US10178811B2
A rotation control method, includes: calculating, by a processor in an information processing device, a first difference between a temperature of a component in the information processing device and an upper limit of a tolerable temperature for the component; calculating a second difference between a temperature of an environment in which the information processing device is installed and an upper limit of a tolerable temperature for the environment; and setting a rotation speed of a fan for cooling down the component, based on a comparison result between the first difference and the second difference.
US10178809B2
A module-type data center includes: a casing having an intake vent and an exhaust vent; a rack accommodating an electronic device; an air blower configured to introduce outside air into the casing through the intake vent and pass air through the rack from one of surfaces of the rack to another one of the surfaces of the rack; a shielding-slat unit including a plurality of shielding slats configured to change between an open state and a closed state and drive devices configured to drive the corresponding shielding slats. An inner space of the casing is divided into a first space defined between the one surface of the rack and the intake vent, a second space defined between the other surface of the rack and the exhaust vent, and a third space defined above the rack and allowing the second space to communicate with the first space.
US10178806B1
A universal quick-disconnect fan tray for air cooling of field replaceable electronic units within a rack-mount enclosure comprises a pair of fan modules mounted in parallel on an intermediate printed circuit board for providing a unidirectional air flow through the enclosure. The printed circuit board has asymmetrically located spring-loaded pogo pin electrical contacts and a pogo pin mechanical locator for respectively engaging cooperating front or rear electrical pads and cooperating front and rear locator features within the enclosure for correctly locating and providing electrical connections to the fan tray and that afford quick connect and disconnect. The locations of the cooperating pads and features enable the fan tray to be translatable without being rotated from the front to the rear of the enclosure to maintain same direction of airflow.
US10178804B2
A heat spreader includes a main body extending between a front and a rear configured to be mounted to a cage and heat transfer fingers cantilevered forward from the front of the main body. The heat transfer fingers each have a fixed end, a distal end, a top, a bottom and mating edges facing each other across gaps. The heat transfer fingers are configured to be received in corresponding channels between heat transfer fins of a pluggable module as the pluggable module is installed in the cage through the front end with the gaps receiving the heat transfer fins. The mating edges are configured to face and be thermally coupled to corresponding heat transfer fins. The heat transfer fingers transfer heat from the heat transfer fins rearward toward the distal ends and into the main body.
US10178798B1
A housing having a first chamber arranged to receive one or more enclosures, and having a second chamber separated from the first chamber by a wall is provided. The one or more enclosures are each arranged to have electronic circuitry within the enclosure. The housing has one or more fans arranged to exhaust a first airflow from each of the one or more enclosures and the first chamber. The housing has one or more power supplies with a further one or more fans arranged to exhaust a second airflow from the second chamber and the one or more power supplies. The wall has one or more apertures arranged to at least partially align with one or more apertures of each of the one or more enclosures, so that the second airflow proceeds through the one or more apertures of the wall.
US10178795B2
An installation for equipping DIN rails, according to an order, with components, including at least one of terminal blocks, electrical devices, and end holders, that are intended to be subsequently installed in switch cabinets, includes at least one main cell. The at least one main cell includes at least one supply unit for supplying the components to be fitted; at least one supply unit for supplying DIN rails, the DIN rail being equipped with the components in the main cell; and a writing, device designed to wirelessly transmit data, in order for said data to be saved, to a memory unit that is arranged on each DIN rail equipped with components and has an integrated wireless communications interface, the data containing order-specific information.
US10178789B2
An enclosure mounting system includes a bracket with a rigid body having first, second, and third parallel surfaces wherein the first and third surfaces are on one plane and the second surface is on a different plane. The first surface has at least two notches generally disposed at opposite ends of the first surface and a plurality of first surface fastening holes disposed along the length of the first surface. The second surface has at least two slide mounting openings and at least one second surface fastening hole. The third surface has a plurality of fastening holes disposed along the length of the third surface. The bracket is configured to fasten to a wall and to an enclosure while permitting the enclosure to also fasten to the the wall. The enclosure is mounted by leveling the bracket and fastening the bracket and enclosure to each other and the wall.
US10178786B2
A circuit package for electrically connecting a plurality of modules. The circuit package having a first and second mounting plate, each including a plurality of module connectors configured to receive and form electrical connections with the plurality of modules. The circuit package also having a first and second sidewall mounted to the first and second mounting plates. The first sidewall including a plurality of sidewall fins extending outward from the first sidewall so that the plurality of sidewall fins are positioned between the first and second mounting plates and at least partially interleave with the plurality of modules.
US10178784B2
An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure, one or more panels attached to the frame structure, at least one vertical mounting rail fastened to the frame structure, and a rail seal attached to the at least one vertical mounting rail. The rail seal includes a generally flat panel portion and a seal along an edge thereof. The seal is adapted to engage at least one of the one or more panels to provide an air dam between the one or more panels and the at least one vertical mounting rail.
US10178748B1
An x-ray tube can provide x-ray spot stability, even for a small x-ray tube. The x-ray tube can have small target displacement, where target displacement is a displacement of the target material, towards the electron-emitter, along a longitudinal-axis of the anode, from x-ray powered-off state to stable operation, based on elongation of the anode. The x-ray tube can include a heatsink with an array of fins extending away from a base in opposite directions. A first fan can be attached to one end of the array of fins, oriented to face the base, and configured to direct an airstream towards the base. A second fan can be attached to opposite ends, oriented to face away from the base, and configured to draw the airstream from the base. Plate(s) can be located on sides of the fins to direct air flow from the first fan to the second fan.
US10178738B2
Systems, devices, and techniques are provided for operating a display and/or an illumination source based upon the direction of a user's gaze and/or a desired illumination level in a monitored area. One or more elements may be controlled with sensor input and application lighting preferences. For example, when a user receives a video call, light may be activated to illuminate their face. When the user is looking at the display, the display will be at the brightness necessary for the lighting conditions. When the user looks away from the screen, the screen may dim further and the lighting elements for the desk can brighten. Similarly, embodiments may adjust the lighting in a monitored location based upon lighting levels identified in other areas.
US10178735B1
A device includes a light adjustment apparatus having a first material and a second material. The first material includes a first real dielectric permittivity and a positive imaginary dielectric permittivity. The second material includes a second real dielectric permittivity and a negative imaginary dielectric permittivity. The first and second materials affect the flow of light. The light adjustment apparatus includes a tunable material to enable adjustment of the dielectric permittivity of the respective materials.
US10178734B1
An LED lighting circuit for detecting individual LED failure, including a lighting unit including a plurality of LEDs connected in series, and a plurality of LED sensors each associated with a respective one of the LEDs. Also included is a lighting unit status signal generator coupled to the plurality of LED sensors configured to provide a status signal indicating a fault when any individual LED is short circuited.
US10178730B2
A method and apparatus for a horticultural light for use in a horticultural facility that uses current sharing across any one or more LED strings within the horticultural light. A processor determines the current requirements of the one or more LED strings that are needed to produce a given intensity level. The processor then apportions the current generation capability of a DC-DC converter across all active LED strings using time division multiple access whereby each LED string conducts its apportioned current within its allocated time slot to the mutual exclusion of the remaining active LED strings in the allocated time slot. The processor employs analog (continuous) and/or digital (discontinuous) dimming techniques within each time slot to further modulate the amount of current conducted by any LED string within its allocated time slot.
US10178717B2
An apparatus includes a lamp-control circuit. The lamp-control circuit is configured to be electrically connectable to an electrical source having an output voltage that forms a periodic wave formation. The lamp-control circuit is also configured to be electrically connectable to a lamp array. This is done in such a way that electrical current, in use, flows from the electrical source to, and through, the lamp array. The lamp array includes lamp segments. The lamp-control circuit is also configured to urge each lamp segment of the lamp array to consume relatively constant power for a portion of a cycle of the output voltage of the electrical source in such a way that said each lamp segment of the lamp array, in use, emits a relatively constant light output for the portion the cycle of the output voltage of the electrical source.
US10178709B2
A method of connecting a vehicle telematics unit with a public safety access point (PSAP) includes wirelessly calling a central facility using the vehicle telematics unit that generates a reason to contact the PSAP; determining a reason to contact the PSAP during the wireless call; and receiving a computer-readable command at the vehicle telematics unit from the central facility that directs the vehicle telematics unit to end the wireless call and locally place an emergency call.
US10178700B2
A method for a device and a node for preventing data transmission configuration conflict between the device and the node is disclosed. The node transmits a control message which is received by the device. The device determines a first data transmission configuration from the received control message. The device then determines a second data transmission configuration from a candidate set of configurations wherein the candidate set of configurations is associated with the first data transmission configuration. The device then transmits data and wherein the node receives the data in accordance with the second data transmission configuration. A device and node implementing the method is also disclosed.
US10178697B2
Systems and methods for a receiver decoding a set of packets asynchronously transmitted using a nominal carrier frequency over a common communication medium. A set of antennas to receive the packets asynchronously transmitted over the common communication medium. A front end to produce a received signal, wherein each packet includes a preamble common for all packets and a payload unique for some packets. A channel estimator performs a sparse recovery in a three dimensional search domain defined by three axes including a frequency offset, a time offset and an angle of arrival, as well as estimates a channel gain corresponding to the transmission of each packet over a channel in the common communication medium. Finally, a decoder in communication with the processor, to decode the payloads of the packets in the set of packets using the frequency offsets, the time offsets, the angles of arrival and the channel gains.
US10178696B2
Methods of a network node may provide listen-before-talk (LBT) functionality in a telecommunications system. Such methods may include associating a user equipment (UE) within the network node's coverage to a group of UEs. In addition, a clear channel assessment (CCA) of an unlicensed channel may be provided for the group of UEs. Related network nodes and UEs are also discussed.
US10178689B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: detect that a mode change is required; and in response to the detection that a mode change is required, select a mode for resource allocation, wherein the mode is selected based on a command received by the apparatus or the mode is selected from a plurality of modes which comprises a first mode and a second mode, and wherein in the first mode the cellular communication and device to device communication are separated in time, and in the second mode the cellular communication and device to device communication take place simultaneously.
US10178679B2
Signaling Designs for Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression Signaling can be valuable in connection with addressing issues of interference. Signaling designs may be valuable, for example, in network-assisted interference cancellation and suppression. A method can include determining transmission information for at least one interference source for a user equipment of a base station. The method can also include signaling the user equipment about the transmission information for the at least one interference source. The transmission information can be configured to facilitate a receiver of the user equipment to cancel interference from the at least one interference source.
US10178677B2
A method receiving data at a communications terminal from an OFDM wireless communications network including a wireless access interface communicating the data using plural OFDM sub-carriers includes: receiving from a first control channel having a bandwidth corresponding to a first frequency band providing first plural OFDM sub-carriers a resource allocation message allocating communications resources of a second group of OFDM sub-carriers; and receiving from a second control channel within the second frequency band within the second group of OFDM sub-carriers control information specific to the communications terminal operating to receive the data via the second group of OFDM sub-carriers. The communications terminal receives resource allocation messages from the first control channel to allocate resources within the second frequency band forming a virtual carrier and to receive control information specific to the communications terminal, which receives data from the second frequency band of the virtual carrier via a second control channel.
US10178676B2
The present invention provides a data transmission method, device, and system, which relate to the communications field and can improve data transmission efficiency. The method includes: sending, by a secondary base station, first information to a primary base station, where the first information includes one of the number x of first PUCCH code channel resources, the number x of first data blocks sent by the secondary base station to a user equipment UE, and a first channel code word; sending, by the secondary base station, identifiers of the x first PUCCH code channel resources and the x first data blocks to the UE; and receiving, by the secondary base station, a feedback from the primary base station, where the feedback is received by the primary base station from the UE by using the first PUCCH code channel resource.
US10178673B1
Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes transmitting a signal to cause wireless devices to concurrently transmit sounding packets on different subcarriers within a frequency band during a multi-user uplink transmission; receiving, concurrently, sounding packets from the wireless devices on the different subcarriers within the frequency band during the multi-user uplink transmission; determining subcarrier channel qualities based on the sounding packets; and assigning the subcarriers among the wireless devices for a subsequent multi-user uplink transmission based on the subcarrier channel qualities.
US10178655B2
Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting uplink control information. The method comprises: dividing uplink sub-frames in a radio frame into N groups and dividing all downlink serving cells into M groups; determining the corresponding relationship between the M groups downlink serving cells and the N groups uplink subframes; according to the determined corresponding relationship, transmitting by a terminal, on the uplink sub-frames, the uplink control information of the corresponding downlink serving cells required to be transmitted, wherein said M and N are both positive integers greater than 1, and M≥N.
US10178651B2
A method and apparatus for operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network, the method separately encoding and rate matching a first set of information bits and a second set of information bits; mapping and concatenating the encoded and rate matched first set of information bits with the encoded and rate matched second set of information bits, thereby creating a bit stream; and modulating and transmitting the bit stream.
US10178648B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may identify occurrence of one or more collisions of paging of a first radio access technology (RAT) and paging of a second RAT, wherein the second RAT is associated with an asynchronous deployment; and/or identify a target cell of the second RAT to reduce occurrence of the collisions, wherein the target cell has at least one of a different temporal system frame numbering or a different system frame timing configuration than a serving cell of the wireless communication device, and wherein the target cell is identified using a primary common control physical channel (PCCPCH) of the target cell. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10178646B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving, by a mobility management frontend, an attach request for a user equipment (UE) to attach the UE to a core network slice type for a mobile core Software Defined Network (SDN) infrastructure, wherein a plurality of core network slice types are available for the mobile core SDN infrastructure to receive traffic from a plurality of UEs; determining a particular core network slice type within the mobile core SDN infrastructure to serve the UE based on subscriber information associated with the UE; selecting a particular slice instance of the particular core network slice type to receive traffic for the UE; and forwarding traffic for the UE between a Radio Access Network (RAN) and the particular slice instance by the mobility management frontend.
US10178641B2
A method including performing a delay measurement of a first round trip delay value of an interface link, the first round trip delay value based on a transmission of a first REC synchronization signal to a RE and when a REC receives a first RE synchronization signal back, wherein frames transmitted by the REC are synchronized based upon the first REC synchronization signal, and frames transmitted by the RE are synchronized based upon the first RE synchronization signal. Calculating a first delay change value between the first round trip delay value and a previous round trip delay value, in response to determining that the first delay change value violates a delay tolerance value, transmitting an offset indicator that indicates an amount of offset the RE is to shift the first RE synchronization signal at a future time, and transmitting frames from the REC after shifting the first REC synchronization signal.
US10178622B2
Power management scheme for portable data collection devices utilizing location and position sensors
A data collection device (DCD) is placed in a first low power mode after the DCD has been in a first predetermined position, and placed in a second low power mode after a first predetermined period of time. In another embodiment the DCD includes a wireless telephone, and a proximity sensor which detects when the DCD is close to a user's face, wherein the telephone is automatically put in a handset mode when the DCD is close to a user's face, and automatically put in a speakerphone mode when the DCD is not close to a user's face.
US10178621B2
A method of a first mobile computing device includes storing a wireless communication address of a second mobile computing device, determining that the first mobile computing device has left a sleep state while in a closed condition, and automatically wirelessly transmitting a notification to the second mobile computing device in response to determining that the first mobile computing device has left the sleep state while in a closed condition. A method of a second mobile computing device includes receiving a wireless notification from a first mobile computing device indicating that the first mobile computing device has left a sleep state while in a closed condition, and providing an alert to a user of the second mobile computing device in response to receiving the wireless notification.
US10178620B2
There is disclosed a method performed by a wireless communication device 100 to enable the reception of a beam sweep transmission. The method comprises obtaining S1 information enabling said wireless communication device 100 to determine whether it is stationary, or essentially stationary. The method also comprises acquiring S2 configuration information comprising information about the starting time for the beam sweep transmission. The method also comprises determining S3 a time when to initiate a reception of the beam sweep transmission based at least partially on the obtained information and the acquired configuration information, thereby allowing said wireless communication device to enter, or remain in, a first activity state until the determined time. The method also comprises entering S4, at the determined time, a second activity state whereby said wireless communication device is capable to receive the beam sweep. There is also disclosed a complementary method performed by a radio network node as well as corresponding devices and computer programs.
US10178618B2
A method includes: selecting a paging channel for a paged user equipment according to rule information, where the paging channel includes a page indicator channel PICH channel or includes a PICH channel and a paging-message-bearer channel, and the rule information includes a quantity of page indicator channels and further includes a preset threshold and/or a correspondence between a user equipment type and a paging channel; calculating a paging occasion for the paged user equipment; and on the paging occasion, sending a page indicator to the paged user equipment through the selected PICH channel and sending a paging message to the paged user equipment through the paging-message-bearer channel, where the paging message carries paging data. The quantity of times that user equipment receives an unnecessary paging message is reduced, and the amount of electricity consumed by the user equipment is further reduced.
US10178607B2
The present disclosure provides a method for more efficiently managing a mobile communications network by varying the frequency with which a mobile terminal searches for a home network in accordance with the state of a preferred mobile communications network.
US10178604B2
A terminal and a communication method thereof whereby, even in a case of employing an asymmetric carrier aggregation system and further employing a MIMO transmission method for upstream channels, the error characteristic of control information can be prevented from being degraded. In the terminal, a transport signal forming unit forms transport signals by arranging, based on an arrangement rule, ACK/NACK and CQI in a plurality of layers. According to the arrangement rule, an error detection result is arranged, on a priority basis, in a layer that is different from a layer in which the channel quality information is arranged. In this way, the puncturing of CQI using ACK/NACK can be minimized, with the result that the error characteristic of control information can be prevented from being degraded.
US10178586B2
A system, user terminal, and processor determine whether to omit transmission of a random access preamble signal in a handover procedure from the first cell controlled by a first base station to a second cell controlled by a second base station when the user terminal transmits a notification indicating that a connection with the second cell is completed. The second base station notifies the user terminal of information via the first base station in response to admitting a handover request, the information indicating first information for adjusting a transmission timing of the notification and second information on a radio resource for transmitting the notification to the second base station. The user terminal determines that it omits transmission of the random access preamble signal on a basis of the first information, and transmits notification to the second base station by use of the second information in response to the determination.
US10178585B2
A network-based solution of supporting IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) call setup in a next generation system (5GS) is proposed. During an attach or registration area update procedure, a serving base station sends an indication to a UE indicating whether IMS voice over PS session is supported or not. Upon receipt of the indication that IMS VoPS is supported, the UE triggers an IMS registration procedure. However, when an MO/MT call happens, the network determines that the UE may be in conditions where voice service is not supported because the network is not able to provide a successful IMS VoPS over the current serving cell connected to 5G core network. The network then triggers a RAT change or a EPS fallback procedure such that the UE is handover to a target cell that supports IMS VoPS.
US10178584B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for changing a connection by a user equipment (UE) connected with a relay UE through a device to device (D2D) link in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving information on a threshold value through a broadcast signaling; measuring a quality of a channel from a cell; establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the cell when the measured quality is higher than the threshold value; and releasing the D2D link with the relay.
US10178582B2
Systems, methods, and devices for communicating packets having a plurality of types are described herein. In some aspects, the packets include a MAC header with a frame control field. The sub-fields included in a particular frame control field may be based on the type of information to be communicated to the receiving device.
US10178570B2
Application bandwidth is dynamically throttled and/or stations are steered to different access points to maintain optimal QoE for stations on a wireless network. Responsive to a determination that the available bandwidth for the one or more applications is below a threshold for station QoE application minimum bandwidth, the current QoE station index is updated. Responsive to a determination that the current QoE station index is below a system determined QoE level, throttling the one or more applications of the station which were below a threshold for station QoE application bandwidth allocation or steering the station to a new access point.
US10178569B1
Mobile devices executing applications utilize data services worldwide. Data may be acquired at a mobile computing device during communication. Over relatively short time scales differences in the data may be determined. Based on the differences, output data may be generated that is indicative of one or more particular network characteristics, such as bandwidth, latency, transmit power, received signal strength, and so forth. The output data may then be used to change the behavior of one or more of an application executing on the mobile computing device or a service executing on server that is in communication with the mobile computing device. For example, output data may be used as input to selection nodes associated with the application or service.
US10178564B2
An approach for enhancing service continuity in the case of a communication failure between a repository and a controller of a spectrum sharing communication system as described. The repository is operable to at least one of store and generate restrictions governing use of a set of spectrum resources, and the controller is operable to receive the restriction from the repository and to enforce the restrictions A method implementation performed, for example, by the controller may comprise determining occurrence of a communication failure between the repository and the controller and, in response to the communication failure, taking one or more actions that result in an at least temporary continued use of spectrum resources under control of the controller.
US10178561B2
Examples described herein relate to enhancing data communication performance in a wireless communication network including a first subscription associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second subscription associated with a second RAT, where the wireless communication device uses a same radio frequency (RF) resource to communicate over both the first RAT and the second RAT. The first RAT is used, in part, for data operations while the second RAT is used, in part, for voice operations. During idle state voice operations, the RF resource is reallocated from performing data operations to performing idle state voice operations, causing interruptions in the data operations. The wireless communication device adjusts at least one or a duration and an occurrence of the idle state voice operations to reduce the impact on the data operations.
US10178558B2
A cell site can be configured to have a first group of antennas arranged to provide coverage around the cell site and a second group of interleaved antennas that are interleaved between the antennas of the first group. The two groups can communicate at different frequency sets so that the two groups do not interfere with one another. Service nulls of one group that would otherwise be created by interference and low RSSI between antennas from the same group can be covered by the main beam of the other group, which can significantly improve SINR.
US10178553B2
A shared spectrum manager (SSM) may enable spectrum access for Tier 2 Users (T2Us) and Tier 3 Users (T3Us) while provisioning quality of access (QoA) in a dynamic shared spectrum environment while ensuring sufficient spectrum and interference protection for Tier 1 Users (T1Us). The SSM may enable new user spectrum authorizations by sending, to a regulator, a request for administrative information, and receiving, from the regulator, a policy and user authorization information for at least one user. The SSM may register a T2U with or without contacting the regulator. The SSM may perform quality based admission control by receiving periodic measurements from a master device of each T2U with an active frequency assignment indicating a Quality of Operation (QoO) experienced by the respective T2U, maintaining a map of an effective QoOs for a plurality of T2Us, and categorizing protection contours associated with each of the plurality of T2Us.
US10178545B2
A handheld terminal 200 performs wireless communication with a game apparatus 103 and determines whether the wireless communication with the game apparatus 103 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 and determines whether the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs a return home determination process, based on the determination about whether the wireless communication is possible, when the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 has become, after having become disabled, enabled again.
US10178539B2
A method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) and through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, information of a resource pool for a D2D communication, wherein the information of the resource pool comprises information of a discovery subframe in which a D2D discovery signal is to be communicated, determining that in the discovery subframe, the D2D discovery signal is prioritized over a communication with an evolved NodeB (eNB) unless the communication with the eNB is associated with a random access (RA) procedure, transmitting a RA preamble through a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), determining whether the discovery subframe corresponds to a RA subframe in which a RA response for the UE is to be monitored, and in response to determining that the discovery subframe corresponds to the RA subframe, monitoring, by the UE, the RA response during the discovery subframe.
US10178538B1
The present disclosure is related to a system and method for providing aerial communication services to users trapped in disaster conditions and need immediate attention. It includes an UAV mounted with a central base station to establish communication services with each communication equipment by modeling of an emergency communication network. It analyzes utility function of criticalities to assure an efficient resource allocation mechanism where critical users get preference over non-critical users. The users can be in a critical state either due to low remaining energy of at least one communication equipment of the one or more users or because of the criticality due to their physical surroundings and data rate component to ensure throughput for the communication services. An assisted global positioning system (A-GPS) is being used for obtaining information of physical criticality of the users distributed over a geographical area.
US10178528B2
Methods for managing device connectivity of machine type communications devices include receiving a packet data protocol based command addressed to a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device, determining if the MTC device has an active packet data protocol context, in response to determining that the MTC device does not have an active packet data protocol context, activating a packet data protocol context for the MTC device, and forwarding the packet data protocol based command to the MTC device.
US10178522B2
Techniques to support emergency voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls are described. The techniques may be used for various 3GPP and 3GPP2 networks, various location architectures, and various types of User Equipment (UE). A UE communicates with a visited network to send a request to establish an emergency VoIP call. The UE interacts with a location server instructed by the visited network to obtain a first position estimate for the UE. The UE performs call setup via the visited network to establish the emergency VoIP call with a PSAP, which may be selected based on the first position estimate. The UE may thereafter perform positioning with the location server to obtain an updated position estimate for the UE, e.g., if requested by the PSAP.
US10178513B2
A system and method for relay-mode and direct-mode operations for Push-to-talk-over-Cellular (PoC) using WiFi technologies. One or more servers interface to a wireless communications network to perform advanced voice services for mobile units therein, wherein the advanced voice services include an instant two-way half-duplex voice call within a group of the mobile units comprising a PoC call session. Both the servers and the mobile units that use the advanced group services communicate with each other using control messages within the wireless communications network. At least one of the servers switches voice messages for the advanced group services between the mobile units across the wireless communications network. At least one of the servers manages the call session by acting as an arbitrator for the call session and by controlling the sending of the control messages and the voice messages to and from the mobile units. At least one of the mobile units performs Relay-Mode or Direct-Mode operations using WiFi communications for delivery of the control messages and the voice messages to and from others of the mobile units, thereby enabling the advanced voice services when access to the wireless communications network by the others of the mobile units is limited.
US10178508B1
A cognitive security service learns regular locations and usage of one or more mobile devices for a user at multiple times based on aggregated location and usage information reported by the one or more mobile devices via a network. The cognitive security service forecasts one or more selected locations and selected usage by the user with a highest probability of predictability at one or more future sequential times from among the regular locations and usage. The cognitive security service, responsive to detecting a current location of the one or more mobile devices for the user deviates from the one or more selected locations and selected usage beyond a threshold, triggers, via the network, one or more secondary levels of authentication at the one or more mobile devices, wherein the one or more secondary levels of authentication prevent data breaches on the one or more mobile devices through real-time, location aware data security.
US10178507B1
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented messaging system for sharing location specific information. Users of the messaging system may provide a message about a specific location. The message can be displayed as a tag. The messaging system can comprise a map-based interface, and a plurality of tags on the map-based interface. The tags may be (i) positioned adjacent to a specific location and (ii) oriented to point towards the specific location. The tags may be configured to display at least a portion of a message about the specific location.
US10178506B2
Techniques are disclosed for augmenting light-based communication (LCom) receiver positioning using, for example, an inertial navigation system (INS). An LCom receiver INS may utilize one or more on-board accelerometers and gyroscopic sensors to calculate, via dead reckoning, the position, orientation, and velocity of the receiver. In this manner, the receiver can calculate its relative position using the INS based on a reference point or location. In some cases, the receiver may also or alternatively determine its location or position using a global positioning system (GPS), Wi-Fi-based positioning system (WPS), or some other suitable positioning system. When no LCom signals are in the FOV of the receiver and/or the link is lost to other positioning systems, the receiver INS may be used to augment the receiver positioning. In some cases, the INS mode may run parallel to other positioning techniques to continuously calculate the relative position of the receiver.
US10178502B2
A location-tracking system that includes multiple detector units that are deployed in a region of interest. The detector units receive uplink signals from wireless terminals that are active in the region, and measure the strengths of the received uplink signals. The system computes the locations of the terminals based on the measured signal strengths and the known locations of the detector units. The location-tracking system receives and analyzes downlink signals from one or more of the base stations of the wireless network. The detector unit uses the downlink signal to recover and synchronize to the timing of the wireless network's air-interface. Based on the extracted uplink allocations, and having synchronized with the air-interface, the system is able to distinguish between the uplink signal components originating from each terminal, and thus compute the location of each terminal.
US10178500B1
Tracking devices can be associated with safe zones, smart zones, and high risk zones. Safe zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the safe zone is lower than outside the safe zone. High risk zones correspond to regions where a likelihood that a tracking device is lost within the high risk zone is higher than outside the high risk zone. Smart zones correspond to an expected tracking device, mobile device, or user behavior. Home areas are geographic regions in which a user resides, and travel areas are geographic regions in which a user does not reside. A tracking device can be configured to operate in a mode selected based on a presence of the tracking device within a safe zone, a smart zone, a high risk zone, a home area, or a travel area.
US10178490B1
Image analysis of a video signal is performed to produce first metadata, and audio analysis of a multi-channel sound track associated with the video signal is performed to produce second metadata. A number of time segments of the sound track are processed, wherein each time segment is processed by either (i) spatial filtering of the audio signals or (ii) spatial rendering of the audio signals, not both, wherein for each time segment a decision was made to select between the spatial filtering or the spatial rendering, in accordance with the first and second metadata. A mix of the processed sound track and the video signal is generated. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10178485B2
A method for detecting wrong positioning of an earphone, and an electronic device and storage medium therefor are provided. The electronic device includes a speaker positioned on surface of a housing; and at least one processor configured to determine a positioning state of an earphone detachably connectable to the electronic device based on a difference between a first audio signal received through at least one microphone positioned in a first body of the earphone and a second audio signal received through at least one microphone positioned in a second body of the earphone.
US10178483B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a method of aligning the elements of a tympanic lens, the method comprising the steps of: forming mold of a user's ear canal, including the user's tympanic membrane; digitally scanning the ear canal mold to create a digital model of the user's ear canal; using the digital data to size a chassis for the tympanic lens; manufacturing a chassis; manufacturing an ear canal mold, manufacturing an alignment tool, including a chassis alignment feature and a photodetector alignment feature; mating the ear canal mold and alignment tool; placing the chassis into the mold, using the alignment tool to fix the position of the chassis with respect to a model of the user's tympanic membrane and features thereof; mounting a microactuator and photodetector to the chassis; and using the photodetector alignment feature to position the photodetector prior to fixing the photodetector in place.
US10178480B2
Disclosed are a magnetic circuit system for a loudspeaker, and a loudspeaker. The magnetic circuit system for a loudspeaker comprises a magnetically conductive plate (11), a central magnet (12), a central washer (14), a side magnet (13), and a side washer (15). The side washer (15) comprises a washer body (151) and a bent portion (152) continuing from the washer body (151). The washer body (151) is arranged on the surface, away from the magnetically conductive plate (11), of the corresponding side magnet (13). The bent portion (152) is bent towards the magnetically conductive plate (11) from top to bottom via a side face (15a) of the washer body (151). The bent portion (152) and the magnetically conductive plate (11) are fixedly welded together. According to the present invention, by providing the bent portion and fixedly welding the bent portion and the magnetically conductive plate together, the side washer, the magnetically conductive plate, and the side magnet between the side washer and the magnetically conductive plate are effectively prevented from loosening and falling off due to insufficient glue bonding strength, thus achieving the object of improving the connection strength of the magnetic circuit system itself.
US10178471B2
A unidirectional condenser microphone unit includes a unit case that includes a diaphragm that vibrates upon receiving a sound wave, a fixed electrode disposed to face the diaphragm, an insulating base that supports the fixed electrode to form a back air chamber between the insulating base and the fixed electrode and a fixed electrode leading terminal made of metal that is attached to the insulating base, and that leads a signal voltage generated at the fixed electrode, wherein the unit case is provided with a front acoustic terminal hole formed in a front side of the diaphragm and a rear acoustic terminal hole for communication with the back air chamber, wherein the unit case has a second air chamber different from the back air chamber and the fixed electrode leading terminal is provided with a communication path between the back air chamber and the second air chamber.
US10178466B2
A powered speaker system comprising a cabinet and an input to receive an audio signal from an external amplifier. An audio splitter receives and splits the audio signal into first and second portions. At least one first speaker driver receives the first portion of the split audio signal, and an effects output jack receives the second portion. An effects input jack that is connectable to the external effects device, receives the second portion of signal that is modified by the external effects device. An internal amplifier is coupled to the effects input jack and receives and amplifies the modified second portion of the signal. At least one second speaker driver receives from the internal amplifier, the amplified modified second portion. The first speaker driver outputs the first portion simultaneously while the second speaker driver outputs the amplified modified second portion of the split audio signal.
US10178462B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing having a wearable shape configured to be worn on a human body, a coupling device disposed to at least one area of the housing and changeable from a first state to a second state so that the housing is coupled to an external object, an input signal generating device for generating an input signal when the coupling device is changed to the second state, and a control circuit configured to execute at least one instruction on the basis of at least one input signal generated from the input signal generating device.
US10178461B1
Audio ear buds preferably include a housing, an ear tip, an audio speaker, a chamber divider and a power line. The housing preferably includes a driver cup and a chamber cup. The ear tip is attached to the driver cup. A speaker cavity is formed in the driver cup. The speaker cavity is sized to receive the audio speaker. The driver cup is inserted into the chamber cup. The chamber cup includes a divider bore and an acoustic cavity bore, which are sized to receive the chamber divider. A sound hole is formed through a wall of the chamber cup into the acoustic cavity bore. The chamber divider includes at least one air passage hole. The chamber divider creates a ported speaker chamber and an acoustic chamber. The chamber divider acts as a passive resonator. The power line supplies power to the audio speaker.
US10178447B2
A sensor network system that includes a sensor array having a plurality of sensor units that include a plurality of sensor elements, each sensor element configured to generate an electrical signal in response to a chemical environment in the vicinity of the sensor unit. The set of electrical signals generated by the sensor elements of the sensor unit represents a measured signature of the environment in the vicinity of the sensor unit. An analyzer is configured to extract the measured signatures of each sensor unit from sensor unit information signals and to detect a presence and concentration of one or more of the gases of interest based on the measured signatures.
US10178442B2
In a method for delivering targeted television advertisements based on online behavior, IP addresses indicating online access devices and IP addresses indicating television set-top boxes are electronically associated for a multitude of users. Using user profile information derived from online activity from one of the online access IP addresses, a television advertisement is selected, such as by using behavioral targeting or demographic information, and automatically directed to the set-top box indicated by the set-top IP address associated with that online access IP address. Preferably neither the user profile information nor the electronic association of online access and set-top box IP addresses includes personally identifiable information.
US10178423B1
In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and/or systems for implementing a program guide, which comprises sending a first request and receiving a first response associated with a current or future program guide information. The current or future program guide information includes a first plurality of channel identifiers and a plurality of time slots that correspond to current or future time slots, and is displayed at a client device. A second request is sent, which indicates a requested time period that has already occurred and not displayed on the client device, and corresponds to navigation to a previous time slot. A second response is received, which is associated with past program guide information. The past program guide information includes a second plurality of channel identifiers and on-demand program information, and is displayed at the client device.
US10178420B2
Methods, systems, and media for indicating viewership of a video are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying a video; identifying a group of users connected to a first user of a user device; determining, for each user in the group of users, an affinity score, wherein the affinity score indicates an interaction of the user with the identified video; receiving a request to present, on the user device, a page that includes an indication of the video; in response to receiving the request, determining contextual information related to the request; identifying a subset of users in the group of users connected to the first user based on the affinity score associated with each user and the contextual information; and causing a group of indicators corresponding to the subset of users to be presented on the user device in connection with the indication of the video.
US10178418B2
Provided is a method of processing MPEG data, the method including: obtaining at least one access unit including media data coded through processing including an encapsulation and a packetization; generating at least one media processing unit (MPU) by grouping at least one access unit; determining a duration flag indicating whether duration information of the at least one access unit is valid, in a corresponding MPU; and inserting the duration flag into a header of the corresponding MPU.
US10178406B2
This disclosure describes techniques for improving functionalities of a video encoder, using parameters detected and estimated by a front-end video capture device. The techniques may involve estimating a blurriness level associated with frames captured during a refocusing process. Based on the estimated blurriness level, the quantization parameter (QP) used to encode blurry frames is adjusted either in the video capture device or in the video encoder. The video encoder uses the adjusted QP to encode the blurry frames. The video encoder also uses the blurriness level estimate to adjust encoding algorithms by simplifying motion estimation and compensation in the blurry frames.
US10178401B2
A method of decoding including obtaining transformation coefficients of a sub residual block based on location information of a non-zero transformation coefficient and level information of the non-zero transformation coefficient obtained from a bitstream.
US10178392B2
A method for decoding a multilayer video signal, according to the present invention, is characterized by: inducing the number of active references of a current picture, in consideration of whether the maximum number of active reference pictures of the current picture in a current layer is limited; obtaining a reference layer identifier based on the number of active references, determining an active reference picture of the current picture using a reference layer identifier, generating a reference picture list including the active reference pictures, and performing interlayer prediction of the current picture using the reference picture list.
US10178387B2
Computer processor hardware receives a first set of adjustment values. The first set of adjustment values specify adjustments to be made to a predicted rendition of a signal generated at a first level of quality to reconstruct a rendition of the signal at the first level of quality. The computer processor hardware processes the first set of adjustment values and derives a second set of adjustment values based on the first set of adjustment values and a rendition of the signal at a second level of quality. The second level of quality is lower than the first level of quality.
US10178384B2
Residual prediction poses a problem that deriving a residual involves a large amount of processing for generating two motion-compensated images and deriving a difference. Provided is a residual prediction device including a reference image interpolation unit that derives two residual prediction motion-compensated images, and a residual synthesis unit that derives a residual from a difference between the two residual prediction motion-compensated images and derives a predicted image by adding the residual to a motion-compensated image, in which the residual synthesis unit derives a predicted image by adding the residual to the motion-compensated image in a case where a target block size is greater than a predetermined size and derives the motion-compensated image as the predicted image in a case where the target block size is less than or equal to a predetermined size.
US10178382B2
The invention relates to a method for performing a diagnosis of a camera system (2) of a motor vehicle (1) by: providing at least one image (BD) by means of a camera (3); detecting an object (6) in the image (BD) by means of an image processing device; providing sensor data (SD) by means of at least one sensor (7) of the motor vehicle (1), wherein the sensor data (SD) characterizes environmental conditions of the motor vehicle (1); first classifying the object (6) and herein associating the object (6) with a class (K1, K2, K3, K4) among several predetermined classes (K1, K2, K3, K4) depending on the environmental conditions, wherein the classes (K1, K2, K3, K4) differ from each other with respect to the environmental conditions; second classifying the at least one object (6) and herein associating the object (6) with one of the classes (K1, K2, K3, K4) based on the image (BD) and independently of the sensor data (SD) by a classification device (12) using a predetermined classification model (11); and comparing classification results of the first and the second classification and performing a diagnosis depending on the comparison.
US10178377B2
Disclosed is a 3-dimensional image display device, which includes: an image display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a lattice pattern; and an optical plate disposed spaced apart from the image display panel and including a plurality of light transmission regions or a backlight panel disposed spaced apart from the image display panel and including a plurality of light emission units, wherein the plurality of light transmission regions or light emission units are inclined from a vertical direction, wherein the image display panel includes: a reference data row which forms a reference viewing zone; and at least one data row which forms an intervening viewing zone, wherein the reference viewing zone includes a plurality of unit reference viewing zones, and wherein the intervening viewing zone includes at least one unit intervening viewing zone located between the unit reference viewing zones adjacent to each other.
US10178374B2
Examples are disclosed herein that are related to depth imaging of a 360-degree field of view. One example provides a depth imaging system comprising an image sensor, a reflector subsystem comprising one or more reflectors arranged to reflect a radial field of view of a surrounding environment toward the image sensor, a projector configured to project light onto the reflector subsystem for reflection into the surrounding environment, and a computing device comprising a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive image data from the image sensor, and output a depth image based upon the image data.
US10178372B2
An optical assembly for three-dimensional image capture includes first and second optical channels that are fixed with respect to one another. Each channel is configured to direct light onto at least a portion of an image sensor. The first and second optical channels each include an aperture for receiving the light, an objective lens for focusing the light into an intermediate image on an intermediate image plane, and an eyepiece lens for collimating the intermediate image.
US10178368B2
A stereo imaging system comprises a stereoscopic camera having left and right image capturing elements for capturing stereo images; a stereo viewer; and a processor configured to modify the stereo images prior to being displayed on the stereo viewer so that a disparity between corresponding points of the stereo images is adjusted as a function of a depth value within a region of interest in the stereo images after the depth value reaches a target depth value.
US10178367B2
The current invention relates to the method and apparatus to determine the focus point of a viewer from a single eye of the viewer in a viewing space. The claimed method detects the focus depth and the line of eye sight from said single eye. It further relates to the method to use the determined focus point to achieve virtual reality and augmented reality.
US10178359B2
Tone mapping is performed by digital image processing circuitry on a macro-pixel basis. A luminance value of a macro-pixel of a digital image in a color space is determined. The macro-pixel includes a plurality of individual pixels. Respective tone-mapping gain values of each pixel of the macro-pixel are determined based on the determined luminance value of the macro-pixel. The determined tone-mapping gains are applied to the respective pixels of the macro-pixel. The color space may be a CFA color space, such as a Bayer color space.
US10178358B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for surveillance an area of interest. A surveillance device pre-sets an area of interest for each of plurality of image capturing devices. The surveillance device synchronizes the plurality of image capturing devices to simultaneously observe the area of interest. Upon synchronizing, the surveillance device continuously receives view port details from each of the plurality of image capturing devices. If the received view port details matches with pre-set view port details of the area of interest, then one or more images are captured at the intersection of field of view of plurality of image capturing devices. The captured images are provided to the surveillance device to generate a 3-D model. The 3-D model is observed for detecting presence or absence of a new element in the area of interest.
US10178357B2
The present invention is directed to a system and methods of monitoring a child seated in the rear seat of a vehicle in a child's car seat employing a video camera which transmits a video signal to a video display receiver placed in the driver's frame of vision. The video camera as envisioned herein is placed within a child's stuffed toy, the camera signal being transmitted remotely to a separate video display monitor screen device, viewable to the parent driving the vehicle. The camera is adjustable in the number of positions in which it is placed in the vehicle compartment as well as the direction in which the camera is directed. To adjust the direction in which the camera is pointed, the invention includes a bendable, flexible and sturdy neck that interconnects the camera to a transmission unit, which provides the driver with a view of the child.
US10178355B2
The wood tracking system for a production line generally has a wood product optimizer; a wood product trimmer downstream from the optimizer in the production line; a conveyor for moving wood products from the optimizer to the trimmer and across a handling area therebetween, the optimizer being configured to scan each of the wood products in a given order and to generate optimization data for each wood product; and a computer vision system positioned proximate the handling area along the production line, the computer vision system having a camera, a processor in communication with the optimizer and with the trimmer and a computer-readable memory for storing the optimization data, the processor being configured to acquire images of the handling area from the camera, the processor being configured to associate the optimization data of a given wood product across each of the images until it arrives at the trimmer.
US10178354B2
An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image includes an imaging device, configured to obtain an image signal, a light-intensity estimator, configured to estimate a light intensity outside a shutter that limits an image capturing area of the imaging device in a state where the shutter is closed, and an exposure adjustor, configured to adjust an exposure of the imaging device located inside the shutter according to the estimated light intensity.
US10178349B2
A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
US10178347B2
The present invention provides a scheme that allows a person to communicate with another person at a remote site while giving the realistic sensation as if the persons faced each other in close proximity by capturing the images of the person using a plurality of image capturing units.A remote communication system includes a projector configured to project, on to a screen, an image transmitted from a remote site. The screen has a plurality of the front cameras disposed thereon. A CPU performs an extraction process to extract a person part from each of images captured by the front cameras and a combining process to combine the images captured by the front cameras. The remote communication system further includes a projector that projects the image subjected to the extraction process and the combining process onto a screen set in the remote site.
US10178344B2
In some aspects, control circuitry receives and stores a user-specified time duration to associate with a skip-forward command. When the user later issues a skip-forward command to advance playback of a media asset to a desired location, the control circuitry retrieves the stored time duration, and determines an expected overshoot value associated with the skip-forward command. The control circuitry then compensates for the expected overshoot by calculating a new location in the media asset based on both the retrieved time duration and expected overshoot value. Upon advancing to the new location, the media asset is played back in a fast-forward mode, e.g., at a speed higher than normal speed.
US10178335B2
An imaging device includes: first and second pixel cells each including a photoelectric converter and a transistor electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, the transistor having a control terminal; a first buffer circuit having a first input terminal and a first output terminal, the first buffer circuit receiving a signal for controlling the transistor of the first pixel cell; a second buffer circuit having a second input terminal and a second output terminal, the second buffer circuit receiving a signal for controlling the transistor of the second pixel cell; a first control signal line connecting the first output terminal to the control terminal of the first pixel cell; and a second control signal line connecting the second output terminal to the control terminal of the second pixel cell. The first control signal line and the second control signal line are connected to each other.
US10178325B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for managing a set of videos originating from a camera setup having a plurality of cameras. The system and method provides a mesh of graphical elements superposed with an active video at a display of a user device. The graphical elements are arranged on a virtual surface representing positions of the cameras in a co-ordinate system. The active video originates from the at least one camera, which at least one camera is associated with the graphical element located in the middle portion of the display. In addition, the present disclosure enables correlating relative position, recording direction and order of the multiple cameras for providing multiple viewing positions, for example, on a user interface.
US10178316B2
Apparatus for remote imaging of a terrestrial area, the apparatus comprising: a camera array having a focal length f and a photosensor comprising photosensor pixels characterized by a photosensor pixel pitch P on which light from the terrestrial area is imaged from an operating distance A from the terrestrial area to acquire an image of the terrestrial area; an orthographic image of the terrestrial area having image pixels that image features in the terrestrial area; a terrain map that provides elevation for features in the terrestrial area imaged on the image pixels of the orthographic image; a controller that registers the image of the terrestrial area to the orthographic image responsive to the terrain data; wherein elevation provided by the terrain map has an uncertainty Δβ that satisfies a constraint P≥Δe·f·sin α/A, where a is a maximum oblique angle at which the camera array images the terrestrial area so that registration of the image of the terrestrial area to the orthographic image has an accuracy better than or about equal to the pixel pitch.
US10178314B2
A reference line detection unit 12 extracts an edge from a distorted image taken by a fisheye camera to thereby determine a curved reference line. A distortion parameter calculation unit 13 calculates a distortion parameter such that the reference line is made linear. A distortion correction unit 14 corrects distortion of the distorted image by a distortion correction equation by using the distortion parameter.
US10178313B2
A panning device for processing relative motion vectors and absolute motion vectors obtained from a video sequence, includes: a panning filter module, such as a high-pass IIR filter, for subjecting relative motion vectors to panning processing, an adder module for adding the relative motion vectors subjected to panning in the panning filter module to absolute motion vectors to obtain respective summed values of motion vectors, a clipping module for subjecting the summed values of motion vectors obtained in the adder module to clipping according to a selected cropping window for obtaining final output absolute motion vectors, a first leak integrator arranged after the panning filter module, and a second leak integrator arranged after the clipping module.
US10178298B2
Provided is an image processing device including an image state detection unit which detects a state of a captured image after a processing for determining a captured image has been performed, and a trimming-decision processing unit which performs a trimming decision of the captured image based on a state of the captured image.
US10178296B2
According to the present invention, an imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit which images a subject to acquire a subject image; a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with devices; an output unit configured to output the subject image to the device previously set as an output destination among the devices; a recognition unit which recognizes that one of the devices has been operated by a user; and an output control unit which changes the output destination of the subject image by the output unit when the recognition unit recognizes that one of the devices has been operated by the user.
US10178293B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for controlling a camera using a voice command and image recognition. One or more processors on the camera captures the voice command that is from a user of the camera and declares a subject of interest. The one or more processors processes the voice command and sets the subject of interest. The one or more processors receives a camera image from an imaging system of the camera. The one or more processors identifies the subject of interest in the camera image. The one or more processors sets camera one or more parameters that are appropriate to the subject of interest.
US10178285B2
A double-camera imaging device includes a base bracket and two camera units. The base bracket comprises a base plate, each camera unit comprises a printed circuit board, and the two camera units are fixed on the base plate and spaced apart each other via the printed circuit boards fixed on the base plate. The base bracket is configured to protect the two camera units from external force attack.
US10178273B2
An image reading apparatus includes a tray, first sensors configured to acquire information related to a maximum size of sheets placed on the tray, a scanner configured to generate first image data for each of the sheets conveyed from the tray based on the maximum size, a sheet conveyor configured to convey the sheets placed on the tray toward the scanner, second sensors configured to acquire information related to an actual size of each of the sheets conveyed by the sheet conveyor, and a controller. The controller converts for each of the sheets having an actual size that is different from the maximum size, the first image data stored in a first memory region into second image data based on the maximum size and the actual size of the sheet, and stores the second image data in a second memory region which is different from the first memory region.
US10178262B2
A printing system includes a printer and an information processing device that includes a processor and a memory storing processor-executable instructions, the instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to, when condition information does not include trigger information, determine to instruct the printer to start a pre-printing operation, when the condition information includes the trigger information, determine not to instruct the printer to start a pre-printing operation, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation, transmit the preparation instruction information to the printer, in response to determining to instruct the printer to start the pre-printing operation and performing the preparation instruction process, generate print data based on specified contents data, and transmit the print instruction information to the printer.
US10178259B2
In a printing system capable of supplying a sheet of a job having undergone print processing by the printing unit of a printing apparatus to a post-processing unit capable of executing at least a specific type of post-processing among a plurality of types of post-processes, when the target job requires the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is inhibited from executing print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by a user using a user interface unit. When the target job does not require the specific type of post-processing, the printing apparatus is permitted to execute print processing of the job without explicitly determining a sheet necessary for the print processing of the job by the user using the user interface unit.
US10178256B2
In an information processing apparatus, when a receiving unit receives data from an external device, a power control unit returns a power state of the apparatus from a power saving state and a transmitting unit transmits a start instruction to a connected image forming apparatus, and when a power supply switch becomes on according to a user's operation, the power control unit returns the power state of the apparatus from the power saving state but the transmitting unit does not transmit the start instruction to the image forming apparatus. Thus, it is possible to achieve both a linkage start and an individual start for an external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus, in an image processing system including the information processing apparatus, the external image processing controller and the image forming apparatus capable of performing an image process in cooperation with others.
US10178254B2
An image reading and recording apparatus includes an image recording unit and an image reading unit supported to be pivotally movable above the image recording unit and configured to be opened and closed by being pivotally moved relative to the image recording unit. The apparatus includes a stay including an opening portion formed thereon, a rotor inserted in the opening portion of the stay, a first cam surface provided on an inner peripheral portion of the opening portion, and a second cam surface provided on an outer peripheral portion of the rotor. The rotor rotates due to abutment of the first cam surface and the second cam surface with each other. The image reading unit is held in a first opened state with a first open angle, due to meshed engagement of the first cam surface and the second cam surface with each other.
US10178252B2
Provided is a method and a system for reminding a remaining time for shooting in a shooting process. The method includes: acquiring, by a terminal, a remaining memory space and/or a remaining battery power of the terminal in a shooting process; determining, by the terminal, a first remaining time for shooting according to the acquired remaining battery power; and/or determining, by the terminal, a second remaining time for shooting of the terminal according to the acquired remaining memory space; and displaying, by the terminal, the first remaining time for shooting and/or the second remaining time for shooting, or displaying, by the terminal, the smaller one between the first remaining time for shooting and the second remaining time for shooting.
US10178244B2
A server network includes a central server and a plurality of store servers. Each of the store servers is connected to one or more receipt printers. The central server selects one or more store servers to which image data of an image to be added to a receipt are distributed, and transmits the image data along with condition data to the selected store servers, which are then distributed to receipt printers. Receipt printers that received the image data print one or more receipts with the additional image upon the conditions being met, and transmit content data of each printed receipt to the corresponding store server. Each of the selected store servers generates a receipt issue log based on the content data, and transmits receipt issue logs that accumulated therein to the central server. The central server calculates an amount of exposure of the additional image based on receipt issue logs.
US10178241B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to telecommunications networks, processing and routing calls between networks, a computing system and methodologies for optimizing pricing particularly in situations with massive amounts of data, processing call volume data, deseasonalizing data, minutes of use data, establishing and distributing pricing data for use in routing decisions, among other features and advantages.
US10178230B1
Disclosed are methods and systems for communicating supplemental telephonic entity data to a callee via data association with a Software-as-a-Service application. An example method comprises providing a networked application server, the application server to access a data storage, providing a SaaS application, subscribing a subscriber organization to the SaaS application, receiving at the user interface of the SaaS application data corresponding to an entity, storing within the data storage a data record for the entity, providing a telephonic switching framework, receiving an incoming call with caller ID information, identifying the entity by caller ID information from the data storage, identifying supplemental data in the data storage associated with the entity, placing an outbound call, and communicating to a callee who is a member of the subscriber organization the supplemental data. Some examples of systems generally comprise a server, a SaaS application configured to receive user input and insert user input into a collection of entities within a data storage, a telephonic apparatus configured to receive incoming calls with caller ID, associate the caller ID information with supplemental data, place outgoing calls, effect text-to-speech synthesis, and audibly transmit to a callee data information from the data storage.
US10178227B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes identifying content in a telecommunication session between a caller and one or more other parties. The method further includes dynamically personalizing media provided to the caller on a telecommunication device during at least a portion of a subsequent telecommunication session between the caller and at least one of the one or more other parties based on the identified content in the telecommunication session. The telecommunication session occurs prior to the subsequent telecommunication session.
US10178226B2
The present subject matter relates to a method and a system for selecting a ring back tone to be provided to a caller. The method comprising selecting, by a subscriber, an editable audio file with a predetermined duration; encrypting the selected editable audio file on a storage device; communicating, by a communication interface, a start time of the selected editable audio file to the server, the server transcodes and smoothens the selected portion of the editable audio file; transferring, by the server, the transcoded audio file to the mobile operator network as a ring back tone.
US10178221B2
The present disclosure discloses a time synchronization method and apparatus, which belong to the field of the Internet. The method includes: counting down, when a data processing right of a network application is allocated to a first user, a processing time of the first user, the first user being a user in a user group; stopping, when the first user is disconnected and logs in to the network application again in a process of countdown, if a processing operation sent by a first user terminal is received, the process of countdown, to obtain a remaining processing time of the first user, the processing operation including an operation of abandoning the data processing right or a network data processing operation; and sending the remaining processing time to the first user terminal and a second user terminal separately, so that the first user terminal and the second user terminal separately display the remaining processing time, a second user being a user other than the first user in the user group. The present disclosure prevents an error from occurring in time displayed in the first user terminal and the second user terminal.
US10178220B2
A driver of a vehicle is identified and a command is sent to a mobile communications device that is associated with the identified driver and that is in proximity of the vehicle to force the mobile communications device to change modes such as to enter a hands-free or other suitable mode. The driver may be identified through one or more techniques including biometric sensing, key detection, switch controls, and so forth. Additionally, the driver and/or feature settings preferred by the current driver may be identified by receiving data from the mobile communications device. The data may identify the driver ID with preferred feature settings, the mobile communications device which has an association to a driver ID with preferred feature settings, or the data may specify the preferred feature settings.
US10178219B1
Methods and systems for delivering a voice message. One method includes determining, by an electronic computing device, an environmental condition of a user. The method further includes generating, by the electronic computing device, a voice message based on the environmental condition such that the voice message includes an encoded meaning. The method further includes determining, by the electronic computing device, a voice profile of the voice message based on the environmental condition. The voice profile indicates the encoded meaning. The method further includes outputting the voice message in accordance with the voice profile with a speaker of a communication device.
US10178209B1
A mounting device to support and secure a mobile device incorporating a high pixel count camera, comprised of a first rod secured to a support plate, with the first rod connected to a ball and socket joint for rotating the mounting device into at least a 90° configuration, the ball and socket joint connected to a second rod interposed between the ball and socket joint and a pivot mechanism comprising a pivot dial facilitating pivoting around a vertical axis, and terminating in a vice clamp opposed to the support plate, with a third rod interposed between the pivot mechanism and the vice clamp. A removable mount receives a mobile device having an integrated high pixel count camera and camera lens, the removable mount securing the mobile device so as to leave the camera lens unobstructed.
US10178197B2
A social networking system leverages user's social information to evaluate content submitted for inclusion in objects. If the evaluated submission is accepted, the submission is added to the content of an object. Accepted submissions are also used to predict associations between metadata and objects. Metadata is used to predict which objects will match user searches for information. The social networking system also provides a user interface configured to prompt users to submit information to objects. When a user completes a submission to an object, the user is provided with other options for groups of objects to contribute to. The objects offered are chosen to increase the likelihood that the user will choose to provide submissions to one of the provided objects.
US10178196B2
A media device and methods that identify playback states reachable from a current content playback state and identify a reachable state that is likely to occur, are disclosed. A memory associated with the media device may receive frames that enable a smooth transition between the playback state and the reachable state. The media device may receive frames that correspond to points in the content that are separated by an amount of time that is proportional to the playback rate of the likely state. The frames may be frames corresponding to an image that may be played back at the playback rate of the likely state.
US10178191B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining engagement information related to client devices that have downloaded at least a portion of media content. In some embodiments, a server may receive a request for a playlist of media content from a client device. In response, the server may send a first portion of cookie to the client device. The server may receive a request for a fragment of media content with the first identifier value from the client device. In response, the server may determine that the request was received with the first identifier value and may increment a counter that represents a number of unique client devices that have downloaded at least a portion of the media content. The server may also send a second portion of the cookie to the client device that indicates that the client device has already downloaded at least part of the media content.
US10178186B2
Communication resumption information can be retained nodes of a cluster of nodes that form a distributed computing system. The communication resumption information can be exchanged between a node of the cluster and a peer node of the cluster after resumption of communication following a loss of communication between the node and the peer node. A determination of whether communication between the node and the peer node can be reestablished without losing messages can include comparing the communication resumption information received by the node from the peer node with the communication resumption information retained at the node. Communication between the node and the peer node can be resumed based when the determining indicates that communication between the node and the peer node can be reestablished without losing messages.
US10178183B2
Techniques for preventing information disclosure via dynamic secure cloud resources are provided. Data (information) remotely housed on a particular cloud resource of a particular cloud is periodically, randomly, and dynamically changed to a different cloud resource within the same cloud or to a different cloud resource within an entirely different cloud. A requesting principal for the data is dynamically authenticated and a current location for the data is dynamically resolved and the principal is securely and dynamically connected to the current cloud resource and current cloud hosting the data for access.
US10178181B2
An interposer is provided that is configured to interpose into an application security protocol exchange by obtaining application session security state. The interposer does this without holding any private keying material of client or server. An out-of-band Security Assistant Key Escrow service (SAS/SAKE) is also provided. The SAKE resides in the secure physical network perimeter and holds the private keying material required to derive session keys for interposing into application security protocol. During a security protocol handshake, the interposer sends SAKE security protocol handshake messages and in return receives from the SAKE session security state that allows it to participate in application security protocol.
US10178178B2
A sensor module, in some embodiments, comprises a sensor configured to capture data and a sensor interface coupled to the sensor and configured to process the data captured by the sensor to form processed data. The sensor module may also comprise a current consumption configuration component and a transistor coupled to the current consumption configuration component and configured to control the current consumption configuration component to output the processed data.
US10178177B2
A gateway is configured to perform a method that includes receiving data from a first device using a first protocol. The first protocol is a cloud based protocol. The method also includes determining that the received data is intended for a second device that uses a second protocol. The method further includes converting the received data from the first protocol to the second protocol. In addition, the method includes transmitting the received data to the second device via the second protocol.
US10178176B2
Methods and systems for communicating data between a network and devices of a vehicle are provided. A method includes: determining, by a processor, a value associated with a round trip time based on vehicle information; adjusting, by the processor, a size of a window used in communication with the network based on the value; and communicating data at least one of to and from the network based on the size of the window.
US10178172B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for expanding a storage capacity of the electronic apparatus are provided. In the method, at least one storage equipment on a network is searched and logged in by using a network interface. A virtual disk is established and a volume of at least one disk in each storage equipment is attached to the virtual disk as a physical volume of the electronic apparatus. The physical volume is transformed into a logical volume and a file system of the logical volume is established for providing the electronic device to access the logical volume.
US10178171B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a client device, the request including one or more device dimensions associated with the client device. The method further includes identifying a set of one or more content profiles, where each identified content profile is associated with one or more content-profile dimensions that are compatible with the received device dimensions. The method also includes determining whether a previously created content manifest corresponds to the identified set of content profiles. The method also includes, in response to a determination that a previously created content manifest corresponds to the identified set of content profiles, sending to the client device a uniform resource identifier (URI) identifying a resource that includes the previously created content manifest.
US10178167B2
An apparatus and methods are provided for conducting wireless data communications, particularly real-time data communications, in a communication environment that includes a restricted channel (e.g., a channel subject to Dynamic Frequency Selection or DFS). Two or more mobile communication/computing devices (e.g., smart phones, tablet computers) participate in a peer-to-peer network and engage in data communications while one or more of them operate on the restricted channel (e.g., to maintain an infrastructure communication connection). Their channel sequences are configured to maximize the efficiency of the data communication while satisfying restrictions of the restricted channel or avoiding that channel, and only require them to monitor one beacon interval. One or more of the devices may strategically roam to the restricted channel or away from the restricted channel, depending on which action will provide greater communication throughput or efficiency.
US10178153B2
In an image transmission apparatus, a reading device reads image data from a document. A setting acquisition section acquires a transmission setting as a setting for transmission of the image data. An image transmission section transmits the image data through a communication device according to the transmission setting. The transmission setting includes a first transmission standard for transmitting a first file containing the image data, a second transmission standard for transmitting a second file containing the image data that is different from the first transmission standard, and a maximum size of the first file transmittable according to the first transmission standard. The image transmission section transmits the first file according to the first transmission standard when a size of the first file does not exceed the maximum size, and the second file according to the second transmission standard when the size of the first file exceeds the maximum size.
US10178150B2
A method, computer program product and system for eye contact-based information transfer. Communication is established by a computer device between a first head mounted device worn by a first user and a second head mounted device worn by a second user. Gaze tracking establishes through gaze tracking of the first head mounted device and the second head mounted device that the first head mounted device and the second head mounted device have made eye contact. Responsive to an input to at least one of the first head mounted device and the second head mounted device made while the first head mounted device and the second head mounted device have established eye contact, a computer device transfers a file between the first head mounted device and the second head mounted device.
US10178149B2
Design analysis for framework assessment is described. A file including a designed image may be obtained from a storage device, and a guide structure may be extracted from the file. The guide structure may include multiple guide lines, and the guide lines may be analyzed to determine column-related data, such as at least relative widths or positional orders, a total number of columns, groups of column widths, a combination thereof, and so forth. From multiple frameworks, a framework may be ascertained that substantially matches the guide structure based at least partially on a comparison of column-related data to each framework of the multiple frameworks. Ascertainment of a framework may be indicated to an end-user. The ascertained framework may be applied to facilitate development of a coded functional version of at least a visual design of the image.
US10178145B2
In a method for adjusting data streams during a video conference the audio-based and video-based real-time communication to be transmitted to various receiver units with respective resource loads that vary over time, a server unit receives an incoming data stream from each of a multiple number of transmitter units. The server unit generates from such incoming data streams a multiple number of outgoing data streams, each having a different compressed data rate. The server unit receives from the specified receiver units, their resource loads (varying over time) in chronological intervals and accordingly subjects the data rates of the compressed outgoing data streams to a controlling adjustment to the resource loads of the respective specified receiver units. The outgoing data streams so adjusted are sent to the specified receiver units.
US10178143B2
A method, system and computer program product for selecting a bitrate to stream encoded media. A manifest file is fetched, where the manifest file contains metadata for encoded media segments which includes tags signifying the associated encoded media segments being important to the viewer. A playback occupancy level is then increased before reaching these tagged media segment(s). A high bitrate (high quality) is selected to stream the tagged media segment(s) which are then fetched and played at the selected high bitrate in response to the new playback buffer occupancy level being above a threshold level. In this manner, those media segments that are of higher importance to the viewer will be viewed in a higher quality since content information is used to select the bitrate to receive the encoded media segments. As a result, the user's quality of experience in viewing media is improved.
US10178142B2
A method and apparatus for an adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service using metadata of content are provided. The metadata of the content may be efficiently divided for a purpose of use of a terminal based on general media information or specific media information, and may be transmitted to the terminal. A group may include one or more representations of content. The metadata may include a group element, and the group element may provide a summary of attributes of one or more representations included in the group.
US10178139B2
Data related to an event is provided to a group of contacts while the event is occurring via an event user interface that enables the group of contacts to coordinate with one another during the event. In this regard, an event coordination service is provides the event data to each contact of the group for review via an event user interface that is persistently displayed on a telecommunication or other computing device associated with the contact for the contact's easy and immediate reference during the event. When the event ultimately concludes, display of the event user interface ceases as the group of contacts likely no longer needs immediate or ready reference to the event.
US10178136B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure relates to providing at least one multimedia service to at least one legacy device [120]. Embodiments may encompasses a method comprising steps of, establishing a connection between at least one user equipment [110A, 110B, 110C] and the at least one legacy device [120] via an IP multimedia sub-system [150]; receiving at least one parameter of the at least one legacy device [120] at the IP multimedia sub-system [150]; authenticating at least one user equipment [110A, 110B, 110C] by the IP multimedia sub-system [150]; registering the at least one user equipment and the at least one legacy device [120] at the IP multimedia sub-system [150]; updating of the legacy device [120] with an information pertaining to the registration of the at least one user equipment [110A, 110B, 110C]; and providing at least one multimedia service to the at least one legacy device [120] via the IP multimedia sub-system [150].
US10178135B2
Converged network management application and system is provided that delivers a management platform as a service that can view and/or manage all managed networks in the aggregate, or any one of them individually (including individual devices within the managed networks), in a secure and efficient manner, providing continuously available intelligence in real time on the managed networks and systems, and overcoming integration issues including conflicting address schemas, the need to avoid unnecessary infrastructure, and the need acquire all necessary information in real time within applicable memory and bandwidth constraints.
US10178126B2
For activity-based risk assessment of open Wi-Fi networks, an activity occurring at a consumer application is analyzed to determine that a connection with a first open Wi-Fi network is to be used in conjunction with the activity. From an entry representing the activity in a risk profile, a risk level of the activity is selected. Whether an overall risk value of the first network exceeds the risk level of the activity is determined. When the overall risk value of the first network exceeds the risk level of the activity, the connection with the first network is terminated. A second open Wi-Fi network with a second overall risk value that does not exceed the risk level of the activity is selected. A second connection with the second network is established. The activity is allowed to proceed using the second connection with the second network.
US10178122B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for disseminating location-based reputations for link-layer wireless attacks may include (i) receiving, at a server from a first wireless client, a wireless-attack report for a location that includes (a) information that indicates that the first wireless client detected a link-layer wireless attack (e.g., a wireless-access-point spoofing attack or a deauthentication attack) at the location or (b) information that indicates that the first wireless client did not detect any link-layer wireless attacks at the location, (ii) using, at the server, the wireless-attack report to generate a reputation for link-layer wireless attacks for the location, (iii) receiving, at the server from a second wireless client, a request for the reputation of the location, and (iv) responding to the request with the reputation of the location. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10178121B2
A system for the identification and subsequent rating of domains based on a result derived from a proprietary algorithm configured to detect when a new domain is registered, correlate the domain to registrant data, cross-check the data based on domain proximity to known-malignity, and output a proximity score employed to convey the potential for malicious content or intentions available or to be served as content accessible via the domain. The system is equipped with a dynamic domain database configured to provide near-real-time domain registration data across all domain extensions, facilitating the detection and scoring of new domains as soon as practicable after their inception. Domains are routinely re-evaluated for score consistency, helping to better maintain the security of visitors to websites hosted, or automated connections to infrastructure present on the domain.
US10178110B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting and mitigating a sleep deprivation attack (SDA). A method for detection of the SDA includes one of tracking power consumption rate of a device, incoming request signals received by the device, or an activity duration of one or more physical interfaces of the device. A system for mitigation of the SDA includes the device to be protected from the SDA, a counter to count request signals received by the device from another device, a counter attack circuit to pose one or more security challenges by sending a request message to the other device once a counted number of request signals exceeds a pre-determined number, and a control circuit to terminate connection with the other device if an expected reply based on the request message is not received from the other device within a pre-determined time duration.
US10178107B2
In one embodiment, a security device identifies, from monitored network traffic of one or more users, one or more suspicious domain names as candidate domains, the one or more suspicious domain names identified based on an occurrence of linguistic units used in discovered domain names within the monitored network traffic. The security device may then determine one or more features of the candidate domains, and confirms certain domains of the candidate domains as malicious domains using a parameterized classifier against the one or more features.
US10178095B2
A computer system for authenticating and managing network traffic may comprise a network link providing a connection to a network, an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server configured to provide AAA management for the network link, an access controller configured to communicate with the AAA server and to control access to the network link, and a subnetwork of client devices connected to an intermediate relay node. The client devices may be configured to communicate with the access controller and the network link through the intermediate relay node. Also methods and processes by which an intermediate relay node and an access controller may operate in the network for authentication of client devices and routing of network traffic.
US10178090B2
The subject matter discloses a computerized system, comprising a computerized device communicating with a third party server, that comprises a memory unit that stores a representation of a Boolean circuit and a processing unit for calculating a result of the Boolean circuit according to a string used as input for the Boolean circuit and calculating a first predefined function on the result of the Boolean circuit. The system also comprises a first auxiliary server communicating with the computerized device, the first auxiliary server comprises a processing unit for calculating a second predefined function on the result of the Boolean circuit received from the computerized device and a second auxiliary server communicating with the computerized device comprises a processing unit for comparing the result of the first predefined function and the result of the second predefined function.
US10178089B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal apparatus including one or more processors configured to execute a process. The process includes storing content data acquired in a specific mode in a storage, acquiring an address corresponding to authentication information at authentication when the content data are acquired in the specific mode, generating a first mail to which the content data are attached and setting the address in the first mail as a transmission destination, transmitting the generated first mail to the address, and controlling deleting the stored content data and a transmission history of the transmitted first mail.
US10178082B2
Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate bootstrap authentication of a second application by way of a user confirmation via a first application. The first application is authenticated using trusted credentials. A first application is authenticated with an authentication service using the security credential. Text input is sent from the first application to the second application via the network. The text input is sent to a text entry field on the second application.
US10178081B2
An authentication system according to an embodiment is provided with a service providing apparatus, an IDaaS corporation apparatus, and an authentication providing apparatus. Based on the user ID and SSO request transmitted from the user terminal, the authentication providing apparatus executes authentication processing for the user. If the result of the authentication processing indicates success, the IDaaS corporation apparatus having SSO account information including the SSO account identifier identical to the user ID, permits SSO authentication to be executed for the service identified by the service account identifier included in the service account information associated with the SSO account information. The service providing apparatus transmits information related to the service to the user terminal.
US10178077B2
Organizations maintain and generate large amounts of sensitive information using computer hardware resources and services of a service provider. Furthermore, there is a need to be able to delete large amounts of data securely and quickly by encrypting the data with a key and destroying the key. To ensure that information stored remotely is secured and capable of secure deletion, cryptographic keys used by the organization should be prevented from being persistently stored during serialization operations.
US10178072B2
A “trusted domain” is established within which content received from a communications network, e.g., a cable TV network, is protected from unauthorized copying thereof, in accordance with the invention. In an illustrative embodiment, the trusted domain includes a device associated with a user which receives content from the cable TV network. The content may be encrypted using a content key in accordance, e.g., with a 3DES encryption algorithm before it is stored in the device. In addition, a first encrypted content key version and a second encrypted content key version are generated by respectively encrypting the content key with a public key associated with the device and another public key associated with the user, in accordance with public key cryptography. The first and second encrypted content key versions are stored in association with the encrypted content in the device storage. The encrypted content can be migrated from a first device to a second device, and can be decrypted in the second device in the second device is associated with the same user, and also provided with the second encrypted content key version.
US10178058B2
Expanding captured portions of references in an instant messaging system is supported. An electronic message that includes a captured portion of a reference is received. The captured portion is a portion of the reference that is inserted into the electronic message by a sender. A query for data that is associated with the reference is sent to a database that stores a supplemental object, and in response, information extracted from the supplemental object is received. The visual representation of the captured portion is presented and modified within the electronic message, via a user interface, based on (i) the information extracted from the supplemental object and (ii) an interaction with the captured portion that generated the query, the interaction comprising dragging a handle that is associated with a border of the captured portion of the reference such that more than the captured portion of the reference is presented.
US10178057B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for generating poll information from a chat session. The mechanism monitors chat content in the multiple user chat session. The mechanism identifies a poll question in a message within the chat content. The mechanism identifies a plurality of answers to the poll question in subsequent messages within the chat content. The mechanism generates a poll user interface presenting the poll question and the plurality of answers as selectable options and presents the poll user interface to the multiple users of the chat session.
US10178053B2
An improved method of hierarchical output queueing of packets for a network scheduler of a network gateway that determines delays needed to conform to applicable rate shaping, and enqueues the packets based on the delay. Queues are associated with different classes of service (CoS), and within each class, each queue has a different scheduled time upon which it becomes available for dequeuing. A single set of CoS queues can support a large number of devices, improving the efficiency of software-based queuing by reducing the number of queues and simplifying queue polling.
US10178040B2
The present disclosure relates to a data processing device, a receiving device, a data processing method, and a program capable of suppressing degradation in quality in a case of reproducing data. In one example, a packet selection units selects one service stream from a multiplexed stream obtained by multiplexing a plurality of service streams. An insertion unit inserts null packets with time information, in which predetermined time information has been given to payloads, to spaces that become empty when the packet selection unit generates the one service stream. Thereafter, in the streams which have been demultiplexed after being multiplexed, the timing to output the null packets is adjusted with reference to the time information inserted in-to the null packets.
US10178031B2
A load balanced system may incorporate instrumented systems within a group of managed devices and distribute workload among the devices to meet both load balancing and data collection. A workload distributor may communicate with and configure several managed devices, some of which may have instrumentation that may collect trace data for workload run on those devices. Authentication may be performed between the managed devices and the workload distributor to verify that the managed devices are able to receive the workloads and to verify the workloads prior to execution. The workload distributor may increase or decrease the amount of instrumentation in relation to the workload experienced at any given time.
US10178028B2
In a secure network where the network characteristics are not known, a call admission control algorithm and a preemption control algorithm based on a destination node informing the source node of the observed carried traffic are used to regulate the amount of traffic that needs to be preempted by the source. The amount of traffic that needs to be preempted is based on the carried traffic measured at the destination node. The traffic to be preempted is based on the priority of the traffic, where the lowest priority traffic is the first to be preempted until the amount of traffic preempted is sufficient to allow the remaining traffic to pass through the network without congestion.
US10178024B2
An example method is provided for a first edge device to perform traffic forwarding in a network with geographically dispersed first site and second site. The method may comprise reconfiguring, for a workload migrated from the second site to the first site, the first edge device located at the first site as a default gateway of the workload from the second edge device located at the second site by causing the workload to learn an association between a default gateway Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the second edge device to a Media Access Control (MAC) address associated with the first edge device. The method may further comprise receiving, from the workload, traffic for forwarding to a destination, and in response to determination that the destination is not within the second site, forwarding the received traffic to the destination without using the second edge device.
US10178019B2
In one embodiment, a device in an anchorless network receives an update message from a first neighbor of the device. The update message indicates a movement of a node in the network to a new position in the network. The device updates a forwarding table of the device to reverse a link direction associated with the node, in response to receiving the update message. The device sends the update message to a second neighbor of the device towards a prior position of the node in the network.
US10178014B2
File system, control program of file system management device, and method of controlling file system
A file system includes a plurality of information-processing-devices, a plurality of storage devices and a management device, each connected to a communications network, wherein each information processing devices includes a transmission unit for transmitting state information indicating utilization state of the communications network by the information-processing-device to the management device, and the management device includes a determination unit for determining an information-processing-device to execute an inputted job, and a first storage device, and further determine a first path in the communications network for the information-processing-device to access to the first storage device, a collection unit for collecting the state information, and an alteration unit configured to identify, based on the collected state information, a second storage device enhancing access efficiency and a second path in the communications network enhancing access efficiency, and alter the first storage device and the first path to the second storage device and the second path.
US10178007B2
The liveness of routing protocols can be determined using a mechanism to aggregate liveness information for the protocols. The ability of an interface to send and receive packets and the forwarding capability of an interface can also be determined using this mechanism. Since liveness information for multiple protocols, the liveness of interfaces, the forwarding capability of interfaces, or both, may be aggregated in a message, the message can be sent more often than could individual messages for each of the multiple protocols. This allows fast detection of failures, and sending connectivity messages for the individual protocols, such as neighbor “hellos,” to be sent less often.
US10178006B2
A method performed by a network device may include assembling a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) echo request, the echo request including an instruction for a transit node to forward the echo request via a bypass path associated with the transit node, and an instruction for an egress node to send an echo reply indicating that the echo request was received on the bypass path. The method may also include sending the MPLS echo request over a functioning label switched path (LSP).
US10178004B2
A computer-implemented method of obfuscating communication traffic patterns may include detecting, at a first communications device, data communication sessions with a second communications device via the computer server using a network protocol. At the first device, a first traffic pattern is accessed based on the data communication sessions over a first predefined time period. At the first communications device, a second traffic pattern is accessed based on the data communication sessions over a second predefined time period that occurs after the first predefined time period. At the first communications device, based on a randomization process, a dummy data communication pattern is generated for transmission to the second communication devices, whereby the dummy data communication pattern is appended to the second traffic pattern for obfuscating a traffic pattern change between the first and the second traffic pattern at the computer server used to establish the communication sessions.
US10178002B2
A method includes detecting, by a Local Control Network (LCN) Monitor, a transmission of a data packet from a first device to at least one second device over the LCN. The LCN Monitor is not a source or destination of the data packet. The method also includes obtaining, by the LCN Monitor, a copy of the transmitted data packet. The method further includes decoding, by the LCN Monitor, the obtained data packet. In addition, the method includes storing, by the LCN Monitor, the decoded data packet in a storage device.
US10178000B2
An integrated storage/SAN monitoring and control system includes a storage device, a switch device associated with an API, and a management system. The switch device receives storage device information from the storage device via an API call using the API, and transmits the storage device information and switch device information to the management system via an API call using the API. The management system receives the storage device information and the switch device information from the switch device, determines storage device control instruction(s) and switch device control instruction(s) using the storage device information and the switch device information, and transmits the storage device control instruction(s) and switch device control instruction(s) to the switch device via an API call using the API. The switch device then executes the switch device instruction and transmits the storage device instruction to the storage device for execution via an API call using the API.
US10177987B2
Improved interfaces for cloud migration are provided. In one implementation, the interface may include a plurality of quadrants reflecting risk associated with cloud deployment of a plurality of software technology assets along a first axis and cost associated with cloud deployment of the plurality of software technology assets along a second axis as well as a plot point for each of the plurality of software technology assets, each plot point being mapped to one of the plurality of quadrants corresponding to an associated risk and cost of the corresponding software technology asset.
US10177986B2
Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a universal chassis that may be mounted in the head unit of a vehicle. The chassis may accept one or more modules that each have common dimensions. With a common form factor, the universal chassis is configurable as different modules with different functionality may be inserted into the chassis with ease.
US10177984B2
Problem isolation in a virtual environment is described. In one example, a method (300) is provided for isolating problems in a virtual environment. The method includes maintaining (310) a topology of network devices in the virtual environment. The virtual environment can be monitored (320) using a performance module for network device operation irregularities exceeding a threshold. A network device operation irregularity can be identified (330) as well as a portion of the topology associated with the network device operation irregularity. Topology portions associated with network device operation irregularities can be grouped (340) together using a snapshot module to form a snapshot of a problem topology.
US10177979B2
A coordinated timing network is dynamically split into a plurality of coordinated timing networks. This split occurs without taking down any of the servers. Each coordinated timing network has its own coordinated timing network identifier (CTN ID), and its own primary time server. Optionally, each coordinated timing network includes a backup time server and an arbiter.
US10177978B2
Provided herein are devices, systems, methods and various means, including those related to providing a community internet drive that may utilize a centrally-managed hub as well as storage devices distributed among various networked machines. In some embodiments, the community internet drive can also include features to enable its users to promote and utilize the user's trusted personal relationships while also enabling an open platform for peer-to-peer and/or other types of sharing schemes.
US10177974B2
An example managed server system (102) includes a managed server (104), a baseboard management controller (BMC) (108), and a shared memory (106). An example configuration process (200) includes transmitting (201), by the BMC, a network-address request over an out-of-band network; receiving (202) received configuration information; writing (203), by the BMC, stored configuration information to the shared memory; accessing (204), by the managed server, the shared memory to read the stored configuration information; and configuring (205) the managed server using the stored configuration information.
US10177973B2
A communication apparatus which communicates with one or more other communication apparatuses via a network, includes: one or more communication interfaces being used for communication with the one or more other communication terminals; a selection unit connected to the one or more communication interfaces and selecting at least one communication interface that is used in accordance with an instruction from a control device which controls communications; and a network establish unit establishing a virtual network by forming a virtual communication path which directly connects between the at least one communication interface selected by the selection unit and a communication interface included in at least one communication apparatus among the one or more other communication apparatuses.
US10177972B2
Methods, wireless device and network node for handling signal measurements in a dynamic TDD scenario
Method and wireless device (500) for handling Channel State Information, CSI, measurements when operating in a wireless network in a dynamic Time Division Duplex, TDD, scenario where a network node (502) serving the wireless device (500) can switch between different up-link-downlink configurations comprising flexible subframes which can be uplink or downlink. When the wireless device (500) determines (5:2) that a link direction of at least one of the flexible subframes is ambiguous, the wireless device (500) indicates (5:5) to the serving network node (502) that the wireless device (500) has not made a valid CSI measurement due to the ambiguous link direction. Then, the network node (502) re-uses (5:6) a CSI measurement from a CSI report previously received from the wireless device (500), e.g. for link adaptation.
US10177965B1
An encoding system that distributes a live stream to end user devices is provided herein. The encoding system automatically detects failed components and implements a failover action to replace the failed component with a backup component in a manner that reduces live stream interruptions. For example, the encoding system can include a network interface that is coupled to an encoder allocated to a live stream. Instead of providing a contribution encoder that transmits the live stream with a location of the allocated encoder, the encoding system can provide the contribution encoder with a location of the network interface. Thus, the contribution encoder can transmit the live stream to the network interface. The network interface can then forward the live stream to the allocated encoder. If the allocated encoder fails, then the network interface can forward the live stream to a backup encoder.
US10177958B2
A one-to-multi multimedia stream method separately gets video and audio sources form the video and audio chips of a mobile device and reanalyzes related source data to correct the timestamp of video and audio data to ensure the synchronization of the output video and audio. Thus the incapability caused by not synchronized audio and video in stream decoding server can be solved. The present invention is configured to retrieve video and audio via mobile device without ffmpeg open source kits for format transformation, which greatly reduces operation and power consumption of CPU of mobile phone, and the mobile device can proceed one-to-multi video and audio transmission to a plurality of multimedia stream servers simultaneously.
US10177955B2
A base station is configured to communicate with at least a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with the first UE using a first modulation scheme, and with the second UE using a second, different, modulation scheme, wherein communications with the first and second UEs are arranged to be substantially orthogonal to each other. A method of allocating resources in a communication network comprising a base station operable to communicate with a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, the method comprising using a first modulation scheme for communication with the first UE, and using a second, different, modulation scheme for communication with the second UE, wherein communications with the first and second UEs are configured to be substantially orthogonal to each other.
US10177953B2
Methods and apparatuses for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication of non-OFDM radio signals are disclosed. The non-OFDM radio signals are force-modulated into OFDM signals. In one example, a non-OFDM signal is received and is processed into an OFDM signal to produce a created OFDM signal. An actual OFDM signal is also received and is processed together with the created OFDM signal.
US10177952B1
An all-digital software-only modem using distributed processing resources of cloud computing is provided. In particular, all processes that were previously supported by purpose built software, firmware, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware description language (HDL) firmware, and an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) are in the instant disclosure supported entirely by a High Performance Computing (HPC) server inside a cloud computing environment.
US10177949B2
Embodiments of the invention provide advances in liquid-crystal technology for use as tunable phase-delay lines. The amount of phase delay through the liquid crystal is adaptively tuned, in order to coherently combine two signals, regardless of their phase differences. By adaptively adjusting the phase delays in the two signal paths, maximum coherent power combining is ensured. This ability to coherently combine the power of two signals regardless of their initial phase differences can greatly simplify, for example, antenna-diversity techniques used in MIMO applications as well as other applications.
US10177947B2
An apparatus and digital signal processing means are disclosed for excision of co-channel interference from signals received in crowded or hostile environments using spatial/polarization diverse arrays, which reliably and rapidly identifies signals with transmitted features that are almost-periodic over known framing intervals, and exploits those features to develop diversity combining weights that substantively extract those signals from that environment, based on differing diversity signature, timing offset, and carrier offset of those signals. In one embodiment, the signal identification and extraction is performed in an appliqué that can be implemented without coordination with an actual radio transceiver.
US10177942B2
A wireless data reception method for receiving orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal includes determining that an interfering signal is present, along with a serving cell signal, in the OFDM signal on the shared downlink channel, determining an estimate of a transmission structure of the received interfering signal, wherein the transmission structure is defined by a plurality of transmission parameters, classifying the estimate of the transmission structure as belonging to a subgroup from a plurality of possible subgroups in a dynamic order, estimating, in a priority order, at least some of the plurality of transmission parameters of the estimate of the transmission structure, and performing further receiver-side processing of the serving cell signal by subtracting contribution of the interfering signal from the OFDM signal based on the estimate of the transmission structure and a result of the estimating step.
US10177940B1
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for use in a transition-minimized differential signaling link (“TMDS”) receiver. The apparatus may include an integrated circuit electrically connected with a voltage supply. The integrated circuit may include a first transistor, a second transistor, and a resistor arranged in a cascaded configuration along a termination path. The first transistor may include calibration code control configured to adjust an output impedence.
US10177939B2
A base station includes a channel estimator, a scheduler, and a controller. The channel estimator estimates a channel matrix with respect to each of a plurality of terminals. The scheduler determines a transmission weight corresponding to each of the plurality of terminals on the basis of the channel matrix that is estimated by the channel estimator such that the transmission weight is orthogonal to a current channel matrix and a past channel matrix of a terminal that is a subject of interference. The controller controls, when the transmission weight is determined by the scheduler, the number of samples of the current channel matrix and the past channel matrix to which the transmission weight is to be orthogonal with respect to each of the terminals.
US10177938B2
A method to be performed at a station configured to connect to a Long Term Evolution radio access network (LTE-RAN) to utilize enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services using a Multicast-Broadcast Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN). The method including receiving a MBSFN subframe having a MBSFN subframe structure including a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, a first one of the OFDM symbols having a first reference symbol inserted therein, a second one of the OFDM symbols having a second reference symbol inserted therein, determining a rate of change of channel conditions being experienced by the station and performing a non-destaggered channel estimation when the rate of change of channel conditions is greater than a predetermined threshold, the non-destaggered channel estimation using a first Channel Impulse Response (CIR) at the first OFDM symbol and a second CIR at the second OFDM symbol.
US10177930B1
Information regarding a user's personal schedule is received at an electronic computing device. Information regarding current and future utility costs is received. The information regarding the user's personal schedule, the information regarding the user's location and the information regarding the current and future utility costs is used to determine at least one financial impact based on a temperature setting. The at least one financial impact includes estimated costs for time intervals and historical billing cycles. A temperature effecting device or an energy effecting device in the home of the user is controlled using the at least one financial impact.
US10177928B2
A content server delivers content items on demand to communications devices, and includes: a network interface configured to receive a content request from each of the communications devices and, in response to the received content requests, to transmit the content item to each of the communications devices following the arrival of a predetermined time using a network and one of a plurality of wireless access interfaces, each of the wireless access interfaces being configured to transmit and/or receive signals using a different radio access technology; and a control unit configured to cause the content transmitter to select one of the wireless access interfaces for transmitting the content item based on the number of content requests received prior to the arrival of the predetermined time; wherein the network interface is configured to transmit a signaling message to each of the communications devices signaling the selected wireless access interface prior to transmitting the content item.
US10177926B2
A method can include conducting a plurality of related conference calls and generating a visualization for each conference call. The visualizations can be sent to computing devices of participants of the plurality of conference calls concurrently with the plurality of conference calls.
US10177923B2
A network of electronic appliances includes a plurality of network units of electronic appliances. The network units include a first network unit and a plurality of second network units. The first network unit is connected to at least one of the second network units. Each of the network units includes a stem server and a plurality of peripheral devices connected to the stem server. The stem server includes at least one passcode and at least one list of a plurality of registration codes. Each list is associated to a respective passcode. Each registration code of one list associating to one passcode corresponds to a respective peripheral device. Each registration code is generated in response to a respective passcode using physical randomness of a respective peripheral device in correspondence to the passcode. An address of each identification cell is defined by several word lines and bit lines.
US10177915B2
The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a computing device that is configured to attest itself to a communication partner. In one aspect, the computing device may comprise a communication port configured to receive an attestation request from the communication partner, and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may be configured to receive the attestation request from the communication port. The attestation request may include a nonce generated at the communication partner. The ASIC may be further generate a verification value and send the verification value to the communication port to be transmitted back to the communication partner. The verification value may be a computation result of a predefined function taking the nonce as an initial value. In another aspect, the communication partner is configured to attest the computing device using speed of computation attestation.
US10177911B2
Methods and systems are provided for efficient and secure “Machine-to-Machine” (M2M) between modules and servers. A module can communicate with a server by accessing the Internet, and the module can include a sensor and/or actuator. The module and server can utilize public key infrastructure (PKI) such as public keys to encrypt messages. The module and server can use private keys to generate digital signatures for datagrams sent and decrypt messages received. The module can internally derive pairs of private/public keys using cryptographic algorithms and a set of parameters. A server can use a shared secret key to authenticate the submission of derived public keys with an associated module identity. For the very first submission of a public key derived the module, the shared secret key can comprise a pre-shared secret key which can be loaded into the module using a pre-shared secret key code.
US10177909B1
Managing private key access in multiple nodes is described. A piece of data (e.g., a private key) is encrypted using identity-based broadcast encryption and identity-based revocation encryption so that only certain servers in a distributed network of servers can decrypt the piece of data. The piece of data is encrypted with a key encryption key (KEK). The KEK is split into two pieces. The first piece is encrypted using identity-based broadcast encryption with an identified location as input such that only servers of the identified location can decrypt the first piece, and the second piece is encrypted using identity-based revocation encryption so that certain identified servers of the identified location cannot decrypt cannot decrypt the second piece. The keys are transmitted to the servers.
US10177901B2
A serializer may be provided. The serializer may include a first data output circuit and a second data output circuit. The first data output circuit may provide first data to an output node in synchronization with a first phase clock and a second phase clock. The second data output circuit may provide second data to the output node in synchronization with the second phase clock and a third phase clock. The first data output circuit may perform a precharge operation or an emphasis operation for the second data output circuit, in synchronization with a third phase clock.
US10177900B2
In a general aspect, a method for transmitting data by inductive coupling can include applying, at a rate of a data-carrying signal, a plurality of bursts of a periodic signal to a tuned inductive antenna circuit. The method can also include producing, in the tuned inductive antenna circuit, an antenna signal. The antenna signal can generate a magnetic field. The method can further include delimiting an amplitude of each burst of the plurality of bursts of the periodic signal in accordance with an envelope signal having a rising edge and a falling edge. The delimiting the amplitude of each burst of the plurality of bursts of the periodic signal can include generating the plurality of bursts of the periodic signal using a set of points. The set of points can define, by discrete values, a burst of the plurality of bursts of the periodic signal.
US10177894B2
A method and an apparatus for tuning an FIR filter in an in-band full duplex transceiver. The method for tuning an FIR filter may include: setting attenuation of the FIR filter to be a first value and then estimating input information of the FIR filter; estimating a delta response using the estimated input information of the FIR filter; and updating the attenuation of the FIR filter to a second value using the estimated delta response.
US10177885B1
In a carrier detector, the simple latch is replaced with a pulse timer and reference control module which outputs logic high (H) when more than two consecutive toggled signals come within 1.5 baud periods and keeps logic high (H) until it misses a toggled signal for two baud periods. This carrier detector has a tolerance for a false detection which happens when the frequency shifts from lower to higher and the input amplitude level does not reach a detectable level. With this transition, the amplitude level at filter output becomes higher due to the transient response of the filter and eventually this would trigger the comparator for only one baud period. The deglitch circuit, however, ignores this clock edge in the carrier detector as provided herein.
US10177884B2
Provided are a method for performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) of a frequency division duplex (FDD) cell in a wireless communication system and a wireless device using the same. The wireless device receives an uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration for an uplink (UL) carrier of the FDD cell, and performs the HARQ in a DL carrier of the FDD cell on the basis of HARQ timing determined according to the UL-DL configuration.
US10177880B2
Disclosed is a device and a method in a wireless communication system, and the device comprises: a transmitting unit configured to transmit a first allocation signal synthesized by use of the superimposed coding to plenty of user equipment at least comprising a first and a second user equipment, and the first allocation signal at least comprising a first power signal part for the first user equipment and a second power signal part for the second user equipment; a receiving unit configured to receive at least a feedback retransmission request from the first and the second user equipment; and a processing unit configured to process the first and the second power signal parts with a preset processing coefficient to obtain a second allocation signal in response to the retransmission request, and the transmitting unit is further configured to transmit the second allocation signal to the first and the second user equipment which merge the first and the second allocation signals in order to separately obtain the data for the first and the second user equipment.
US10177879B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for transmitting acknowledgement information in response to a plurality of data TBs received on one or more downlink data channels over TTIs by a UE in a TDD communication system. A method includes generating acknowledgement information comprising four acknowledgement bits, jointly representing a state of reception results for the plurality of data TBs, if a first condition applies, wherein a number of the data TBs is greater than a number of the acknowledgement bits; generating acknowledgement information respectively representing a reception result for each data TB by a corresponding acknowledgement bit, if a second condition applies; encoding the acknowledgement bits; multiplexing the encoded acknowledgement bits with uplink data; and transmitting the multiplexed acknowledgement bits and the uplink data on an uplink data channel.
US10177876B2
A sequence detector is provided for detecting symbol values corresponding to a sequence of input samples obtained from a transmission channel. The sequence detector comprises a branch metric unit (BMU), a path metric unit (PMU) and a survivor memory unit. The branch metric unit calculates branch metrics for respective possible transitions between states of a trellis. The path metric unit accumulates branch metrics provided by the branch metric unit in order to establish path metrics. The survivor memory unit selects a survivor path based on the path metrics and outputs a survivor sequence of the detected symbols corresponding to the survivor path. The sequence detector is configured such that the synchronization length is different than the survivor path memory length.
US10177874B2
A node (100) of a cellular network selects a first modulation scheme setting for a first radio link to a first device (10′). The first modulation scheme setting is selected from a set of modulation scheme settings, each identified by at least one corresponding index. On the basis of a mapping of each of the indices to a corresponding set of transmission parameters, the node (100) identifies a first set of link parameters mapped to the index corresponding to the selected first modulation scheme setting. The node (100) then configures the first radio link according to the identified first set of link parameters. Further, the node (100) selects a second modulation scheme setting for a second radio link to a second device (10).
US10177871B2
A method of fragmented packet transmission in a multiple-channel passive optical network (PON), comprising fragmenting, by a Gigabit-PON encapsulation method (GEM)/next generation-PON encapsulation method (XGEM) engine of a network element, data into a plurality of packet fragments; encapsulating, by the GEM/XGEM engine, the plurality of packet fragments into frames; scheduling, by a bonding block of the network element, transmission of the frames on a plurality of channels, wherein an order for transmitting the frames is based in part on channel availability; and transmitting, by a transmitter of the network element, the frames to a receiver on the plurality of channels according to the scheduling.
US10177867B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a mobile device comprising a slave clock, a receiver unit for receiving one or more frames from a remote device including a master system clock, a transmitter unit for transmitting one or more frames to the remote device, and a clock error correction unit. The clock error correction unit is configured to maintain clock synchronization between the slave clock and the master system clock, and maintain frame alignment for frames transmitted from the transmitter unit.
US10177865B2
A method performed by radio network node for enabling channel handling of a channel between a wireless device and the radio network node in a wireless communication network. The channel is defined in continuous time and a sampling rate of the channel is non-uniform. The radio network node predicts a channel gain using a first sampling descriptor indicating a first momentary sampling frequency and a second sampling descriptor indicating a second momentary sampling frequency, wherein the first sampling descriptor operates on a different segment of continuous time than the second sampling descriptor. The predicted channel gain enables channel handling such as channel estimation and link adaptation.
US10177863B1
A test system for over the air (OTA) measurements of a device under test (DUT) with a dynamic adjustable grid is provided. The system comprises a device under test (DUT), at least one positioner, at least one measurement antenna, and at least one measuring/control device. The measurement antenna is configured to measure several defined measurement points with regard to the device under test, wherein the measurement points are arranged in a grid around the device under test. The configuration of the grid depends on an input value received by the measuring/control device.
US10177860B2
Method and apparatus for co-existence management between mitigation techniques where a user device (“UE”) is connected to a base station (“BS”) of a network. The UE may receive a first value of a BS parameter from the BS and may determine a second value of a signal quality parameter corresponding to a signal received by the UE from the BS. The UE may then select an operating mode for the UE based on the first value and the second value, where the operating mode comprises implementing at least one interference mitigation technique.
US10177857B2
This disclosure discloses an optical module and a method for controlling optical module. The optical module includes a controller and a port, wherein the controller is configured to receive a state signal from an optical chip, the state signal is a continuous signal, and output a non-continuous signal to a port pin of the port according to the state signal; the port pin is configured to output the non-continuous signal, and receive a non-continuous response signal in an interval period of the non-continuous signal; and the controller further also configured to receive the response signal from the port pin, and control a power supply to supply power according to the response signal.
US10177847B2
An information communication method is provided that includes continuously capturing an image of a subject that transmits a signal by changing luminance, with an image sensor, and displaying a captured image that includes a box. The method also includes determining whether the subject is in the box, and receiving the signal transmitted by the subject when it is determined that the subject is in the box. In in the receiving, image data is obtained by capturing the subject with an exposure time, the signal is obtained by demodulating a bright line pattern, and the bright line pattern is caused to appear in the image data by setting the exposure time to be less than or equal to 1/480 second.
US10177844B2
A measurement method and apparatus for a residual direct-current component and a system where the measurement method for a residual direct-current component includes: selecting a section of data of a first predetermined length from a received signal; performing fast Fourier transform on the selected data to obtain a frequency-domain signal of the data; calculating a power spectrum of the frequency-domain signal of the transformed data; and finding out a maximum peak value of the power spectrum in a frequency offset range, and taking power of the maximum peak value as power of the residual direct-current component. With the embodiments of this disclosure, a residual direct-current component of an optical transmitter may be measured at a receiver end of a coherent optical communication system, thereby avoiding a diagnosis error of a communication network, and improving performance of the communication system.
US10177840B2
A communication apparatus configured to communicate with a router included in a first network and a multiplexer that multiplexes a plurality of optical signals having different wavelengths transmitted from the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit and receive a first signal to and from the router, transmit and receive a second signal to and from another communication apparatus in a second network through the multiplexer, the second signal having a transmission scheme different from the first signal, mutually convert the first signal and the second signal with each other, detect a first communication disabled state between the another communication apparatus and the communication apparatus, and transmit, to the router, a first detection signal for detecting adjacency relationship between the communication apparatus and the router when the first communication disabled state is detected.
US10177838B2
The systems and processes described herein can reduce the footprint of the internal devices of a wireless device by combining the DC-DC supply regulator with a FEM. Further, the device footprint can be further reduced by sharing the integrated DC-DC supply regulator among multiple FEMs reducing or eliminating the use of a separate DC-DC supply regulator for each FEM of a wireless device. Moreover, in certain embodiments, by integrating the DC-DC supply regulator into a 2G FEM, power efficiency can be improved for some wireless devices. For example, the DC-DC supply regulator may be used to supply power to a PA used for high-band 2G transmission functions. Using the DC-DC supply regulator can improve power efficiency compared to systems that supply the power for the high-band 2G PA directly from the power supply (e.g., the battery).
US10177835B2
An adaptive interference cancellation apparatus for cancelling a side lobe between neighboring cells installed in a repeater and capable of improving quality of a communication signal and preventing frequent handover by maintaining a serving base station signal among repeater signals and cancelling an interference signal from a neighboring cell is provided. The adaptive interference cancellation apparatus for a side lobe between neighboring cells, which is installed in a mobile communication repeater system comprising an omni-directional antenna, includes: three directional antennas installed around the omni-directional antenna; an output signal selector configured to select and output two of three directional antenna incident signals; and an adaptive noise canceller configured to adaptively filter the two directional antenna incident signals output from the output signal selector, estimate a noise reference signal, and extract a serving base station signal by subtracting the estimated noise reference signal from an omni-directional antenna incident signal.
US10177833B2
Systems and methods for capture, recording, and regeneration of subtle energy resonance signals are described herein. A system for capturing and recording the signals may include an antenna array disposed within an electromagnetic shield, a signal processor, and a memory coupled to at least one processor. The antenna array may include at least one antenna comprising a conductive disk and an amplifier circuit board, the antenna array detecting and receiving subtle energy resonance signals from a source. The signal processor converts the analog signals into digital signals, which are then stored into the memory. The electromagnetic shield houses the antenna array and minimizes electromagnetic interference with the received signal. Such a controlled environment ensures the purity of the recorded subtle energy resonance signals for regeneration. Regeneration is accomplished with a second antenna coupled to a digital regeneration device for short-range broadcasting, affecting manifestations of subtle energy resonance in a subject.
US10177831B2
A particular communications protocol is used for antenna training to accomplish directional communications in a wireless communications network. In some embodiments, pertinent information for various requests, responses, and status reports, is included in information elements.
US10177829B2
When wireless communication is performed, a signal can be formed into a spiral beam (H), the spiral pitch of the signal can be changed, and a plurality of spiral beams (H) with different spiral pitches can be transmitted and received. A wireless signal transmitting antenna (10) includes a signal emitting means (A) having N number of antenna elements (A1, . . . , AN) (where N is an integer satisfying N≥2) equally spaced on a circumference of circle, and a signal distribution means (B) for generating, from an input first signal (S), N number of second signals (G1, . . . , GN) having a phase difference from one another and outputting the N number of second signals (G1, . . . , GN) to the N number of antenna elements (A1, . . . , AN), respectively, so that a spiral beam (H) with the equiphase surface inclined spirally is output from the signal emitting means (A).
US10177823B2
Provided is an antenna control technique for forming the boundary of a communication area at a desired location. An antenna parameter control apparatus 2 calculates an antenna parameter in a case of feeding electric currents with an equal intensity in mutually reverse directions to two antennas 1A, 1B which generate a magnetic field. The antenna parameter control apparatus 2 includes an input parameter acquisition unit 21 that acquires input parameters for calculating the antenna parameter; and a parameter calculation unit 22 that calculates an inter-center distance d between the antennas 1A, 1B as the antenna parameter based on the input parameters.
US10177818B2
Provided is a device for transmitting wireless power. The wireless power transmitting device includes a communication unit, a power receiving unit, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain, through the communication unit, communication establishment information and location information associated with a wireless charging area from a tag device, establish, through the communication unit, communication with a wireless power transmitting device based on the communication establishment information, and control to transmit the location information to the wireless power transmitting device. The power receiving unit wirelessly receives the power from the wireless power transmitting device after the communication unit transmits the location information.
US10177813B1
A method and a device are disclosed including a PLC node having a synchronizer, a modem with a transceiver, and a computing device coupled with a power line for power line data communications. In various embodiments, a coordinator or Data Concentrator Unit (DCU) coordinates the communication of PLC nodes. The PLC nodes are configured to detect a zero crossing of the power line wave form and transmit or receive data within time slots defined with respect to the detected zero crossing. In other embodiments, the time slots may be synchronized using a frame sync signal, an external signal, or polling. In various embodiments, the time slots may be random access or assigned. In some embodiments, the modem and/or node may be placed in a sleep mode when not communicating to reduce power consumption and be awaken when an allocated time slot is approaching.
US10177810B2
Embodiments described herein provide echo cancellation power saving management at a cable transceiver. An echo response signal having a first number of signal components is obtained, via an echo cancellation filter. At a first iteration for calculating a first accumulative echo power, a respective echo tap that corresponds to the first iteration is identified. The first accumulative echo power is calculated for the respective iteration by summing powers of outputs from a last echo tap to the respective echo tap. It is then determined whether the first accumulative echo power, exceeds a pre-determined echo power threshold. If the first accumulative echo power exceeds the pre-determined echo power threshold, a first turn-off indication is sent to the echo cancellation filter to turn off all echo taps including and between the last echo tap to the first echo tap.
US10177805B2
A method and an apparatus for tuning an FIR filter in an in-band full duplex transceiver. The method for tuning an FIR filter includes: converting an input signal of the FIR filter into a first signal that is a baseband signal; converting a signal obtained by subtracting an output signal of the FIR filter from the self-transmitted interference signal into a second signal that is the baseband signal; and calculating attenuation of the FIR filter using the first signal and the second signal.
US10177804B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to an electronic device protection module configured with a casing adapted to cushion and removably retain the electronic device, a bi-fold component mechanically coupled with the casing, and a releasable electronic device accessory pouch attaching receptacle disposed in the bi-fold component. In an illustrative example, the electronic device may be a smartphone. The casing may be, for example, elastically deformable, cushioning the smartphone against impact. In some examples, the casing may be configured with openings or buttons to enable device operation. In some designs, the bi-fold component may be configured with pockets adapted to secure currency or cards. In some embodiments, the attaching receptacle may releasably attach an accessory pouch to the bi-fold component. Various examples may advantageously provide portable device protection and enhanced access to the user's device accessories, for example, protecting the user's device and storing the user's accessories in the accessory pouch.
US10177795B1
Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure provide approaches for mapping entries to a cache using a function, such as cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The function can calculate a colored cache index based on a main memory address. The function may cause consecutive address cache indexes to be spread throughout the cache according to the indexes calculated by the function. In some embodiments, each data context may be associated with a different function, enabling different types of packets to be processed while sharing the same cache, reducing evictions of other data contexts and improving performance. Various embodiments can identify a type of packet as the packet is received, and lookup a mapping function based on the type of packet. The function can then be used to lookup the corresponding data context for the packet from the cache, for processing the packet.
US10177793B2
Apparatuses and methods for performing an error correction code (ECC) operation are provided. One example method can include generating a codeword based on a number of low density parity check (LDPC) codewords failing a LDPC decoding operation and performing a BCH decoding operation on the codeword.
US10177792B2
A method of encoding a bitstream includes obtaining at least one current input word of the bitstream to encode, determining at least one nominal codeword associated with the at least one input word according to an error-control code, selecting one of the at least one nominal codeword or a substitute codeword in order to keep a current running digital sum and/or a running alternate sum bounded, and outputting an encoded word comprising the selected codeword. Embodiments make it possible to generate an encoded bitstream which is “DC free” and “Nyquist free” while providing error correction with a fixed coding rate.
US10177791B1
An apparatus may include a circuit that performs one or more read and recovery operations for one or more data segments including updating an outer code syndrome for one or more recovered data segments recovered by the one or more read and recovery operations and preventing updates of the outer code syndrome for one or more failed data segments not recovered by the one or more read and recovery operations.
US10177790B2
A bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 5/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 64-symbol mapping.
US10177781B2
A method includes selectively coupling first and second input nodes of a capacitive bridge to first and second voltages, respectively, and selectively coupling first and second output nodes of the capacitive bridge to first and second output terminals, respectively, during a first phase of a clock cycle. The method further includes selectively coupling the first and second input nodes to the second and first voltages, respectively, and selectively coupling the first and second output nodes to the second and first output terminals, respectively, during a second phase of the clock cycle.
US10177780B2
In the conventional technique, only an output having a bandwidth identical to the bandwidth of individual DACs has been obtained even by using a plurality of DACs. Also, even when the output of a bandwidth broader than the individual DAC is obtained, there has been a problem associated with asymmetricity of a circuit configuration. In a signal generating device of the present invention, a plurality of normal DACs are combined to realize an analog output of a broader bandwidth beyond the output bandwidth of the individual DACs, and the problem of the asymmetricity of the circuit configuration is also resolved. A desired signal is separated into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal in a frequency domain, and a series of operation of constant (r)-folding the amplitude of the high-frequency signal and shifting it on the frequency axis to superimpose it on the low-frequency signal are made in a digital domain. The output of each DAC is switched by an analog multiplexer.
US10177778B2
An apparatus comprising M time-interleaved analog to digital converters (ADC) that sample an input signal at M sampling phases, wherein M is equal to or greater than 4. A phase control circuit adjusts at least M−1 sampling phases of the M sampling phases. The phase control circuit comprises M−1 phase error detector circuits. Each phase error detector circuit detects a corresponding phase error for a corresponding sampling phase of the M−1 sampling phases based on a sample captured at a sampling phase of the M sampling phases immediately preceding the corresponding sampling phase and a sample captured at a sampling phase of the M sampling phases immediately subsequent to the corresponding sampling phase.
US10177773B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes an input clock terminal, an output clock terminal, a first input data terminal, and a set of input data terminals having a number of terminals. A divide-by-two block is coupled to the output clock terminal. A modular one-shot clock divider is coupled between the input clock terminal and the divide-by-two block. The modular one-shot clock divider is further coupled to the set of input data terminals. An intermediate clock generation block is coupled between the input clock terminal and the modular one-shot clock divider. The intermediate clock generation block includes a first digital logic block coupled between the input clock terminal and the modular one-shot clock divider. The first digital logic block is further coupled to the first input data terminal, and a clock-blocking block is coupled between the divide-by-two block and the first digital logic block.
US10177757B2
A system for mitigating a solid state power controller (SSPC) open or closed state change caused by single event latchup (SEL) includes an ON circuit, an OFF circuit operatively connected in parallel to the ON circuit, a holding capacitor operatively connected in parallel with the ON circuit and the OFF circuit, and a power switching device operatively connected to the holding capacitor and the ON circuit. The system is configured to maintain, during and after the SEL, a drive state voltage to the power switching device that is stored in the holding capacitor prior to the SEL.
US10177756B2
The isolated gate driver according to the present invention comprises a low voltage part including a PWM transmission unit for receiving a PWM signal from a microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage PWM signal, and a low voltage logic block for receiving a control signal from the microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage control signal; an insulation part for boosting the low voltage PWM signal and the low voltage control signal into a high voltage PWM signal and a high voltage control signal, respectively; and a high voltage part including a high voltage logic block for outputting a slew rate control signal in accordance with the high voltage control signal, and a slew rate controller for controlling a slew rate of a gate voltage of a power device external to the isolation gate driver such that the gate voltage of the power device has the slew rate depending on the slew rate control signal at a rising edge or a falling edge, wherein the high voltage part is insulated from the low voltage part by the insulation part.
US10177753B2
An integrated circuit includes a control circuit, a first-in first-out circuit, and a serializer circuit. The control circuit generates parallel pulse-width modulation data in first parallel pulse-width modulation signals. The first-in first-out circuit stores the parallel pulse-width modulation data indicated by the first parallel pulse-width modulation signals. The first-in first-out circuit outputs the stored parallel pulse-width modulation data in second parallel pulse-width modulation signals. The serializer circuit converts the parallel pulse-width modulation data indicated by the second parallel pulse-width modulation signals to serial pulse-width modulation data in a serial pulse-width modulation signal.
US10177751B2
A delay circuit includes a plurality of cascaded delay elements responsive to control signals. Each delay element is configurable to receive an input signal on a forward path and return the input signal on two return paths. A control unit is connected to the plurality of cascaded delay elements and configured to generate a first set of control signals for defining a first configuration of the plurality of cascaded delay elements, a second set of control signals for causing a delay element of the plurality of cascaded delay elements to change from a powered off status to a powered on status while configured in an initialization mode, and a third set of control signals for defining a second configuration of the plurality of cascaded delay elements.
US10177742B2
Active feedback is used with two electrodes of a four-electrode capacitive-gap transduced wine-glass disk resonator to enable boosting of an intrinsic resonator Q and to allow independent control of insertion loss across the two other electrodes. Two such Q-boosted resonators configured as parallel micromechanical filters may achieve a tiny 0.001% bandwidth passband centered around 61 MHz with only 2.7 dB of insertion loss, boosting the intrinsic resonator Q from 57,000, to an active Q of 670,000. The split capacitive coupling electrode design removes amplifier feedback from the signal path, allowing independent control of input-output coupling, Q, and frequency. Controllable resonator Q allows creation of narrow channel-select filters with insertion losses lower than otherwise achievable, and allows maximizing the dynamic range of a communication front-end without the need for a variable gain low noise amplifier.
US10177741B1
Several embodiments of an envelope tracking active circulator is disclosed with a method to cascade them. In an active transistor based circulator (active circulator), gate (base) and drain (collector) bias voltage can be adjusted by RF or microwave input envelop signal. This is called envelop tracking active circulator. In this concept, input RF signal is detected by detection circuit, such as detection diode or coupler and converted into low frequency envelop signal by the proper filtering circuitry. The generated envelop signal controls the supply voltage of the drain and gate with the proper function of the envelop signal to improve active circulator insertion loss, isolation and power handling capability. This concept can be applied to any type of solid-state FET (Field effect transistor) transistor based active circulator, as long as they have bias dependent trans-conductance and capacitances inside. For a BJT (bipolar junction transistor) based active circulator, base bias current supply modulator will be used instead of voltage supply modulator.
US10177730B2
A packet-based radio receiver (10) comprises an automatic gain control system (17) and a signal-level detector (18, 19, 20) for monitoring an analog signal derived from radio signals received by the radio receiver. The signal-level detector (18, 19, 20) comprises a binary memory cell (22, 24) and a monitoring system. The monitoring system comprises a comparator (21, 23) arranged to receive a reference voltage at a first input and the analog signal at a second input. The monitoring system is arranged to (i) continuously monitor the voltage of the analog signal, (ii) detect when the monitored signal exceeds the reference voltage, and (iii) store a predetermined binary value in the memory cell (22, 24) in response to such a detection. The automatic gain control system (17) is arranged to control the gain of a variable-gain component (12, 13, 14) of the radio receiver in dependence on the contents of the binary memory cell (22, 24).
US10177726B1
A power splitting (or combining) arrangement includes a waveguide having a plurality of output (or input) ports and an input (or output) port configured to receive (or transmit) electromagnetic waves having a frequency in a designated frequency band. Each output (or input) port is configured to electrically couple with an input (or output) terminal of a corresponding one of a plurality of active devices. Each output (or input) port has a respective output impedance associated with the frequency band. The power splitting (or combining) arrangement is configured such that the respective output (or input) impedance of each output (or input) port substantially matches an input (or output) impedance of the corresponding one of the plurality of active devices.
US10177721B2
A limiter circuit is integrated into an RF power amplifier. The limiter circuit automatically starts adding attenuation at the input of the RF power amplifier after a predetermined input power level threshold is exceeded, thereby extending the safe input drive level to protect the amplifier. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the limiter circuit is implemented using a pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (PHEMT) device or a metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) device. Diode connected transistors or Schottky diodes may also be used in the limiter circuit.
US10177708B2
A wire-tensioning system can be used to maintain tension in power wires extending from components of solar panels. A tensioning component attached to the frame of the solar panel and attached to the power wires can be used to maintain tension in the power wires, both when the power wires are unconnected to power wires of adjacent solar panels, and after the power wires are connected to the power wires of adjacent solar panels. Some attachment structures may be configured to be easily removable and re-attachable to the frame of the solar panel, while other attachment structures may be configured to penetrate or dig into the frame of the solar panel to form a more permanent attachment therebetween.
US10177707B2
A PV panel wire cover assembly includes an elongate wire cover and a plate coupler, the assembly used with a PV panel having perimeter trim with a leg spaced apart from the PV panel to define a gap therebetween. The leg of the perimeter trim has a perimeter trim thickness. The wire cover has first and second opposite sides and a first flange extending from the first side with a slot formed therein. The plate coupler includes a fastener and a plate having proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion sized for receipt within the gap. The fastener passes through the slot and has first and second portions engaging the first flange and the proximal portion of the plate respectively. The wire cover can be fastened to the perimeter trim of the PV panel through the plate coupler without penetrating the PV panel.
US10177706B2
A device for regulating the supply to a photovoltaic converter, the device comprising: a laser source (2); a photovoltaic converter (6) that feeds a DC-DC converter (8); circuit (100) for regulating the input impedance of said DC-DC converter (8) as a function of the operating voltage (Us) of the photovoltaic converter (6) and of its no-load voltage (Us0); and circuit (42) for measuring an output voltage of the DC-DC converter (8) and for producing a regulation signal (SR) for regulating the laser source.
US10177700B2
In a surgical power tool that includes an electric motor positioned in a housing and a movable element extending from the housing and operatively actuated by the electric motor, a controller can repeatedly interrogate for faults a plurality of components in or on the housing, such as the electric motor, the controller, a battery, a trigger, and a mode switch. Upon finding a component in a fault condition, the controller can engage a critical error handler that disengages the electric motor, disables at least some of the plurality of components, and directs a microprocessor in the controller into a safe software state. Upon engaging the critical error handler, the controller can further write to a memory an error code corresponding to which of the plurality of components is in the fault condition. The error code can be accessible via a wired or wireless connection.
US10177695B2
A position estimation unit of a motor control apparatus includes a counter electromotive voltage estimation unit configured to estimate a counter electromotive voltage generated in a motor based on generated voltage and current of the motor, and an arc tangent calculation unit configured to perform an arc tangent calculation using coordinate data on a two-dimensional plane based on the estimated counter electromotive voltage to calculate an angle of deviation. The arc tangent calculation unit includes a rotation calculation unit configured to repeatedly perform a rotation calculation of coordinate data on a fundamental wave and a harmonic; a rotation direction judgment unit configured to judge a rotation direction of a subsequent rotation calculation based on a result of the rotation calculation of the rotation calculation unit; and a deviation angle calculation unit configured to calculate a total of rotation angles obtained as a result of the rotation calculation.
US10177692B2
This variable electric motor system comprises an electrically powered device and a planet gear transmission device. One of a sun gear shaft, a planet gear carrier shaft, and an internal gear carrier shaft of the planet gear transmission device constitutes an output shaft, another shaft constitutes a constant-speed input shaft, and the other shaft constitutes a variable-speed input shaft. The electrically powered device includes: a constant-speed electric motor including a constant-speed rotor that rotates about the axis, and that is connected to the constant-speed input shaft; and a variable-speed electric motor including a variable-speed rotor that rotates about the axis, and that is connected to the variable-speed input shaft. The variable-speed rotor has a shaft insertion hole formed therethrough in the axial direction, the shaft insertion hole having a cylindrical shape centered on the axis. The constant-speed rotor is inserted through the shaft insertion hole.
US10177691B2
A power tool is provided including a brushless direct-current (BLDC) electric motor having a stator and a rotor. The power tool includes power switches including high-side switches and low-side switches disposed on a direct-current (DC) bus line between a power supply and the electric motor, and a controller configured to electronically brake the motor by simultaneously closing the high-side switches or the low-side switches to electrically short the stator windings. In an embodiment, the controller is configured to monitor a voltage of the DC bus line, and if the voltage of the DC bus line is lower than a voltage threshold, execute electronic braking by toggling between closing the high-side switches and closing the low-side switches over braking cycles, and if the voltage of the DC bus line is greater than the voltage threshold, execute braking by closing only the high-side switches or the low-side switches over the braking cycles.
US10177689B2
The power generation efficiency is to be enhanced by converting vibration energy including various direction components into electric energy without waste. A cantilever structure is adopted, in which a first plate-like bridge portion (120) and a second plate-like bridge portion (130) extend in a shape of a letter U from a fixing-portion (110) fixed to the device housing (200) and a weight body (150) is connected to the end. On the upper surface of the cantilever structure, a common lower layer electrode (E00), a layered piezoelectric element (300) and discrete upper layer electrodes (Ex1 to Ez4) are formed. The upper layer electrodes (Ez1 to Ez4) disposed on a center line (Lx, Ly) of each plate-like bridge portion take out charge generated in the piezoelectric element (300) due to deflection caused by the Z-axis direction vibration of the weight body (150). The upper layer electrodes (Ex1 to Ex4, Ey1 to Ey4) disposed on both sides of the center line (Lx, Ly) of the plate-like bridge portion take out charge generated in the piezoelectric element (300) due to deflection caused by the X-axis or Y-axis direction vibration of the weight body (150).
US10177687B2
An oscillatory wave motor includes a piezoelectric element, an elastic member that includes a projecting portion, a friction member that moves relative to the elastic member and includes a contact surface in contact with the projecting portion, and pressing unit that brings the projecting portion into contact under pressure with the contact surface in a pressing direction that is a direction of a perpendicular line of the contact surface. The projecting portion includes a spherical portion formed in a center of the projecting portion, a contact portion formed on or near a center of the spherical portion, a flat portion formed around the spherical portion, and a corner portion formed around the flat portion. The spherical portion, the flat portion and the corner portion are configured to have a uniform thickness and to have flexibility in the pressing direction with the contact portion as a center.
US10177684B2
A converter arrangement for an AC system includes a phase leg including a first sub-converter, a second sub-converter, an IPT interface configured for connecting the first and second sub-converters with a phase line A, and at least one DC bus connected to the first and second sub-converters. The first sub-converter is connected in parallel with the second sub-converter between the DC bus and the IPT interface. Each of the first and second sub-converters includes a chain-link converter connected to the IPT interface and including a plurality of converter cells connected in series with each other, and a common DC link multilevel converter connected to the DC bus and in series with the chain-link converter.
US10177681B2
A power converter circuit includes a chopper circuit configured to receive an input voltage and generate a chopper voltage with an alternating voltage level based on the input voltage, an autotransformer including at least one tap, the autotransformer being coupled to the chopper circuit and configured to generate a tap voltage at the at least one tap, and a selector circuit configured to receive a plurality of voltage levels. At least one of these the voltage levels is based on the at least one tap voltage. The selector circuit is further configured to generate a selector output voltage based on the plurality of voltage levels such that the selector circuit selects two of the plurality of voltage levels and switches at a switching frequency between the two voltage levels.
US10177675B2
An object of the present invention is to achieve reduction in height of an electric power conversion device while maintaining high performance of the electric power conversion device. An electric power conversion device according to the present invention includes: a first power semiconductor module, a second power semiconductor module, a third power semiconductor module, and an AC circuit body that transmits and detects U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase AC currents, and when a direction along an arrangement direction of the first power semiconductor module and the second power semiconductor module is defined as a first column, the third power semiconductor module and the AC circuit body are disposed along a second column being in a direction parallel to the first column, and the AC circuit body is disposed in a space that is in a direction orthogonal to the first column and faces the second power semiconductor module, and is in a direction parallel to the second column and faces the third power semiconductor module.
US10177674B2
Even when a grounding capacitor is included at either end of a common mode coil, there is noise that flows from a load into a metal frame, and there is a need to restrict an amount of noise propagating to a system power supply. Because of this, a noise loop is formed of a rectifier circuit, an inverter, a first electrical wire that connects a positive polarity side of the rectifier circuit and the inverter, a second electrical wire that connects a negative polarity side of the rectifier circuit and the inverter, a ground wire terminal that can connect a load connected to an output terminal or the inverter, and a conductive plate that connects at least one or the first electrical wire and second electrical wire and the ground wire terminal.
US10177672B2
A power system can include a first tap changer for a first regulated transformer, where the first tap changer has a plurality of first positions. The power system can also include a second tap changer for a second regulated transformer, where the second tap changer has a plurality of second positions. The power system can further include at least one first instrument transformer coupled to the first regulated transformer. The power system can also include at least one second instrument transformer coupled to the second regulated transformer. The power system can further include a controller coupled to the at least one first instrument transformer and the at least one second instrument transformer, where the controller adjusts the first tap changer to a first adjusted position among the first positions based on the first measurements of the first regulated transformer and the second measurements of the second regulated transformer.
US10177670B1
A flyback power converter circuit includes: a transformer including a primary winding coupled to an input power and a secondary winding coupled to an output node, a primary side switch controlling the primary side winding to convert the input power to an output power on the output node through the secondary side winding, a clamping circuit including an auxiliary switch and an auxiliary capacitor connected in series to form an auxiliary branch which is connected with the primary side winding in parallel, and a conversion control circuit for adjusting an auxiliary ON time of the auxiliary switch during an OFF time of the primary side switch according to an estimated parasitic diode conduction time of a parasitic diode of the auxiliary switch; the auxiliary ON time is controlled to be substantially equal to and coincides with the estimated parasitic diode conduction time.
US10177663B2
A multi-phase power controller coupled to resonant power converting circuits providing an output voltage is disclosed. The multi-phase power controller includes a current sensing unit, a frequency adjusting circuit and a duty cycle adjusting circuit. The current sensing unit, coupled to a first resonant power converting circuit, provides a first sensing current. The frequency adjusting circuit includes an error amplifier and a first ramp signal generation circuit. The error amplifier provides an error signal according to the output voltage and a reference voltage. The first ramp signal generation circuit provides a first ramp signal according to the error signal. The duty cycle adjusting circuit provides a first PWM signal to the first resonant power converting circuit according to a default voltage and the first ramp signal. The change of the duty cycle of the first PWM signal is related to the first sensing current, the default voltage and the first ramp signal.
US10177655B2
Provided is a voltage regulator capable of stably suppressing overshoot. The voltage regulator includes a non-regulated state detection circuit for detecting a non-regulated state, and an overshoot suppression circuit. The overshoot suppression circuit is configured to operate when the non-regulated state detection circuit detects the non-regulated state.
US10177653B2
An impedance circuit for a charge pump arrangement and a charge pump arrangement are disclosed. In an embodiment, the impedance circuit includes a first current mirror circuit with a first bias serving as a current input terminal, a first output serving as a current output terminal and a first input for coupling with a pre-selected potential. The impedance circuit further includes a first charge pump for biasing the first current mirror circuit with a first reference current, wherein the first charge pump includes a first biasing output coupled with the first bias of the first current mirror circuit.
US10177651B2
A system for eliminating inrush current to electrical equipment while providing a user increased control is proposed. The user of the device is able to control the speed of the ramp up of alternating current (AC) to the electrical equipment, regardless of the load. When the ramp up meets its full power, the device of the present system will disable itself while allowing power to flow directly to the electrical equipment. The present system allows for user controlled delay time as well as microcontroller controlled current sensing. Further, the device shuts off power to the electrical equipment if an overdraw of current (e.g. a short circuit in an amplifier) is detected. This feature may be an early warning, indicating a need for technical repair before irrevocable damage is done to the components of the electrical equipment.
US10177649B1
A power conversion apparatus and a synchronous rectification (SR) circuit thereof are provided. The power conversion apparatus includes a transformer and the SR circuit. A primary winding of the transformer receives an input voltage. A secondary winding of the transformer provides an output voltage to an output terminal. The SR circuit includes a SR transistor and a SR controller. The SR transistor is coupled between the secondary winding and the output terminal and controlled by a control signal. The SR controller is coupled to the SR transistor to receive a first detecting signal, and generates the control signal according to the first detecting signal. When the SR controller detects that the SR circuit is abnormal, the SR controller generates the controller signal to keep the SR transistor at an on state so as to perform an abnormal protection on the SR circuit.
US10177644B1
A voltage converter includes a high side power transistor coupled to an input voltage node and a low side power transistor coupled to the high side power transistor at a switch node. The switch node is configured to be coupled to an inductor. A slope detector circuit is configured to receive a signal indicative of a current through the inductor. The inductor current is a triangular waveform comprising a ramp-up phase and a ramp-down phase. The slope detector circuit also is configured to generate an output signal encoding when the inductor current is ramping up and when the inductor current is ramping down.
US10177629B2
A method for producing electrical energy in a combined energy generation plant which comprises an air treatment unit and a power station unit is proposed. In a first operating mode, air is liquefied to form an air liquefaction product and, in a second operating mode, an air liquefaction product is converted into a gaseous or supercritical state, in which said product is introduced into the power station unit and is used for producing electrical energy. In a third operating mode, air is condensed in the air treatment unit and used in the power station unit directly for producing electrical energy. It is envisaged that, in the first operating mode, the air is cooled to several temperature levels by two liquid coolants and the air liquefaction product is correspondingly heated. In addition, in the first operating mode, the air is condensed stepwise over several pressure levels.
US10177628B2
An electrical power tool has an electronically commutated drive motor, preferably a direct current motor. The motor includes a stator core equipped with an insulating body, on which core a motor winding is embodied. Also included in the motor is at least one electrically conductive connector element for electrical connection of the motor winding, the connector element being disposed on the insulating body. The connector element has a fastening segment, and a receptacle for reception of the fastening segment is provided on the insulating body. The fastening segment and the receptacle have complementary geometrical shapes that prevent self-actuated detachment of the fastening segment disposed in the receptacle.
US10177621B2
A rotating electric machine comprises a field winding provided on a rotor iron core and a neutral ring supported independently of the field winding, wherein: the field winding and the neutral ring are electrically connected to each other through a connecting wire; the neutral ring is disposed spaced with respect to the rotor iron core; and the connecting wire absorbs the stress difference between the field winding and the neutral ring when a centrifugal stress is applied.
US10177617B2
An external rotor motor includes an inner stator and an external rotor. The external rotor includes a casing and a plurality of magnets. The casing has an annular inner wall. The annular inner wall faces the inner stator and surrounds the inner stator. The magnets are placed along the annular inner wall of the casing. The magnets surround the inner stator. An end of at least one of the magnets has a round edge, a curvature radius of the round edge is R, a thickness of the at least one of the plurality of magnets is T, and the following condition is satisfied: 0.85≤R/T≤1.
US10177616B2
The present invention relates to a spoke-type permanent magnet rotor (1) used in brushless direct current electric motors (13), forming the rotating part inside the stator (14) that forms the stationary part thereof and having an air gap (15) between the inner surface of the stator (14) and itself, comprising a cylindrical core (2) produced from ferromagnetic laminations or ferromagnetic powder metal, a shaft (3) fixed to the core (2) and forming the rotational axis of the rotor (1), a hub (5) disposed at the center of the core (2) and having a shaft hole (4) that bears the shaft (3), more than one pole segment (6) disposed all around the hub (5), more than one magnet slot (7) disposed between the pole segments (6), more than one magnet (8) tangentially magnetized, placed in the magnet slots (7) and extending outwards in the radial direction, and two end rings (9) produced from non-magnetic materials such as plastic and aluminum and fixed on the front and rear planar surfaces of the core (2) by the injection molding method.
US10177615B2
A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.
US10177612B2
A material of the stator core is different from a material of the housings, in a state where one end portion in the axis direction of the stator core is contacted to the first housing, and the other end portion in the axis direction of the stator core is contacted to the second housing; and a neighboring portion of a contact portion, at which the first housing is contacted to the stator core, and another neighboring portion of a contact portion, at which the second housing is contacted to the stator core, are connected by a connecting component in the axis direction, of which material is the same as a material of the stator core, whereby the first housing and the second housing are connected each other; and the first housing and the second housing face each other in a state where a gap intervenes between both housings.
US10177608B2
A wireless power transmission system is designed to transmit power through a permeable conductive barrier layer. The system comprises a power transmitting circuit including a first inductive coil. A power receiving circuit includes a second inductive coil located on the opposite side of the barrier layer to the first inductive coil. A biasing magnet or electromagnet is provided and characterised by its ability to substantially saturate the magnetisation of the barrier layer in a region adjacent to the first and second inductive coils.
US10177607B2
Techniques are described herein for delivering retrodirective wireless radio frequency (RF) power to a client device in a wireless power delivery environment. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques for delivering directed wireless RF power to a client device in a wireless power delivery environment via multiple wireless power signals over multiple wireless power delivery paths. The client device includes one or more RF client transceivers that collectively have a radiation and reception pattern in a three-dimensional space proximate to the client device. The techniques identify the wireless power delivery paths over which wireless power signals can be delivered and deliver the wireless power in a manner that matches the client radiation and reception pattern in the three-dimensional space proximate to the client device.
US10177606B2
Efficient power transmission from an acoustic transmitter to an electrical load on an implanted device is provided using a control system that at least varies the transmitted acoustic frequency. Varying the transmitted frequency can change the electrical impedance of the acoustic transducer in the receiver that receives power from the transmitter. This ability to vary the transducer impedance can be used to optimize power delivery to the load.
US10177599B2
A contactless power feeding system comprises a power feeding device and a movable device. The movable device is installed on a power feeding case of the power feeding device, and a liquid crystal TV (E) is installed on the movable device. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be arranged at a desired position on a wall (W) in a room (R) by moving the movable device along the power feeding case. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be arranged at a desired height by moving the liquid crystal TV (E) in the axial direction of a guide pipe provided on a power receiving case. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be directed in a desired direction by rotating the liquid crystal TV (E) around the guide pipe. The contactless power feeding system feeds power to the liquid crystal TV (E) via the power feeding device and the movable device.
US10177597B2
A method and a system of control of power consumption of communications between electrical modules of an electrical infrastructure, including a star-shaped communication network between a central module, or master module, and a set of slave modules, the master module being set up to be connected to the slave modules by non-wireline communications links in a star pattern, and a processing circuit set up to regulate the power levels of communications links at least in a direction of reception by the master module from at least one slave module or by at least one slave module from the master module.
US10177596B2
Examples disclosed herein involve backup power management. In an example, an amount of backup power to power a load bank is estimated, a set of power sources are selected from a plurality of power sources based on respective states of charge of the plurality of power sources and the estimated amount of backup power, and the selected set of power sources are placed in circuit to provide backup power to the load bank via the selected set of power sources.
US10177594B2
A radiating metamaterial antenna including at least two metamaterial unit cells formed from a metamaterial layer. Each metamaterial unit cell includes: (i) a first metal portion disposed on the metamaterial layer, the first metal portion including an interior perimeter that surrounds an aperture defined by the first metal portion, and (ii) a second metal portion disposed within the aperture, wherein a perimeter of the second metal portion has a separation from the interior perimeter of the first metal portion. The radiating metamaterial antenna further includes a feed that is configured to excite one or more of the at least two metamaterial unit cells with an electromagnetic signal to cause the at least two metamaterial unit cells to radiate electromagnetic energy.
US10177579B2
Disclosed is a battery management system for transmitting a secondary protection signal and a diagnosis signal using a small number of insulation elements. N battery management units included in the battery management system transmit at least two pieces of data via one communication line through time division. N data signals transmitted from the N battery management units are transmitted in a sequential order or are mixed to one signal and transmitted to an external device.
US10177578B2
A power distribution device for use with rechargeable batteries, such as power tool batteries or battery packs, that is capable of powering a number of accessory devices such as geographical positioning system devices, depth finders, phones and radios.
US10177576B2
A charger circuit for providing a charging current and voltage to a battery includes a power delivery unit, a capacitive power conversion circuit and a reverse blocking switch circuit. The power delivery unit converts an input power to a DC voltage and current. The capacitive power conversion circuit includes a conversion switch circuit including plural conversion switches coupled with one or more conversion capacitors, and a conversion control circuit. The DC current is regulated to a predetermined DC current level, and the conversion control circuit controls the connections of the plural conversion capacitors such that the charging current is scaled-up of the predetermined DC current level substantially by a current scale-up factor. The reverse blocking switch circuit is coupled in series with the capacitive power conversion circuit. The body diode of the reverse blocking switch is reversely coupled to the body diode of the conversion switch.
US10177572B2
A device includes a bidirectional switch circuit 10, a control unit 20 that performs virtual AC/DC conversion processing to acquire a plurality of interline voltage generation sections according to a plurality of modes divided according to a magnitude relation between voltages in each phase and that generates a switching pattern of the bidirectional switch circuit 10 to perform virtual DC/DC conversion processing corresponding to the plurality of interline voltage generation sections based on a second carrier waveform pattern CW2 according to the plurality of modes and a signal level G1 of a P-phase, a current setting unit 50 that inputs a current direction and an amount of current that flows in a power line LU, a current detection unit 51 that detects the current direction and the amount of current of the power line LU, and a current adjustment unit 52 that increases and decreases the signal level G1.
US10177571B2
Disclosed are various receive circuits by which to receive a plurality of guided surface waves transmitted by a plurality of guided surface waveguide probes over a surface of a terrestrial medium according to various embodiments.
US10177563B1
The systems and methods described are for adjusting over current protection values during changes in load current. In one aspect, a method includes, monitoring a load current amplitude value at a power input connected to an electrical load; determining a rate of change of the load current amplitude value; determining whether the rate of change of the load current amplitude value exceeds a predefined rate threshold value; in response to determining that the rate of change of the load current amplitude value exceeds the predefined rate threshold value: adjusting an over current protection value from a first over current protection value to an adjusted over current protection value for a first predefined amount of time; and at the expiration of the first predefined amount of time, at least partially reversing the adjustment to the over current protection value.
US10177560B2
A battery monitoring device is configured to include a monitoring unit that monitors a state of a battery, an interrupter that interrupts a power supply to a load, and another interrupter that interrupts a power supply to the interrupter, wherein the monitoring unit controls an operation of the interrupter such that a power supply to the load is interrupted, and controls an operation of the other interrupter such that a power supply to the interrupter is interrupted.
US10177551B1
A grounding system, structured to ground a number of cables supported by a support assembly, includes a multi-function line assembly and a number of conductive mounting assemblies. Each conductive mounting assembly is structured to be coupled to the multi-function line and to a conductive pile.
US10177548B2
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to enclosures, such as, electrical enclosures, for example, explosion-proof enclosures, and including advantageous features and methods usable with such enclosures. Disclosed features and techniques relate to: an enclosure fastening device; a visual indicator; an enclosure handling assist arrangement; a control handle; and a reset controller.
US10177547B2
A cable processing machine includes a cable processing station with a cable processing tool. An interface receives from a sensor at least one physical parameter value indicating a capability of the cable processing machine for executing a processing step. A capability determination component determines, based on the physical parameter, that the capability is insufficient. A voice instruction generator component generates voice instructions for an operator, relating to an action to be performed by operator for restoring capability of the cable processing machine to enable the execution of the cable processing step. Voice instructions are audio output generated on wearable audio device associated with operator, and sent to the audio output device. A confirm component receives confirmation that action for restoring the capability of the cable processing machine is complete, and the capability determination component validates restoration of the capability. The cable processing tool executes the processing step if capability is restored.
US10177543B2
The disclosed invention ensures safe operation of an electrical switchgear by preventing an operator from contacting or interacting with an active circuit breaker. One way this is accomplished is through a locking system that prevents a door to the interior of the switchgear from opening until the circuit breaker is in a disengaged position. A second way this is accomplished is by a manipulation restriction system that prevents the circuit breaker from being manually moved unless the door is closed. Another way this is accomplished is by a circuit breaker decoupler, accessible from the exterior of the switchgear that can directly manipulate the circuit breaker into disengagement.
US10177542B2
A contactor arrangement includes a post, a fastener and a temperature sensor. The post defines a post axis. The fastener is fixed to the post along the post axis. The temperature sensor is in thermal communication with the contactor conductor and post through the fastener and is electrically insulated from the post for monitoring resistive heat generation in a contactor fixed to the post by the fastener.
US10177541B2
The invention concerns an aerosol charger having electrical discharge comprising: a body (2); an ion source (3) comprising two electrodes (31, 32); the charger being characterized in that the body (2) and at least a first electrode (32) of the ion source (3) are aligned along a same axis of longitudinal symmetry (AA′) of the charger, the body (2) surrounding the first electrode (32) in such a way as to define an area (5) for an aerosol to flow between a space defined between the body (2) and the first electrode (32); and in that the first electrode (32) comprises a hole (321) in communication with the area (5) for the aerosol (Ae) to flow, the hole (321) being designed to allow ions formed at the ion source (3) to pass therethrough in order for them to mix with an aerosol (Ae) flowing in the area (5) for the aerosol (Ae) to flow.
US10177523B2
An optical fiber apparatus and a method of recovering radiation-induced-attenuation (RIA) onto a rare-earth-doped optical fiber under irradiation are provided in this disclosure. A light source is coupled to a rare-earth doped optical fiber. The light source emits a combination of mode locked pulsed light and non-mode locked quasi-continuous-wave light. The mode locked pulsed light are used to recover RIA onto the rare-earth doped optical fiber in real time, and the non-mode locked light are used to pump the rare-earth doped optical fiber as a gain medium. Each pulsed duration of the mode locked pulsed light is much shorter than operation duration of the non-mode locked light, such that an instantaneous power of the mode locked pulsed light exceeds a saturated pumping power required for the rare-earth doped optical fiber, so as to effectively elevate the core temperature of rare-earth doped fiber to achieve a confined photo-annealed recovery of RIA onto rare-earth doped fibers.
US10177507B2
An electrical power coupler is configured to convey electrical power upon detecting that a compatible other coupler is properly aligned and no undesirable operating conditions are detected. The power coupler includes a first ferromagnetic metal adjacent a first magnet, a hall sensor for detecting a magnetic field in the first ferromagnetic metal, and at least two first electrical contacts. A control unit is in electrical communication with the power conductors, and includes an electrical switch operable to selectively allow a flow of electricity from a power source through the associated power conductors when the hall sensor detects the magnetic field, such as when the first electrical contacts are in contact with at least two second electrical contacts of another electrical power coupler. The second electrical contacts make contact with the first electrical contacts upon proper alignment of a correspondingly configured other electrical power coupler.
US10177502B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts secured to the housing and exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue, each row of contacts including two outermost ground contacts; and a shielding shell enclosing the contact module; wherein at least one of the ground contacts in one or both rows of the contacts has an extension, and the tongue has on at least one of the upper and lower surfaces a step exposing the extension.
US10177498B1
An electrical connector assembly which has a first connector and a second connector. The first connector and second connector have connector housings with first latching areas extending from the top surfaces of the connector housings and second latching areas extending from the bottom surfaces of the connector housing. Sealing members are positioned proximate wire-receiving faces of the connector housings. Rear seal cover members are positioned in the connector housings. The rear seal cover members are configured to cooperate with the sealing members to prevent the rear seal cover members from being latched to the connector housing when the terminals are not fully inserted into the terminal receiving cavities of the connector housings.
US10177487B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a cable connector equipped with a locking device essentially composed of an operation part pivotally mounted to the case, and a locking part pivotally mounted to the operation part, and a host connector equipped with a locking ear for locking with the locking part wherein the host connector forms a forward protrusion to form an outer region and an inner region each provided with a sealing member adapted to be compressed in the front-to-back direction by locking mechanism.
US10177486B2
A connector includes a terminal, a housing, a waterproofing member and a waterproofing member cover. The waterproofing member includes a cylindrical sealing portion in which an insertion hole for the terminal is formed, and a guide portion disposed at least on a rear side in a terminal insertion direction in the insertion hole of the sealing portion and having a tapered shape so as to guide the terminal toward the insertion hole. The waterproofing member includes an elastically-deformable thin portion in a periphery of the sealing portion so that weight generated when the terminal guided to the insertion hole by the guide portion expands the insertion hole is larger than weight necessary for moving the sealing portion in a direction perpendicular to the terminal insertion direction.
US10177483B1
An electrical connector assembly includes a module stack, a front housing, and a spring member. The module stack includes multiple contact modules disposed side by side. The module stack includes multiple signal contacts that project beyond a front side thereof. The front housing is mechanically coupled to the module stack at the front side and surrounds the signal contacts. The front housing defines cavities that receive mating contacts of a mating connector to engage the signal contacts. The front housing is movable relative to the module stack along a longitudinal axis of the electrical connector assembly between a retracted position and an extended position. The spring member is held between the module stack and the front housing. The spring member engages the module stack and the front housing to bias the front housing towards the extended position.
US10177481B1
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a plurality of contact-receiving passageways extending through thereof along a front-and-back direction, a plurality of contacts inserted into the corresponding contact-receiving passageways along a rear-to-front direction and a limiting member assembled to the insulative housing. The contacts includes at least one row arranged along a transverse direction, and each contact defines a contacting part contacting with a complementary contact and a crimping portion connected with a wire. The insulative housing defines a positioning slot on one side thereof along a height direction, and the positioning slot extends along a transverse direction, the limiting member is inserted and retained in the positioning slot for locking the plurality of contacts simultaneously.
US10177475B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, multiple terminals and a metal member. The insulating body has a base and side walls. The base is provided with receiving slots. The side walls are higher than the base, and encircled to form an accommodating space for accommodating a chip module. The terminals are received in the receiving slots. Each terminal has a contacting portion lower than a top surface of the side walls. The contacting portions electrically connect with the chip module. The metal member is injection molded at the side walls and the base to reinforce the structure of the side walls and the base, and preventing the insulating body from warping at a high temperature.
US10177474B2
A connector comprises a cage and a top cover. The cage has a lower portion received in an opening of a circuit board in an insertion direction. A thickness of the lower portion in the insertion direction is disposed in the opening in an assembled position. The top cover is attached to an outer wall of the cage and has a plurality of pins. The pins are inserted in the insertion direction into a plurality of insertion holes extending through the circuit board around the opening in the assembled position.
US10177467B1
A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a backshell. The electrical connector includes a housing and electrical conductors held in the housing. The electrical conductors are terminated to a cable that extends from a cable end of the electrical connector. The backshell has an overmolded body and a latch assembly for removably coupling the cable connector assembly to one or more of a panel or a mating connector. The overmolded body is a unitary, one-piece body that surrounds the electrical connector around a full perimeter of the electrical connector. The latch assembly includes a latch frame and a latch member. The latch frame is embedded in the overmolded body. The latch member is held by the latch frame. The latch member includes a deflectable spring beam configured to engage the panel or the mating connector.
US10177453B2
An antenna array having radiating elements and delay lines provided over a sandwich of layers that includes variable dielectric-constant material. The value of the variable dielectric-constant material at various points over the antenna is controlled via software, hence changing the operational characteristics of the antenna using software. The sandwich of layers may be a standard flat panel display, wherein images depicted on the flat panel display are software controlled with a program designed to change the dielectric constant, thus providing scanning and tuning ability to the array. That is, different images are programmed according to specifically desired change in the dielectric property of different pixels under different patches or feed-lines of the array, thereby controlling the frequency and/or directivity of the array.
US10177440B2
According to the present invention, a mobile terminal includes a main body including a front side with which a display unit is combined, a first antenna mounted on the main body, extended in a first direction and including a first slot of which one end is closed and another end is opened, a second antenna mounted on the main body, extended in a second direction corresponding to a direction opposite to the direction to which the first slot is extended and including a second slot of which one end is closed and another end is opened, a power supply unit mounted in the inside of the main body, a first feeder configured to supply power to the first antenna from the power supply unit and a second feeder configured to supply power to the second antenna from the power supply unit.
US10177434B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for an antenna system. The antenna system includes a main reflector, a phased array feed, and a mechanical steering system. The phased array feed is configured to receive and/or transmit signals reflected off the main reflector and to electronically steer a transmitted signal on a first axis. The main reflector and the phased array feed are both attached to the mechanical steering system, and the mechanical steering system is configured to move the transmitted signal along a second axis.
US10177431B2
An apparatus, e.g. a cavity resonator, includes a floor and a cover. A conductive post is located between the floor and the cover and has a void oriented along a longitudinal axis of the post. A dielectric spacer is located between the cover and the post and a dielectric rod is located within the void. A resilient dielectric is located within the void between the dielectric spacer and the floor.
US10177424B1
An aircraft hybrid cooling system is disclosed. The aircraft hybrid cooling system includes a conduit through an aircraft that is configured to allow airflow through the conduit. The aircraft hybrid cooling system additionally includes a battery assembly positioned in the conduit, configured to provide for airflow past a battery in the battery assembly in a first mode of operation and configured to provide flow of a cooling medium past the battery in a second mode of operation. In some embodiments, the battery in the battery assembly is cooled via airflow in the event the aircraft is in flight and is cooled via an applied cooling medium in the event the aircraft is grounded.
US10177421B2
Light is transmitted from a light source through or from a separator of a battery cell and received by one or more light detectors. The light that is normally transmitted through the separator is scattered, absorbed, wavelength-shifted or otherwise distorted by an impending fault in the vicinity of or within the separator. The change in light due to the impending fault is measured by a detector and a signal from the detector is processed to identify the impending fault so that a warning can be generated indicative of the impending fault. In particular, one or both of the light source and detector are enclosed within a battery cell housing and receive power from the electrodes of the battery cell.
US10177412B2
An electrolyte composition and a sodium secondary battery are provided. The electrolyte composition includes an alcohol compound and a metallic salt, wherein the metallic salt consists of a sodium salt formed. The sodium secondary battery includes the electrolyte composition, a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US10177410B2
Provided are a lithium secondary battery electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery. The lithium secondary battery electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a pyrrole derivative. The lithium secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, a separator, and the lithium secondary battery electrolyte. The secondary battery electrolyte according to the present invention has advantages of excellent stability at a high temperature and high discharge capacity at a low temperature.
US10177406B2
Solid electrolyte materials as well as their applications and methods of manufacture are disclosed. In one embodiment, a solid electrolyte material has a formula of A3+δCl1−δBδO, where δ is greater than 0. In the above formula, A is at least one of Li and Na, and B is at least one of S, Se, and N. In another embodiment, a solid electrolyte material is a crystal structure having the general formula A3XO, where A is at least one of Li and Na. Additionally, X is Cl, at least a portion of which is substituted with at least one of S, Se, and N. The solid electrolyte material also includes interstitial lithium ions and/or interstitial sodium ions located in the crystal structure.
US10177404B2
A magnesium-ion battery includes a first electrode including an active material and a second electrode. An electrolyte is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrolyte includes a magnesium compound. The active material includes tin.
US10177399B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, a case in which the electrode assembly and an electrolyte are received, and a finishing member attached to an outer surface of the electrode assembly. The finishing member includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer has one surface attached to the electrode assembly. The second layer and the third layer are different from each other and are sequentially provided on another surface of the first layer. The second layer and the third layer react to the electrolyte.
US10177389B2
An electrochemical device includes a plurality of electrode assemblies that define a plurality of electrochemically active areas. A non-electrically-conductive manifold includes a common manifold passage and a plurality of branch passages that extend, respectively, between the electrochemically active areas and the common manifold passage. Each of the branch passages includes a first region and a second region that differ in surface area.
US10177386B2
The present invention provides a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery which is capable of preventing the degeneration of a positive electrode active material and the generation of a gas during operating a battery due to humidity, by including a surface treatment layer of an amorphous glass including an alkali metal oxide and an alkaline earth metal oxide on the surface of a core including a lithium composite metal oxide and by decreasing humidity reactivity, and a secondary battery including the same.
US10177383B2
A nano-coating material, capable of being bonded to the surface of a metal or an alloy substrate, the nano-coating material includes a compound having, in a polymer main chain, (A) a first side chain or a terminal, each having a binding group containing a benzene ring having at least one pair of adjacent hydroxyl groups; and (B) a functional second side chain.
US10177382B2
An additive for a positive electrode material includes an internal component and an external component. The internal component contains a silane coupling agent modified inorganic lithium salt. The external component is formed on a surface of the internal component and contains a polymer with a low melting point. The internal component and the external component form a core-shell structure together, and the shell has a porosity of 0.01% to 20%. A positive electrode material and a lithium-ion battery including the additive, and method of preparing the lithium-ion battery are also provided.
US10177380B2
The present invention relates to an anode active material including natural graphite and mosaic coke-based artificial graphite, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an anode active material including natural graphite and mosaic coke-based artificial graphite is used, when applied to a lithium secondary battery, intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions is more facilitated and conductivity of an electrode is improved even if no or little conductive material is used. Furthermore, the increase in conductivity can lead to not only a further improvement in rate performance of a lithium secondary battery but also a reduction in interfacial resistance.
US10177378B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to battery electrodes incorporating composites of graphene and selenium-sulfur compounds for improved rechargeable batteries. In one embodiment, a conductive composition comprises a conductive composition having a Se—S compound, a conductive additive. The Se—S compound is present as SexS8-x, wherein 0
US10177372B2
A metal oxide composite including a first metal oxide composite layer, and a second metal oxide layer, wherein the first metal oxide composite layer and the second metal oxide layer are alternately stacked in a thickness direction; and a third metal oxide layer that is disposed on a side surface of the stacked structure, wherein the third metal oxide layer includes a metal oxide that is a same metal oxide as a metal oxide included in the stacked structure.
US10177368B2
An anode compartment for rechargeable lithium or sodium batteries, including: a solid electrolyte; a collector deposited on the solid electrolyte; and an active material made of lithium metal or sodium metal which has been grown between the solid electrolyte and the collector in order to form an electrode made of lithium metal or sodium metal with the collector, in which the collector is made of an amorphous alloy. A method for manufacturing such an anode compartment and a battery including said anode compartment is also presented.
US10177367B2
Method for producing metallic surface discharge electrodes on nonmetallic substrates comprising the following steps: a) producing a metallic seed layer on a substrate; b) electrically contacting the seed layer with a metal wire network and an electrolyte containing metal ions; c) electrodepositing a metal film from the electrolyte at least on the seed layer, with the metal wire network being embedded into the metal film, wherein d) metal wire filaments that are movable relative to one another are arranged to form an electrically percolating metal wire network, e) the arrangement of the metal wire filaments is cast into a gel and the gel is dried thereafter to the gel matrix, and f) the dried gel matrix with the metal wire network embedded therein is applied to the substrate and is wetted with a solvent of the gel matrix. Furthermore, the invention relates to a semifinished product for carrying out the method.
US10177366B2
High purity lithium and associated products are provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a lithium metal product in which the lithium metal is obtained using a selective lithium ion conducting layer. The selective lithium ion conducting layer includes an active metal ion conducting glass or glass ceramic that conducts only lithium ions. The present lithium metal products produced using a selective lithium ion conducting layer advantageously provide for improved lithium purity when compared to commercial lithium metal. Pursuant to the present disclosure, lithium metal having a purity of at least 99.96 weight percent on a metals basis can be obtained.
US10177361B2
A coating liquid according to the present invention comprises polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), boric acid and/or an organometallic compound having the ability of cross-linking PVA, an inorganic filler, a water-soluble compound having a carboxyl group and/or a sulfonic group, and water. According to the present invention, a coating liquid can be obtained which is useful in the preparation of a laminated porous film having suppressed powder fall-off and excellent heat shape stability.
US10177359B2
The present disclosure relates to a separator for an electrochemical device with pores having predetermined diameter, permeation time, and tortuosity, to allow for smooth movement of lithium ions and a method for manufacturing the same, and smooth movement of lithium ions may be optimized by the separator for an electrochemical device.
US10177357B2
Provided is a method for producing a porous polyimide film with which it is possible to suppress the occurrence of curling in the polyimide-fine particle composite film obtained by firing the unfired composite film. The method for producing a porous polyimide film of the present invention includes, in the following order: forming an unfired composite film using a varnish that contains a resin including polyamide acid and/or polyimide, fine particles, and a solvent; immersing the unfired composite film in a solvent including water; firing the unfired composite film to obtain a polyimide-fine particle composite film; and removing the fine particles from the polyimide-fine particle composite film.
US10177343B2
The present invention provides a light extraction substrate for an organic light emitting device, comprising: a base substrate; a scattering layer formed on the base substrate and made of TiO2; a plurality of first light scatterers formed inside the scattering layer and having a porous form; and a flat layer formed on the scattering layer, wherein the scattering layer is internally permeated by a part of the materials constituting the flat layer.
US10177337B2
A lighting apparatus using an organic light emitting diode according to the present disclosure is configured such that a substrate is planarized by forming an anti-scratch layer on a cathode electrode to fully cover the cathode electrode.The present disclosure having such configuration can uniformly maintain pressing pressure by virtue of the anti-scratch layer even while winding or unwinding the substrate for pulse aging, thereby preventing damages due to scratches or particles.
US10177326B2
A polymeric dielectric may include a coordination complex of a modified elastic polymer and a metal cation. The modified elastic polymer may include an organic ligand moiety that coordinates the metal cation in a main chain of the elastic polymer. Provided are a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device and a thin film transistor including the same.
US10177314B2
Apparatus including one or more carbon nanotubes; one or more fullerenes directly covalently bonded to the one or more carbon nanotubes; and one or more photoactive molecules bonded to the one or more fullerenes.
US10177313B2
The present invention relates to polymers comprising one or more (repeating) unit(s) of the formula (I) which are characterized in that Ar1 and Ar1′ are independently of each other are an annulated (aromatic) heterocyclic ring system, containing at least one thiophene ring, which may be optionally substituted by one, or more groups, and their use as organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially in organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes, or in a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. The polymers according to the invention have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the polymers according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes.
US10177305B2
Devices are described that include a multi-layered structure that is non-magnetic at room temperature, and which comprises alternating layers of Co and at least one other element E (such as Ga, Ge, and Sn). The composition of this structure is represented by Co1-xEx, with x being in the range from 0.45 to 0.55. The structure is in contact with a first magnetic layer that includes a Heusler compound. An MRAM element may be formed by overlying, in turn, the first magnetic layer with a tunnel barrier, and the tunnel barrier with a second magnetic layer (whose magnetic moment is switchable). Improved performance of the MRAM element may be obtained by placing a pinning layer between the first magnetic layer and the tunnel barrier.
US10177284B2
A sidewall light emitting ultraviolet light emitting diode and a method of manufacturing thereof are disclosed. A light emitting structure is formed in an active region recessed from a substrate surface, and the light emitting structure is formed by growth in a direction parallel to the surface of the substrate. Also, a reflective metal layer is formed above or below the light emitting structure such that ultraviolet light can be released in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction which is the growth direction of the light emitting structure.
US10177257B2
A thin film transistor, a method for fabricating the same, a display substrate, and a display device are disclosed. The method comprises: forming in sequence a light shielding layer, an insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer; and forming a pattern of the light shielding layer, the insulating layer, and the semiconductor layer in one patterning process. A polycrystalline silicon layer can be formed into an active layer and an amorphous silicon layer into the light shielding layer, by using only one mask. The number of masking processes is reduced by one, which simplifies a fabricating process of the thin film transistor.
US10177251B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a silicon carbide layer having a first plane and a second plane; a source electrode; a drain electrode; first and second gate electrodes located; an n-type drift region and a p-type body region; n-type first and second source regions; a p-type first silicon carbide region and p-type second silicon carbide region having a p-type impurity concentration higher than the body region; first and second gate insulating layers; a p-type third silicon carbide region contacting the first silicon carbide region, a first n-type portion being located between the first gate insulating layer and the third silicon carbide region; and a p-type fourth silicon carbide region contacting the second silicon carbide region, a second n-type portion being located between the second gate insulating layer and the fourth silicon carbide region.
US10177250B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a trench extending into a semiconductor substrate and a polysilicon gate electrode in the trench; forming a body region of a first conductivity type in the substrate adjacent the trench and a source region of a second conductivity type adjacent the body region and the trench; forming a dielectric layer on the substrate; forming a gate metallization on the dielectric layer which covers part of the substrate and a source metallization on the dielectric layer which is electrically connected to the source region, spaced apart from the gate metallization and covering a different part of the substrate than the gate metallization; and forming a metal-filled groove in the polysilicon gate electrode which is electrically connected to the gate metallization. The metal-filled groove extends along a length of the trench underneath at least part of the source metallization.
US10177246B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes providing a plurality of dummy gates on a substrate, a capping layer on each dummy gate, and a dielectric layer over the substrate, wherein the dielectric layer has a top surface above each dummy gate. The method also includes performing a first ion implantation process on the dielectric layer to form a first stop layer in the dielectric layer. A top surface of the first stop layer is above or coplanar with a top surface of each dummy gate. Further, the method includes performing a first planarization process on the capping layer and the dielectric layer to expose the top surface of each dummy gate. A removal rate of the first stop layer is smaller than a removal rate of the dielectric layer when performing the first planarization process.
US10177243B1
Described herein is an N type extended drain transistor formed from a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) wafer. The transistor has a buried P type region formed by the selective implantation of P type dopants in a semiconductor layer of the wafer at a location directly below a drift region of the transistor. The transistor also includes a source located in a P well region and a drain. The buried P type region is in electrical contact with the P well region. The N type drift region, the source, and the drain are also located in a portion of the semiconductor layer surrounded by dielectric isolation. A buried dielectric layer located below the portion of the semiconductor layer electrically isolates the portion of the semiconductor layer from a semiconductor substrate located below the buried dielectric layer.
US10177237B2
A semiconductor device that includes a gate structure on a channel region of a semiconductor device. Source and drain regions may be present on opposing sides of the channel region. The semiconductor device may further include a composite gate sidewall spacer present on a sidewall of the gate structure. The composite gate sidewall spacer may include a first composition portion having an air gap encapsulated therein, and a second composition portion that is entirely solid and present atop the first composition portion.
US10177230B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region including a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor region adjoining the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region including a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material. The semiconductor device further includes at least one of a drift zone and a base zone in the first semiconductor region, and at least one type of deep-level dopant in an emitter region of the second semiconductor region. The at least one type of deep-level dopant has a distance to the valence or conduction band of at least 100 meV.
US10177229B2
A semiconductor material includes a compositionally-graded transition layer, an intermediate later and a gallium nitride material layer. The compositionally-graded transition layer has a back surface and a top surface, and includes a gallium nitride alloy. The gallium concentration in the compositionally-graded transition layer increases from the back surface to the front surface. The intermediate layer is formed under the compositionally-graded transition layer. The gallium nitride material layer is formed over the compositionally-graded transition layer, and has a crack level of less than 0.005 μm/μm2.
US10177226B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a stacked nanosheet and resulting structures having equal thickness work function metal layers. A nanosheet stack is formed on a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes a first sacrificial layer formed on a first nanosheet. A hard mask is formed on the first sacrificial layer and the first sacrificial layer is removed to form a cavity between the hard mask and the first nanosheet. A work function layer is formed to fill the cavity between the hard mask and the first nanosheet.
US10177219B2
A semiconductor device, including a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, and a parallel pn layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer. The parallel pn layer includes a plurality of first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, and a plurality of second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type. The first and second semiconductor regions are alternatingly arranged in a direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor layer. Each second semiconductor region has at least one first region that is a region having a group 18 element introduced therein.
US10177218B2
A diode includes upper and lower electrodes and first and second N-type doped semiconductor substrate portions connected to the lower electrode. A first vertical transistor and a second transistor are formed in the first portion and series-connected between the electrodes. The gate of the first transistor is N-type doped and coupled to the upper electrode. The second transistor has a P channel and has a P-type doped gate. First and second doped areas of the second conductivity type are located in the second portion and are separated by a substrate portion topped with another N-type doped gate. The first doped area is coupled to the gate of the second transistor. The second doped area and the other gate are coupled to the upper electrode.
US10177215B1
A microelectronic device includes a capacitor having a lower plate of interconnect metal, a capacitor dielectric layer with a lower silicon dioxide layer, a silicon oxy-nitride layer, and an upper silicon dioxide layer, and an upper plate over the capacitor dielectric layer. The silicon oxy-nitride layer has an average index of refraction of 1.85 to 1.95 at a wavelength of 248 nanometers. To form the microelectronic device, the lower silicon dioxide layer, the silicon oxy-nitride layer, and the upper silicon dioxide layer are formed in sequence over an interconnect metal layer. The upper plate is formed, leaving the lower silicon dioxide layer, the silicon oxy-nitride layer, and at least a portion of the upper silicon dioxide layer over the interconnect metal layer. An interconnect mask is formed of photoresist over the upper plate and the silicon oxy-nitride layer, using the silicon oxy-nitride layer as an anti-reflection layer.
US10177210B2
A display device includes a substrate having an edge portion, a display region located on the substrate and separated from the edge portion, a drive circuit region between the display region and the edge portion, a terminal region on the edge portion; and wirings in the display region, the drive circuit region, and an area between the drive circuit region and the terminal region, wherein at least one wiring of the wirings include a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer overlapping the first conductive layer in a plan view and separated from the first conductive layer, a first connection portion where the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are electrically connected, a second connection portion where the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are electrically connected, and the first connection portion is separated from the second connection portion.
US10177207B2
An organic light emitting diode display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; an auxiliary electrode formed at the same layer as the first electrode; a pixel defining layer having a first contact hole overlapping a part of the auxiliary electrode; an organic light emitting member disposed on the pixel defining layer and having a second contact hole enclosing the first contact hole; and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting member and inside the first contact hole and the second contact hole, wherein the second electrode is in contact with the auxiliary electrode through the first contact hole and the second contact hole.
US10177193B2
An array of mesa photodiodes, including a useful layer of CdxHg1-xTe wherein pads are formed. The array includes a first doped zone having a first N or P doping; and second doped zones having a second P or N doping of a different type from that of the first doping, and each extending on an upper region of a pad. The first doped zone includes at least one first region having a first doping density, located at least under each of the pads; and at least one second region, located between two neighboring pads, and having a second doping density higher than the first doping density, each second region being separated from the closest second doped zone by at least one portion of the first region.
US10177190B2
A photoelectric conversion portion, a charge holding portion, a transfer portion, and a sense node are formed in a P-type well. The charge holding portion is configured to include an N-type semiconductor region, which is a first semiconductor region holding charges in a portion different from the photoelectric conversion portion. A P-type semiconductor region having a higher concentration than the P-type well is disposed under the N-type semiconductor region.
US10177182B2
An image sensor includes: a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel that are adjacent to each other; and an upper shield, wherein the first sub-pixel includes a first photodiode and a first storage diode, and the second sub-pixel includes a second photodiode and a second storage diode, and the upper shield is formed over the first and second storage diodes vertically overlap with the first and second storage diodes.
US10177181B2
There is provided a photodiode array including a semiconducting substrate and a plurality of photodiodes that are disposed at a surface of the substrate. Each photodiode is laterally spaced apart from neighboring photodiodes by a lateral substrate surface region. An optical interface surface of the substrate is arranged for accepting external input radiation. A plurality of electrically conducting fuses are disposed on the substrate surface. Each fuse is connected to a photodiode in the plurality of photodiodes. Each fuse is disposed at a lateral substrate surface region that is spaced apart from neighboring photodiodes in the plurality of photodiodes.
US10177179B2
A thin-film transistor (TFT) device may include a data line and a gate line formed on a base substrate, a TFT connected to the data line and the gate line, and a magnetic field antenna spaced apart from the data line and the gate line on the base substrate. The magnetic field antenna may be connected to the TFT and configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from the TFT or to control a driving of the TFT.
US10177178B1
An integrated circuit (IC) microdisplay structure is disclosed. The structure can include: a first oxide layer positioned on a substrate; a first voltage source (VSS) pad within the first oxide layer; a metal pillar disposed within the first oxide layer and on the first VSS pad; a first gallium nitride layer disposed on the metal pillar and extending over the first oxide layer; and at least one subpixel formed from the first gallium nitride layer. Alternatively, the structure can include a first oxide layer positioned on a substrate; a first metal layer positioned on the first oxide layer; a first gallium nitride layer on the first metal layer; and at least one subpixel formed from the first gallium nitride layer. The structure may further include a subpixel driver electrically connected to the at least one subpixels where a portion of the subpixel driver is vertically aligned with a subpixel.
US10177171B2
A display panels having a direct contact of the source or drain and pixel electrode. The display panels includes an array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate and at least one TFT and at least one pixel electrode on the array substrate. The TFT includes a gate, a source, a drain, a gate insulation layer and a trench layer, the trench layer include an AS Island pattern and a doped layer, the source and the drain are arranged on the doped layer, and the AS Island pattern is arranged on the gate insulation layer. The source or the drain directly contacts with the pixel electrode without any material layers provided there between.
US10177165B1
A method for fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) having a SONOS memory device and a logic/analog device requiring different gate oxide layers comprises steps as follows: A substrate having a high voltage region, a memory region and a logic/analog is firstly provided. Next, a first gate oxide layer is formed on the high voltage region, the memory region and the logic/analog. The first gate oxide layer is then patterned to expose the logic/analog region and to define a first channel area and a second channel area respectively on the memory region and the high voltage region. Subsequently, a silicon oxide-silicon nitride-silicon oxide (ONO) structure is formed on the first channel area. A second gate oxide layer is then formed on the logic/analog and patterned to define a third channel area.
US10177160B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a peripheral structure, a lower insulating layer, and a stack. The substrate includes a peripheral circuit region and a cell array region. The peripheral structure is on the peripheral circuit region. The lower insulating layer covers the peripheral circuit region and the cell array region and has a protruding portion protruding from a flat portion. The stack is on the lower insulating layer and the cell array region, and includes upper conductive patterns and insulating patterns which are alternately and repeatedly stacked.
US10177154B2
After forming a laterally contacting pair of a semiconductor fin and a conductive strap structure having a base portion vertically contacting a deep trench capacitor embedded in a substrate and a fin portion laterally contacting the semiconductor fin, conducting spikes that are formed on the sidewalls of the deep trench are removed or pushed deeper into the deep trench. Subsequently, a dielectric cap that inhibits epitaxial growth of a semiconductor material thereon is formed over at least a portion of the base portion of the conductive strap structure. The dielectric cap can be formed either over an entirety of the base portion having a stepped structure or on a distal portion of the base portion.
US10177150B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes preparing a substrate including a first region and a second region, sequentially forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer on the first and second regions, patterning the first and second semiconductor layers to form a lower semiconductor pattern and an upper semiconductor pattern on each of the first and second regions, selectively removing the lower semiconductor pattern on the second region to form a gap region, and forming gate electrodes at the first and second regions, respectively.
US10177147B2
A semiconductor device is provided. Gates of first PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together for receiving an input signal. Gates of second PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together. Gates of third PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together. Gates of fourth PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together. Drains of fourth PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together for providing an output signal. When the first, second, third and fourth NMOS transistors are connected in parallel and the first, second, third and fourth PMOS transistors are connected in parallel, the output signal is provided according to the input signal and a first logic function. When the first and second NMOS transistors are connected in serial and the first and second PMOS transistors are connected in serial, the output signal is provided according to the input signal and a second logic function.
US10177142B2
A circuit suitable for data backup of a logic circuit is provided. The circuit includes first to fourth nodes, a capacitor, first to third transistors, and first and second circuits. Data can be loaded and stored between the circuit and the logic circuit. The first node is electrically connected to a data output terminal of the logic circuit. The second node is electrically connected to a data input terminal of the logic circuit. The capacitor is electrically connected to the third node. The first transistor controls electrical continuity between the first node and the third node. The second transistor controls electrical continuity between the second node and the third node. The third transistor controls electrical continuity between the second node and the fourth node. The first and second circuits have functions of raising gate voltage of the first transistor and raising gate voltage of the second transistor, respectively.
US10177140B2
A transistor includes an emitter of a first conductivity type, base of a second conductivity type, collector of the first conductivity type, and cathode of a lateral suppression diode. The emitter is disposed at a top surface of the transistor and configured to receive electrical current from an external source. The base is configured to conduct the electrical current from the collector to the emitter. The base is disposed at the top surface of the transistor and laterally between the emitter and the collector. The collector is configured to attract and collect minority carriers from the base. The cathode of the first conductivity type is surrounded by the base and disposed between the emitter and the collector, and the cathode is configured to suppress a lateral flow of the minority carriers from the base to the collector.
US10177138B2
A semiconductor device used in a protection circuit including a thyristor and an LCR circuit which includes a coil L, a capacitor C and a resistor R, the semiconductor device may include: a semiconductor layer in which the thyristor is provided; an insulating film provided on the semiconductor layer; and a pair of electrodes provided on the insulating film and connected to a protection target circuit, wherein at least one of the coil L, the capacitor C and the resistor R is provided in the insulating film, and the at least one of the coil L, the capacitor C and the resistor R is connected to an anode of the thyristor by a first metal wire filling a first hole provided in the insulating film.
US10177134B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a substrate; a plurality of trenches formed in the substrate; and a plurality of functional element forming regions arrayed along each of the trenches, including a channel forming region as a current path, wherein the plurality of functional element forming regions includes a first functional element forming region in which the area of the channel forming region per unit area is relatively small and a second functional element forming region in which the area of the channel forming region per unit area is relatively large, and the first functional element forming region is provided at a region where heat generation should be suppressed.
US10177124B1
The present invention discloses a flexible micro-LED display module, comprising: a flexible substrate, a substrate protection layer, a lattice matching layer, an LED array, a transparent conductive substrate, and a light conversion layer. The light conversion layer is constituted by a plurality of red light conversion units, a plurality of green light conversion units, and a plurality of blue light conversion units, such that one pixel is formed by one red light conversion unit, one green light conversion unit, one blue light conversion unit, and several light-emitting elements. In the case of some light-emitting elements failing to radiate light normally, the defective pixel correction circuit is used to apply luminous intensity adjusting process to other light-emitting elements working normally, so as to make the flexible micro-LED display module able to display video or images with the lowest number of defective pixels capable of meeting the requirements of pixel standards.
US10177115B2
Methods of forming and structures of packages are discussed herein. In an embodiment, a method includes forming a back side redistribution structure, and after forming the back side redistribution structure, adhering a first integrated circuit die to the back side redistribution structure. The method further includes encapsulating the first integrated circuit die on the back side redistribution structure with an encapsulant, forming a front side redistribution structure on the encapsulant, and electrically coupling a second integrated circuit die to the first integrated circuit die. The second integrated circuit die is electrically coupled to the first integrated circuit die through first external electrical connectors mechanically attached to the front side redistribution structure.
US10177113B2
A method of mass transferring electronic devices includes following steps. A wafer is provided. The wafer includes a substrate and a plurality of electronic devices. The electronic devices are arranged in a matrix on a surface of the substrate. The wafer is attached to a temporary fixing film. The wafer is cut so that the wafer is divided into a plurality of blocks. Each of the blocks includes at least a part of the electronic devices and a sub-substrate. The temporary fixing film is stretched so that the blocks on the temporary fixing film are separated from each other as the temporary fixing film is stretched. At least a part of the blocks is selected as a predetermined bonding portion, and each of the blocks in the predetermined bonding portion is transferred to a carrying substrate in sequence, so that the electronic devices in the predetermined bonding portion arc bonded to the carrying substrate. The sub-substrates of the blocks are removed. Another method of mass transferring electronic devices is also provided.
US10177112B2
A method of manufacturing a package which comprises encapsulating at least part of an electronic chip by an encapsulant, subsequently covering a part of the electronic chip with a chip attach medium, and attaching the encapsulated electronic chip on a chip carrier via the chip attach medium.
US10177102B2
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass substrate. The glass substrate is stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer. Further, one or more electronic components are secured to the glass substrate within a secure volume of the tamper-proof electronic package. In operation, the glass substrate is configured to fragment with an attempted intrusion event into the electronic package, and the fragmenting of the glass substrate also fragments the electronic component(s) secured to the glass substrate, thereby destroying the electronic component(s). In certain implementations, the glass substrate has undergone ion-exchange processing to provide the stressed glass. Further, the electronic package may include an enclosure, and the glass substrate may be located within the secure volume separate from the enclosure, or alternatively, the enclosure may be a stressed glass enclosure, an inner surface of which is the glass substrate for the electronic component(s).
US10177093B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the device including gate structures on a substrate; source/drain layers on portions of the substrate that are adjacent the gate structures, respectively; first contact plugs contacting upper surfaces of the source/drain layers, respectively; a second contact plug contacting one of the gate structures, a sidewall of the second contact plug being covered by an insulating spacer; and a third contact plug commonly contacting an upper surface of at least one of the gate structures and at least one of the first contact plugs, at least a portion of a sidewall of the third contact plug not being covered by an insulating spacer.
US10177088B2
An antifuse structure including an opening through a dielectric material to a contact surface and an antifuse material layer present within the opening. The antifuse material layer may be a phase change material alloy of tantalum and nitrogen, wherein at least a base surface of the antifuse material layer is present on the contact surface and sidewall surfaces of the antifuse material layer are present on sidewalls of the opening through the dielectric material. An airgap or solid material core may be in the opening atop the base surface of the phase change material alloy. An electrically conductive material may be in direct contact with at least the antifuse material layer.
US10177087B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a plurality of conductive areas formed on the substrate at a first vertical level; a first wiring layer formed on the substrate at a second vertical level which is higher than the first vertical level, the first wiring layer including first lines that extend in a first direction, one first line of the first lines connected to a first conductive area selected from the plurality of conductive areas through a via contact; a second wiring layer formed on the substrate at a third vertical level which is higher than the second vertical level, the second wiring layer including second lines that extend in a second direction that crosses the first direction, one second line of the second lines connected to a second conductive area selected from the plurality of conductive areas; and a deep via contact spaced apart from lines of the first wiring layer in a horizontal direction and extending from the second conductive area to the one second line.
US10177086B2
In a microelectronic component having conductive vias (114) passing through a substrate (104) and protruding above the substrate, conductive features (120E.A, 120E.B) are provided above the substrate that wrap around the conductive vias' protrusions (114′) to form capacitors, electromagnetic shields, and possibly other elements. Other features and embodiments are also provided.
US10177082B2
A method of forming a semiconductor package includes growing a layer of carbon nano material on a chip. The chip has a first surface and a second surface and the layer of carbon nano material is grown on the first surface of the chip. The layer of carbon nano material is configured to provide a path through which heat generated from the chip is dissipated. A substrate is attached to the second surface of the chip. A molding compound is formed above the substrate to encapsulate the chip and the layer of carbon nano material.
US10177081B2
A device may include a lead frame, where the lead frame includes a central portion, and a side pad, the side pad being laterally disposed with respect to the central portion. The device may further include a thyristor device, the thyristor device comprising a semiconductor die and further comprising a gate, wherein the thyristor device is disposed on a first side of the lead frame on the central portion. The device may also include a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) device electrically coupled to the gate of the thyristor device, wherein the PTC device is disposed on the side pad on the first side of the lead frame; and a thermal coupler having a first end connected to the thyristor device and a second end attached to the PTC device.
US10177069B2
A heat-dissipating structure is formed by bonding a first member and a second member, each being any of a metal, ceramic, and semiconductor, via a die bonding member; or a semiconductor module formed by bonding a semiconductor chip, a metal wire, a ceramic insulating substrate, and a heat-dissipating base substrate including metal, with a die bonding member interposed between each. At least one of the die bonding members includes a lead-free low-melting-point glass composition and metal particles. The lead-free low-melting-point glass composition accounts for 78 mol % or more in terms of the total of the oxides V2O5, TeO2, and Ag2O serving as main ingredients. The content of each of TeO2 and Ag2O is 1 to 2 times the content of V2O5, and at least one of BaO, WO3, and P2O5 is included as accessory ingredients, and at least one of Y2O3, La2O3, and Al2O3 is included as additional ingredients.
US10177056B2
A method is provided. The method includes one or more of extracting a die from an original packaged integrated circuit, modifying the extracted die, reconditioning the modified extracted die, placing the reconditioned die into a cavity of a hermetic package base, bonding a plurality of bond wires between reconditioned die pads of the reconditioned die to leads of the hermetic package base or downbonds to create an assembled hermetic package base, and sealing a hermetic package lid to the assembled hermetic package base to create a new packaged integrated circuit. Modifying the extracted die includes removing the one or more ball bonds on the one or more die pads. Reconditioning the modified extracted die includes adding a sequence of metallic layers to bare die pads of the modified extracted die. The extracted die is a fully functional semiconductor die with one or more ball bonds on one or more die pads of the extracted die.
US10177054B2
A method for remapping an extracted die is provided. The method includes one or more of removing an extracted die from a previous integrated circuit package, the extracted die including a plurality of original bond pads having locations that do not correspond to desired pin assignments of a new package base and bonding an interposer to the extracted die. The interposer includes first bond pads configured to receive new bond wires from the plurality of original bond pads and second bond pads corresponding to desired pin assignments of the new package base, each individually electrically coupled to one of the first bond pads and configured to receive new bond wires from package leads or downbonds of the new package base.
US10177053B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor manufacturing and the teachings of the present disclosure may be embodied in a semiconductor chip with an interconnect monitor. Some embodiments may include arrays of diodes on the semiconductor chip; each diode with a stack of vertical interconnects and metal contacts, the stack and the diode connected in series and control mechanisms for addressing the diodes. The control mechanisms may include first inverters for applying either a high or a low voltage to columns of the diode stacks, connected at one end of each diode stack. Each first inverter may include reverse logic receiving a reverse logic signal and configured to invert a logic signal fed to the device for applying a relatively high or low voltage and second inverters for applying either a high or a low voltage to rows of the diode stack in the one of the plurality of arrays, connected at a second end of said diode stack, wherein each second inverter comprises reverse logic receiving an inverted reverse logic signal and configured to invert a logic signal fed to the device for applying a relatively high or low voltage.
US10177051B2
Methods and apparatuses for modifying a work function of transistors included in an integrated circuit are disclosed. A tester unit may be configured to test an integrated circuit that includes a plurality of circuit paths. The tester unit may be further configured to analyze the results from testing the integrated circuit and, based on the analysis, identify a circuit path that fails to meet a desired performance goal. A work function of a transistor included in the identified circuit path may be modified by the tester unit using an energy source external to the integrated circuit.
US10177050B2
A dynamically tunable process kit, a processing chamber having a dynamically tunable process kit, and a method for processing a substrate using a dynamically tunable process kit are provided. The dynamically tunable process kit allows one or both of the electrical and thermal state of the process kit to be changed without changing the physical construction of the process kit, thereby allowing plasma properties, and hence processing results, to be easily changed without replacing the process kit. The processing chamber having a dynamically tunable process kit includes a chamber body that includes a portion of a conductive side wall configured to be electrically controlled, and a process kit. The processing chamber includes a first control system operable to control one or both of an electrical and thermal state of the process kit and a second control system operable to control an electrical state of the portion of the side wall.
US10177047B2
After forming an interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer over a semiconductor material portion located on a substrate, a gate trench is formed extending through the ILD layer to expose a channel region of the semiconductor material portion. A gate structure is then formed within the gate trench. Epitaxial semiconductor regions are subsequently formed within source/drain contact openings formed on opposite sides of the gate structure, followed by forming source/drain contact structures on the epitaxial semiconductor regions.
US10177046B2
A technique relates to forming a semiconductor device. A first substrate is provided adjacent to a second substrate. The first substrate has a first surface orientation, and the second substrate has a second surface orientation different from the first surface orientation. An n-type field effect transistor (NFET) device is formed with the first substrate. The NFET device includes a first source, a first drain, and one or more first fins. The first source and the first drain have a vertical relationship with respect to the one or more first fins. A p-type field effect transistor (PFET) device is formed with the second substrate. The PFET device includes a second source, a second drain, and one or more second fins. The second source and the second drain have a vertical relationship with respect to the one or more second fins.
US10177045B2
Bulk CMOS RF switches having reduced parasitic capacitance are achieved by reducing the size and/or doping concentration of the switch's N-doped tap (N-Tap) element, which is used to conduct a bias voltage to a Deep N-Well disposed under each switch's P-Type body implant (P-Well). Both the P-Well and the N-Tap extend between an upper epitaxial silicon surface and an upper boundary of the Deep N-well. A low-doping-concentration approach utilizes intrinsic (lightly doped) N-type epitaxial material to provide a body region of the N-Tap element, whereby an N+ surface contact diffusion is separated from an underlying section of the Deep N-well by a region of intrinsic epitaxial silicon. An alternative reduced-size approach utilizes an open-ring deep trench isolation structure that surrounds the active switch region (e.g., the Deep N-well and P-Well), and includes a relatively small-sized N-Tap region formed in an open corner region of the isolation structure.
US10177042B2
A semiconductor device includes a first trench and a second trench, a liner pattern along a portion of side surfaces and along bottom surfaces of the first and the second trenches, respectively, a work function metal in the first and the second trenches and on the liner pattern, respectively, a first barrier metal in the first trench and on the work function metal, and having a first thickness, a second barrier metal in the second trench and on the work function metal, and having a second thickness thicker than the first thickness, and a first fill metal on the first barrier metal.
US10177038B1
A method for semiconductor fabrication includes providing a device structure having an isolation structure, a fin adjacent the isolation structure, gate structures over the fin and the isolation structure, one or more dielectric layers over the isolation structure and the fin and between the gate structures, a first contact hole over the fin, and a second contact hole over the isolation structure. The method further includes depositing a protection layer and treating it with a plasma so that the protection layer in the first contact hole and the protection layer in the second contact hole have different etch selectivity in an etching process; and etching the protection layer to etch through the protection layer on the bottom surface of the first contact hole without etching through the protection layer on the bottom surface of the second contact hole.
US10177035B2
It is prevented that when a predetermined number of semiconductor chips having transistors are manufactured from one semiconductor wafer, manufacturing cost of a semiconductor device is increased due to excess semiconductor chips manufactured from the semiconductor wafer. A first bipolar transistor including a first emitter region having a first area is formed in a first chip formation region in an exposure region that can be exposed by one exposure step, and a second bipolar transistor including a second emitter region having a second area different from the first area is formed in a second chip formation region in the exposure region.
US10177033B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of non-semiconductor material portions at a first side of a semiconductor substrate; forming semiconductor material on the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions to bury the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions within semiconductor material; removing at least a portion of the semiconductor substrate from a second side of the semiconductor substrate to uncover the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions at a backside of the semiconductor device; and forming a rough surface at the backside of the semiconductor device by removing at least a subset of the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions while at least a part of a semiconductor material located laterally between the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions remains or by removing at least a part of a semiconductor material located laterally between the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions while the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions remain.
US10177022B2
The present invention provides a temporary-bonding adhesive having excellent heat resistance, whereby a semiconductor circuit formation substrate and a support substrate can be bonded by a single type of adhesive layer, the adhesive force thereof does not change over the course of steps for manufacturing a semiconductor device or the like, and the adhesive can subsequently be easily de-bonded at room temperature under mild conditions; and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the temporary-bonding adhesive. The present invention includes a temporary-bonding adhesive wherein a polyimide copolymer having at least an acid dianhydride residue and a diamine residue, the diamine residue including both of (A1) a polysiloxane-based diamine residue represented by a general formula (1) in which n is a natural number from 1 to 15, and (B1) a polysiloxane-based diamine residue represented by a general formula (1) in which n is a natural number from 16 to 100, the polyimide copolymer containing 40-99.99 mol % of the (A1) residue and 0.01-60 mol % of the (B1) residue.
US10177020B2
A buffer system for a semiconductor device fabrication tool includes one or more retractable shelves, one or more sliding assemblies positionable above the one or more load ports of the semiconductor device fabrication tool, and one or more lifting assemblies. The one or more retractable shelves are configured to support sealable containers. The one or more sliding assemblies are configured to receive the sealable containers and are further configured to transport the sealable containers to one or more positions beneath the one or more retractable shelves. The one or more lifting assemblies are configured to transport the sealable containers between any two of the group including one or more retractable shelves, the one or more sliding assemblies, and the one or more load ports.
US10177013B2
A monocrystal and polycrystal texturing device includes a device body, various stations arranged in the device body, a transmission device and a control system. The various stations are respectively a dipping acid texturing station, a spray washing station, a drying station, a spray alkali texturing station, a spray washing station, a dipping acid treatment station, a spray washing station, an acid treatment station, a spray washing station and a drying station arranged in sequence. The transmission device is for transmitting a silicon wafer to each station in sequence. The spray alkali texturing station is also connected with a heating device. The control system controls the working status of each station and the heating device. The technology of the present invention has the advantages of stable operation, high efficiency and reliability, and can conduct seamless switching among polycrystal acid texturing, monocrystal alkali texturing, monocrystal acid texturing, and monocrystal alkali texturing.
US10177011B2
A chip packaging method includes forming a first redistribution layer and a first dielectric layer on a first temporary carrier to generate a plurality of first conductive interfaces close to the first temporary carrier, each pair of neighboring first conductive interfaces having a first pitch; forming a second dielectric layer on a first portion of the first redistribution layer and the first dielectric layer so as to cover the first portion of the first redistribution layer and expose a second portion; and forming a second redistribution layer and a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer to generate a plurality of second conductive interfaces. A circuitry being formed by at least the first redistribution layer and the second redistribution layer and each pair of neighboring second conductive interfaces has a second pitch larger than the first pitch.
US10176996B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a replacement metal gate and a fabrication process with reduced lithography steps. Using selective etching techniques, a layer of fill metal is used to protect the dielectric layer in the trenches, eliminating the need for some lithography steps. This, in turn, reduces the overall cost and complexity of fabrication. Furthermore, additional protection is provided during etching, which serves to improve product yield.
US10176993B2
A third semiconductor layer (105) including a third nitride semiconductor is provided between an electrode (110) and a second semiconductor layer (104) including a second nitride semiconductor. The band gap of the second nitride semiconductor is set such that the carrier movement between a first semiconductor layer (103) and the third semiconductor layer (105) via the second semiconductor layer (104) is rate-determined by a diffusion process. The thickness of the second semiconductor layer (104) is set such that the carrier movement between the first semiconductor layer (103) and the third semiconductor layer (105) via the second semiconductor layer (104) is rate-determined by the diffusion process. The carrier movement between the first semiconductor layer (103) and the third semiconductor layer (105) via the second semiconductor layer (104) is rate-determined by a field emission process.
US10176991B1
High-quality, single-crystalline silicon-germanium (Si(1-x)Gex) having a high germanium content is provided. Layers of the high-quality, single-crystalline silicon-germanium can be grown to high sub-critical thicknesses and then released from their growth substrates to provide Si(1-x)Gex films without lattice mismatch-induced misfit dislocations or a mosaic distribution of crystallographic orientations.
US10176985B2
The method includes the steps of: storing slurry containing optical matter particles into a slurry tank; stirring the slurry inside the slurry tank by causing a bubble producing unit arranged below a liquid surface of the slurry to produce bubbles; and spraying the slurry onto a coating target including a light emitting element from a nozzle arranged above the coating target.
US10176968B2
The present invention relates to enabling a versatile charged particle beam device, which is used for a wide range of kinds of samples to be observed and has parameters of emission conditions of a primary charged particle beam that is difficult to be registered in advance, to be operated easily and accurately even by a less-experienced operator and to obtain high-resolution images. A charged particle beam device according to the present invention includes, for example: a charged particle source, a focusing lens for a primary charged particle beam emitted from the charged particle source, an objective lens for focusing the primary charged particle beam, a movable objective aperture having multiple objective apertures disposed on a side of the charged particle source with respect to the objective lens, a detector of a secondary signal from the sample resulting from emission of the primary charged particle beam, a display unit configured to process and display a detected secondary signal, and a storage unit configured to store multiple emission conditions of the primary particle beam. The operation controller makes one emission condition be selected, determines whether or not the objective aperture is suitable for the selected emission condition, displays that the objective aperture is unsuitable when the objective aperture is unsuitable, and preadjusts the primary charged particle beam according to the selected emission condition and stores the preadjustment result as parameters for the emission conditions when the objective aperture is suitable.
US10176962B2
An X-ray emitter has an X-ray tube which contains a vacuum envelope in which an emitter and an anode are disposed. The emitter can be heated by an external flat emitter filament supply. Accordingly the emitter is configured as a filament emitter and an interface circuit is arranged between the filament emitter and the flat emitter filament supply. In this manner, a flat-emitter-based X-ray emitter can be replaced by a filament-emitter-based X-ray emitter in an X-ray emitter system without any configuration changes.
US10176960B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for enhancing the collection of charge carriers, such as electrons. Methods of manufacturing the devices are also disclosed. An electronic device can include a cathode, an anode, a gate electrode, and a focus electrode. The cathode can include a cathode substrate and an emitting region that is configured to emit an electron flow. The anode can include an anode substrate and a collection region that is configured to receive and/or absorb the electron flow. The gate electrode can be receptive to a first power source to produce a voltage in the gate electrode that is positively-biased with respect to the cathode. The focus electrode can be receptive to a second power source to produce a voltage in the focus electrode that is negatively-biased with respect to the gate electrode and/or the cathode.
US10176952B2
Provided is an electromagnetic relay that is reduced in size and has great flexibility in designing. For this purpose, when a predetermined time has passed after generation of an arc at least either between a movable contact and a fixed contact or between a movable contact and a fixed contact, an arc generated between the movable contact and the fixed contact is extended by a magnetic field generation unit to be longer than an arc generated between the movable contact and the fixed contact.
US10176949B2
A control apparatus for a relay and controlling method thereof. The controlling method includes: detecting an input voltage of the relay and a current flowing through the relay; obtaining a voltage zero crossing point information according to the input voltage and a reference voltage value; turning on the relay at an initial turn-on time point according to the voltage zero crossing point information, and obtaining a real turn-on time point of the relay according to the current flowing through the relay; obtaining a turn-on delay of the relay according to the initial turn-on time point and the real turn-on time point, and adjusting the initial turn-on time point to obtain a compensated turn-on time point according to the turn-on delay.
US10176948B2
A manual charging apparatus for a vacuum interrupter, including a motor for charging a closing spring mounted on a vacuum interrupter; a charging shaft configured to rotate by a rotational force of the motor; and a manual charging handle coupled to one end of the charging shaft and configured to manually rotate the manual charging handle, wherein the manual charging handle includes an insertion part formed in an cylindrical shape and inserted into one end of the charging shaft; an extension part vertically bent from the insertion part and extended to increase a revolution torque; and a handle part vertically bent from the extension part and configured to apply a manual operation force, and wherein the insertion part includes a rotation restriction means configured to restrict a rotation in one direction.
US10176936B2
A repairable electrical component includes one or more electrodes and a pliable casing, the one or more electrodes positioned within the pliable casing, wherein the repairable electrical component is configured to self-repair if the repairable electrical component or any part of the repairable component is partially damaged. A method of forming a repairable electrical component includes forming one or more electrodes, the electrodes comprising a core, an intermediate layer of ferromagnetic material and a pyrrole based material defining an outer layer, the outer layer encapsulating the core and ferromagnetic layer, positioning the one or more electrodes within an electrolyte, providing a casing to enclose the one or more electrodes and the electrolyte, the casing formed from a polyurethane material.
US10176929B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a capacitor element that having an anode with a core portion and a porous portion, a dielectric layer covering the porous portion, and a cathode including a solid electrolyte layer covering at least part of the dielectric layer; an exterior body that encloses the capacitor element so as to expose an end of the anode; a first external electrode connected to the cathode; and a second external electrode connected to the end of the anode. The thickness of the porous portion at the end of the anode that is exposed from the exterior member is smaller than the thickness of the porous portion in a region covered by the cathode.
US10176922B2
In an embodiment, a multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 is constituted in such a way that four capacitive components C1 to C4 that are connected in series are formed between a first internal electrode layer group 14 and a second internal electrode layer group 15 adjacent to it, wherein, among the four capacitive components C1 to C4, the facing area Sc1 that defines the capacitance value of the capacitive component C1 closest to the first external electrode 12 and the facing area Sc4 that defines the capacitance value of the capacitive component C4 closest to the second external electrode 13 are greater than the facing areas Sc2 and Sc3 that define the capacitance values of the two remaining capacitive components C2 and C3, respectively. The multilayer ceramic capacitor is capable of satisfying the needs for both size reduction and voltage resistance increase.
US10176915B2
A bistable linear electromagnet comprising a first housing (10) and a second housing (11) in alignment, a movable armature (18) comprising a rod (19) and a shuttle (20) that is slidably mounted, and a first coil (13) positioned in the first housing and a second coil (15) positioned in the second housing. A cavity (25) is made in a measurement wall (4) of one of the housings, and the electromagnet comprises a magnetic field sensor (26) positioned in the cavity and designed to measure a magnetic flux existing in a magnetic path formed by the walls of said housing and by the shuttle, in order to detect whether the shuttle has moved towards or away from the abutment wall of said first or second housing.
US10176914B2
A method for controlling a current flowing through a consumer comprises the following steps, which are periodically traversed: determining a dither current based on a dither signal and a definite point in time, wherein the dither signal is determined by a frequency, an amplitude and a signal form and actuating a flow control valve to produce the sum of a target current and the determined dither current by the consumer. Furthermore, the method comprises determining an indication to the current flowing through the consumer; compensating the indication by the factor of the dither current; and providing the indication, wherein the determination of the dither current and the determination of the indication are synchronized with each other in a predetermined way.
US10176910B2
The present invention provides a non-oriented silicon steel with excellent magnetic properties and a manufacturing process therefor. During the manufacturing process of the present invention, the temperature T of the molten steel of steel tapped from a converter during steelmaking and the carbon content [C] and the free oxygen content [O] comply with the following formula: 7.27×103≤[O][C]e(−5000/T)≤2.99×104, and the final annealing step uses tension annealing at a low temperature for a short time. A non-oriented silicon steel with a low iron loss, and excellent anisotropy of iron loss can be obtained by means of the manufacturing process of the present invention.
US10176901B2
A system configured to passively filter radioactive materials from a flow may include one or more particulate removal devices; one or more water removal devices; and/or one or more radionuclide removal devices. At least one of the one or more particulate removal devices may mechanically remove particulates of the radioactive materials from the flow. At least one of the one or more water removal devices mechanically may remove water from the flow. At least one of the one or more radionuclide removal devices may remove radioactive aerosols, reactive radioactive gases, or radioactive aerosols and reactive radioactive gases from the flow using engineered filter media. A filter may include a body, including an inlet and an outlet. The body may be configured to store filter media, to contain pressure from gas explosions, and/or to allow the stored filter media to move toward the outlet when pressure at the inlet increases.
US10176896B2
A CT-based clinical decision support system provides coronary decision support. With or without CT-FFR, a machine learnt predictor predicts the clinical decision for the patient based on input from various sources. Using the machine learnt predictor provides more consistent and comprehensive consideration of the available information. The clinical decision support may be provided prior to review of coronary CT data by a radiologist and/or treating physician, providing a starting point or recommendation that may be used by the radiologist and/or treating physician.
US10176894B2
A method includes determining whether the electronic device is attached on a human body and controlling the electronic device based on information regarding at least one of a body condition of a user, the body condition measured when the electronic device is attached, the user wearing the electronic device a position where the electronic device is attached or detached, or when the electronic device is attached or detached. An electronic device includes a memory configured to store an instruction to enable the processor to determine whether the electronic device is attached on a human body and to control the electronic device based on information regarding at least one of a body condition as measured when the electronic device is attached, the user wearing the electronic device, a position where the electronic device is attached or detached, and a time when the electronic device is attached or detached.
US10176892B2
A system and method for presenting summarized information of medical reports. The system and method receiving a plurality of medical reports, each medical report including a plurality of sections, each of the sections including text content, correlating corresponding sections of each of the medical reports into section types, extracting the text content of the sections of the medical reports for a selected section type and aggregating, into a single display, the text content of the sections of all the medical reports for the selected section type.
US10176888B2
An architecture allows individual system components to be developed and tested individually, i.e., as distinct modules, and to be subsequently combined through standardized electrical and communication interfaces. Any combination of these modules can be implemented to form different products that provide any number of functions, such as an integrated system for monitoring a health condition and/or delivering a medication. The architecture also provides an approach for dynamically updating the product and offering its users the latest generation of technology even after the users have already purchased the product. In particular, the embodiments employ the communication interfaces to also provide connection to a remote network that can update or upgrade the product's software when the product is out in the field.
US10176887B1
Methods for assaying properties in tissues or organs of drugs and other chemical compounds and substances include ex vivo normothermic perfusion with a fluid containing a test substance to obtain data regarding the tissue or organ, the substance and/or an interaction of the substance and the tissue or organ. The data can be used as, for example, part of a submission to a government regulatory organization.
US10176882B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a non-volatile memory, a one-time programmable (OTP) memory, and a processor operative to write data values to the non-volatile memory and then initiate programming of a first bit of the OTP memory, the first bit being associated with locking the non-volatile memory from further data being written thereto, and after the non-volatile memory has been locked from further data being written thereto, initiate programming of the second bit of the OTP memory in order to lock the non-volatile memory from further data being erased therefrom.
US10176880B1
Technology for a memory device is described. The memory device can include a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller. The memory controller can apply a first voltage level to a selected wordline associated with the plurality of memory cells during a body reset operation. The memory controller can apply a second voltage level to an unselected wordline associated with the plurality of memory cells during the body reset operation. The selected wordline can transit to a stable negative pillar potential, such that selected memory cells associated with the selected wordline can have a reduced threshold voltage instability.
US10176874B2
A storage device includes bit lines including a first bit line and a second bit line, memory units including a first memory string having memory cells connected in series, connected to the first bit line, and a second memory string having memory cells connected in series, connected to the second bit line, word lines each connected in common to a gate of a memory cell in the first string and a gate of a memory cell in the second string, and a controller configured to control voltages applied to the bit lines and the word lines during writing. When writing is performed on a selected memory cell of the first memory string, a first voltage is applied to a selected word line connected to the gate of the selected memory cell while a second voltage higher than a zero voltage is applied to the first bit line.
US10176873B2
A semiconductor memory device and a reading method thereof are provided. A flash memory includes a memory cell array; a page buffer/reading circuit, holding data of a selected page of the memory cell array; a decoding/selecting circuit, selecting n bits data from the data held by the page buffer based on a column address; and a data bus for n bits, which is connected to the decoding/selecting circuit. The decoding/selecting circuit further connects n/2 bits data of an even address to a lower bit position of the data bus and connects n/2 bits data of an odd address to a upper bit position of the data bus based on the column address. When the start address is the odd address, data of the odd address and data of the even address next to the odd address are selected.
US10176871B2
A page buffer circuit may include: a first node; a first switching circuit configured to pre-charge the bit-line based on a voltage provided to the first switching circuit; a sensing node; a second switching circuit configured to discharge the sensing node when the voltage value of the first node is lower than a voltage value associated with a voltage inputted to the second switching circuit during an evaluation period; a sense latch configured to latch a voltage being determined based on the voltage level of the sensing node, during a strobe period; and a third switching circuit configured to prevent the voltage value of the first node from being lower than a voltage value associated with a voltage inputted to the third switching circuit independently from the voltage at the sense latch.
US10176870B1
The present disclosure includes multifunctional memory cells. A number of embodiments include a gate element, a charge transport element, a first charge storage element configured to store a first charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the first charge storage element includes a nitride material, and a second charge storage element configured to store a second charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the second charge storage element includes a gallium nitride material.
US10176867B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining level-thresholds for q-level memory cells. A group of the memory cells are read to obtain respective read signal components. The read signal components are processed in dependence on signal level to produce a signal level vector, comprising a series of elements, indicative of the distribution of read signal components in order of signal level. A plurality of possible sets of q−1 elements corresponding, respectively, to q−1 level-thresholds which partition the signal level vector into q segments, is then defined. The q−1 level-thresholds for the group of memory cells are then determined by selecting from said possible sets that set for which a predetermined difference function, dependent on differences in signal level for elements in each of said q segments for the set, has an optimum value.
US10176866B1
An RRAM device is disclosed. The RRAM device includes a lower electrode structure over a conductive lower interconnect layer, an upper electrode structure over the lower electrode structure, and a switching layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode structure. The switching layer has switching layer outer sidewalls. The RRAM device also includes a recap layer having a vertical portion that extends vertically from corners of the switching layer along the upper electrode sidewalls. The recap layer has a horizontal portion that extends horizontally from the corners to the switching layer outer sidewalls.
US10176865B2
An integrated circuit comprising at least one logic tile, wherein at least one logic tile includes a mesh interconnect network. The mesh network includes (i) a plurality of interconnected multiplexers, wherein each multiplexer includes inputs, an output, and a plurality of selection inputs to receive signals that control whether an input is connected to the output and (ii) an inactive/static multiplexer which includes inputs, an output that is inactive/static, and a plurality of selection inputs to receive signals that control whether an input of the inactive/static multiplexer is connected to the output wherein such output is connected to an input of at least one of the interconnected multiplexers of the mesh network. In operation, the selection signals applied to the selection inputs of the inactive/static multiplexer are programmed to concurrently connect two or more inputs to the output of the inactive/static multiplexer.
US10176857B1
The present disclosure relates to a structure which includes a dual write bit switch device which includes a plurality of bit switch devices positioned at different positions of a memory cell array, and which is configured to enable write operations at a specified number of cells per bit line of the memory cell array.
US10176851B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to performing a loop structure for operations performed in memory. An example apparatus might also include a controller configured to cause sensing circuitry to iterate through a plurality of first elements and a plurality of second elements via a loop structure to perform an operation using the plurality of first elements and the plurality of second elements, wherein a conditional statement associated with the loop structure is used to determine whether at least one of a plurality of bits stored as an iterator mask has a particular bit-value. An example apparatus might also include sensing circuitry controllable to perform a shift operation using the iterator mask at each iteration of the loop structure and perform an AND operation using the iterator mask at each iteration of the loop structure.
US10176849B1
The disclosed technology includes methods and systems that reduce off-track write retry operations in shingled magnetic recording systems. In one implementation, the method includes writing data to an initial track, determining which side of the initial track is a shingled side, calculating a percentage of position error signal (PES) at a shingled side end of the initial track (PES1) when an off-track write operation occurs, determining whether the PES1 meets a first pre-determined threshold, continue writing data to a second track responsive to determining the PES1 is below a first pre-determined threshold, calculating a percentage of PES at a shingled side end of the second track (PES2), determining whether a combined value of PES1 and PES2 is above a second predetermined threshold to determine a probability value of the initial track being erased, and continue writing to a third track if the combined value is below the second predetermined threshold.
US10176835B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a disk comprising servo data, and an actuator configured to actuate a head over the disk. A servo controller is configured to generate digital control values at a first sample rate based on the servo data and transmit the digital control values over a serial interface to a driver circuit. The driver circuit is configured to generate predictive oversampled control values at a second sample rate higher than the first sample rate based on at least two of the digital control values received from the servo controller, apply the predictive oversampled control values to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to generate an analog control signal, and apply the analog control signal to the actuator.
US10176825B2
In general, according to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sound source separation processor and an audio controller. The sound source separation processor is configured to perform a sound source separation function that separates an input audio signal into a voice signal and a background sound signal and emphasizes either the voice signal or the background sound signal. The audio controller is configured to control, based on scene information relating to a scene included in video, performance of the sound source separation function during display of the scene.
US10176823B2
Electronic system for audio noise processing and noise reduction comprises: first and second noise estimators, selector and attenuator. First noise estimator processes first audio signal from voice beamformer (VB) and generate first noise estimate. VB generates first audio signal by beamforming audio signals from first and second audio pick-up channels. Second noise estimator processes first and second audio signal from noise beamformer (NB), in parallel with first noise estimator and generates second noise estimate. NB generates second audio signal by beamforming audio signals from first and second audio pick-up channels. First and second audio signals include frequencies in first and second frequency regions. Selector's output noise estimate may be a) second noise estimate in the first frequency region, and b) first noise estimate in the second frequency region. Attenuator attenuates first audio signal in accordance with output noise estimate. Other embodiments are also described.
US10176822B2
A computerized method for filtering a digital audio file to generate an output audio file that induces optimal health and cognitive ability in a listener of a playback of the output audio file is described herein. The method includes the steps of identifying a plurality of target frequencies that span within an octave, identifying a plurality of mid-point frequencies that are situated at mid-points between any two adjacent target frequencies, applying a peaking filter to the digital audio file centered around the plurality of mid-point frequencies to produce highest frequency attenuation at the plurality of mid-point frequencies, and generating the output audio file.
US10176819B2
A method for converting speech using phonetic posteriorgrams (PPGs). A target speech is obtained and a PPG is generated based on acoustic features of the target speech. Generating the PPG may include using a speaker-independent automatic speech recognition (SI-ASR) system for equalizing different speakers. The PPG includes a set of values corresponding to a range of times and a range of phonetic classes, the phonetic classes corresponding to senones. A mapping between the PPG and one or more segments of the target speech is generated. A source speech is obtained, and the source speech is converted into a converted speech based on the PPG and the mapping.
US10176810B2
Approaches provide for using voice information to influence the importance of search result categories for a search query. For example, various embodiments may provide search results for a search query based on a most relevant search result category to the search query. Voice information associated with a subsequent user interaction may be analyzed to identify whether the search result category is correct or if search results from a different category should be provided. Additionally, the voice information may be used to update the relevance score of the search result category to the search query to improve the category matching of future queries.
US10176809B1
Systems and methods for compressing and decompressing audio data are described. A server may receive input audio data corresponding to a spoken utterance from a speech-controlled device. The server performs speech processing on the input audio data to determine a spoken command and spoken solicited content. The server may then communication with a device associated with an application to obtain output audio data. The server may compress the output audio data by removing portions of audio data therefrom at regular intervals (e.g., milliseconds). The server may then send the compressed output audio data and instructions for decompressing the compressed output audio data to the speech-controlled device. Further, a speech-capturing device may also compress audio data corresponding to an utterance. The speech-capturing device may compress based on various factors, including the speech characteristics of the speaking user.
US10176798B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic and intelligent conversion of text into real user speech according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving a textual message from a first user, and accessing a voice profile associated with the first user, where the voice profile includes a real voice of the first user and at least one of emotional patterns relating to the first user, context distinctions relating to the first user, and speech characteristics relating to the first user, where accessing further includes extracting the real voice and at least one of an emotional pattern, a context distinction, and a speech characteristic based on subject matter of the textual message. The method may further include converting the textual message into a real speech of the first user based on the voice profile including the real voice and at least one of the emotional pattern, the context distinction, and the speech characteristic.
US10176791B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor configured to sense a motion of a bow to the string instrument, a vibration sensor configured to sense a vibration generated by the string instrument, and a control module configured to determine a fingering position of a user with respect to the string instrument using the motion of the bow and the vibration.
US10176777B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix; a plurality of signal lines that extend in a second direction in the display region; a vertical drive circuit that is coupled to first ends of the scanning lines and applies a vertical scanning pulse to the first ends to select each row of the pixels in the display region; a horizontal drive circuit that performs a display operation of supplying an image signal to each of the pixels in the row selected by the vertical drive circuit through the signal lines; and a plurality of switches that are coupled to second ends of the scanning lines respectively. Each of the switches supplies the same potential as that supplied to the first ends by the vertical drive circuit to the second end corresponding thereto in an idle period.
US10176770B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for controlling liquid crystal display brightness, and a liquid crystal display device. The method for controlling liquid crystal display brightness according to the present application determines a backlight adjustment rule according to a grayscale value distribution of an image signal and a first preset rule, adjusts a zoned backlight value corresponding to a zoned image data block according to the backlight adjustment rule, as well as drives and controls the backlight source brightness of the corresponding backlight zone by using the adjusted zoned backlight value, thereby adjusting the zoned backlight values for image signals of different grayscale value distributions by using different backlight adjustment rules, significantly improving the picture hierarchy of different image signals, and enhancing the displaying quality of the picture.
US10176767B2
The present disclosure relates to a source drive IC of liquid crystal panels. The source drive IC includes a digital signals module, a Gamma reference voltage module, a comparator, a power voltage module, a selector, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a buffer amplifier. In addition, a driving method of liquid crystal panels may reduce the power consumption of the buffer amplifier to decrease the temperature of the source drive IC so as to enhance the reliability of the liquid crystal panel.
US10176754B2
An electro-optical apparatus includes a plurality of display portions and a control portion. The respective display portions have a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels has a light-emitting element that emits light using current that is input at a predetermined cycle from a power supply line in a period from selecting a scanning line until selecting the subsequent scanning line. The control portion controls the display portions such that one of an input number of times of current from the power supply line to the light-emitting element in the period and an input time of current from the power supply line to the light-emitting element in each of the predetermined cycles changes in conjunction with each other in the display portions that are different from each other and the other changes independently from each other in the display portions that are different from each other.
US10176753B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for controlling brightness of an OLED screen. The method comprises: obtaining brightness of a first sub-pixel in an M-th column of pixels; obtaining brightness of a second sub-pixel; and increasing brightness of the first sub-pixel based on a difference in brightness between the second sub-pixel and the first sub-pixel, if brightness of the second sub-pixel is greater than that of the first sub-pixel.
US10176752B2
A gate driver suitable for integration with the backplane of an AMOLED display includes first and second clock signal sources producing first and second clock signals each having alternating active and inactive portions configured such that when one of the clock signals is active the other of the clock signals is inactive, and active portions of the first and second clock signals do not overlap. In a daisy chain of circuits for producing gate signals, each of the circuits except the last has an output coupled to the input of the next circuit in the chain. A source of a start token signal is coupled to an input of a first circuit in the daisy chain. Each of the circuits is configured to produce a gate signal one clock cycle after an active portion of one of the clock signals is received.
US10176746B2
Provided is a gate driver and a method of driving the same, which enables a voltage level of a Q node to be stably maintained in a blank section by: inputting a clock signal that directly provides a high level to the Q node through a reset signal input end of a reset signal for resetting the Q node of a gate driver integrated circuit; inputting a reset signal for each blank section between frames; or providing a higher gate high voltage and a lower gate low voltage. There may be provided a gate driver integrated circuit that has a robust structure with high reliability and avoids an error of a scan signal by maintaining the voltage level of the Q node to be stable in the blank section, and a method of driving the same.
US10176745B2
A data conversion unit is disclosed which includes: a transformation portion configured to transform R (red), G (green) and B (blue) sub-pixel data signals of input image data into R, G, B and W (white) sub-pixel data signals; and a brightness reinforcement portion configured to adjust brightness of a transformed W sub-pixel data signal included in the transformed R, G, B, and W sub-pixel data signals based on brightness distribution of the input image data.
US10176744B2
A method for driving a display panel is provided. The method includes turning on a first light source for generating a first light in a first sub-frame, turning on a second light source for generating a second light in a second sub-frame, turning on a third light source for generating a third light in a third sub-frame, outputting same first gate signals a first gate line and a second gate line adjacent to the first gate line, and outputting one of a first data signal corresponding to the first gate line or a second data signal corresponding to the second gate line to a data line during an active period of the first gate signals. The second frame is consecutive to the first frame.
US10176740B2
Provided is a display device including a gate driver configured to output a plurality of gate signals to a plurality of gate lines during each of a first frame and a second frame, and a display panel configured to display a first image during the first frame and to display a second image during the second frame, the second frame being longer in duration than the first frame, wherein each of the gate signals includes a high interval having a first voltage level and a low interval having a second voltage level lower than the first voltage level, and wherein the second voltage level of the gate signals during the second frame is lower than the second voltage level of the gate signals during the first frame.
US10176723B2
An obstacle avoidance system is provided to assist a pilot in avoiding obstacles. The obstacle avoidance system includes a set of proximity sensors and a pilot interface device. The set of proximity sensors detects nearby obstacles by emitting a signal and receiving a reflected signal from an obstacle. A processor receives an obstacle indication from the set of proximity sensors and detects the obstacle that is in proximity to the aircraft based at least in part on the reflected signal. The processor acquires a distance and a direction to the obstacle and calculates a threat level posed by the obstacle. The pilot interface device is operable to display the following: an ownship icon indicative of the aircraft, a velocity vector icon indicative of a velocity vector of the aircraft, and an obstacle graphic indicative of the distance, direction, and threat level of the obstacle.
US10176715B2
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: identifying a first-device location for representing a smart vehicle; identifying a unintelligent-vehicle location associated with the first-device location, the unintelligent-vehicle location for representing an unintelligent vehicle; determining a smart vehicle data for representing the smart vehicle data from an environmental sensors of the smart vehicle; and generating with a vehicle control circuit, an area profile for the unintelligent-vehicle location, based on the smart vehicle data for representing geographic relationship between the unintelligent vehicle and the smart vehicle, a further vehicle, or a combination thereof.
US10176713B2
The present invention relates to an emergency alert and warning apparatus and, more particularly, to a road emergency alert and warning apparatus which is installed on a median strip or a guide rail of an expressway or the like to alert a driver of a rear vehicle of an emergency situation when a traffic accident occurs during nighttime driving, thereby preventing an additional secondary accident. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the emergency alert and warning apparatus comprises: an operation switch which is installed on a median strip or a guide rail of a road to allow a user to generate an operation signal when a traffic accident occurs; a control unit which receives the operation signal to output a control signal, and transmits or relays traffic accident notification data to another neighboring emergency alert and warning apparatus through a wired or wireless communication; a warning display unit which is installed rearward with respect to a traveling direction of a vehicle and includes a plurality of LEDs that are turned on and off in response to the control signal of the control unit; and a photovoltaic cell which converts solar energy into electric energy, processes the electric energy into a constant voltage through a DC/DC converter, and supplies power.
US10176705B1
In a method for remote monitoring of alarms, an audio test signal is generated by an alarm device while the alarm device is at a particular location and the audio sensors are arranged in a physically separated configuration. The audio test signal is processed to generate alarm identification data that includes data indicative of directionality of the audio test signal. The plurality of audio sensors, arranged in the physically separated configuration, sense an audio signal that the alarm device generated in response to detecting an alarm condition, and the audio signal and directionality data are processed to determine that the alarm device generated the audio signal. A user is caused to be notified that the alarm device was triggered.
US10176704B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring on route transportations. The method includes obtaining a driving route of a target vehicle; obtaining a reference position on the driving route away from a first current position of the target vehicle; determining a second current position of the target vehicle after a reference time; determining a distance between the second current position and the reference position is greater than a preset distance; and sending a signal to a target terminal indicating that the target vehicle is off-route.
US10176703B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring on route transportations. The method includes obtaining a driving route of a target vehicle; obtaining a reference position on the driving route away from a first current position of the target vehicle; determining a second current position of the target vehicle after a reference time; determining a distance between the second current position and the reference position is greater than a preset distance; and sending a signal to a target terminal indicating that the target vehicle is off-route.
US10176702B2
A distress situation recognizing and remote assistance summoning device for recognizing a distress situation which may be encountered by a transport vehicle, and for summoning assistance via a wireless communications link is shown and described. The device may be self-contained in one unit and clamped to a tube member of the vehicle. The device includes microprocessor, a battery, a power cable connectable to a vehicle electrical system, accelerometer and gyroscope for sensing impacts, GPS capability, wireless communications capability for summoning assistance, an annunciator for annunciating transmission of an assistance request, a manual assistance request feature, a request cancellation feature, a delay feature delaying the assistance request, a visible and an audible beacon annunciating location of the vehicle, and a coverage annunciator signaling that the vehicle is in an area not in potential communication with a recipient of the request for assistance.
US10176700B2
An apparatus for providing data communication and power to a device located in a room having a power outlet is disclosed. The power outlet may be a standard AC outlet, for example. The apparatus includes a cable extending from the device and having a plug comprising a plug body. Prongs extend from the plug body and couple to the power outlet to receive power. A first near field communication antenna is carried by the plug body. A communication module has a second near field communication antenna and is located in the room in proximity to the plug. At least one of the first near field communication antenna and the second near field communication antenna communicates data wirelessly to the other of the first near field communication antenna and the second near field communication antenna.
US10176699B2
A tracking system determines if a tracking device is located within a safe zone based on whether a set of safe conditions are satisfied. The set of safe conditions includes a geographic boundary or a geographic location and corresponding threshold distance. The set of safe conditions can also include a time window during which a safe zone is active. When a tracking device is within a safe zone (e.g., geographically and temporally), the tracking device is determined to be safe, and notifications associated with the tracking device can be minimized. The safe zones may be user-selected, user-defined, or determined based on data analytics. If a set of safe conditions are not satisfied, the tracking system generates and sends a notification to the user of the tracking device indicating that the tracking device may be lost.
US10176692B1
Computing device(s) are configured for managing the reunification of students with parents during an emergency or a drill for a simulated emergency. The reunification of students with guardians may be managed through the operations of various user interfaces (UIs) presented on the device(s). Different UIs may be configured to support different personnel performing different roles in the reunification process. The UIs may include one or more of a student supervisor UI, a location supervisor UI, a runner UI, a guardian greeter UI, a reunification officer UI, or an incident commander UI. The various UIs enable different personnel to track the location and status of individuals, such as students and guardians, during various stages of a reunification process, enable personnel to dynamically update a centralized database with current information regarding the location and status of individuals, and view real time information regarding the location and status of individuals.
US10176686B2
A system and method used for monitoring conditions in a space through characterizing detected occupants with properties in accordance with time, location and tracked traversal path. The intruder as a detected occupant is distinguished from the tenant, property management staff, and visitor. The system triggers an alert indicative of a condition by sending signals and messages to selected devices or systems as receiving nodes. A condition, such as collected sensor data incompliant to a threshold, is detected and an alert is triggered. A user carried mobile device such as the cellular phone, elevator control system operative in a building are possible receiving nodes of a triggered alert for a detected condition.
US10176685B2
The present invention relates to an intrusion detection system. The intrusion detection system is installed in a surveillance area and may comprise: an image heat ray device for measuring infrared heat generated from an intruder intruding into the surveillance area to determine an intrusion occurrence and generate an alarm signal for indicating the intrusion occurrence, generating a first image and a second image by shooting an image in the surveillance area, generating an intrusion signal including the generated alarm signal, the first image, the second image and a reference image which is an image shot prior to a situation of the intrusion occurrence in the surveillance area, and transmitting the generated intrusion signal to a controller through a frequency for a security system; the controller for receiving the intrusion signal from the image heat ray device and transmitting the received intrusion signal to a server through an Internet network; and the server for receiving the intrusion signal from the controller, transmitting the intrusion signal to the controller and a pre-mapped mobile communication terminal, extracting the alarm signal, the reference image, the first image, and the second image from the received intrusion signal, displaying the extracted alarm signal in an alarm signal display area of a display unit installed at the server, and displaying the extracted reference image, first image, and second image, on an image display screen of the display unit.
US10176681B2
An actuator is connected to an operating element of a manual user interface and outputs a haptic feedback signal to the user via the operating element. The operating element includes a sensor that detects a sensor signal generated by a manual input of the user as a reaction to the emitted feedback signal. The user's reaction time is determined. If the reaction time is shorter than a predetermined limit value, future haptic feedback signals are adjusted in such a way that their haptically perceptible intensity is reduced, and if the reaction time is greater than the predetermined limit value, future haptic feedback signals are changed in such a way that their haptically perceptible intensity is increased.
US10176656B2
An electronic locking device can be configured to become active from a low power state, receive physical input to unlock, and provide access to a replaceable power supply. An electronic locking device can use a combination of physical input and discovery of an authorized mobile device to enable transition from a locked state to an unlocked state. Authorization can be internally stored or externally obtained through a service. An electronic locking device can match a series of physical interactions to a series of stored interactions to enable transition from a locked state to an unlocked state, when an authorized device is unavailable. An electronic locking device can provide access to a replaceable power supply when a latch is released.
US10176653B2
An apparatus including a central access control system and an access reader. The access reader is structured to receive an access credential from the central access control system, and includes a first connector connected with a second connector with the second connector connected to a cable, and with the cable in electronic communication with the central access control system. Connection of the first connector and the second connector places the access reader in electronic communication with the central access control system.
US10176643B2
Three-dimensional reference object data indicating a boundary of a reference object contained in a real video image is generated from first data containing the real video image based on a positional relation between a virtual screen position where the real video image is displayed and a virtual camera position corresponding to a camera position. Second data is generated, which indicates an object constituting a virtual three-dimensional CG space generated by reproducing an actual space where the real video image is taken. Third data is data in which the virtual camera position in the virtual three-dimensional CG space is determined in such a manner that the boundary of the reference object in the reference object data and a boundary of the object corresponding to the reference object in the second data are caused to coincide with each other.
US10176641B2
Examples disclosed relate to displaying virtual objects. One example provides, on a display device comprising a camera and a display, a method comprising acquiring, via the camera, image data imaging an environment, receiving a user input requesting display of a three-dimensional virtual object, comparing dimensional information for the three-dimensional virtual object to dimensional information for a field of view of the display device, modifying the three-dimensional virtual object based upon comparing the dimensional information for the three-dimensional virtual object to the dimensional information for the field of view to obtain a modified three-dimensional virtual object, and displaying the modified three-dimensional virtual object via the display.
US10176640B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to generating, conducting, and reporting digital surveys utilizing augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods assist administrators in generating digital surveys utilizing interactive virtual environments via a virtual reality device and/or augmented reality elements via an augmented reality device. Similarly, the disclosed systems and methods can provide digital surveys via augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices, for instance, by monitoring user interactions via the augmented reality and/or virtual reality devices and providing digital surveys based on the monitored user interactions. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods can present survey results and allow administrators to interact with survey results utilizing augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices.
US10176639B2
A virtual image generation system and method is provided. A plurality of synthetic image frames of the three-dimensional scene are rendered, and sequentially displayed to an end user. Each of the displayed image frames has a non-uniform resolution distribution.
US10176633B2
An integrated map and navigation program is described. The program provides a first operational mode for browsing and searching a map. The program provides a second operational mode for providing a navigation presentation that provides a set of navigation directions along a navigated route by reference to the map.
US10176629B2
A digital Earth system based upon a hexagonal subdivision of a polyhedron representation of the Earth utilizes a computer-implemented method for assigning identifiers. The method comprises defining a tessellation of hexagonal cells, the tessellation having a first axis and a second axis, the first axis being perpendicular to a first side of the hexagonal cells, the second axis being 120 degrees from the first axis and being perpendicular to a second side of the hexagonal cells; selecting an origin cell for the tessellation and assigning a unique identifier comprising a first value and a second value thereto; and assigning a unique identifier to each cell other than the origin cell, the unique identifier for each of these cells comprising a first vector value and a second value, the first vector value and the second vector value being indicative of the location of the cell to the origin cell along the first and second axis respectively.
US10176624B2
Techniques for illumination-guided example-based stylization of 3D renderings are described. In implementations, a source image and a target image are obtained, where each image includes a multi-channel image having at least a style channel and multiple light path expression (LPE) channels having light propagation information. Then, the style channel of the target image is synthesized to mimic a stylization of individual illumination effects from the style channel of the source image. As part of the synthesizing, the light propagation information is applied as guidance for synthesis of the style channel of the target image. Based on the guidance, the stylization of individual illumination effects from the style channel of the source image is transferred to the style channel of the target image. Based on the transfer, the style channel of the target image is then generated for display of the target image via a display device.
US10176619B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with emotion augmented animation of avatars are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise an animation augmentation engine to receive facial data of a user, analyze the facial data to determine an emotion state of the user, and drive additional animation that supplements animation of the avatar based at least in part on a result of the determination of the emotion state of the user. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10176618B2
A positioning unit identifies first positional information of a mobile terminal device. A communication unit acquires second positional information identified in the other mobile terminal device. An imaging unit captures an image of a surrounding environment. An acquisition unit acquires information related to a status dependent on an environment surrounding the other mobile terminal device. A display unit displays, in a captured image, another device icon indicating another positioning unit, and displays the acquired information in association with the other device icon.
US10176605B2
Systems and methods for dynamic display of hierarchical data (e.g., a tree) are provided. Dynamic display enables a user to navigate the hierarchical data by dragging, without having to select expand/contract icons. The systems and methods use a tree spacing structure to determine relative spacing of nodes based on a focus line and to automatically expand and collapse visual representations of nodes in the tree. Nodes on the focus line may be evenly spaced along the focus line, and all of the other nodes in the hierarchy not on the focus line may be positioned based on their relationship to nodes on the focus line, using the tree spacing structure. Ancestor nodes of nodes on the focus line may be positioned between their direct first and last child and children of focus level nodes may be positioned directly behind the focus level node.
US10176601B2
One example method to improve image quality of projection image data may include obtaining projection image data and channel offset data associated with the projection image data. The channel offset data may be acquired using the flat panel detector and include at least one set of channel offset data values associated with respective channels of the flat panel detector. The method may also include generating channel offset drift data representing one or more variations of the channel offset data from a reference channel offset data. The method may further include generating offset-compensated projection image data by modifying the projection image data based on the channel offset drift data to compensate for the one or more variations of the channel offset data.
US10176598B2
A method and system for optimizing N dimensional volume data for transmission is disclosed. The device and method including organizing points based on XYZ location, into volumes, which are recursively divided by N into smaller volumes, where N is greater than 1, and decompressing each volume, by encoding a reference volume then encoding the remaining volumes as a distance from the reference cuboid or the most recently recorded cuboid.
US10176593B1
Systems and methods for locating and/or tracking objects in an environment are discussed. The system may include non-visible light emitters and a camera and server system including an image geometry module configured to determine the location of an identified object in the environment. Objects may be identified based on a predefined frequency and/or pattern of pulses.
US10176591B2
A system for determining the absolute position of a first object with respect to a second object includes a scalar element attached to the first object and a measuring device attached to the second object. The scalar element comprises a series of coded regions. The coded region represents a number designating a position along an axis of the scalar element. The measuring device includes a two-dimensional optical sensor array configured to capture an image of a portion of the scalar element. The system also includes a processor configured to receive the image and determine an absolute position of the first object with respect to the second object based on at least one coded region of the series of coded regions.
US10176585B2
A method and an electronic apparatus for image background learning are provided. In the method, a memory space for recording multiple historical background values of each pixel in an input image is disposed in a memory device, in which the memory space is divided into a lock area and an open area. Whenever receiving the input image, a processor determines whether each pixel in the input image is a background pixel according to the historical background values recorded in the memory space. If the pixel is determined as the background pixel, the processor updates one of the historic background values recorded in the open area by using the pixel value of the pixel while keeping the historical background values in the lock area unchanged. The processor also periodically switches a location of the lock area in the memory space, so as to forget old historical background values.
US10176582B2
Embodiments of the invention introduce the concept of a virtual fiducial marker (VFM). This marker will not be placed prior to preoperative imaging. It will therefore not initially appear in the preoperative 3D image. Instead, the marker will be virtually placed in the 3D data set prior to surgery, and as such the marker does not even need to be attached to the patient, if the patient is not expected to move during surgery. The idea behind such a VFM comes from the observation that there is a big variation in the difficulty of an image based registration depending on the quality of the images and their field of view. However, provided two initial registrations to high quality wide field of view images can be carried out, it then becomes possible to use these registrations to insert a virtual fiducial marker within the 3D preoperative image. Once inserted it may then be used to obtain a starting position for a registration procedure, and particularly to obtain in-plane translations. It may also be used at the end of a registration to provide a measure of registration accuracy, to verify the registration and detect mis-registrations.
US10176581B2
The present disclosure discloses an image registration method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a target plane; orthogonally projecting the optical center of each of the cameras in the planar camera array onto the target plane, to obtain a projected point of the optical center of each of the cameras; generating a rectangular grid on the target plane according to the projected points of the optical centers of the cameras in the planar camera array; obtaining a target grid point of each of the cameras according to the rectangular grid; determining a target camera coordinate system of each of the cameras; and registering, images collected by the cameras in the planar camera array. In embodiments of the present disclosure a target camera coordinate system of a camera is determined again, thereby greatly reducing complexity of subsequent image registration.
US10176575B2
Methods and systems are provided for assessing the presence of functionally significant stenosis in one or more coronary arteries, further known as a severity of vessel obstruction. The methods and systems can implement a prediction phase that comprises segmenting at least a portion of a contrast enhanced volume image data set into data segments corresponding to wall regions of the target organ, and analyzing the data segments to extract features that are indicative of an amount of perfusion experiences by wall regions of the target organ. The methods and systems can obtain a feature-perfusion classification (FPC) model derived from a training set of perfused organs, classify the data segments based on the features extracted and based on the FPC model, and provide, as an output, a prediction indicative of a severity of vessel obstruction based on the classification of the features.
US10176573B2
A method for dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) image processing and kinetic modeling of an organ's region-of-interest is provided. The method includes deriving at least a contour of an exterior of the organ's region-of-interest from one or more of a plurality of images; generating a spline function in response to the derived contour of the exterior of the organ's region-of-interest from the one or more of the plurality of images; registering the plurality of images wherein the organ's region-of-interest has been segmented; deriving a tracer curve for the organ's region-of-interest in the registered images, the tracer curve indicating a change in concentration of a contrast agent flowing through the organ's region-of-interest over a time period; and kinetic modeling by fitting a kinetic model to the tracer curve to generate one or more maps of tissue physiological parameters associated with the kinetic model.
US10176558B2
In an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes determining presence of at least one moving object in a scene based on two or more burst images corresponding to the scene captured by a first camera. One or more portions of the scene associated with the at least one moving object are identified, and, information related to the one or more portions is provided to a second camera. An image of the scene captured by the second camera second camera is received, where a pixel level shutter disposed in front of an image sensor of the second camera is programmed to periodically open and close, throughout a duration of said image capture, for pixels of the image sensor corresponding to the one or more portions of the scene. A deblurred image corresponding to the scene is generated based on the image.
US10176549B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for remote rendering of computer graphics. The system includes a graphics application program resident at a remote server. The graphics application is invoked by a user or process located at a client. The invoked graphics application proceeds to issue graphics instructions. The graphics instructions are received by a remote rendering control system. Given that the client and server differ with respect to graphics context and image processing capability, the remote rendering control system modifies the graphics instructions in order to accommodate these differences. The modified graphics instructions are sent to graphics rendering resources, which produce one or more rendered images. Data representing the rendered images is written to one or more frame buffers. The remote rendering control system then reads this image data from the frame buffers. The image data is transmitted to the client for display or processing. In an embodiment of the system, the image data is compressed before being transmitted to the client. In such an embodiment, the steps of rendering, compression, and transmission can be performed asynchronously in a pipelined manner.
US10176538B2
A method and computer program product for managing hydrocarbon field production, e.g., petro-chemical reservoir production. The hydrocarbon field is modeled using the finite volume method (FVM) model and the finite element method (FEM). Centroids are located in each FVM cell and each FEM element and overlapping cells are identified. After determining the distance between centroids for overlapping cells, fluid characteristics are mapped to the FEM element centroids, weighted inversely for distance between the respective centroids. A permeability/conductivity weighted average is determined for pore pressure and temperature of sub-volumes clustered around each FEM element node. Field production may be adjusted in response to FEM element node characteristics.
US10176536B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for locating, filtering, ranking and then providing a selection of potential “meet-up” venue(s) and time(s) recommendations to a group of users of a device having an interface and a display (e.g., a smart phone or a tablet) based on the geographic area delineated by a user and the user's contacts who are invited to the “meet-up”. The methods and systems calculate, filter and rank the most convenient “meet-up” venue and time based on the current location of group members, taking into account a plurality of factors, such as time, distance, schedule, group member's interests, availability, and the like. The methods and systems then provide a selection of the top ranking “meet-up” venues to the group members. Thereafter, the group members vote for the most suitable location among the ranked “meet-up” venues.
US10176533B2
The invention disclosed is a system for providing an aggregated econometric database with selectable sources of economic data. The econometric database is accessible to a system application that graphically displays econometric data over selected periods, and allows display of external economic data in conjunction with internal company metrics. The system applications further provide for identifying the features of indicators, economic and business forecasting, and providing alerts based on the available econometric data.
US10176527B1
A shading system creates a shaded region on a structure, enabling 3D scanning techniques that rely on light detection to generate a 3D model. The shading system includes a vehicle or device that moves the shading system into place. A light, such as a laser dot or line, can be projected onto the shaded region of the structure and detected by a 3D scanner.
US10176522B1
Techniques are described for monitoring a plurality of financial transactions of a customer performed across a plurality of financial accounts. The techniques may include determining a subset of the plurality of financial transactions based on a first metric applied to the plurality of financial transactions. The techniques may further include identifying a suggested financial transaction based on a second metric applied to the subset of the plurality of financial transactions. The techniques may further include presenting the suggested financial transaction to the customer via a user interface associated with at least one of the plurality of financial accounts.
US10176520B2
A method and apparatus for displaying a product. The three-dimensional model includes objects and a spatial relationship of the objects to each other. A group of the objects in the three-dimensional model is identified based on a policy applied to a user input selecting a portion of the product and assigns a value to a group of attributes associated with the group of the objects. The value assigned to the group of the attributes indicates that the group of the objects is to be displayed on the display system. Other objects in the objects having the attributes without the value are not displayed. The attributes associated with the objects are outputted in which the group of the objects is displayed in three dimensions on the display system using the attributes associated with the objects, enabling a desired level of performance in visualizing the three-dimensional model of the product.
US10176517B2
A vehicle with an integrated advertising system. The vehicle can include a computer, at least one receiver, and a driving control. At least one receiver may be configured to communicate wirelessly, for example with an antenna or satellite. The receiver may receive advertising or retail information pertaining to a good or service, also including housing, a menu, or entertainment opportunities. The advertising or retail information may be communicated to a user within the vehicle, and the user may indicate a desire to purchase the good or service. The user may instruct the computer to drive the vehicle to the location of the good or service autonomously or the user may instruct the computer to purchase the good or service, or both.
US10176516B2
An online marketplace system may allow sellers to create listings for items to sell. A seller may create a listing using an application installed on the seller's mobile device. The application may be configured so that a seller can very quickly provide information regarding an item, and therefore create a listing within minimal time investment. The application monitors data connectivity and detects connectivity problems that may create delays in providing item information to the online marketplace system. When there are problems with connectivity, the application caches the item information so that the user of the application does not perceive any latencies. When data connectivity improves, the application sends the cached item information to the online marketplace system for creation of the listing.
US10176515B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for virtual online jewelry sales in secondary markets.
US10176506B2
There is provided a product search system including a user interface through which a target product can be efficiently searched and specified from a number of products registered in a product master with high speed while reducing work load. In a representative embodiment of the present invention, there are provided a phrase analysis unit which acquires a character string of a product name of each of the products contained in a list of the products, divides the character string into phrases by a predetermined division character or a symbol to acquire words, and sets a word satisfying a predetermined condition in each of the words to a search word, and a search word processing unit that shows the search word to the user, narrows the products contained in the list down to products of which the product names contain a search word designated by the user, and outputs the narrowed products.
US10176503B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments are adapted for efficiently processing data to allow for the streamlined assessment of the risk level associated with particular privacy campaigns. The systems may provide a centralized repository of templates of privacy-related question/answer pairings for various vendors, products (e.g., software products), and services. Different entities may electronically access the templates (which may be periodically updated and centrally audited) and customize the templates for evaluating the risk associated with the entities' respective business endeavors that involve the relevant vendors, products, or services.
US10176501B2
Systems and methods for guaranteed redemption of sale items. The systems and methods can include a payment system for issuing a payment instrument to a customer when the sale item is not available in a retail location. The systems and methods can further include a redemption system for redeeming the payment instrument for the sale item.
US10176500B1
One or more content items can be received at a data recognition module. The data recognition module can utilize, individually or in any combination, image recognition (e.g., OCR, object recognition, etc.), audio recognition (e.g., speech recognition, music identification, etc.), and/or text recognition (e.g., text crawling) in order to identify or recognize at least a portion of the one or more content items. Based on the identified content portion(s), the one or more content items and/or their respective source(s) can be classified. In one example, an image containing a not yet machine-readable curse word can be included in a source webpage. The image can be received at the data recognition module. The curse word contained in the image can be recognized/identified using an OCR process. Based, at least in part, on the recognized/identified curse word, the image and/or the webpage can be classified as likely being associated with inappropriate material.
US10176493B2
A system and method for compensating subscribers for permitting playing of advertisements as ring back tones and direct activation of advertised services is provided. The method includes receiving by a telecommunication service provider a call initiated by a caller. The method further includes establishing status of at least one of caller and callee by checking home location register of the telecommunication service provider. Establishing status includes determining RBT subscription status of caller and callee. Depending on the RBT subscription status of caller and callee, the call is transferred to a tone player within RBT system of at least one of caller and callee. A compensation system then selects a media file to be played to caller based on RBT to Advertisement ratios of subscribers. The selected media file may be an RBT file or an advertisement message, which is then played to the caller.
US10176490B2
An advertisement distribution control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a view count determination unit and a distribution/non-distribution decision unit. The view count determination unit determines the number of views of content information being distributed. The distribution/non-distribution decision unit decides whether or not to distribute advertisement information to terminal apparatuses viewing the content information based on the number of views determined by the view count determination unit.
US10176479B2
Exemplary embodiment of the present invention would provide systems, including Internet-based systems, and computer-implemented methods, for providing online Buyers and Sellers who physically transact an exchange of an item at a local meeting place, indicia of confirmation of the exchange on which to base a background online payment. In particular, exemplary embodiments of the present invention would provide a way for Buyers and/or Sellers to input an identifier for online authentication to confirm that a physical exchange of an item sold had been transacted and that would accordingly provide an online system with a basis to charge the relevant Buyer's account for a sale amount and pay the Seller for the item sold.
US10176476B2
A platform for performing secure personalized transactions in a multi-domain ecosystem includes a personalization tier that enables service provider personalization for one or more ecosystem elements stored on a mobile device. Further, the platform includes an enabling tier for facilitating interoperation between the personalization tier and a client device. The platform further includes a service tier that may be operating independently of the enabling tier and may enable service delivery for a plurality of services.
US10176472B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling the generation of a token corresponding to a tone generated by a telephony system, comprising receiving one or more dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones generated by a telephony system, generating a token based on the one or more DTMF tones; and transmitting the generated token to a merchant system.
US10176458B2
Aspects include a method, a system and a computer program product. The method includes identifying, on an electronic platform providing for an exchange of messages among multiple participants, at least one open issue to be resolved. Data is collected from the exchanged messages to determine a participation interaction parameter and a solution quality parameter associated with at least one open issue. The participation interaction parameter includes an accountability dynamic factor and collaboration dynamic factor and the solution quality parameter includes a velocity factor, a dormancy factor, and an extinction factor. When a sum of the participation interaction parameter and the solution quality parameter is below a threshold value, at least one open issue participant is invited to the electronic platform. It is also determined when the at least one open issue becomes a closed issue.
US10176455B2
In some embodiments, methods and systems of managing products at a retail sales facility include scanning a product in a stocking cart at the retail sales facility using a hand-held electronic device including a processor. At least two of the following three functions may be performed based on the scanning of the product. First, the stocking cart may be audited by comparing scanned data to data contained in an inventory management database. Second, a determination of whether the item is on a pick list may be made, which may include determining a demand for the scanned product to arrive at a decision whether to store the product in the stock room or place it on a shelf on the sales floor. Third, if the item is to be stored in the stock room, a determination of whether identical items are stored in bins in the stock room may be made.
US10176445B2
Among other things, information is obtained by computer about Internet-related assets of organizations. The information is used to identify relationships between the organizations with respect to the assets. The information about the identified relationships is made available for display or analysis or both.
US10176441B2
For distributed analysis of time-series data in a smart entity environment, the data is received from a data source in the environment. An overall analysis of the data is distributed to a first node in the environment. In a network operating the environment the first node is at a smaller distance from the data source as compared to a second node. A first portion of the overall analysis is performed on the data at the first node to produce a first conclusion. The first conclusion is routed to the second node. The second node performs a second portion of the overall analysis. Using the first conclusion, from the first node, a first action is caused to occur on a component of the environment. The data source is associated with the component, the data is indicative of a condition in the environment, and the component participates in the condition.
US10176434B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for mining feedback are described. A set of one or more lexical patterns associated with one or more of a suggestion and a defect report are determined and the set of one or more lexical patterns are matched against a plurality of feedback items to generate a distance learning training set. A distance learning technique is applied to the distance learning training set to generate a distance learning model and the distance learning model is used to identify one or more candidate feedback items of the plurality of feedback items, each of which is one or more of a candidate suggestion and a candidate defect report.
US10176432B2
A technique relates to providing a superconducting quantum device. A fixed frequency transmon qubit is provided. A tunable frequency transmon qubit is provided. The fixed frequency transmon qubit is coupled to the tunable frequency transmon qubit to form a single qubit.
US10176428B2
The various aspects configure a mobile computing device to efficiently identify, classify, model, prevent, and/or correct the conditions and/or behaviors occurring on the mobile computing device that are related to one or more peripheral devices connected to the mobile computing device and that often degrade the performance and/or power utilization levels of the mobile computing device over time. In the various aspects, the mobile computing device may obtain a classifier model that includes, tests, and/or evaluates various conditions, features, behaviors and corrective actions on the mobile computing device that are related to one or more peripheral devices connected to the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may utilize the classifier model to quickly identify and correct undesirable behaviors occurring on the mobile computing device that are related to the one or more connected peripheral devices.
US10176425B2
An analog neuromorphic circuit is disclosed having resistive memories that provide a resistance to each corresponding input voltage signal. Input voltages are applied to the analog neuromorphic circuit. Each input voltage represents a vector value that is a non-binary value included in a vector that is incorporated into a dot-product operation with weighted matrix values included in a weighted matrix. A controller pairs each resistive memory with another resistive memory. The controller converts each pair of resistance values to a single non-binary value. Each single non-binary value is mapped to a weighted matrix value included in the weighted matrix that is incorporated into the dot-product operation with the vector values included in the vector. The controller generates dot-product operation values from the dot-product operation with the vector and the weighted matrix where each dot-product operation is a non-binary value.
US10176420B2
A strip-type substrate includes a foil having a number of substrate units for producing chip card modules. The substrate has an inner face for at least partial direct or indirect contacting of a semiconductor chip and an outer face lying opposite the inner face. The foil includes of steel, in particular high-grade steel, and a first layer of nickel or a nickel alloy on at least some sections of the outer face.
US10176417B2
A wireless communication device includes a loop antenna that wirelessly communicates with a device of another party through an occurrence of an eddy current, a parallel inductor connected in parallel to the loop antenna, and a wireless IC element that is connected to the parallel inductor and that processes a transmission/reception signal. At least the parallel inductor and the wireless IC element provide a predetermined resonant frequency.
US10176414B1
Examples described herein describe a battery charger for a transaction card. According to some implementations, a charging device may detect a transaction card is received within a charging slot when an integrated circuit (IC) chip of the transaction card is in contact with a charging terminal; request a user device to provide power to charge the transaction card via the charging terminal, wherein the user device is communicatively coupled to the charging terminal; receive the power from the user device; and provide the power to the transaction card to charge a battery of the transaction card.
US10176413B2
A tamper or copy resistant information bearing device is disclosed. The information bearing device comprises a first data bearing pattern and a second data bearing pattern in overlap. At least a portion of the first data bearing pattern overlaps with at least a portion of the second data bearing pattern to form an overlapping region comprising an overlapped data bearing pattern. At least some information bearing elements of the first type and at least some information bearing elements of the second type in said overlapping data bearing pattern are joined or connected in abutment to form a plurality of overlapped information bearing elements. An overlapped information bearing element comprises a first portion due to said information bearing element of the first type, a second portion due to said information bearing element of the second type, and a third portion due to merging or overlapping of said information bearing element of the first type and said information bearing element of the second type.
US10176412B2
Implantable transponders comprising no ferromagnetic parts for use in medical implants are disclosed herein. Such transponders may assist in preventing interference of transponders with medical imaging technologies. Such transponders may optionally be of a small size, and may assist in collecting and transmitting data and information regarding implanted medical devices. Methods of using such transponders, readers for detecting such transponders, and methods for using such readers are also described.
