US10165709B2
Modular network switches and other computer systems are described herein. A modular network switch can include a latching device for installing and removing computer modules (e.g., line cards) from an associated cabinet or enclosure. The network switch can also include interconnected computer modules (e.g., line cards, fabric cards, control modules, etc.) that include circuit boards oriented parallel to the flow of cooling air through the cabinet in the absence of a backplane or midplane oriented perpendicular to the air flow. The absence of such backplanes and/or midplanes provides a more direct air flow path through the cabinet, thereby enabling a more efficient flow of cooling air and lower operating temperatures. Additionally, the network switch can include an orthogonal arrangement of data planes, control planes, and/or power planes that can be efficiently interconnected to increase operational speed and further facilitate the flow of cooling air through the computer cabinet.
US10165708B2
A cooling mechanism used inside a gimbal includes a heat dissipating module, a main board and fasteners. The main board is fixed to a lower surface of the heat dissipating module through the fasteners. The main board includes a main chip. The heat dissipating module includes an upper sealing cover; a lower sealing cover fixedly connected to the upper sealing cover, wherein a lower surface of the lower sealing cover has a hole for accommodating the main chip; an air storehouse, wherein a bottom surface of the air storehouse contacts with the main chip, a side surface of the air storehouse is adjacent to a cooling chamber; and sealing rings located between the upper sealing cover and the lower sealing cover. A cooling chamber is formed by the upper sealing cover, the lower sealing cover and a baffle, the cooling liquid is provided in the cooling chamber.
US10165707B1
An apparatus for providing immersion cooling in a compact-format circuit card environment comprises a plurality of circuit cards. A plurality of thermal energy transfer devices is provided, each thermal energy transfer device at least partially inducing a respective one of first and second operating temperatures to a corresponding circuit card subassembly. At least one first temperature cooling manifold is in selective fluid communication with at least one first operating temperature thermal energy transfer device. At least one second temperature cooling manifold is in selective fluid communication with at least one second operating temperature thermal energy transfer device. A plurality of manifold interfaces is provided, each manifold interface being in fluid communication with a corresponding thermal energy transfer device. A housing includes first and second operating fluid inlets in fluid communication with first and second operating fluid outlets, respectively.
US10165706B2
A liquid immersion bath includes: a liquid immersion bath main body in which liquid coolant and an electronic device to be immersed in the coolant are placed; a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet provided to the liquid immersion bath main body; a coolant discharge port which floats on a liquid surface of the liquid coolant in the liquid immersion bath main body; and a hose which couples the coolant outlet and the coolant discharge port and bends in accordance with a movement of the coolant discharge port due to variation in a height of the liquid surface.
US10165703B1
A data-center drawer may include an outerassembly that is removably attached to a data-center rack and an inner assembly that (1) houses at least one computing component and (2) is configured to extend between (a) a closed position in which the inner assembly is enclosed within the outer assembly and (b) an open position in which the inner assembly is at least partially extended from the outer assembly. The data-center drawer may also include a cable track, positioned within the inner assembly, that houses at least one cable that provides connectivity to the computing component. The cable track may (1) at least partially fold upon itself as the inner assembly moves from the open position to the closed position and (2) at least partially unfold as the inner assembly extends from the closed position to the open position. Corresponding systems and methods of assembly are also disclosed.
US10165695B2
An apparatus for installing a high and low voltage conversion circuit, a high and low voltage conversion system and a power source are described. The apparatus includes: a first housing made of an insulation material and a second housing made of a metallic material, each being provided with two openings at both ends respectively in same direction; first and second housings are fixed, and are in contact on at least part of surfaces thereof; a first cavity and a second cavity are formed in first and second housings for installing a high-voltage circuit and a low-voltage circuit respectively, a high voltage terminal connected with high-voltage circuit and a low voltage terminal connected with low-voltage circuit are inserted through one opening of first housing and one opening of second housing respectively.
US10165691B2
The present invention is a method for manufacturing a multilayer wiring board having (1) a step of providing with a hole for a via hole, an overhang of a metal foil formed at an opening of the hole, and lower space formed between the overhang and an inside wall of the hole, by using a conformal method or a direct laser method; and (2) a step of filling in the hole by forming electrolytic filling plating layers within the hole and on the metal foil, wherein the filling-in of the hole by the formation of electrolytic filling plating layers in the step (2) is carried out by temporarily decreasing the electric current density of electrolytic filling plating in the middle of the electrolytic filling plating, and increasing it again.
US10165685B2
In a printed circuit board (1) comprising a plurality of insulating layers and conductive layers, and comprising at least one cavity (7) at least one electromagnetic coil (8) is arranged on an outer layer (4) of the printed circuit board (1) and cooperates with a permanent magnet (6) arranged inside the at least one cavity (7).
US10165682B2
A package includes a conductive pad, with a plurality of openings penetrating through the conductive pad. A dielectric layer encircles the conductive pad. The dielectric layer has portions filling the plurality of openings. An Under-Bump Metallurgy (UBM) includes a via portion extending into the dielectric layer to contact the conductive pad. A solder region is overlying and contacting the UBM. An integrated passive device is bonded to the UBM through the solder region.
US10165677B2
Provided is a manufacturing process for electronic circuit components such as bare dies, and packaged integrated chips, among other configurations, to form electronic assemblies. The surface of the electronic circuit component carries electronic elements such as conductive traces and/or other configurations including contact pads. A method for forming an electronic assembly includes providing a tacky layer. Then an electronic circuit component is provided having a first side and a second side, where the first side carries the electronic elements. The first side of the electronic circuit component is positioned into contact with the tacky layer. A bonding material is then deposited to a portion of the adhesive layer that is not covered by the first side of the electronic circuit component, to a depth which is sufficient to cover at least a portion of the electronic circuit component. The bonding material is then fixed or cured into a fixed or cured bonding material, and the tacky layer is removed. By these operations, the electronic circuit component is held in a secure attachment by the fixed or cured bonding material, and circuit connections may be made.
US10165669B2
A wiring board comprises an insulating substrate; and a heat-transfer member disposed inside the insulating substrate. The insulating substrate comprises an upper surface and a recess formed in the upper surface, the upper surface including a first mounting region for a first electronic component, and a second mounting region for a second electronic component which is provided in the recess. The heat-transfer member is disposed inside the insulating substrate so as to overlap the first mounting region and the second mounting region as seen in a plan view, and, part of the heat-transfer member is exposed in the recess.
US10165661B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable media or provided for implementing a proxy for a legacy lighting control component. A lighting unit (102) may be polled for data indicative of a lighting state of the lighting unit. It may be determined that the lighting state of the lighting unit corresponds to a predetermined lighting state. A predetermined lighting scene triggered by transition of the lighting unit into the predetermined lighting state may be identified, and one or more other lighting units may be caused to implement the predetermined lighting scene. In some embodiments, a user interface may be operable to create an association between a legacy switch or sensor (108) that controls a first lighting unit (102a) and a predetermined lighting scene to be implemented at least in part by a second lighting unit (102b-f), e.g., leaving a direct association between the first lighting unit and the legacy switch or sensor transparent to a user.
US10165650B1
A lighting fixture has a communication interface; a light source configured to provide light output for general illumination; an image sensor configured to capture image information associated of with a field of view; and control circuitry, which is configured to provide a drive signal to the light source to control the light output. In one embodiment, the control circuitry is further configured to, for each object in the field of view, determine if an object in the field of view is an occupant based on the image information; if the object is an occupant, track movement of the occupant within the field of view; and determine a number of occupants in the field of view. The control circuitry may also be configured to provide occupancy information bearing on the number of occupants in the field of view to a remote entity via the communication interface.
US10165643B2
A two-level LED security light includes a light emitting unit, a power supply unit, a loading and power control unit, a light sensing control unit, a motion sensing unit and a time setting unit. The lighting-emitting unit includes an LED load which may be turned on or turned off by the light sensing control unit and controlled by the loading and power control unit. When the motion sensing unit detects an intrusion, the LED load is switched to a high level illumination for a predetermined time length adjustable by the time setting unit. The LED load is configured with a plurality of LEDs accommodating to the power supply unit wherein a voltage V across each LED is confined in a range Vth
US10165635B1
A controller in a solid state luminaire implements a nested control loop to drive multiple, parallel-connected, heterogeneous strings of series-connected LEDs using a constant current power supply. The current through each string is independently controlled by a current regulator in series with the LEDs. An inner (current) control loop alters the relative drive strength of each LED string, to achieve desired luminous characteristics, such as CRI, CCT, and the like. An outer (voltage) control loop monitors the output voltage of the power supply, and the total current drawn. The outer control loop adjusts a gain factor applied to the control signals for each current regulator, to control the total current drawn—while maintaining the relative ratios of drive strength between the strings—so as to maintain the power supply output voltage at a substantially constant value.
US10165634B2
According to an example, a device is provided for driving several light sources, wherein the device is arranged to sense a supply signal and apply a phase shift to a switching signal of at least one of the several light sources based on the sensed supply signal. Also, accordingly a method, a lighting device, a computer program product and a computer-readable medium are suggested.
US10165625B2
Disclosed is a cooking appliance. The present invention includes a plurality of loads connected in parallel with each other, a plurality of load relays configured to be connected in series to a plurality of the loads in order to selectively supply commercial electricity supplied from a power supply unit to a plurality of the loads, respectively and be driven selectively in ON or OFF state, a safety relay configured to be connected in series to a plurality of the loads and be driven selectively in ON or OFF state, a detecting unit configured to sense a voltage applied to both ends of the safety relay by being connected to the safety relay, and a controller configured to control a plurality of the load relays, the safety relay and the detecting unit and determine a presence or non-presence of malfunction of a plurality of the load relays based on a signal from the detecting unit.
US10165624B2
A method and apparatus can be configured to operate a node in a first mode to support one or more user equipment. The method can also include operating the node in a second mode to support one or more user equipment. The coverage of the second mode is enhanced compared to the coverage of the first mode. The method can also include broadcasting information about when the second mode is available.
US10165615B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data retransmission communication method and a terminal for implementing inter-base station carrier aggregation, where the method includes: receiving, by a first Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of a terminal, a packet data unit PDU; and when the first RLC entity determines that the PDU reaches a maximum quantity of retransmissions, instructing, by the first RLC entity, a second RLC entity of the terminal to transmit the PDU, where the first RLC entity is corresponding to a first base station, and the second RLC entity is corresponding to a second base station. By using the method and the terminal in the embodiments, frequency of RRC connection re-establishment is reduced, and a data packet loss caused by frequent re-establishment is further avoided, thereby improving user experience.
US10165604B2
A mobile communication system includes a base station that configures a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells include D2D supporting cell that supports D2D communication in which data communication is directly performed between terminals and D2D non-supporting cell that does not support the D2D communication. The base station transmits D2D information indicating that the D2D communication is permitted even in the D2D non-supporting cell as well as the D2D supporting cell.
US10165597B2
In wireless communication networks with distributed medium access control, maximal network throughput is achieved as a compromise between medium contention duration and collision rate. Maximal throughput in self-adapting medium access protocol is achieved by stations maintaining backoff counter BC and freezing counter FC, which define the state in two-dimensional state space. Countdown process is comprised of decrementing BC in idle timeslots, and incrementing FC in busy timeslots. Countdown ends if the value of BC reaches zero, when the station starts to transmit data, or when FC is incremented to be greater than freezing limit FL. In both cases, the station has to randomly select new backoff counter, reset its freezing counter, and continue to count down with these new values of BC and FC. At the end of countdown, the station calculates contention measure CM=a*BC+b*FC, and based on set of CM thresholds CMi, activates one of available contention windows Wi that define the interval of available values for the random selection of new backoff counter [Wimin, Wimax]. In loaded network, the station can increase the total amount of backoff time to be greater than the maximal upper limit of available contention windows by selecting new backoff counter multiple times, which is made possible by limiting countdown freezing. This manifests the self-adaptive nature of the described medium access control protocol. The self-adaptive nature is also manifested in selection of contention window based on contention measure of the previous countdown, which additionally regulates medium contention duration, achieving good network throughput in various network load scenarios.
US10165596B2
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for transmitting a frame in a wireless local area network. A method for transmitting a frame in a wireless local area network may comprise the steps of: an STA, operating on the basis of TPC, transmitting a TPC configuration request frame to an AP, the TPC configuration request frame containing information for a TPC STA communication resource requested by the STA; the STA receiving, from the AP, a TPC configuration response frame as a response to the TPC configuration request frame, the TPC configuration response frame containing information for allocating requested TPC STA communication resource; and the STA transmitting the frame to the AP by means of the requested TPC STA communication resource.
US10165576B2
Techniques control traffic transmissions to manage radio resource utilization. When content is being streamed to user equipment (UE) and is at least initially intended to be streamed in real time at a constant bitrate, a communication management component can determine whether the content being transmitted to the UE can be delayed, instead of being transmitted in real time. In response to determining that the content can be delayed, the communication management component can facilitate buffering data and periodically streaming the data to the UE in data bursts to reduce use of UE power and radio resources. When transmitting a visual image to a UE, the communication management component can adjust resolution of a visual image to correspond to screen dimensions of the UE based on information indicating screen dimensions of the UE that can be received from the UE.
US10165573B2
A method and apparatus for determining priorities of buffer status reports (BSRs) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) generates a BSR for uplink transmission to a network and a proximity-based services (ProSe) BSR for device-to-device (D2D) transmission between UEs, and prioritizes the BSR for uplink transmission over the ProSe BSR.
US10165569B2
A radio communication apparatus includes a control unit that, if a radio access bearer (RAB) for a circuit switching domain is reconfigured between a dedicated channel (DCH) and enhanced uplink dedicated channel/High Speed Downlink Packet Access (E-DCH/HSDPA) and an RAB corresponded to RAB information exists as an established RAB and there exists no transparent mode (TM) radio bearer for a core network (CN) domain included in an information element of CN domain identity (ID), and at least one TM radio bearer is included in an information element of radio bearer (RB) information to setup, calculates a start value that is used on a new RAB.
US10165568B2
When bandwidth is dynamically allocated for audio communication via satellite communication, newly occurring audio communication can negatively affect the communication quality of the existing audio communication. Provided is a data communication apparatus that communicates via a satellite and includes an allocation control section that allocates in advance, for audio communication via the satellite, a bandwidth that is larger than a bandwidth needed for current audio communication being performed via satellite by at least a predetermined bandwidth. A program causes a computer to function as this data communication apparatus. A satellite communication system includes this data communication apparatus and this satellite.
US10165567B2
A method of an electronic device and an electronic device using the same is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module and a processor. The processor confirms context information of the electronic device, selects at least one frequency band or at least one communication path, which are supported by the electronic device, based on the context information, and communicates data between the electronic device and an external electronic device, based on the at least one frequency band or the at least one communication path, using the communication module.
US10165561B2
Embodiments provide a communications device for resource allocation, including: a determining module, configured to acquire, from an S region corresponding to each beam, each beam ID fed back by user equipment, determine each T region including user equipment according to the beam ID, and determine a quantity of user equipments included in each T region; a calculation module, configured to select, according to a preset rule, to-be-connected user equipment from the user equipment included in each T region, and calculate, according to a resource allocation policy, a ratio of resources to be allocated to each to-be-connected user equipment; and an allocation module, configured to allocate, in a preset allocation manner according to the resource ratio, a resource to be allocated to each user equipment to the user equipment, and send PDCCH information to the user equipment to deliver the resource allocated to the user equipment to the user equipment.
US10165559B2
The present invention relates to a receiver circuitry and an evaluation method in a receiver circuitry for controlling a decoding of a plurality of control channel message candidates by selecting control channel message candidates based on a quality measure control channel message candidates for decoding of a received control channel message (S150). The quality measure is computed for a DMRS candidate based on an extracted signal sequence and a calculated DMRS sequence (S140).
US10165556B2
Embodiments disclose a data transmission method and user equipment. The method includes sending, by user equipment (UE), uplink data to a network side device; and processing, by the UE according to feedback information for the uplink data and received from the network side device, a buffer status report (BSR) corresponding to the uplink data or a scheduling request (SR) corresponding to the uplink data.
US10165550B2
A transmission procedure for use in a communication system including a base station and one or more terminals. The base station transmits a signal to a terminal, and provides the terminal with possible characteristics of a further signal for transmission from the terminal to the base station, the possible characteristics including at least one of: one or more locations for transmission of the further signal in the time domain; and one or more locations for the transmission of the further signal in the frequency domain; and wherein transmission of the further signal from the terminal, with one or more characteristics selected by the terminal from the possible characteristics, indicates further information relating to the terminal.
US10165539B2
A primary user of a spectrum, such as a licensed user, has primary access authority to use of a spectrum. A plurality of secondary users of the spectrum, which may be unlicensed users, have secondary access authority to use of the spectrum. When the primary user wants to use the spectrum, the primary user sends a message that is propagated to all the secondary users in a geographic region that the primary user wants to use the spectrum. The message specifies the duration of time and the geographic region (location of use) where the primary user wants to use the spectrum. The secondary users in the location of use immediately stop using the spectrum for the duration of time specified in the message and then may resume use of the spectrum.
US10165535B2
A first and a second wireless device and a respective method performed thereby for enabling D2D communication there between are provided. The method performed by the first wireless device comprises obtaining a timing reference and a time offset, from a wireless network; and transmitting, to the at least one second wireless device, an SA in accordance with the obtained timing reference, the SA comprising the time offset. The method further comprises transmitting data, to the at least one second wireless device, in accordance with an uplink timing, wherein the uplink timing is based on the time offset and the timing reference.
US10165527B2
A method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or reporting a Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method of transmitting the PHR of the UE in a mobile communication system includes configuring an extended PHR including an indicator corresponding to a variation factor of a maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the extended PHR from the UE to a Base Station (BS). The BS may be notified of a maximum transmission power of the UE and a variation factor corresponding to the maximum transmission power in order to enable efficient scheduling.
US10165524B2
An apparatus and a method for uplink and/or downlink power control in a radio communication network are provided. The method comprises determining (120) a relationship between a load of a serving wireless access point and a load of at least one neighboring wireless access point; and determining (130) an uplink or downlink transmission power based on the determined load relationship.
US10165521B2
There is disclosed an apparatus (10) for transmitting a communication signal across one or more pre-existing frequency channels or bands that carry a transmission signal. The apparatus comprises a memory for storing at least one pre-existing frequency channel or band together with information relating to a strength of the transmission signal carried by the at least one pre-existing frequency channel or band. A controller (24) is configured to generate a communication signal to be transmitted across at least one of the pre-existing frequency channels or bands at a strength sufficient to over-broadcast the transmission signal carried by said pre-existing channel or band. A mixer (26) is configured to receive each of the communication signals generated by the controller (24) and to combine said communication signals into a combined mixed communication signal (15). A transmitter (16) for transmitting the combined mixed communication signal (15) to be transmitted across the at least one pre-existing frequency channels or bands in replacement of, or in addition to, the transmission signal carried by the at least one pre-existing frequency channel.
US10165517B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a power allocation method and a communications device. The power allocation method includes: determining, by a first communications device, a first power control parameter group, where the first power control parameter group includes information used to indicate a transmit power of the first communications device in a first-type subframe, and sending, by the first communications device, a signal only on a downlink frequency resource in the first-type subframe; and determining, by the first communications device, a second power control parameter group, where the second power control parameter group includes information used to indicate a transmit power of the first communications device in a second-type subframe, and sending, by the first communications device, signals on both a downlink frequency resource and an uplink frequency resource in the second-type subframe.
US10165515B1
A cognitive assistant for mobile devices in low power mode. A first signal may be received from a mobile device via a communication network, the first signal indicating that the mobile device entered low power mode. Responsive to receiving the first signal, communications from a plurality of servers directed to the mobile device may be rerouted to another hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor receives the communications instead of the mobile device receiving the communications. The hardware processor may analyze the communications' content and assign weights to the communications. A selected set of communications that are assigned weights exceeding a threshold value is transmitted to the mobile device in low power mode.
US10165510B2
[Object] To provide a wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and a wireless communication system capable of further reducing power consumption of a mobile station. [Solution] Provided is a wireless communication device including a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a base station, a measurement unit configured to detect a predetermined signal pattern from a signal received by the wireless communication unit and measure reception power of the signal including the predetermined signal pattern, and a control unit configured to control at least one of a packet transmission time length and transmission power when the wireless communication unit transmits a signal, based on pre-decided transmission power of the base station and the reception power measured by the measurement unit.
US10165506B2
A method for searching for a network includes adding a mode in which a terminal searches for a WCDMA network to a list of modes in which the terminal searches for communication networks, when a SIM card inserted in the terminal belongs to a first operator not supporting a WCDMA standard; searching for a first WCDMA network operated in a visited place when the terminal roams to the visited place, and residing in the first WCDMA network to acquire location information of the visited place; and registering in a second WCDMA network operated in the visited place, according to the location information of the visited place. A terminal is also provided.
US10165503B2
In a radio communication system in which a supplemental uplink-downlink configuration can be used, a mobile station device and a base station device efficiently communicate with each other. A mobile station device communicates in prescribed bands. This mobile station device transmits information related to support of a specific uplink-downlink configuration.
US10165497B2
One embodiment relates to a device for controlling an IP core network including at least one router to an external data packet network and at least one switch connected to the router and to at least one base station of an access network. It may comprise a communication module configured to communicate with a mobility management entity of the core network and to receive information therefrom representative of a mobility state and/or an IP connectivity state of a terminal. It may comprise a module configured to update topology information representing connections between the router(s), the switch(es), the base station(s), and registered terminals, and to update at least some of the topology information as a function of the state information. It may comprise a control module configured to control the router(s) and/or the switch(es) with processing rules applied to data streams for the terminals, which are defined from the updated information.
US10165494B2
Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for routing data to mobile devices that undergo handovers from one access point to another. In one embodiment, a processor performs operations including obtaining a network location of a mobile device, updating a mapping table with the network location of the mobile device, obtaining a request to transfer a data packet to the mobile device, routing the data packet to the mobile device according to the mapping table, and forwarding the network location to a source of the data packet. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10165491B1
A method and system for dynamically managing a downlink coverage threshold that is used for triggering handover processing of a user equipment device (UE). The downlink coverage threshold is dynamically decreased upon invoking of uplink Transmission Time Interval (TTI) bundling service for the UE.
US10165485B2
A method performed by a mobile device of selecting a cellular network entails activating a cellular radio transceiver, scanning a most recently used frequency list of radiofrequency channels most recently used by the cellular radio transceiver of the mobile device, scanning a likely frequency list of likely radiofrequency channels available at a plurality of locations where activation of cellular radio transceivers commonly occurs, and selecting the cellular network by identifying one of the radiofrequency channels as a usable channel.
US10165470B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer readable media are disclosed. A HE station may include circuitry. The circuitry may be configured to: generate a HE packet with a short preamble format or a long preamble format, wherein the HE packet comprises one or more legacy signal (L-SIG) fields followed by one or more HE signal fields (HE-SIG) and an HE long-training field (HE-LTF); and configure the HE packet to indicate whether the HE packet is configured with the short preamble format or the long preamble format. The HE packet may be configured with the short preamble format or the long preamble format based on one from the following group: a symbol after the L-SIG fields, a L-SIG polarity of a repeated L-SIG, a number of times the L-SIG fields is repeated, or a length field of one of the one or more L-SIG fields.
US10165469B2
An apparatus and a method for configuring and managing/controlling a cluster, which is a set of Base Stations (BSs) for transmitting signals cooperatively, are provided. The method includes broadcasting cluster set information indicating information about a plurality of clusters including a serving BS to a User Equipment (UE), receiving a report of information about Received Signal Strength Indicators (RSSIs) of control signals transmitted from BSs included in the plurality of clusters from the UE, and assigning any one of the plurality of clusters to a cluster for servicing the UE based on the information about the RSSIs of the control signals.
US10165461B2
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for obtaining a range between devices based, at least in part, on an exchange of wireless messages. For example, wireless devices may obtain measurements of range based, at least in part, on an exchange fine timing measurement (FTM) messages. In one implementation, a message transmitted from a first wireless transceiver device to a second wireless transceiver device may comprise one or more parameters indicative of a range between the first wireless transceiver device and the second wireless transceiver device, or a range between the first wireless transceiver device and a third wireless transceiver device other than the second wireless transceiver device.
US10165457B2
A method comprises generating an advanced signaling call flow and monitoring one or more finite states for one or more calls using the advanced signaling call flow. The method further comprises determining that there is a failure in one of the one or more monitored finite states for a particular call, and comparing one or more performance indicators to one or more respective thresholds, the one or more performance indicators associated with a cell in which the particular call took place and comprising information about the cell at the time of the failure. The method further comprises flagging one or more of the one or more performance indicators that do not satisfy their respective threshold, and determining a root cause of the failure based at least in part on one or more of the one or more flagged performance indicators and the advanced signaling call flow.
US10165455B2
According to one aspect there is provided a method in a first network node of a telecommunication network. The network has a plurality of base stations which are operable to transmit a broadcast channel repetition pattern comprising at least one time window of a first mode of operation. The first mode of operation is interspersed between periods of a second mode of operation. The number of repetitions of a broadcast channel in a given period is greater in the first mode than in the second mode. The method comprises determining first data regarding a broadcast channel repetition pattern to be or being transmitted by a first base station. The first data comprises at least timing information about the timing of the time windows of the first mode of operation. The method also comprises sending the first data to a second network node that controls operation of a second base station neighboring the first base station.
US10165451B1
Devices, systems, and methods for providing improved network performance in wireless communications networks using intelligent radiation selection are provided. A radio is communicatively coupled to an antenna and configured to provide a signal to the antenna for broadcast from a cell site. One or more input components are communicatively coupled to the radio to provide information on at least one of an internal or an external condition of the antenna, so that the radio can adjust or modify the signal provided to the antenna to change an emitted pattern of radiation from the antenna to reduce signal loss, or recover or help maintain an area of coverage provided by the antenna.
US10165449B2
A method of assigning radio frequencies to base stations (105-1) of a first radio telecommunications network operating in a first radio frequency band and co-existing with at least a second radio telecommunications network (110, 110-1;115, 115-1) operating in a second radio frequency band at least partially overlapping the first radio frequency band. The method comprises: simulations of electromagnetic field propagation; defining a cost function for quantitatively evaluating a radio frequency assignment plan for the base stations of the first radio telecommunications network; calculating an initial radio frequencies assignment plan for the base stations of the first radio telecommunications network; calculating at least one alternative radio frequency assignment plan starting from the initial radio frequency assignment plan; selecting as radio frequency assignment plan for the base stations of the first radio telecommunications network one of the alternative radio frequency assignment plans based on the values of the cost function, and assigning to the base stations (105-1) of the first radio telecommunications network frequencies in accordance with the radio frequency assignment plan selected.
US10165447B2
A technique involves modular storage of network service plan components and provisioning of same. A subset of the capabilities of a service design system can be granted to a sandbox system to enable customization of service plan offerings or other controls.
US10165446B2
This application discloses a data transfer method for transferring information concerning a service set associated with a communication network. An electronic device obtains a plurality of data packets that comply with a specific data format corresponding to a network access protocol, and each data packet includes a respective header that further includes at least one data field. A service set identifier (SSID) data set is arranged in the at least one data field of the plurality of data packets according to a link layer data structure. The SSID data set at least includes a SSID and a SSID password, and identifies a wireless network that transmits the plurality of data packets and is accessible when the SSID password is verified. The data packets that include the SSID data set are encrypted, and to a receiver device that is communicatively coupled to the electronic device via the identified wireless network.
US10165427B1
Methods and systems for communication between remote internet enabled devices to RF network based devices. The remote device is able to communicate through a gateway device connected to the internet and capable of RF network communication. It is by communication to this gateway device is that a server is able to identify and communicate with an RF device, such as a Bluetooth enabled tracking device, to uniquely identify it and alter its state, so that multiple users could simultaneously control the RF device without having a direct RF connection to the device.
US10165419B2
An SMS message processing method and apparatus, and an electronic device, are provided in the field of information technologies. The method includes: receiving a new SMS message; extracting identification information of the SMS message, where the identification information is information about a number used to send the SMS message and/or a content keyword; determining a processing manner corresponding to the identification information from a prestored correspondence between an identification information group and a processing manner according to the identification information, where each identification information group includes at least one piece of identification information; and processing the SMS message according to the determined processing manner.
US10165416B2
The inventive concepts provides indoor positioning capabilities and door monitoring to facilities including but not limiting to day care providers and elderly care facilities in order for them to be able to quickly position someone inside the building as well as to be forewarned when they are going somewhere they shouldn't be i.e. near an exit way. The system also offers two way communications to the staff in the facility when a management server is implemented.
US10165415B2
A method for performing geomagnetic signal processing using a geomagnetic signal processing apparatus is provided. The method includes obtaining a geomagnetic signal based on a geomagnetic sensor output; converting the obtained geomagnetic signal into a high frequency signal having a frequency equal to or higher than a reference frequency using a signal processing filter; extracting abnormal high frequency signal values outside a predetermined critical range from the converted high frequency signal; determining whether a sum of the extracted abnormal high frequency signal values converges into a critical range a preset time window; and correcting the geomagnetic signal based on the determining.
US10165407B1
A method and system for detecting an indoor threshold transition in a positioning state. The method may be executable using one or more processors and comprises, upon detecting a pattern of magnetic anomaly characteristics associated with a sequence of position changes of the mobile device, extracting the pattern, comparing the extracted pattern with a stored magnetic signature associated with the indoor threshold, and based on the comparing, inferring that the mobile device is one of transitioning in position and has transitioned in position across the indoor threshold.
US10165406B2
A method and an electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device includes at least one sensor, a reception module and a route information providing module, which executes the method, including determining, by the reception module, a present location as a first location in response to detecting occurrence of a first predetermined event, acquiring movement information by the at least one sensor when the electronic device moves from the first location, after moving from the first location, determining, by the reception module, a new present location as a second location in response to occurrence of a second predetermined event, the determination of the new present location including acquiring geographical location information corresponding to the second location, and generating route information corresponding to at least one interval between the first location and the second location based on at least a part of the acquired movement information and at least a part of the geographical location information.
US10165402B1
An engagement tracking system monitors user interactions with media items to calculate an engagement score of the media item. The engagement tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to detect an exposure of a client device to a media item maintained by the engagement tracking system. In response to detecting the exposure of the client device to the media item, the engagement tracking system tracks a location of the client device based on access requests to location based media items. The engagement tracking system may thereby monitor client devices exposed to the media item in order to calculate an engagement score of the media item.
US10165401B2
Systems and methods of security system settings adjustment are provided, including receiving an alert communication for a predetermined area with a communications interface of a security system, transmitting a notification message from the security system to a pre-selected device in response to the received alert communication, and changing at least one security setting of the security system in response to at least one of the received alert communication.
US10165400B2
A method and a system for sending alert messages are provided. The method includes defining an alert area associated with an alert event. The method further identifies one or more cells at least partially overlapping with the alert area. The method furthermore performs a passive positioning to determine a first set of communication devices associated with the one or more cells. Thereafter, the method performs an active positioning on the first set of communication devices to identify a second set of communication devices present within the alert area. The method then sends an alert message to the second set of communication devices.
US10165398B2
The present disclosure relates to a system includes a Luneburg lens antenna system configured to selectively provide wireless communication to a plurality of stations, and one or more sensors configured to collect data related to an occupancy status of each of the plurality of stations. The system also includes a controller coupled to the Luneburg lens antenna system and the one or more sensors, wherein the controller is configured to determine the occupancy status of each of the plurality of stations based on the data collected by the one or more sensors, and the controller is further configured to change operation of the Luneburg lens antenna system based on the occupancy status of each of the plurality of stations.
US10165383B2
In processing a multi-channel audio signal having at least three original channels, a first downmix channel and a second downmix channel are provided, which are derived from the original channels. For a selected original channel, channel side information are calculated such that a downmix channel or a combined downmix channel including the first and the second downmix channels, when weighted using the channel side information, results in an approximation of the selected original channel. The channel side information and the first and second downmix channels form output data to be transmitted to a decoder, which, in case of a low level decoder only decodes the first and second downmix channels or, in case of a high level decoder provides a full multi-channel audio signal based on the downmix channels and the channel side information.
US10165382B2
A signal processing device includes a selector configured to select one of a plurality of methods, in accordance with which a signal generation process is performed for generating a transfer signal in which additional information is added to an audio signal; a signal processor configured to execute the signal generation process of adding the additional information to the audio signal in accordance with the method selected by the selector; and a transferrer configured to transfer to a reproduction device the transfer signal generated by the signal processor.
US10165379B2
A system is provided to analyze cross-modulation distortion in audio devices, which may include testing with audio frequencies. One or more distortion signals from the audio device may be measured for an amplitude, phase, and or frequency modulation effect. In another embodiment a musical signal may be used as a test signal. Providing additional test signals to the audio device can induce a time varying cross-modulation distortion signal from an output of the audio device. Also utilizing at least one additional filter, filter bank, demodulator and or frequency converter and or frequency multiplier provides extra examination of distortion. Also frequency and or phase response can be measured with the presence of a de-sensing signal and or another signal that induce near slew rate limiting or near overload condition of the device under test.
US10165373B2
A hearing aid comprises a) first and second microphones b) an adaptive beamformer filtering unit comprising, b1) a first and second memories comprising a first and second sets of complex frequency dependent weighting parameters representing a first and second beam patterns, where said first and second sets of weighting parameters are predetermined initial values or values updated during operation of the hearing aid, b3) an adaptive beamformer processing unit providing an adaptation parameter βopt(k) representing an adaptive beam pattern configured to attenuate unwanted noise under the constraint that sound from a target direction is essentially unaltered, b4) a third memory comprising a fixed adaptation parameter βfix(k) representing a third, fixed beam pattern, b5) a mixing unit providing a resulting complex, frequency dependent adaptation parameter βmix(k) as a combination of said fixed and adaptively determined frequency dependent adaptation parameters βfix(k) and βopt(k), respectively, and b6) a resulting beamformer (Y) for providing a resulting beamformed signal YBF based on first and second microphone signals, said first and second sets of complex frequency dependent weighting parameters, and said resulting complex, frequency dependent adaptation parameter βmix(k).
US10165371B2
In an embodiment, an electronic device 1 has a panel 20, a housing 10 that holds the panel 20, and a piezoelectric element 30 installed on the rear side of the panel 20, wherein the piezoelectric element 30 is installed at a position that allows for the vibration amplitude of the panel 20 to become the highest on the side closer to the center of the panel 20 in the longitudinal direction from the installed position of the piezoelectric element 30. The electronic device is capable of causing an entire panel to vibrate in a stable manner.
US10165369B1
A vehicle sound system and method of generating sound having a plurality of frequency responses are provided. The vehicle sound system includes one or more acoustic panel assemblies. Each of the one or more acoustic panel assemblies includes a sound panel formed of a material having a respective flexural modulus and an acoustic exciter coupled to each of the one or more sound panels. Each acoustic exciter is configured to receive a first audio signal containing a first frequency range. Each of the one or more sound panels is configured to generate a sound signal containing a respective range of sound pressure vibrations dependent on the flexural modulus of a material the sound panel is formed of, variations of dimensions of the sound panel, and the first audio signal received by the acoustic exciter coupled to the sound panel.
US10165358B2
In an embodiment, a transducer controller is configured to apply a damping signal to reduce energy stored in the transducer after the transducer has been driven with a drive signal to form a transmitted acoustic signal.
US10165348B2
A headphone and method are provided. The headphone includes a headphone housing and a resilient cushion attached to the housing to define a chamber with the housing for enclosing the user's ear. An assembly is disposed in the housing proximate to a distal end and has a plurality of blades moveable between at least one open position and a closed position. In the closed position, the blades define a distal surface of the housing. In the open position, the assembly defines an aperture in the housing. The aperture allows sound communication from outside the housing into the chamber. The headphone is in communication with at least one external device and is programmed to receive a signal from the external device. The assembly to moves between the open position and the closed position based on the signal.
US10165346B2
An in-ear hearing device having an ear interfacing portion integrally formed with an elongated stem portion, wherein the ear interfacing portion extends away from the elongated stem portion; a first acoustic port formed in the ear interfacing portion; a speaker disposed in the ear interfacing portion and aligned to emit sound from the acoustic port; a plurality of electrical contacts disposed at an end of the stem portion, the plurality of electrical contacts including first and second contacts; a second acoustic port formed at the end of the elongated stem portion between the first and second contacts; a microphone disposed in the stem portion; and a channel that fluidically couples the microphone to the second acoustic port.
US10165344B2
A headphone is provided. The headphone includes a housing and an speaker. The housing includes a first layer structure, a first receiving space, a first output path, a first trench and a sound output side. The speaker is located in the first receiving space, wherein the speaker includes a first speaker orientation, and the first speaker orientation corresponds to the first output path. The first output path includes the first trench, which is located at the first layer structure, extends around the speaker, and is connected to the sound output side.
US10165343B2
A synthetic jet assembly includes a synthetic jet having a cavity and an opening formed therein. The synthetic jet assembly also includes an actuator element coupled to a second surface of the body to selectively cause displacement of the second surface, and a control unit electrically coupled to the actuator element. The control unit is configured to transmit a multi-frequency drive signal to the actuator element, the multi-frequency drive signal comprising a cooling frequency component and an acoustic frequency component superimposed on the cooling frequency component. The cooling frequency component causes a cooling jet to eject from the opening of the body. The acoustic frequency component produces a desired audible output.
US10165341B2
The invention discloses a method, in an OLT in a passive optical network, of identifying a long-shining rogue ONU, the method comprising the steps of: A. allocating a specific radio frequency signal at a different frequency to each of ONUs in the passive optical network; and B. when the long-shining rogue ONU is detected in the passive optical network: b1. broadcasting a control message to each of the ONUs; b2. receiving uplink signals in the uplink; b3. recovering the specific radio frequency signals transmitted by the normal ONUs from the uplink signals; and b4. identifying an absent specific radio frequency signal according to the recovered specific radio frequency signals, wherein the ONU corresponding to the absent specific radio frequency signal is the long-shining rogue ONU. The invention further discloses an OLT device performing the method and a method, in an ONU, of assisting the OLT in identifying a long-shining rogue ONU.
US10165340B2
Data is remotely collected from a plurality of fasteners in response to a query signal wirelessly transmitted by a reader. Each of the fasteners includes a sensor for measuring a parameter related to the stress on the fastener. A device adapted to be attached to each of the fasteners receives the query signal, activates the sensor to measure the parameter and wirelessly transmits the data including the parameter to the reader.
US10165339B2
A method of and system for enabling a distributed entertainment system over a computing device is described herein. When implementing a distributed entertainment system wherein the entertainment system is directly correlated to live events or televised programs, there are a number of issues that must be addressed such as differing timing and channels of television programs and separate state laws. Furthermore, there are a plethora of varying computing device models possibly requiring model-specific software. An “Activity Client” is provided to handle such concerns. Furthermore, since time is of the essence for activities based on live or televised events, it is necessary to ensure a computing device is able to receive the necessary updates for the program before the event begins. By providing only the needed components instead of entire data packages, the present invention is able to much more efficiently prepare users' computing devices in time.
US10165337B2
Methods and apparatus for providing playback devices with trick play functionality are described. The system includes a playback device, e.g., without recording capability, and a gateway device with multiple tuner-demodulators and/or a cable modem and recording capability. During normal playback, in some embodiments, both the playback device and gateway receive content in parallel with the gateway recording content at the request of the playback device and supplying the content over the local network when a user of the playback device requests a trick play operation. A single gateway, with multiple tuner demodulator pairs and/or a cable modem, supports trick play functions. In some embodiments if the number of playback devices exceeds the number of tuner-demodulator pairs in the gateway, the playback device can stream content to the gateway for recording and to be returned via the local network in the event of a request for a trick play operation.
US10165336B2
A method of processing additional information related to an announced service or content in a Non-Real Time (NRT) service and the broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of providing a Non-Real Time (NRT) service in a broadcasting receiver includes receiving a service map table (SMT) and a first descriptor through a service signaling channel, identifying an image identifier and an image type of an image for an NRT service based upon the first descriptor, receiving the image via a flute session and displaying the image when corresponding service is played, wherein the image is logo or icon data for the NRT service. The method may further include connecting a service signaling channel, parsing the received SMT and the first descriptor, determining whether a service is the NRT service based upon the parsed SMT and storing the received image.
US10165331B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a method operable to store video data and/or audio data is adapted to a first peer of a video and audio data system having a plurality of peers, and each peer has a corresponding storage space. In the method, before the first peer has not received a service request of a second peer of the plurality of peers, determines whether the video and audio data received by the first peer is stored in its corresponding storage space with a dynamically adjustable first video and audio storing probability, and extends a time interval of the first peer for storing received video and audio data; and when the first peer receives the service request of the second peer, sets a second video and audio storing probability. Thereby the second peer obtains at least one stored video and audio data from the first peer.
US10165330B2
A method and system for providing television programming content and interactive data services is provided. In one embodiment, the interactive content is displayed on the television concurrently with television programming content and facilitates game play between viewers. The game may be scored for each viewer based on selection data from the viewer and event data that is determined by events occurring in the television programming content. In addition, the interactive content may present a message that conveys an incentive to the viewer to take some action such as actuating a button when a particular commercial is presented thereby allowing the service provider and advertisers to determine how many, and which, viewers watched a particular commercial. In addition, the interactive content (including the incentives) can be presented to viewers when the programming content is stored on a digital video recorder and subsequently presented thereby presenting incentives to viewers to watch commercials that were recorded as part of the television programming content.
US10165326B1
A virtual in-venue experience is provided to a remote spectator receiving one or more sets of audio visual (AV) feeds of an event, a set of the feeds including a primary and one or more secondary AV feeds. The secondary AV feed(s) provides supplemental content to the main content provided by the primary AV feed, and includes peripheral field of view audio visual content for the set. The set of feeds may be captured from a respective location within the venue. The primary audio visual feed is displayed for view by the remote spectator, and in association with display of the primary feed, the secondary audio visual feed(s) is displayed in a peripheral field of view of the remote spectator. The secondary AV feed(s) provides the remote user with peripheral AV content at the respective location within the venue, thereby enhancing the in-venue experience for the remote spectator.
US10165319B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an access method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a converged mobility management network element, an access request of user equipment UE, where the access request is used to request to access a first network; obtaining, by the converged mobility management network element according to the access request, subscription data of the first network corresponding to the user equipment; when failing to obtain the subscription data, updating, by the converged mobility management network element, a continuous cumulative quantity of times; and when the continuous cumulative quantity of times meets a preset condition, sending, by the converged mobility management network element, first indication information to a base station device of a second network.
US10165317B2
A system and method in which a TV signal reception device (e.g., set top box) receives a broadcast signal, sends the broadcast signal to a TV, and sends an event signal to a rating statistics information server or associated user terminal when a predetermined condition occurs, to ultimately cause an associated user terminal to generate fingerprint data of audio from the TV and to provide the fingerprint data to the server so as to facilitate channel identification and generation of ratings statistics.
US10165316B2
A device, system, and method synthesizes personalized linear television experiences from on-demand assets, live event video, streaming graphics, and dynamic ad insertion, where portions of the broadcast day are scheduled for globally shared viewing events, where other portions are scheduled for distinct programming for various audience segments. Vector graphics are streamed independently of the video and rasterized locally to improve quality and contextualization of the graphics layer while gaining the efficiency of leveraging the same cached video assets for linear and on-demand applications. The system includes origination services transforming and publishing linear television schedules, video, and graphics to a distribution cache, a live event server streaming live performances, an advertising server providing targeted advertising, a personalization server, and assembly services stitching the elements to create a continuous experience of video and graphics for a media player to receive and render for each channel selected by the viewer.
US10165311B2
The disclosure relates to a computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded therein for providing network-adaptive content and a related apparatus. The disclosure allows streaming content to be provided to a user terminal in view of a difference in transmission quality of communication networks by analyzing a source address of a signaling message transmitted to the user terminal, identifying the type of a communication network accessed by the user terminal, differently setting media transmission parameters for encapsulation and packetization in accordance with the identified network type, and performing encapsulation and packetization in accordance with the set media transmission parameters.
US10165309B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and discloses a method and an apparatus for interrupting and resuming live broadcast of streaming media. The method includes: buffering, in real time, streaming media data during live broadcast of streaming media; interrupting the live broadcast when a broadcast insertion command is received; playing broadcast insertion information associated with the broadcast insertion command and then playing the buffered streaming media data at a specified speed from a start moment a buffer play start moment for playing the buffered streaming media data, the specified speed being higher than a live broadcast speed of the streaming media, until a playback process of the buffered streaming media data is synchronized with the live broadcast of the streaming media so as to stop the playback process of the buffered streaming media data, and resuming the live broadcast.
US10165303B2
A content streaming system includes: an encoding unit generating frame-by-frame mesh data and motion data, converting the mesh data into a geometry image, encoding the geometry image with tagged motion data, and generating first streaming data; a traffic control unit selecting a drop frame dropping the geometry image based on a network bandwidth, dropping the geometry image of the drop frame from the first streaming data, and generating second streaming data; and a decoding unit decoding the second streaming data, converting a geometry image of the decoded second streaming data into mesh data, and interpolating and generating mesh data of the drop frame.
US10165299B2
A merging motion information calculating unit calculates motion information of a plurality of coded neighboring blocks located at predetermined positions neighboring to a coding target block in space as spatial motion information candidates of the coding target block, in a case where there are spatial motion information candidates having the same motion information out of the spatial motion information candidates, sets one of the spatial motion information candidates having the same motion information as the spatial motion information candidate and, calculates a temporal motion information candidate of the coding target block by using the motion information of a coded block included in a picture that is different in time from a picture including the coding target block, and includes the spatial motion information candidates and the temporal motion information candidate in candidates for the motion information.
US10165298B1
A merging motion information calculating unit calculates motion information of a plurality of coded neighboring blocks located at predetermined positions neighboring to a coding target block in space as spatial motion information candidates of the coding target block, in a case where there are spatial motion information candidates having the same motion information out of the spatial motion information candidates, sets one of the spatial motion information candidates having the same motion information as the spatial motion information candidate and, calculates a temporal motion information candidate of the coding target block by using the motion information of a coded block included in a picture that is different in time from a picture including the coding target block, and includes the spatial motion information candidates and the temporal motion information candidate in candidates for the motion information.
US10165294B2
The present invention relates to a method for inducing a merge candidate block and a device using same. An image decoding method involves decoding motion estimation region (MER) related information; determining whether or not a predicted target block and a spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER; and determining the spatial merge candidate block to be an unavailable merge candidate block when the predicted target block and the spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER. Accordingly, by parallely performing the method for inducing a merge candidate, parallel processing is enabled and the computation amount and implementation complexity are reduced.
US10165290B2
The present invention relates to a method for encoding digital video data corresponding to a sequence of digital source images using a cache memory, each of the digital source images having an equal source image width corresponding to a first number of blocks, the cache memory having a cache width corresponding to a second number of blocks, wherein the second number of blocks is smaller than the first number of blocks.
US10165289B2
A process for determining the selection of filters and input samples is provided for scalable video coding. The process provides for re-sampling using video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system to improve quality in Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC). In order to accommodate other applications such as interlace/progressive scalability and to increase the resolution of the alignment between layers, it is proposed that the phase offset adjustment parameters be signaled.
US10165279B2
An image portion to encode an initial set of motion information predictors is obtained. If the number of motion information predictors in the initial set is lower than a target number then, one or more motion information predictors are added to the initial set to generate a set of motion information predictors having controlled diversity. The motion information predictors of the initial set are actual motion information predictors, having motion vectors obtained from image portions of the image being encoded or of a reference image. Potential additional motion information predictors include one or more actual motion information predictors and also include one or more virtual motion information predictors not having motion vectors obtained from image portions of the image being encoded or of a reference image. A motion information predictor for the image portion to be encoded is selected from the generated set of motion information predictors.
US10165275B2
A processor for forward reshaping to a target bit depth receives an input image with an input bit depth. The input luminance range is divided into luminance bands and each band is assigned a visual importance index. The output codewords at the target bit depth are divided into codeword bins and each bin is assigned to one of the luminance bands. Each codeword bin is assigned the visual importance index of the luminance band it belongs. Each bin is allocated a number of reshaped codewords according to its visual importance index and a codeword mapping function, where bins with the highest importance index are allocated more codewords than the other bins. A signal reshaping function is generated based on the allocation of codewords, and the reshaping function is applied to the input image to generate an output image in the target bit depth.
US10165272B2
A method and system are provided for controlling a bit rate of an encoded video that includes a plurality of pictures. In the method, each of the plurality of pictures is one of a plurality of picture types. For the method, the number of bits required to encode a current picture as well as other pictures in a window is determined, and the fullness of a buffer storing the current picture and other picture data is estimated and compared to buffer fullness limits. This process is repeated for different quantization values to determine a suitable quantization value.
US10165270B2
This invention predicts that intra mode prediction is more effective for the macroblocks where motion estimation in inter mode prediction fails. This failure is indicated by a large value of the inter mode SAD. This invention performs intra mode prediction for only macro blocks have larger inter mode SADs. The definition of a large inter mode SAD differs for different content. This invention compares the inter mode SAD of a current macroblock with an adaptive threshold. This adaptive threshold depends on the average and variance of the SADs of the previous predicted frame. An adaptive threshold is calculated for each new predictive frame.
US10165259B2
Embodiments are directed towards providing a target view, from a target viewpoint, of a 3D object. A source image, from a source viewpoint and including a common portion of the object, is encoded in 2D data. An intermediate image that includes an intermediate view of the object is generated based on the data. The intermediate view is from the target viewpoint and includes the common portion of the object and a disoccluded portion of the object not visible in the source image. The intermediate image includes a common region and a disoccluded region corresponding to the disoccluded portion of the object. The disoccluded region is updated to include a visual representation of a prediction of the disoccluded portion of the object. The prediction is based on a trained image completion model. The target view is based on the common region and the updated disoccluded region of the intermediate image.
US10165250B2
A communication system is provided that includes a source multimedia communication device that supports three dimension (3D) video streaming to a destination multimedia communication device. The source multimedia communication device receives multiview video data from multiple multiview video data sources, generates spatial disparity information based on the multiview video data, determine a 3D video content quality level capability of the destination multimedia communication device or user selected service category (low 3D scene or high 3D scene), select a 3D video content quality level for the video data based on the determined 3D video content quality level capability or user selected service category, and encodes the multiview video data based on the selected 3D video content quality level or user selected service category to produce encoded video data for conveyance to the destination multimedia communication device.
US10165245B2
A computing device plays at least one first video content segment. The video content segment may be a portion of an interactive video content sequence including multiple segments that may each be selected during play of one or more of the other segments. The computing device determines one or more second video content segments that are associated with the first video content segment. Such determination may be made by analyzing information describing an interactive video content sequence of which the video content segment is a part. The computing device attempts to load one or more second video content segments. In this way, play of the video content segments may reduce and/or avoid delays in changing the video content being played.
US10165241B2
A shift control circuit includes a first limiter circuit, a phase shifter, a first suppressor, and a reducer. The first limiter circuit limits the amplitude of a control target signal input from a microphone, having undergone A-D conversion by an A-D convener, and frequency differentiation by a pre-emphasis circuit, and having the relative intensity of harmonic components increased. The phase shifter performs, for the control target signal having undergone the amplitude limitation, phase shift on the frequency component within a first frequency range. The first suppressor suppresses, for the control target signal having undergone the phase shift, the frequency component equal to or greater than a second threshold. The reducer suppresses, for the control target signal having the suppressed frequency component, the frequency component within a second frequency range, and outputs as an information signal. A modulator performs frequency modulation on a carrier wave in accordance with the information signal, and a transmitter produces a transmission signal from the carrier wave having undergone the frequency modulation, and transmits the transmission signal via an antenna.
US10165239B2
A digital theatrical lighting fixture that can be used to provide a new lighting system with improved features and functionality. The digital theatrical lighting fixture integrates light production, light modulation, and a camera into a single device along with a control interface, integrated image processing capability such as for processing images captured by the camera, and communication capability, e.g., for communicating with a central controller and/or with other digital theatrical lighting fixtures. This highly integrated fixture uses the camera to monitor a lit scene, and its (or the central controller's) intelligence/software to dynamically adjust its output as well as to implement a show lighting script much like a projector. In a lighting system, the lighting fixtures described herein can communicate to each other and to a central controller (or control systems) such that lighting produced by the lighting system can be calibrated and coordinated in a comprehensive way.
US10165226B2
Technology for a first multimedia telephony services over internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystems (IMS) (MTSI) client operable to support region of interest (ROI) signaling with a second MTSI client is disclosed. The first MTSI client can identify a requested region of interest (ROI). The first MTSI client can encode the requested ROI for transmission to the second MTSI client via a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) feedback message. The first MTSI client can decode encoded video received from the second MTSI client that corresponds to the requested ROI.
US10165220B2
A recording apparatus comprises a recording unit configured to record a moving image to a recording medium; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus; an input unit configured to accept a predetermined instruction; and a control unit configured to perform control such that, in a case where the predetermined instruction is accepted by the input unit during recording of a moving image by the recording unit, a moving image portion for which recording ended is automatically transferred to the external apparatus in accordance with ending of recording of a predetermined unit of the moving image.
US10165216B2
In order to provide an imaging device suitable for suppressing a reduction of the frame rate without deteriorating the image quality, a sensor includes two photodiodes for receiving incident light through a microlens, a first transfer transistor that transfers the output electric charges of the first photodiode when a first transfer control signal becomes active, a second transfer transistor that transfers the output electric charges of the second photodiode when a second transfer control signal becomes active, a first output signal line that transmits a first pixel signal depending on the transferred electric charges by the first transfer transistor, and a second output signal line that transmits a second pixel signal depending on the transferred electric charges by the second transfer transistor.
US10165214B2
An imaging device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a plurality of pixels, a differential amplifier circuit that includes a plurality of transistors forming a differential pair, and a current source configured to supply a bias current to the plurality of transistors, and is configured to receive a signal from the plurality of pixels, a capacitor element including a first terminal and a second terminal, a first switch through which the first terminal is connected to an electric path between the current source and the plurality of transistors, and a second switch through which the first terminal is connected to a voltage supply node supplied with a voltage.
US10165211B1
An image sensor may include optically black pixels for obtaining dark current measurements. The image sensor may include dummy pixels between the active pixel array and the optically black pixels. Light incident upon the dummy pixels may be redirected to the optically black pixels, causing inaccurate dark current measurements. Light-blocking structures may be provided in the dummy pixels to prevent light from reaching the optically black pixels. A grid of openings may be formed in the active pixel array and the dummy pixel area. The grid may be filled with color filters in the active area and light-blocking elements in the dummy pixel area. The dummy pixel area may include a single opening in the grid in which a single light-blocking element that covers multiple dummy pixel photodiodes is formed. Light-blocking structures in the dummy pixel area may extend over the optically black pixels.
US10165209B2
A sequence of control voltage levels are applied to a control signal line capacitively coupled to a floating diffusion node of a pixel to sequentially adjust a voltage level of the floating diffusion node. A pixel output signal representative of the voltage level of the floating diffusion node is compared with a reference voltage to identify a first control voltage level of the sequence of control voltage levels for which the voltage level of the floating diffusion node exceeds the reference voltage.
US10165207B2
An image processing apparatus includes a pre-processor configured to generate information relating to image positions based on Bayer image signals obtained by cameras. The image processing apparatus further includes an independent image signal processor (IISP) configured to perform a first image signal processing operation for generating first image data of an RGB format from a first one of the Bayer image signals obtained by a first one of the cameras. The IISP is further configured to generate image processing information calculated during the first image signal processing operation. The image processing apparatus further includes a dependent image signal processor configured to perform a second image signal processing operation for generating second image data of the RGB format from a second one of the Bayer image signals obtained by a second one of the cameras using the image processing information and the information relating to the image positions.
US10165206B2
An imaging device which includes a counter electrode, a first pixel electrode facing the counter electrode, a second pixel electrode facing the counter electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer sandwiched between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and the counter electrode, a first signal detection circuit electrically connected to the second pixel electrode, and a first switching element connected between the first pixel electrode and the first signal detection circuit.
US10165191B2
An image pickup apparatus that, even when an object is framed-out to be undetectable, is capable of assisting framing with comfort by quick recapturing of the object within the angle of view. A specific object is detected from a live view image picked up by an image pickup device. Movement of the image pickup apparatus is detected, and a zoom operation is performed according to an amount of the detected movement of the image pickup apparatus. When predetermined conditions are satisfied which include a condition that a direction of the movement of the detected object is the same as a direction of the detected movement of the image pickup apparatus, FA zoom control is performed such that the FA zoom operation according to an amount of movement of the image pickup apparatus is restricted.
US10165187B2
A correction optical device comprises an OIS frame, and an OIS lock ring that restricts a movement of the OIS frame. The OIS lock ring rotates so that a position of a first protrusion reciprocates between a lock position and an unlock position. The first protrusion and the second protrusion are formed into such shapes that generate a component force acting on the first protrusion in a direction from the unlock position toward the lock position when a force causing the first protrusion and the second protrusion to push against each other is generated between the first protrusion and the second protrusion.
US10165186B1
A video capture device may include multiple cameras that simultaneously capture video data. The video capture device and/or one or more remote computing resources may perform video stabilization to the video data to reduce unwanted camera shake. The video capture device may include one or more motion sensors that track the motion of the video capture device. Using the motion data, video stabilization algorithms can be executed on a first video stream to calculate stabilizing adjustments for the video stream. The stabilization adjustments can then be used to stabilize a second video stream due to the fixed positioning of a first camera that captured the first video stream and a second camera that captured the second video stream. The video capture device and/or the remote computing resources may stitch together the first and second video streams to generate a digitally stabilized panoramic video.
US10165177B2
Methods and apparatus to operate a mobile phone are disclosed. An example mobile phone disclosed herein includes an illumination source and an image sensor to capture a first image of a face. The disclosed example mobile phone also includes a logic circuit to determine whether the face in the first image is in a first orientation with respect to the image sensor. When the face in the first image is in the first orientation, the logic circuit is to trigger the image sensor to capture a second image and perform a facial recognition process on the second image, but not on the first image.
US10165176B2
A system for leveraging user gaze in a user monitoring subregion selection system includes a first camera configured to capture an image of a scene. A pattern generator is configured to generate and project a pattern onto a surface of at least one of a user's eyes. A sensor is configured to obtain an image of the pattern reflected from at least one of the user's eyes. In an alternate implementation, the pattern generator may be omitted, and the sensor may be a stereo user facing camera. A gaze estimation and scene mapping module is configured to estimate a gaze direction of the user using the image captured by the user facing sensor and to map the estimated gaze direction to the image of the scene based on a location of an object of interest within the scene. A subregion selection module is configured to select a subregion of the image of the scene based on the mapped user gaze direction.
US10165167B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable non-canting VCM-actuated autofocus. These techniques and apparatuses enable multiple focal distances that are substantially free of imaging errors caused by canting of a lens housing. These multiple focal distances are provided by multiple positions of a lens housing relative to an image sensor. These positions can be free of cant through use of mechanical stops and corresponding mechanical stop-mates. By so doing, lower cost, faster focusing, higher image quality, lower power, or lower settling time can be achieved.
US10165165B2
An electronic device is provided which includes a housing, a first camera module disposed on a first portion of the housing to face in a first direction, and having a first lens cover protruding in a convex shape from an outer surface of the housing, and a second camera module disposed on a second portion of the housing, which is positioned to be opposite to the first portion of the housing, to face in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, and having a second lens cover protruding in a convex shape from an outer surface of the housing.
US10165163B2
An image pickup apparatus that is capable of suppressing degradation of image quality even when the orientation of a photographing lens is changed in a state in which a dome is attached to the image pickup apparatus. A dome attaching/detaching mechanism detachably holds a dome which is transparent and has a hemispherical shape. An image pickup unit is arranged inside the dome and is capable of changing an orientation of a lens group by a tilt mechanism. An image processor performs correction processing on an image photographed by the image pickup unit. The image processor performs image quality correction according to the orientation of the lens group.
US10165147B2
An image processing apparatus includes a scanner, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate property and setting data of image data that is generated based on image scanning by the scanner, and control the communication interface to transmit the image data and the property and setting data thereof to a server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network, so that the image data and the property and setting data thereof are stored therein in association with each other.
US10165131B2
An image processing apparatus for reading a document to generate image data using a reading unit performs, receiving a job including a document reading-and-transmission job for causing the reading unit to read a document to generate image data and then transmitting the image data to a specified destination, from an information processing apparatus communicable via a network, storing the received job, displaying a list of the stored jobs in response to a user instruction, displaying a confirmation screen related to transmission setting contents of a document reading-and-transmission job selected from the list of jobs, and executing, in a case where execution of the selected document reading-and-transmission job is instructed via the confirmation screen, the document reading-and-transmission job.
US10165128B2
A toll-free tagging service is provided that includes a subscription-based service that is made available to responsible organizations, consumers and businesses. The toll-free tagging service may provide the ability to tag a toll-free number (or group of numbers), and once a number is tagged, to track updates to that number that may then be distributed to customers through emails/text messages or other means. Subscribers of the toll-free tagging service may also have the ability to create, view, update and delete tags through a web application, mobile application, or some other user interface.
US10165123B1
Techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system comprising: cycling, by at least one processor, among at least two pairing strategies; and determining, by the at least one processor, a difference in performance between the at least two pairing strategies.
US10165121B2
A method of sending data to one of a plurality of geographically dispersed contact center service sites includes receiving a contact from a customer device; determining a context of the contact; and retrieving, by the server of the contact center, from a first context store, information based on the determined context of the contact. Accordingly, based on the determined context of the contact, a predicted particular service site from among the plurality of geographically dispersed contact center service sites can be identified so that the retrieved information can be sent to a storage location that is closer to the predicted particular service site than the contact center is.
US10165118B1
A workflow engine manager receives a request to interact with a contact workflow, wherein the contact workflow comprises a starting instruction block to be invoked to start execution of a contact workflow for a contact, wherein the contact is associated with a contact identifier, and wherein the contact workflow comprises a plurality of instruction blocks. The workflow engine manager determines, using at least one instruction block invoked during a previous interaction with the contact workflow or a different contact workflow for the contact, the starting instruction block of the plurality of instruction blocks to be invoked in the contact workflow for the contact. The workflow engine manager sends a notification to a contact workflow engine to cause the contact workflow engine to start execution of the contact workflow for the contact at the starting instruction block.
US10165111B2
For identifying an unknown contact, a system, apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a processor, a memory that stores code executable by the processor, the code identifying an incoming call from an unknown contact, collecting relationship information regarding the unknown contact, and determining a relationship to a user based on the collected relationship information. In certain embodiments, the apparatus also includes code that provides a notification based on the determined relationship. In some embodiments, the apparatus also includes code that shares the determined relationship with one or more stored contacts.
US10165110B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure allow customers to quickly be authenticated. In some embodiments, a device and a user verifier are associated with a user profile. When a call is received from the device, the user may be requested to input the user verifier. After verifying that the device is unique to the user and that the user verifier matches the user verifier associated with the user profile, the user may be authenticated to the call or activity.
US10165108B1
Approaches are described for determining, updating, and displaying recommended content on a display of a computing device. A lock screen can be displayed in response to a wake event. An input icon, such as a fingerprint icon, can be displayed on the lock screen to prompt the user to use a corresponding input mechanism to unlock the device. Upon authenticated input being determined, a countdown icon or timer element can be displayed indicating any remaining or additional time for the recommended content to be displayed. After any remaining time has passed, the device is unlocked and alternative content displayed, either automatically or in response to an additional access input received from a user.
US10165101B2
The present invention relates to the control and operation of cellular telephones and other electronic devices, and particularly to improvements in the functionality of those devices for use in conjunction with a variety of sports and recreational activities.
US10165100B2
Each user of a telecommunications system may speak and record their own name, in their own voice, and a recording of their spoken name may subsequently be accessed by or delivered to other users of the system, thereby facilitating communication between users by enabling users to better know how to pronounce the names of other users. A user may listen to the recorded spoken name of another user before placing a call to another user. When a user joins a conference call, their spoken name may be announced to other users (attendees) already in the call. A user joining a conference call may listen to the recorded spoken names of attendees in the call. A button on users' phones may invoke these features.
US10165092B2
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to augmenting a control packet with an interface identifier, the interface identifier identifying an interface at a physical network forwarding element; and transmitting the control packet with the interface identifier to the physical network forwarding element. The interface identifier can be included in metadata of a network service header (NSH). The NSH is encapsulated with the control packet, which is transmitted with the control packet. The NSH can be extracted and the interface identifier used to identify a user interface (or a presenting interface) based on a metadata lookup.
US10165090B2
Measures for transferring routing protocol information between a software defined network and one or more external networks are provided. A control node in a software defined network (SDN) is configured to maintain a protocol information database comprising routing protocol information for one or more switching nodes in the SDN. In response to detecting occurrence of a predetermined trigger event, the control node modifies the routing protocol information in the protocol information database, and determines whether the one or more switching nodes include an edge switching node. In response to the determination, a routing protocol message is transmitted from the control node to the edge switching node for forwarding via an external network interface. The routing protocol message includes data generated on the basis of the modified routing protocol information.
US10165083B2
A software application is automatically launched on a first computing device. The launch of the application is a first execution of the application by the first computing device. In response to this launching, the application executes to automatically obtain data from the first computing device. The data is sent to a second computing device that is configured to provide a service to the first computing device (e.g., based on the data).
US10165074B2
The present technology may monitor an asynchronous transaction based on a custom exit point. Once an asynchronous method to be monitored has been identified, the transition framework may be tracked while executing the asynchronous method call. Within a .NET framework, monitoring may include tracking a task object, continuation method calls at the completion of a method, and tracking the continuation method as it executes other code. The asynchronous method may then be correlated within a business transaction using the returned task object data.
US10165059B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to methods, systems and apparatuses enabling location sharing group formation and the tracking of group members. Groups may be bound by a geographical area that circumscribes the boundary of a location sharing group. Active members of a location sharing group may become active based on their relative location to the geographical area defining the location sharing group. The geographical area may be static, mobile or change size and shape based on parameters forming the location sharing group. Alerts may be generated informing members of the location sharing group of the entry or exit of members from the location sharing group. Active members of a location sharing group may share location information with other members of the location sharing group. A radius or other shape may identify a geographical area for location sharing between members.
US10165058B2
A dynamic local function binding apparatus and method are provided. In an application virtualization environment, a terminal may register local services associated with local functions of the terminal, and a remote server may call the serviced local functions to be used while the server is executing an application for the terminal. The local functions may be unique functions of various local devices installed in the terminal. The servicing of the local functions may include creating service descriptions of the functions that are provided by the individual local devices and publishing the service descriptions.
US10165056B2
A user may perform activities at an automated device having various technical features, such as a display, a printer, a camera, a microphone, a speaker, and other features used to perform activities at the automated device. During performance of an activity, the user may run into an issue and request assistance from an agent having a computing device (e.g., a portable computing device). Additionally or alternatively, the automated device may detect the issue and send a request for assistance to a computing device managing a transaction assistance portal or directly to the agent's computing device. The request may identify the user, the activity, and/or the issue, and the agent and his or her computing device may be used to resolve the issue. The agent's computing device may also be used to facilitate customer relationship management with the user.
US10165053B2
The operation data collection device for work machines includes a plurality of sensors attached to a work machine to receive measurement data as operation data and record the operation data in an operation data storage section. The operation data collection device further includes: a communication processing section that transmits the operation data stored in the operation data storage section to an external server in response to a download request from the external server; an access history management section that manages a download status of the operation data recorded in the operation data storage section, through the download request from the external server and the transmission of the operation data to the external server; and a recorded data change processing section that changes a condition for recording the operation data in the operation data storage section in accordance with the download status of the operation data.
US10165051B2
An architecture provides capabilities to transport and process Internet Protocol (IP) packets from Layer 2 through transport protocol layer and may also provide packet inspection through Layer 7. A set of engines may perform pass-through packet classification, policy processing and/or security processing enabling packet streaming through the architecture at nearly the full line rate. A scheduler schedules packets to packet processors for processing. An internal memory or local session database cache stores a session information database for a certain number of active sessions. The session information that is not in the internal memory is stored and retrieved to/from an additional memory. An application running on an initiator or target can in certain instantiations register a region of memory, which is made available to its peer(s) for access directly without substantial host intervention through RDMA data transfer.
US10165049B2
A TCP handshake is distributed by having an initiator device send, to a server SYN(m) with the IP address of a terminator device as source address. The initiator device can then forget any TCP state for the SYN(m). The server responds with a SYN-ACK(m+1, n) according to the normal TCP handshake, but the response goes to the terminator device that receives the message, reconstructs the TCP handshake as if it had sent the initial SYN message, and sends an ACK(n+1) to the server. The TCP handshake method can be used to avoid allocation of resources in for example device monitoring.
US10165046B2
A method for operating a first station configured to transmit data includes transmitting during a paging window, a first frame to page a second station, the first frame including an identifier associated with the second station, and generating a second frame including first timing information for a first time period to be subscribed by the first station for transmitting data to the second station, the first time period occurring after the paging window. When a third frame is received after a pre-specified short interval after transmitting the first frame, the third frame acknowledging the first frame, the method includes transmitting the second frame after the pre-specified short interval after receiving the third frame, and transmitting the data during the first time period.
US10165030B2
The invention concerns a telecommunication system (10) and a computer-implemented method for transferring media data from a first RTC client (30) over a QoS-sensitive network (N1) using the real-time protocol (RTP) to a second RTC client (40), wherein the quality of service is based on different traffic classes and the media data contain a first media type with a first traffic class (QoS1) and a second media type with a second traffic class (QoS2), comprising the following steps: media data, which contain a first media type with a first traffic class (QoS1) and a second media type with a second traffic class (QoS2), are bundled by the first RTC client (30) into second packets (P2), in each second packet (P2), the traffic class (QoS1, QoS2) for each media type is marked in layer 4 and/or layer 5 of the real-time protocol (RTP), the second packets (P2) are transmitted in the direction of the second RTC client (40), either before or during the transfer to the network (N1), the second packets (P2) are unbundled using the markings in layer 4 and/or layer 5 of the real-time protocol (RTP) and then bundled into first packets (P1), each of which has only one of the traffic classes (QoS1, QoS2), and the first packets (P1) are transmitted over the network (N1) to the second RTC client (40).
US10165025B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may receive template information that identifies a template for generating a plurality of uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for accessing media content. The apparatus may generate, based on the template, one or more URIs of the plurality of URIs for accessing one or more portions of the media content. The apparatus may store the one or more URIs in a playlist file.
US10164997B2
A first computer is selected for testing. Information sent from a second computer system to the first computer is intercepted. The information is modified to be noncompliant with a communication protocol, thereby producing noncompliant information. A determination is made whether the first computer device has failed to provide a particular response to receipt of the noncompliant information, and an operation is performed based at least in part on the determination.
US10164991B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network maintains a plurality of anomaly detection models for different sets of aggregated traffic data regarding traffic in the network. The device determines a measure of confidence in a particular one of the anomaly detection models that evaluates a particular set of aggregated traffic data. The device dynamically replaces the particular anomaly detection model with a second anomaly detection model configured to evaluate the particular set of aggregated traffic data and has a different model capacity than that of the particular anomaly detection model. The device provides an anomaly event notification to a supervisory controller based on a combined output of the second anomaly detection model and of one or more of the anomaly detection models in the plurality of anomaly detection models.
US10164984B2
A relay server includes a storage configured to store first access right information of a first cloud storage service to which a first user is subscribed and second access right information of a second cloud storage service to which a second user is subscribed. The relay server further includes a communication interface configured to request, from the first cloud storage service, first data that is stored in the first cloud storage service, based on the first access right information, and receive the requested first data from the first cloud storage. The relay server further includes a controller configured to control the communication interface to store the received first data in the second cloud storage service, based on the second access right information.
US10164977B2
A call request is received, from a mobile device, to establish a communication with a contact center. For example, the call request may be to establish a voice call with the contact center. In response to the call request, the mobile device sends authentication factors to a cloud authentication service that the user/mobile device has previously registered with. For example, the authentication factors may include usage factors of the mobile device, such as a call history of the user on the mobile device. If the authentication factors are validated, a token is generated. The token is sent to the contact center along with the call request. The token is validated at the contact center. At this point, the contact center knows that the user/mobile device are authentic. A call is then established between the user and the contact center.
US10164972B2
A system receives a request to authenticate a user and determines a first set of cell identifiers of a card matrix to associate with the user. The system receives a first factor, which comprises a first set of received cell values corresponding to the first set of cell identifiers of the card matrix. The system further determines a first set of stored cell values corresponding to the first set of cell identifiers of the card matrix and compares the first set of received cell values to the first set of stored cell values. The system also receives a second factor, which is different than the first factor. Finally, the system determines that the user is authenticated based at least in part upon the comparison of the first set of receives cell values to the first set of stored cell values.
US10164964B2
Respective cryptographic shares of password data, dependent on a user password, are provided at n authentication servers. A number t1≤n of the password data shares determine if the user password matches a password attempt. Respective cryptographic shares of secret data, enabling determination of a username for each verifier server, are provided at n authentication servers. A number t2≤t1 of the shares reconstruct the secret data. For a password attempt, the user computer communicates with at least t1 authentication servers to determine if the user password matches the password attempt and, if so, the user computer receives at least t2 secret data shares from respective authentication servers. The user computer uses the secret data to generate, with T≤t1 of said t1 servers, a cryptographic token for authenticating the user computer to a selected verifier server, secret from said at least T servers, under said username.
US10164962B2
A trusted information communication device comprising a receiver configured to receive a client certificate; a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to: authenticate the client certificate, extract, in response to the authentication, attributes from the client certificate, and create, in response to the extraction, a message comprising reformatted attributes based on the attributes, wherein the reformatted attributes can be trusted; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the message.
US10164961B2
A method is provided for a multi-tenant system to accept web service calls from third party systems over a computer network. The method includes centrally receiving messages with different endpoint URLs from the third party systems over the computer network and processing each message by parsing an endpoint URL of the message to identify a tenant and an action for a payload of the message and authenticating the message. When the message is authenticated, the method further includes generating an acknowledgment of the message based on the identified tenant and the identified action and sending the acknowledgment over the computer network, routing the payload, the identified tenant, and the identified the action to a queue based on the identified tenant, retrieving the payload, the identified tenant, and the identified action from the queue, determining a user script corresponding to the identified action, and executing the user script on the payload.
US10164956B2
A method and apparatus for fine-grained, trust-based rate limiting of network requests distinguishes trusted network traffic from untrusted network traffic at the granularity of an individual user/machine combination, so that network traffic policing measures are readily implemented against untrusted and potentially hostile traffic without compromising service to trusted users. A server establishes a user/client pair as trusted by issuing a trust token to the client when successfully authenticating to the server for the first time. Subsequently, the client provides the trust token at login. At the server, rate policies apportion bandwidth according to type of traffic: network requests that include a valid trust token are granted highest priority. Rate policies further specify bandwidth restrictions imposed for untrusted network traffic. This scheme enables the server to throttle untrusted password-guessing requests from crackers without penalizing most friendly logins and only slightly penalizing the relatively few untrusted friendly logins.
US10164955B1
A method of operating a distributed storage system includes receiving, at data processing hardware of the distributed storage system, a customer-supplied encryption key from a customer device (i.e., a client). The customer-supplied encryption key is associated with wrapped persistent encryption keys for encrypted resources of the distributed storage system. The wrapped persistent encryption keys are stored on one or more non-volatile memory hosts of the distributed storage system. The method also includes unwrapping, by the data processing hardware, a wrapped persistent encryption key that corresponds to a requested encrypted resource using the customer-supplied encryption key. The unwrapped persistent encryption key is configured to decrypt the requested encrypted resource. The method further includes decrypting, by the data processing hardware, the requested encrypted resource using the corresponding unwrapped persistent encryption key. After ceasing access of the decrypted resource, the method includes destroying, by the data processing hardware, the customer-supplied encryption key.
US10164954B2
The present invention relates to a method to manage a One Time Password key, referenced OTP key, used in an OTP algorithm in a user device having access to an unsafe storage including the steps of retrieving a Personal Identification Number, named PIN, of a user of the user device, deriving a symmetric key from the PIN, encrypting the OTP key using the derived symmetric key, storing the encrypted OTP key in the unsafe storage, decrypting the OTP key using the derived symmetric key, and generating a next OTP key using an incremental parameter, wherein the start value of the incremental parameter of the OTP key generation is random.
US10164951B2
A method includes performing by at least one host entity implemented in a network, receiving an encryption key generated by a key server and a key identifier associated with said encryption key, generating a header comprising an information identifier associated with an information to be protected, the device identifier corresponding to the key server and the key identifier associated with the encryption key, encrypting said information using said encryption key and associating the header with the encrypted information, transmitting said encrypted information and the associated header to a receiving entity and transmitting an authorization information, said key identifier, and said header to the key server. Further, in response to determination that the receiving entity is authorized to access the encrypted information, the receiving entity decrypts the encrypted information using decryption key received from the key server.
US10164950B2
A method for controlling access to data being processed by a remote computing resource includes issuing a public encryption key for a data creator from a public certificate authority, detecting an encounter with a data owner, creating private encryption keys for the data creator and the data owner in response to detecting the encounter, encrypting data being sent to the remote computing resource with the public encryption key, the data creator's private encryption key, and the data owner's private encryption key, decrypting the data based on public verification of the public encryption key and local verification of the data creator's private encryption key and the data owner's private encryption key at the remote computing resource, and controlling the data creator's access to the data by altering the permission of at least one of the public encryption key and data creator's private encryption key.
US10164946B2
In some embodiments of the invention a method provides for processing a mention in textual content being input to a content provider. The method can include detecting input by a user of the content provider of the mention and identifying a member of a mention provider such as a social network based on the mention while maintaining privacy of information about the member with respect to the content provider. In some embodiments a computer program product for processing the mention includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. In some embodiments of the invention, a system for processing the mention includes a computer system readable media with a program module embodied therewith to detect the mention in the textual content as provided to a content provider. A network adapter with the system can provide the program module or program modules over a network.
US10164945B2
An apparatus, computer-readable medium and computer-implemented method for masking data, including applying an irreversible function to a first data element to generate a derivative data element, the first data element being of a first data type and the derivative data element being of a second data type different than the first data type, selecting at least a portion of the derivative data element to serve as a template, generating a masked data element as the result of converting the template from the second data type to the first data type.
US10164943B1
A system for estimating client system web interaction performance includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive a plurality of client system locations and associated performance data and to receive a location of interest. The processor is configured to determine an estimated client system web interaction performance based at least in part on the plurality of client system locations and the associated performance data and the location of interest. The performance data is determined based at least in part on determining an internet facing DNS server from a client using an ID code and a testing URL. The processor is further configured to provide the estimated client web interaction performance.
US10164942B2
An apparatus, a method, and a client for synchronizing a jump context are provided. The apparatus includes a session ID generating module configured to acquire a jump context of a user from a social application platform, save the jump context to a session data DB, and return an ID of the jump context to the social application platform, so that the social application platform sends the ID of the jump context to the third-party website. The apparatus also includes a session data acquiring API configured to receive processing state information of the user with the ID of the jump context from the third-party website, and send the processing state information to the social application platform, so that the social application platform displays the processing state information. The session data DB is configured to save the jump context and the ID corresponding to the jump context.
US10164932B2
A communication system may include a server, and first and second communications devices. The server may be configured to maintain a database having first and second communication profiles respectively associated with first and second users, and maintain first and second value accounts respectively associated with the first and second communication profiles. The server may be configured to process the message from the first user, debit the transaction value from the first value account, convert the message to be from the masked email address of the first user and send the converted message to the actual email address of the second user, and when receiving an acceptance message from the second user in reply to the converted message, then facilitate a communication between the first and second users, and transfer the debited transaction value to the second value account of the second user.
US10164921B2
A system and method for voice based social networking is disclosed. The system receives a voice message (and frequently an image) and ultimately delivers it to one or multiple users, placing it within an ongoing context of conversations. The voice and image may be recorded by various devices and the data transmitted in a variety of formats. An alternative implementation places some system functionality in a mobile device such as a smartphone or wearable device, with the remaining functionality resident in system servers attached to the internet. The system can apply rules to select and limit the voice data flowing to each user; rules prioritize the messages using context information such as user interest and user state. An image is fused to the voice message to form a comment. Additional image or voice annotation (or both) identifying the sender may be attached to the comment. Fused image(s) and voice annotation allow the user to quickly deduce the context of the comment. The system provides the means to deliver a seamless flow of a conversation without requiring user interaction to hear individual comments. Multiple conversations or parts of conversations (or both) are blended into the users acoustic channel without requiring user interaction at the level of individual comments. Advertising may also be integrated. The resulting information flow is translated into formats acceptable to the user's receiving device.
US10164919B2
A method and system for sharing content in an instant messaging application are disclosed. According to one embodiment a computer-implemented method comprises logging content accessed by a first client, and a list of accessible content is updated and provided to the first client. A request is received from the first client to share first content of the list of accessible content with a second client, and a message is delivered to the second client, the message containing a link to the first content.
US10164918B2
The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences/characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to facilitate their introduction. Further functionality, aside from the compatibility based upon profile information, includes e-mail and other electronic notification of personal compatibility as well as geographic compatibility.
US10164917B2
An apparatus and mechanism to subscribe to a single address and or session management service from multiple devices (such as e.g. tablets, smart phones, netbooks or other types of communication terminals or client devices) with a single account and password through the automatic assignment of a dynamic opaque SIP service profile to each device a user uses to signin to the service. After sign-in transparent call management services are provided to the user and allow the user to control sessions on any signed-in device from any signed-in device without revealing the distinct dynamic opaque SIP service profiles to the user.
US10164909B2
A network adapter, includes a first transceiver module with a transceiver that operates according to a first network protocol and a memory element that includes information that identifies the first network protocol, a second transceiver module with a transceiver that operates according to a second network protocol and a memory element that includes information that identifies the second network protocol, and a controller that reads the information from the first memory element, directs an information handling system to invoke a first network driver associated with the first network protocol based upon the information, reads the second information from the second memory element, and directs the information handling system to invoke a second network driver associated with the second network protocol based upon the second information.
US10164908B2
Ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) of an ingress appliance in a visibility fabric may include rules for filtering traffic received by the ingress appliance. But the TCAM has limited space for rules and can become easily exhausted. By migrating rules to other visibility nodes in the visibility fabric, the techniques introduced here allow the TCAM to be virtually extended across multiple visibility nodes. More specifically, upon receiving a data packet at an ingress port, the ingress visibility node can tag the data packet with an identifier based on which ingress port received the data packet. The ingress visibility node can then determine, based on the identifier, whether the data packet should be filtered using a rule stored in the TCAM of the ingress visibility node or a rule stored in the TCAM of some visibility node in the visibility fabric.
US10164905B2
A Network Interface Controller (NIC) includes a network interface, a peer interface and steering logic. The network interface is configured to receive incoming packets from a communication network. The peer interface is configured to communicate with a peer NIC not via the communication network. The steering logic is configured to classify the packets received over the network interface into first incoming packets that are destined to a local Central Processing Unit (CPU) served by the NIC, and second incoming packets that are destined to a remote CPU served by the peer NIC, to forward the first incoming packets to the local CPU, and to forward the second incoming packets to the peer NIC over the peer interface not via the communication network.
US10164899B2
A software defined infrastructure (SDI) makes available a subset of a computer server's resources to a cloud solution or workload. Multiple subsets of resources can be combined in a SDI to provide a logical resource pool. This allows cloud administrators to create software defined infrastructures derived from the partial capacity of a collection of systems. The resources defined across the physical boundaries of a computer server can then be made available to host deployment of cloud workloads. The infrastructure resource pool can be selected upon deployment of a cloud workload.
US10164895B2
The present solution provides quality of service (QoS) for a stream of protocol data units via a single transport layer connection. A device receives via a single transport layer connection a plurality of packets carrying a plurality of protocol data units. Each protocol data unit identifies a priority. The device may include a filter for determining an average priority for a predetermined window of protocol data units and an engine for assigning the average priority as a connection priority of the single transport layer connection. The device transmits via the single transport layer connection the packets carrying those protocol data units within the predetermined window of protocol data units while the connection priority of the single transport layer connection is assigned the average priority for the predetermined window of protocol data units.
US10164887B2
Various embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for squelching and unsquelching serial port ingress traffic, including a squelch timer, an idle timer and a state machine which is configured to enable squelch and enable a data path, load and start the squelch timer when a character is received by the serial port, load and start the idle timer, activate a squelch state when the squelch timer expires before the idle timer and disable the data path.
US10164882B2
A rule indicates that data having particular characteristics be automatically routed to a particular destination. When software on a switching device detects a new data stream, it is analyzed to determine whether it has characteristics specified by the rule. If it does, the packet is encapsulated with a special tag, indicating that the packet should be routed to the new destination. Also, an entry is added to a quick-lookup table in the switching device. The entry indicates that future packets in the data stream that have the same source and destination port and address should also be routed to the new destination.
US10164881B2
Some embodiments provide a network system. The network system includes a first set of host machines for hosting virtual machines that connect to each other through a logical network. The first set of host machines includes managed forwarding elements for forwarding data between the host machines. The network system includes a second set of host machines for hosting virtualized containers that operate as gateways for forwarding data between the virtual machines and an external network. At least one of the virtualized containers peers with at least one physical router in the external network in order to advertise addresses of the virtual machines to the physical router.
US10164880B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to method for receiving a packet in a first agent, where the packet includes a first packet header with an expanded header indicator. Based on this indicator, the agent can determine if the packet includes one or more additional packet headers. If so, the agent can next determining if it supports information in the additional packet header based on a header identifier of the additional header. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10164877B2
The embodiments described herein provide a data transmission system comprising a plurality of video routers, a supervisory system for transmitting one or more router configuration signals to one or more video routers, and a control communication network for coupling the plurality of video routers and the supervisory system. Each router in the system comprises a backplane including a plurality of backplane connections, at least one line card and at least one fabric card. Each line card comprises a plurality of input ports and output ports where each input and output port is coupled to a respective external signal through the backplane. Each line card further comprises a line card cross-point switch having a plurality of input switch terminals and a plurality of output switch terminals. Each fabric card comprises a fabric card cross-point switch having a plurality of input switch terminal and a plurality of output switch terminals. Furthermore, each line card and each fabric card comprises a card controller where the card controller selectively couples one or more input switch terminals of a cross-point switch to the output switch terminals of that cross-point switch. The cross-point switches being manipulated by the card controller may belong to one or more different cards within the same video router.
US10164874B2
Rapid channel failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a physical layer link aggregation protocol with a hardware-assisted rapid channel failure detection algorithm and load balancing, preferably in combination. This functionality may be implemented in a Gigabit Ethernet data access card with an engine configured accordingly. In networks with various topologies, these features may be provided in combination with their existing protocols.
US10164870B2
A system, method and a computer readable medium for processing packets transmitted using relaxed order in an ordered multi-path network are provided. Packets associated with a data flow from the ordered multi-path network are received out of order. The received packets are reassembled into a sequential order, without gaps, prior to being delivered to a protocol stock for sequential processing.
US10164867B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises creating, in a computing network, a loop-free routing topology comprising a plurality of routing arcs for reaching a destination network node; identifying, within the loop-free routing topology, non-congruent paths for a source network node to reach the destination node; and determining, from the non-congruent paths, a non-congruent path pair providing no more than a prescribed difference of latency from the source network node to the destination node, enabling the source network node to forward a data packet in a first direction of the one non-congruent path pair and a bicasted copy of the data packet in a second direction of the one non-congruent path pair, for reception of the data packet and the bicasted copy by the destination node within the prescribed difference of latency.
US10164860B2
Systems and methods for sending data and pointers to data in response to a request for data are described. The system may receive a request for data from a device, and based on network conditions, such as network load, latency, available bandwidth, congestion, etc., the system may return a portion of the requested data and one or more pointers to a second portion of the requested data to the requesting device. A device may request the second portion of the data by selecting one or more of the pointers.
US10164843B2
A network switch, a device management system, and a device management method thereof are provided. A network management system with a graphical management interface is embedded in the network switch, so that network administrators can use web browser for management. The graphical management interface provides a topology mode, a floor mode and a map mode for the network administrators to intuitively manage Internet Protocol (IP) connected apparatuses on a topological diagram, a floor plan or a map. Furthermore, in response to a control operation corresponding to the IP connected apparatus on the graphical management interface, the network switch performs a device function operation (e.g., an information collecting operation, a configuration setting operation, a node searching operation, a system login operation, etc.) corresponding to the control operation through a communication module thereof. Accordingly, an innovative and convenient device management system can be provided for the network administrators.
US10164839B2
A log analysis system includes a first processor unit, a second processor unit, a third processor unit, and a fourth processor unit. The first processor unit normalizes the detection log acquired by an acquirer, allocating the detection log into predefined monitoring target units, and outputs the monitoring target units. The second processor unit appends common information based on a predefined rule to each of the monitoring target units of the detection log output from the first processor unit, arranges the monitoring target units into information granularities based on the content of the detection log and common information, and outputs the monitoring target units as analysis unit information. The third processor unit gathers the analysis unit information output from the second processor unit and setting detection target event candidates based on a predefined rule, and outputs the detection target event candidates and the determination results.
US10164838B2
A method, network device, and computer readable medium are disclosed. In one embodiment of the method, a data packet is received at a node within a first segment routing enabled access network. The first access network is connected, via a first area edge node, to a first area of a subdivided segment routing enabled network, and a specified destination for the data packet is reachable via a second segment routing enabled access network connected to the subdivided network. The method embodiment further includes receiving from a centralized controller a remote segment identifier stack, where the remote segment identifier stack encodes a path extending from the first area edge node to the second access network. The embodiment of the method continues with encapsulating the data packet with a full segment identifier stack comprising the remote segment identifier stack, and forwarding the encapsulated data packet toward the first area edge node.
US10164835B2
A method to enable container access to a peripheral device, where the container is hosted by a virtual machine running in a first host and the peripheral device is directly connected to a second host, is provided. The method includes determining a bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device, and comparing the bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device to bandwidth allocated to the virtual machine that is hosting the container. If the bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device is higher than a threshold percentage of the bandwidth allocated to the virtual machine, the virtual machine is migrated from the first host computer to the second host computer. On the other hand, if the bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device is lower than the threshold percentage of the bandwidth allocated to the virtual machine, processes are launched to establish a network channel by which the container communicates with the peripheral device.
US10164827B2
An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores association information that is obtained by associating identifying information of a plurality of second communication networks that are interconnected via a first communication network with identifying information of a virtual device that exists in the second communication network; a first specifying unit that specifies according to the association information a second communication network in which a target virtual device exists, in a case in which the first specifying unit acquires a request for a setting change to the target virtual device; a second specifying unit that specifies a physical server on which the target virtual device runs from among physical servers that exist in the specified second communication network; and a setting unit that performs the setting change to the target virtual device that runs on the specified physical server.
US10164826B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a distributed bootstrapping mechanism for peer-to-peer networks. In particular implementations, the de-centralized bootstrapping mechanism utilizes an allocated set of anycast addresses from the public IP space. Routing nodes or peer nodes corresponding to respective autonomous systems select an anycast address by computing a hash of an Autonomous System (AS) number (or other string) and mapping the hash value, or a portion of the hash value, to one of the anycast addresses in the allocated set. Other mechanisms for selecting anycast addresses (such as random selection) can be used. One or more of the routing nodes of the autonomous system may advertise a host route identifying the selected anycast address. When a new peer node is added to the P2P network, it may, upon initialization, transmit discovery messages using the anycast addresses from the allocated set, which may be ultimately routed to one of the peers in the P2P network. One of the responding peers in the P2P network may then be used by the newly initialized peer as a bootstrap resource to join the P2P network.
US10164812B2
A method of determining reserved tones to be used for reduction of a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) of a signal includes: randomly selecting carrier indices for the reserved tones and generating a kernel signal based on the randomly selected carrier indices; calculating a comparison reference average value of the kernel signal, comparing the calculated comparison reference average value with a prestored comparison reference average value, and preliminarily determining carrier indices of the reserved tones based on the comparison; randomly re-arranging an order of the preliminarily determined carrier indices of the reserved tones; and calculating the comparison reference average value while changing each of the re-arranged indices of the reserved tones, and finally determining carrier indices for which the calculated comparison reference average value becomes the smallest value as carrier indices of the reserved tones.
US10164804B1
Devices and methods for adjusting operation of a receiver that includes a continuous time linear equalizer, a decision feedback equalizer, and a feed forward equalizer. Operation of the receiver may be controlled by determining whether the receiver is operating in operation region using frequency responses of the feed forward equalizer at a first frequency and a second frequency and using the frequency responses of the decision feedback equalizer at the first frequency and the second frequency. If the operation is outside the frequency, a parameter of the continuous time linear equalizer is adjusted based on the frequency responses of the feed forward equalizer and the decision feedback equalizer.
US10164792B2
A user station for a bus system and a method for reducing line-conducted emissions in a bus system, in which the user station includes a transceiver for transmitting or receiving a message from at least one additional user station of the bus system via the bus system. In the bus system, exclusive, collision-free access to a bus of the bus system by a user station is at least temporarily ensured. The transceiver includes an emission control device for controlling the properties of the transceiver to reduce line-conducted emissions in the bus system. The transceiver is also configured for switching the emission control device on or off as a function of the arbitration phase and the data area of the message.
US10164789B2
The present disclosure relates to a home automation system that is automated based on user preferences provided by a social networking system, where the home automation system provides a short-range, high-speed wireless connection that is contained within the safe boundaries of a home. Briefly described, the home automation system employs one or more home automation devices to control various home devices within the home based on detection of one or more users' social profile, where each home automation device is configured to broadcast and communicate via a short-range, multi-gigabit-per-second (MGbps) wireless communication link that can be utilized by the various home devices. Furthermore, each home automation device is configured to be self-tuning, thereby enabling automatic efficient management of the MGbps wireless communication link.
US10164785B2
The invention discloses a method for implementing a real-time industrial internet field broadband bus, the method including: determining, by a bus controller, the number of bus terminals connected therewith; and allocating, by the bus controller, time slices for the bus terminals according to the number of bus terminals, and transmitting, by the bus controller, the time slices to the bus terminals so that the bus terminals operate in the allocated time slices. Moreover data are transmitted in the bus system by removing Ethernet/IP message header information to thereby reduce the length of the message, and shorten a transmission delay and a bus scan periodicity so as to improve the real-time characteristic of the bus system.
US10164761B2
Methods and systems are provided for using error related feedback during signal processing. During handling of an input signal, each of a plurality of sub-carriers in the input signal is processed, and error-related information for each one of the plurality of sub-carriers is determined based on the processing. Aggregate error-related information is generated based on error-related information of each of one of the plurality of sub-carriers, and subsequent processing of at least one of the sub-carriers is adjusted based on the aggregate error-related information. The error-related information may comprise phase error-related information. Adjustments to subsequent processing of one or more of the sub-carriers may be determined based on processing-related information corresponding to different stages during processing of each of the plurality of sub-carriers.
US10164754B1
In order to support low latency and bursty internet data traffic, the 3GPP LTE wireless communication system uses dynamic allocation. To keep the allocation overhead lower, the system is designed such that the client terminal must perform a number of decoding attempts to detect resource allocations. During course of the decoding attempts a false resource allocation may be decoded by the client terminal. The false detection may lead to multiple issues for the performance efficiency of the client terminal and the overall communication system. A method and apparatus are disclosed than enable the detection of false resource allocation. This in turn improves the performance and efficiency of the client terminal and the wireless communication system.
US10164746B2
A network may use enhanced sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission techniques to support reference signal transmissions over shared spectrum. For example, a wireless device may receive an uplink grant and an indicator. The uplink grant may include an uplink resource allocation to the wireless device and the indicator may alert the device of a forthcoming reference signal transmission. The wireless device may use the uplink grant and the indicator to determine a reference signal transmission period relative to the resources assigned in the uplink grant. For example, the wireless device may determine that the reference signal transmission period is prior to, during, or subsequent to the uplink transmission period. In some cases, a wireless device may be aperiodically or periodically scheduled for reference signal transmissions.
US10164743B2
Data processing apparatus and method for use in an interleaver suitable for multiple operating modes
A data processing apparatus maps input symbols to be communicated onto a predetermined number of sub-carrier signals of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbol. The data processor includes an interleaver memory which reads-in the predetermined number of data symbols for mapping onto the OFDM sub-carrier signals. The interleaver memory reads-out the data symbols on to the OFDM sub-carriers to effect the mapping, the read-out being in a different order than the read-in, the order being determined from a set of addresses, with the effect that the data symbols are interleaved on to the sub-carrier signals. The set of addresses are generated from an address generator which comprises a linear feedback shift register and a permutation circuit.
US10164736B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for providing forward error correction with low latency to live streams in networks are provided. Source data is output at a rate less than the rate of a source stream, a buffer is built, and an FEC decoder FEC decodes the source data. Decoded packets are output at a rate equal to the rate of the source stream.
US10164730B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal processing method and a base station. By using respective sparse characteristics of a user signal and an interference signal, the user signal and the interference signal are iteratively recovered, that is, the interference signal is first fastened, and the user signal is recovered; and then the user signal is fastened, and the interference signal is recovered. In this way, an iteration cycle is repeated until the recovered user signal and the recovered interference signal meet a preset condition, thereby effectively improving interference cancellation performance, achieving relatively good interference suppression.
US10164727B1
A method for allocating time slots of a shared schedule for a plurality of communication lines having a crosstalk relationship is described. A first number of allocated time slots is allocated, according to respective priorities, corresponding to a first time interval for first data to be transmitted. The first data is transmitted. A second number of allocated time slots is allocated, corresponding to a second time interval for second data to be transmitted. The second number is larger than the first number if an allocation increase threshold has been met, based on utilization of a first time slot having a lowest priority of the first number of allocated time slots. The second number is smaller than the first number if an allocation decrease threshold has been met, based on utilization of a second time slot having a higher priority than the first time slot.
US10164716B2
In one embodiment, a dissolution-testing apparatus uses a contactless communication system in place of a conventional slip ring. The communication system has a rotating infra-red (IR) communicator and a stationary IR communicator. The dissolution-testing apparatus includes a stationary base having a processor and a rotating shaft having a sensor array including at least a first sensor. The rotating communicator is part of a rotating communication module including a battery and a housing and adapted to be fixed to the shaft for rotation with the shaft. The stationary communicator is adapted to be fixed to the stationary base. The rotating communicator is adapted to (i) receive data from the first sensor while the rotating communicator rotates and (ii) transmit data corresponding to the sensor data to the stationary communicator in a contactless manner while the rotating communicator rotates with respect to the stationary communicator.
US10164711B2
A scheme for generating asymmetric single sideband photonic vector signal at millimeter wave spectral region is described. At a transmitter, information bits to be transmitted are modulated using a vector modulation technique to generate a baseband signal. The baseband signal is converted into its single sideband (SSB) version using a complex frequency source having a first frequency. The real part of the upconverted signal is added to the real part of a second frequency source and is input as I component to an I/Q modulator. The imaginary part of the upconverted signal is added to the imaginary part of the second frequency source and is used as the Q component. The I/Q modulator is driven by a laser source at frequency fc. The resulting signal is transmitter over an optical transmission medium and upconverted by a single-ended photodiode to a desired radio-frequency (RF) carrier frequency.
US10164708B1
A method for determining receiver coupling efficiency includes varying optical power inputted into a half active optical cable to determine a maximum optical power at which the TIA squelches and determining a receiver coupling efficiency by calculating a ratio of a threshold optical power to the maximum optical power at which the TIA squelches. A method of determining link loss in a channel includes varying optical power of a light source to determine the maximum optical power at which the TIA squelches and determining the link loss in the channel by subtracting the maximum optical power from the threshold optical power. A method of determining link topology includes selecting a pattern of optical powers and matching a pattern of squelched and non-squelched outputs with the pattern of optical power. An active optical cable includes memory storing a value related to an initial link loss of the active optical cable.
US10164705B1
In an example, a method for communicating over a satellite network is described. The method includes determining a first availability score for a first satellite data unit (SDU) of an aircraft based on first operational parameters comprising whether the first SDU is (i) reporting valid data, (ii) capable of providing data-link services, and (iii) capable of providing voice services, determining a second availability score for a second SDU of the aircraft based on second operational parameters comprising whether the second SDU is (i) reporting valid data, (ii) capable of providing data-link services, and (iii) capable of providing voice services, comparing the first availability score for the first SDU with the second availability score for the second SDU, and based on comparing the first availability score with the second availability score, controlling one of the first SDU and the second SDU to be an active SDU.
US10164702B2
A wireless communication system comprises a mobile communication apparatus, and a terminal device. The mobile communication apparatus comprises a first wireless unit that wirelessly communicates control information to and from the terminal device in a first communication method, and a second wireless unit that wirelessly communicates user information to and from the terminal device in a second communication method that uses a higher frequency band than the first communication method. The terminal device comprises a third wireless unit that performs wireless communication to and from the first wireless unit, and a fourth wireless unit that performs wireless communication to and from the second wireless unit. The mobile communication apparatus or the terminal device determines a timing of wireless communication to be performed between the second wireless unit and the fourth wireless unit by performing wireless communication between the first wireless unit and the third wireless unit.
US10164701B2
An antenna allocation method and a terminal for modems to receive a signal with a good antenna includes allocating a first antenna to a first modem; and if it is determined that the first modem satisfies a preset state, allocating the first antenna to any one of N−1 modems other than the first modem.
US10164700B2
A fault detection method and a fault detection device for external antennas, where the method comprises generating a first detection signal and transmitting the first detection signal using a main antenna, detecting whether a diversity antenna receives the first detection signal, acquiring a signal strength difference between the signals received by the main antenna and the diversity antenna, respectively, determining that the diversity antenna is faulty when the signal strength difference is not less than a first threshold, determining that the main antenna is faulty when the signal strength difference is not larger than a second threshold, and determining that the main antenna and the diversity antenna are faulty when the signal strength difference is larger than the second threshold and less than the first threshold.
US10164699B2
An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may include memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a communication channel for a multi-carrier signal based on a received reference signal, the multi-carrier signal aggregating a plurality of component carriers. During a transmission time interval of the multi-carrier signal, the UE can perform a global search over a beam search space to obtain a beam index recommendation for a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers. The beam index recommendation corresponds to a maximized channel quality metric of the estimated communication channel and is indicative of a beam grid within the beam search space. The UE can perform a localized search of a subset of the beam search space to obtain a second beam index recommendation for a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers.
US10164687B2
An NFC tag recognition device includes an antenna responsive to signals transmitted by an NFC tag, a radio frequency (RF) signal processor measuring power of the signal received by the antenna from the NFC tag and converting the signal into digital data, an NFC controller extracting an authentication key from the digital data, an authentication signal processor generating an authentication pattern from the NFC tag, and an authentication signal storage storing an authentication key and an authentication pattern of a registered user. The authentication signal processor generates an authorization grant signal if the extracted authentication key matches the stored authentication key and the generated authentication pattern matches the stored authentication pattern.
US10164685B2
Technology for a spatially aware wireless network is disclosed. One embodiment comprises a plurality of near field magnetic induction nodes. One or more nodes is configured to communicate a polarized spatial position signal using near field magnetic induction (NFMI) to determine one or more of a position and an orientation of one or more nodes in the spatially aware wireless network. A detection module is operable to configure the spatially aware wireless network based one or more of a position and an orientation of one or more nodes in the plurality of nodes.
US10164683B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving interference cancellation. The method for receiving interference cancellation can comprise: a step for cancelling, in signals received from a serving cell, cell-specific reference signals (CRS) from the serving cell, the CRS from a first primary interference cell, and the CRS from a second primary interference cell; a step for comparing the signal size of the serving cell, the signal size of the first primary interference cell, and the signal size of the second primary interference cell; a step for determining whether the CRS of the serving cell conflicts with the CRS of the first primary interference cell or the CRS of the second primary interference cell; and a step for canceling, when it is determined that the CRS' conflict with one other, data signals from the first primary interference cell and data signals from the second primary interference cell in the signals where the CRS are cancelled in the order determined according to the size comparison of signals.
US10164670B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for using a single receiving device, such as a single VSA, to capture and digitize multiple time-domain acquisitions of a repeating signal at different center frequencies, to create a single time-domain waveform having a bandwidth greater than the real-time instantaneous bandwidth of the receiving device. Specifically, one or more signal processing paths may process the multiple digitized acquisitions of the repeating signal, either sequentially or in parallel, such that the processed acquisitions may be aggregated into a representation of one or more repetitions of the repeating signal.
US10164669B2
A radio-frequency module comprises a low-noise amplifier including a common source transistor having a gate node that receives a radio-frequency input signal and a drain node that transmits a combined radio-frequency output signal, and a correction signal input path configured to receive a correction signal and provide the correction signal to a source node of the common source transistor to generate, at least in part, the combined radio-frequency output signal.
US10164666B2
RF front end circuitry includes a first antenna node, a second antenna node, a diplexer, a first band filter, a second band filter, and switching circuitry. The diplexer may be used to separate signals for carrier aggregation, providing signals within a first RF frequency band to the first band filter and signals within a second RF frequency band to the second band filter. Further, by strategically arranging the switching circuitry, the diplexer may also be used as a multiple-input-multiple-output filter, such that additional filters are not required to support one or more MIMO modes of the RF front end circuitry.
US10164665B2
An HF circuit is specified, by means of which carrier aggregation is possible with a simple design. The circuit comprises a duplexer, a further filter, and two phase shifters, and can be used in an HF module of a mobile wireless device.
US10164653B1
An analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”) includes receiving an analog input voltage signal, converting the analog input voltage signal to a first digital value and an analog residue signal, converting the analog residue signal to a time value representing the analog residue signal, and converting the time value to a second digital value. The first digital value and the second digital value are combined into a digital output signal representing the analog input voltage signal.
US10164647B2
A phase locked loop circuit is disclosed. The phase locked loop circuit includes a ring oscillator. The phase locked loop circuit also includes a digital path including a digital phase detector. The phase locked loop circuit further includes an analog path including a linear phase detector. Additionally, the phase locked loop circuit includes a feedback path connecting an output of the ring oscillator to an input of the digital path and an input of the analog path. The digital path and the analog path are parallel paths. The digital path provides a digital tuning signal the ring oscillator that digitally controls a frequency of the ring oscillator. The analog path provides an analog tuning signal the ring oscillator that continuously controls the frequency of the ring oscillator.
US10164645B2
A semiconductor system includes: a controller suitable for outputting an external clock signal and a command/address signal; and a semiconductor device suitable for selecting one of pre-stored code values of a delay control signal to output an initial value control signal according to the command/address signal, and outputting an internal clock signal by delaying the external clock signal by a predetermined time based on the delay control signal having an initial value that is set in response to the initial value control signal.
US10164639B1
A macro scheduler includes a resource tracking module configured to update a database enumerating a plurality of macro components of a set of field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, a communication interface configured to receive from a first client device a first design definition indicating one or more specified macro components for a design, resource allocation logic configured to allocate a first set of macro components for the design by allocating one of the plurality of macro components for each of the one or more specified macro components indicated in the first design definition, and configuration logic configured to implement the design in the set of FPGA devices by configuring the first set of allocated macro components according to the first design definition.
US10164638B2
A balanced, charge-recycling repeater link is disclosed. The link includes a first set of segments operating in a first voltage domain and a second set of segments operating in a second voltage domain. The link is configured to transmit a first signal over at least one segment in the first set of segments and at least one other segment in the second set of segments. Each segment of the link includes at least one active circuit element configured to charge or discharge one or more corresponding interconnects within the link and a level shifter configured to shift the level of a signal on a last interconnect of the segment from the first voltage domain to the second voltage domain or the second voltage domain to the first voltage domain.
US10164611B2
A wireless sensor includes a radio frequency (RF) receiving circuit including a plurality of components, where impedances of the plurality of components establish a resonant frequency of the RF receiving circuit. The wireless sensor further includes a sensing element that when exposed to an environmental condition, affects the resonant frequency of the RF receiving circuit. The wireless sensor further includes a processing module that is operable to determine a first value for an adjustable element of a plurality of elements for a known environmental condition based on the resonant frequency and the carrier frequency, determine a second value for the adjustable element for an unknown environmental condition based on the resonant frequency and the carrier frequency, and determine a difference between the first and second values that corresponds to a change between the known environmental condition and the unknown environmental condition.
US10164609B2
A digital signal synthesizer for generating a frequency and/or phase modified digital signal output comprises an input buffer, a transform module, a processing module, and an output buffer. The input buffer receives a digital input that is represented in a frequency domain representation. The transform module stores a fractional order control system that models a desired frequency and/or phase response defined by an assembly of at least one filter component. Each filter component is defined by a Laplace function that is modified to include a non-integer control order having a variable fractional scaling exponent. The processing module multiplies or divides the digital input with the fractional order control system stored in the transform module. Moreover, the output buffer stores a synthesized output of the input, which is modified in the frequency domain, the phase domain, or both according to the desired frequency and/or phase response by the processing module.
US10164603B2
An elastic wave device includes an elastic wave element that includes first support layers provided on a piezoelectric substrate, a second support layer provided on the piezoelectric substrate so as to surround the first support layers when viewed in a plan view, and a cover member provided on the first support layers and the second support layer, a mounting substrate on which the elastic wave element is mounted, and a mold resin provided on the mounting substrate and sealing the elastic wave element. A thickness of each of the first support layers is less than a thickness of the second support layer. The cover member convexly curves towards the piezoelectric substrate so as to be spaced away from the mounting substrate. A space between the mounting substrate and the cover member is filled with the mold resin.
US10164602B2
An acoustic wave device includes a substrate comprising one surface on which an acoustic wave generator and at least one ground pad are included; a support component formed of an insulating material and disposed on the substrate along a circumference of the acoustic wave generator; and a shielding member electrically connected to the ground pad and blocking reception or emission of electromagnetic waves at the acoustic wave generator.
US10164599B2
A circuitry includes a functional circuit providing a predetermined function and a resistive device coupled between a power supply and the functional circuit to contribute a resistance on a power supplying path for the power supply to supply power to the functional circuit. The resistance is tunable.
US10164596B2
Switchable and/or tunable filters, methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method of forming the filters includes forming at least one piezoelectric filter structure comprising a plurality of electrodes formed to be in contact with at least one piezoelectric substrate. The method further includes forming a micro-electro-mechanical structure (MEMS) comprising a MEMS beam in which, upon actuation, the MEMS beam will turn on the at least one piezoelectric filter structure by interleaving electrodes in contact with the piezoelectric substrate or sandwiching the at least one piezoelectric substrate between the electrodes.
US10164595B2
A clipping circuit for an amplifier, the clipping circuit using a tunneling junction. A molecular or other tunneling electronic-based component within a hybrid analog-tunneling circuit is used to produce soft or hard clipping capability with enhanced control over the output. The circuit may be used as a distortion circuit for an electric guitar signal or other electronic signals.
US10164590B2
An improved Class-D amplifier may include a digital PWM modulator that receives a digital audio signal and that provides a PWM signal as an input to an analog PWM modulator of the Class-D amplifier. A digital PWM modulator may be configured to receive a digital signal and to generate a first PWM signal based on the digital signal. A digital PWM driver may be coupled to the digital PWM modulator. The digital PWM driver may be configured to receive the first PWM signal and to generate a reference PWM signal based on the first PWM signal. An analog PWM modulator may be coupled to the digital PWM driver. The analog PWM modulator may be configured to receive the reference PWM signal and to generate an output PWM signal based on the reference PWM signal.
US10164585B2
A radio frequency filter includes communication bandpass filters disposed corresponding respectively to a plurality of communication bands, a switch, and a matching circuit. The switch includes a common terminal and a plurality of optionally selectable terminals, the plurality of optionally selectable terminals being individually connected to the plurality of bandpass filters in a one-to-one relation. The matching circuit is connected to the common terminal and is a common matching circuit to the plurality of communication bandpass filters. The plurality of communication bandpass filters are set such that filter characteristics of a serial circuit in combination of one of the plurality of communication bandpass filters, the one being selected by the switch, and the common matching circuit are improved in comparison with filter characteristics of the selected communication bandpass filter with respect to the communication band corresponding to the selected communication bandpass filter.
US10164584B2
A synthesizer circuit to generate a local oscillator carrier signal for a baseband signal includes a controlled oscillator comprising a phase lock loop and an oscillator configured to generate an oscillating signal. A pulling compensation circuit is configured to generate a correction signal for a present output of the phase locked loop using information on an error of the oscillating signal, information on a present sample of a baseband signal and a preceding correction signal for a preceding output of the phase locked loop.
US10164581B2
A self-oscillating amplifier system is disclosed. The system comprises a pulse modulator, a switching power amplification stage and a demodulation filter. Moreover, the system comprises a compensator including a forward filter which is a high order filter including a second order pole pair and a second order zero pair. Hereby it is possible to decrease the phase turn at low frequencies for better stability and increasing the gain of the control loop within the desired bandwidth.
US10164579B2
A distributed amplifier includes an input transmission circuit, an output transmission circuit, at least one cascode amplifier coupled between said input and output transmission circuits. Each cascode amplifier includes a first common-gate configured transistor coupled to the output transmission circuit, a common-source configured transistor coupled between the input transmission circuit and the common-gate configured transistor, and a second common-gate configured transistor coupled between the first common-gate configured transistor and common-source configured transistor.
US10164574B2
A circuit for generating a plurality of oscillating signals with different phases includes a frequency divider, a first delay chain, a second delay chain and a calibration circuit. The frequency divider is arranged for frequency dividing a first input signal and a second input signal to generate a first frequency-divided input signal and a second frequency-divided input signal. The first delay chain is arranged for delaying the first frequency-divided input signal, and the second delay chain is arranged for delaying the second frequency-divided input signal. The calibration circuit is arranged for controlling delay amounts of the first delay chain and the second delay chain according to signals within the first delay chain or the second delay chain; wherein output signals of a portion delay cells within the first delay chain and the second delay chain serve as the plurality of oscillating signals with different phases.
US10164563B2
An electric power system for supplying power to a permanent magnet electric machine includes a high-voltage DC power source that is disposed to supply electric power to a front-end converter connected via a high-voltage DC bus to an electric inverter that is connected to the electric machine. A method for operating a control system includes monitoring the electric machine. Upon detecting a fault associated with the electric machine, a controller commands operation of the front-end converter to generate a voltage level on the high-voltage DC bus that is a maximum setpoint voltage level and monitors back-emf voltage level from the electric machine. The inverter is controlled to a three-phase open state when the back-emf voltage level is less than the maximum setpoint voltage level. The inverter is controlled to a three-phase short state when the back-emf voltage level is greater than the maximum setpoint voltage level.
US10164562B2
A method of controlling an alternating current (AC) motor includes following steps: (a) providing a voltage to the AC motor, wherein the voltage is a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal, which is represented by a voltage reference vector; (b) determining that the voltage reference vector is in a distortion region; and (c) in response to determining that the voltage reference vector is in the distortion region, modifying, via a controller, the PWM signal by updating the voltage reference vector every half switching period to avoid the distortion region.
US10164551B2
A boost control apparatus is provided with: a controlling device configured (i) to perform first duty control by a first control parameter if output current that flows through a reactor is not near zero, and (ii) to perform second duty control by a second control parameter if the output current is near zero, during one-side element control for driving only one of a first switching element and a second switching element, each of which is connected to a reactor in series. A rate calculating device is provided that is configured to calculate a change rate of the output current to a change amount of a duty value in the first duty control and the second duty control. A control determining device is also provided that is configured to control the controlling device to perform the second duty control regardless of the output current, if the change rate is less than a predetermined value.
US10164547B2
A method and a system for controlling a rectifier can obtain a predicted switching interval. The method includes steps of: receiving frequency information and line information of a power generator, the line information including a switching point where a voltage or current crosses zero and a switching interval based on the frequency information; obtaining a predicted switching interval according to the frequency information and the line information, and obtaining a feedback signal according to two terminals of at least one component of the rectifier; and switching a switching signal of the rectifier within the predicted switching interval according to the feedback signal.
US10164543B2
A method for controlling a power converter includes generating a load detection signal in response to a conduction signal and a driver input signal, and generating a gate control signal in response to the load detection signal. The gate control signal is delayed by a delay amount in response to the load detection signal. An apparatus for controlling a power converter includes a gate signal control circuit generating a load detection signal in response to a conduction signal and a driver input signal, and a synchronous rectifier (SR) driver generating a gate control signal in response to the load detection signal.
US10164540B2
A controller for a power conversion circuit has a first current-reading circuit coupled for receiving a first feedback signal at a first circuit node and generating an internal feedback signal at a second circuit node inversely proportional to the first feedback signal. A second current-reading circuit is coupled for receiving a second feedback signal at the first circuit node and generating the internal feedback signal at the second circuit node inversely proportional to the second feedback signal. The first current-reading circuit generates the internal feedback signal inversely proportional to an electric current injected into the controller at the first circuit node. The second current-reading circuit generates the internal feedback signal inversely proportional to an electric current drawn from the controller at the first circuit node.
US10164539B1
A power conversion system with clamp mode switching includes a clamp conversion circuit, a switching circuit module, a PWM control module, and a feedback control module. The PWM control module stabilizes a feedback voltage when the feedback control module feeds the feedback voltage back to the switching circuit module and the PWM control module. The switching circuit module switches the clamp conversion circuit to operate in an active clamp mode or a non-active clamp mode.
US10164538B1
A supply circuit includes a rectifying bridge arranged in series between two high voltage capacitors. An AC line provides an intermediate voltage to a low voltage capacitor through the two high voltage capacitors. A plurality of resistors mounted in series with the two high voltage capacitors. A voltage clamping device limits the intermediate voltage at the low voltage capacitor and a linear series regulator provides an output DC voltage.
US10164533B2
The present invention relates to a converter circuit (1) for reducing a nominal capacitor voltage, the converter circuit (1) comprising: an input node (TI1), which is configured to receive an input voltage (VG); an output node (TO1; TO2), which is configured to supply an output voltage (VO) to a load (RL1; RL2); and a capacitor (C1; C2), which is coupled to the load so that the input voltage is divided between the capacitor (C1; C2) and the load (RL1; RL2) and which is configured to be charged up to a voltage corresponding to a differential voltage between the input voltage (VG) and the output voltage (VO).
US10164529B2
In one form, a spread spectrum clock generator includes an oscillator and a digital modulator. The oscillator has a control input for setting an output frequency, and an output for providing a clock output signal. The digital modulator is responsive to the clock output signal to provide a control code to the control input of the oscillator as a periodic signal with a plurality of discrete steps, wherein the digital modulator provides said control code at each of said plurality of discrete steps for substantially a predetermined time.
US10164528B2
A buck converter includes a power switch having one end to which an input voltage is transferred, a synchronous switch connected between the other end of the power switch and the ground, an inductor having an end connected to the other end of the power switch, and a switch control circuit configured to calculate a zero voltage delay time based on at least an ON time of the power switch and a delay time. The delay time is determined based on the inductor and parasitic capacitors of the power switch and the synchronous switch.
US10164519B2
A semiconductor stack for a converter comprises two series-connected semiconductor switches; two terminals for connecting a cell capacitor, which are connected to one another by the two semiconductor switches; at least one cooling element arranged between the semiconductor switches; a frame, by which the semiconductor switches and the cooling element are fixed to one another and which provides the terminals; and at least two snubber capacitors which are mechanically fixed to the frame and which are connected in parallel, are connected to the terminals and which in each case form a commutation loop with the semiconductor switches.
US10164515B2
A driving method for power semiconductor switches in an H-bridge circuit is provided. The method includes: calculating a start time and an end time of a zero level of an output voltage and determining a zero level section based on the start time and end time of the zero level; and driving an upper power semiconductor switch of a first bridge arm and an upper power semiconductor switch of a second bridge arm to be on simultaneously or driving a lower power semiconductor switch of the first bridge arm and a lower power semiconductor switch of the second bridge arm to be on simultaneously in the zero level section.
US10164514B2
Noise-free control circuit and control method for controlling a switching converter to avoid generating audile noises. The noise-free control circuit has a timer used to set a noise-free frequency threshed. When the switching frequency of the switching converter is decreased to the noise-free frequency threshold, the switching frequency of the switching converter is limited to the noise-free frequency threshold. The noise-free frequency threshold is higher than a maximum audible frequency of an audio noise.
US10164502B1
A mobile diesel generator and propulsion system preferably includes a diesel engine, a vehicle platform, a generator with voltage inverter, a battery charging system, at least one storage battery, an AC voltage to DC voltage converter, a motor controller and an AC motor. The generator with voltage inverter is driven by the diesel engine. The battery charging system receives AC voltage from the generator with voltage inverter and outputs a DC voltage to charge the at least one storage battery. The AC voltage to DC voltage converter receives output from the generator with voltage inverter and outputs a DC voltage to the motor controller. The motor controller receives DC voltage output from either the AC voltage to DC voltage converter or the at least one storage battery and outputs AC voltage to the AC voltage motor. The AC voltage motor drives a rear wheel of the vehicle platform.
US10164499B2
A voice coil motor (VCM) is disclosed, the VCM including: a rotor including a bobbin accommodated by a lens, and a coil block arranged at a periphery of the bobbin, a base formed with an opening for exposing a lens and a first foreign object penetration prevention unit formed along an upper edge, a stator including magnets wrapping the coil block and a housing formed with an opening for fixing the magnets and formed at a bottom surface with lateral surfaces formed with a second foreign object penetration prevention unit coupled to the first foreign object prevention unit, and an elastic member coupled to the bobbin to elastically support the bobbin.
US10164496B2
An electric machine for starting an internal combustion engine, comprising a housing (10) having at least one sealing device (14) which seals an interior (10a) of the housing with respect to the surroundings of the housing (10), and at least one pressure reduction device (1), wherein the at least one pressure reduction device (1) is embodied so as to be moveable in a translatory fashion relative to the at least one sealing device (14) in order to form, in the case of an overpressure in the interior (10a) of the housing, at least one venting duct via which an at least partial reduction in pressure is ensured.
US10164491B2
Winding bodies are produced by repeatedly winding a δ-shaped coil pattern that is formed by inserting the conductor wire sequentially into a second slot, a first slot, a second slot, and a third slot, so as to alternate an axial direction of insertion into the first slot, the second slot, and the third slot, for two turns in a radial direction, and are configured such that a plurality of rectilinear portions that are respectively inserted into the first slot, the second slot, and the third slot are linked continuously by coil end portions, and a liquid coolant is supplied to a coil end that is constituted by the coil end portions.
US10164485B2
A stator-rotor device for an electrical machine, in particular an electric motor, includes a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator-rotor device pole cores provided with windings comprise pole shoes and magnets associated therewith. The pole shoes are connected via a first surface to a respective pole core and have a second surface that is facing towards the magnets. The pole shoes cooperate magnetically with the magnets and are separated from the latter by an air gap. The pole shoes and the magnets engage with one another in an engagement direction in such a way that in each case a section of the other component—magnet or pole shoes—is arranged lying opposite the respectively engaging component—pole shoe or magnet—transverse to the engagement direction on two sides facing away from one another. The second surface is larger than the first surface.
US10164482B2
The present invention relates to a wireless power transmission method, a wireless power transmission apparatus, and a wireless charging system in a wireless power transmission field, and the wireless power transmission method may include receiving first information of a first wireless power receiver and second information of a second wireless power receiver that receive power in a wireless manner within a first slot among a plurality of slots, transmitting a NAK (not-acknowledge) signal to the first and the second wireless power receiver and executing a collision resolution mechanism in the first and the second wireless power receiver.
US10164474B2
A wireless power transmitter includes a sensor configured to sense an object, a power transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit power to a wireless power receiver, and a controller configured to determine whether the object is the wireless power receiver, and control the power transmitter to wirelessly transmit power to the wireless power receiver upon the object being determined to be the wireless power receiver, wherein the sensor and the power transmitter comprise separate coils.
US10164470B2
A wireless power transmission/reception system includes a wireless power transmission circuit and a wireless power reception circuit. The wireless power transmission circuit includes an oscillator, a DC-AC converter that converts a direct current to an alternating current and is turned on/off in response to a control signal, a power transmission coil that transmits AC power, a signal reception coil, and a signal receiver that transfers the control signal to the DC-AC converter. The wireless power reception circuit includes a power reception coil, a rectifier that converts an alternating current to a direct current and is turned on or off in response to the control signal, an control signal generator that generates the control signal, a signal transmission coil, and a signal transmitter that transmits the control signal through the signal transmission coil.
US10164465B2
The present disclosure provides a transfer switching equipment, comprising a first switch set and a second switch set. The transfer switching equipment is configured in a way that during the switching from a closed state of one of the first switch set and the second switch set to a closed state of the other of the first switch set and the second switch set, there is a state in which the neutral poles of the first switch set and the neutral pole of the second switch set are closed at the same time while all phase poles of the first switch set and all phase poles of the second switch set are all opened. The transfer switching equipment has a simple and reliable structure and occupies a small space and can provide continuous voltage with high-quality during switching the power supply.
US10164463B2
A power supply system includes at least a first power supply module and at least one redundant power supply module. The at least one power supply module supplies power to an output terminal. The at least one redundant power supply module operates in a first state and in a second state. In the first state the second power supply module supplies power to the output terminal. In the second state the second power supply module provides standby power and operates in a burst mode (for example, such as a discontinuous conduction mode).
US10164459B2
According to one embodiment, a given tile, made up of pixels or samples, may be of any shape, including a square shape. These pixels may contain colors, depths, stencil values, and other values. Each tile may be further augmented with a single bit, referred to herein as a render bit. In one embodiment, if the render bit is one, then everything is rendered as usual within the tile. However, if the render bit is zero, then nothing is rasterized to this tile and, correspondingly, depth tests, pixel shading, frame buffer accesses, and multi-sampled anti-aliasing (MSAA) resolves are not done for this tile. In other embodiments, some operations may be done nevertheless, but at least one operation is avoided based on the render bit. Of course, the render bits may be switched such that the bit zero indicates that everything should be rendered and the bit one indicates more limited rendering.
US10164452B2
The battery pack including a battery group in which a plurality of secondary batteries are connected in series; a detector that detects a charging and discharging current value flowing in the battery group and a voltage value of the battery group in a time-division manner by switching between the current value and the voltage value using an electronic circuit; and a controller/operator that performs operation and control using the current value and the voltage value detected by the detector. In the battery pack, the detector detects current values before and after the voltage value of the battery group is detected, and the controller/operator determines that the voltage value of the battery group is influenced by the peak discharge power when at least one of the current values exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10164450B2
A battery management controller includes input channels to receive a voltage signal from a battery and output channels to provide diagnostic signals to an operator. The controller is programmed to output a diagnostic signal predictive of a thermal condition in response to the voltage decreasing at a rate greater than a predetermined rate that signals that the voltage is decreasing toward a local minimum that precedes an increase in the voltage indicative of a battery temperature increase rate becoming greater than a threshold. The diagnostic signal may be used to alert the operator of the condition. The controller may be further programmed to issue commands to mitigate the thermal condition based on the diagnostic signal.
US10164447B2
To provide a semiconductor product high in versatility.A common drain pad is formed over the surface of a semiconductor chip together with source pads and gate pads of discharging and charging power transistors. Thus, when the semiconductor chip is face-down mounted over a wiring board, not only the source pads and gate pads of the discharging and charging power transistors, but also the common drain pad is electrically coupled to wirings of the wiring board.
US10164444B2
An energy storage device includes an integrated fuel gauge that is operatively connected to the energy storage device. The fuel gauge evaluates an operating parameter of the energy storage device and dynamically determines a state of charge. The fuel gauge communicates a communication including a requested operating parameter to the charging component with the single communication line and the signal indicates to an operating system component a change of an energy storage device state. The signal is used to trigger an alert or interrupt that causes the operating system component to display the change of the energy storage state based on the signal.
US10164441B2
An apparatus for charging a plurality of series connected battery cells, includes a first and second input terminals for providing a charging voltage to the plurality of series connected battery cell. A transformer includes a primary side associated with the charging voltage and a secondary side includes a plurality of portions. Each of the plurality of portions is connected across at least one of the plurality of series connected battery cell. A switch in series between each of the plurality of portions of the secondary side and the at least one of the plurality of series connected battery cells increases an impedance between the portion of the secondary side and the associated one of the plurality of series connected battery cells in a first state and decreases the impedance between the portion of the secondary side and the associated one of the plurality of series connected battery cells in a second state.
US10164437B2
The module according to the present invention is used for accumulating/drawing electricity in/from an electric accumulator (502); the module comprises first terminals and second terminals; the first terminals are adapted to be connected to a photovoltaic panel (501) and to an inverter (504), and the second terminals are adapted to be connected to the electric accumulator (502); the module comprises a conversion unit (503) adapted to be connected between the first terminals and the second terminals; the conversion unit (503) comprises, in turn, a two-way DC/DC converter (550) adapted to convert a first energy flow generated by the photovoltaic panel (401, 501) to store it in the accumulator (502) and a second energy flow drawn from the accumulator (502) to supply it to the inverter (504), the two-way DC/DC converter (450, 550) is configured to convert said first energy flow and said second energy flow in a selective manner. The module is characterized in that comprises: power detector means (507) adapted to be connected between a user arrangement (520), which comprises the inverter (504), in particular of the type with MPPT, and a user (506), and a public electric grid (508), and adapted to detect the power flowing between the user arrangement (520) and the public electric grid (508) and vice versa between the public electric grid (508) and the user arrangement (520); the conversion unit (403, 503) comprises a control unit (501) connected to the power detector means (507) and adapted to control the two-way DC/DC converter (550) as a function of signals generated by the power detector means (507). By means of such a module, it is possible to upgrade a photovoltaic system so as to minimize the electricity exchanges between the photovoltaic system and the public electric grid.
US10164426B2
An integrated circuit includes an I/O pad and a protection device coupled to the I/O pad and a first supply node. A transient event detector includes a latch; a first transistor having a first current electrode coupled to the I/O pad, a control electrode coupled to a first supply node, and a second current electrode coupled to a data input of the latch, wherein the latch is configured to store an indication that a transient event occurred. An event level sensor includes a first transistor having a first current electrode coupled to the I/O pad, a control electrode coupled to the protection device, and a second current electrode coupled to a load circuit; a rectifier device coupled between the second current electrode and a capacitor; a second transistor having a control electrode coupled to the capacitor; and an output circuit configured to place a current on a first sense bus proportional to a current through the load circuit.
US10164417B2
Provided is a circuit assembly that includes: a circuit board that has a connection opening; a plurality of busbars that are laid on one surface side of the circuit board; a coil that includes a main portion and a plurality of lead terminals, the lead terminals being connected to the plurality of busbars exposed through the connection opening; and a heatsink that is laid, via an adhesive agent, on surfaces of the plurality of busbars that face away from the circuit board. The circuit board is provided with a substrate through-hole in the vicinity of the connection opening, and the plurality of busbars are provided with a busbar through-hole at the position that corresponds to the substrate through-hole.
US10164416B2
An electrical connection covering apparatus is designed to protect from moisture a connection between a plug of one extension cord and a socket of another extension cord. A compressible and elastic diaphragm is used to form a seal around the cables of the extension cords where they enter the apparatus. The apparatus includes a housing that has at least one aperture. The diaphragm extends across the aperture. The diaphragm projects inwardly with respect to an interior surface of the housing. The compressibility and elasticity of the diaphragm material is greater than that of the housing material.
US10164409B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor light-emitting device includes: forming a plurality of guide grooves so as to be depressed from a surface of a semiconductor structure layer toward a semiconductor substrate and to align and extend along a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of a plurality of line electrodes; forming, in each of the plurality of guide grooves, a scribe groove so as to be depressed from a bottom surface of the guide groove toward the semiconductor substrate and to extend along an extending direction of the guide groove; and dividing a semiconductor wafer along the plurality of guide grooves. The guide groove and the scribe groove are formed to have end shapes in such a manner that inner walls thereof project toward each other in the extending direction of the scribe groove.
US10164407B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor laser for use in an optical module for measuring distances and/or movements, using the self-mixing effect. The semiconductor laser comprises a layer structure including an active region (3) embedded between two layer sequences (1, 2) and further comprises a photodetector arranged to measure an intensity of an optical field resonating in said laser. The photodetector is a phototransistor composed of an emitter layer (e), a collector layer (c) and a base layer (b), each of which being a bulk layer and forming part of one of said layer sequences (1, 2). With the proposed semiconductor laser an optical module based on this laser can be manufactured more easily, at lower costs and in a smaller size than known modules.
US10164404B2
According to an embodiment, a crystalline color-conversion device includes an electrically driven first light emitter, for example a blue or ultraviolet LED, for emitting light having a first energy in response to an electrical signal. An inorganic solid single-crystal direct-bandgap second light emitter having a bandgap of a second energy less than the first energy is provided in association with the first light emitter. The second light emitter is electrically isolated from, located in optical association with, and physically connected to the first light emitter so that in response to the electrical signal the first light emitter emits first light that is absorbed by the second light emitter and the second light emitter emits second light having a lower energy than the first energy.
US10164403B2
A cap member comprises a cylindrical part, an annular top plate part having an opening formed at a central portion thereof and being configured to cover one end of the cylindrical part, a window glass disposed inside the cylindrical part, and an adhesion member configured to adhere the top plate part and the window glass each other. The top plate part is depressed so that an opening end of the opening enters an inside of the cylindrical part, and an inner surface of the top plate part is configured as a flat inclined surface from a coupling part between the cylindrical part and the top plate part to the opening end.
US10164402B2
A method for operating a laser device (1), wherein an optical frequency comb can be stabilized and the frequencies of the modes thereof are describable by the formula fm=m×frep+f0, where frep is a mode spacing, f0 is an offset frequency and m is a natural number. At least one signal (S1, S2, S3, S4) is determined, which correlates with an actual value of a degree of freedom (F), wherein the degree of freedom (F) is a linear combination of the offset frequency f0 and the mode spacing frep of the frequency comb. The actual value of the degree of freedom (F) is set in a predetermined capture range (F) of a second control unit (40) using a first control unit (10) on the basis of the signal. As soon as the capture range (ΔFcapture) of the second control unit (40) is reached, the second control unit (40) is activated and the actual value is regulated to an intended value (ΔFintended) with the aid of the second control unit (40).
US10164377B2
A plug connector being insertable into a corresponding socket connector is provided. The plug connector includes a first housing, a lock, and a first insertion device. The first housing includes a plurality of first connection terminal receiving passageways, while the lock is integrally connected with the first housing. The first insertion device formed on the lock.
US10164370B2
An electrical connector is provided to have a watertight function and a portion on its rear side downsized. The electrical connector includes an insulating housing, conductive contacts held by the housing, and a shell for containing the housing. The conductive contacts each include a connection portion exposed on the front side of the housing to connect to a mating contact of a mating connector, and a terminal portion protruding rearward from the housing. The shell includes a front shell member and a rear shell member provided in the rear of the front shell member. The front shell member has a fitting portion open to the front into which the mating connector is insertable. The rear shell member has a smaller diameter than the front shell member. A space between the housing and a constriction portion is tightly sealed.
US10164367B2
Coupling between terminals can be properly arranged and the effect of crosstalk and noise can be surely and significantly reduced. Including a pair consisting of a first terminal and a second terminal, each of the first terminal and the second terminal includes a contact part extending in the anteroposterior direction, an upper plate and a lower plate extending in the vertical direction, a link section extending in the lateral direction and linking up with the upper plate and the lower plate, the contact part of the first terminal is opposite the contact part of the second terminal in the vertical direction, the upper plate of the first terminal is opposite the upper plate of the second terminal in the lateral direction, the lower plate of the first terminal is opposite the lower plate of the second terminal in the lateral direction, and the positional relationship between the upper plate of the first terminal and the upper plate of the second terminal in the lateral direction is opposite the positional relationship between the lower plate of the first terminal and the lower plate of the second terminal in the lateral direction.
US10164361B2
A separator is configured to separate first and second printed circuit boards that are in electrical communication with each other through first and second pluralities of electrical connectors that are mounted to the first and second substrates, respectively, and mated to each other.
US10164358B2
An electrical feed-through assembly includes electrically conductive pins having a top apex and a bottom apex, where the pins extend through at least a majority of an electrically non-conductive material. The top apexes, the bottom apexes, or both the top and bottom apexes of the pins have an electrically conductive connection pad material, such as a solder pad, coupled thereto. In variations, the top and/or bottom apexes may be slightly recessed from a corresponding surface of the non-conductive material, such that the connection pads fill the respective recesses; and/or the top and/or bottom apexes barely extend from a corresponding surface, such that the connection pads bulge out from the corresponding surface. Such a feed-through configuration may inhibit pin bending, in addition to enabling use of more types of connectors beyond pin-and-socket type connectors.
US10164357B2
A connecting terminal in a power distribution unit includes a connecting plate and a first wire joint. The connecting plate includes first and second ends. The first end defines a first locking hole. The first wire joint is configured to be connected to an end of a wire, the connecting terminal is connected a power interface of an external device through the first locking hole. The power distributing unit having the connecting terminal is further disclosed.
US10164354B2
An example terminal block includes an annular arrangement of terminal pairs. Each of the terminal pairs has a first height and is adjacent another terminal pair having a second height different from the first height.
US10164353B2
To simplify an assembling process and reduce a height while keeping a reliable waterproof structure by improving structures of a housing and an elastic body. Provided are an insulative housing 31, an insulative elastic body 40 which is held by the housing 31, and terminal pins 50 which penetrate through the elastic body 40 and are held by the housing 31. The insulative elastic body 40 has an outside elastic portion 41 and inside elastic portions 42 into which the insulative elastic body 40 is partitioned by the housing 31 and link portions 45 which link the outside elastic portion 41 to the inside elastic portions 42. The housing 31 is provided with wall portions 35 with which the inside elastic portions 42 through which the respective terminal pins 50 penetrate are in contact in a compressed state.
US10164348B2
A one piece integral electrical terminal has a mount portion and a wire receiving portion. The wire receiving portion has a continuous annular interior wall having a contact portion with an integral oxide breaker especially suited to breaking through the oxide layer on aluminum wire. The wire receiving portion also has a sealing portion with at least one integral seal ring. An electrical cable is made by crimping the electrical terminal to an aluminum wire using a modified hexagonal crimp.
US10164346B2
The present invention relates to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) omnidirectional antenna comprising three or more column sets arranged in a centrosymmetricly. Each column set comprises two or more antenna columns, each having a plurality of radiators mounted thereon. Each antenna column receives no more than two signals to be transmitted, and is arranged axisymmetricly about a radially-directed axis created between the center point of the antenna and a transverse cross-sectional midpoint on the antenna column. Therefore, each radiation pattern established by each of the three or more column sets is centrosymmetric about the center point of the antenna and axisymmetric about the radially-directed axis. The MIMO omnidirectional antenna can fit within a radome of small diameter, while providing relatively uniform radiation plot coverage across a microcell where it is deployed. As no phase shifting is utilized, there is little ripple effect and all of the ports have a similar gain.
US10164339B1
A communication device includes an antenna system. The antenna system at least includes a dual-polarized antenna, a reflector, and a PIFA (Planar Inverted F Antenna). The dual-polarized antenna includes a first diamond-shaped dipole antenna element and a second diamond-shaped dipole antenna element. The second diamond-shaped dipole antenna element has two truncated tips. The reflector is adjacent to the dual-polarized antenna, and is configured to reflect the radiation energy from the dual-polarized antenna. The PIFA is at least partially formed by the reflector. The PIFA includes a radiation element, a grounding element, and a feeding element. A slot is formed between the radiation element and the grounding element. The slot has a varying width, so as to increase the operation bandwidth of the PIFA.
US10164335B2
Electronically scanned array (ESA) antennas are disclosed. An antenna may include an electronically scanned array (ESA) panel. The ESA panel may include a plurality of transmit/receive (T/R) modules, and each T/R module of the plurality of T/R modules may be contained within a unit cell of the ESA panel, where the unit cell has a surface area constrained by a maximum operating frequency of the ESA panel. The antenna may also include at least one radio frequency (RF) filter positioned within each particular unit cell of the ESA panel. The at least one RF filter may be configured to provide RF filtering specifically for the T/R module co-located within that particular unit cell of the ESA panel.
US10164330B2
The disclosure provides antenna assemblies and methods for reducing mutual coupling of coupled antennas. According to an embodiment, the antenna assembly, comprises: a first antenna; and a second antenna coupled with the first antenna; wherein a first capacitive load is provided to the first antenna at a first position of the first antenna so that a mutual coupling between the first antenna and the second antenna is reduced. According to the present disclosure, at least some of the following advantages may be achieved: 1) no any component that connects or structure between coupled antennas is required; 2) the capacitive load is very little frequency dependent so that the method is highly suitable for antenna decoupling at low frequencies; 3) the required capacitive load takes almost no space in the circuit layout; and 4) the load does not noticeably change antenna radiation patterns.
US10164324B1
A combined antenna placement topology is disclosed herein. The combined antenna placement topology is utilized to get optimized antenna isolation, efficiency, system coverage and throughputs. The combined topology includes antenna location diversity, polarization diversity and antenna type diversity.
US10164322B2
An electronic device including a signal transmission system. The electronic device may include a housing, and a cover coupled to the housing and defining a groove formed in the cover. The electronic device may also include a signal transmission system positioned within the housing. The signal transmission system may include an antenna at least partially received within the groove formed in the cover. The antenna may have an antenna body, and a contact pad in electrical communication with the antenna body. The signal transmission system may also have a flexible member positioned adjacent the antenna body. The flexible member may contact the contact pad of the antenna.
US10164312B2
A wiring board includes: a first substrate that includes signal wiring; a second substrate that includes a conductor with an area larger than an area of the signal wiring, and projection formed on a face of the conductor and constituted of an insulator with a pattern corresponding to a pattern of the signal wiring, the second substrate being arranged so that the face of the conductor on which the projection is formed faces the signal wiring; and an intermediate layer that is arranged between the signal wiring and the conductor and includes a fibrous member.
US10164311B2
The instant disclosure relates to a high frequency signal transmission device which includes an insulation cover, at least one flexible flat cable, and an electrical connector assembly. The insulation cover has an accommodation space, the at least one flexible flat cable is disposed in the accommodation space, and the electrical connector assembly is electrically connected to one end of the at least one flexible flat cable. The at least one flexible flat cable includes a plurality of conductors, an insulation layer, a polyolefin resin layer, and a shielding layer. The insulation layer is laminated over the conductors. The polyolefin resin layer is attached to the insulation layer by a first low-k dielectric adhesive layer, and the shielding layer is attached to the polyolefin resin layer by another first low-k dielectric adhesive layer.
US10164310B2
A first signal line is closer to a second ground conductor than a second signal line and, hence, crosstalk between the first and second signal lines is unlikely to be generated. By providing first opening portions in the second ground conductor, capacitive coupling between the first and second signal lines is reduced. Hence, in a transmission line including the first signal line, an increase in the capacitance due to the increased width of the first signal line is cancelled out by a decrease in the capacitance due to the increased distance from the first ground conductor and the first opening portions. Further, the width of the high-frequency transmission line need not be large. Further, since the capacitance is reduced by the first and second opening portions, the distances between the first ground conductor and the first and second signal lines are shortened.
US10164302B2
The present invention concerns a process for the recovery of metals and of heat from spent rechargeable batteries, in particular from spent Li-ion batteries containing relatively low amounts of cobalt. It has in particular been found that such cobalt-depleted Li-ion batteries can be processed on a copper smelter by: feeding a useful charge and slag formers to the smelter; adding heating and reducing agents; whereby at least part of the heating and/or reducing agents is replaced by Li-ion batteries containing one or more of metallic Fe, metallic Al, and carbon. Using spent LFP or LMO batteries as a feed on the Cu smelter, the production rate of Cu blister is increased, while the energy consumption from fossil sources is decreased.
US10164300B2
A sensing circuit, a vehicular battery pack using a sensing circuit, a method of protecting a circuit with a fuse and a method of providing battery power to a vehicle. The sensing circuit includes the fuse, which is made up of a main element and a sensing element such that the sensing element defines a pre-open detection capability through at least one of a dissimilar geometric profile or a different material choice from that of the main element. The sensing circuit also includes an electrical connector between one or more battery cells and an electronic control module so that the circuit provides indicia of the fusing event. In this way, a fuse opening event takes place in the sensing element prior to the main element in such a way as to give the operator of a battery-powered vehicle advance warning of an impending opening of the main element and consequent electrical circuit shutdown, thereby allowing the operator of the vehicle to take corrective measures as a way to avoid fuse opening and a related loss of vehicular propulsive power.
US10164296B2
The present disclosure includes a battery module having a first electrochemical cell and a second electrochemical cell positioned adjacent to the first electrochemical cell. The battery module also includes a separator plate disposed between the first electrochemical cell and the second electrochemical cell. The separator plate includes a body comprising a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side is disposed adjacent a first face of the first electrochemical cell and includes a first indention. The first indention defines a first space between the first face of the first electrochemical cell and the first side of the separator plate. The first space is configured to enable swelling of the first electrochemical cell into the first space.
US10164291B2
An electrolyte for an electrochemical storage device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the electrolyte includes a lithium salt from about 3% to about 20% by weight, a primary solvent from about 15% to about 25% by weight, wide-temperature co-solvents from about 14% to about 55% by weight, interface forming compounds from about 0.5% to about 2.0% by weight, and a flame retardant compound from about 6% to about 60% by weight. The electrolyte interacts with the positive and negative electrodes of the electrochemical storage device to provide both high performance and improved safety such that the electrolyte offers adequate ionic conductivity over the desired operating temperature range, a wide electrochemical stability window, high capacities for both the cathode and anode, low electrode-electrolyte interfacial resistance, and reduced flammability.
US10164288B2
A flexible battery is disclosed, which comprises an electrode assembly, and an exterior material for sealing the electrode assembly along with an electrolyte. Both the electrode assembly and the exterior material are formed such that patterns for contraction and extension with respect to the longitudinal direction have the same directionality in the event of being bent.
US10164283B2
A flow battery includes a stack of manifold plates that define first and second exclusive flow circuits through the stack between first and second stack inlets and first and second stack outlets. The manifold plates each include a frame that extends around a flow field of an electrochemically active area, with a plurality of port through-holes in the frame. The through-holes are arranged in a rotationally symmetric pattern about a center of the respective manifold plate.
US10164281B2
A fuel-cell unit cell comprises: a membrane electrode and gas diffusion layer assembly; a cathode-side separator made of a press-molded plate, the cathode-side separator forming a plurality of cathode gas flow paths and non-flow-path portions therebetween on a cathode-side surface of the membrane electrode and gas diffusion layer assembly; and an anode-side separator made of a press-molded plate, the anode-side separator forming a plurality of anode gas flow paths and non-flow-path portions therebetween on an anode-side surface of the membrane electrode and gas diffusion layer assembly. At least one gas flow path among the plural cathode gas flow paths and the plural anode gas flow paths includes a constricting portion that is configured to reduce a flow-path height in a stacking direction of the fuel-cell unit cells as well as to reduce a flow path cross-sectional area of the gas flow path. When projected and observed along the stacking direction, the plural cathode gas flow paths and the plural anode gas flow paths are configured to have mutually different two-dimensional shapes, there exist intersect positions at which the cathode gas flow paths and the anode gas flow path intersect each other, and the constricting portion is provided at a position other than the intersect positions.
US10164278B2
A fuel cell power module is used to provide nitrogen enriched air for, in one application, fuel tank inerting in an aircraft. The fuel cell power module has a recirculation line between its cathode side outlet and cathode side inlet. At least one controllable device is provided to allow the flow rate in the recirculation line to be controlled. The recirculation flow rate is adjusted such that the cathode exhaust has an oxygen concentration useful for inerting a fuel tank or suppressing fire.
US10164277B2
A reformer unit and high temperature, pressure, or both variable orifice flow controller is provided. The reformer unit may have a reforming section, a heat exchanging section, and a bypass section. The bypass section provides a flow path for the hydrocarbon-containing fuel around the reforming section and has a variable orifice flow controller positioned in the bypassing flow path.
US10164275B2
A fuel cell system includes: a wetness target value calculating unit configured to calculate a target value of a wet state of the fuel cell; a gas required flow rate calculating unit configured to calculate a cathode gas required flow rate on the basis of a power generation request to the fuel cell; a wetness-control anode gas flow rate calculating unit configured to calculate a wetness-control anode gas circulation flow rate at least on the basis of the wetness target value and the cathode gas required flow rate during a dry control; an anode gas flow rate control unit configured to control an anode gas circulation flow rate on the basis of the wetness-control anode gas circulation flow rate; a wetness-control cathode gas flow rate calculating unit configured to calculate a wetness-control cathode gas flow rate at least on the basis of the wetness target value and a measured value or estimated value of the anode gas circulation flow rate during the dry control; and a cathode gas flow rate control unit configured to control a cathode gas flow rate on the basis of the cathode gas required flow rate and the wetness-control cathode gas flow rate.
US10164271B2
A polymer electrolyte fuel cell according to the present invention includes: a unit cell including a membrane-electrode assembly and a pair of separators; a manifold; a gas introducing member; and a first member. A recess is formed at a gas lead-out port side of the gas introducing member so as to be connected to the gas lead-out port. The first member is provided such that a communication portion thereof communicates with the manifold. The gas introducing member is provided such that: the recess communicates with the communication portion; and when viewed from a thickness direction of the polymer electrolyte membrane, the gas lead-out port and a main surface of the first member overlap each other.
US10164268B2
A fuel cell includes a power generating body that includes an electrolyte membrane; a separator provided along the power generating body; a flow path through which a fluid to be supplied to the fuel cell flows; a first seal portion that surrounds the flow path in a surface of the separator, and inhibits the fluid from flowing out of the fuel cell; and an electrolytic corrosion inhibiting portion provided between the flow path and the first seal portion.
US10164257B2
A negative electrode material for a lithium ion battery containing a composite material, the composite material including silicon-containing particles, graphitic carbon material particles, and a carbonaceous carbon material, in which the composite material has a ratio (A/B) of an area (A) of a peak near 100 eV derived from metal Si to an area (B) of a peak near 103 eV derived from silicon oxide, as measured by XPS, of not less than 0.10 and not more than 2.30. Also disclosed is a paste including the negative electrode material, as well as a negative electrode for a lithium ion battery including a formed body of the paste and a lithium ion battery including the negative electrode.
US10164256B2
Compounds, powders, and cathode active materials that can be used in lithium ion batteries are described herein. Methods of making such compounds, powders, and cathode active materials are described.
US10164253B2
Provided are conductive single crystal silicon particles coated with highly conductive carbon containing nanopores and an ultrathin metal film, a high capacity anode material including the same, and a preparing method thereof. The anode material includes conductive single crystal silicon particles each on which at least one element selected from group-III and group-V elements is doped; a thin metal layer formed to coat the surface of each of the conductive single crystal silicon particles; and a highly conductive carbon coating layer formed on the thin metal layer, wherein nanopores are formed between the conductive single crystal silicon particle and the carbon coating layer.
US10164247B2
A sulfur-carbon composite in which sulfur is combined with porous carbon is provided. In the sulfur-carbon composite, a mass loss ratio X at 500° C. in thermal mass analysis and a mass ratio Y of sulfur/(sulfur+carbon) in an observation visual field at a magnification of 1000 in SEM-EDS quantitative analysis satisfy the relationship of |X/Y−1|≤0.12, and porous carbon has a mean pore diameter of 1 to 6 nm, and a specific surface area of 2000 m2g−1 or more and 3000 m2g−1 or less.
US10164242B2
Porous electrodes in which the porosity has a low tortuosity are generally provided. In some embodiments, the porous electrodes can be designed to be filled with electrolyte and used in batteries, and can include low tortuosity in the primary direction of ion transport during charge and discharge of the battery. In some embodiments, the electrodes can have a high volume fraction of electrode active material (i.e., low porosity). The attributes outlined above can allow the electrodes to be fabricated with a higher energy density, higher capacity per unit area of electrode (mAh/cm2), and greater thickness than comparable electrodes while still providing high utilization of the active material in the battery during use. Accordingly, the electrodes can be used to produce batteries with high energy densities, high power, or both compared to batteries using electrodes of conventional design with relatively highly tortuous pores.
US10164239B2
Disclosed is an energy storage device based on metal oxide nanocrystals resealed through lithiation, and a supercapacitor using the same. The energy storage device is fabricated by dispersing transition metal nanoparticles over a carbon-based support with a large specific surface area, and then, dispersing and resealing the nanoparticles over the support using lithium ions with strong reductive ability, so that the resealed metal particles are substantially particles dispersed and resealed over the support as particles having a size of less than 1 nanometer on the scale of atomic units. The supercapacitor is fabricated using the energy storage device. The energy storage device higher capacitance than before resealing of metal oxide. Since the resealed metal particles are those having a size of less than 1 nanometer on the scale of atomic units, interference between particles disappears to exhibit excellent cycle life characteristics of 100% maintained performance in even more than 100,000 cycles.
US10164234B2
A separator roll etc. capable of reducing meandering is provided. The separator roll includes a core and a battery separator wound around the core. The core has an axis hole along a central axis of the core. A value, obtained by dividing a difference between a diameter of the core and a diameter of the axis hole by a width of the core in a direction of the central axis, is not less than 0.3 and not more than 1.5.
US10164227B2
A degassing valve for degassing a housing of a motor vehicle includes a support element coupled to the housing, a membrane that is water-proof and breathable, and a tensioning frame configured to press the membrane against the support element with a pressing force. The tensioning frame is configured such that when a pressure difference between an interior of the housing and a surrounding of the housing exceeds a trigger force, the membrane detaches from the support element and exposes a fluid channel between the interior of the housing and the surrounding of the housing. The exposed fluid channel is configured to degas the interior of the housing.
US10164220B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to graphene-based battery packaging. In one aspect, the graphene-based battery packaging can include an assembly of translucent members, including a thin graphene-based member which can be embodied or can comprise a film of graphene layers, a film of graphene oxide, or a combination thereof. In another aspect, the graphene-based member can be assembled to form an interlayer between two of the translucent members in the assembly. In certain aspects, each of the two translucent members can be embodied in or can include a thermoplastic material. In another aspect, at least one of the translucent members in the assembly can be doped with aggregates that provide a predetermined color to the assembly. In one aspect, the graphene-based member can provide substantive isolation between translucent members separated thereby, thus mitigating diffusion of atoms, molecules, and/or particulates between such members.
US10164213B2
The present disclosure provides a method for bonding an integrated circuit (IC) chip onto a flexible display body. The method includes providing a substrate having a flexible display body thereon, and aligning a first stiffening component with the flexible display body having an IC bonding region. The method further includes attaching the first stiffening component onto a front surface of the flexible display body, and separating the substrate from the first stiffening component and the flexible display body to expose a back surface of the flexible display body; and bonding an IC chip onto the IC bonding region.
US10164206B2
An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with the longest-wavelength-side local maximum peak of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
US10164179B2
Embodiments are directed to a memristive device. The memristive device includes a first conductive material layer. An oxide material layer is arranged on the first conductive layer. And a second conductive material layer is arranged on the oxide material layer, wherein the second conductive material layer comprises a metal-alkali alloy.
US10164172B2
Provided are a multi-layered magnetic thin film stack, a magnetic tunneling junction, and a data storage device. The multi-layered magnetic thin film stack includes a FePd alloy layer including an alloy of iron (Fe) and palladium (Pd); a tunneling barrier layer, which includes MgO and is disposed on the FePd alloy layer; and a Heusler alloy layer disposed between the FePd alloy layer and the tunneling barrier layer, wherein the FePd alloy layer and the Heusler alloy layer constitute a hybrid magnetic layer.
US10164166B2
A MEMS component includes, on a substrate, component structures, contact areas connected to the component structures, metallic column structures seated on the contact areas, and metallic frame structures surrounding the component structures. A cured resist layer is seated on frame structure and column structures such that a cavity is enclosed between substrate, frame structure and resist layer. A structured metallization is provided directly on the resist layer or on a carrier layer seated on the resist layer. The structured metallization includes at least external contacts of the component and being electrically conductively connected both to metallic structures and to the contact areas of the component structures.
US10164165B2
What is specified is a piezoelectric transformer (10) having a surface structure which has at least one protruding surface structure segment (5), wherein the piezoelectric transformer has a contour (3) and is suitable for discharging a gas in conjunction with a counter electrode (10) for generating a plasma, wherein the surface structure is configured such that the gas discharge takes place at a multiplicity of discharge initiation points (6) on the contour (3). A width of the surface structure segment (5) is smaller than the width of the piezoelectric transformer (1).
US10164153B2
A light-emitting element includes: a semiconductor structure; light-reflecting electrodes; a first insulating film having: one or more first n-side openings and one or more first p-side openings; one or more interconnect electrodes on an upper surface of the first insulating film; a first electrode on the upper surface of the first insulating film; a second electrode on the upper surface of the first insulating film; a second insulating film having: one or more second n-side openings and one or more second p-side openings; a first external connection portion; and a second external connection portion.
US10164152B2
A light emitting diode (LED) chip has an inclined notch. The inclined notch has at least one inclined surface. The LED chip includes a first-type doped semiconductor layer, a second-type doped semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The light emitting layer is located between the first-type doped semiconductor layer and the second-type doped semiconductor layer. The inclined surface is inclined with respect to the light emitting layer. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first-type doped semiconductor layer. The second electrode is electrically connected to the second-type doped semiconductor layer. The inclined notch is disposed in the light emitting layer.
US10164150B2
Disclosed is a near UV light emitting device. The light emitting device includes an n-type contact layer, a p-type contact layer, an active area of a multi-quantum well structure disposed between the n-type contact layer and the p-type contact layer, and at least one electron control layer disposed between the n-type contact layer and the active area. Each of the n-type contact layer and the p-type contact layer includes an AlInGaN or AlGaN layer, and the electron control layer is formed of AlInGaN or AlGaN. In addition, the electron control layer contains a larger amount of Al than adjacent layers to obstruct flow of electrons moving into the active area. Accordingly, electron mobility is deteriorated, thereby improving recombination rate of electrons and holes in the active area.
US10164143B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip has a semiconductor body and a substrate on which the semiconductor body is disposed. The semiconductor body has an active region disposed between a first semiconductor layer of a first conductor type and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductor type. The first semiconductor layer is disposed on the side of the active region facing the substrate. The first semiconductor layer is electrically conductively connected to a first termination layer that is disposed between the substrate and the semiconductor body. An encapsulation layer is disposed between the first termination layer and the substrate and, in plan view of the semiconductor chip, projects at least in some regions over a side face which delimits the semiconductor body.
US10164136B1
A flexible solar array and a method for fabricating the same is provided. The flexible solar array may include a flexible backing substrate with conductive trace(s) formed thereon; solar cell subassemblies over the flexible backing substrate, each of the solar cell subassemblies at least including a solar cell; and an adhesive layer interposed between the solar cell subassemblies and the flexible backing substrate, and attaching the solar cells to the flexible backing substrate. The adhesive layer includes openings for exposing the corresponding conductive traces so that the exposed metal traces are adaptable to interconnect the solar cells of the respective adjacent solar cell subassemblies through the openings.
US10164133B2
A system and method for blocking heat from reaching an image sensor in a three dimensional stack with a semiconductor device. In an embodiment a heat sink is formed in a back end of line process either on the semiconductor device or else on the image sensor itself when the image sensor is in a backside illuminated configuration. The heat sink may be a grid in either a single layer or in two layers, a zig-zag pattern, or in an interleaved fingers configuration.
US10164128B2
A composition for solar cell electrodes includes silver powder; a silver alloy (AgX) that includes silver (Ag) and a metal (X), the silver alloy having a eutectic point of about 150° C. to about 900° C.; a glass frit; and an organic vehicle.
US10164118B2
A semiconductor device (100A) includes a substrate (101) and a thin film transistor (10) supported by the substrate. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode (102), an oxide semiconductor layer (104), a gate insulating layer (103), a source electrode (105) and a drain electrode (106). The oxide semiconductor layer includes an upper semiconductor layer (104b) which is in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode and which has a first energy gap, and a lower semiconductor layer (104a) which is provided under the upper semiconductor layer and which has a second energy gap that is smaller than the first energy gap. The source electrode and the drain electrode include a lower layer electrode (105a, 106a) which is in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer and which does not contain Cu, and a major layer electrode (105b, 106b) which is provided over the lower layer electrode and which contains Cu. An edge of the lower layer electrode is at a position ahead of an edge of the major layer electrode.
US10164104B2
A device includes an air-gap (i.e., air-gap spacer) formed in situ during the selective, non-conformal deposition of a conductive material. The air-gap is disposed between source/drain contacts and a gate conductor of the device and beneath a portion of the conductive material, and is configured to decrease capacitive coupling between adjacent conductive elements. Prior to deposition of the conductive material, source/drain contact structures are recessed and a selective etch is used to remove sidewall spacers that are disposed between the source/drain contacts and the gate structures.
US10164099B2
One illustrative device disclosed herein includes, among other things, a fin defined on a substrate. A gate electrode structure is positioned above the fin in a channel region. A source/drain region is defined in the fin. The source/drain region includes a first epitaxial semiconductor material. The first epitaxial semiconductor material includes a dopant species having a first concentration. A diffusion blocking layer is positioned above the first epitaxial semiconductor material. A second epitaxial semiconductor material is positioned above the diffusion blocking layer. The second epitaxial semiconductor material includes the dopant species having a second concentration greater than the first concentration.
US10164095B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided including forming one or more fins over a substrate and forming an isolation insulating layer over the one or more fins. A dopant is introduced into the isolation insulating layer. The isolation insulating layer containing the dopant is annealed, and a portion of the oxide layer is removed so as to expose a portion of the fins.
US10164093B2
An exemplary method includes forming a dummy gate structure over a substrate and forming a set of spacers adjacent to the dummy gate structure. The set of spacers includes spacer liners disposed on sidewalls of the dummy gate structure and main spacers disposed on the spacer liners. The spacer liners include silicon and carbon. The method further includes forming source/drain epitaxy regions over the substrate. The source/drain epitaxy regions are disposed adjacent to the set of spacers, such that the dummy gate structure is disposed between the source/drain epitaxy regions. The method further includes removing the main spacers after forming the source/drain epitaxy regions. The method further includes replacing the dummy gate structure with a gate structure, where the replacing includes removing the dummy gate structure to form a trench defined by the spacers liners, such that the gate structure is formed in the trench.
US10164087B2
To provide a semiconductor device equipped with a snubber portion having an improved withstand voltage and capable of reducing a surge voltage at turn-off of an insulated gate field effect transistor portion. The concentration of a first conductivity type impurity in a snubber semiconductor region is greater than that in a drift layer. The thickness of a snubber insulating film between the snubber semiconductor region and a snubber electrode is greater than that of a gate insulating film between a gate electrode and a body region.
US10164086B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of drift regions of a vertical field effect transistor arrangement arranged in a semiconductor substrate. The plurality of drift regions has a first conductivity type. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of compensation regions arranged in the semiconductor substrate. The plurality of compensation regions has a second conductivity type. Each drift region of the plurality of drift regions is arranged adjacent to at least one compensation region of the plurality of compensation regions. The semiconductor device further includes a body region of a transistor structure of the vertical field effect transistor arrangement arranged adjacent to a drift region of the plurality of drift regions. The semiconductor device further includes a gate extending substantially vertically along the body region of the transistor structure for controlling a substantially vertical channel region between a first doping region of the transistor structure and the drift region.
US10164084B2
A semiconductor device includes: an n+-type drain region made of a wide-bandgap semiconductor material; an n-type epitaxial layer provided on the top surface of the drain region; an n-type first semiconductor region provided at an upper portion of the epitaxial layer and having a higher impurity concentration than the epitaxial layer; an n-type second semiconductor region provided on the first semiconductor region and having a higher impurity concentration than the first semiconductor region; p-type base regions surrounding to include an upper portion in the middle of the second semiconductor region; n-type source regions provided at upper portions of the base regions to form a channel; and a gate electrode which controls a surface potentials of the channels.
US10164083B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes an ohmic electrode and a Schottky electrode that are in contact with the drain electrode respectively on the drain electrode and are next to each other; a first conductivity type first withstand voltage holding region in contact with the ohmic electrode on the ohmic electrode; a second conductivity type second withstand voltage holding region in contact with the Schottky electrode on the Schottky electrode and is next to the first withstand voltage holding region; a second conductivity type well region in contact onto the first and second withstand voltage holding regions; a first conductivity type source region selectively provided on a surface layer of the well region; and a gate electrode opposite to a channel region defined by the well region sandwiched between the source region and the first withstand voltage holding region, with a gate oxide film interposed therebetween.
US10164080B2
Art electrode pair enables the performance of a device to be accurately delivered, a method for manufacturing the same. An electrode pair 10, wherein one electrode 12A and the other electrode 12B are provided on the same plane so as to face each other with a gap 17 therebetween, and portions of the one electrode 12A and the oilier electrode 12B facing each other are respectively curved so as to get away from the plane along a direction nearing each other. This electrode pair 10 is manufactured by preparing, as a sample, a substrate on which a pair of seed electrodes is formed with a space therebetween so as to have an initial gap, immersing the sample in an electroless plating solution, changing the electroless plating solution after a lapse of a certain period of time, and adjusting the number of times of changing.
US10164073B2
A method comprises forming a gate stack over a substrate, applying an oxygen flush process to the gate stack, forming a uniform oxide layer on the gate stack as a result of performing the step of applying the oxygen flush process and removing the uniform oxide layer through a pre-clean process.
US10164070B2
A method includes forming a semiconductor fin, performing a first passivation step on a top surface of the semiconductor fin using a first passivation species, and performing a second passivation step on sidewalls of the semiconductor fin using a second passivation species different from the first passivation species. A gate stack is formed on a middle portion of the semiconductor fin. A source or a drain region is formed on a side of the gate stack, wherein the source or drain region and the gate stack form a Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET).
US10164069B2
Devices and structures that include a gate spacer having a gap or void are described along with methods of forming such devices and structures. In accordance with some embodiments, a structure includes a substrate, a gate stack over the substrate, a contact over the substrate, and a spacer disposed laterally between the gate stack and the contact. The spacer includes a first dielectric sidewall portion and a second dielectric sidewall portion. A void is disposed between the first dielectric sidewall portion and the second dielectric sidewall portion.
US10164068B2
A method comprises removing a portion of a fin to form a trench over a lower portion of the fin, wherein the lower portion is formed of a first semiconductor material, growing a second semiconductor material in the trench to form a middle portion of the fin, forming a first carbon doped layer over the middle portion of the fin, growing the first semiconductor material over the first carbon doped layer to form an upper portion of the fin, replacing outer portions of the upper portion of the fin with a second carbon doped layer and drain/source regions, wherein the first carbon doped layer and the second carbon doped layer are separated by the upper portion of the fin and applying a thermal oxidation process to the middle portion of the fin to form an oxide outer layer.
US10164065B1
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first raised structure is formed on a surface of a substrate. The first raised structure includes a top surface and a side surface adjoining the top surface. The side surface includes an upper portion, a middle portion, and a lower portion. A deposition operation is performed with a precursor to form a first film on the top surface, the upper portion and the lower portion of the side surface, and the surface of the substrate. Performing the deposition operation includes controlling a saturated vapor pressure of the precursor. A re-deposition operation is performed on the first film and the first raised structure, so as to form a film structure. A thickness of the film structure on the middle portion of the side surface is smaller than a thickness of the film structure on the top surface.
US10164063B2
The method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a protection layer having a first portion and a second portion over a substrate and forming a dummy gate layer over the first portion and the second portion of the protection layer. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes patterning the dummy gate layer to form a dummy gate structure over the first portion of the protection layer and forming a spacer on a sidewall of the dummy gate structure over a second portion of the protection layer. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes replacing the first portion of the protection layer and the dummy gate structure by a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer. In addition, a thickness of the protection layer is greater than a thickness of the gate dielectric layer.
US10164062B2
The present disclosure provides a FinFET device. The FinFET device comprises a semiconductor substrate of a first semiconductor material; a fin structure of the first semiconductor material overlying the semiconductor substrate, wherein the fin structure has a top surface of a first crystal plane orientation; a diamond-like shape structure of a second semiconductor material disposed over the top surface of the fin structure, wherein the diamond-like shape structure has at least one surface of a second crystal plane orientation; a gate structure disposed over the diamond-like shape structure, wherein the gate structure separates a source region and a drain region; and a channel region defined in the diamond-like shape structure between the source and drain regions.
US10164060B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming a sacrificial gate structure on a channel portion of a fin structure, wherein the angle at the intersection of the sidewall of the sacrificial gate structure and an upper surface of the channel portion of the fin structure is obtuse. Epitaxial source and drain region structures are formed on a source region portion and a drain region portion of the fin structure. At least one dielectric material is formed on the sidewall of the sacrificial gate structure. The sacrificial gate structure may be removed to provide an opening to the channel portion of the fin structure. A function gate structure is formed in the opening. At least one angle defined by the intersection of a sidewall of the functional gate structure and an upper surface of the channel portion of the fin structure is obtuse.
US10164059B2
A FinFET device includes a substrate, a fin formed on the substrate, and a gate electrode crossing the fin. The gate electrode includes a head portion and a tail portion, and the tail portion is connected to the head portion and extended toward the substrate. The width of the head portion is greater than that of the tail portion.
US10164054B2
A compound semiconductor field effect transistor (FET) may include a channel layer. The semiconductor FET may also include an oxide layer, partially surrounded by a passivation layer, on the channel layer. The semiconductor FET may also include a first dielectric layer on the oxide layer. The semiconductor FET may also include a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor FET may further include a gate, comprising a base gate through the oxide layer and the first dielectric layer, and a head gate in the second dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the base gate.
US10164052B2
A semiconductor device includes an interfacial layer on a substrate and agate structure on the interfacial layer. Preferably, the gate structure includes a patterned high-k dielectric layer, the patterned high-k dielectric layer comprises a metal oxide layer, and a horizontal direction width of the patterned high-k dielectric layer and a horizontal direction width of the interfacial layer are different. The semiconductor device also includes a first spacer adjacent to the gate structure and on part of the interfacial layer and contacting a top surface of the interfacial layer and a second spacer on the sidewalls of the first spacer and the interfacial layer. Preferably, a planar bottom surface of the second spacer is lower than a planar bottom surface of the first spacer and extending along a same direction as the planar bottom surface of the first spacer.
US10164047B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a silicon substrate, an unintentionally doped gallium nitride (UID GaN) layer over the silicon substrate. The HEMT further includes a donor-supply layer over the UID GaN layer, a gate structure, a drain, and a source over the donor-supply layer. The HEMT further includes a dielectric layer having one or more dielectric plug portions in the donor-supply layer and top portions between the gate structure and the drain over the donor-supply layer. A method for making the HEMT is also provided.
US10164046B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a first dielectric layer on a gate structure and a source drain structure. A recess is formed at least partially in the first dielectric layer. A protection layer is formed at least on a sidewall of the recess. The recess is deepened to expose the source drain structure. A bottom conductor is formed in the recess and is electrically connected to the source drain structure. The protection layer is removed to form a gap between the bottom conductor and the sidewall of the recess.
US10164041B1
A method of forming a GAA FinFET, including: forming a fin on a substrate, the substrate having a STI layer formed thereon and around a portion of a FIN-bottom portion of the fin, the fin having a dummy gate formed thereover, the dummy gate having a gate sidewall spacer on sidewalls thereof; forming a FIN-void and an under-FIN cavity in the STI layer; forming first spacers by filling the under-FIN cavity and FIN-void with a first fill; removing the dummy gate, thereby exposing both FIN-bottom and FIN-top portions of the fin underneath the gate; creating an open area underneath the exposed FIN-top by removing the exposed FIN-bottom; and forming a second spacer by filling the open area with a second fill; wherein a distance separates a top-most surface of the second spacer from a bottom-most surface of the FIN-top portion. A GAA FinFET formed by the method is also disclosed.
US10164038B2
A method including forming a III-V compound layer on a substrate and implanting a main dopant in the III-V compound layer to form source and drain regions. The method further includes implanting a group V species into the source and drain regions. A semiconductor device including a substrate and a III-V compound layer over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes source and drain regions in the III-V layer, wherein the source and drain regions comprises a first dopant and a second dopant, and the second dopant comprises a group V material.
US10164036B2
The semiconductor device including: two fins having rectangular parallelepiped shapes arranged in parallel in X-direction; and a gate electrode arranged thereon via a gate insulating film and extending in Y-direction is configured as follows. First, a drain plug is provided over a drain region located on one side of the gate electrode and extending in Y-direction. Then, two source plugs are provided over a source region located on the other side of the gate electrode and extending in Y-direction. Also, the drain plug is arranged in a displaced manner so that its position in Y-direction may not overlap with the two source plugs. According to such a configuration, the gate-drain capacitance can be made smaller than the gate-source capacitance and a Miller effect-based circuit delay can be suppressed. Further, as compared with capacitance on the drain side, capacitance on the source side increases, thereby improving stability of circuit operation.
US10164030B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate including an NMOS region and a PMOS region, and having a protrusion pattern; first and second gate structures respectively formed on the NMOS region and the PMOS region of the substrate, crossing the protrusion pattern, and extending along a first direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate; first and second source/drain regions formed on both sides of the first and second gate structures; and first and second contact plugs respectively formed on the first and second source/drain regions, wherein the first contact plug and the second contact plug are asymmetric. Methods of manufacturing are also provided.
US10164019B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming at least one graphene layer on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The method further includes forming a silicon carbide layer on the at least one graphene layer.
US10164011B2
A nitride semiconductor device includes a substrate; a nitride semiconductor layered structure disposed on the substrate and having a channel region; a first electrode and a second electrode both disposed on the nitride semiconductor layered structure; a first p-type nitride semiconductor layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a first gate electrode disposed on the first p-type nitride semiconductor layer. The nitride semiconductor layered structure includes a first recess. The first p-type nitride semiconductor layer is at least partially disposed inside the first recess, and is separated from a side surface of the first recess.
US10164008B1
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes the following steps. A plurality of first trench isolations is formed, and at least a part of each of the first trench isolations is formed in a substrate. A plurality of second trench isolations is formed in the substrate after the step of forming the first trench isolations. Each of the first trench isolations is parallel with each of the second trench isolations. One of the second trench isolations is formed between two of the first trench isolations adjacent to each other, and a pitch between the first trench isolations is equal to a pitch between the second trench isolations. The semiconductor structure includes the substrate, the first trench isolations, and the second trench isolations. A material of the first trench isolations is different from a material of the second trench isolations.
US10164007B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor structure includes a gate stack disposed on a substrate. A gate contact is disposed in contact with an end portion of the gate stack. An air gap spacer is disposed in contact with a portion of the gate stack. The end portion of the gate stack is absent the air gap spacer. The method includes forming a gate contact in contact with a gate stack. A spacer surrounding at least a portion of the gate stack is removed after the gate contact has been formed. The removal of the spacer forms a trench surrounding the gate stack and stopping at the gate contact. An air gap spacer is formed within the trench.
US10164001B1
A semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a first passivation layer over the substrate; a second passivation layer over the first passivation layer; and a magnetic core in the second passivation layer; wherein the magnetic core includes a first magnetic material layer and a second magnetic material layer over the first magnetic material layer, the first magnetic material layer and the second magnetic material layer are separated by a high resistance isolation layer, and the high resistance isolation layer has a resistivity greater than about 1.3 ohm-cm.
US10163998B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate structure based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) may include multiple sets of TFT components, capacitors, common electrodes, and data signal lines, all of which are formed on a substrate. Each set of TFT components includes a driving TFT, and the driving TFT has a gate, a source, and a drain. A drain frame extends from the drain and surrounds a pixel block of the TFT array substrate structure, and a transparent conductive film is arranged in a region surrounded by the drain frame and is in contact with the drain frame.
US10163995B2
The purpose of the present invention is to precisely determine an area of the evaporated organic EL material in an organic EL display device, where organic EL layers in individual pixels emit light of different wave lengths. The purpose is realized by a structure that: A display device comprising: pixel electrodes are formed in a matrix arrangement on a substrate and a space exists between the pixel electrodes, a bank, which covers an edge of the pixel electrode, having an opening that exposes a part of one of the pixel electrodes, a first projection formed on a top of the bank and along a side of the opening, a second projection formed in an area that is near to the center of the top of the bank than the first projection is, in a plan view.
US10163993B2
A display panel including a substrate; first, second, and third lower electrodes; first and second column banks; first, second, and third organic light-emitting layers; and an upper electrode. When a first ink for forming the first organic light-emitting layer, a second ink for forming the second organic light-emitting layer, and a third ink for forming the third organic light-emitting layer are applied, ink-separating capability of the first column bank for separating the first ink and the second ink is lower than ink-separating capability of the second column bank for separating the second ink and the third ink, and ink-separating capability depends on: (i) a height of the first and second column banks, or (ii) liquid repellency of the first column bank against the first ink and the second ink and liquid repellency of the second column bank against the second ink and the third ink.
US10163990B2
A display device includes a display panel, a camera module, and a heat sink plate. The display panel displays an image on a front surface, and includes a first substrate, a sub-pixel structure, and a reflection pattern. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel regions each having sub-pixel regions, a transparent region, and a reflection region surrounding the sub-pixel regions and the transparent region. The sub-pixel structure is disposed in the sub-pixel region. The second substrate is disposed on the sub-pixel structure. The reflection pattern is disposed on the second substrate, but not on the sub-pixel region and the transparent region. The camera module is disposed in a second surface on the display panel, and the second surface is opposite to the first surface. The heat sink plate is disposed between the display panel and the camera module, and has an opening that is aligned with the camera module.
US10163986B2
There is provided an electro-optical device including a light-emitting element, a sealing layer that covers the light-emitting element, a first color filter transmits light in a first wavelength region, and a second color filter that is formed on the sealing layer and the first color filter and transmits light in a second wavelength region, in which the light in the first wavelength region has higher visibility than the light in the second wavelength region, and the first color filter is first formed on the sealing layer.
US10163984B1
A display may have an array of pixels. Each pixel may have a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diodes may each have an anode that is coupled to a thin-film transistor pixel circuit for controlling the anode. Transparent windows may be formed in the display. The windows may be formed by replacing subpixels in some of the pixels with transparent windows. When subpixels are replaced by transparent windows, adjacent subpixels may be overdriven to compensate for lost light from the replaced subpixels. Adjacent subpixels may also be enlarged to help compensate for lost light. An array of electrical components such as an array of light sensors may be aligned with the transparent windows and may be used to measure light passing through the transparent windows.
US10163969B2
This invention relates to a direct conversion X-ray sensor and to a method of manufacturing the same. This X-ray sensor includes an array substrate including a pixel electrode formed so as to protrude from a surface thereof at a pixel region; a photoconductive substrate including an upper electrode, and a photoconductive layer formed on a surface of the upper electrode so as to be in contact with the pixel electrode and having a PIN diode structure; and a bonding material filling a space around a contact region of the pixel electrode and the photoconductive layer so as to bond the array substrate and the photoconductive substrate.
US10163968B2
Some embodiments provide a color image sensor and color image sampling method that uses multiple-layer pixels and is capable of producing color images without using absorption color filters (e.g., such as employed in conventional CFAs). In accordance with some embodiments of the color image sensor device and color image sampling method, frequency-dependent reflectors are incorporated between the photodetection layers of multiple-layer (e.g., two layer) pixels.
US10163959B2
An image sensor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The image sensor structure includes a substrate having a front side and a backside and a light-sensing region formed in the substrate. The image sensor structure further includes a front side isolation structure formed at the front side of the substrate and a backside isolation structure formed at the back side of the substrate.
US10163956B2
An apparatus comprises a first semiconductor chip including a first substrate, a plurality of first inter-metal dielectric layers and a plurality of first metal lines, a second semiconductor chip having a surface in contact with a surface of the first semiconductor chip, wherein the second semiconductor chip comprises a second substrate, a plurality of second inter-metal dielectric layers and a plurality of second metal lines and a conductive plug coupled between the first metal lines and the second metal lines, wherein the conductive plug comprises a first portion over a first side of a hard mask layer and a second portion over a second side of the hard mask layer, wherein the hard mask layer is a ring-shaped layer, and wherein the conductive plug is formed in a center opening of the ring-shaped layer.
US10163949B2
An image sensor device is disclosed. The image sensor device includes: a substrate having a front surface and a back surface; a radiation-sensing region formed in the substrate; an opening extending from the back surface of the substrate into the substrate; a first metal oxide film including a first metal, the first metal oxide film being formed on an interior surface of the opening; and a second metal oxide film including a second metal, the second metal oxide film being formed over the first metal oxide film; wherein the electronegativity of the first metal is greater than the electronegativity of the second metal. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
US10163947B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method is performed by forming a gate dielectric layer over a substrate, and selectively forming a gate material over the gate dielectric layer. A gate dielectric protection layer is formed over the gate dielectric layer, and a first sidewall spacer is formed over the gate dielectric protection layer and flanking a side of the gate material. The gate dielectric protection layer continuously extends from between the first sidewall spacer and the gate dielectric layer to outside of the first sidewall spacer.
US10163946B2
An image sensor may include a lower device that includes logic transistors, an intermediate device that is formed over the lower device and includes a Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) circuit and a capacitor, and an upper device that is formed over the intermediate device and includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion region, and a transfer gate electrode.
US10163945B2
Methods of forming integrated circuit devices include forming a sacrificial layer on a handling substrate and forming a semiconductor active layer on the sacrificial layer. The semiconductor active layer and the sacrificial layer may be selectively etched in sequence to define an semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, which includes a first portion of the semiconductor active layer. A multi-layer electrical interconnect network may be formed on the SOI substrate. This multi-layer electrical interconnect network may be encapsulated by an inorganic capping layer that contacts an upper surface of the first portion of the semiconductor active layer. The capping layer and the first portion of the semiconductor active layer may be selectively etched to thereby expose the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer may be selectively removed from between the first portion of the semiconductor active layer and the handling substrate to thereby define a suspended integrated circuit chip encapsulated by the capping layer.
US10163943B2
To make the dimension of an electrostatic protection circuit small with the same maintained high in sensitivity. The electrostatic protection circuit is of the configuration that a first diode and a second diode are connected in series, wherein a semiconductor layer owned by each diode is configured to be sandwiched between a gate electrode and a conductive light shielding film. The light shielding film is formed to overlap with the semiconductor layer and has a wider area than the semiconductor layer. This results in having a gate covering the semiconductor layer from an upper side and a back gate covering the semiconductor layer from a lower side, so that the sensitivity can be maintained high irrespective of decreasing the electrostatic protection circuit in dimension.
US10163940B2
A highly reliable display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a first resin layer over the first substrate, a pixel portion and a terminal portion over the first resin layer, a second resin layer over the terminal portion, and a second substrate over the second resin layer. The pixel portion includes a transistor and a display element electrically connected to the transistor. The terminal portion includes a conductive layer. The first resin layer includes an opening. The conductive layer includes a first region that is exposed in the opening in the first resin layer. The second resin layer includes a region overlapping with the first region. The conductive layer is the same layer as at least one of a gate of the transistor and a source and a drain of the transistor.
US10163938B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of mutually parallel signal lines, an insulating layer located on a layer in which the plurality of signal lines is located and at least one first conductive structure located on the insulating layer. The insulating layer includes at least two first through holes corresponding to the first conductive structure, and the first conductive structure is electrically connected with the signal lines through the at least two first through holes.
US10163933B1
Methods of forming a buffer layer to imprint ferroelectric phase in a ferroelectric layer and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include forming a substrate; forming a buffer layer over the substrate; forming a ferroelectric layer over the buffer layer; forming a channel layer over the ferroelectric layer; forming a gate oxide layer over a portion of the channel layer; and forming a gate over the gate oxide layer.
US10163930B2
A semiconductor device includes bit lines extending along a first direction, the bit lines being arranged along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plurality of channel layers disposed under the bit lines, the plurality of channel layers extending in a third direction perpendicular to a plane extending along the first and second directions and spaced apart along the second direction, so that each channel layer is at least partially overlapped with at least two of the bit lines, and a contact plug extending, from the channel layer, toward one of the bit lines overlapped with the channel layer.
US10163927B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a cell array region formed on a substrate, a word line contact region, and a page buffer region coupled to the cell array region through bit lines, wherein at least one of the bit lines has a curved structure toward the word line contact region. According to an embodiment, a misalignment between a cell plug and a contact plug caused by a natural cell plug bending phenomenon may be reduced to improve operational reliability of a semiconductor memory device.
US10163921B2
To improve reliability of a semiconductor device, a control transistor and a memory transistor formed in a memory cell region are configured to have a double-gate structure, and a transistor formed in a peripheral circuit region is configured to have a triple-gate structure. For example, in the memory transistor, a gate insulating film formed by an ONO film is provided between a memory gate electrode and sidewalls of a fin, and an insulating film (a stacked film of a multilayer film of an insulating film/an oxide film and the ONO film) thicker than the ONO film is provided between the memory gate electrode and a top surface of the fin. This configuration can reduce concentration of an electric field onto a tip of the fin, so that deterioration of reliability of the ONO film can be prevented.
US10163917B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. In one embodiment, an exemplary apparatus includes a plurality of memory cells. At least a portion of the memory cells have a bottom electrode with each bottom electrode being at least partially electrically isolated from remaining ones of the bottom electrodes. At least one resistive interconnect electrically couples two or more of the bottom electrodes. The resistive interconnect is arranged to discharge at least a portion of excess charge from the two or more bottom electrodes. Additional apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses are disclosed.
US10163916B2
A compact CMOS anti-fuse memory cell. In one aspect, an apparatus includes an N-well and an anti-fuse cell formed on the N-well. The anti-fuse cell includes a lightly doped drain (LDD) region deposited in the N-well, an oxide layer deposited on the N-well and having an overlapping region that overlaps the LDD region, and a control gate deposited on the oxide layer, wherein a bit of the anti-fuse cell is programmed when a voltage difference between the control gate and the LDD region exceeds a voltage threshold of the oxide layer and forms a leakage path from the control gate to the LDD region, and wherein the leakage path is confined to occur in the overlapping region.
US10163913B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device comprises a first fin type active pattern formed on a substrate and extending in a first direction and including first to third parts. At least one dimension of the third part measuring less than the corresponding dimension of the first part. A gate electrode extending in a second direction different from the first direction is at least partially formed on the first part of the fin type active pattern. A first source/drain is formed on the third part of the fin type active pattern.
US10163911B2
An integrated circuit containing an array of SRAM cells with T-shaped contacts in the inverters, in which drain connecting segments may extend beyond gate connecting segments by a distance greater than 10 percent of a separation distance between ends of opposite drain connecting segments. The drain connecting segments may also extend beyond gate connecting segments by a distance greater than one-third of the width of the gate connecting segments. A process of forming an integrated circuit containing an array of SRAM cells with T-shaped contacts in which drain connecting segments may extend beyond gate connecting segments by a distance greater than 10 percent of a separation distance between ends of opposite drain connecting segments. A process may also form the drain connecting segments to extend beyond gate connecting segments by greater than one-third of the width of the gate connecting segments.
US10163903B2
A method includes forming a first semiconductor strip on a substrate, the first semiconductor strip including a first crystalline semiconductor material on a substrate and a second crystalline semiconductor material above the first crystalline semiconductor material. A first portion of the first crystalline semiconductor material in first semiconductor strip is converted to a dielectric material, where a second portion of the first crystalline semiconductor material remains unconverted. Gate structures are formed over the first semiconductor strip and source/drain regions are formed on opposing sides of the gate structures.
US10163893B1
Apparatus including an array of memory cells may include circuit-protection devices that may include first and second circuit-protection units, a first gate having a first source/drain connected to a first node of the first circuit-protection unit, and a second gate having a first source/drain connected to a first node of the second circuit-protection unit, wherein a second source/drain of the first gate is connected to a second source/drain of the second gate.
US10163892B2
Silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR), methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed herein. The method includes forming a common P-well on a buried insulator layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer. The method further includes forming a plurality of silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR) in the P-well such that N+ diffusion cathodes of each of the plurality of SCRs are coupled together by the common P-well.
US10163891B2
A device comprises a high voltage n well and a high voltage p well over a buried layer, a first low voltage n well over the high voltage n well, wherein a bottom portion of the first low voltage n well is surrounded by the high voltage n well, an N+ region over the first low voltage n well, a second low voltage n well and a low voltage p well over the high voltage p well, a first P+ region over the second low voltage n well and a second P+ region over the low voltage p well.
US10163885B2
Semiconductor devices disclosed herein have minimum spacings that correlate with spacer widths. An exemplary semiconductor device includes a substrate and a target layer disposed over the substrate. The target layer includes a first target feature, a second target feature, and a third target feature. The second target feature is spaced a first distance from the first target feature, and the third target feature is spaced a second distance from the first target feature. The first distance corresponds with a first width of a first spacer fabricated during a first spacer patterning process, and the second distance corresponds with a second width of a second spacer fabricated during a second spacer patterning process.
US10163873B2
A package for a use in a package-on-package (PoP) device and a method of forming is provided. The package includes a substrate, a polymer layer formed on the substrate, a first via formed in the polymer layer, and a material disposed in the first via to form a first passive device. The material may be a high dielectric constant dielectric material in order to form a capacitor or a resistive material to form a resistor.
US10163855B2
An electronic device and a method of making an electronic device. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various electronic devices, and methods of making thereof, that comprise a permanently coupled carrier that enhances reliability of the electronic devices.
US10163848B2
A semiconductor package, a manufacturing method for the semiconductor package and a printing module used thereof are provided. The semiconductor package has a redistribution layer, at least one die over the redistribution layer, through interlayer vias on the redistribution layer and aside the die and a molding compound encapsulating the die and the through interlayer vias disposed on the redistribution layer. The semiconductor package has connectors connected to the through interlayer vias, a polymeric cover film covering the molding compound and the die and polymeric dam structures disposed aside the connectors. The polymeric cover film and the polymeric dam structures are formed by printing.
US10163840B2
A method of establishing conductive connections is disclosed. The method includes providing an integrated circuit die having a plurality of solder balls each of which has an oxide layer on an outer surface of the solder ball. The method also includes performing a heating process to heat at least the solder balls and applying a force causing each of a plurality of piercing bond structures on a substrate to pierce one of the solder balls and its associated oxide layer to thereby establish a conductive connection between the solder ball and the piercing bond structure.
US10163838B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, pads provided on the semiconductor chip, and insulating patterns provided on the semiconductor chip. The insulating patterns having openings exposing the pads, and conductive patterns are provided in the openings and coupled to the pads. When viewed in a plan view, two opposite ends of the pads are spaced apart from the conductive patterns and two opposite ends of the conductive patterns are spaced apart from the pads. Additionally, when viewed in a plan view, the conductive patterns include a first conductive pattern whose length is parallel to a first direction and a second conductive pattern whose length is parallel to a second direction. The first and second directions are oblique to each other.
US10163832B1
A redistribution circuit structure electrically connected to a die underneath is provided. The redistribution circuit structure includes a dielectric layer and a conductive layer. The dielectric layer partially covers the die, so that a conductive pillar of the die is exposed by the dielectric layer. The conductive layer is disposed over the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the die by the conductive pillar. The conductive layer includes a multilayer structure, wherein an average grain size of one layer of the multilayer structure is less than or equal to 2 μm. A method of fabricating the redistribution circuit structure and an integrated fan-out package are also provided.
US10163831B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first contact pad and a second contact pad over a first passivation layer, depositing a first buffer layer over the first contact pad and the second contact pad, and depositing a second buffer layer over the first buffer layer and the second contact pad. The first contact pad is in a circuit region and the second contact pad is in a non-circuit region. An edge of the second contact pad is exposed and a periphery of the first contact pad and an edge of the second contact pad are covered by the first buffer layer.
US10163825B1
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; an interconnect structure disposed on the first side, the interconnect structure including a dielectric layer, and a first conductive member and a second conductive member within the dielectric layer; a waveguide disposed between the first conductive member and the second conductive member within the dielectric layer, the waveguide including a first waveguide layer, a second waveguide layer and an adhesive layer between the first waveguide layer and the second waveguide layer; a first die disposed at the first side and over the interconnect structure and electrically connected to the first conductive member; and a second die disposed at the first side and over the interconnect structure and electrically connected to the second conductive member. An associated method for fabricating the same is also disclosed.
US10163816B2
Structures and formation methods of a chip package are provided. The chip package includes a substrate and a semiconductor die over a surface of the substrate. The chip package also includes a lid over the semiconductor die. The lid has a number of support structures bonded with the substrate, and the lid has one or more openings between two of the support structures.
US10163810B2
Embodiments are generally directed to electromagnetic interference shielding for system-in-package technology. An embodiment of a system-in-package includes a substrate; chips and components attached to the substrate; dielectric molding over the chips and components; and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield. The EMI shield formed from a conductive paste, and the EMI shield provides a combined internal EMI shield between chips and components of the system in package and external EMI shield for the system-in-package.
US10163807B2
A method includes forming an alignment pattern over an insulating layer formed over a carrier. A die is mounted over the carrier and encapsulated. Connectors are formed and the structure is attached to a debond tape. The carrier is removed. A cutting device is aligned to a backside of the insulating layer using the alignment pattern. The first insulating layer and encapsulant are cut from the backside of the insulating layer. Another method includes scanning a backside of a packages structure for an alignment pattern in a first package area of the packages structure. A cutting device is aligned to a cut-line in a non-package area of the packages structure based on the alignment pattern and packages are singulated. An InFO package includes an insulating layer on the backside, the insulating layer having a laser marking thereon. The InFO package also includes an alignment pattern proximate to the insulating layer.
US10163805B2
A package structure and method for forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a substrate and a package layer formed over the substrate. The package structure further includes an alignment structure formed over the package layer, and the alignment structure includes a first alignment mark formed in a trench, and the trench has a step-shaped structure.
US10163793B2
An integrated circuit device has a substrate including a dielectric layer patterned with a pattern which includes a set of features in the dielectric for a set of metal conductor structures. An adhesion promoting layer is disposed on the set of features in the patterned dielectric. A ruthenium layer is disposed on the adhesion promoting layer. A cobalt layer is disposed on the ruthenium layer filling a first portion of the set of features. The cobalt layer has a u-shaped cross section having a thicker bottom layer than side layers. The cobalt layer is formed using a physical vapor deposition process. A metal layer is disposed on the cobalt layer filling a second, remainder portion of the set of features.
US10163773B1
An electronics package includes an interconnect assembly comprising a first insulating substrate, a first wiring layer formed on a lower surface of the first insulating substrate, and at least one through hole extending through the first insulating substrate and the first wiring layer. The electronics package also includes an electrical component assembly comprising an electrical component having an active surface coupled to an upper surface of the first insulating substrate opposite the lower surface. The active surface of the electrical comprises at least one metallic contact pad. At least one conductive stud is coupled to the at least one metallic contact pad and is positioned within the at least one through hole. A conductive plug contacts the first wiring layer and extends into the at least one through hole to at least partially surround the at least one conductive stud.
US10163769B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing method for an electronic element of an electronic apparatus. The electronic element includes a substrate, a bump and at least one under bump metal (UBM) layer. The manufacturing method includes sequentially disposing the UBM layer and the bump onto the substrate; and processing an etching operation at the UBM layer to form a breach structure.
US10163754B2
Embodiments of a lid covering a device die improving heat dissipation for a die package are described. Trenches are formed on the bottom side of a lid to increase surface area for heat dissipation. Various embodiments of the trenches on the lid are described. The layout and design of the trenches could be optimized to meet the heat dissipation need of the device die(s). By using the lid with trenches, heat dissipation efficiency is improved and the amount of thermal interface material (TIM) could be reduced. In addition, the selection of thermal interface materials for the lid is widened.
US10163748B2
A printed circuit module having a protective layer in place of a low-resistivity handle layer and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The printed circuit module includes a printed circuit substrate with a thinned integrated passive die (IPD) attached to the printed circuit substrate. A protective layer is disposed over the thinned IPD to protect passive devices integrated within the thinned IPD, wherein the protective layer has a thermal conductivity greater than 2 watts per meter Kelvin (W/mK) and an electrical resistivity of greater than 103 Ohm-cm.
US10163747B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate with a plurality of active semiconductor die disposed over a first portion of the substrate and a plurality of non-functional semiconductor die disposed over a second portion of the substrate while leaving a predetermined area of the substrate devoid of the active semiconductor die and non-functional semiconductor die. The predetermined area of the substrate devoid of the active semiconductor die and non-functional semiconductor die includes a central area, checkerboard pattern, linear, or diagonal area of the substrate. The substrate can be a circular shape or rectangular shape. An encapsulant is deposited over the active semiconductor die, non-functional semiconductor die, and substrate. An interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die. The absence of active semiconductor die and non-functional semiconductor die from the predetermined areas of the substrate reduces bending stress in that area of the substrate.
US10163744B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate including a recess and a peripheral portion with through conductive vias. A first semiconductor die is mounted over the substrate and within the recess. A planar heat spreader is mounted over the substrate and over the first semiconductor die. The planar heat spreader has openings around a center portion of the planar heat spreader and aligned over the peripheral portion of the substrate. A second semiconductor die is mounted over the center portion of the planar heat spreader. A third semiconductor die is mounted over the second semiconductor die. First and second pluralities of bond wires extend from the second and third semiconductor die, respectively, through the openings in the planar heat spreader to electrically connect to the through conductive vias. An encapsulant is deposited over the substrate and around the planar heat spreader.
US10163740B2
A technique is provided that can prevent cracking of a protective film in the uppermost layer of a semiconductor device and improve the reliability of the semiconductor device. Bonding pads formed over a principal surface of a semiconductor chip are in a rectangular shape, and an opening is formed in a protective film over each bonding pad in such a manner that an overlapping width of the protective film in a wire bonding region of each bonding pad becomes wider than an overlapping width of the protective film in a probe region of each bonding pad.
US10163738B2
A partially fabricated semiconductor device includes a semiconductor overlay structure. The semiconductor overlay structure includes a first gate stack structure over the semiconductor substrate, the first gate stack structure being configured as an overlay mark in an overlay region of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor overlay structure further includes a doped region in the semiconductor substrate surrounding the first gate stack structure. The doped region has a first dopant concentration greater than or equal to a second dopant concentration next to a second gate stack structure in a device region of the semiconductor substrate.
US10163737B2
A semiconductor device has a first interconnect structure formed over the carrier. A semiconductor die is disposed over the first interconnect structure after testing the first interconnect structure to be known good. The semiconductor die in a known good die. A vertical interconnect structure, such as a bump or stud bump, is formed over the first interconnect structure. A discrete semiconductor device is disposed over the first interconnect structure or the second interconnect structure. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die, first interconnect structure, and vertical interconnect structure. A portion of the encapsulant is removed to expose the vertical interconnect structure. A second interconnect structure is formed over the encapsulant and electrically connected to the vertical interconnect structure. The first interconnect structure or the second interconnect structure includes an insulating layer with an embedded glass cloth, glass cross, filler, or fiber.
US10163736B2
An electroluminescent light source is provided with an adjusted or adjustable luminance parameter wherein: the source includes a set of segments, each segment comprising a discrete electroluminescent element or multiple discrete electroluminescent elements connected permanently to one another and having an emission area; at least a portion of the segments has different emission areas; the source comprising means for controlling at least a portion of the segments.
US10163735B2
A printed electrical connection structure includes a substrate having one or more electrical connection pads and a micro-transfer printed component having one or more connection posts. Each connection post is in electrical contact with a connection pad. A resin is disposed between and in contact with the substrate and the component. The resin has a reflow temperature less than a cure temperature. The resin repeatedly flows at the reflow temperature when temperature-cycled between an operating temperature and the reflow temperature but does not flow after the resin is exposed to a cure temperature. A solder can be disposed on the connection post or the connection pad. After printing and reflow, the component can be tested and, if the component fails, another component is micro-transfer printed to the substrate, the resin is reflowed again, the other component is tested and, if it passes the test, the resin is finally cured.
US10163730B2
A semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and a gate stack structure formed on the substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes gate spacers formed on the sidewall of the gate stack structure, and the gate spacers include a top portion and a bottom portion adjoined to the top portion, and the bottom portion slopes to a top surface of the substrate. The semiconductor device structure further includes an epitaxial structure formed adjacent to the gate spacers, and the epitaxial structure is formed below the gate spacers.
US10163728B2
In manufacturing a semiconductor device, a stack of first and second semiconductor layers are formed. A fin structure is formed by patterning the first and second semiconductor layers. A cover layer is formed on a bottom part of the fin structure so as to cover side walls of the bottom portion of the fin structure and a bottom part of side walls of the upper portion of the fin structure. An insulating layer is formed so that the fin structure is embedded in the insulating layer. A part of the upper portion is removed so that an opening is formed in the insulating layer. A third semiconductor layer is formed in the opening on the remaining layer of the second semiconductor layer. The insulating layer is recessed so that a part of the third semiconductor layer is exposed from the insulating layer, and a gate structure is formed.
US10163714B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor structure including: a host substrate and one or more bonding layers on top of the host substrate. The structure further includes an entity on the one or more bonding layers, where the entity includes two transistors on opposite sides of a common layer of channel material, where each transistor includes a gate, where both gates overlap each other, where both transistors share the same source and drain regions, and where each transistor have a channel defined within a same portion of the common layer of channel material overlapped by both transistor gates.
US10163713B2
Methods of dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. A method includes forming a mask above the semiconductor wafer, the mask including a layer covering and protecting the integrated circuits. The mask and a portion of the semiconductor wafer are patterned with a laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask and to form trenches partially into but not through the semiconductor wafer between the integrated circuits. Each of the trenches has a width. The semiconductor wafer is plasma etched through the trenches to form corresponding trench extensions and to singulate the integrated circuits. Each of the corresponding trench extensions has the width.
US10163711B2
Methods of packaging semiconductor devices and structures thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of packaging a semiconductor device includes providing a carrier wafer, providing a plurality of dies, and forming a die cave material over the carrier wafer. A plurality of die caves is formed in the die cave material. At least one of the plurality of dies is placed within each of the plurality of die caves in the die cave material. A plurality of packages is formed, each of the plurality of packages being formed over a respective at least one of the plurality of dies.
US10163701B2
Multi-stack package-on-package structures are disclosed. In a method, a first stacked semiconductor device is formed on a first carrier wafer. The first stacked semiconductor device is singulated. The first stacked semiconductor device is adhered to a second carrier wafer. A second semiconductor device is attached on the first stacked semiconductor device. The second semiconductor device and the first stacked semiconductor device are encapsulated. Electrical connections are formed on and electrically coupled to the first stacked semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device.
US10163699B2
A method of forming, on a substrate having on a surface thereof a film having a trench of a preset pattern and a via at a bottom of the trench, a Cu wiring by burying Cu or Cu alloy in the trench and the via includes forming a barrier film (process 2); forming, on a surface of the barrier film, a wetting target layer of Ru or the like (process 3); forming, on a surface of the wetting target layer, a Cu-based seed film by PVD (process 4); filling the via by heating the substrate and flowing the Cu-based seed film into the via (process 5); and forming, on the substrate surface, a Cu-based film made of the Cu or Cu alloy by PVD under a condition where the Cu-based film is flown on the wetting target layer to bury the Cu-based film in the trench (process 6).
US10163686B2
A temperature sensor arrangement in an integrated circuit (IC) includes a sensor array configured to determine a temperature of the IC. The sensor array includes a first transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate. The temperature sensor array further includes a guard ring region between the sensor array and another circuit of the IC. The guard ring region includes a transistor structure having a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate. The temperature sensor arrangement further includes a thermally conductive element connected to the transistor structure and a first terminal of the first transistor. The thermally conductive element is configured to provide a thermally conductive path from the transistor structure to the first terminal of the first transistor.
US10163685B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming voids within semiconductor constructions. In some embodiments the voids may be utilized as microstructures for distributing coolant, for guiding electromagnetic radiation, or for separation and/or characterization of materials. Some embodiments include constructions having micro-structures therein which correspond to voids, conduits, insulative structures, semiconductor structures or conductive structures.
US10163683B2
A method includes performing an epitaxy to grow a semiconductor layer, which includes a top portion over a semiconductor region. The semiconductor region is between two insulation regions that are in a substrate. The method further includes recessing the insulation regions to expose portions of sidewalls of the semiconductor region, and etching a portion of the semiconductor region, wherein the etched portion of the semiconductor region is under and contacting a bottom surface of the semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer is spaced apart from an underlying region by an air gap. A gate dielectric and a gate electrode are formed over the semiconductor layer.
US10163681B2
A method for bonding of a first solid substrate to a second solid substrate which contains a first material with the following steps, especially the following sequence: formation or application of a function layer which contains a second material to the second solid substrate, making contact of the first solid substrate with the second solid substrate on the function layer, pressing together the solid substrates for forming a permanent bond between the first and second solid substrate, at least partially reinforced by solid diffusion and/or phase transformation of the first material with the second material, an increase of volume on the function layer being caused.
US10163679B1
Structures for shallow trench isolation regions and methods for forming shallow trench isolation regions. A trench is etched partially through a device layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate. A section of the device layer at a bottom of the trench is thermally oxidized to form a shallow trench isolation region in the trench. During the thermal oxidation, another region of the device layer may be concurrently oxidized over a partial thickness and, after removal of the oxide from this device layer region, used as a thinned silicon body. Prior to the thermal oxidation process, this device layer region may be implanted with an oxidation-retarding species that decreases its oxidation rate in comparison with the oxidation rate of the section of the device layer used to form the shallow trench isolation region.
US10163667B2
A modular cluster tool is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system, comprises a wafer transfer station that includes a first vacuum chamber that stores a plurality of semiconductor wafers. The system also includes an equipment front end module interface, and two or more shuttle lock interfaces.
US10163662B2
A semiconductor package is provided, which includes: a packaging substrate having opposite first and second surfaces and a plurality of first and second conductive pads formed on the first surface; a chip having opposite active and inactive surfaces and disposed on the first conductive pads via the active surface thereof; a plurality of conductive posts formed on the second conductive pads, respectively; and a first encapsulant formed on the first surface of the packaging substrate for encapsulating the chip and the conductive posts and having a plurality of openings for exposing upper surfaces of the conductive posts, thereby increasing the package density and protecting the chip and the interconnection structure from being adversely affected by intrusion of moisture.
US10163660B2
A sensor device including: a first substrate having a bottom surface and a top surface; a second substrate having a bottom surface and a top surface, a media channel having two vertical sections and a horizontal section, wherein the two vertical sections are through the second substrate, a portion of the bottom surface of the second substrate forms a top surface of the horizontal section, and a portion of the top surface of the first substrate forms a bottom surface of the horizontal section; a sensor chip disposed on one of the two vertical sections of the media channel; and a molding compound covering side surfaces of the first substrate, the second substrate, and the sensor chip.
US10163657B1
A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided. In some embodiments a divergent ion beam is utilized to implant ions into a capping layer, wherein the capping layer is located over a first metal layer, a dielectric layer, and an interfacial layer over a semiconductor fin. The ions are then driven from the capping layer into one or more of the first metal layer, the dielectric layer, and the interfacial layer.
US10163656B2
Embodiments of methods for etching cobalt metal using fluorine radicals are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of etching a cobalt layer in a substrate processing chamber includes: forming a plasma from a process gas comprising a fluorine-containing gas; and exposing the cobalt layer to fluorine radicals from the plasma while maintaining the cobalt layer at a temperature of about 50 to about 500 degrees Celsius to etch the cobalt layer.
US10163644B2
An interconnect structure and a method of forming an interconnect structure are disclosed. The interconnect structure includes a conductive plug over a substrate; a conductive feature over the conductive plug, wherein the conductive feature has a first sidewall, a second sidewall facing the first sidewall, and a bottom surface; and a carbon-containing barrier layer having a first portion along the first sidewall of the conductive feature, a second portion along the second sidewall of the conductive feature, and a third portion along the bottom surface of the conductive feature.
US10163642B2
A semiconductor manufacturing tool and process to form semiconductor devices is provided. An edge ring of the semiconductor manufacturing tool comprises a high electron mobility material in order to extend an electrical field and sheath such that curvature from the sheath is moved away from a semiconductor wafer so that an impact from the curvature is reduced or eliminated during an etching process.
US10163639B2
A semiconductor device, method of manufacture of a semiconductor device, and electronic system are disclosed. For example, the semiconductor device includes at least one trench disposed in a semiconductor substrate of the semiconductor device, wherein the semiconductor substrate has a first conductivity type. The semiconductor device further includes a polysilicon depleted gate shield disposed in the at least one trench, wherein the polysilicon depleted gate shield has a second conductivity type. The semiconductor device also includes a drift region disposed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to at least one sidewall of the at least one trench, wherein the drift region has the first conductivity type, and a polysilicon gate disposed over the depleted gate shield in the at least one trench.
US10163636B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first material layer over a substrate, forming a middle layer over the first material layer, forming a first hard mask (HM) layer over the middle layer, forming a second HM layer over the first HM layer, forming a first trench in the second HM layer that extends into the first HM layer, forming a second trench in the second HM layer, The second trench is parallel to the first trench. The method also includes forming a first hole feature in the middle layer within the first trench by using the second HM layer and the first HM layer as a mask and forming a second hole feature in the middle layer within the second trench by using the second HM layer as a mask.
US10163635B1
A method for preventing epitaxial merge between adjacent devices of a semiconductor is provided. Embodiments include forming a protection layer over a spacer formed over a first and second plurality of fins deposited within a substrate; pinching off a portion of the protection layer formed within a space between each of the plurality of fins; forming a planarization layer over the protection layer and the spacer; and etching a portion of the spacer to form inner sidewalls between each of the plurality of fins, outer sidewalls of a height greater than the height of the inner sidewalls for preventing the growth of the epitaxial layer beyond the outer sidewalls, or a combination thereof.
US10163632B2
Provided is a material composition and method for substrate modification. A substrate is patterned to include a plurality of features. The plurality of features includes a first subset of features having one or more substantially inert surfaces. In various embodiments, a priming material is deposited over the substrate, over the plurality of features, and over the one or more substantially inert surfaces. By way of example, the deposited priming material bonds at least to the one or more substantially inert surfaces. Additionally, the deposited priming material provides a modified substrate surface. After depositing the priming material, a layer is spin-coated over the modified substrate surface, where the spin-coated layer is substantially planar.
US10163628B1
A structure includes a substrate including a first semiconductor material; a dielectric feature embedded in the substrate; and a second semiconductor material embedded in the substrate, the second semiconductor material having lattice mismatch to the first semiconductor material, the second semiconductor material having two upper sidewalls and two lower sidewalls, the two upper sidewalls in contact with the dielectric feature, the two lower sidewalls in contact with the substrate, the two lower sidewalls being non-perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, a bottommost portion of the dielectric feature being lower than a topmost portion of the two lower sidewalls.
US10163623B1
An etching method with a surface modification treatment for forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate, forming a silicon nitride (SiN) layer on the semiconductor substrate, and forming a silicon-containing layer on the semiconductor substrate and beside the SiN layer. The silicon-containing layer includes a silicon dioxide layer, a n-type silicon-containing layer, a p-type silicon-containing layer or a combination thereof. The method further includes performing a surface modification treatment onto the SiN layer and the silicon-containing layer by using a surface modification solution, thereby forming a modified layer on the SiN layer and the silicon-containing layer. The method further includes removing a portion of the modified layer and its underlying SiN layer by a wet etching operation, while the other portion of the modified layer and its underlying silicon-containing layer remain, and removing the other portion of the modified layer.
US10163614B1
The tandem differential mobility spectrometer (DMS)-ion modulator instrument provides improved resolution relative to traditional DMS for molecules with larger masses. The instrument includes an ion-bunching electrode with an AC field synchronized to the transit time of the ion flow which is positioned downstream of a DMS. The ion bunching electrode produces a mobility-dependent modulation of the ion current. The ratio of AC to DC current provides a measure of the mobility of a large ion, even if it has little differential mobility, thereby extending the useful range of mobility characterization of a DMS system. The instrument is more compact than a larger traditional ion mobility spectrometer and does not require high voltages or high frequencies. Modulation before DMS separation or between tandem DMS separations produces a variable range of analyte and reactant ion densities as well as spatially separating negative and positive ions to reduce ion recombination.
US10163607B2
A method for controlling the temperature of a mounting table in a plasma processing apparatus, includes: calculating a first heat input amount according to high frequency power applied in a given process, wherein the first heat input amount is calculated based on a data table, the data table being generated by measuring temperatures so as to find a first relationship between the high frequency power applied in the plasma processing apparatus and the heat input amount to the mounting table; controlling, based on an operation map, the temperature of at least one of the first heating mechanism and the cooling mechanism so that a first temperature difference between the cooling mechanism and the first heating mechanism is within a controllable range corresponding to the first heat input amount, wherein the temperature of the first heating mechanism is controllable upon the first temperature difference falling within the controllable.
US10163605B2
Systems and methods for statistical data decimation are described. The method includes receiving a variable from a radio frequency (RF) system, propagating the variable through a model of the RF system, and counting an output of the model for the variable to generate a count. The method further includes determining whether the count meets a count threshold, generating a statistical value of the variable at the output of the model upon determining that the count meets the count threshold, and sending the statistical value to the RF system to adjust the variable.
US10163596B2
The present invention discloses a horizontal-deflection prevention mechanism for an HVDC relay, comprising a moving contact assembly which comprises a moving reed and moving contacts arranged at left and right ends of the moving reed; an upper section of a pushrod is located above a yoke plate and fixed with the moving reed; a positioning plate is provided on the yoke plate; and a left return spring is connected between a left end of the moving reed and the positioning plate, and a right return spring is connected between a right end of the moving reed and the positioning plate. In the present invention, by the arrangement of a left return spring and a right return spring at the left and right ends of the moving reed at which moving contacts are provided, on one hand, a breaking force can be provided, which allows the moving contacts to quickly separate from the stationary contacts when the moving contacts and the stationary contacts are to be separated from each other, so that the relay makes a response quickly. On the other hand, the left return spring and the right return spring always provide an acting force which prevents the moving reed from rotating horizontally, so as to ensure that the moving contacts and the stationary contacts can come into contact precisely and to thus prevent the occurrence of faults due to the contact between the moving reed and other components.
US10163591B2
An operating device includes a casing, an operating button arranged at the casing for the manual actuation of the operating device, and a printed circuit board that is arranged in the casing. A switching element is mechanically coupled to the operating button and arranged on the printed circuit board. The switching element produces a pronounced sound when the operating button is actuated. To this end, next to the switching element, the printed circuit board is mechanically connected to the casing by at least one support element and each support element is designed to stabilize the printed circuit board against a tremor that is produced by the switching element when producing the sound.
US10163585B2
Systems of automatic transfer switches (ATS) are disclosed herein. One apparatus includes at least two automatic transfer switches coupled together. Each automatic transfer switches has contacts to couple a power source to a load. For each switch, an electromagnetic force biasing the contacts to each other is present if an electrical current flows through the switch. The automatic transfer switches may be on separate cassettes or on a single cassette. The power source of each switch may be the same or different.
US10163584B1
An electrical contact apparatus having low silver content and defined thickness and length geometry. The electrical contact apparatus has a contact body made of a silver-containing alloy having SC≤60 wt. %, and having L/T≥5.4, wherein L is a longest contact length dimension of the contact body, T is a maximum contact thickness dimension of the contact body, SC is the silver content in wt. %, and L/T is a contact dimension ratio. Electrical contact assemblies, circuit breaker electrical contact subassemblies, and methods of operating a circuit breaker electrical contact subassembly are disclosed, as are other aspects.
US10163582B2
An electrical double layer capacitor having an electrolyte-containing layer between a first polarizable electrode layer and a second polarizable electrode layer. An insulating adhesive portion adheres to a first current collector and a second current collector and extends around the first and second polarizable electrode layers and the electrolyte-containing layer. A thickness of the insulating adhesive portion is larger than a sum of thicknesses of the first and second polarizable electrode layers and the electrolyte-containing layer.
US10163581B2
A laminated power storage device that includes a first end portion of a first current collector extends to an inside of an insulating adhesive portion relative to a first polarizable electrode layer, and a second end portion of a second current collector extends to an inside of the insulating adhesive portion relative to a second polarizable electrode layer.
US10163575B1
The present disclosure provides a non-linear capacitor comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer disposed between said first and second electrodes. The dielectric layer comprises at least one organic compound selected from copolymer, homo-polymer, Sharp polymers, NLSD compounds and combination thereof which have at least one electro-polarizable aromatic polycyclic conjugated core. A relationship between a capacity C of the capacitor and a voltage V between the electrodes is characterized by the monotonously increasing polynomial dependence C0+Σi=1m CiVi, when the voltage V satisfies by following inequality 0
US10163571B2
A hard start capacitor replacement unit has a plurality of capacitors in a container sized to fit in existing hard start capacitor space. The capacitors are metallized film capacitors wound in a single cylindrical capacitive element. The container has a common terminal and capacitors value terminals for the plurality of capacitors, which may be connected singly or in combination to provide a selected capacitance. An electronic or other relay connects the selected capacitance in parallel with a motor run capacitor. The hard start capacitor replacement unit is thereby adapted to replace a wide variety of hard start capacitors.
US10163569B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a pair of external electrodes; a first internal electrode containing a base metal and coupled to one of the external electrodes; a dielectric layer stacked on the first internal electrode and containing a ceramic material and the base metal; and a second internal electrode stacked on the dielectric layer, containing the base metal, and coupled to another one of the external electrodes, wherein a concentration of the base metal in each of five regions is within ±20% of an average of the concentrations of the base metal in the five regions, the five regions being obtained by dividing a region from a location 50 nm away from the first internal electrode of the dielectric layer to a location 50 nm away from the second internal electrode of the dielectric layer in a stacking direction between the first and second internal electrodes equally into five.
US10163567B2
The present invention relates to a multi-layered aluminum oxide capacitor comprising an aluminum substrate; a plurality of aluminum oxide layer formed in at least a portion of on both sides or one side of the substrate with respect to the aluminum substrate; and a plurality of electrode layers formed on the aluminum oxide layers. According to the present invention, manufacturing process is more simplified since Al2O3 insulation layer is formed by anodizing the aluminum layer without forming an extra insulation layer after forming the aluminum layer, so that the manufacturing cost can be reduced, and also a multi-layered capacitor having a high capacitance and a high reliability can be provided by stacking capacitors comprising a plurality of aluminum oxide layers using a more simplified process according to the present invention.
US10163559B2
A terminal electrode includes a base extending along the outer end face of a flange, a mounting part extending from the base along the bottom face of the flange via a first bending part that covers the edge portion where the outer end face and the bottom face meet, and a wire connection part extending from the base along a substantially horizontal face via a second bending part that covers the edge portion where the outer end face and the substantially horizontal face meet, the wire connection part being electrically connected to an end portion of a wire.
US10163555B2
A coil unit includes a ferrite including a coil base in a form of a frame, on which a coil is arranged, and formed from a plurality of divided ferrites. The plurality of divided ferrites include a first divided ferrite and a second divided ferrite which form a corner piece and a third divided ferrite and a fourth divided ferrite which form a side piece.
US10163550B2
In order to obtain a highly versatile superconducting cable capable of absorbing differences in thermal contraction amounts that arise between three members, these being a cable core, an inner tube, and an outer tube, and to obtain a superconducting cable manufacturing method of the same, a superconducting cable includes a thermal insulation vacuum tube and a cable core. The thermal insulation vacuum tube includes an inner tube fixed at both ends and having a cooling medium filled inside, and an outer tube disposed at an outer peripheral side of the inner tube with a space between the outer tube and the inner tube maintained at a vacuum, and is configured to include a winding section wound with one or more turns. The cable core is fixed at both ends and disposed inside the inner tube.
US10163549B2
An oxide superconducting wire wherein an outer periphery of an oxide superconductor is covered with a plating layer (stabilizing layer). In addition, the oxide superconductor includes: an oxide superconducting laminate that is formed by a tape-shaped substrate, an interlayer, and an oxide superconducting layer, in which the interlayer and the oxide superconducting layer are laminated on a main surface of the substrate; and an undercoat stabilizing layer that is laminated on an outer periphery of the oxide superconducting laminate. The undercoat stabilizing layer includes: a first undercoat stabilizing layer formed of Ag or an Ag alloy; and a second undercoat stabilizing layer formed of one of Cu, Ni, Pb, Bi, and an alloy containing Cu, Ni, Pb or Bi as a major component.
US10163530B2
A nuclear reactor includes a plurality of mechanisms (11) that drive the contact members (9) that control the reactivity, of the core. Each mechanism includes a driving member (21) including a driving part (23) forming one out of a screw or a nut, a member (27) for applying a rotary torque of the rotor (19) to the driving member (21), a driven member (29) translationally connected to one of the control members (9) and including the other out of screw and a nut; and a member (33) that is selectively mobile between a position of blocking the driving member (21) and a position of releasing the driving member (21). In each drive mechanism (11), the motor (15) is fully immersed in the primary coolant inside the vessel (3); the rotor (19) has a central passage (35), the member for applying the rotary torque (27) being situated in or near the central passage (35); the driving member (21) includes a connecting part (37) engaged in the central passage (35) and collaborating with the member for applying the rotary torque (27), the connecting part (37) being free to effect a translational movement inside the central passage (35) with respect to the rotor (19) when the or each blocking member (33) is in the releasing position.
US10163528B2
This disclosure provides wearable-device based user-interested information determination methods, apparatuses and wearable devices. The method includes: receiving, by an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor associated with the wearable device, an ECG signal of a user, determining a feature set for the ECG signal, in which the feature set includes time-domain feature data of the ECG signal and frequency-domain feature data of the ECG signal, and determining the user-interested information based on similarity between the feature set and reference feature sets indicative of the user-interested information, in which the user-interested information includes health information associated with a disease. The wearable device includes an ECG sensor configured to receive an ECG signal and an FPGA system. The FPGA system includes modules for determine user-interested information based on the ECG signal. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store instructions to implement the method.
US10163524B2
A semiconductor device that has a normal mode of operation and a test mode of operation and can include: a first circuit that generates at least one assist signal having an assist enable logic level in the normal mode of operation, the at least one assist signal alters a read operation or a write operation to a static random access memory (SRAM) cell of the semiconductor device as compared to read or write operations when the assist signal has an assist disable logic level; and the first circuit generates the at least one assist signal having the assist disable logic level in the test mode of operation.
US10163523B2
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes applying a program pulse at least once to each of a plurality of pages; performing a pre-read operation on a reference page among the plurality of pages through an initial test voltage; repeating the pre-read operation by controlling the initial test voltage until a result of the pre-read operation is a pass; setting the initial test voltage of when the result of the pre-read operation is the pass as a reference test voltage; and detecting a defective page among the plurality of pages by performing read operations on the plurality of pages through the reference test voltage.
US10163514B2
Methods of operating a memory include increasing a voltage applied to a first access line from a first voltage to a second voltage higher than the first voltage while applying the first voltage to a second access line, the first access line coupled to a target memory cell of the programming operation and an unselected memory cell not targeted for the programming operation, and the second access line coupled to memory cells not targeted for the programming operation. After increasing the voltage applied to the first access line, increasing the voltage applied to the first access line from the second voltage to a third voltage higher than the second voltage and increasing a voltage applied to the second access line from the first voltage to a fourth voltage higher than the first voltage and lower than the third voltage.
US10163510B1
Emerging byte-addressable persistent memory technologies, generically referred to as Storage Class Memory, offer performance advantages and access similar to Dynamic Random Access Memory while having the persistence of disk. Unifying storage and memory into a memory tier that can be accessed directly requires additional burden to ensure that groups of memory operations to persistent or nonvolatile memory locations are performed sequentially, atomically, and not caught in the cache hierarchy.The present invention provides a lightweight solution for the atomicity and durability of write operations to nonvolatile memory, while simultaneously supporting fast paths through the cache hierarchy to memory. The invention includes a hardware-supported solution with modifications to the memory hierarchy comprising a victim cache and additional memory controller logic. The invention also includes a software only method and system that provides atomic persistence to nonvolatile memory using a software alias in DRAM and log in nonvolatile memory.
US10163500B1
Error correction systems and methods for improving sense matching conditions between hard-bit read (HBR) information and soft-bit read (SBR) information. For HBRs, a given set of sense conditions can include a discharged bit line of one or more cells that discharged during a previous HBR. For SBRs, a given set of sense conditions can include loading latches of the sense amplifiers for corresponding cells are with sense results of the previous SBR strobe when the corresponding cells discharged during a previous SBR strobe or loading the latches of the sense amplifiers with sense results of a previous HBR when the corresponding cells discharged during the previous HBR.
US10163496B2
An embodiment static random access memory (SRAM) array includes a writable SRAM cell disposed in a first row of the SRAM array and an SRAM read current tracking cell in the first row of the SRAM array. The SRAM current tracking cell includes a first read pull-down transistor and a first read pass-gate transistor. The first read pull-down transistor includes a first gate electrically connected to a first positive supply voltage line; a first source/drain electrically connected to a first ground line; and a second source/drain. The first read pass-gate transistor includes a third source/drain electrically connected to the second source/drain and a fourth source/drain electrically connected to a read tracking bit line (BL). The read tracking BL is electrically connected to a read sense amplifier timing control circuit.
US10163474B2
A memory circuit according to some examples may include a clock delay circuit that use a polarity of a write enable signal to determine an operation (i.e. write or read) on the memory that provides the desired clock latency to the memory. The clock delay circuit may have a low skew portion and a high skew portion. The selection of the high skew portion or low skew portion may depend on the status of the write enable line, such as a polarity or logical value.
US10163473B2
A nonvolatile memory device may include a plurality of cell strings including a plurality of memory cells serially coupled to one another; a plurality of bit lines coupled to a corresponding cell string of the plurality of cell strings; a plurality of page buffers each including a plurality of latches and coupled to a corresponding bit line of the plurality of bit lines; a first control circuit suitable for controlling the plurality of latches to perform an operation corresponding to an activated command signal of a plurality of command signals in an access operation; and a second control circuit suitable for activating one or more of the plurality of command signals, while controlling operations of the plurality of cell strings and the plurality of bit lines in the access operation.
US10163467B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for multiple endianness compatibility. An example method comprises receiving a plurality of bytes in a non-bit-sequential format. The method includes reordering the bits in each byte of the plurality of bytes such that the plurality of bytes are arranged in a bit-sequential format.
US10163463B2
A virtual reality system and a method of controlling working state of the virtual reality system. The virtual reality system comprises a video playing device and a virtual reality glasses box, and the virtual reality glasses box utilizes a screen of the video playing device to play a video content, the method comprises: establishing a wired or wireless connection between the video playing device and the virtual reality glasses box; when the video playing device is placed in the virtual reality glasses box, transmitting information of wearing state of the virtual reality glasses box to the video playing device; and controlling a playing state of the video playing device according to the wearing state of the virtual reality glasses box. The present disclosure controls the working state of the virtual reality device by the action of the user operating the device itself, and the user does not need to employ tedious and complicated operations to control each of the devices, which increases usability, and improves user experience.
US10163453B2
An electronic device or method for adjusting a gain on a voice operated control system can include one or more processors and a memory having computer instructions. The instructions, when executed by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the operations of receiving a first microphone signal, receiving a second microphone signal, updating a slow time weighted ratio of the filtered first and second signals, and updating a fast time weighted ratio of the filtered first and second signals. The one or more processors can further perform the operations of calculating an absolute difference between the fast time weighted ratio and the slow time weighted ratio, comparing the absolute difference with a threshold, and increasing the gain when the absolute difference is greater than the threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10163448B2
The purpose of the present invention is to estimate, with a small amount of computation, a linear prediction synthesis filter after conversion of an internal sampling frequency. A linear prediction coefficient conversion device is a device that converts first linear prediction coefficients calculated at a first sampling frequency to second linear prediction coefficients at a second sampling frequency different from the first sampling frequency, which includes a means for calculating, on the real axis of the unit circle, a power spectrum corresponding to the second linear prediction coefficients at the second sampling frequency based on the first linear prediction coefficients or an equivalent parameter, a means for calculating, on the real axis of the unit circle, autocorrelation coefficients from the power spectrum, and a means for converting the autocorrelation coefficients to the second linear prediction coefficients at the second sampling frequency.
US10163447B2
A method includes filtering, at a speech encoder, an audio signal into a first group of sub-bands within a first frequency range and a second group of sub-bands within a second frequency range. The method also includes generating a harmonically extended signal based on the first group of sub-bands. The method further includes generating a third group of sub-bands based, at least in part, on the harmonically extended signal. The third group of sub-bands corresponds to the second group of sub-bands. The method also includes determining a first adjustment parameter for a first sub-band in the third group of sub-bands or a second adjustment parameter for a second sub-band in the third group of sub-bands. The first adjustment parameter is based on a metric of a first sub-band in the second group of sub-bands, and the second adjustment parameter is based on a metric of a second sub-band in the second group of sub-bands.
US10163443B2
Provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting, processing, and responding to audio signals, including speech signals, within a designated area or space. A platform for multiple media devices connected via a network is configured to process speech, such as voice commands, detected at the media devices, and respond to the detected speech by causing the media devices to simultaneously perform one or more requested actions. The platform is capable of scoring the quality of a speech request, handling speech requests from multiple end points of the platform using a centralized processing approach, a de-centralized processing approach, or a combination thereof, and also manipulating partial processing of speech requests from multiple end points into a coherent whole when necessary.
US10163442B2
Provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting, processing, and responding to audio signals, including speech signals, within a designated area or space. A platform for multiple media devices connected via a network is configured to process speech, such as voice commands, detected at the media devices, and respond to the detected speech by causing the media devices to simultaneously perform one or more requested actions. The platform is capable of scoring the quality of a speech request, handling speech requests from multiple end points of the platform using a centralized processing approach, a de-centralized processing approach, or a combination thereof, and also manipulating partial processing of speech requests from multiple end points into a coherent whole when necessary.
US10163440B2
A method for assisting a user with one or more desired tasks is disclosed. For example, an executable, generic language understanding module and an executable, generic task reasoning module are provided for execution in the computer processing system. A set of run-time specifications is provided to the generic language understanding module and the generic task reasoning module, comprising one or more models specific to a domain. A language input is then received from a user, an intention of the user is determined with respect to one or more desired tasks, and the user is assisted with the one or more desired tasks, in accordance with the intention of the user.
US10163435B2
A voice output control device includes a control unit. The control unit controls a voice output device to output voice information items according to output requests transmitted from multiple output request units. The control unit compares a high and low relationship of information values preliminary set in the voice information items corresponding to the output requests, and controls the voice output device to output preferentially the voice information item having a higher information value. The control unit determines whether a display device outputs a content corresponding to each voice information item. The control unit sets each information value variably according to a determination result.
US10163431B2
One aspect of the invention provides a pickup for a string instrument. The pickup includes: a plurality of pole pieces arranged along a non-linear path and a wire coil formed around said plurality of pole pieces and having a profile corresponding to said non-linear path. Another aspect of the invention provides a string instrument including: the pickup as described herein and a plurality of strings. Each string of said plurality of strings passes over a respective pole piece of said plurality of pole pieces.
US10163430B2
An expandable collapsible pedalboard for supporting effects pedals or other audio processing units features a first section having a first platform, and a second section having a second platform of lesser elevation and width than said first platform. The second section is telescopically mated with the first section for sliding movement in a longitudinal direction between a retracted position placing at least a majority of the second platform beneath said first platform, and an extended position reaching outwardly beyond an end of said first section to reveal more of the second platform from beneath said first platform. Multiple pedalboards can be laid out side-by-side and fastened together to collectively form a larger modular pedalboard. A hollow space delimited between side walls of the second section can accommodate one or more power supply components for the effects pedals or other audio processing units.
US10163424B2
A stringed-instrument saddle having two string paths, each string path configured to accommodate a string, wherein the two string paths are offset from one another by an offset distance in a direction of string travel.
US10163420B2
Elements and processes used to enable the generation and interaction with complex networks, simulations, models, or environments. In some embodiments, this is accomplished by use of a client-server architecture that implements processes to improve data transport efficiency (and hence network usage), reduce latency experienced by users, and optimize the performance of the network, simulation, model or environment with respect to multiple parameters.
US10163412B2
A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure includes a scan line and a data line, an active device, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode. The active device is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active device. The common electrode is disposed to overlap with the pixel electrode. The common electrode is coupled to the pixel electrode to form a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor. The first storage capacitor and the second storage capacitor commonly use the pixel electrode as an upper electrode.
US10163407B2
A scanning method of a display of the present invention changes a driving order of a plurality of gate driver lines according to a image data so as to reduce switching currents generated while a plurality of voltages on a plurality of source driver lines are changed. Thereby, the goal of saving power can be reached.
US10163403B2
A system may produce images including narrow-bandwidth colors. One or more sets of the narrow-bandwidth colors may be selected to be interpreted as substantially a same color by a user. The system may include a light source configured to produce the narrow-bandwidth colors, and/or narrow-passband filters may create narrow-bandwidth colors from light emitted by broad-spectrum light sources or color sources. Spatial and/or time multiplexing may be used to create separate narrow-bandwidth colors interpreted as substantially a same color by the user. For example, the light source and/or the narrow-passband filter elements may be adjustable and may alternate between emission of two or more narrow-bandwidth colors. A viewing device may include filters allowing the user to selectively filter the narrow-bandwidth colors. The user may filter the narrow-bandwidth colors to separate a stereoscopic image pair, to view a user-specific image, to view desired content obfuscated by an obfuscating image, and/or the like.
US10163393B2
A display substrate, a display equipment and a regional compensation method. The display substrate includes a pixel array, a common cathode current detection circuit, and a data signal compensation circuit. The common cathode current detection circuit is configured to detect a total current flowing through each common cathode; the data signal compensation circuit is configured to receive the pixel light emitting current of the first sub-pixel, receive the total current of the common cathode, and calculate compensation data for each of the sub-pixels according to the pixel light emitting current and the total current of the common cathode.
US10163379B2
The present invention provides a detection device, a detection method and a detection system, which are used for detecting damaged condition of a substrate. The detection device includes a probe unit and a judgement unit, and the probe unit includes a probe, a speed detection module and a driving force control module both provided on the probe, wherein the bottom end of the probe is used for contacting with the substrate to be detected; the speed detection module is used for obtaining a real-time speed of the probe in a process of detection and transmitting the real-time speed to the judgement unit; the driving force control module is used for applying a constant driving force to the probe; and the judgement unit is used for receiving the real-time speed of the probe and judging the damaged condition of the substrate to be detected according to the real-time speed.
US10163375B2
A foldable display apparatus is provided. The foldable display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a flexible display panel having a first display area, a pliable display area and a second display area, which are sequentially connected, a first hinge base, a second hinge base, and a rotary connecting rod. An end of the rotary connecting rod is connected to the first hinge base, and the other end is connected to the second hinge base. When the rotary connecting rod rotates to the folded state, the first substrate and the second substrate are paralleled to and opposite each other.
US10163374B2
A display unit includes a display region, a peripheral region, and an inorganic film. The display region is a region in which a plurality of pixels are disposed. The peripheral region is provided outside the display region. The inorganic film is provided in the peripheral region, and surrounds the display region continuously.
US10163373B2
A method for updating the position of electronic price tag by graphic code including: step 1, placing a plurality kinds of commodities on a commodity shelf, mounting an electronic price tag screen on the commodity shelf and below the commodities; step 2, displaying at least n position graphic codes with an even interval on the electronic price tag screen; step 3, carrying out a first scan to send the commodity information to a server; step 4, carrying out a second scan to check a position of the commodity; step 5, sending a plurality of size graphic codes with different size information to a position where the position graphic code in step 4 locates; step 6, selecting a size graphic code with a proper size for a third scan by the supermarket tally clerk; step 7, generating a commodity tag by the server.
US10163369B2
The present invention relates generally to a system and method that bring together the advantages of computer games and the physical world to increase engagement, collaboration and learning. The system and method can be used with a myriad of physical setups and can be used for many different content areas in education. In one embodiment, a mixed reality interaction is facilitated with an EarthShake™ game presented on a display. The game is synchronized with a tangible interface comprising a physical object and a sensor capable of detecting a change in the condition of the physical object. The system and method help kids discover scientific and other learning principles while experimenting with real objects in a physical environment supported with audio and visual feedback. Students interactively make predictions, see results, grapple with disconfirming evidence and formulate explanations in forms of general principles.
US10163366B2
A method for identifying a vehicle accessory with a mobile device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an input in the mobile device and activating an identification function in a control circuit of the mobile device in response to the input. An image viewfinder is initiated in response to the activation of the identification function. The viewfinder is used to capture an image of the vehicle accessory including at least one feature. The at least one feature in the image is compared to a plurality of corresponding features of a plurality of compatible vehicle accessories. Based on the comparison, an identity of the vehicle accessory is identified. Training information for the vehicle accessory is then accessed and displayed on the mobile device to facilitate at least one setup task of the vehicle accessory in response to identifying the vehicle accessory.
US10163364B2
A method of providing feedback for a piece of cue-sport equipment, a cue ball or cue stick, during a game play first collect spatial positioning and orientation data from a plurality of measurement sensors that is integrated into the cue-sport equipment. Then, the collected data is analyzed to generate a virtual movement model of the cue-sport equipment as the virtual movement model includes a calculated impact force diagram, an animated travel path, and a calculated absolute orientation for the cue-sport equipment. Then, the player can view the virtual movement model through an external computing device to improve their cue-sport skills effectively and efficiently.
US10163356B2
An aircraft separation system for receiving tracking data for a plurality of aircraft from a tracking system, determining at least some of the plurality of aircraft to include in a three-dimensional awareness zone, determining a first track pair in the awareness zone comprising a first aircraft and a second aircraft of the at least some of the plurality of aircraft, wherein the first aircraft is on a first heading and the second aircraft is on a second heading that is different from the first heading, determining a separation distance between the first aircraft and the second aircraft, and displaying, on a display of the aircraft separation system, a user interface comprising a representation of the first aircraft, a representation of the second aircraft, and an indication of the separation distance between the first aircraft and the second aircraft displayed proximate to the representation of the second aircraft.
US10163350B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing vehicular driver alerts. In various aspects a vehicle operating environment may be monitored by one or more sensors associated with a first vehicle operating within the vehicle operating environment. The first vehicle may be determined to be in proximity to a second vehicle based upon sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors. An identifier associated with the second vehicle may be determined based upon the sensor data and the identifier may be used to receive evaluation data associated with the second vehicle. The evaluation data may indicate a quality level associated with operation of the second vehicle. Based upon the evaluation data, it may be determined that the second vehicle is associated with a heightened risk of a vehicle accident. A warning regarding the heightened risk may be generated and presented, by an output device, to a vehicle operator of the first vehicle.
US10163348B2
A drive assist devices include a display that displays an image around a vehicle imaged by an imaging device installed on the vehicle, a setting unit that sets a target designated by a user on the image as a recognition target, a detection unit that detects a state change of the recognition target on the image in a case where the recognition target is set, and a notification control unit that controls a notification device to notify the user of the detection result in a case where the state change of the set recognition target is detected.
US10163343B2
Provided is a traffic communication network that includes a signaling system including a plurality of light signaling devices, and a controller configured to wirelessly control the plurality of light signaling devices; and a remote control system in wireless communication with the controller and configured to control the controller.
US10163336B1
Various arrangements involving an absolute direction of a remote control device are presented herein. In response to user input received by a remote control device, the orientation of the remote control device may be determined. A compass heading direction in which the remote control device is pointed may be determined. An absolute direction may be determined based on the determined orientation and the determined compass heading. A target control device may be selected from a plurality of target control devices based on the absolute heading of the remote control device. A message indicative of the user input may then be transmitted to the selected target control device.
US10163333B2
Various arrangements are presented for controlling a night light feature of a hazard detector. A user interface application executed on a mobile device may output, a graphical interface that provides an option to enable a night light feature of the hazard detector. The application may transmit data indicative of the night light feature being enabled and of an associated user account to a computer server system. The computer server system may receive and store data indicative of the night light feature being enabled and of the user account. The hazard detector may receive from the computer server system data indicative of the night light feature of the hazard detector being enabled by the application. The hazard detector may enable the plurality of LEDs to provide illumination in response to the received data indicative of the night light feature of the hazard detector being enabled by the application.
US10163331B2
Techniques are described for establishing a two-way voice communication session with an alarm system. The alarm system may establish a two-way voice communication session with an operator associated with a monitoring service that provides monitoring services for alarm events detected by the alarm system. The alarm system also may establish a two-way voice communication session with a notification recipient that is interested in receiving notifications associated with events detected by the alarm system.
US10163328B2
The invention is a system and method for communicating emergency information from an aircraft in response to an emergency or technical problem detected by monitoring avionics data at an onboard autonomous aircraft SATCOM transceiver activation device, the emergency detection functioning to automatically activate and control an aircraft SATCOM transceiver which then (i) automatically triggers real-time tracking of the aircraft via satellite, (ii) provides aircraft positioning on broadcast distinctive signals and data in designated frequencies; and (iii) monitors, processes, and automatically communicates the avionics data in conformance with ICAO standards for GADSS.
US10163326B1
The present disclosure relates to a tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium, having machine-readable instructions to pair a water detection device of a plurality of water detection devices with a user account via a user device, receive a first signal indicative of a location of the water detection device from the user device, receive a second signal indicative of a personalized message to be sent to the user device upon a detection event of the water detection device, and display a list of the plurality of water detection devices and corresponding locations of each water detection device of the plurality of water detection devices on the user device.
US10163320B2
Technologies for determining a threat assessment based on fear responses comprises monitoring sensor data received from a sensor array located at a monitored site. The sensor data may include behavioral sensor data indicative of a physical behavior of individuals within the monitored site and physiological sensor data indicative of physiological characteristics of individuals within the monitored site. The threat assessment may be based on the behavioral sensor data and physiological sensor data. In some embodiments, context data related to the monitored site may be utilized analyze the behavioral sensor data and physiological sensor data and determine a threat assessment based thereon.
US10163315B2
Securing a protected entity from a hazard may be achieved in a method and system by defining a first area (Safety SmartSpace) via a monitoring and control (M/C) device as a geographic zone monitored by monitoring systems. A second area (Safety Perimeter) is defined within the first area. The hazard is selected from a list. Additionally, the protected entity may be physically tagged with a local positioning device operable for providing known geographic coordinates of the protected entity. Proximity of the hazard is detected in the first area via the M/C device using input signals from the monitoring systems. The M/C device calculates a numeric criticality score for the hazard using a characteristic of the hazard and the protected entity. A localized control action executes with respect to the protected entity when the score exceeds a threshold, and includes generating and transmitting an alert signal to activate a warning device.
US10163314B2
A device, computer-readable medium, and method for performing a remedial action in response to detecting a presence of an object are disclosed. For example, a processor may receive a configuration file, the configuration file identifying an object, an alert, and a remedial action, detect a presence of the object, wherein the object is a triggering object relating to a mental condition of a user, send the alert to a monitoring device, in response to detecting the presence of the object, and perform the remedial action, in response to detecting the presence of the object.
US10163312B2
A system is disclosed comprising a plurality of light emitting devices located along a path of travel, each light emitting device comprising a light emitting source, a sensor, a communication module, and a processor, wherein when a first one of the plurality of light emitting devices is activated, the processor in the first light emitting device is configured to detect one or more physical structures surrounding the first light emitting device, detect one or more other light emitting devices, and based at least in part on the detection of the one or more physical structures and the one or more other light emitting devices, determine a location of the first light emitting device with respect to the path of travel.
US10163311B2
The present disclosure relates to integrated systems, methods and apparatuses for assisting individuals in managing acute life-threatening conditions. A system in accordance with the current disclosure may comprise an electronic circuit configured to be attached to a container of a medication and one or more devices in communication with the electronic circuit in a private network. In an aspect, the one or more devices may work in concert to determine the safety level of an individual based on predetermined usage settings. In some aspects, the system may be configured to determine whether a medication would expire before its manufactured expiry date. In another aspect, the system may assist an individual in locating a medication. In a further aspect, the system may determine whether an individual is having an anaphylactic reaction. In some aspects, the system may detect a known allergen and alert the individual.
US10163310B2
A fire alarm panel comprises a panel interface. The panel interface includes a display screen, a plurality of discrete condition lights separate from the display screen, and a touchscreen panel extending across both the display screen and the plurality of condition lights.
US10163304B1
A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement an augmented game system. A player can play an online game and accumulate loyalty points without have to pay cash. The player can enter a physical casino and play an electronic gaming machine which can retrieve the player's information from the online game including the number of loyalty points the player has and any other incentives or game add-ons the player would be entitled to. The player would then play a physical game on the electronic game normally (by depositing cash and playing) but the game play would be augmented by virtue of the player having the loyalty points or other incentives or add-ons. For example, the game can be augmented by giving the player a better paytable.
US10163301B2
A gaming system receives a total wager for a game session which occurs over a designated period of time. The game session includes a plurality of different wagering events. Each of the wagering events is associated with one of a plurality of different magnitudes. For each of the plurality of different wagering events, the gaming system determines: a portion of the total wager amount, and a wager by modifying the determined portion by the magnitude associated with that wagering event. The gaming system causes the wagering event to occur, determines at least one outcome for the wagering event, determines any awards based on the determined wager and the at least one determined outcome, and provides any of the determined awards to the player.
