing the success of a facsimile transmission. In an embodiment of the invention, the method includes writing a record to a database during a failed attempt at transmitting a fax image by the fax server, receiving each of a new fax image to be transmitted to a recipient, a specified fax sender, and also at least a portion of a phone number, and retrieving a current selected configuration stored for the specified fax sender. The method further includes querying the database to determine whether the current selected configuration of the specified fax sender matches a record in the database, and if a match is found, establishing that a prior facsimile transmitted by the specified fax sender was unsuccessful, but on condition that no match is found, transmitting the new fax image by the fax server.
US10154165B2
Example implementations relate to multiple payload pantograph. Some examples may include a first pattern generation engine to generate a first pattern. The first pattern may be a data-bearing pattern encoding a first payload. Additionally, some examples may include a second pattern generation engine to generate a second pattern, the second pattern (by itself or in combination with the first pattern) may represent a second payload. The second payload may be camouflaged by a combination of the first pattern and the second pattern. Some examples may also include a pantograph generation engine to generate a multiple payload pantograph including the first pattern and the second pattern. The multiple payload pantograph may include the first pattern in one of the pantograph background or the pantograph foreground.
US10154150B2
A device determines a connection status of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) communication interface and a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) communication interface, and stores the connection status in a queue. The device waits, subsequent to storing the connection status, for expiration of a time delay; and retrieves, subsequent to the expiration of the time delay, the connection status or another connection status from the queue. The device sends, based on the retrieved connection status or the other connection status, a service validation request to a server associated with the PLMN, and receives from the server, in response to the service validation request, a validation response that authorizes service delivery to the device via a PLMN.
US10154148B1
A conferencing endpoint includes a loudspeaker, a base microphone, and a double-talk detection module which allows two-way communication between the conferencing endpoint and a remote endpoint only when participants at both endpoints are speaking at the same time, so as to minimize echo due to feedback. The double-talk detection module adds the energy of any distortion from the loudspeaker to the energy of the signal coming from the remote endpoint, and compares this combined energy with the energy of the base microphone to determine whether double-talk is present. The double-talk detection module is thus prevented from mistaking the feedback for near end talk at the endpoint.
US10154134B1
A system for authenticating the identity of a caller (i) receives a phone call from a caller, where the phone call is initiated through an application on a remote computer device associated with the caller, and where the phone call includes one or more phone authentication credentials; (ii) determines a preliminary identity of the caller based upon the one or more phone authentication credentials; (iii) receives online authentication credentials from the application on the remote computer device; (iv) determines a confirmed identity of the caller based, at least in part, upon the one or more online credentials and the preliminary identity of the caller; and (v) displays the confirmed identity of the caller to a user answering the phone call. As a result, the user and/or the system do not need to perform additional authentication before providing service to the caller.
US10154133B2
Responsive to concurrently recording on a plurality of recorders a telephonic interaction constructing a plurality of playlists, and according to faults identified while recording the plurality of playlists evaluating a quantitative quality score for each playlist in the plurality of playlists and presenting the playlists in a prioritized order according to the scores thereof.
US10154132B2
A method, apparatus and system for call leg selection is provided. In an embodiment, a call manger is provided which is connected to telephones that have the same telephone number. When the call manager receives an incoming call identifying that telephone number, the call manager sends a query to each of the telephones inquiring as to which telephone should receive the call. Depending on the response, the call manager will route the call to the appropriate one of the telephones.
US10154128B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for interpreting a phone number in the field of information technology. The method includes: determining whether contact information of a phone number is stored in an address book if receiving a call; searching a message with content containing the phone number when it is determined that the contact information of the phone number is not stored in the address book; obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message, in which the predetermined type information at least includes name information; and displaying the name information as the contact information of the phone number on a display interface of the call.
US10154127B1
An apparatus including a first central section, a second central section, a left side wall, and a right side wall. The first and second central sections, the left side wall, and the right side wall may be attached together in a first assembled state so that the first central section is adjacent to and at a first angle of substantially less than ninety degrees and substantially more than zero degrees with respect to the second central section, and the left side wall and the right side wall are adjacent to and approximately perpendicular to the second central section, and so that a mobile electronics device having a screen, can be placed on the first central section, and the screen viewed, with the left side wall, the right side wall, and the second central section providing shading to the mobile electronics device when it is on the first central section.
US10154124B2
A display system includes a continuous flexible display, two book halves, two main display supports, and a movement synchronizing coupling. The two book halves is connected to each other via a hinge mechanism. The hinge mechanism has two hinges, and each hinge is rotatable about respective axis. Each of the two main display supports connects to one of the two book halves and is configured to support the flexible display. The coupling is connected to the two main display supports and rotating about a rotation axis that is parallel to the axis of hinge to enable a synchronized movement of the two main display supports.
US10154122B1
A network media system forms a group comprising a first networked device and a second networked device using a first media playback protocol. The network media system includes the first networked device and the second networked device. The network media system determines a group coordinator for the group using the first media playback protocol. The network media system transmits, to a media source device, a group network identity using a second media playback protocol. The media source device and one of the first networked device and the second networked device are configured to use the first media playback protocol and the second media playback protocol. The first media playback protocol and the second media playback protocol are incompatible.
US10154116B1
Features are provided for the use of persistent connections and efficient content synchronization in content delivery environments. A content management system may provide content feeds to user devices using a persistent duplex connection over which the content management system and user devices may communicate asynchronously. By using a persistent duplex connection to asynchronously communicate with user devices, the content management system can provide content for the content feeds while, in parallel, receiving requests and commands from the user devices, responding to the requests and commands, and transmitting other requests and commands to the user devices. In addition, the content management system and a particular user device can exchange information regarding the content items that the user device has or should have already received.
US10154112B1
A cloud storage gateway is used to migrate a volume from a source cloud storage provider to a target cloud storage provider. If necessary, the gateway reconfigures the size of a logical cache associated with local storage devices so that the entire volume can be stored locally. Flushing is disabled and all of the locally stored volume pages are marked as dirty. After compression and encryption policies associated with the source and target are verified to be compatible, flushing is enabled and metadata is updated.
US10154111B2
A method includes receiving at a cache server a content request from a client system, determining that the cache server is overloaded in response to receiving the content request, and in response to determining that the cache server is overloaded, returning to the client system a domain redirection response including a load status of the cache server.
US10154109B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that delivers content to an electronic device. The system includes a content provider that obtains a public address of the electronic device from a first request for the content from the electronic device. Next, the content provider uses the public address to identify a local caching server on a local area network (LAN) of the electronic device. Finally, the content provider provides a local address of the local caching server to the electronic device, wherein the local address is used by the electronic device to obtain the content from the local caching server and the LAN without accessing a content delivery network (CDN) outside the LAN.
US10154096B2
A method for integrating a new navigation service is implemented in an avionics onboard system comprising a DAL+ core computer and a DAL− peripheral computer for managing the application. The method of integration determines an optimal functional and physical distribution of the elementary functions FU(i) of the new service within the onboard avionics system over the set of possible distributions which minimizes a global cost criterion CG, dependent on several parameters, including at least the additional development cost of the elementary functions integrated within the digital DAL+ core computer, and carries out the integration of the new service.
US10154092B2
A network of PCs includes an I/O channel adapter and network adapter, and is configured for management of a distributed cache memory stored in the plurality of PCs interconnected by the network. The use of standard PCs reduces the cost of the data storage system. The use of the network of PCs permits building large, high-performance, data storage systems.
US10154089B2
The present invention discloses a distributed system and a data operation method thereof. The system comprises a client, a master node, a plurality of storage nodes and a plurality of computing nodes. The client is configured to send a data operation request to the master node. The master node is configured to respond to the client's request, acquire a storage node list, and then send the storage node list to the client. The plurality of storage nodes are configured to store data requested by the client for operation. The plurality of computing nodes are configured to execute a computing task allocated by the master node based on the client's data operation request. For acquiring the storage node list, the master node employs a copy location selection policy to select a storage node corresponding to a data copy. The copy location selection policy comprises at least one of the following manners: selecting a storage node with a low storage load, selecting a computing node with a low computing load, and selecting a storage node with a poor locality.
US10154085B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives a first request from a client; a first transmitting unit that transmits the first request to a load balancer unit; a second reception unit that receives a response to the first request from the load balancer unit; a storage controller that controls to cause a storage device to store first information applied to the first request, and second information applied to the response, in an associated manner; and a second transmitting unit that transmits the response from which the second information is deleted, to the client.
US10154083B1
A system for collaborating on a component includes a first computing device configured to execute a first multi-user CAx environment and a plurality of second computing devices, each being configured to execute a corresponding second multi-user CAx environment. Each of the second multi-user CAx environments includes a display module configured to cause the corresponding second device to display at least a portion of a component, the component including a plurality of subcomponents wherein at least one of the subcomponents is a released subcomponent, and the first multi-user CAx environment including a first release tracking module configured to cause each of the second multi-user CAx environments to display a visual indication of a released status of the released subcomponent.
US10154080B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for enhancing digital content provided from devices, and actions of providing, by a sensor of a device, primary digital content, providing, by the device, secondary digital content, the secondary digital content indicating a context, within which the primary digital content was generated, generating, by the device, a data package including the primary digital content and the secondary digital content, and transmitting, by the device, the data package to a back-end system over a network.
US10154076B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media with executable instructions stored thereon for identifying a user that accesses a webpage from a user device through a proxy are provided. Identifying users through a proxy can include providing rewritten content of the webpage accessed by the user to the user device, the rewritten content including a reference to a data file, and the reference including a checksum computed from actual content of the webpage. The user can be associated with the actual content of the webpage in response to receiving a file request for the data file from the user device.
US10154073B2
A packet forwarding apparatus includes: a multicast determination unit that determines whether a packet that flows through a virtual network is a multicast communication packet; a multicast mapping information storage unit; a multicast mapping unit that allocates a second multicast address to a first multicast address of a newly generated multicast communication and manages these multicast addresses as a piece of mapping information; and a packet encapsulation unit that encapsulates the packet that flows through the virtual network. The packet encapsulation unit encapsulates the multicast communication packet that flows through the virtual network by using the second multicast address.
US10154071B2
A method, executed by a computer, for displaying dynamic content in a group communication environment includes determining a topic of a communication session having multiple participants, searching repositories for content corresponding to the topic, determining the participants' identities, retrieving the content, and enabling the participants to view the content. In some embodiments, the content is an image containing a face of a participant, and a speech indicator is displayed at the face of each participant as they comment in the communication session. In some embodiments, the relationship between the topic and the content is predefined. The topic of the communication session may be determined using natural language processing techniques. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the above method are also disclosed herein.
US10154070B2
Methods and apparatus for communicating between virtual agents associated with users of electronic devices connected via at least one network. A first user may instruct an associated first virtual agent to invoke a communication session with a second virtual agent associated with a second user. To invoke the communication session, the first virtual agent may send an outgoing communication to the second virtual agent and the outgoing communication may instruct the second virtual agent to perform at least one action on behalf of the first user. Virtual agents associated with different users may alternatively communicate with each other in the absence of user interaction to perform a collaborative action.
US10154068B2
A tiered caching system (e.g., in an overlay network such as CDN) wherein SWR at an edge server therein is automatically set (preferably based on request rate), while SWR at a parent server therein has its SWR set at or near 0. Collectively, these SWR settings provide for a self-adjusting tiered caching system that optimizes both end user performance and the origin traffic offload.
US10154060B2
A domain name registering entity (such as a domain registry, registrar, or reseller) or an independent proxy registration service may offer a domain name hijack protection to their actual or potential customers. When a domain name transfer request or notice is received, the domain name registering entity or the proxy registration service may ignore or decline it. Customers may be given an ability to turn the domain name hijack protection service on and off, as well as an ability to adjust a variety of settings associated with the service.
US10154055B2
An apparatus is provided including at least one platform; an intrusion prevention system configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform; a firewall configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform; at least one first data storage configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform; and at least one second data storage configured to communicative couple with the at least one platform. The at least one platform is configured to perform a plurality of operations that collective protect one or more networked devices.
US10154051B2
A computer-implemented data processing method comprises: executing a recurrent neural network (RNN) comprising nodes each implemented as a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) cell and comprising links between nodes that represent outputs of LSTM cells and inputs to LSTM cells, wherein each LSTM cell implements an input layer, hidden layer and output layer of the RNN; receiving network traffic data associated with networked computers; extracting feature data representing features of the network traffic data and providing the feature data to the RNN; classifying individual Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) as malicious or legitimate using LSTM cells of the input layer, wherein inputs to the LSTM cells are individual characters of the URLs, and wherein the LSTM cells generate feature representation; based on the feature representation, generating signals to a firewall device specifying either admitting or denying the URLs.
US10154041B2
A method of controlling access to content such as web sites on the intranet or interne is described. For example, the method comprises receiving an address of content to be accessed and obtaining similarity of the address to previously labeled addresses of other content items. The similarity is based on co-occurrence of addresses of content items in records of browsing sessions from many consenting users. For example, a browsing session record comprises addresses of content items accessed by a user in a time period during which the user is actively accessing content. A co-occurrence of addresses of content items is the existence of the addresses in the same browsing session record. Access to the content is then controlled on the basis of the similarity.
US10154035B2
Systems and methods for controlling access to multiple applications on a computing device are provided. One embodiment of a system includes an access device configured to: receive a request to access a first application and a device identifier; authenticate the user using a user credential associated with the user and store the device identifier in association with a login identifier in response to authentication of the user. The access device can be further configured to receive a request to access a second application and the device identifier. The access device can allow access to the second application based on the previous authentication of the user.
US10154021B1
One more devices and/or access control systems are described that securitize data and data transmissions using three sets of computing operations including authentication, validation, and securitization that allows or denies access to the data and/or the data transmissions. The system includes securitization of signals between one or more secure master and/or partial DASA databases for various user devices. Specific methods and devices for securing (primarily digital and normally two-way) communications using applications that offer the combination of securing communications from user devices with reader devices, are also is provided.
US10154020B1
Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for providing referral identity systems and services. The referral identity system can provide a hardware based system for identifying users and the devices they are using and recognizing referrals from one device to another and/or from one user to another. Each of the users can be uniquely identified using a device identifier associated with a device that the user is using. The authentication and identity services can be used to license software and/or devices coupled with such software dynamically using integrated hardware, software, and firmware, and provide a validated identification difficult to spoof.
US10154016B1
The disclosure provides for two or more transceiver devices and a system that utilizes one or more encrypters and one or more decrypters comprising one or more communication sources that provides transmission(s) and at least one connector, wherein transmission(s) from one or more communications sources enter a first transceiver through the connector and travels to a randomized encrypted data sub-channels (REDS) encrypter and wherein the (REDS) encrypter securely sends encrypted transmission(s) to a second transceiver. The encrypted transmission(s) enter a second transceiver and are sent to a randomized decrypted data sub-channels (RDDS) decrypter wherein the transmission(s) are decrypted.
US10154015B1
The disclosure provides for two or more devices that securitize transmission(s) transmitted to and received from these devices comprising at least one executable coded cipher key(s), at least one executable coded encryption key (ECEK) device that encrypts transmission(s) that uses executable cipher coded key(s), and at least one executable coded decryption key (ECDK) device that decrypts transmission(s) and that also uses at least one executable coded cipher key(s), such that transmission(s) are sent to an encrypter/decrypter memory that stores transmission(s) while the transmission(s) is encrypted and/or decrypted. When encryption/decryption is completed, the transmission(s) is sent to at least one transmitter such that encryption/decryption of the transmission(s) is controlled and manipulated by the executable coded cipher key(s), wherein the executable coded cipher key(s) remain in the computer memory long enough to achieve encryption/decryption completion.
US10154012B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting user privacy in, for example, online advertising environments. The method includes receiving data related to a user in a first communication session between a host server and a client device, and generating a user profile associated with the user. The method further may include encrypting the user profile to produce encrypted user profile data and generating a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted user profile data. Thereafter, either the decryption key or a portion of the encrypted user profile data may be transmitted to the client device and then deleted from host server before ending the first communication session. The method further may include establishing a second communication session between the host server and the client device and retrieving the transmitted content. Then targeted advertising may be provided by decrypting the encrypted user profile data.
US10154010B2
A process capable of automatically establishing a secure overlay network (“SON”) across different clouds is disclosed. The process, in one aspect, receives a first request from a first node in a first cloud for establishing a SON. After receiving a second request for connecting to the SON from a second node in a second cloud, a first connection is established connecting between the first node and the second node utilizing a network security protocol such as Internet Protocol Security (“IPSec”). After receiving a third request for connecting to the SON from a third node in a third cloud, a second connection is used to connect between the first node and the third node. A third connection is used to connect between the second node and the third node. Each subsequent request for connecting to the SON from a new node results in new connections between the new node and each existing node in the SON forming a full-mesh.
US10154006B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for multiple network addressing modes are disclosed. The method includes selecting one of an automap full mode, an automap-by-type full mode, an automap light mode, an automap-by-type light mode and a manual node commissioning mode for determining and assigning the node addresses for the network devices, determining and assigning the node addresses for the network devices based on the automap full mode, determining and assigning the node addresses for the network devices based on the automap-by-type full mode, determining and assigning the node addresses for newly added network devices to an existing network based on the automap light mode, determining and assigning the node addresses for the newly added network devices to the existing network based on the automap-by-type light mode, and determining and assigning the node addresses for the network devices based on the manual node commissioning mode.
US10154005B2
The invention presented herein is a system and method for automatically discovering communication capabilities for direct communication between endpoints across one or more unknown networks, the system comprising: a plurality of network enabled endpoints configured with a module in wireless communication with a management database, the module configured to establish a communication path for direct communication between the network-enabled endpoints, independent of a NAT router. Also disclosed is a system and method for indirect connectionless bi-directional messaging over an unknown network infrastructure for communicating a message communication between a querying device and a database, wherein communication is enabled without the requirement for direct access to the database for either obtaining or placing information; and where the message communication comprises an unlimited amount of discreet and selectable information elements; and without requiring or issuing a direct acknowledgement of a receipt from the database of the communication message received.
US10154001B2
A content distribution facilitation system is described comprising configured servers and a network interface configured to interface with a plurality of terminals in a client server relationship and optionally with a cloud-based storage system. A request from a first source for content comprising content criteria is received, the content criteria comprising content subject matter. At least a portion of the content request content criteria is transmitted to a selected content contributor. If recorded content is received from the first content contributor, the first source is provided with access to the received recorded content. The recorded content may be transmitted via one or more networks to one or more destination devices. Optionally, a voice analysis and/or facial recognition engine are utilized to determine if the recorded content is from the first content contributor.
US10153998B2
A system and machine-implemented method for providing integrated instant messaging functionality in a social networking service, the method including receiving a request from a user having a first user account at a social networking service to view contacts belonging to a social group associated with the first user account, wherein the social group is maintained at the social networking service, identifying one or more contacts belonging to the social group in response to the request, determining a status associated with a user account for each of the identified one or more contacts, the status indicating whether each of the one or more contacts is available for instant messaging communication and providing a listing including the identified one or more contacts and the status associated with each of the identified one or more contacts for display to the user at a social networking site of the social networking service.
US10153990B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method in a user equipment (605) for communicating with a base station (603) in a communications network (600). The user equipment (605) is configured to communicate with the base station (603) according to a selectable of at least two user equipment categories. The user equipment (605) selects one of the at least two user equipment categories if information indicating the one of the user equipment categories is received from the base station (603). The user equipment (605) selects a default of the user equipment categories if no information indicating which of the user equipment categories is received from the base station (603). The user equipment (605) determines a soft buffer size according to the selected user equipment category. The user equipment (605) communicates with the base station (603) according to the selected user equipment category and applying the determined soft buffer size.
US10153974B2
A method includes obtaining traffic statistics of accepted hybrid traffic at a controller of a software defined network that includes multiple local switches coupled by links, calculating an end to end delay associated with the accepted hybrid traffic, determining network stability thresholds from each local switch as a function of network congestion, determining an adjusted rate decision policy as a function of the end to end delay and the network stability thresholds, the adjusted rate decision policy for use by an edge switch to determine whether or not to accept offered traffic loads.
US10153973B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller operating on a host machine that hosts a particular one of multiple centralized routing components for a logical router. The method receives a routing table from a routing protocol application operating on the host machine. Each of the other centralized routing components operates on a different host machine and implements a different interface of the logical router that connects to at least one physical router external to the logical network. The routing protocol application operates as a router server for all of the centralized routing components. For each of the other centralized routing components, the method identifies a set of routes in the routing table to distribute to the centralized routing component. The method sends the identified routes for each centralized routing component to the centralized routing component.
US10153972B2
A method and apparatus are provided for classifying received network frames (206) by extracting frame header data (e.g., n-tuple) which is combined with a key insert value (e.g., embedded prefix value “OP01, OP02, . . . OP0OP1”) to generate a lookup key (216), where the key insert value is generated by decoding a key composition rule (235) to extract a constant value (OP0) and a repeat value (OP1), and then replicating the constant value one or more times specified by the repeat value.
US10153971B2
A data transmission method and a data transmission entity are disclosed. Embodiments include receiving, by a first MTC-IWF entity, first control plane signaling from a first mobility management entity, where the first control plane signaling carries a data packet that is from first UE, and wherein a target UE of the data packet is a second UE, determining, first route information, where the first route information is used for indicating a second network side device that serves second UE and sending, by the first MTC-IWF entity to the second network side device according to the first route information, second control plane signaling carrying the data packet so that the second network side device sends the data packet to the second UE.
US10153967B2
A network device creates a forwarding table that includes information associated with a set of destinations in a network, and determines next hops for the set of destinations. The network device populates the forwarding table with information associated with the next hops, and stores the forwarding table. The forwarding table is used to forward a multicast packet toward a multiple destinations, and includes separate entries that depend upon routes the multicast packet is to traverse towards destinations with multiple choices for next hops.
US10153953B2
A POS terminal 13 generates log data D11 containing status information data indicating the status of a log item targeted for monitoring at a predetermined interval, sends the generated log data D11 as a request to a maintenance server 17, and changes the interval for generating the request data D1 or the interval for transmitting the log data D11 according to a specific condition.
US10153952B2
A network traffic monitoring method includes: collecting sampled packet data of a switch wherein the sampled packet data relates to a plurality of types of packets, selecting a first type of packets from the plurality of types of packets, controlling the switch to collect traffic data of the first type of packets, and estimating a traffic volume of each of the plurality of types of packets according to the traffic data and the sampled packet data.
US10153945B2
When data subjected to synchronous communication is changed while an information processing apparatus is set in a stop mode in which synchronous communication with a server is stopped, it is determined whether to synchronize the changed data and data in the server. When it is determined to synchronize the changed data and the data in the server, the changed data is transmitted to the server by synchronous communication even if the stop mode is set.
US10153929B2
A transmission device including: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to, when data is transmitted to a reception device, transmit a first signal that includes the data and a second signal generated by performing, based on identification information of the reception device, phase modulation on a known signal.
US10153927B2
A method of demodulating an amplitude modulated radio signal is disclosed. The method comprises directing the modulated signal 302 to both a phase detector 308 and an edge detector 314, and using the respective output signals 310, 318, 320 of the phase detector 308 and edge detector 314 to determine an end of a modulation symbol 340 in the signal 302.
US10153918B2
Some embodiments provide a method, for a first cluster manager (CM), for adding an application instance (AI) to a cluster operating across several datacenters. The method identifies a first AI to add to the cluster and a second AI that already belongs to the cluster, and sends a request to add the first AI to a second CM that operates on a same machine as the second AI. The request includes an address for the first AI and a datacenter identifier that indicates a datacenter in which the first AI operates. From the second CM, the method receives a cluster topology that identifies several AIs of the cluster within the several datacenters. The topology includes a datacenter identifier for each of the identified AIs. The method processes data sent between the first AI and other AIs of the cluster according to an overlay network defined by the received topology.
US10153912B2
The present invention discloses a method and a system for optimizing information pushing time according to an alarm time, comprising: presetting an alarm time on a smart terminal; according to the set alarm time, and by recording whether a user uses the smart terminal before and after the alarm time for a period, summarizing a regular work/rest time of the user; within said regular work/rest time, shutting down an information pushing function; when the alarm is triggered, turning on the information pushing function again.
US10153907B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for authenticating API messages using PKI-based authentication techniques. A client system can generate a private/public key pair associated with the client system and sign an API message using the private key of the private/public key pair and a PKI-based cryptographic algorithm, before sending the signed API message to a server system. The server system (e.g., operated by a service provider) can authenticate the incoming signed API message using a proxy authenticator located in less trusted zone (e.g., a perimeter network) of the server system. In particular, the proxy authenticator can be configured to verify the signature of the signed API message using the public key corresponding to the private key and the same cryptographic algorithm. The authenticated API message can then be forwarded to a more trusted zone (e.g., an internal network) of the server system for further processing.
US10153905B2
Techniques for electronically signing DNS records stored in a zone file for an internet DNS zone are presented. The techniques include electronically accessing a plurality of DNS resource records of a DNS zone stored on one or more DNS servers of a distributed DNS database; generating a plurality of leaf nodes from the plurality of DNS resource records; constructing a recursive hash tree from the plurality of leaf nodes, where the recursive hash tree includes a plurality of nodes including a root node and the plurality of leaf nodes, where each node of the plurality of nodes includes either a leaf node or a hash of data including child nodes; storing the root node in a DNS key resource record for a zone signing key for the zone; and publishing, in a DNS resource record signature resource record, validation data including path data from the recursive hash tree.
US10153904B2
A whitelist of hash values for applications is signed and encrypted by a remote device and the encrypted whitelist is securely delivered over a network connection to a second device as an encrypted whitelist. The second device decrypts the whitelist and validates the signature of the remote device for the decrypted whitelist. Hash values in the decrypted version of the encrypted whitelist are compared against dynamically computed hash values for the applications. Applications with matching hash values are permitted to execute on the second device.
US10153900B2
A method of restoring confidential information items of a first device to a second device by using a set of servers. The method generates a public and private key pair and ties the private key to the hash of executable code of the servers at the time of generating the public and private keys. The method receives the encrypted confidential information items in a secure object which is encrypted with a user-specific key and the public key. The method only provides the confidential information to the second device when the second device provides the same user-specific key as the key that encrypts the secure object and the hash of the executable code of the servers at the time of accessing the private key to decrypt the secure object matches the hash of the executable code running on the servers at the time of generating the private key.
US10153897B1
A device receives credentials of a user of a client device that is accessing an application associated with a server device, and verifies the user based on the credentials of the user. The device retrieves, based on verifying the user, a random function from a random functions data structure associated with the device, and utilizes the random function to select parameters and values for a user function. The device utilizes the user function, the parameters, and the values to generate a custom encryption function, and encrypts the custom encryption function to form an encrypted custom encryption function. The device provides the encrypted custom encryption function to the client device and the server device to permit encrypted communication between the client device and the server device using the custom encryption function.
US10153896B2
A method of encrypting data transmitted from a first device to a second device, performed by using an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption algorithm, includes obtaining size information of an encryption key and size information of data that is to be encrypted and includes a plurality of bits; encrypting a first bit group, which is at least one bit corresponding to a size of the encryption key, among the plurality of bits, by using the encryption key; selecting a third bit group, which is at least one bit of the encrypted first bit group based on size information of the encryption key and a size of a second bit group including bits that are different from the first bit group among the plurality of bits; and encrypting the second bit group and the selected third bit group by using the encryption key.
US10153895B2
The HOMOMORPHIC DATABASE OPERATIONS APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“HEDO”) transform transaction storage requests and homomorphic model queries using HEDO components into homomorphic model query results. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of securely querying a shared homomorphically encrypted data repository and performing cross-table homomorphic joins.
US10153887B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for patch downloading, from a host to a target, with improved acknowledge (ACK) mechanisms including combinations of out-of-sequence, single and aggregate acknowledge mechanisms. The method may include determining a packet size based on buffer capacity of the host; calculating the total number of packets (P) for transmission based on a size of the patch divided by the packet size; and calculating a packet storage capacity (N) of the target, based on buffer capacity of the target divided by the packet size. The method may also include transmitting the P packets to the target, including a sequence number and a portion of the patch, the transmission segmented into one or more cycles of up to N packets. The method may further include receiving ACKs from the target (asynchronously relative to the packet transmissions), the ACKS associated with the sequence numbers.
US10153875B2
Various aspects are described relating to wireless communications of a second type of traffic data for small data transmissions. A first indication of control channel resources can be received from a network entity, wherein the control channel resources are defined by a radio access technology to include control data associated with a first type of traffic data. A control channel can be received from the network entity over the control channel resources, wherein the control channel includes a second type of traffic data, wherein the second type of traffic data includes a comparatively smaller data payload than the first type of traffic data. The second type of traffic data can be decoded from the control channel without decoding control data from the control channel.
US10153869B2
A method for transferring data in a communication system is implemented in a network device. In the method, the network device receives an IR version of a frame, a sequence number, and a revision number in a media access control (MAC) layer. The network device determines whether the received frame can be decoded and acknowledged based on the received sequence number and revision number. The network device sets state variables VS,R equal to 1−VS,R and VRV,R equal to −1 if the frame is decoded.
US10153867B2
A user equipment (UE) communicating in a carrier aggregation (CA) or multi-connectivity operation using more than one component carrier (CC), where at least one of the CCs is enabled to use evolved interference management for traffic adaptation (eIMTA), adapts the hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing of the UE communications based on changes in the eIMTA and configurations. The HARQ timing includes HARQ acknowledgement (ACK) timing or HARQ scheduling timing.
US10153865B2
An apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a communication system are provided. The method includes checking a type of the signal to be transmitted; determining a number of puncture bits according to the type of the signal; and puncturing an encoded signal to be transmitted according to the number of puncture bits.
US10153856B2
A channel multiplexing method for reading out a detector signal is provided, including steps: grouping L detectors to form a first source signal and a second source signal; respectively introducing L detector signals into a first signal transmission line including two readout channels A and B and a second signal transmission line including two readout channels C and D, and providing a first signal delay unit and a second signal delay unit on the first signal transmission line and the second signal transmission line; and symbolizing source detectors for forming signals according to pulses of the four readout channels A, B, C and D, and obtaining final pulse information.
US10153852B1
The invention concerns a method for quantizing an interference profile for a wireless telecommunication system along a path that a moving device takes, comprising: by the moving device, obtaining, during a measurement windows, measurements related to interference, processing the measurements performed during the measurement window to obtain for consecutive time periods of the measurement window at least a quantized interference related value and a weight representative of the number of measurements made within the time period index which have the same quantitized interference-related value, and transferring feedback information, by the server, receiving the feedback information, determining the location of the moving device along the path which corresponds to the measurement window, and converting the feedback information in a format of a database composed of a matrix comprising locations and interference quantization values, updating the database with the converted feedback information.
US10153851B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a transmission method, where includes: a receiver receives a communication signal, where the communication signal includes an uplink signal and a downlink signal that are transmitted on a same time-frequency resource, the uplink signal and the downlink signal use a same carrier mapping manner; and performs interference cancellation on the communication signal according to the first multiple access manner and the second multiple access manner. In the embodiments of the present invention, an uplink signal and a downlink signal that are transmitted on a same time-frequency resource use a same carrier mapping manner. In this way, after a new technology is introduced, a problem that carrier mapping manners of an uplink signal and a downlink signal that are on a same time-frequency resource are different can be overcome, which helps a receiver of a communication signal perform interference cancellation.
US10153843B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for visually presenting spectrum usage of optical spectrum in an optical network include obtaining spectrum data which defines spectrum usage of optical spectrum associated with the optical network including a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of links; and displaying a circular histogram to visually illustrate the spectrum usage based on the spectrum data, wherein each segment of the circular histogram represents an associated portion of the optical spectrum and a visual indicator in each segment represents usage of the associated portion.
US10153836B2
A processing apparatus for processing a workpiece includes: a chuck table that holds the workpiece; a processing unit that processes the workpiece held by the chuck table; a controller that controls the chuck table and the processing unit; an input section that inputs a processing condition to the controller; a storage section that stores the processing condition inputted to the input section; and an infrared transmission/reception unit that transfers apparatus information between the processing apparatus and another processing apparatus by infrared radiation.
US10153835B2
A method for wireless data transmission between a first communication device and a second communication device, wherein the first communication device acts as a data source and the second communication device acts as a data sink, includes: splitting, by the data source, data to be transmitted from the data source to the data sink into a carrier signal for a radio channel and an optical carrier signal by modulating the carrier signals; transmitting the data via a hybrid transmission path from the data source to the data sink by simultaneously transmitting some of the data via the radio channel and some of the data via a wireless optical direct channel; and merging, by the data sink, via a demodulation process, the data transmitted via the radio channel and the data transmitted via the wireless optical direct channel.
US10153831B1
A method for resource allocation in a multi-beam satellite LTE network includes determining, via a communication processor, a per sub-frame resource block (RB) threshold value on a per-beam and per-LTE carrier basis, based on a total transmission power and shared power amplifiers available to multiple beams of a space vehicle while ensuring that power amplifiers operate in a linear amplification region. The method further includes communicating the LTE per subframe RB threshold value to a downlink LTE scheduler function within the eNode-B to ensure that the count of subframe level RB allocations is less than the determined LTE per subframe RB threshold value.
US10153830B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems, and machine-readable mediums for a dynamic shield system of cellular signals for an antenna of an unmanned aerial vehicle are disclosed. An example method may include receiving a navigation route for an unmanned aerial vehicle to execute during flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle and determining an orientation of a radio signal shield for an antenna of the unmanned aerial vehicle using ground level signal propagation information of radio signals for a network and the navigation route, wherein the radio signal shield prevents the radio signals from being received by the antenna from directions based on the orientation. The method may further include adjusting the radio signal shield using the orientation and communicating with a cellular base station of the network using the antenna.
US10153827B2
A communication apparatus includes a memory that stores data transmitted using a protocol that a transmission source receives a response indicating a reception status of data and transmits or retransmits the data based on the response, a transmitter that transfers the data stored in the memory to a transfer destination, and a controller that inhibits transmission of the response transmitted to the transmission source when a value pertaining to the data transfer to the transfer destination becomes a given range.
US10153816B2
Technology for communicating small data between a user equipment (UE) and an evolved node B (eNB) is described. The UE may communicate with the eNB to establish a small data radio bearer (SDRB), wherein the SDRB is used for communicating the small data from the UE to the eNB. The UE may enter a power saving mode according to a power saving configuration. The UE or the eNB may maintain UE context information for the SDRB while the UE is in the power saving mode. The SDRB may be reestablished using the UE context information when the UE awakes from the power saving mode to enable the UE to communicate the small data on the SDRB to the eNB.
US10153814B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a massive multiple-input multiple-output (M-MIMO) wireless distribution system (WDS) and related methods for optimizing the M-MIMO WDS. In one aspect, the M-MIMO WDS includes a plurality of remote units each deployed at a location and includes one or more antennas to serve a remote coverage area. At least one remote unit can have a different number of the antennas from at least one other remote unit in the M-MIMO WDS. In another aspect, a selected system configuration including the location and number of the antennas associated with each of the remote units can be determined using an iterative algorithm that maximizes a selected system performance indicator of the M-MIMO WDS. As such, it may be possible to optimize the selected system performance indicator at reduced complexity and costs, thus helping to enhance user experiences in the M-MIMO WDS.
US10153810B2
A wireless IC device includes a resin member including first and second surfaces, a substrate including first and second principal surfaces, a coil antenna provided in the resin member, and an RFIC element mounted on the substrate and connected to the coil antenna. The substrate is embedded in the resin member so that the second principal surface is at a second surface side. The coil antenna is defined by first linear conductor patterns on the second surface, first metal posts extending between the first and second surfaces, second metal posts extending between the first and second surfaces, and second linear conductor patterns on the first surface. The RFIC element is disposed in the coil antenna.
US10153807B1
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for communicating between an aircraft and a terminal when the aircraft is on the ground. The connection between the aircraft and the terminal is made over a ground power line while the aircraft is being supplied with power. The ground power line comprises one or more wires, which are typically unshielded and cause radio interference. At the transmitting end, multiple copies of the same signal offset in phase relative to one another over the ground power line. Each data stream is coupled to a respective wire in the ground power line. At the receiving end, the multiple copies of the signal are extracted from the respective wires of the ground power line and combined to generate a combined signal with improved signal-to-noise ratio. Radio interference is suppressed by transmitting the data streams in a phase offset manner so that the unwanted emissions cancel.
US10153804B2
Circuits and methods concerning signal detection are disclosed. In some example embodiments, an apparatus is configured to detect presence of a spreading sequence in a sample data sequence. Phase differences between samples in a sample sequence are determined. Presence of a spreading sequence in the sample sequence is detected by evaluating correlation of reference sub-sequences, of a reference spreading sequence, to the phase differences between samples in a sample sequence. Each of the reference sub-sequences includes fewer chips than the spreading sequence to be detected.
US10153798B2
An example system comprises a first antenna and a modem. The first antenna is configured to receive a signal from a transmitting radio frequency unit. The signal includes data and a known sequence. The modem is configured to retrieve the known sequence from the signal, transform the known sequence and the data into a frequency domain, calculate averages of groups of neighboring frequency points in the frequency domain to reduce the effect of nonlinear noise in the signal, the neighboring frequency points corresponding to the preamble in the frequency domain, compare the calculated averages to an expected frequency response in the frequency domain, determine a correction filter to apply to the data based on the comparison, apply the correction filter on the data in the frequency domain to create corrected data, transform the corrected data from the frequency domain to the time domain, and provide the data.
US10153797B2
A communication module includes a first switch circuit that receives a first or second received signal and that outputs the first received signal from a first terminal thereof or the second received signal from a second terminal thereof, a first low-noise amplifier that amplifies the first received signal, a second low-noise amplifier that amplifies the second received signal, a first filter circuit disposed between the first switch circuit and the first low-noise amplifier, and a second filter circuit disposed between the first switch circuit and the second low-noise amplifier. The first filter circuit has greater signal loss than the second filter circuit. A signal path from the first terminal of the first switch circuit to the first low-noise amplifier via the first filter circuit has a shorter length than that from the second terminal of the first switch circuit to the second low-noise amplifier via the second filter circuit.
US10153788B2
In one embodiment, a method includes reading a codeword stored to a memory, computing a syndrome word based on a product of the codeword and a parity check matrix derived from a linear block code, setting a flag to a first value indicating that the codeword includes no errors in response to a first determination requiring that the syndrome word is an all-zero vector, setting the flag to a second value indicating that the codeword includes exactly one single-bit error in response to a second determination requiring that the syndrome word equals a column of the parity check matrix, setting the flag to a third value indicating that the codeword includes an odd number of multiple bit errors in response to a third determination, and setting the flag to a fourth value indicating that the codeword includes an even number of multiple bit errors in response to a fourth determination.
US10153785B1
Techniques for improving the bit error rate (BER) performance of an error correction system are described. In an example, the error correction system implements generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) encoding and decoding. To generate a GLDPC codeword, the error correction system accesses data blocks. Each data block includes one or more bits. The error correction system also generates a first constituent codeword of the GLDPC codeword. The first constituent codeword encodes at least a data block from the data blocks and has a first length and a first error correction capability. The error correction system also generates a second constituent codeword of the GLDPC codeword. The second constituent codeword encodes at least the data block and has a second length and a second error correction capability. The second length is different from the first length. The second error correction capability is different from the first error correction capability.
US10153784B2
Integrated circuits, systems and methods are disclosed in which data bits protected by error correction code (ECC) detection and correction may be increased such that a combination of primary and additional bits may also be ECC protected using existing ECC allocation, without affecting ECC capabilities. For example, the additional bits may be encoded into phantom bits that are in turn used in combination with the primary bits, to generate an ECC. This ECC may then be combined with the primary bits to form a code word. The code word may be transmitted (or stored) so that when the data bits are received (or retrieved), assumed values of the phantom bits may be decoded, using the ECC, back into the additional bits without the phantom bits or the additional bits ever having transmitted (or stored).
US10153773B2
A method of calibrating a first oscillator (102) is disclosed. A temperature is measured to obtain a measured temperature value and a determination is made of whether said measured temperature value differs from at least one previously measured temperature value by more than a threshold amount. If said measured temperature does differ from at least one previously measured temperature by more than said threshold amount, a reference oscillator (108, 110) is used to calibrate the first oscillator (102).
US10153768B1
Input/output circuitry includes a first PMOS device and a first NMOS device having first current electrodes are connected to each other and a pad. First selection circuitry, when the I/O circuitry is disabled, provides a first supply voltage to a control electrode and an N-well of the first PMOS device when the pad voltage is between the first and second supply voltages and to directly provide the pad voltage to the control electrode and the N-well of the first PMOS device when the pad voltage is greater than the first supply voltage. Similarly, second selection circuitry, when the I/O circuitry is disabled, provides a second supply voltage or directly provides the pad voltage to a control electrode and a P-well of the first NMOS device depending on whether the pad voltage is between the first and second supply voltages or less than the second supply voltage, respectively.
US10153757B2
A three input voltage comparator provides termination of a pulse width modulation (PWM) output in a switched mode power supply. Shutdown of the PWM signal occurs when a sense current from the switching transistors exceeds either or both of the limit and error current references. The three input voltage comparator replaces the generally used two input voltage comparator and also eliminates the necessity of having to provide a voltage clamping circuit on the output of the voltage error amplifier in the switched mode power supply. The three input voltage comparator may also comprise selectable polarity control for more versatile integration of it into a switched mode power supply design.
US10153750B2
A filter package comprising an array of piezoelectric films sandwiched between lower electrodes and an array of upper electrodes covered by an array of silicon membranes with cavities thereover: the lower electrode being coupled to an interposer with a first cavity between the lower electrodes and the interposer; the array of silicon membranes having a known thickness and attached over the upper electrodes with an array of upper cavities, each upper cavity between a silicon membrane of the array and a common silicon cover; each upper cavity aligned with a piezoelectric film, an upper electrode and silicon membrane, the upper cavities having side walls comprising SiO2; the individual piezoelectric films, their upper electrodes and silicon membranes thereover being separated from adjacent piezoelectric films, upper electrodes and silicon membranes by a passivation material.
US10153742B2
An operational amplifier comprises: a first amplifier stage 4 comprising a first differential pair of transistors 8, 10 arranged to receive and amplify a differential input signal 18, 20 thereby providing a first differential output signal 22, 24; and a second amplifier stage 6 comprising a second differential pair of transistors 26, 28 arranged to receive and amplify the first differential output signal 22, 24 thereby providing a second differential output signal 38, 40.
US10153727B2
An oscillator includes a first output node and a second output node. There is a tank circuit coupled between the first output node and the second output node. There is a first transistor having a first node, a second node coupled to a current source, and a control node coupled to the second output node. There is a second transistor having a first node, a second node coupled to the current source, and a control node coupled to the first output node. There is a first inductor coupled in series between the first node of the first transistor and the first output node. There is a second inductor coupled in series between the first node of the second transistor and the second output node.
US10153725B2
A device includes a body and a rechargeable battery positioned within the body. A solar cell is coupled to the body and in communication with the battery. A connector is coupled to the body and configured to engage a corresponding connector of a fiber optic cable.
US10153724B2
A mounting unit for mounting a solar panel on a roof includes a base having a first flange and a second flange that extend laterally from the base and a mounting surface positioned above the base via walls that connect the mounting surface and the base. The mounting surface is couplable with the solar panel to elevate and orient the solar panel above a surface of the roof. The mounting unit also includes a flexible membrane material that is coupled with the first flange of the base and that extends laterally therefrom. The mounting unit further includes an adhesive or tape that is applied to an underside of the second flange so that the second flange is free of the flexible membrane material. The flexible membrane material is couplable with the roof and the adhesive or tape is adherable to the roof to secure the mounting unit to the roof.
US10153718B2
A first differential amplifier output drives a first winding of a stepper motor and a second differential amplifier output drives a second winding of the stepper motor. Inputs of the first and second differential amplifiers receive input drive signals generated by either a digital to analog converter or a pulse width modulator, where the input drive signals are phase offset sinusoids. Current flowing through a stepper motor winding is sensed to generate a current sense signal. A stall sensing circuit processes the current sense signal to determine whether the stepper motor has stalled by: taking a first derivative of the current sense signal to generate a first derivative signal; taking a second derivative of the current sense signal to generate a second derivative signal; and processing one or more of the current sense signal, the first derivative signal and the second derivative signal to detect a stepper motor stall condition.
US10153710B1
A power supply includes multiple power modules and a control circuit. Input terminals of the power modules are connected in star connection such that each power module receives a phase input voltage. Output terminals of the power modules are connected in parallel. Each power modules includes a first and a second converter. The first converter converts the phase input voltage into an intermediate bus voltage. The second converter outputs a DC supply voltage according to the intermediate bus voltage. The control circuit is coupled to the power modules and configured to output first and second driving signals to control the first and second converters in the power modules. A bus voltage average value is calculated by the control circuit according to the intermediate bus voltages of the power modules, and the first and the second driving signals for the power modules are generated according to the bus voltage average value.
US10153705B2
The present invention relates to methods for controlling a multi-channel power supply and to corresponding devices. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for controlling a multi-channel power supply is provided. Therein each channel comprises an intrinsic channel resistance and a resistor adjustable between a lowest resistance and a highest resistance. The method comprises the following steps: Measuring for each channel a measure indicative of a current in the respective channel; Adjusting, on the basis of the measures, the adjustable resistor in the channel having the highest intrinsic channel resistance to the lowest resistance; and Adjusting, on the basis of the measures, the adjustable resistor(s) in the remaining channel(s), such that currents in each channel are balanced. With it a concept of simultaneously performing current balancing and reduction of power dissipation is provided.
US10153700B2
A power converter for converting input power to output power includes a first transformer circuit, a second transformer circuit, and balance circuitry. The first transformer circuit includes a first primary winding for receiving a first part of the input power and a first secondary winding for generating a first part of the output power. The second transformer circuit includes a second primary winding for receiving a second part of the input power and a second secondary winding for generating a second part of the output power. The balance circuitry is coupled to a first terminal of the first secondary winding and a second terminal of the second secondary winding, and operable for balancing the first and second parts of the output power by passing a signal between the first and second terminals. The first and second terminals have the same polarity.
US10153698B1
A control system for transitioning a DC-DC voltage converter from a buck operational mode to a safe operational mode is provided. The DC-DC voltage converter has a DC-DC voltage converter control circuit with a high side integrated circuit and a low side integrated circuit. The high side integrated circuit has a first plurality of FET switches therein. The low side integrated circuit has a second plurality of FET switches therein. The control system includes a microcontroller having a digital input-output device, first and second applications, and a hardware abstraction layer. The first application sends a first command value to the hardware abstraction layer in order to transition the first and second plurality of FET switches to the open operational state.
US10153690B1
A bridgeless interleaved power factor corrector is used to convert an AC power source into a DC power source. The bridgeless interleaved power factor corrector includes a first conversion circuit, a second conversion circuit, a first power switch, a second power switch, a positive-half control switch, and a negative-half control switch. The first power switch is coupled to one of two positive-half operation units of the first conversion circuit and one of two negative-half operation units of the second conversion circuit. The second power switch is coupled to the other one of two positive-half operation units and the other one of two negative-half operation units. The positive-half control switch is coupled between a neutral end and a ground end, and the negative-half control switch is coupled between a line end and the ground end.
US10153682B2
Self-centering electromagnetic transducers, such as linear motors and generators, are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electromagnetic transducer includes an outer yoke made of a ferromagnetic material, and a coil assembly including a plurality of loops of electrically conductive wire, wherein the coil assembly is substantially surrounded by the outer yoke. The electromagnetic transducer further includes a magnet, and an inner yoke made of ferromagnetic material. The magnet is disposed within the outer yoke such that the coil assembly surrounds the magnet. The inner yoke is disposed within the magnet, and the magnet is free to translate. The electromagnetic transducer further includes at least one high-reluctance zone positioned within the outer yoke and/or the inner yoke. In some embodiments, the electromagnetic transducer includes one or more actuators that vary a width of one or more high-reluctance zones to change a spring rate of the electromagnetic transducer.
US10153677B2
A stator may include a stator yoke including one or more yoke portions extending along a circumferential direction of the stator yoke; and a cover configured of resin. The stator yoke may include: a contact part at which an end surface of one yoke portion among the one or more yoke portions in the circumferential direction contacts the other end surface of the one yoke portion in the circumferential direction; a first groove extending along an axial direction of the stator yoke in a vicinity of the contact part; and a second groove extending along the axial direction and disposed at a position spaced father away from the contact part than the first groove. The cover may include a filling that fills the first groove, and the second groove may be hollow.
US10153676B2
An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core, a stator winding, a first insulating frame, a number of first insulating elements, and a number of second insulating elements. The stator core includes a number of teeth. Adjacent teeth form a winding passage defining a winding opening. Each first insulating element is assembled within the corresponding winding passage. Two end portions of each second insulating element are placed over the corresponding winding opening.
US10153669B2
A device for preventing a vibration of a stator core for power generator includes: a ring-shaped fastening band installed to enclose an outer circumferential surface of a stator core to support the stator core; a plurality of key bars coupled with the fastening band to be coupled with the stator core; and a plurality of elastic portions coupled with the fastening band to insulate vibrations in a diameter direction and an outer circumferential direction of the stator core, in which a diameter of the fastening band is extendible.
US10153667B2
The disclosed technology relates to antenna configurations for wireless power transmission and supplemental visual signals. In some implementations, the disclosed technology includes a wireless power transmitter with boards that have multiple antennas physically coupled to the board. In some implementations, the antennas boards are arranged in a polygonal configuration (e.g., star shape). Additionally, in some implementations, the antennas can have different polarization configurations.
US10153664B2
A power transmitter includes: a first power transmission electrode having a flat surface; a second power transmission electrode that is spaced from the first power transmission electrode in a direction along the surface of the first power transmission electrode and has a flat surface; a power transmission circuit that is electrically connected to the first and second power transmission electrodes and outputs AC power to the first and second power transmission electrodes; a first conductive shield that is disposed between the first and second power transmission electrodes, the first conductive shield being spaced from each of the first and second power transmission electrodes; and at least one second conductive shield that is spaced from the first and second power transmission electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the first power transmission electrode and covers at least one of a first gap and a second gap, the first gap being disposed between the first power transmission electrode and the first shield, the second gap being disposed between the second power transmission electrode and the first shield.
US10153654B2
The disclosure generally relates to methods, system and apparatus to optimize wireless charging by providing user notification when wireless charging efficiency is compromised. In an exemplary embodiment, the charging efficiency value of a device under charge (DUC) is calculated. When the charging efficiency value drops below a predefined threshold, the user is notified to relocate the DUC to a new location with respect to the Power Transmission Unit (PTU) to enhance charging efficiency. In another embodiment, a PTU charging efficiency map is generated to help guide the user for optimal wireless charging.
US10153653B1
The embodiments described herein include a transmitter that transmits a power transmission signal (e.g., radio frequency (RF) signal waves) to create a three-dimensional pocket of energy. At least one receiver can be connected to or integrated into electronic devices and receive power from the pocket of energy. A wireless power network may include a plurality of wireless power transmitters each with an embedded wireless power transmitter manager, including a wireless power manager application. The wireless power network may include a plurality of client devices with wireless power receivers. Wireless power receivers may include a power receiver application configured to communicate with the wireless power manager application. The wireless power manager application may include a device database where information about the wireless power network may be stored.
US10153648B2
A method and apparatus for implementing a charging process is provided. The method includes determining that a charging surface of a mobile device is currently located on a charging surface of a structure including a charging apparatus. The charging surface of the mobile device includes charge receiving contacts electrically connected to a battery and a processor. The charging surface of the structure includes charging contacts electrically connected to a charging circuit and in communication with a controller. The processor determines that at least two contacts of the charge receiving contacts are in electro/mechanical contact with at least two contacts of the charging contacts and in response, a negotiation process with the controller with respect to selecting at least one associated charging voltage and polarity for charging the battery is executed resulting in a charging process between the charging circuit and the battery being enabled.
US10153639B2
One example discloses an apparatus for power management, including: a current sink/source sensor configured to monitor a power-supply to inter-power-domain sink/source-current and to generate a current mismatch signal if the power-supply to inter-power-domain sink/source-current exceeds a threshold range; and a current imbalance controller coupled to receive the current mismatch signal and configured to generate a set of power-domain control signals; wherein the set of power-domain control signals reduce an absolute value of the power-supply to inter-power-domain sink/source-current.
US10153627B1
The invention provides a bottomless cable cover for power and communications cables. The cable cover is characterized in part by a traffic portion and asymmetrically disposed support rails. The materials, dimensions, and aspect ratios enable faster, more adaptable, and larger-scale protection of power and communications cables that are laid on floors, without impeding hard or heavy traffic. Cable covers according to the present invention also enable decorative use.
US10153598B2
Provided is a charging connector (11) including a terminal (15), a housing (13) which is formed with a lance (33) which prevents the terminal (15) in a terminal receiving chamber 29 from slipping, a front holder (21) which abuts on the lance (33) which prevents slipping of the terminal (15) so as to regulate an engagement release of the lance (33), and a thermistor element (17) which is pressed and biased by the front holder (21) to be brought into close contact with the terminal (15) directly or through a molding resin material.
US10153581B2
A system for providing marine shore power to a vessel regardless of the configuration of the shore power source or the configuration of any socket installed on the shore power source is disclosed. A vessel plug, which is intended to be installed on a vessel's shore power cable, has a male adapter component which accepts a plurality of adapters. The plurality of adapter each have a female socket component and a male adapter component. The male plug component of the vessel plug is compatible with and plugs into the female socket component of each of the plurality of adapters. Each of the male adapter components of the plurality of components are each configured differently so as to enable a vessel to connect to a shore power source regardless of the configuration of the shore power source or the configuration of any socket installed on the shore power source.
US10153576B2
In an imaging device, an electric connection is achieved in which a pressing force of a terminal of a substrate-side connector does not act on a substrate stored in a housing. Harness connection terminals have inner-surface contact pieces each shaped like a flat plate and extending along an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical peripheral wall of a rear housing. Terminals of a connector have press contact portions in press contact with the inner-surface contact pieces in a radial direction of the cylindrical peripheral wall. The pressing force of the press contact portions acts in the radial direction of the cylindrical peripheral wall, but does not act in the plate thickness direction of the substrate. This avoids warpage of the substrate.
US10153575B2
A conductor connection contact element for clamping an electrical conductor having at least one resilient force clamping connection. At least one first SMD-solder contact is arranged on an assembly face of the conductor connection contact element and configured for soldering to a contact surface. A conductor inserting region is formed by a sheet metal part of the conductor connection contact element. At least one conductor guiding base is oriented so as to form a guiding surface for the electrical conductor that is to be inserted. A material portion of the sheet metal part is adapted to be bent over at least one curved region to form a first SMD-solder contact and a region of the conductor guiding base that is oriented in an oblique manner with respect to the conductor inserting direction is adjacent to the at least one curved region.
US10153568B2
A press-fit terminal and a manufacturing method for the same that enable plating on the surface of a pressure contact part to be in a stable state is provided. A first pressing part on a lateral edge apart from a slit and a first raised part projects further on one side than the first pressing part between the slit and the first pressing part are provided in a central portion of a first elastic pressure contact piece, with a pressure contact part being the first raised part, and a second pressing part 36 on a lateral edge apart from the slit and a second raised part that projects further on the other side than the second pressing part between the slit and the second pressing part are provided in a central portion of a second elastic pressure contact piece, with a pressure contact part being the second raised part.
US10153567B2
The disclosure relates to a contact element consisting of a press-in section which is formed by two adjacently running shanks. The shanks are connected to one another in a firmly bonded manner at their upper shank ends by a connection section. The shanks run subsequently substantially parallel to one another in an upper section and then at first away from one another in a middle section and then run back onto one another again and then run parallel and adjacently again in a lower section and are again connected to one another in a firmly bonded manner at their other end on the insertion side by an introductory section. At the transition of the connection section to the upper section the interval A of the two shanks is greater at least in a partial area, preferably over the entire thickness in the direction transverse to the previously cited direction of width of the contact element than the interval in the upper section.
US10153564B1
A terminal block fastening device (100) includes a body (110) and a locking handle (200). The body (110) includes a socket (124) for insertion of a printed circuit board (10) and two through holes (128) perpendicular to the socket (124). The locking handle (200) is installed in the body (110). The locking handle (200) has a force arm (230), a fastening portion (202) connected to one end of the force arm (230), a pivot point (220) connected to the other end of the force arm (230), and a resilient arm (210) disposed between the fastening portion (202) and the force arm (230). The fastening portion (202) is operatively associated with the resilient arm (210) to move between a locked state (L) and a released state (R), so that the anti-pull-out effect on the printed circuit board (10) is improved.
US10153559B1
Antenna system includes an elongated antenna feed tower structure having a tower base at one end which includes a plurality of feet arranged to align with a plurality of predetermined structural mounting points associated with a space vehicle bus. The antenna system also includes a deployable reflector assembly comprising a hub ring. The hub ring includes a reflector deployment mechanism around which a plurality of reflector ribs are disposed. The hub ring is advantageously arranged to engirdle the feed tower assembly. As such, the central aperture is configured to receive the feed tower assembly therein after the feed tower has already been mounted to the space vehicle.
US10153557B2
A first dipole antenna is included in a first layer of a dielectric substrate, a second dipole antenna which excites polarized waves in a direction orthogonal to a direction of polarized waves excited by the first dipole antenna is included in a second layer. Power is supplied from a first power supply line to the first dipole antenna and from a second power supply line to the second dipole antenna. The operating frequencies of the first dipole antenna and the second dipole antenna are the same as each other. A distance from an intermediate point between two power supply points of the first dipole antenna to an intermediate point between two power supply points of the second dipole antenna is no greater than an effective wavelength of the operating frequency. At least one of the first power supply line and the second power supply line has a triplate structure.
US10153556B2
A printed millimeter wave dipole antenna and techniques for designing such an antenna are disclosed. In one embodiment, the dipole antenna comprises: a signal wing and at least one ground wing for propagating signals in a millimeter wave band; and an unbalanced feeding structure directly coupled to the signal wing. The unbalanced feeding structure is boarded by a plurality of escorting vias to ensure equipotential grounds.
US10153545B2
The present disclosure is directed to a seeker system having an infrared (IR) sensor pedestal, an IR sensor disposed on the IR pedestal and a plurality of radio frequency (RF) antenna elements symmetrically disposed in a circumferential direction around the IR sensor pedestal. The seeker system further includes a plurality of RF waveguiding structures. In an embodiment, each of the RF waveguiding structures have first and second ends and are symmetrically disposed in a circumferential direction around the IR sensor pedestal such that in response to an RF signal incident on a first end of the waveguiding structure, the RF signal is provided to one of the plurality of RF antenna elements such that in response to an RF signal incident on the seeker system from any direction, each of the plurality of RF antenna elements receive the RF signal with a desired phase characteristic.
US10153543B2
An off-road vehicle includes a body having at least one fender positioned over at least one wheel or track of the off-road vehicle. The at least one wheel or track is configured to engage a ground surface. The off-road vehicle also includes at least one spatial locating antenna positioned beneath the at least one fender. A top side of the at least one fender is positioned above the at least one spatial locating antenna relative to the ground surface, and the top side extends beyond a lateral extent and a longitudinal extent of the at least one spatial locating antenna.
US10153540B2
Antennas, antenna systems, and communications devices are described that provide an antenna utilizing a fractal and/or self-similar conductive element that is novel and inventive in that its small in size and exhibits multiple-band or wideband frequency coverage which allows a miniature communications device incorporating the antenna to operate (e.g., function) with wide-band capabilities in close-proximity to a user's body and in form factor suitable for wearing by the user. As noted above, previous size and performance limitations of prior art antennas/devices were poor and made those devices either of limited utility or inoperable.
US10153536B2
In one aspect, a Y-splitter includes a first arm having a first port, a second arm having a second port, a third arm having a third port, a fourth arm having a fourth port and a Y-split portion having a first end coupled to the first arm, a second end coupled to the second arm, a third end coupled to the third arm and a fourth end coupled to the fourth arm. The Y-split portion splits a signal from a first signal path from the first port into a second signal on a second signal path and a third signal on a third signal path. A first angle between the second signal path and the first signal path is greater than 90 degrees and a second angle between the third signal path and the first signal path is greater than 90 degrees.
US10153533B2
A function varying a wavelength in a waveguide including a ridge-shaped conductor and columnar conductors in a parallel flat structure is added to reduce a size of a phase shifter in which input and output ports are fixed. Thus, a phased array antenna including a plurality of phase shifters is reduced in size. A plurality of convex shapes or concave shapes are provided on a conductor plate on a side not including a ridge-shaped conductor and columnar conductors. A mechanism that moves the conductor plate in a direction crossing a direction in which the ridge-shaped conductor extends is applied. After the convex shapes or the concave shapes are changed by a fixed number between phase shifters adjacent to each other, conductor plates are respectively configured by single members. A mechanism that relatively moves the conductor plates in the direction crossing the direction in which the ridge-shaped conductor extends of the phase shifter is applied.
US10153519B2
The invention is drawn to a lithium-ion battery containing a packaging material, an anode current collector, an anode electrode, a separator, a cathode electrode, and a cathode current collector, wherein those components are layered to form a planar battery. The planar battery is folded using rigid origami, such as Miura folding, to yield a folded, deformable lithium-ion battery.
US10153512B2
An electrolyte solution contains a non-aqueous solvent and an alkali metal salt dissolved in the non-aqueous solvent. The non-aqueous solvent contains a linear carboxylate represented by the following formula: where R1 and R2 independently represent an aromatic group, an unsaturated aliphatic group, or a saturated aliphatic group. A battery includes the electrolyte solution, a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material that has a property of occluding and releasing an alkali metal ion, and a negative electrode containing an alkali metal or a negative electrode active material that has a property of occluding and releasing the alkali metal ion.
US10153511B2
Nanoelectrofuel compositions include a plurality of electroactive surface-treated or surface modified nanoparticles dispersed in an electrolyte or self suspended and exhibit fluid characteristics are provided. A Redox flow cell may employ the nanoelectrofuels compositions, wherein the redox flow cell includes a first inlet and a first outlet in fluid communication with a first half-cell body, a second inlet and a second outlet in fluid communication with a second half-cell body, a third cell body, and an ion-conductive membrane separating the first half-cell body from the second half-cell body and defining the second half-cell body.
US10153502B2
State of charge determination within electrochemical systems, such as flow batteries, can often be difficult to measure, particularly in an in situ manner. Methods for assaying the condition of an electrochemical system can include: interacting electromagnetic radiation with a first electrolyte solution at a location within the electrochemical system, the electromagnetic radiation being delivered through an optical material configured to exhibit attenuated total reflectance at an interface between the optical material and the first electrolyte solution; receiving at a detector electromagnetic radiation that has interacted with the first electrolyte solution via one or more attenuated total reflectances within the optical material; and measuring an absorbance of at least one of an oxidized form or a reduced form of a first coordination compound within the first electrolyte solution via the electromagnetic radiation that is received at the detector.
US10153499B2
A bipolar plate assembly and fuel cell stack with reduced leakage and a method of assembling a bipolar plate and fuel cell stack. The bipolar plates include—in addition to reactant channels and coolant channels that are fluidly coupled to inlet and outlet flowpaths, integrally-formed seals to help reduce leakage by maintaining fluid isolation of the reactants and coolant as they flow through their respective channels and flowpaths. The size and shape of the seals promotes secure plate-to-plate contact, even during plate side-to-side misalignment that can occur when arranging the various plates into the stack.
US10153498B2
An anode-side separator 120 includes first grooves 202 and second grooves 204 that are located alternately in a separator central region 121 opposed to a power generation region 112 of a MEGA 110 by formation of a plurality of pit-and-bump stripes provided by press molding. The first grooves 202 extend in the separator central region 121 on the gas surface side of the anode-side separator 120, while the second grooves 204 extend in the separator central region 121 on the cooling surface side opposite to the as surface side. Terminal first grooves 202t that are first grooves 202 extending on the outer edge portion 123 side outside the separator central region have lower terminal-side rising height Ht than the other first grooves 202 positioned on the separator central region 121 side.
US10153486B2
A positive electrode material includes: Li2NiαM1βM2γMnηO4-ε; a layered structure including a Li layer and a Ni layer; and a chemical bond of M2-O. α satisfies an equation of 0.50<α≤1.33. β satisfies an equation of 0≤β<0.67. γ satisfies an equation of 0.33≤γ≤1.1. η satisfies an equation of 0≤η≤1.00. ε satisfies an equation of 0≤ε≤1.00. M1 represents at least one selected from Co and Ga. M2 represents at least one selected from Ge, Sn and Sb.
US10153483B2
Compositions, and methods of obtaining them, useful for lithium ion batteries comprising discrete oxidized carbon nanotubes having attached to their surface lithium ion active materials in the form of nanometer sized crystals or layers. The composition can further comprise graphene or oxygenated graphene.
US10153476B2
The present application relates to an electrode tab pad plate, the electrode tab pad plate is of a fork shape, including a joint part and two first fork feet, the two first fork feet are arranged in parallel, and a first gap is provided between the two first fork feet, both the first fork feet are connected with the joint part. The electrode tab pad plate provided by the present application, through gathering the electrode tabs at inner sides of the electrode tab pad plate, so that the electrode tabs are gathered toward the direction away from the battery housing, so as to guarantee the safety performance of the Li-ion battery, since the space occupied by the electrode tab pad plate is small, which facilitates the improvement of the cell capacity, thereby improving the performance of the battery.
US10153471B2
Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte solution, in which the separator contains 0.02 to 0.11 wt % of sulfur relative to the weight of the separator.
US10153464B2
A battery cover (1) covers an outer periphery of a fuse unit (13) connected to, through a battery terminal (11), a battery post (9) projecting in a recess (7) formed on an upper surface (5) of a battery (3). The battery cover (1) has a fuse cover part (15) covering the outer periphery of the fuse unit (13), and a terminal cover part (17). The terminal cover part (17) is connected to the fuse cover part (15) to be capable of being opened and closed, is arranged in the recess (7), and covers the battery post (9) and the battery terminal (11). The terminal cover part (17) is provided with a regulating portion (19) so as to regulate a movement of the terminal cover part (17) in a closing direction by coming in contact with the upper surface (5) of the battery (3).
US10153459B2
An optoelectronic package includes a substrate, a light emitting chip, an optical sealant, and an optical scattering layer. The substrate has a carrying plane and a wiring layer formed on the carrying plane. The light emitting chip used for emitting a light ray is mounted on the carrying plane and electrically connected to the wiring layer. The optical sealant covers the carrying plane and wraps the light emitting chip. The optical sealant is located in the path of the light ray. The optical scattering layer covers the optical sealant. The optical sealant located in the path of the light ray is formed between the substrate and the optical scattering layer. Preferably, the refractive index of the optical sealant is larger than or equal to the refractive index of the optical scattering layer.
US10153457B2
A flexible display device comprises a flexible substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a display layer in the display area on a first surface of the flexible substrate; a polarizing plate on the display layer; and a cover coat in the non-display area on the first surface of the flexible substrate, the cover coat including a first end portion overlapping with the polarizing plate. At least a portion of the non-display area of the flexible substrate and the cover coat are bendable in a bending direction.
US10153455B2
A manufacturing method of a display device in an embodiment according to the present invention, the method includes forming a terminal electrode in a terminal part of a first substrate, forming a pixel electrode corresponding to each pixel in a pixel part of the first substrate, forming a first intermediate layer in a region including the terminal electrode of the terminal part, forming an organic layer above the pixel electrode in the pixel part, forming a counter electrode layer above the first substrate including the pixel part and the terminal part, forming a passivation layer above the counter electrode layer, arranging a second substrate opposing the pixel part and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate using a sealing member enclosing the pixel part, and removing the first intermediate layer, the counter electrode layer and the passivation layer in the terminal part.
US10153448B2
A display device is provided including a first electrodes arranged in a matrix shape above an insulation surface, a bank covering an end part of the first electrode and having an opening part exposing an upper surface of the first electrode, an organic layer covering the opening part and including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode covering the bank and the organic layer, wherein the bank has an upper surface part and an inclined part between the upper surface part and an opening in the bank, and a surface of the inclined part has a plurality of concave and convex parts.
US10153430B1
Systems and methods for providing a Barrier Modulated Cell (BMC) structure with reduced shifting in stored memory cell resistance levels over time are described. The BMC structure may comprise a reversible resistance-switching memory element within a memory array comprising a first conductive metal oxide (e.g., titanium oxide) in series with an alternating stack of one or more layers of an amorphous low bandgap material (e.g., germanium) with one or more layers of a second conductive metal oxide (e.g., aluminum oxide). The BMC structure may include a barrier layer comprising a first conductive metal oxide, such as titanium oxide or strontium titanate, in series with a germanium stack that includes a layer of amorphous germanium or amorphous silicon germanium paired with a second conductive metal oxide. The second conductive metal oxide (e.g., aluminum oxide) may be different from the first conductive metal oxide (e.g., titanium oxide).
US10153428B2
Disclosed technology relates generally to integrated circuits, and more particularly, to structures incorporating and methods of forming metal lines including tungsten and carbon, such as conductive lines for memory arrays. In one aspect, a memory device comprises a lower conductive line extending in a first direction and an upper conductive line extending in a second direction and crossing the lower conductive line, wherein at least one of the upper and lower conductive lines comprises tungsten and carbon. The memory device additionally comprises a memory cell stack interposed at an intersection between the upper and lower conductive lines. The memory cell stack includes a first active element over the lower conductive line and a second active element over the first active element, wherein one of the first and second active elements comprises a storage element and the other of the first and second active elements comprises a selector element. The memory cell stack further includes an electrode interposed between the at least one of the upper and lower conductive lines and the closer of the first and second active elements.
US10153413B2
A light-emitting device includes a base, a light-emitting element, and reflecting elements. The light-emitting element is mounted on the base. The reflecting elements are arranged around the light-emitting element to reflect light emitted by the light-emitting element. Each of the reflecting elements includes a core and a dielectric multilayer film. The dielectric multilayer film covers the core and has a thickness to reflect a wavelength of the light emitted by the light-emitting element.
US10153408B2
A light-emitting apparatus includes a first relay line and a second relay line. The first and second relay lines are disposed between a first region and a second region of a substrate. Further, the first and second relay lines extend at least partially parallel to each other in a second direction that crosses a first direction in which the first region and the second region are aligned. The first relay line electrically connects a first light-emitting element group disposed in the first region and a third light-emitting element group disposed in the second region. The second relay line electrically connects a second light-emitting element group disposed in the first region and a fourth light-emitting element group disposed in the second region.
US10153407B2
A packaging method of high color gamut white light quantum dot (QD) light emitting diodes (LEDs). The method includes: a. add an organic solvent to red light QD phosphor powder and blue light QD phosphor powder, respectively; b. perform ultrasonic processing for the solutions; c. prepare a mixed QD solution; d. add mixed packaging glue to the mixed QD solution; e. remove the organic solvent; f. add green light rare earth phosphor powder; g. drip the mixed phosphor glue into an LED stent fixed with ultraviolet chips, and bake and solidify the LED stent to obtain LED beads. The method produces high gamut white light LEDs and greatly improves the color gamut value of LED backlight beads, which reaches above NTSC 92%. With an organic solvent as a connecting bridge, QDs and the packaging glue are mixed uniformly, QD phosphor powder failure resulted from agglomeration is avoided, and quality of high color gamut white light LED beads is significantly improved.
US10153394B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first-type doped semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, a second-type doped semiconductor layer comprising AlxInyGa1-x-yN layers, at least one GaN based layer, and an ohmic contact layer. The light emitting layer is disposed on the first-type doped semiconductor layer, and the second-type doped semiconductor layer is disposed on the light emitting layer. The AlxInyGa1-x-yN layers stacked on the light emitting layer, where 0
US10153389B2
The present invention relates to a glass, in particular a glass for the joining of glass panes for the production of vacuum insulating glasses at processing temperatures ≤420° C., to the corresponding composite glass, and to the corresponding glass paste. Moreover, the present invention relates to a vacuum insulating glass produced using the glass paste according to the invention, to the production process thereof, and to the use of the inventive glass and/or composite glass, and glass paste. The glass according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises the following components, in units of mol-%: V2O5 5-58 mol-%, TeO2 40-90 mol-%, and at least one oxide selected from ZnO 38-52 mol-%, or Al2O3 1-25 mol %, or MoO3 1-10 mol-%, or WO3 1-10 mol-%, or a combination thereof.
US10153383B2
An apparatus and method that controls the power produced by a string of solar cells, enabling the string to operate at its maximum power point when connected to a bus that operates at an externally controlled voltage. The apparatus and method can also be used to increase or decrease the output power of a string to any desired operating point.
US10153382B2
A mechanical memory transistor includes a substrate having formed thereon a source region and a drain region. An oxide is formed upon a portion of the source region and upon a portion of the drain region. A pull up electrode is positioned above the substrate such that a gap is formed between the pull up electrode and the substrate. A movable gate has a first position and a second position. The movable gate is located in the gap between the pull up electrode and the substrate. The movable gate is in contact with the pull up electrode when the movable gate is in a first position and is in contact with the oxide to form a gate region when the movable gate is in the second position. The movable gate, in conjunction with the source region and the drain region and when the movable gate is in the second position, form a transistor that can be utilized as a non-volatile memory element.
US10153377B2
The present disclosure proposes a dual-gate thin film transistor and manufacturing method thereof and an array substrate. A manufacturing method includes: forming a first gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and an etch stop layer on a first substrate sequentially; forming a drain electrode, an independent electrode, and a source electrode on the exposed semiconductor layer; forming an insulating passivation layer on surfaces of the exposed etch stop layer, the drain electrode, the source electrode, and the independent electrode; and forming a second gate electrode on the insulating passivation layer in an area corresponding to the first gate electrode. The present disclosure can resolve the leakage current problem caused by the effective channel length between the source electrode and the drain electrode to improve the electrical properties of the dual-gate thin film transistor and improve its stability. The present disclosure can simplifies processes and reduce cost.
US10153362B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an enhancement mode Group III-nitride-based High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) including a drain, a gate, a barrier layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer arranged on the channel layer, and a heterojunction formed between the barrier layer and the channel layer and capable of supporting a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). At least one of a thickness and a composition of the barrier layer is configured to decrease a 2DEG density in a channel region compared with a 2DEG density outside of the channel region, wherein the channel region is arranged under the gate and extends a distance d beyond a drain-sided gate edge.
US10153355B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate, a fin structure, a metal gate and a first polysilicon strip. The fin structure is on the substrate. The metal gate is over the fin structure and is substantially perpendicular to the fin structure. The first polysilicon strip is at a first edge of the fin structure and is substantially parallel to the metal gate.
US10153354B2
The present invention provides a TFT substrate manufacturing method, which includes first forming a graphene semiconductor active layer on a metal foil, then sequentially forming an inorganic insulation layer and an organic base on the graphene semiconductor active layer, followed by turning up-side down to set the metal foil on a topmost layer, then forming a photoresist layer, through a patterning operation, on the metal foil and subjecting the metal foil to etching to form a source electrode and a drain electrode, then sequentially forming an organic insulation layer and a gate electrode conductor layer on the photoresist layer and the graphene semiconductor active layer, and finally, applying a photoresist peeling agent to remove the photoresist layer with portions of the organic insulation layer and the gate electrode conductor layer located thereon removed therewith so as to obtain patterned gate insulation layer and gate electrode. The manufacturing method involves an operation of turning up-side down to to allow the metal foil that is used to deposit a graphene film to be re-used as an electrode material for formation of the source and drain electrodes so that an effect of lowering down manufacturing cost and simplifying operations can be achieved. And, through application of lift-off technique, only one mask is necessary to obtain patterned source electrode, drain electrode, and gate electrode.
US10153350B2
The bottom surface of the trench is provided so that a center part of the bottom surface protrudes upward with respect to a peripheral part of the bottom surface in a short direction. A thickness of the gate insulating film covering the peripheral part is thicker than a thickness of the gate insulating film covering the center part.
US10153348B1
In an example, a memory may have a group of series-coupled memory cells, where a memory cell of the series-coupled memory cells has an access gate, a control gate coupled to the access gate, and a dielectric stack between the control gate and a semiconductor. The dielectric stack is to store a charge.
US10153341B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device comprising horizontal nanowires is described. An example method involves providing a semiconductor structure comprising at least one fin, where the fin includes an alternating stack of layers of sacrificial material and nanowire material, and where the semiconductor structure includes a dummy gate partly covering the stack of layers. The method further involves at least partly removing the sacrificial material, in between the layers of nanowire material, next to the dummy gate thereby forming a void. Still further, the method involves providing spacer material within the void thereby forming an internal spacer. Yet still further the method involves removing the dummy gate, and selectively removing the sacrificial material in that part of the fin which was covered by the dummy gate, thereby releasing the nanowires. The internal spacer is provided before removing the dummy gate and the sacrificial material to release the nanowires.
US10153338B2
A method of forming a device includes forming a through via extending into a substrate. The method further includes forming a first insulating layer over the surface of the substrate. The method further includes forming a first metallization layer in the first insulating layer and electrically connected to the through via. The method further includes forming a capacitor over the first metallization layer, wherein the capacitor comprises a first capacitor dielectric layer and a second capacitor dielectric layer. The method further includes depositing a continuous second insulating layer over the first insulating layer. The capacitor is within the second insulating layer. The method further includes depositing a third insulating layer over the second insulating layer. The method further includes forming a second metallization layer in the third insulating layer. A bottom surface of the second metallization layer is below a bottom surface of the third insulating layer.
US10153316B2
An image-sensor device is provided. The image-sensor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a radiation-sensing region in the semiconductor substrate. The image-sensor device also includes a doped isolation region adjacent to the radiation-sensing region. The image-sensor device further includes a dielectric film extending into the doped isolation region from a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A portion of the doped isolation region is between the dielectric film and the radiation-sensing region.
US10153309B2
A manufacturing method of a display panel disclosed by the invention includes: providing a substrate, the substrate having a first metal layer disposed thereon, the substrate including a first display region and a first peripheral region, the first metal layer covering the first display region and the first peripheral region; laying a photoresist layer on the first metal layer to form a first half-finished plate; exposing and developing the first half-finished plate to form a second half-finished plate with first and second preset patterns; etching and stripping the second half-finished plate to form a first preset metal wire group on the first display region and form a second preset metal wire group on the first peripheral region. The invention can significantly reduce the occurrence of electrostatic discharge phenomenon during the manufacturing process of a display panel and thus the yield of the display panel can be greatly improved.
US10153307B2
A semiconductor device is provided in which ESD is less likely to occur in a manufacturing process thereof. In manufacture of a semiconductor device including a long lead wiring A, during steps with direct exposure to a plasma atmosphere, a plurality of island-shaped wirings is formed for the wiring A and then electrically connected to one another in series. Specifically, a plurality of island-shaped wirings is formed, covered with an insulating layer, and electrically connected to one another in series by a wiring formed over the insulating layer. The island-shaped wiring and the wiring formed over the insulating layer are electrically connected to each other through an opening formed in the insulating layer.
US10153302B2
A method for manufacturing a pixel structure is provided. A patterned semiconductor material layer, an insulation material layer, and a gate electrode material layer are formed in sequence on a substrate to form a stacked structure. A patterned photoresist layer is formed on the stacked structure by using a photomask. A portion of the stacked structure is removed to pattern the patterned semiconductor material layer into a patterned semiconductor layer by using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask. Another portion of the stacked structure is etched by using a portion of the patterned photoresist layer as a mask until a portion of the semiconductor layer in the stacked structure is exposed. Then, an exposed portion of the semiconductor layer is modified to increase a conductivity of the exposed portion of the semiconductor layer. Finally, the patterned photoresist layer is removed. A pixel structure manufactured by the method is provided.
US10153283B2
Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The devices may include a substrate including a first impurity region and second impurity regions spaced apart from the first impurity region and a conductive line. The conductive line may extend in a first direction and may be electrically connected to the first impurity region. The devices may also include first conductive contacts on a side of the conductive line and arranged in the first direction and first insulation patterns on the side of the conductive line and arranged in the first direction. The first conductive contacts may be electrically connected to the second impurity regions. The first conductive contacts and the first insulation patterns may be alternately disposed along the first direction. Top surfaces of the first insulation patterns may be lower than a top surface of the conductive line relative to an upper surface of the substrate.
US10153279B2
A compact and reliable changeable negative voltage transmission circuit is described. It is very useful for applications need passing changeable negative voltage to selected pins in certain mode. The changeable negative voltage is 0V when enable signal EN is low and −V1 when enable signal EN is high. The circuit includes a control circuit and an output circuit. The control circuit includes a control high power source VDD and a control low power source VNEG. The control circuit generates control output signals CON and CON_B to the output circuit to output either 0V if IN is low or −V1 if IN is high when EN is high. Only single type VT transistor is used in the transmission circuit without any reliability concern, no extra bias voltage is need, which reduces the area and keeps the manufacturing cost low.
US10153246B2
There is provided a method for producing a member for semiconductor device which can reduce generation of a large number of voids in a solder-bonded portion without increasing production cost. The method includes the step of preparing a first member including a metal portion capable of being bonded by solder and the step of coating the surface of the metal portion of the first member with a treatment agent to form a treated coating which vaporizes at a temperature lower than or equal to the solidus temperature of the solder.
US10153245B2
Provided is a semiconductor device which can be prevented from increasing in size. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface and a wiring substrate over which the semiconductor chip is mounted such that the second main surface of the semiconductor chip faces a first main surface of the wiring substrate. Over the second main surface of the semiconductor chip, a plurality of first terminals connected with a first circuit and a plurality of second terminals connected with a second circuit are arranged. An arrangement pattern of the plurality of first terminals and an arrangement pattern of the plurality of second terminals include the same arrangement pattern. In a region of the wiring substrate where the first circuit is close to the second circuit when viewed from the first main surface of the semiconductor chip, a voltage line which supplies a power supply voltage to the first circuit is formed. In a region of the wiring substrate where the second circuit is close to the first circuit, a voltage line which supplies the power supply voltage to the second circuit is formed.
US10153237B2
A chip package including a substrate that has a first surface and a second surface opposite thereto is provided. The substrate includes a chip region and a scribe line region that extends along the edge of the chip region. The chip package further includes a dielectric layer disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The dielectric layer corresponding to the scribe line region has a through groove that extends along the extending direction of the scribe line region. A method of forming the chip package is also provided.
US10153236B2
A semiconductor device is provided, the semiconductor device having: a semiconductor chip; a wiring substrate which supports the semiconductor chip and is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip; a first metal plate which supports the wiring substrate; a second metal plate which is arranged between the wiring substrate and the first metal plate; a first bonding part which bonds the wiring substrate and the second metal plate; and a second bonding part which bonds the first metal plate and the second metal plate, and having a thickness of an outer circumferential part of the second metal plate being larger than a thickness of a center part of the second metal plate.
US10153232B2
A crack stop structure for an integrated circuit (IC) structure is disclosed. The structure can include: a first crack stop pillar laterally separated from a second crack stop pillar within an insulator region of the IC structure. The first crack stop pillar can include an overlapping via in contact with a top surface and at least one side surface of a first conductive element therebelow. The overlapping via of the first crack stop pillar may be in a given layer of the IC structure, and the second crack stop pillar may include a via in the given layer, the via extending to a different depth than the overlapping via. The via of the second crack stop pillar may be an overlapping via in contact with a top surface and at least one side surface of a second conductive element therebelow.
US10153228B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and includes a first conductive layer formed on the second main surface. A through hole penetrates through the semiconductor substrate from the first main surface to the second main surface, so that the first conductive layer formed on the second main surface is exposed at a bottom portion of the through hole. A seed layer is formed on a side surface of the through hole from the bottom portion of the through hole to the first main surface; a second conductive layer is formed on the seed layer; and a third conductive layer is selectively formed on the second conductive layer.
US10153220B2
A packaged electronic system comprises a slab (210) of low-grade silicon (l-g-Si) configured as ridges (114) framing a depression of depth (112) including a recessed central area suitable to accommodate semiconductor chips and embedded electrical components, the depth at least equal to the thickness of the chips and the components, the ridge covered by system terminals (209b) connected to attachment pads in the central area; and semiconductor chips (120, 130) having a thickness and terminals on at least one of opposing chip sides, the chips terminals attached to the central area terminals so that the opposite chip side is coplanar with the system terminals on the slab ridge.
US10153217B2
A plasma processing apparatus including a processing chamber, a radio frequency power source, a monitoring unit, and a calculation unit is provided. In the processing chamber, etching target film is etched by using plasma. The radio frequency power source supplies radio frequency electric power. The monitoring unit monitors light emission of the plasma. The calculation unit estimates an etching amount of plasma etching of the etching target film based on an emission intensity and a correlation between the etching amount of the etching target film and the emission intensity, the emission intensity being obtained when removing, by using the plasma, a deposition film deposited as a result of the plasma etching.
US10153213B2
An electronic device can include a semiconductor layer having a primary surface, a drift region adjacent to the primary surface, a drain region adjacent to the drift region and extending deeper into the semiconductor layer as compared to the drift region, a resurf region spaced apart from the primary surface, an insulating layer overlying the drain region, and a contact extending through the insulating layer to the drain region. In an embodiment, the drain region can include a sinker region that allows a bulk breakdown to the resurf region to occur during an overvoltage event where the bulk breakdown occurs outside of the drift region, and in a particular embodiment, away from a shallow trench isolation structure or other sensitive structure.
US10153212B2
A semiconductor device including a contact structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes an isolation region defining a lower active region. First and second source/drain regions and first and second gate electrodes are on the lower active region. The first and second source/drain regions are adjacent to each other. First and second gate capping patterns are on the first and second gate electrodes, respectively. First and second contact structures are on the first and second source/drain regions, respectively. A lower insulating pattern is between the first and second source/drain regions. An upper insulating pattern is between the first and second contact structures. Silicon oxide has etching selectivity with respect to an insulating material which the upper insulating pattern, the first gate capping pattern, and the second gate capping pattern are formed of.
US10153194B2
An array of gated devices includes a plurality of gated devices arranged in rows and columns and individually including an elevationally inner region, a mid region elevationally outward of the inner region, and an elevationally outer region elevationally outward of the mid region. A plurality of access lines are individually laterally proximate the mid regions along individual of the rows. A plurality of data/sense lines are individually elevationally outward of the access lines and electrically coupled to the outer regions along individual of the columns. A plurality of metal lines individually extends along and between immediately adjacent of the rows elevationally inward of the access lines. The individual metal lines are directly against and electrically coupled to sidewalls of the inner regions of each of immediately adjacent of the rows. The metal lines are electrically isolated from the data/sense lines. Other arrays of gated devices and methods of forming arrays of gated devices are disclosed.
US10153183B2
A method for the joining of ceramic pieces into an assembly adapted to be used in semiconductor processing. The joined pieces are adapted to withstand the environments within a process chamber during substrate processing, chamber cleaning processes, and the oxygenated atmosphere which may be seen within the shaft of a heater or electrostatic chuck. The ceramic pieces may be aluminum nitride and the pieces may be brazed with aluminum. The joint material is adapted to withstand both the environments within a process chamber during substrate processing, and the oxygenated atmosphere which may be seen within the shaft of a heater or electrostatic chuck. The joint is adapted to provide a hermetic seal across the joint. The joined pieces are adapted to be separated at a later time should rework or replacement of one of the pieces be desired.
US10153182B2
A substrate processing apparatus that performs processing by immersing a substrate into a processing liquid obtained by mixing phosphoric acid with a diluent includes a concentration sensing means for sensing the concentration of the processing liquid by measuring the absorbance characteristics of the processing liquid. The concentration sensing means includes a light-transmitting section that introduces the processing liquid into the inside to let the processing liquid pass therethrough, a light-emitting section that radiates light having a predetermined wavelength to the light-transmitting section, a light-receiving section that receives the light therefrom via the light-transmitting section, a first lens that condenses the light emitted from the light-emitting section to the light-transmitting section, a second lens that condenses the light that has passed through the light-transmitting section to the light-receiving section, and a cooling mechanism that cools at least one of these.
US10153178B2
Semiconductor die assemblies with heat sinks are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly includes a stack of semiconductor dies and a mold material surrounding at least a portion of the stack of semiconductor dies. A heat sink is disposed on the stack of semiconductor dies and adjacent the mold material. The heat sink includes an exposed surface and a plurality of heat transfer features along the exposed surface that are configured to increase an exposed surface area compared to a planar surface.
US10153175B2
Some embodiment structures and methods are described. A structure includes an integrated circuit die at least laterally encapsulated by an encapsulant, and a redistribution structure on the integrated circuit die and encapsulant. The redistribution structure is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit die. The redistribution structure includes a first dielectric layer on at least the encapsulant, a metallization pattern on the first dielectric layer, a metal oxide layered structure on the metallization pattern, and a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the metallization pattern. The metal oxide layered structure includes a metal oxide layer having a ratio of metal atoms to oxygen atoms that is substantially 1:1, and a thickness of the metal oxide layered structure is at least 50 Å. The second dielectric layer is a photo-sensitive material. The metal oxide layered structure is disposed between the metallization pattern and the second dielectric layer.
US10153169B2
In a method of controlling a threshold of a transistor, a gate insulating film is formed in a channel region of a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate. A first electrode layer is formed on the gate insulating film and a second electrode layer containing a work function adjusting metal is formed on the first electrode layer. Thereafter, an oxidation treatment or nitridation treatment using a microwave plasma processing apparatus is performed to inactivate the work function adjusting metal, thereby executing a threshold control of the MOS transistor.
US10153165B1
The present invention pertains to a patterning method. By taking advantage of the etching loading effect due to different pattern densities in the memory cell region and the peripheral region, the first hard mask is not masked when anisotropically etching the first hard mask within the memory cell region.
US10153160B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming an opening passing-through a multi-layer stack, forming a channel layer on and along a sidewall of the opening, forming a conductive layer on and along a sidewall of the channel layer, and applying a laser to the conductive layer to transfer a heat from the conductive layer to the channel layer to heat-treat the channel layer using the heat.
US10153159B1
An approach to deposit, by a self-aligning process, a layer of graphene on a gate formed on a dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate where the gate includes a metal catalyst material. The approach includes removing a portion of the dielectric layer and a portion of the semiconductor substrate not under the gate and depositing, by a self-aligning atomic layer deposition process, a layer of a material capable of creating a source and a drain in a semiconductor device on exposed surfaces of the semiconductor substrate and the dielectric layer. The approach includes removing the layer of graphene from the gate, and, then removing a portion of the layer of the material capable of creating the source and the drain in the semiconductor device.
US10153155B2
Techniques for forming an electronic device having a ferroelectric film are described. The electronic device comprises a ferroelectric material having one or more crystalline structures. The one or more crystalline structures may comprise hafnium, oxygen, and one or more dopants. The one or more dopants are distributed in the ferroelectric material to form a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The second layer is positioned between the first layer and the third layer. Distribution of one or more dopants within the first layer, the second layer, and the third layer may promote a crystalline structure to have an orthorhombic phase.
US10153154B2
Preparing a low dielectric constant thin film layer used in an integrated circuit includes: extracting gas out of a furnace; when the vacuum level within the furnace is less than 10−3 Pa, starting a 13.36 MHz radio frequency power supply and a matcher; sending the exhaust nitrogen gas, used to remove remaining gas out of the furnace by a third gas inlet pipe, into the furnace through a second pressure gas mixing tank and a second nozzle sequentially; uniformly mixing octamethyl cyclotetrasiloxane and cyclohexane, and introducing same into a pressure stainless steel tank, and, respectively by first and second gas inlet tubes, introducing bubbled nitrogen gas and inert gas into the furnace sequentially through a first pressure gas mixing tank, the pressure stainless steel tank and a first nozzle; after deposition, transferring the deposited thin film layer to the furnace's heating zone for annealing, obtaining a low dielectric constant thin film layer.
US10153151B2
Provided are a phosphor-containing capable of suppressing deterioration of phosphors and can be manufactured with high efficiency and a backlight unit. Specifically, provided is a phosphor-containing film 1, including a first substrate film 10; and a phosphor-containing layer 30 at which a plurality of regions 35 containing phosphors 31, which, if exposed to oxygen, deteriorate by reacting with the oxygen, are discretely disposed on the first substrate film 10, and at which a resin layer 38 having an impermeability to oxygen is disposed between the discretely disposed regions 35 containing phosphors 31, in which a width S of the resin layer 38 between the regions 35 containing phosphors 31 is 0.01≤S<0.5 mm, and wherein a ratio of a volume Vp of the regions containing phosphors, to a sum of the volume Vp and a volume Vb of the resin layer in the phosphor-containing layer, is 0.1≤Vp/(Vp+Vb)<0.9.
US10153148B2
An apparatus 41 and operation method are provided for an electrostatic trap mass spectrometer with measuring frequency of multiple isochronous ionic oscillations. For improving throughput and space charge capacity, the trap is substantially extended in one Z-direction forming a reproduced two-dimensional field. Multiple geometries are provided for trap Z-extension. The throughput of the analysis is improved by multiplexing electrostatic traps. The frequency analysis is accelerated by the shortening of ion packets and either by Wavelet-fit analysis of the image current signal or by using a time-of-flight detector for sampling a small portion of ions per oscillation. Multiple pulsed converters are suggested for optimal ion injection into electrostatic traps.
US10153145B2
The present invention relates to a method of mass spectrometry, an apparatus adapted to perform the method and a mass spectrometer. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a method of mass spectrometry comprising the step of associating parent and fragmentation ions from a sample by measuring the parent and fragmentation ions from two or more different areas of the sample and identifying changes in the number of parent ions between the areas in the sample, and corresponding changes in the number of fragmentation ions between the two areas.
US10153140B2
Provided are a method, a guiding sheet, a partial filling jig, and a full filling jig for installing an elastomer ring in the semiconductor processing equipment. The guiding sheet, the partial filling jig, and the full filling jig dispose the elastomer ring in the groove of the semiconductor processing equipment smoothly and evenly. Furthermore, the surface of the elastomer ring may be divided to multiple arcs portions. Each one of the arc portions may be pressed by the partial filling jig or the full filling jig in a particular sequence. When the groove is filled by the elastomer ring accurately and completely, the elastomer ring may block the fluid and the etching gas effectively. The elastomer ring may help the semiconductor processing equipment to work continuously and maintain qualities of the etching wafers.
US10153133B2
A plasma reactor for processing a workpiece has a microwave source with a digitally synthesized rotation frequency using direct digital up-conversion and a user interface for controlling the rotation frequency.
US10153130B2
A charged particle beam drawing apparatus has a drawing unit including a charged particle source, a deflector and a stage on which a target object is placed, to perform drawing with a charged particle beam on a plurality of drawing regions on the target object, and a calculator to calculate a drawing progress ratio on the target object using a ratio of a drawn area of the drawing regions to a total area of the drawing regions.
US10153128B2
To realize a sample lifting and lowering device capable of easily responding to increase of a diameter of a sample with light weight and high rigidity as well as with less directional dependence of rigidity as the sample lifting lowering device arranged above a horizontal movement mechanism. The sample lifting and lowering device includes first and second lifting and lowering mechanisms that lift and lower a sample stage to which the sample is fixed, first and second driving devices that drive the first and second lifting and lowering mechanisms to be lifted and lowered individually and a controller that synchronizes lifting/lowering operations of the first and second lifting and lowering mechanisms by the first and second driving devices by first and second control signals, in which the first lifting and lowering mechanism includes a first deceleration mechanism generating a first drive output obtained by decelerating a first drive input given from the first driving device in a direction different from a direction of the input, the second lifting and lowering mechanism includes a second deceleration mechanism generating a second drive output obtained by decelerating a second drive input given from the second driving device in a direction different from a direction of the input, and directions of the first and second drive inputs are different from each other as well as are not on the same straight line.
US10153127B1
A low profile extraction electrode assembly including an insulator having a main body, a plurality of spaced apart mounting legs extending from a first face of the main body, a plurality of spaced apart mounting legs extending from a second face of the main body opposite the first face, the plurality of spaced apart mounting legs extending from the second face offset from the plurality of spaced apart mounting legs extending from the first face in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the main body, the low profile extraction electrode assembly further comprising a ground electrode fastened to the mounting legs extending from the first face, and a suppression electrode fastened to the mounting legs extending from the second face, wherein a tracking distance between the ground electrode and the suppression electrode is greater than a focal distance between the ground electrode and the suppression electrode.
US10153126B2
A method and a system for imaging an object, the system may include electron optics that may be configured to scan a first area of the object with at least one electron beam; wherein the electron optics may include a first electrode; and light optics that may be configured to illuminate at least one target of (a) the first electrode and (b) the object, thereby causing an emission of electrons between the first electrode and the object.
US10153122B2
A temperature-sensitive pellet type thermal fuse having a cylindrical metal case (11), a first lead (1) fixedly installed and insulated from the case (11) and a second lead (2) electrically connected to the case (11). A temperature-sensitive pellet (12) is installed by melting inside the case (11) and has a variable height. A moving terminal (16) is elastically coupled by a first spring (17) to the temperature-sensitive pellet (12) and an activating member (15) moves in a height decrease direction of the temperature-sensitive pellet (12) by an elastic repulsive force of a second spring (18). When the temperature-sensitive pellet (12) is melted and thereby is reduced in height, a first moving contact (16b) of the moving terminal (16) is separated from a first contact (1a) of the first lead (1).
US10153118B2
A frame module for a circuit breaker includes a first interface structured to connect to a trip unit, a second interface structured to connect to a frame, and a current rating storage unit structured to store a current rating associated with the frame and to provide the stored current rating to the trip unit when the trip unit is connected to the first interface.
US10153111B2
A vacuum interrupter assembly is provided. The vacuum interrupter assembly includes an operating mechanism, a vacuum chamber including a number of bellows assemblies, a conductor assembly including a first contact assembly and a second contact assembly, the first contact assembly including a stem and a contact member, the first contact assembly stem including an elongated body with a proximal first end, a medial portion, and a distal second end. The first contact assembly stem body has a reduced length. The first contact assembly stem body having a reduced length generates less heat and electrical resistance.
US10153110B2
An object is to eliminate, through an inexpensive structure, degradation in withstand voltage performance and degradation in energization performance caused by heating in a vacuum circuit breaker. The vacuum circuit breaker includes a main circuit structure body having an insulation rod, a vacuum valve, a movable side terminal, and the like and an insulating holder for supporting the main circuit structure body. The insulating holder is a frame structure body having opening portions in the top and bottom surfaces and both side surfaces of the section in which the vacuum valve is disposed and the section in which the insulation rod is disposed.
US10153107B2
A manipulation device includes a rotary knob, a button and a waterproofing ring. The rotary knob rotatable about a rotational axis. The button having a center axis on the rotational axis of the rotary knob. The waterproofing ring that waterproofs a gap between the rotary knob and the button. The waterproofing ring rotating with the rotary knob, and the waterproofing ring being held in contact with the button and the rotary knob.
US10153106B1
A keyboard structure, including: a keycap; a transparent membrane layer; and an elastic element, disposed between the keycap and the transparent membrane layer and having a press portion, where the transparent membrane layer includes: a first opening corresponding to the keycap; a hard membrane layer, having an extension portion that is formed at an inner edge of the first opening inner edge; and a spacer layer, disposed under the hard membrane layer and used for forming a gap. When the keycap is pressed with an external force, the elastic element is deformed to enable the press portion to move downward and abut against the extension portion, so that the extension portion generates a bending deformation in the gap; and when the external force is released, the elastic element and the extension portion are elastically recovered and the extension portion generates a sound.
US10153105B2
A touch-sensitive light guide film has an emitting layer, a light guiding layer, a flexible transparent layer and a light source. The emitting layer has a first circuit. The light guiding layer located on one side of the emitting layer has a second circuit and a receiving space. The receiving space is concavely or thoroughly disposed on the light guiding layer. The flexible transparent layer disposed between the emitting layer and the light guiding layer, has a through hole and a receiving hole. The through hole is relative in position to the first circuit and the second circuit, and in the through hole, the first circuit and the second circuit may contact when the flexible transparent layer is compressed. The light source is disposed on the emitting layer and penetrating the receiving hole and protruding into the receiving space.
US10153102B2
A lockout, tagout (LOTO) device and associated implementation method for a switchable energy isolation device are provided. The isolation device includes first and second electrical terminal members and a slideable linkage disposed and in electrical communication therebetween for switching the electrical terminal members between isolated and non-isolated states. The LOTO device includes a cover member configured to extend over the terminal members and the linkage, and a fastener member coupled to the cover member. The fastener member is configured to engage the first or second electrical terminal member to secure the cover member to the isolation device. A tagging member is configured to engage the fastener member and a securing member engaged with the cover member, upon the cover member being secured to the isolation device, to prevent the fastener member from disengaging the first or second electrical terminal member without the tagging member disengaging the fastener member.
US10153101B2
The invention relates to a switching arrangement (15) with a pre-selector (28) for a power transformer (10, 40) which has multiple windings (12, 14). The pre-selector is designed to optionally connect at least one first winding (12) to one of the two end contacts (30, 32) of at least one second winding (14). At least one first switch is arranged in the connection between the pre-selector (28) and the first winding (12), thereby allowing the pre-selector to be switched in an arc-free manner and thus in a gas-free manner as well.
US10153099B2
The invention disclosed is a knife blade switch 2 having copper jaws 10 and a copper blade 4 with a steel end-plate 6 fastened to the free end of the blade, the steel end-plate having a higher resistivity than the resistivity of the copper blade and copper jaws. As the copper blade is withdrawn from the copper jaws, the steel end-plate of the blade remains in contact with a higher resistivity steel jaw-spring mounted on and electrically connected to the copper jaws. The connection of the steel end-plate 6 of the blade with the steel jaw-spring 12 imposes a greater resistance path for the current flowing through the switch than through the copper blade 4 and copper jaws 10, so that an arc formed at the plate and jaw-spring has a diminished current, over what would otherwise occur with a copper blade and jaws, when the contact separation occurs.
US10153097B2
A hybrid supercapacitor, including at least one negative electrode having a statically capacitive active material, an electrochemical redox-active material, or a mixture of them; at least one positive electrode having a statically capacitive active material, an electrochemical redox-active material, or a mixture of them; at least one separator situated between the at least one negative electrode and the at least one positive electrode; and an electrolyte mixture; with the provision that at least one electrode includes a statically capacitive active material, and at least one electrode includes an electrochemical, redox-active material; the electrolyte mixture being a liquid electrolyte mixture and including at least one liquid, aprotic, organic solvent, at least one conducting salt, and at least one at least partially halogenated, aromatic compound.
US10153096B2
An energy storage device can include a cathode, an anode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode, where the anode comprises a first lithium ion intercalating carbon component and a second lithium ion intercalating carbon component. The first lithium ion intercalating carbon component can include hard carbon, and the second lithium ion intercalating component can include graphite or soft carbon. A ratio of the hard carbon to the graphite or of the hard carbon to the soft carbon can be between 1:19 to 19:1. The anode may comprise a first lithium ion intercalating carbon component, a second lithium ion intercalating carbon component and a third lithium ion intercalating carbon component. The first lithium ion intercalating carbon component can include hard carbon, the second lithium ion intercalating carbon component can include soft carbon, and the third lithium ion intercalating carbon component can include graphite.
US10153091B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes a multi-layer unit and a side margin. The multi-layer unit includes ceramic layers laminated in a first direction, internal electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, and a side surface from which the internal electrodes are exposed, the side surface being oriented in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The side margin covers the side surface. The side margin includes a first area having a porosity of 10% or less, a dimension of the first area in the second direction from the side surface being ¼ of a dimension of the side margin in the second direction, and a second area having a porosity of 10% or more and 25% or less and having a porosity higher than the porosity of the first area, the second area covering the first area from the second direction.
US10153086B2
A guiding device for a stator of an automatic wire winding machine contains: a post, a cylinder, a sleeve, a cover, two springs, and three movable arms. The post includes a driven portion, an elongated hole, three grooves, and three bolts. The cylinder includes a through hole, two projections, two first apertures, a limiter, three second apertures, and three shafts. The sleeve is fitted with the post and includes two trenches. The cover includes an eyelet and fits with and moves on the post. One of the two springs abuts against the sleeve and pushes the cover to move, and another of the two springs also abuts against the sleeve and pushes the cylinder to move reversely. Each movable arm includes a hook portion arranged on a first end thereof and includes a fork portion formed on a second end thereof.
US10153071B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing superconducting devices and to superconducting devices. The method comprises determining one or more regions of reduced critical current density in the superconducting device and modifying the critical current density in the one or more regions of reduced critical current density, so as to increase the overall critical current or to decrease the overall AC losses of the superconducting device. The modifying comprises modifying the amount and/or distribution of the superconducting material in the one or more regions of reduced critical current density; and/or modifying the chemical composition of the superconducting material in the one or more regions of reduced critical current density; and/or decreasing the cooling temperature in the one or more regions of reduced critical current density. A superconducting device formed according to such method can also be provided.
US10153065B2
Conductive polymer fibers 10, in which a conductor 12 containing a conductive polymer impregnates and/or adheres to base fibers 11, and the aforementioned conductive polymer is PEDOT-PSS.
US10153063B2
A copper alloy for electronic devices has a low Young's modulus, high proof stress, high electrical conductivity and excellent bending formability and is appropriate for a component for electronic devices including a terminal, a connector, a relay and a lead frame. Also a method of manufacturing a copper alloy utilizes a copper alloy plastic working material for electronic devices, and a component for electronic devices. The copper alloy includes Mg at 3.3 to 6.9 at %, with a remainder substantially being Cu and unavoidable impurities. When a concentration of Mg is X at %, an electrical conductivity σ (% IACS) is in a range of σ≤{1.7241/(−0.0347×X2+0.6569×X+1.7)}×100, and an average grain size is in a range of 1 μm-100 μm. In addition, an average grain size of a copper material after an intermediate heat treatment and before finishing working is in a range of 1 μm-100 μm.
US10153050B2
A memory device has a memory cell array with memory cells. A page buffer group generates page buffer signals according to a verify read result of the memory cells. A page buffer decoding unit generates a decoder output signal corresponding to the number of fail bits from the page buffer signals based on a first reference current. A slow bit counter outputs a count result corresponding to the number of fail bits from the decoder output signal based on a second reference current corresponding to M times the first reference current, where M is a positive integer. A pass/fail checking unit determines a program outcome with respect to the memory cells based on the count result and outputs a pass signal or a fail signal based on the determined program outcome.
US10153049B2
A method includes applying erase voltages to data lines and source lines of a memory block of memory cells in a non-volatile NAND architecture memory device during an erase operation. The memory block of memory cells includes a plurality of memory segments and a corresponding plurality of first select gate control lines. Each memory segment includes a plurality of memory sub-blocks that share a respective one of the first select gate control lines. The method includes applying a first bias voltage to the respective first select gate control line of a first one of the memory segments that has failed an erase verify operation to facilitate erasing the first memory segment during the erase operation, and applying a second bias voltage different from the first bias voltage to the respective first select gate control line of a second one of the memory segments that has passed the erase verify operation to facilitate inhibiting erasing of the second memory segment during the erase operation.
US10153046B1
A memory system comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory cells grouped into blocks of memory cells and a control circuit in communication with the memory cells. The control circuit is configured to program original data to a first block of memory cells and backup the original data by programming a copy of the original data across multiple blocks of memory cells at a word line offset. After being used to store backups of original data, blocks are rotated to be used for storing original data.
US10153044B2
A semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks, a voltage generator applying operation voltages to a selected memory block, among the plurality of memory blocks, a control logic generating converted data by converting data bit sets respectively corresponding to at least one set of program states among a plurality of program states, during a program operation, and a read and write circuit temporarily storing the converted data and performing a program operation by controlling potential levels of bit lines of the memory cell array in accordance with stored converted data.
US10153030B2
Apparatuses and methods for configurable command and data input circuits for semiconductor memories are described. Example apparatuses include input signal blocks, clock blocking circuits, data input blocks, driver circuits, and data receiver circuits.
US10153029B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array, a voltage generator, a page buffer circuit, a row decoder and a control circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of mats corresponding to different bit-lines. The voltage generator generates word-line voltages applied to the memory cell array. The page buffer circuit is coupled to the memory cell array through bit-lines. The row decoder is coupled to the memory cell array through word-lines, and the row decoder transfers the word-line voltages to the memory cell array. The control circuit controls the voltage generator, the row decoder and the page buffer circuit based on a command and an address. The control circuit selects a voltage between different voltages to apply the selected different voltages to at least one of the word-lines or at least one of the bit-lines according to a number of mats of the plurality mats, which operate simultaneously.
US10153023B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A first ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a first state and a second ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a different state. Each state may have a corresponding digit line voltage. The digit lines of the first and second ferroelectric memory cells may be connected so that charge-sharing occurs between the two digit lines. The voltage resulting from the charge-sharing between the two digit lines may be used by other components as a reference voltage.
US10153016B2
Apparatuses for providing external terminals of a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes an input pad, an input buffer including a first input node and a second input node, a switch that couples the first input node and the second input node in an active state and further decouples the first input node and the second input node in an inactive state, a control circuit that provides a signal causing the switch to be in the active state or an inactive state. The first input node of the input buffer is coupled to the input pad by a conductive wiring.
US10153015B2
In an embodiment, a memory controller may determine that one or more neighboring memory cells associated with a target memory cell in a memory device are to be refreshed. The controller may generate a command associated with refreshing the one or more neighboring memory cells. The controller may transfer the command from the memory controller to the memory device containing the target memory cell. The command may direct the memory device to refresh the neighboring memory cells and/or return one or more addresses associated with the neighboring memory cells.
US10153011B2
A processor includes N-bit registers and a decode unit to receive a multiple register memory access instruction. The multiple register memory access instruction is to indicate a memory location and a register. The processor includes a memory access unit coupled with the decode unit and with the N-bit registers. The memory access unit is to perform a multiple register memory access operation in response to the multiple register memory access instruction. The operation is to involve N-bit data, in each of the N-bit registers comprising the indicated register. The operation is also to involve different corresponding N-bit portions of an M×N-bit line of memory corresponding to the indicated memory location. A total number of bits of the N-bit data in the N-bit registers to be involved in the multiple register memory access operation is to amount to at least half of the M×N-bits of the line of memory.
US10153007B2
Apparatuses and methods related to memory arrays with separate global read and write lines and/or sense amplifier region column select lines are disclosed. An example apparatus includes first and second memory sections, and further includes a sense amplifier region. A memory section includes a word line extending in a first direction and a digit line extending in a second direction, and the sense amplifier region is disposed between the first and second memory sections. The sense amplifier region includes a sense amplifier coupled to the digit line, a local input/output (LIO) line, a column select circuit coupled to the sense amplifier, and a column select line. The column select line extends in the first direction and is configured to provide a column select signal to the column select circuit. Capacitance of a LIO line may be reduced by coupling fewer sense amplifiers of a group to the LIO line.
US10153006B2
A semiconductor device includes semiconductor chips stacked each other. Each of the semiconductor chips converts second reception data received by second reception terminals arranged in point symmetry on the first face by a conversion method to convert first reception data received by first reception terminals arranged in point symmetry on the first face into a reference data; and generates an identification information of the each semiconductor chip based upon the converted second reception data; and outputs the bit sequence obtained by converting the generated identification information by means of the inverse conversion method of the conversion method.
US10153004B2
A playback system for video with replaceable commodities includes a video server and a computer program product. The video server includes a video database, a commodity database and an image processing module. The video database stores one or more source videos, each of which includes at least one embedded segment having a plurality of continuous frames with an identical partial area. The commodities database includes at least one 3D commodity model. The image processing module superimposes the 3D commodity model on the partial area of the frames of the embedded segment of the source videos to form at least one composed video. The computer program product is loaded by an end device so as to connect to the video server for playing the composed video.
US10152992B1
A light source unit for thermally-assisted magnetic head includes a support member and a light source attached on the support member via a solder, and the light source unit further includes a positioning structure formed between the support member and the light source for positioning the light source and the solder. The light source unit can maintain stable height control of the light source, prevent solder over flow and prevent the light source from shifting and moving during the bonding process.
US10152988B2
A mathematical model may be trained to diagnose a medical condition of a person by processing acoustic features and language features of speech of the person. The performance of the mathematical model may be improved by appropriately selecting the features to be used with the mathematical model. Features may be selected by computing a feature selection score for each acoustic feature and each language feature, and then selecting features using the scores, such as by selecting features with the highest scores. In some implementations, stability determinations may be computed for each feature and features may be selected using both the feature selection scores and the stability determinations. A mathematical model may then be trained using the selected features and deployed. In some implementations, prompts may be selected using computed prompt selection scores, and the deployed mathematical model may be used with the selected prompts.
US10152965B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for implementing a pronunciation dictionary that stores entity name pronunciations. In one aspect, a method includes actions of receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance that includes a command and an entity name. Additional actions may include generating, by an automated speech recognizer, an initial transcription for a portion of the audio data that is associated with the entity name, receiving a corrected transcription for the portion of the utterance that is associated with the entity name, obtaining a phonetic pronunciation that is associated with the portion of the audio data that is associated with the entity name, updating a pronunciation dictionary to associate the phonetic pronunciation with the entity name, receiving a subsequent utterance that includes the entity name, and transcribing the subsequent utterance based at least in part on the updated pronunciation dictionary.
US10152961B2
Provided is a signal processing device including a signal analyzing unit configured to analyze a second audio signal based on a first audio signal which is input and a sound collected through a microphone, a cancellation processing unit configured to generate a cancellation signal for canceling the second audio signal, and a parameter generating unit configured to generate a control parameter used in the cancellation processing unit based on a result of analysis performed by the signal analyzing unit.
US10152960B2
An integrated circuit may include an output for providing a signal to a transducer including both source audio for playback to a listener and an anti-noise signal for countering the effects of ambient audio sounds in an acoustic output of the transducer, a microphone input for receiving a microphone signal indicative of ambient sounds at the transducer, a link control input for receiving link control information of a communications link coupling the integrated circuit to the transducer and/or a microphone for generating the microphone signal, wherein the link control information includes a link quality metric of the communications link, and a processing circuit comprising a filter having a response that generates the anti-noise signal in conformity with the microphone signal to minimize the ambient sounds at the acoustic output of the transducer, wherein the processing circuit modifies generation of the anti-noise signal responsive to the link quality metric.
US10152952B2
A method for the safe visualization of a safety-relevant information includes the steps of: for all possible states of at least one variable input parameter, decomposing a safe visualization of the at least one variable input parameter into its safe base elements (31); for each of the decomposed safe base elements, enumerating and storing a set of all possible states of safe base element visualization (32); and for each of the decomposed safe base elements, transmitting the set of all possible states of safe base element visualization to a target system that provides safe visualization at runtime (33).
US10152950B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image capturing device, a storage unit, a processing unit and a display device. The image capturing device captures a user image. The storage unit stores display contents. The processing unit identifies facial feature locations of the user image, and determines a vertical skew angle according to the facial feature locations. The processing unit further adjusts the display contents to a deformed image according to the vertical skew angle. The display device displays the deformed image.
US10152948B2
A method and apparatus for displaying information on at least two touch screens are provided. The method includes sensing a first touch-drag on a first touch screen; sensing a first touch on a second touch screen; and displaying, on at least one of the first and second touch screens, information corresponding to the first touch-drag on the first touch screen and the touch on the second touch screen, if the touch-drag on the first touch screen and the first touch on the second touch screen are simultaneously sensed.
US10152947B2
Computing devices and methods for controlling light output of a display are disclosed. In one example, a default brightness setting is set to an indoor light output level. A UV light sensor is activated to detect UV radiation levels. Based on determining that one or more of the UV radiation levels exceed a UV threshold, the default brightness setting is updated to correspond to an outdoor light output level that is greater than the indoor light output level. Without using information from an ambient light sensor, the display is activated from a deactivated state to illuminate at the updated default brightness setting corresponding to the outdoor light output level.
US10152940B2
The present disclosure proposes a gate driver on array (GOA) driving circuit and a liquid crystal display. The GOA driving circuit includes cascaded GOA units. An Nth stage GOA unit outputs a gate driving signal to an Nth scan line on a display area. The Nth stage GOA unit includes a pull-up module, a pull-down module, a pull-up controlling module, a pull-down holding module, and a bootstrap capacitance module.
US10152934B2
A gamma reference voltage generation circuit and a display device are disclosed. The gamma reference voltage generation circuit includes a reference voltage generation unit; and multiple resistor units; wherein, the reference voltage generation unit is disposed on a printed circuit board; the multiple resistor units receive a reference voltage from the reference voltage generation unit and output a first gamma reference voltage; the multiple resistor units are formed at a region separated from the printed circuit board. The gamma reference voltage generation circuit of the present invention utilizes voltage-dividing resistors at a region outside the printed circuit board to reduce the space of the printed circuit board being occupied and reduce the manufacturing cost.
US10152932B2
Disclosed are a controlling device and method for frequency synchronization as well as a LCD TV. The method is applied to an LCD TV, wherein the LCD TV includes a front-end motherboard chip, a main drive control chip and a plurality of column drive control chips, the method includes: when the main drive control chip recognizes that its operating frequency is unstable, it generates a clock turn-off signal; the main drive control chip transmits fixed data to each column drive control chip according to the clock turn-off signal and receives a clock training request initiated by each column drive control chip according to the fixed data; and when recognizing that the operating frequency synchronizes with a frequency corresponding to front-end data transmitted by the front-end motherboard chip, the main drive control chip responds to the clock training request and transmits clock training data to each column drive control chip.
US10152930B2
A driving method for a display panel and a driving device are disclosed. The method includes: detecting that if a current data frame satisfies a preset switching condition of switching a first polarity mode to a second polarity mode; if the current data frame satisfies a preset switching condition, obtaining a polarity input signal corresponding to a previous data frame; obtaining a data compensation value corresponding to each sub-pixel according to the polarity input signal and a position of each sub-pixel of the current data frame; under the second polarity mode, after superimposing a value of each sub-pixel of the current data frame and the data compensation value corresponding to each sub-pixel, outputting to a display panel. Accordingly, the present invention can avoid an instantaneous flicker when switching from the first polarity mode to the second polarity mode.
US10152922B2
The present invention provides a scan driving circuit utilized to drive cascading scan lines. The scan driving circuit comprises a pull-down control module, a pull-down module, a reset control module, a reset module, a lower transmission module, a first bootstrap capacitor, a constant low voltage source, and a constant high voltage source. By use of the deployment of the reset module, the scan driving circuit of the present invention improves the stability of the scan driving circuit and meanwhile, the structure of the whole scan driving circuit is simplified.
US10152919B2
An electro-optical device includes a first data transfer line that intersects a scan line, a second data transfer line, a first transistor that controls coupling between the first data transfer line and the second transfer line. The two or more second data transfer lines are respectively coupled to the first data transfer line via first capacitors, and when a collection of pixel circuits that are coupled to the same first data transfer line via the second data transfer lines is referred to as a pixel string, the second data transfer lines are provided to pixel circuits less than the pixel circuits included in the pixel string.
US10152916B2
The present disclosure provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit, method and a display device. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit is for driving an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and includes: a charge storage unit configured to be charged in a data writing stage and be discharged in a pixel lighting stage to light up the OLED; a data writing unit configured to write a data current in the data writing stage; a light-emitting control unit configured to control to enable a connection between the charge storage unit and the OLED in the pixel lighting stage. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit further includes a current amplification unit configured to, in the data writing stage, amplify the data current and charge the charge storage unit with the amplified data current.
US10152910B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of gate lines; a gate driving circuit including a plurality of driving stages configured to apply gate signals to the gate lines; a voltage generator configured to output a gate-on voltage through a voltage output terminal thereof; and a signal controller configured to sense a variation in current of the voltage output terminal to output a back bias control voltage corresponding to the sensed current variation, wherein each of the driving stages comprises a plurality of oxide thin film transistors and at least one of the oxide thin film transistors is a four-terminal transistor in which a threshold voltage thereof is controlled by the back bias control voltage.
US10152899B2
A training tool, method and a system for measuring crew member communication skills are disclosed, wherein an audio data processing terminal interfaced with a crew training apparatus, typically a crew-operated vehicle simulator. Audio data corresponding to a conversation between at least two crew members is recording during a training session and stored. Respective audio data of each crew member is extracted from the stored audio data, and a series of measures for at least one prosodic parameter in each respective audio data extracted is computed. A correlation coefficient of the series of measures is then computed, wherein the correlation coefficient is indicative of a level of prosodic accommodation between the at least two crew members. Specific communication skills in addition to prosodic accommodation performance can the be determined inferred.
US10152897B2
The present invention is directed to interactive training, and in particular, to methods and systems for computerized interactive skill training. An example embodiment provides a method and system for providing skill training using a computerized system. The computerized system receives a selection of a first training subject. A training challenge related to the first training subject is accessed from computer readable memory. The training challenge is provided to a user via a terminal, optionally in verbal form. A first score related to the correctness and/or completeness of a verbalized challenge response provided by the user is stored in memory. A second score related to how quickly the trainee provided the verbalized challenge response is stored in memory. A third challenge score related to the confidence and/or style with which the trainee verbalized the challenge response is stored in memory.
US10152891B2
The present invention provides a system for conducting agricultural operations in a field using autonomous vehicles in which a collision avoidance mechanism may be provided. The system may include providing a mission plan for autonomous vehicles to conduct agricultural operations, establishing a hierarchy for the vehicles, and monitoring for an event conditions indicating vehicles are traveling toward a collision with respect to one another. Upon receiving an event condition, the system may revise the mission plan to adjust a path of one of the vehicles based on the hierarchy in order to avoid the collision.
US10152890B2
Provided is an on-vehicle camera device that swiftly and accurately detects, in every frame, data line signals of respective bits from imaging elements. This on-vehicle camera device includes a failure-diagnosis processing unit that diagnoses whether the data line signals of imaging element units, are in a fixed state. Furthermore, the imaging element units each include an entire imaging region that is divided into an effective image region and an ineffective image region. Also provided is a diagnosis data region that includes fixation diagnosis data for diagnosing whether the data line signals of the imaging element units in the ineffective image regions are in a fixed state. In an image acquisition period in which image data of the entire imaging region is acquired, and/or an image-calculation processing period, the failure-diagnosis processing unit uses the fixation diagnosis data of the diagnosis data region to perform failure-diagnosis processing.
US10152875B2
An unexpected event detection system is provided for a rider operating an electric bicycle. The system includes a bicycle data unit configured to receive bicycle data from the electric bicycle; a wireless device data unit configured to receive device data from a wireless device; an unexpected event module coupled to receive the bicycle data from the bicycle data unit and to receive the device data from the wireless device, the unexpected event module configured to identify an unexpected event associated with the electric bicycle based on the bicycle data and the device data and to generate an alert message upon identification of the unexpected event; and an alert module coupled to the unexpected event module and configured to initiate sending the alert message to an assistance center.
US10152870B1
A system for determining compliance includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is for receiving an exterior camera data of a vehicle. The processor is for: identifying a person associated with the vehicle based at least in part on the exterior camera data; determining whether the person is complying with a safety rule; and in the event that the person is not complying, indicating that the person is not complying.
US10152868B1
A method for security and/or automation systems is described. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving occupancy data, identifying characteristics of the occupancy data, determining an occupant's location relative to the premises at a predetermined time, and generating a notification based at least in part on the determining.
US10152867B2
Systems and methods for medication management are provided. Some embodiments provide for a portable medication management and monitoring system for eye drop instillation in ocular chronic conditions. At least one embodiment includes a device having one or more of the following elements: (a) a jacket that goes around an eye drop bottle; (b) tactile sensors to detect the user's fingers and generate data to activate the system; (c) motion sensors to detect the motion of the medication bottle when it is grabbed and moved by the user; (d) a wireless communication module to send and receive data to a computer and portable communication devices; and/or (e) a compartment for holding the electronic components.
US10152861B2
A security camera system, comprising wireless communication components for communicating over first and second wireless communications, and a digital camera system. A data processing system implements a method for providing digital images to an image receiving system. The method includes: establishing a first wireless connection between the security camera system and an external electronic device using the first wireless communication system. Configuration information pertaining to the second wireless communication system is transmitted from the security camera system to the external electronic device using the first wireless connection. Instructions for configuring the security camera system to communicate using the second wireless communication system are transmitted by the external electronic device to the security camera system over the first wireless connection. Captured digital images are then transmitted to the image receiving system over the second wireless communication system.
US10152856B2
A non-lethal weapon fixture and a method of defense with a non-lethal weapon are provided. The non-lethal weapon fixture includes a carrier having a contact point and a separation indicator connected to the carrier. The contact point is configured to interface with a non-lethal weapon. A separation signal is transmitted by the separation indicator upon separation of the non-lethal weapon from the carrier.
US10152850B2
A checkout unit assembly (1000) has a first checkout unit (100) and a second checkout unit (200) each having a user interface portion (300) at one side portion. The first checkout unit (100) is disposed above the second checkout unit (200) such that the first checkout unit (100) and the second checkout unit (200) overlap when seen in a plan view. The user interface portion (300) of the first checkout unit (100) and the user interface portion (300) of the second checkout unit (200) are disposed on different side surfaces.
US10152841B2
A printing system provides a printer for printing indicia on a container within a vending machine. The printing system may print indicia based on information relevant to a purchase transaction. The vending machine may transmit to a remote server data relating to a purchase transaction entered into the vending machine, the remote server retrieving data relevant to the purchase transaction and/or to the purchaser and transmitting to the vending machine the data relevant to the purchase transaction, such that the printing apparatus prints indicia on the container based on the received data relevant to the purchase transaction.
US10152840B2
A system in accordance with present embodiments includes a plurality of wearable devices and a virtual queue control system configured to maintain respective virtual queues for respective attractions and in communication with the plurality of virtual queuing attraction stations. The virtual queue control system is configured to receive communications from the plurality of virtual queuing stations and add guests to the respective virtual queues based on the communications.
US10152838B2
It is presented a method for conditionally authenticating a user for access to a physical space. The method is performed in an access control device connected to a physical lock device. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining first sensor data being based on a mobile device sensing a tap of a user; obtaining second sensor data being based on a fixed sensor sensing a tap of a user; determining whether the first sensor data matches the second sensor data by determining whether the first sensor data reflects a tap of the user and corresponds to a tap of the user also reflected in the second sensor data; and sending an unlock signal to the physical lock device when the first sensor data matches the second sensor data.
US10152835B2
A vehicle control device that is applied to a vehicle including a driving support device that executes driving support based on an instruction for use or nonuse of a user includes an electronic control unit, the electronic control unit is configured to execute a destination information acquisition process, a path information acquisition process of acquiring path information, a section setting process of setting a notification available section, an operation information acquisition process of acquiring information on the presence or absence of a user operation, and a notification process of performing a notification to request the user to operate an information providing device and use the driving support device.
US10152831B2
This invention provides a system for sharing real-time recording and the method thereof. The system in this invention transmits the traffic image from the traffic recording device to the cloud server database for storage by the hand-held communication device. Here, the system for sharing real-time recording includes at least three parts: a traffic recording device, a hand-held communication device and a cloud server. User can automatically transmit traffic image provided by the vehicle event data recorder capable of transmitting traffic image to the cloud server by the system and its method disclosed here to achieve real-time sharing of the traffic images.
US10152826B2
An augmented reality display system includes: a data producing system that produces position information of an object; a cloud server that receives the position information produced by the data producing system; and a terminal device connectable to the cloud server through a network. The terminal device includes: an imaging unit that produces an image data; a camera attitude estimating unit that estimates an attitude of the imaging unit from the image data; a data receiving unit that receives a content and the position information regarding the content from the cloud server; a data overlaying unit that transforms the position information correspondingly to the attitude of the imaging unit estimated by the camera attitude estimating unit, and overlays the content on the image data based on a reference position indicated by the transformed position information to obtain an overlay image data; and a display unit that displays the overlay image data.
US10152825B2
Provided are mechanisms and processes for augmenting multi-view image data with synthetic objects using inertial measurement unit (IMU) and image data. In one example, a process includes receiving a selection of an anchor location in a reference image for a synthetic object to be placed within a multi-view image. Movements between the reference image and a target image are computed using visual tracking information associated with the multi-view image, device orientation corresponding to the multi-view image, and an estimate of the camera's intrinsic parameters. A first synthetic image is then generated by placing the synthetic object at the anchor location using visual tracking information in the multi-view image, orienting the synthetic object using the inverse of the movements computed between the reference image and the target image, and projecting the synthetic object along a ray into a target view associated with the target image. The first synthetic image is overlaid on the target image to generate an augmented image from the target view.
US10152822B2
An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, a sense engine communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to provide sensed information, a focus engine communicatively coupled to the sense engine and the graphics subsystem to provide focus information, a motion engine communicatively coupled to the sense engine, the focus engine, and the graphics subsystem to provide motion information, and a motion biased foveated renderer communicatively coupled to the motion engine, the focus engine, the sense engine to adjust one or more parameters of the graphics subsystem based on one or more of the sense information, the focus information, and the motion information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10152819B2
Methods and devices for rendering graphics in a computer system include a graphical processing unit (GPU) with a flexible, dynamic, application-directed mechanism for varying the rate at which fragment shading is performed for rendering an image to a display. In particular, the described aspects allow different shading rates to be used for different regions of a primitive based on a new, interpolated shading rate parameter. In other words, the described aspects enable the GPU to change shading rates on-the-fly between different fragments of each primitive. Additionally, or independently, the GPU utilizes each respective shading rate parameter to determine how many sample positions to consider to be covered by the computed shaded output, e.g., the fragment color, thereby allowing the color sample to be shared across two or more pixels.
US10152815B2
Example embodiments provide systems and methods for emphasis modification of an informational overlay in augmented reality displays. In an example method, an informational overlay is presented atop a scene on a display device. The informational overlay includes at least one of a graphical element or a textual element to partially obscure the scene. Scene change data indicating a change in the scene is accessed. Based on the scene change data, a visual emphasis on the display device of at least a portion of the informational overlay relative to the scene is modified.
US10152806B2
The present invention relates to a method and a computer program product for generating an artifact-reduced voxel data record of an object. The artifact-reduced voxel data record of the object is generated with the aid of a computed tomography scanner. In some aspects of the present disclosure, a first image data record and a second image data record is generated by acquiring computed tomography images of the object. In still other aspects of the present disclosure, the artifact-reduced voxel data record of the object is generated with the aid of an image data reconstruction algorithm.
US10152805B2
To reduce streak-like artifacts more in a radiation tomographic image: There is provided an image producing apparatus comprising: a processing component configured to, in scan data acquired by a radiation CT scan, apply suppression processing with which noise components are suppressed to a high noise level portion having a radiation detection level lower than a specified threshold, and apply enhancement processing with which noise components are enhanced to a low noise level portion having a radiation detection level equal to or higher than the specified threshold; and a reconstructing component configured to reconstruct an image based on the scan data subjected to the processing by the processing component.
US10152803B2
A method of estimating a disparity in a multiview image display apparatus includes performing image scaling on an image frame based on a resolution corresponding to the image frame; determining at least one from among a search range and precision of a matching block for the scaled image frame according to the resolution; and estimating a disparity of the image frame by using the at least one from among the search range and the precision of the matching block.
US10152797B2
Presently disclosed is a method for co-segmenting three-dimensional models represented by sparse and low-rank feature, comprising: pre-segmenting each three-dimensional model of a three-dimensional model class to obtain three-dimensional model patches for the each three-dimensional model; constructing a histogram for the three-dimensional model patches of the each three-dimensional model to obtain a patch feature vector for the each three-dimensional model; performing a sparse and low-rank representation to the patch feature vector for the each three-dimensional model to obtain a representation coefficient and a representation error of the each three-dimensional model; determining a confident representation coefficient for the each three-dimensional model according to the representation coefficient and the representation error of the each three-dimensional model; and clustering the confident representation coefficient of the each three-dimensional model to co-segment the each three-dimensional model respectively.
US10152792B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for identifying a living eye, in which IR LED lighting and lighting for varying the ambient illumination are installed on the front surface or one side of an iris recognition camera so as to determine whether an iris of an eye is an iris of a living eye when capturing an iris image by the iris recognition camera, using one or more criteria of whether the ratio of the sizes of the iris and pupil changes by the variation of the ambient illumination, whether the number or location of the IR LEDs focused on the iris and/or the pupil changes, whether the region of the iris image changes by eye blinking, and whether the direction of the gaze changes.
US10152791B2
A system that helps facilitate the creation of more comprehensive official radiological reports by remotely accessing a patient's prior outside imaging studies along with official radiological reports through a cloud server for comparison to current studies performed at a medical institute. The system includes universal interface software that will allow for previous patient studies to be automatically pulled for direct comparison by using advanced automatic tagging techniques. Additionally the universal interface software allows for more efficient accession number assignment when official second opinions are requested, and a means for interfacility peer review.
US10152788B2
Apparatus and methods are described including, using a computer processor (28), automatically identifying whether a given pixel (111) within an image corresponds to a portion of an object. A set of concentric circles (132a-c) that are disposed around the pixel are sampled, and a first function is applied to each of the circles such that the circles are defined by a first set of rotationally invariant descriptors. A second function is applied to the set of circles to generate a second set of descriptors, each of which represents a difference between respective pairs of the circles. A third function is applied such that the second set of descriptors becomes rotationally invariant. The processor identifies whether the given pixel corresponds to the portion of the object, based upon the first and second sets of rotationally invariant descriptors. Other applications are also described.
US10152784B2
A method for inspecting a component is presented. The method includes inducing, by an inductive coil, an electrical current flow into the component. Further, the method includes capturing, by an infrared (IR) camera, at least a first set of frames and a second set of frames corresponding to the component, wherein the first set of frames is captured at a first time interval and a second set of frames is captured at a second time interval. Also, the method includes constructing, by a processing unit, a thermal image based on at least the first set of frames and the second set of frames corresponding to the component. Furthermore, the method includes determining presence of a thermal signature in the thermal image, wherein the thermal signature is representative of a defect in the component.
US10152778B2
Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described below including operations for real-time face beautification features for video images.
US10152777B2
For obtaining an good yet easy to use luminance dynamic range conversion, we describe an HDR video decoder (250) comprising an image color processing apparatus (200) arranged to transform an input color (Y′UV_LDR) of a pixel of an input image (Im_in), which input image has a first luminance dynamic range (DR_1), into a red, green and blue color component output color (R′o, G′o, B′o) of a pixel of an output image (Im_res; REC_HDR), which output image has a second luminance dynamic range (DR_2), whereby the peak luminance of the first dynamic range is at least 2 times lower than the peak luminance of the second dynamic range or vice versa, comprising a coarse mapping unit (202; 552) arranged to apply a three-segment brightness re-grading curve which consists of a linear segment for a dark sub-range (SR_d) of the range of lumas of the input image colors comprising the darkest input luma values, which is determined by a slope variable (InvBet), a second linear segment for the lightest input luma values in a bright sub-range (SR_br), which is controlled by a second slope variable (InvAlph), and a parabolic segment in between the two linear segment.
US10152773B2
A processing device receives input representing a selection of a first area of a source image. The processing device sends a request to a server machine for a result image that corresponds to the source image. The processing device, responsive to determining that the server machine does not have the result image, creates a blurred area for the first area, the blurred area corresponding to a portion of the image that contains the first area. The portion of the image having a size that is greater than an aggregate size of the first area and less than the size of the image. The processing device also sends the blurred area to the server machine for storage of the blurred area as the result image. The processing device replaces the first area with the corresponding portion of the blurred area without blurring a remaining area of the image.
US10152770B2
A method of displaying a map on a display page includes displaying a map image; displaying at least one zoom control object overlaid on the map image using an image overlay technique to display the at least one zoom control object within the map image, thereby increasing an area within the display page available for the map image; and changing a manner in which the map image is displayed in response to receiving a selection of the at least one zoom control object.
US10152767B1
A device may receive information associated with an input image that includes a first quantity of rows. The device may store pixel values, for a second quantity of rows, based on the information associated with the input image. The second quantity of rows may be different than the first quantity of rows. The device may generate an output image, that includes a projective transformation of the input image, based on the stored pixel values. The device may provide information associated with the output image.
US10152764B2
A group of buffers are connected via pointers as free-lists implemented in hardware, such that shader information and output processing information can be efficiently accessed by a multi-rate shader. A free-list storage picks the first available entry. The first free entry that gets allocated then becomes a pointer to another entry.
US10152763B2
The present disclosure relates to a graphics processors and graphics processing systems. In the graphics processor, the rasterizer may operate to identify pairs of fragments for a primitive being rendered for which not all the sampling positions in the fragments are covered by the primitive. When the fragments reach the fragment shader, corresponding execution threads may be spawned for execution by the fragment shader to process the fragments. A first part of the fragment shader program that uses the helper threads of the thread groups may then be executed. There may then be a merge instruction in the fragment shader program which operates to cause the active threads of the thread groups to be merged into a single, combined thread group. Following this thread group merger, the remaining program steps of the fragment shader program may be executed for the merged thread group.
US10152762B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for determining ecological risks of heavy metal pollution in sediments of river and lake. The method includes the following steps of: (1) determining concentration levels of heavy metal pollutants at different positions of water body sediments; (2) conducting statistic analysis on distribution characteristics of concentration data of various heavy metal pollutants in the water body sediments; (3) calculating an ecological risk index of a heavy metal pollutant using a formula; (4) calculating a final result of Eri; (5) drawing a distribution curve of Eri values; (6) calculating a total ecological risk comprehensive index HRI caused by various heavy metal pollutants in the evaluated water body, and drawing a cumulative probability distribution curve of HRI values; and (7) analyzing a probability that the total ecological risk comprehensive index HRI of the water body appears at different risk levels with reference to a risk level classification standard.
US10152760B2
A computer-implemented method for operating a robotic manufacturing network, comprising: (a) providing a communications network; (b) providing a plurality of computer processor nodes for processing data wherein said computer processor nodes are participants on said communication network; (c) providing a plurality of manufacturing facilities; (d) providing a plurality of transport agents connecting said manufacturing facilities; (e) providing a plurality of actors selected from the group consisting of said manufacturing facilities and said transport agents wherein said actors are participants in said robotic manufacturing network and communicate on said communications network; (f) providing a robotic capability model as manufacturing supply chain planning service whereby autonomous manufacturing supply chain functionality is created that transforms product specifications into optimized manufacturing production plans thereby permitting products to be made by a population of networked manufacturing agents.
US10152758B2
An activity management system is configured to allow users to access multimedia content where the multimedia content is divided in to segments. While a user is viewing or interacting with the multimedia content, the user can submit one or more activities (e.g., comments, questions, replies, or reactions) using a graphical user interface. The system is operable to electronically link the activity provided by the user with the particular segment of multimedia content in which the activity was captured by the system. The system is also configured to determine a sentiment score for particular multimedia content, one or more segments of the particular multimedia content, a user, a group of users, or an organization. The sentiment score may be related to a general mood (e.g., confused, happy, bored) of the user when viewing one or more segments of particular multimedia content.
US10152755B2
A system and method for calculating variable consideration for performance obligations. The method can involve, checking a database for historical transaction data, accessing the historical transaction data, and applying one or more predetermined variable consideration rules to the historical transaction data. The method can include automatically analyzing the historical transaction data generating an analysis report based on the data. The method can include uploading predetermined corrections to variable consideration transactions to a database or other storage medium and applying the corrections to historical performance obligation transaction data. The method can include determining whether variable consideration changes should be applied to individual transaction lines within the variable consideration transactions.
US10152753B2
According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means may display information from a medical risk factor computer storage unit. Information associated with an insurance policy, having an insurance policy identifier, may then be received from an underwriter along with a plurality of medical risk factor values for the insurance policy. The plurality of medical risk factor values may be stored into an insurance policy storage unit in association with the insurance policy identifier. An overall risk level associated with the insurance policy may be automatically calculated based on the plurality of medical risk factor values, and at least one file may be locally saved associating overall risk level with the insurance policy identifier and/or medical risk factor values.
US10152751B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for improving order feed message stream integrity. Certain embodiments provide a method including sending, by a computing device, a first data message; sending a first stop message; clearing a message stream state; and sending a second data message. The first data message includes data related to an order for a tradeable object, a first sequence number with a value of a predefined initial sequence number, and a first phase number. The second data message includes data related to an order, a second sequence number with a value of the predefined initial sequence number, and a second phase number, wherein the second phase number is different than the first phase number. The message stream state is associated with the order.
US10152750B2
An electronic trading system (ETS) implements risk mitigation methods for orders and quotes associated with a market participant on the ETS. The methods determine a measure of risk associated with one or more trading positions. One of the methods globally counts the number of breaches of risk thresholds associated with a trading symbol and market participant across all matching engines on the ETS over a rolling time period, and if this global risk counter exceeds a maximum, disables all further trades by the market participant on the ETS. Another method limits the number of automatic re-enablements that a market participant can request in response to prior breaches of risk thresholds that resulted in disabling any further trading by the market participant on the ETS.
US10152749B2
Systems and methods are provided for maintaining neutrality while trading a list of securities using an algorithmic trading facility coupled with at least one destination. This destination includes at least one alternative trading system (ATS). This facility is coupled, via an electronic data network, to a plurality of trading clients, and configured to receive a trade request to trade a list of securities from a trading client. This request includes user defined trading constraints that are used to generate and transmit trade orders to at least one ATS. The orders are transmitted based on trading data related to the destinations, the trade list, and the trading constraints. The facility can identify each executed trade corresponding to the trade orders and calculate a trade imbalance. The facility can determine whether the trade imbalance exceeds the trading constraints, and reallocate one or more of said submitted orders based on this determination.
US10152748B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for calculating a housing volatility index. An exemplary embodiment includes accessing stored property value data reflecting first values of real estate properties during a first time period and second values of the real estate properties during a second time period. The second time period may be subsequent to the first time period. The property value data may be processed to identify the first values and the second values, and time intervals between dates of the first values and dates of the second values may be calculated. Value changes of the real estate properties over the time intervals may also be calculated, based on the first values and the second values. A volatility measure for the real estate properties may be determined based on the value changes of the real estate properties over the time intervals, and the volatility measure may be output to a user.
US10152736B2
A computer-implemented method and system for detecting fraud in electronic commerce traffic are disclosed. A global conversion rate is defined that represents activity related to a purchase made or proxy activity executed during electronic commerce traffic to a commercial website that is indicative of non-fraud activity. Subsets of the electronic commerce traffic to a commercial website are monitored for clusters of activity having a conversion rate that is lower than a global conversion rate by a threshold margin. A number of user-initiated input signals from an input device to navigate from each of one or more affiliate websites to the commercial website, and a number of conversions generated from each of the one or more affiliate websites, are registered by a computer for analysis.
US10152731B1
A method for processing ads involves traversing an ad view hierarchy to obtain ad view information for a device, providing the ad view information to an ad server, sending, by the device, an ad request to the ad server, receiving, in response to the ad request, an ad. and displaying the ad on the device.
US10152730B2
A system stored in a non-transitory medium executable by processor circuitry is provided for generating sponsored verbs and contexts. The system includes interface circuitry for receiving a search query from a user device and query processing circuitry for identifying search results comprising entity search result objects and non-entity search result objects related to the search query. Targeting circuitry determines a set of verb keywords associated with the search result objects and analytics circuitry selects one or more sponsored verbs for at least one entity or non-entity search result. Display logic circuitry is communicatively coupled to the interface circuitry and dynamically generates interface elements for each of the one or more sponsored verbs, and displays, in response to the search query, the interface elements as a sub-component of the at least one entity or non-entity search result.
US10152724B2
A method of providing a context based service is performed by a user terminal. The method includes: generating a user profile about at least one entity; providing user profile characteristic information obtained or inferred from the user terminal associated with the at least one entity; and controlling to provide a user description generated based on the user profile and the user profile characteristic information to a recommendation engine for a required service if a recommendation of a context based service is required to the at least one entity, the recommendation engine performing a service recommendation according to a situation of the at least one entity.
US10152719B2
A system for remote servicing of customers includes an interactive display unit at the customer location providing two-way audio/visual communication with a remote service/sales agent, wherein communication inputted by the agent is delivered to customers via a virtual Digital Actor on the display. The system also provides for remote customer service using physical mannequins with interactive capability having two-way audio visual communication ability with the remote agent, wherein communication inputted by the remote service or sales agent is delivered to customers using the physical mannequin. A web solution integrates the virtual Digital Actor system into a business website. A smart phone solution provides the remote service to customers via an App. In another embodiment, the Digital Actor is instead displayed as a 3D hologram. The Digital Actor is also used in an e-learning solution, in a movie studio suite, and as a presenter on TV, online, or other broadcasting applications.
US10152713B2
Techniques and arrangements for detecting potentially fraudulent transactions made on a point-of-sale (POS) device. In some instances, the POS device may upload a batch of authorization requests corresponding to transactions made on the POS device while the POS device was in an offline mode. A payment service may receive this batch and, as opposed to processing the entire batch, may select a subset for processing. After selecting the subset, the payment service may attempt to authorize payment instruments associated with each transaction of the subset. The payment service may then compare an amount of declined payment instruments to a threshold. If the amount is greater than the threshold, then the payment service may flag the subset and/or the batch as fraudulent and may refrain from processing further transactions of the batch.
US10152712B2
A user inspects at least one indicator of an event. The user enables a token corresponding to an account of an aggregating entity to be received by a transaction entity and identifies at least one type of event of interest to be reported by the transaction entity to the aggregating entity. The user obtains and inspects at least one indicator from the account of the aggregating entity, where each obtained indicator is adapted to be created by the aggregating entity based upon an event message received from the transaction entity. The event message comprises the token, which is adapted to be used by the aggregating entity to identify the account and the event message corresponds to an occurrence of an event of at least one type of event of interest to be reported by the transaction entity to the aggregating entity.
US10152709B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating and managing dynamic customized electronic tokens for electronic device interactions. A system for transferring data between a user device associated with a user and a remote device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the stored instructions. The stored instructions may configure the processor to receive, via a network, transaction information from the remote device, access information associated with an electronic token, and provide the electronic token to the remote device. The electronic token may be associated with at least one of the user or the user device, and a token server may generate the electronic token based on the received transaction information, and determine one or more expiration parameters for the electronic token.
US10152706B2
A mobile device includes a wireless transceiver, a host processor, a secure element (SE), and a near field communication (NFC) system having an NFC transceiver and an NFC controller implementing a contactless front end. The contactless front end routes a near field communication related to a payment transaction between the NFC system and the SE without going to or from the host processor. The contactless front end routes a near field communication not related to a payment transaction, but requiring a security function, between the NFC system and the SE without going to or from the host processor. The contactless front end routes a near field communication not related to a payment transaction, and not requiring a security function, between the NFC system and host processor without going to or from the SE.
US10152697B2
A monitoring apparatus comprises: a processing unit that determines, if received type information of one or more other monitoring apparatuses does not match type information of the monitoring apparatus, one or more apparatuses that serve as monitoring targets of the monitoring apparatus from among a plurality of apparatuses that were being monitored by the one or more other monitoring apparatuses; a notification unit that notifies a management server of information on the one or more other monitoring apparatuses whose monitoring target was changed and of the type information of the monitoring apparatus; and a transmission unit that collects, after the notification unit made notification, operation information on the one or more apparatuses that were determined by the processing unit as monitoring targets of the monitoring apparatus, and transmits the collected operation information to the management server.
US10152688B2
An apparatus tracks medical items through various transition points in a medical facility and maintains a chain of custody for each item through each transition point, indicating who is responsible for each item at any particular time. The apparatus also generates messages directed to various medical facility personnel who are responsible for the medical items at the various transition points, which messages prompt the personnel to take appropriate action with regard to the medical items depending on the particular transition point.
US10152685B1
Techniques described herein are directed towards dynamically adding new pickup orders to an existing route structure. In at least some embodiments, a service provider separates a number of vendors into separate clusters based on one or more attributes. For example, the vendors may be separated by geographic region. The service provider may then identify a set of routes that are associated with each of the vendor clusters and run optimization techniques on that set of routes. The set of routes may be filtered based on attributes of the route. In some embodiments, the service provider may make a route alteration that accommodates the new pickup order.
US10152676B1
Features are disclosed for distributing the training of models over multiple computing nodes (e.g., servers or other computing devices). Each computing device may include a separate copy of the model to be trained, and a subset of the training data to be used. A computing device may determine updates for parameters of the model based on processing of a portion of the training data. A portion of those updates may be selected for application to the model and synchronization with other computing devices. In some embodiments, the portion of the updates is selected based on a threshold value. Other computing devices can apply the received portion of the updates such that the copy of the model being trained in each individual computing device may be substantially synchronized, even though each computing device may be using a different subset of training data to train the model.
US10152671B2
A transaction card may include a first card component having a first structural feature associated with a first surface, a second card component separate from the first card component and attachable thereto, and having a second structural feature associated with a second surface. The first and second structural features are adapted to engage each other. The card may include a transaction component, and a bracing layer disposed between the first and second card components. One of the first and second card components may include a first locating feature configured to accommodate the transaction component, and the bracing layer may include a second locating feature separate from the first locating feature. Each of the first and second surfaces may be adapted to engage with the bracing layer. The first and second structural features may be configured to interconnect via a tongue and groove connection, a lattice pattern.
US10152666B2
An authentication article includes: a substrate including: a first surface; a second surface disposed laterally to the first surface and at a depth below the first surface; and a plurality of indentations including the depth at the second surface of the substrate; and an array disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of analytes, the analytes being disposed in the indentations at a depth below a first surface of the substrate and provided to emit an authentication signature in response to being subjected to a probe stimulus. A process for authenticating the authentication article includes: providing the authentication article; subjecting the analytes to a probe stimulus; acquiring a response from the plurality of analytes in response to being subjected to the probe stimulus; and determining whether the response is the authentication signature to authenticate the, wherein the authentication article is not authenticated if the response is not the authentication signature for the array.
US10152664B2
A method of capturing an image of a barcode from a backlit display device includes monitoring radio signals proximal to a device operable for scanning barcodes, with at least one coil, wire, and/or antenna disposed within the device operable for scanning barcodes; detecting radio interference caused by a backlit display device proximal to the device operable for scanning barcodes; interpreting a pattern of the radio interference to determine one or more technical characteristics of the backlit display device; using the determined technical characteristics of the backlit display device for automatically adjusting scanning settings of the device operable for scanning barcodes; and capturing an image of a barcode displayed on the backlit display device.
US10152661B2
A method of inserting a data structure into a component using a 3D printer is provided. The method includes providing the data structure having at least one structural parameter associated with the component, converting the data structure into indicia representative of the data structure, and manufacturing the component containing the indicia.
US10152660B2
A smart card read/write method is performed at a terminal, including: sensing a touch event of a smart card, and obtaining an application identifier corresponding to the touch event; searching for a third-party application link corresponding to the application identifier, and capturing and displaying a web page corresponding to the third-party application link, the web page comprising a function menu and an instruction script corresponding to options in the function menu being preselected from a preset standard script library; obtaining an option triggered in the function menu on the web page, and sending a smart card control request to a platform application server by executing an instruction script corresponding to the triggered option; and receiving a smart card control instruction returned by the platform application server, and invoking a corresponding interface function according to the smart card control instruction to read/write the smart card.
US10152656B2
Systems and methods for providing remote approval of an image for printing are provided. One system includes a processing circuit in communication with an image capturing device that is configured to capture an image of a printed product. The processing circuit is configured to process the captured image into a processed image accurate to within a tolerance in a color space to indicate the visual appearance of one or more colors. The color space is a standardized color space, such as sRGB or CIELAB. The processing circuit is further configured to transmit the processed image to a display located remote from the image capturing device and to receive an input signal from a remote input device to allow a user to approve or reject the displayed processed image for printing on a print device.
US10152647B2
Comparing extracted card data from a continuous scan comprises receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital scan of a card; obtaining a plurality of images of the card from the digital scan of the physical card; performing an optical character recognition algorithm on each of the plurality of images; comparing results of the application of the optical character recognition algorithm for each of the plurality of images; determining if a configured threshold of the results for each of the plurality of images match each other; and verifying the results when the results for each of the plurality of images match each other. Threshold confidence level for the extracted card data can be employed to determine the accuracy of the extraction. Data is further extracted from blended images and three-dimensional models of the card. Embossed text and holograms in the images may be used to prevent fraud.
US10152645B2
There is provided a method and an apparatus for updating a background model used for background subtraction of an image. The method comprises: receiving an image (220), and classifying a region (226) in the image as foreground by performing background subtraction using a background model (240). The background model comprises a collection of background samples (248, 248b, 248c, 248d) for each pixel (228) in the image. The collection of background samples is arranged in a list of background images (242a, 242b, 242c, 242d). The method further comprises: replacing image contents in the region (226) of the image which is classified as foreground by image contents of a corresponding region (246) in a background image in the list, and adding the image to the list of background images by rearranging a collection of pointers (244a, 244b, 244c, 244d) which each points to one of the background images in the list, such that one of the pointers instead points to the image.
US10152643B2
In one embodiment, L dimensional images are trained, mapped, and aligned to an M dimensional topology to obtain azimuthal angles. The aligned L dimensional images are then trained and mapped to an N dimensional topology to obtain 2N vertex classifications. The azimuthal angles and the 2N vertex classifications are used to map L dimensional images into O dimensional images.
US10152637B2
A method of segmenting a video sequence. A segment score is determined for each of a plurality of fixed length segments of the video sequence. Each of the segment scores provide a score for a plurality of actions associated with a corresponding fixed length segment. A current segment is selected from the segments of the video sequence. The segment score is selected for a further one of the segments, the further segment being disjoint with the current segment and being used to provide information about actions that were classified outside the current segment. A further segment score is determined for the current segment according to the selected segment score. The video is segmented based on the determined further segment score.
US10152631B2
An optical system for an image acquisition device comprises a filter comprising a central aperture arranged to transmit both visible and selected near infra-red (NIR) wavelengths and a peripheral aperture arranged to block visible wavelengths and to transmit the NIR wavelengths. An image sensor comprises an array of pixels including pixels sensitive to visible wavelengths and corresponding pixels sensitive to the NIR wavelengths. A lens assembly is axially located between the filter and the image sensor and comprises a plurality of lens elements. The lens elements are arranged to simultaneously focus NIR light received from a given object through central and peripheral apertures of the filter and visible light received from the object through the central aperture onto the sensor surface.
US10152621B2
A system and method for marking components of an assembly and/or portions of an assembly including at least one of the components with a plurality of markers, each component and/or portion including its own marker or markers, to be read in an operational sequence so as to generate at least one identifier representative of a characteristic and/or feature of the assembly. Any marker can be a certain type of marker, the combination of which can be used to generate an identifier. A certain type of marker 1 need not be dedicated to a certain component. Each marker can be associated with a proxy value, which can be obtained by reading the marker with a reader. An identifier of the assembly can then be generated by employing a predetermined sequence of reading the markers.
US10152619B2
An RFID receiver (1) comprises an antenna (11) configured to receive a radio signal (20) from an RFID transmitter (2) and to generate an electrical signal (110) from the radio signal (20) received from the RFID transmitter (2). A decoder circuit (10) is connected to the antenna (11) and configured to extract from the electrical signal (110) generated by the antenna (11) data bits encoded in the electrical signal (110). The decoder circuit (10) comprises an analog-to-digital converter (12) connected directly to the antenna (11) and configured to generate a digital input signal (13) from the electrical signal (110) generated by the antenna (11). A bit extractor (14) is connected to the analog-to-digital converter (12) and configured to extract the data bits from the digital input (13) signal generated by the analog-to-digital converter (12).
US10152614B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods of activating an electronic device at a point-of-sale (POS). The device may be identified by an indicia and activation may occur following purchase of the device. The method may include the steps of receiving at a central processor from the POS the indicia identifying the device purchased at the POS; enabling by the central processor a feature or functionality of the device or use of the device; and conveying to the device information material to the feature, functionality, or use. The system may include a central processor that activates the device. The central processor may include various interfaces with the POS, provider, and device, as well as a database with records related to the device and an activation processor for determining if activation is appropriate, activating the device, and sending information material to the feature, functionality, or use to the device.
US10152613B2
Methods and apparatus for creating a physically unclonable function for SRAM are disclosed. An example method includes after applying a voltage to a memory array: determining a first duration between the applying of the voltage and a first output of a first bit cell, the first output corresponding to a first value stored in the first bit cell, and determining a second duration between the applying of the voltage and a second output of a second bit cell, the second output corresponding to a second value stored in the second bit cell. The example method further includes determining a function based on a comparison of the first duration and the second duration, the function to establish an identification of a circuit that includes the memory array.
US10152601B2
A method begins by storage units of a dispersed storage network (DSN) receiving a retrieval request for a data object, where each storage unit stores a unique group of encoded data slices of the data object and a local set of encoded recovery data slices. The method continues with some storage units sending the unique group of encoded data slices to a requesting computing device and with one storage unit sending an encoded recovery data slice to the requesting computing device. The method continues with the requesting computing device identifying an errant unique group encoded data slice, correcting the errant encoded data slice based on received data slices to produce an updated unique group of encoded data slices, and dispersed storage error decoding the updated unique group of encoded data slices and the unique groups of encoded data slices from other storage units to recover the data object.
US10152596B2
Runtime verification of software execution events against a behavioral model. For each event, it is verified whether there is a short range correlation of a sequence of the event and preceding event(s) with the behavioral model, and whether there is a long range correlation of a group of the sequences and of an arrangement of groups of the sequences with the behavioral model. After verifying each long range correlation, the arrangement of groups in the behavioral model event is substituted with an intersection of an arrangement of groups of the sequences with an arrangement of groups of the sequences in the behavioral model. If an event is not covered by a short range correlation or a long range correlation of a group or a long range correlation of an arrangement of groups, the event is indicated as anomalous.
US10152594B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for identifying a virus APK. The method comprises: presetting a virus database comprising virus characteristic codes; detecting that a designated file in a target Android installation package APK contains at least one of the virus characteristic codes; and determining that the target Android installation package APK is a virus APK. In the application, the virus APK and a variation thereof can be rapidly, accurately and effectively identified, thereby improving the security of an APK application.
US10152589B2
Methods and devices for searching are described. In one aspect, the method includes: receiving a search query; identifying a search data file associated with a third party application, the search data file being prepared according to predetermined format rules by the third party application, and stored, prior to receiving the search query; searching, at least a portion of the search data file using the search query to identify information that matches the search query; using the predetermined format rules to identify associated information in the search data file, the associated information being related to the information that matches the search query; obtaining search results from at least one other source; and generating a display of search results based on both the information matching the search query and the associated information, the display including the search results from the at least one other source.
US10152587B2
A device pairing method relates to steps of transmitting authentication information to a second device from a first device via a physical connecting line. First, a connectivity interface on the second device is electrically connected to an authentication connectivity interface on the first device via a connecting line; second, the first device in the mode of the virtual authentication disk is electrically connected to the second device; third, authentication information in the virtual authentication disk is accessed by an application program of the second device; fourth, an electrical connection between the second device and the first device is disabled with the connecting line removed; finally, the first device is accessed by the application program of the second device when the authentication information is transmitted to a network interface on the first device through some wireless networks of the second device. As such, the first device as a network device for storage acquires access authentication safely; the first device as a multimedia device with Bluetooth connections exchange connectivity information quickly.
US10152578B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, secure content objects are transcoded from an input format to an output format based upon identified capabilities of a receiving device. In one embodiment, a plurality of trusted processing components are identified to collectively transcode the secure content object from the identified input format to the determined output format. In one embodiment, each of the trusted processing components are authenticated prior to operating on the secure content object.
US10152575B2
An example method comprises receiving a protocol associated with a particular medical condition, selecting a subset of the events of the protocol to be adherence objects of an adherence path, determine a time frame predicate for each adherence object, determine an object predicate for each adherence object, retrieving patient information from medical records of patients of the medical entity, determining for each adherence object if each particular adherence object was performed as a part of that patient's treatment related to the medical condition including determining if the time frame predicate and object predicate are satisfied, and generating patient adherence object score for each adherence object of the adherence path, generating a medical entity adherence score based on the patient adherence object scores, the medical entity adherence score indicating that medical entity's compliance with the adherence path, and generating a report indicating the medical entity adherence score.
US10152573B2
A system enables users to customize a “total care plan”, which consists of a set of in-home care tasks plus additional caregiving related attributes such as time for carrying out a task, supplies needed, and estimated cost for each task. In this system, total care plans are used to plan, schedule and manage a person's daily life for elderly or people with long-term health issues. The included methods provide users ways to optimize the cost of products and services needed to carry out their care plan that meet their quality and financial requirements, and caregiving or health constraints. Methods are provided to further reduce the total cost of the products or services by leveraging the resources they already have, and applying their insurances or social benefits. Methods that offer users the option of applying various ways to get volume discounts are also provided which further optimize costs.
US10152572B2
A system and method for communicating health care information and/or facilitating health care services via a hybrid architecture. The system may obtain and anonymize health care event information associated with an individual. The system may determine an authorized recipient of the anonymized health care information and generate a communication to the authorized recipient via a social media platform. The system may provide access to a non-anonymized version of the health care information to the authorized recipient. The system may receive and process a social media communication indicating a health care service. The system may generate a user request for the health care service based on information associated with the health care service. The system may provide the user request for the health care service to a health care service provider such that the health care service provider may fulfill, initiate, complete, and/or otherwise act upon the request.
US10152570B2
An apparatus for processing medical image data, includes a controller configured to select an image group including pieces of original image data according to a digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) standard. The controller is also configured to generate hierarchy information regarding a hierarchy structure of the image group by analyzing each piece of the original image data included in the image group, generate common data information by extracting, from each piece of the original image data, common data elements regarding respective classes that form the hierarchy structure based on the hierarchy information, generate common information regarding the image group based on the hierarchy information and the common data information, and perform data processing on the image group based on the common information. The apparatus also includes a memory configured to store the common information including the hierarchy information and the common data information.
US10152564B2
A method for operating a BIM system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, generating a network accessible graphical user interface (GUI) simultaneously displaying a 3-dimensional rendering of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and a COBie spreadsheet being associatively linked.
US10152560B2
Embodiments provide for querying and visualization of query results of graph data. An engine processes graph data to create metadata (e.g., in JSON format) identifying at least different node types and edge types that are present in a graph database. An overview visualization simplifies presentation of graph data by depicting only various different node types and graph types. The overview visualization may form the basis for formulating queries including the metadata, which are then promulgated to the graph database. Returned query results may be visualized as an overview or on a detailed node level, promoting insight and formulation of additional queries including node/edge type metadata. The engine may convert graph data query results into tabular form for consumption by relational database analytical tools. According to particular embodiments, an engine of an in-memory database may be particularly suited to perform graph data visualization, querying, and/or tabular conversion tasks.
US10152559B2
There is provided a novel method that generates relational graph data. A relational graph database system 1 manages a database containing graph data including node data connected through links. The relational graph database system 1 includes a node generation unit 212 that generates node data corresponding to an operation of a terminal device 6, a partial graph generation unit 214 that generates partial graph data including a plurality of node data connected through links, and a graph generation unit 215 that synthesizes a plurality of partial graphs to generate graph data. In the partial graph generation unit 214, when a plurality of operations conducted in an identical terminal device have a prescribed relationship, a plurality of node data corresponding to the plurality of operations are connected through links to generate partial graph data.
US10152558B2
A system and method for orchestrating a table operation of data with a graph operation of the data using columnar stores. The orchestration includes storing vertices and edges as collections of tables by type, and supporting the columnar stores with different storage characteristics. The techniques may also include a graph query optimizer that combines chained operators of a graph query; and/or the graph query executed via an in-memory distributed query execution engine.
US10152550B2
A method and apparatus are provided for automatically generating and processing first and second concept vector sets extracted, respectively, from a first set of concept sequences and from a second, temporally separated, concept sequences by performing a natural language processing (NLP) analysis of the first concept vector set and second concept vector set to detect changes in the corpus over time by identifying changes for one or more concepts included in the first and/or second set of concept sequences.
US10152540B2
A method, performed by an electronic device, for linking a thumbnail of an image and at least one web page is disclosed. In this method, the image including at least one text region may be accessed in a storage unit. At least one text region may be detected in the image and at least one character string in the at least one text region may be recognized. Further, the method may include selecting the at least one web page from the plurality of web pages and linking the thumbnail of the image and the at least one web page.
US10152539B2
The present disclosure provides a webpage searching method and a browser, wherein the method comprises: loading search category list information and search engine list information to a first sub-window of a browser webpage window; according to a search category selected from the search category list information and a search key word input at the browser side, initiating a search request to a search engine selected from the search engine list information according to the search category; and loading to a second sub-window of the browser webpage window a corresponding search result returned from the selected search engine on the basis of a search request. The present invention provides a sub-window for loading a search category list and a search engine list in a browser webpage window, a user can select in the current browser window a search category and a search engine to conduct a new search, thus significantly improving search efficiency, facilitating the user in checking and comparing a plurality of search results, and improving user experience.
US10152534B2
Mechanisms are provided for identifying changes, within a corpus of information, to answers to questions provided within the corpus of information. A mapping of a question and a previously provided answer to the question in a question/answer data structure is generated. A transaction referencing the previously provided answer, and having an update to the previously provided answer, is received and correlated with the question/answer data structure, which is updated based on the transaction. A determination is made as to whether the strength of the mapping of the first question to the previously provided answer based on the update to the question/answer data structure has fallen equal to or below a predetermined threshold. In response to this being the case, a change to the previously provided answer is propagated throughout the corpus of information.
US10152532B2
A method of associating a meaningful term with a first abbreviated name includes selecting a first meaningful term based on similarity between the first meaningful term and expansion of a first abbreviated term, selecting the first meaningful term based on collocation of a second abbreviated term, and associating the first meaningful term with the first abbreviated term. The first abbreviated term is associated with a first abbreviated name. The second abbreviated term and a third abbreviated term are associated with a second abbreviated name. The second abbreviated term satisfies a matching criterion associated with the first abbreviated term. A corresponding system and computer-readable device are also disclosed.
US10152509B2
Disclosed aspects relate to query hint learning in a database management system. A hint in a first query is detected by the database management system. The first query has a first signature. A second query is received by the database management system. The second query has a second signature. A determination is made by the database management system that the second signature correlates with the first signature. A query plan is established by the database management system. The query plan is based on the second query and uses the hint in the first query. In response to receiving the second query, the database management system processes the query plan.
US10152506B1
A method is provided to verify the computational results of a transaction processing system that includes a parent node a plurality of child nodes. The parent node sends to at least two child nodes an identical request to process a transaction. The transaction is allowed to modify an application's state only if the validity of the result of the processing of the transaction is verified across participating child nodes. Otherwise, the transaction is aborted.
US10152500B2
According to one aspect of the invention, a read-write instance of a multiple-instance database system receives a database statement for execution. The multiple-instance database system comprises a database shared by a plurality read-mostly instances that request only read access to a plurality of user database objects in the database and a plurality of read-write instances that request both read access and write access to the plurality of user database objects. The read-write instance selects one or more read-mostly instances, in the plurality of read-mostly instances, to perform one or more operations that require no write access to the plurality of user data objects.
US10152495B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product conduct online visual searches through an augmented reality (AR) device having an optical see-through head mounted display (HMD). An apparatus identifies a portion of an object in a field of view of the HMD based on user interaction with the HMD. The portion includes searchable content, such as a barcode. The user interaction may be an eye gaze or a gesture. A user interaction point in relation to the HMD screen is tracked to locate a region of the object that includes the portion and the portion is detected within the region. The apparatus captures an image of the portion. The identified portion of the object does not encompass the entirety of the object. Accordingly, the size of the image is less than the size of the object in the field of view. The apparatus transmits the image to a visual search engine.
US10152492B1
This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for restoring one or more versions of a file. In some embodiments, this includes receiving a request to restore the file, determining if a stub corresponding to the file exists in an extended recycle bin; if exists, moving the stub from the extended recycle bin to a primary storage, if not, locating a backup of the stub in a backup storage, copying the backup to the primary storage, locating the file accordingly, retrieving the file from the secondary storage, locating copies of multiple versions of the stub from the backup storage, copying from the backup storage to the primary storage, locating multiple versions of the file on the secondary storage accordingly, and retrieving the one or more versions of the file from the secondary storage.
US10152491B2
A file searching method for searching an original image file in an image processing device is provided, wherein the original image file includes a plurality of original image fragments and each of the plurality of original image fragments includes a plurality of key values. The file searching method includes receiving at least one searching condition; obtaining at least one corresponding key value among the plurality of key values according to the at least one searching condition; and searching at least one searching image fragment among the plurality of original image fragments meeting the at least one searching condition.
US10152490B2
A current time associated with a first received notification of a new object in a data set of a first system is accessed and a replication time is set to the current time. For each notification received regarding a new object in the data set of the first system, the new object is added to the replication queue. The new objects added to the queue are assigned the replication time until a specified maximum number of new objects have been added to the replication queue. Afterwards, new objects are added to the queue with no assigned replication time. When the objects in the queue are to be replicated, only the objects with the assigned replication time are copied from the queue to a second system. A new replication time is set to a new current time associated with confirmation of receipt of the copied objects received from the second system.
US10152471B2
A method for performing normalization of at least one piece of unstructured data is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) a computing device parsing or supporting other device to parse at least some unstructured data under a parsing rule; (b) the computing device selecting or supporting other device to select item names corresponding to individual fields extracted from the unstructured data through the parsing and verifying or supporting other device to verify a validity of data types corresponding to the individual fields; (c) the computing device creating or supporting other device to create information on transformation of the unstructured data by referring to the item names and the data types and transforming or supporting other device to transform the unstructured data based on the information; and (d) the computing device creating or supporting other device to create a program code for the normalization based on the information.
US10152470B2
Embodiments are disclosed in which an algorithm that updates or rewrites one or more formulas when a table is transposed in an application. In certain embodiments the formula is rewritten so as to preserve the functionality of the formula with respect to the transposed table. In certain embodiments, a notification may be provided that a formula is changed or not changed in response to the table transposition event.
US10152469B2
Analytics report segments and controls techniques are described in which an analytics module enables retrieval and manipulation of analytics data for a marketing service within a host application, such as a spreadsheet application. The analytics module provides an interactive dialog for insertion of form controls into documents designed as filters for analytics data embedded in the documents. In response to changes in values for the form controls, the analytics module is configured to query a marketing service and update the analytics data accordingly Additionally, the analytics module is be configured to facilitate creation of new segments from directly within the host application based upon a selection of analytics data contained in a corresponding document.
US10152458B1
Described are techniques for determining long-term effects of an experimental change to a user experience after the end of the experiment. A control state and a treatment state of a statistical hypothesis experiment may be assigned to first and second client devices, respectively, during an experiment time period. Subsequent to the end of the experiment, presentation of the control state may be discontinued. Result data corresponding to the treatment state may be determined during the experiment time period and for a length of time subsequent to the experiment time period. Result data corresponding to the control state may be determined during the experiment time period, and for a length of time prior to assignment of the control state to the first client device.
US10152433B2
A system for enabling input/out virtualization for a device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of host CPUs; a multi-root switch connected to each of the plurality of host CPUs via respective buses; and an inline PCI virtualizing device connected to the multi-root switch via a front-side bus and the device via a back-side bus, the inline PCI virtualizing device including a plurality sets of registers, each of the plurality sets of registers accessible by a corresponding host CPU of the plurality of host CPUs and implementing functionalities of the device.
US10152432B1
A support information provisioning system a support device, an external device; and a customer device. The customer device includes an external connector and a remote access controller device that is coupled to the external connector. In situations where the customer device is experiencing at least one customer device issue that prevents the customer device from provisioning support information related to the operation of the customer device, the remote access controller device operates to detect that the external device has been connected to the external connector and, in response, automatically cause new support information about that customer device to be generated. When the external device is subsequently connected to the support device, it may then provide that new support information to the support device for analysis.
US10152428B1
A service level is assigned to each application that uses virtual memory. The service level is used to select a type of memory used when paging-in data. The service level is used to select a type of storage used when paging out data. The service level is used to select a page to evict from memory, e.g. based on service level probabilities. The service level is used to select a number of contiguous pages to page-in, e.g. based on a service level scalar. Accesses (hits) to the pages in memory may be tracked, including contiguous pages that are paged-in based on the scalar. Pages with low hit frequency may be evicted. The scalar for an application may be adjusted when at least some of the contiguous pages are infrequently accessed.
US10152411B2
In a method for allocating data to multiple disks for storage, a capability value of each of the multiple disks is obtained. The capability value is ratio of a performance indicator value of a disk to a maximum capacity value of the disk. A greatest capability value is identified from multiple capability value. Based on the greatest capability value and a maximum capacity value of each of the multiple disks, allocation shares of the multiple disks are determined. Based on the determined allocation shares, data is allocated for the multiple disks. Through the method, the overall storage performance of a storage system is improved.
US10152408B2
Improvements are disclosed for “leveling” or averaging out more evenly the number of activate/precharge cycles seen by the rows of a memory component, so that one or more particular rows are not excessively stressed (relative to the other rows). In one embodiment, a memory controller includes remapping facilities arranged to move data stored in a physical row from RPK to RPK′ and modify the mapping from logical row RLK while minimizing impact on normal read/write operations. Remapping operations may be scheduled relative to refresh or other maintenance operations. Remapping operations may be conditionally deferred so as to minimize performance impact.
US10152407B1
A large number of tests are performed on a service automation system. An algorithm for detecting redundant test failures is provided. Each failed automated test has a set of attributes that allow for determining a degree of similarity with previous failed tests. Each failed test generates an exception containing a message and a stack trace. A message, a stack trace, a screenshot and other attributes produced by the test at the point of failure are included into a knowledge base of failed tests. This data can be analyzed for determining a cause of the test failures. The actual cause, once determined, is saved into a database and linked to a particular test failure. In order to find the redundant test failures, the attributes of a current test failure are compared to corresponding attributes of the previous test failures. The redundant test results and their causes are discarded from further test analysis.
US10152405B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer implemented web based application testing system and method for testing at least one software application. The system and method receiving at least one test selection from a user using a user interface at a display device. The test selection may include at least one of a feature, a scenario, a background and a predefined condition. A feature file generation engine may then generate at least one feature file based on the test selection. Also, the feature file may be stored in a non-transitory computer memory. A feature file execution engine may execute the feature file and generate at least one execution result. A reporting engine may then generate a report based on the execution result. The execution result may then be displayed at the web dashboard.
US10152401B2
Novel instructions, logic, methods and apparatus are disclosed to test transactional execution status. Embodiments include decoding a first instruction to start a transactional region. Responsive to the first instruction, a checkpoint for a set of architecture state registers is generated and memory accesses from a processing element in the transactional region associated with the first instruction are tracked. A second instruction to detect transactional execution of the transactional region is then decoded. An operation is executed, responsive to decoding the second instruction, to determine if an execution context of the second instruction is within the transactional region. Then responsive to the second instruction, a first flag is updated. In some embodiments, a register may optionally be updated and/or a second flag may optionally be updated responsive to the second instruction.
US10152399B2
A system and method for recovering stranded data from a non-volatile memory is provided. An example of a method includes copying data from a non-volatile memory (NVM) in a home node over a sideband interface and writing the data to a target memory region, wherein the target memory region is in a fail-over node.
US10152398B2
Pipelined data replication for disaster recovery is disclosed. An example pipelined data replication method for disaster recovery disclosed herein comprises sending replicated first data from a primary processing environment to a secondary processing environment for backup by the secondary processing environment, the replicated first data being a replica of first data in the primary processing environment, processing the first data in the primary processing environment prior to the backup of the replicated first data by the secondary processing environment being confirmed, and preventing a result of the processing of the first data from being released by the primary processing environment until the backup of the replicated first data by the secondary processing environment is confirmed.
US10152394B2
A system, method and computer program product for optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO) of a piece of IT equipment, e.g., a hard drive or server, using predictive analytics. The data center environment monitors and measures a number of environment variables, including temperature, Relative Humidity, and corrosion. For each piece of hardware, several pieces of data are assigned, including a criticality measure, an operational cost (function of environment), a static replacement cost, and a downtime cost (function of time). For each piece of hardware, if it has not yet failed, the system predicts a time-to-failure using the environment variables. If predicted time-to-failure exceeds an expected reference life criteria, real time TCO analytics is performed to minimize data center energy usage and/or maximize operational cost-efficiency.
US10152382B2
A method and system for monitoring a virtual machine cluster comprising sending, by physical machine, state parameter query instruction to a virtual machine in the virtual machine cluster at a first preset time interval; sending response information to the physical machine in response to receiving the query; the physical machine determining that the virtual machine is faulty, in response to the response information beyond a second preset time, judging whether the faulty machine satisfies a restart condition, and sending a restart instruction to a second machine on which the faulty machine runs, if the faulty machine satisfies the restart condition, by the virtual machine; and restarting, the second physical machine, the faulty virtual machine according to the restart instruction. The disclosure can be used to monitor virtual machines and recover a faulty virtual machine, thereby improving the availability of the virtual machine cluster and shortening service intervals.
US10152380B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells; a counting circuit configured to obtain a counting result by performing a counting operation on data read from the plurality of memory cells; and a control logic configured to perform a data restoring operation based on the counting result without involvement of a memory controller.
US10152371B1
A computer program product, system, and method for generating coded fragments comprises receiving, at a first node of a distributed storage system, an I/O request to write a block; splitting the block into a plurality of sub blocks; generating a sub block error detection hash for each of the sub blocks; sending the block and the sub block error detection hashes to a second node within the distributed storage system; and storing the block and the sub block error detection hashes to a storage device at the second node.
US10152355B2
A system and method for managing licensed and non-licensed resources in a grid network is provided. A license server receives and processes requests for a license and determines whether a license is available and, if necessary, causes a new configuration to be created on a server for satisfying the request. A new grid node may also be created and configured to be added to the grid for creating additional capacity for grid processing. The configuration may be performed at a time prior to an actual need by the grid, perhaps due to a faulted node, and quickly brought on-line with a simple configuration update. The new grid node may also have a virtual IP address reassigned to quickly redirect processing from the faulted node to the newly configured node. Also, an external resource dispatcher may add new resources such as storage or processing capacity to the grid and may coordinate the new resources with the license server.
US10152353B2
The present disclosure discloses system resource allocating method and device based on account activity level, wherein the method includes: acquiring an account activity level parameter of a user and calculating an account activity level of each user according to the account activity level parameter of the user; determining an account activity level rank of each user according to the account activity level of the user and a preset account activity level rank dividing manner; establishing an account activity level index of each user according to a user number, the account activity level and the account activity level rank of the user; allocating the system resource for performing the information processing to a target user according to the account activity level index of the target user, where the information processing is to be performed on the target user.
US10152348B2
A job for which execution is requested is classified as one of classes. The amount of data to be written into a non-volatile storage device by execution of the job for which execution is requested is acquired. The efficiency index is calculated for each of the classes based on an execution evaluation value of the class and the amount of data to be written into the non-volatile storage device by execution of at least one job that has been already classified as the class. From among the classes, a class having an efficiency index of no greater than an efficiency threshold value is determined as the execution suspending class. When the job for which execution is requested belongs to the execution suspending class, execution of the job is suspended.
US10152340B2
In a computer-implemented method for configuring flash cache for input/output operations to a storage device by a plurality of virtual machines an input/output trace log for each of a plurality of virtual machines is accessed. Performance of each of the plurality of virtual machines based on a plurality of configurations of the flash cache is simulated in real-time. A recommendation of the plurality of configurations of the flash cache for the each of the plurality of virtual machines utilizing results from the simulation is generated.
US10152337B2
Embodiments relate to data shuffling by logically rotating processing nodes. The nodes are logically arranged in a two or three dimensional matrix. Every time two of the nodes in adjacent rows of the matrix are aligned, adjacent nodes exchange data. The positional alignment is a logical alignment of the nodes. The nodes are logically arranged and rotated, and data is exchanged in response to the logical rotation.
US10152323B2
Method, apparatus, and program means for shuffling data. The method of one embodiment comprises receiving a first operand having a set of L data elements and a second operand having a set of L control elements. For each control element, data from a first operand data element designated by the individual control element is shuffled to an associated resultant data element position if its flush to zero field is not set and a zero is placed into the associated resultant data element position if its flush to zero field is not set.
US10152322B2
A processor core has a store-through upper level cache and a store-in lower level cache. In response to execution of a memory move instruction sequence including a plurality of copy-type instruction and a plurality of paste-type instructions, the processor core transmits a corresponding plurality of copy-type and paste-type requests to the lower level cache, where each copy-type request specifies a source real address and each paste-type request specifies a destination real address. In response to receipt of each copy-type request, the lower level cache copies a respective one of a plurality of data granules from a respective storage location specified by the source real address of that copy-type request into a non-architected buffer. In response to receipt of each paste-type request, the lower level cache writes a respective one of the plurality of data granules from the non-architected buffer to a respective storage location specified by the destination real address of that paste-type request.
US10152319B2
Supplemental functionalities may be provided for an executable program via an ontology instance. In some embodiments, a computer program (e.g., an executable program or other computer program) associated with an ontology may be caused to be run. The ontology may include information indicating attributes for a set of applications. An instance of the ontology may be obtained, which may correspond to an application of the set of applications. Based on the ontology instance, supplemental information may be generated for the computer program. The supplemental information may be related to one or more functionalities of the application to be added to the executable program. The supplemental information may be provided as input to the computer program. The supplemental information, at least in part, may cause the one or more functionalities of the application to be made available via the executable program.
US10152317B2
A method and system are described updating software packages in a storage system. The method includes receiving software packages for upgradation of the software packages of storage arrays from the plurality of storage arrays. Each of the received software packages correspond to a storage array of the plurality of storage arrays. A time window for updating software packages of the one or more storage arrays is identified, based on an average count of input/output operations per second (IOPS) associated with each storage array. Virtual memories are allocated, within the identified time window, to a set of storage arrays from one or more storage arrays, for uploading each of the software packages. The software packages are uploaded in the allocated virtual memories. The software packages of each storage array of the set are simultaneously updated, by receiving each of the software package from the allocated virtual memory of corresponding storage array.
US10152313B1
The invention relates to a method for transforming a shared library between two operating systems with different application binary interfaces (ABIs) on a predetermined instruction set architecture. The shared library is implemented by a source object file comprising at least a source memory image, source symbol information, and absolute source relocation information. The method comprises: creating a target object header compliant to the target ABI and comprising information descriptive of the shared library and/or a target object file; creating a target memory image compliant to the target ABI from the source memory image; creating target symbol information compliant to the target ABI from the source symbol information; creating target relocation information compliant to the target ABI from the source relocation information; and writing the target object header, memory image, symbol information, and relocation information to the target object file to implement the transformed shared library.
US10152309B2
API (application program interface) features defined by a set of APIs provide a different cross-sectional view of an application or framework than the view provided by sectioning along class or library boundaries, or binding units, for example. An API feature includes a proper subset of a library of a framework used by an application, and/or APIs which collectively reside in different libraries. A functionality feature API set provides an exposed surface area of a functionality feature of an application. Upon receiving a compilation request and determining that an API feature is to be excluded, an attempt is made to produce a compiled version of the application without the feature's APIs. In some cases, the functionality feature is independent of a baseline functionality of the application. Developers can obtain smaller but fully functional binaries. Framework architects can identify dependencies between API implementations when creating or modifying a software framework's architecture.
US10152308B2
A test interface generator accesses metadata defining a user interface display. The test interface generator generates a strongly typed application programming interface (API) for the user interface display, during compile time, based on the metadata defining the user interface display. A static type checker performs a static type check of each API during compilation of the application. A test system programmatically interacts with the user interface display through the strongly typed API.
US10152294B2
A mobile device and methods of running two platform systems or applications on the mobile device are disclosed in this invention. The mobile device includes a processing unit, a display unit and an I/O interface unit. The processing unit is configured to execute a first application of a first platform system and a second application of a second platform system different from the first platform system. The display unit is configured to display a graphic user interface of the first application. The I/O interface unit is configured to build connection to an external device and transmit data of a graphic user interface data of the second application to the external device.
US10152286B2
Systems and methods of managing print procurement systems based on item-specific interest levels and supplier-influenced thresholds are disclosed herein. An example method includes: receiving a request to view ordering information for a fixed plurality of physical items associated with a time period. In response, the method includes: displaying a respective user interface (UI) object for each physical item of the fixed plurality (e.g., a first UI object for a first physical item includes a visual representation of an aggregate interest level during the time period as compared to a threshold interest level, and the aggregate interest level reflects a quantity requested by two distinct users). While displaying the respective UI objects, the method includes: receiving an indication that the threshold interest level for the first physical item has been satisfied; and, in accordance with receiving the indication, updating the first UI object to indicate that the threshold interest level for the first physical item has been satisfied.
US10152281B2
A method of transparently inserting a virtual storage layer into a Fiber channel based storage area network (SAN) while maintaining continuous I/O operations is provided. A device is inserted between a host entity and a first storage device. The device identifies a plurality of first paths between the host entity and the first storage device, and defines a plurality of second paths by defining, for each first path among the plurality of first paths, a corresponding second path between the host entity and a second storage device. The device determines, for each of the plurality of first paths, a respective first state. The device establishes, for each of the second paths among the plurality of second paths, a second state based on the first state of the corresponding first path. The device redirects, to the second storage device, communications directed from the host entity to the first storage device, via the plurality of second paths.
US10152269B2
A method and a system for preserving branch cache file data identifiers upon volume replication, the method including: calculating file data hashes associated with the file; storing the calculated file data hashes on a directory attached to the file; constructing file data identifiers for the file, based on the file data hashes and a secret server identifier of the first content server; providing file data of the file and the file data identifiers to the first branch cache client; caching the file data and the file data at the first branch cache client; replicating the file data hashes contained in the replicated volume; deriving the server secret identifier of the first content server; reconstructing the file data identifiers for the file, based on the replicated file data hashes and the derived server secret identifier of the first content server; providing the reconstructed file data identifiers to the branch cache clients.
US10152267B1
In one embodiment, a method includes intercepting a write command to write to a volume at a production site, saving data from the write command to a cache, sending metadata from the write command to a data protection appliance (DPA), writing the data to the volume, receiving a request for the data in the cache, sending the data from cache to a data protection appliance (DPA) at the production site and sending the data from the DPA to the replication site.
US10152265B1
A system for efficient repository migration and storage includes an interface and a processor to migrate a repository from a standard repository system in which a standard repository data is replicated in multiple repositories to an efficient repository system in which related repositories are grouped together as a network of repositories and an efficient repository data is stored in a shared network repository.
US10152261B2
Providing memory bandwidth compression using compression indicator (CI) hint directories in a central processing unit (CPU)-based system is disclosed. In this regard, a compressed memory controller provides multiple CI hint directory entries, each providing a plurality of CI hints. The compressed memory controller receives a memory write request comprising write data, determines a compression pattern for the write data, and generates a CI for the write data based on the compression pattern. The compressed memory controller writes the write data to the memory line, and writes the generated CI into one or more ECC bits of the memory line. In parallel, the compressed memory controller determines whether the physical address corresponds to a CI hint directory entry, and, if so, a CI hint of the CI hint directory entry corresponding to the physical address is updated based on the generated CI.
US10152257B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to generating random numbers using two transistor, two capacitor (2T-2C) ferroelectric memory cells. In accordance with one disclosed embodiment, an n-bit random number can be generated by writing to a uniform data pattern to a set of n 2T-2C ferroelectric memory cells in a 1T-1C mode so that all ferroelectric capacitors of the n 2T-2C cells have a polarization state corresponding to the same data value (e.g., all 0's or all 1's). The n 2T-2C cells are then read in a 2T-2C mode, so that a random bit (a 0 or 1) is produced for each cell, resulting in an n-bit random number. The n-bit random number is stored in the n 2T-2C ferroelectric memory cells by a rewrite operation. Such random numbers are useful for many purposes, including security, such as authentication, integrity checking, and encryption, and for identification.
US10152255B2
Loading a guest virtual machine from a snapshot includes determining a plurality of executable modules loaded in a guest operating system. Hash values for pages of guest physical memory in the snapshot file are determined. Hash values for pages of the executable modules executing in the guest operating system are determined. Matches to the pages in the guest physical memory and the pages of the executable modules are searched for using the hash values. Context information associated with the matching pages in the guest physical memory and the pages of the executable modules is written to the snapshot. The snapshot is modified to link the guest physical memory to the pages of the executable modules.
