US10244669B2
A display system including an upright housing meeting IP56 weatherproofing standards and including a first vent and a second vent positioned vertically above the first vent, a mounting arm coupled to the upright housing, an industrial PC mounted within the upright housing between the first vent and the second vent, a fan mounted within the upright housing adjacent the first vent, a thermostat mounted within the upright housing and controlling the fan continuously at or above a non-zero minimum speed so that a positive pressure is maintained within the upright housing between the first vent and the second vent, and a large format display mounted to the mounting arm and receiving signals from the industrial PC.
US10244668B2
A heat radiation structure includes a heat spreader provided on a heating component mounted on a substrate, a heat sink disposed at a position facing the heat spreader, a heat transfer member disposed between the heat spreader and the heat sink, and transmitting heat from the heat spreader to the heat sink, and a conductive member electrically connecting the heat spreader and the heat sink.
US10244662B2
A server rack door has a first dimension and a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension and includes a first group of first obstructions arranged along the first dimension. The first obstructions define a first plurality of flow channels. The server rack door further includes a second group including second obstructions arranged along the first dimension and offset from the first obstructions along the second dimension. The second dimension corresponds to a thickness of the server rack door. The second obstructions define a second plurality of flow channels, where the first obstructions and the second obstructions alternate along the first dimension.
US10244654B2
Methods for making heat transfer devices include forming a jet plate with a plurality of inclined jets set at an angular deviation from normal. A bottom plate is formed with channel walls that have ribs. The jet plate is attached to the bottom plate to form ribbed channels. The angular deviation of each inclined jet establishes a jet direction perpendicular to a long dimension of the ribbed channels.
US10244651B2
A power supply system includes a chassis defining a bay. Power supply form factor element(s) are located on the chassis adjacent the bay. The power supply form factor element(s) may be used to guide a first form factor power supply through the bay and into engagement with a connector when the first form factor power supply is moved through a bay entrance, or guide a second form factor power supply through the bay and into engagement with a portion of the connector when the second form factor power supply is moved through a first section of the bay entrance. Furthermore, the power supply form factor element(s) prevent movement of the second form factor power supply through the bay and into engagement with the connector when the second form factor power supply attempts to move through a second section of the bay entrance that is different than the first section.
US10244638B2
A proximity sensor is provided according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, comprising: a sensor chip; a light-emitting device; a substrate, the sensor chip and the light-emitting device being located on the substrate; a transparent molding material covering a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting device; and a non-transparent molding material separating the transparent molding material from the sensor chip.
US10244635B2
There is provided a method of producing a copper clad laminate having a copper foil and a resin bonded at high adhesive force despite the use of a thermoplastic resin having a low dielectric constant. This method includes the steps of: providing a roughened copper foil having at least one roughened surface having fine irregularities composed of acicular crystals containing cupric oxide and cuprous oxide; and bonding a sheet-shaped thermoplastic resin to the roughened surface of the roughened copper foil to provide a copper clad laminate. The roughened surface has a cupric oxide thickness of 1 to 20 nm and a cuprous oxide thickness of 15 to 70 nm, both determined by sequential electrochemical reduction analysis (SERA) at the time of bonding the thermoplastic resin.
US10244633B2
A switched inductor DC-DC power converter chiplet includes a CMOS power switch, an LC filter, regulation circuitry, feedback control circuitry, and interface control circuitry integrated on a common substrate. The inductor for the LC filter can be formed on the same surface or on opposing surfaces of the substrate as the electrical terminations for the substrate.
US10244622B2
A display device includes a display panel with a first area having pixels on a first surface of a substrate, a second area having pads on the first surface of the substrate, and a third area part of the second area and having the second surface of the substrate bent toward the first surface, and a flexible PCB with a first bent portion in the second area and contacting and electrically connected to the pads, the first bent portion being bent from inside of the display panel toward an external side of the display panel to wrap around an edge of the display panel, and a second bent portion extending from the first bent portion and wrapping an external side of the second area and bent toward the inside of the display panel from the external side of the display panel to contact the second surface of the substrate.
US10244619B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a circuit board including preparing a board structural body (11) and covering a conductor circuit element (13) on an outermost layer of the board structural body (11) with a cover film (14), wherein a heat treatment is performed while having a release material (15) interposed between the cover film (14) and a heat-processing device. The release material (15) is a laminate at least including, sequentially from the cover film toward the heat-processing device, a low friction film (16) selected from an ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene film and a polytetrafluoroethylene film, a first aluminum foil (17), a first high-density polyethylene film (18a), a second high-density polyethylene film (18b), and a second aluminum foil (19). The first high-density polyethylene film (18a) and the second high-density polyethylene film (18b) are positioned such that respective MD directions are perpendicular to each other.
US10244615B2
There is provided a radio frequency power source device configured to change a voltage ratio between two output end voltages, by switching a connection state of a voltage divider that divides the radio frequency voltage, in such a manner that the radio frequency voltage is divided into voltage outputs in antiphase with each other with respect to ground potential, and high voltage and low voltage are delivered in switching manner. Switching of the connection state in the voltage divider enables selective delivery of voltage having different values, high voltage or low voltage, and by selecting and delivering high voltage for the time high voltage is required, reduction of the voltage output from the radio frequency output circuit is prevented.
US10244612B2
A method and apparatus for preheating a bulb tube of medical equipment is provided. The method includes: selecting a scanning condition which satisfies an equipment calibration condition, as a preheating condition for the bulb tube, from scanning conditions used by the medical equipment; selecting a new preheating condition if an accumulated thermal capacity according to selected preheating conditions is smaller than a target thermal capacity, until the accumulated thermal capacity reaches the target thermal capacity, wherein the accumulated thermal capacity indicates a sum of a thermal capacity estimated to be generated when the bulb tube is preheated according to the selected preheating conditions, and the target thermal capacity indicates a thermal capacity required to complete the preheating of the bulb tube; preheating the bulb tube according to selected preheating conditions and executing an equipment calibration corresponding to each of the preheating conditions during the bulb tube preheating.
US10244610B2
A method and apparatus for a lighting network is provided whereby both legacy and next generation lighting may be controlled by a harmonized controller. Wireless controllers are deployed within the lighting network to control the operation of the harmonized controller. Wireless interconnectivity allows each of the wireless controllers to independently command the harmonized controller and allows each wireless controller to correctly display through visible feedback the current status of the lighting network.
US10244607B1
A daylight harvesting light fixture has a housing defining a light aperture, a light emitting diode (LED) in the housing for providing illumination through the aperture, a power supply for supplying drive current to the LED; a photosensor for sensing ambient illumination through the housing aperture, and a control circuit programmed and connected for a) turning off current to the LED for a dark interval imperceptible to the human eye; b) deriving an ambient illumination level signal based on the photosensor output while the LED is turned off; c) calculating an LED light output complementary to measured ambient illumination to achieve a target ambient illumination; and d) restoring drive current to the LED at a level adjusted to produce the calculated complementary LED light output. This sequence may be repeated periodically to maintain a target ambient illumination.
US10244606B2
A light control system having a central control engine, at least one light sensor, and at least one light source. The central control engine is configured to receive illumination data from the light sensor. The light data represents an actual light profile. The central control engine is configured to retrieve a target light profile for a user and adjust an illumination of the light control system based on the target light profile for the individual user.
US10244603B2
The present invention relates to an OLED standing lamp in which a lighting unit includes a band-shaped transparent film and a band-shaped casing plate, which are disposed on a front surface and a back surface of a band-shaped OLED lighting sheet, respectively, a support body has one end portion at an upper side thereof which is fastened to one end portion of the lighting unit and supports the lighting unit so that the lighting unit is spaced apart from the ground, and a base is extended on the ground and supports the support body fastened to the lighting unit, thereby minimizing a thickness and providing light having improved brightness, by adopting an OLED as a light source.
US10244601B2
The invention provides a lighting unit (10) comprising a first lighting device (100), a second lighting device (200), and a control unit (300) configured to control the lighting devices (100,200), wherein (a) the first lighting device (100) is configured to provide first lighting device light (101) having a first spectral distribution with at least two first emission maxima (EM11, EM12, . . . ) spaced by at least 75 nm, a first color point x1,y1 and a first correlated color temperature T1; (b) the second lighting device (200) is configured to provide second lighting device light (201) having a second spectral distribution with at least two emission maxima (EM21, EM22, . . . ) spaced by at least 75 nm, a second color point x2,y2 and a second correlated color temperature T2; (c) the lighting unit (10) is configured to generate lighting unit light (11) comprising one or more of the first lighting device light (101) and the second lighting device light (201); and (d) the first spectral distribution and the second spectral distribution are different with at least one first emission maxima (EM11) and at least two second emission maxima (EM21,EM22) mutually differing at least 10 nm from each other, and wherein one or more of (i) 0.9≤x1/x2≤1.1, (ii) 0.9≤y1/y2≤1.1, and (iii) 0.9≤T1/T2≤1.1 applies.
US10244597B1
A system includes a luminaire having a light source, a lighting control device to control a light output and operation of the light source in an area of the luminaire, and a sound transducer integrated on a surface of a panel of the luminaire. The sound transducer responds to vibration of the panel to detect incoming audio waves. An audio front end device includes an audio coder responsive to analog signals from the sound transducer, and is coupled to an output of the sound transducer. The lighting control device includes programming that configures a processor to control the audio front end device to receive the analog signals from the sound transducer and provide a digital output signal, process the digital output signals to generate a responsive result that is supplied to the lighting control device in the area of the luminaire.
US10244594B2
Devices, methods, and systems for alternating current circuits for airfield lighting are described herein. One system includes a circuit comprising an isolation transformer, a protection hardware circuit coupled to the isolation transformer, wherein the protection hardware prevents a voltage between an electrical contact of the circuit and a ground contact from meeting or exceeding a threshold voltage, and a load coupled to the protection hardware circuit to receive electrical energy from the isolation transformer.
US10244572B2
A communication control method according to the present invention is used in a mobile communication system that supports D2D communication that is direct Device-to-Device communication. The communication control method comprises a step of transmitting, by a first user terminal in a cell coverage, to another user terminal, identification information for identifying that the first user terminal is located in a cell.
US10244558B2
A wireless communication terminal has: a wireless module part which transmits a radio frame signal; a transmission loss information detection part which detects transmission loss information representing whether or not the radio frame signal transmitted by the wireless module part has reached a transmission destination; a collision information detection part which detects collision information representing an aspect of collision between the radio frame signal transmitted by the wireless module part and another radio frame signal; and a transmission control part which controls a transmission process executed by the wireless module part, on a basis of the transmission loss information and the collision information.
US10244557B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: controlling circuitry configured to set at least one of: a first transmission prohibition period for a first network to which the wireless communication device belongs; or a second transmission prohibition period for a second network, and to determine, when a first frame addressed to another device is received in a case that the first transmission prohibition period is not set and the second transmission prohibition period is set, a state of a wireless medium based on comparing a reception level of the first frame with a threshold defined corresponding to one of the first network and the second network, to which a sender of the first frame belongs.
US10244552B2
The present invention discloses a downlink control information sending method and device, and a downlink control information receiving method and device. The sending method includes: sending, by a base station device, downlink control information DCI on a physical downlink control channel PDCCH of a downlink subframe, where the DCI is used to instruct user equipment UE to receive physical downlink shared channel PDSCH information in an uplink subframe; and sending the PDSCH information in the uplink subframe. In this way, the base station can effectively schedule an uplink subframe, and a purpose of transmitting a downlink service by using an uplink subframe is achieved, which not only improves utilization of a wireless spectrum resource corresponding to the uplink subframe, but also effectively diverts load pressure of a wireless spectrum resource corresponding to a downlink subframe. Therefore, overall utilization of wireless spectrum resources of a system is improved.
US10244544B2
An apparatus includes a receiver configured to wirelessly receive a signal from a device. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to initiate a channel change operation associated with a channel of a particular frequency band. Each channel of the particular frequency band supports a threshold power level that is based on a signal quality associated with the signal and that enables wireless communication with the device.
US10244539B2
Wireless communication system and method for managing resource for interference coordination therein
A communication method of a base station is provided. The communication method of the base station includes determining, by the base station, an aggregate interference caused by a terminal in a heterogeneous cell, transmitting information about the aggregate interference to a higher layer node entity, receiving information about an almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern from the higher node entity, and configuring an ABS based on the information about the ABS pattern.
US10244526B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for receiving data by decoding a control channel received in unit of a short transmission time interval (sTTI); and receiving, if a first control channel matched with the terminal is determined based on the decoding result, data in a short resource block set (sRBS) including the first control channel.
US10244511B1
Systems and methods for selecting a node management device for a node of a wireless network are provided. The node can receive advertisements from two or more node management devices communicatively coupled to the node over a predetermined time period. Upon the expiration of the predetermined time period, the node can select a node management device based on the number of advertisements received from that node management device. The node can then link to the selected node management device and use that node management device for communications. The node can also continue to monitor for advertisements from the node management devices and can decide to select a different node management device based on the number of advertisements received from the other node management devices.
US10244510B2
A modified subframe structure is defined for a subset of a plurality of subframes. The modified subframe structure includes a first portion with one or more blank symbols over which a network node can measure monitor to determine whether the subframe is used as a downlink (or uplink) subframe by a neighboring network node. The modified subframe structure can also include a second portion of symbols for communicating control information or data in the subframe, which can be based on determining whether the subframe is used as a downlink (or uplink) subframe by the neighboring network node. This can lessen the impact of possible interference caused by the network nodes dynamically switching time division duplexing (TDD) subframe configurations by enabling network nodes to determine when a neighboring node is transmitting in a subframe, and accordingly avoiding transmitting in the subframe.
US10244505B2
A mobility node is configured to track a mobility of entities. A pool of mobility nodes serve a common section of a cellular network, wherein for each of the mobile entities a unique identifier is used to uniquely identify the corresponding mobile entity and a temporary identifier is used to identify the corresponding mobile entity in at least one section of the cellular network. A message is received for one of the mobile entities identifying the mobile entity by an unknown temporary identifier. An identification request is transmitted to a storage unit storing information allowing a unique identifier to be determined based on a temporary identifier, the identification request requesting the unique identifier based on the unknown temporary identifier. A response to the transmitted identification request is received including information allowing the unique identifier to be determined. A reaction message is transmitted taking into account the unique identifier.
US10244503B2
Systems and method to measure a population size of mobile devices that have visited a region during a time period, by: converting location data of mobile devices into visitation data using a grid reference system, where for each mobile device and each of a plurality of time intervals in the time period, the visitation data identifies whether or not the mobile device has visited the region in the time interval; applying the visitation data as a capture history in an imaginary capture-recapture exercise, where whether or not a device has visited the region during a time interval represents whether the device is captured in the exercise in the respective capture occasion corresponding to the time interval; and estimating the population size based on an estimate of a population size of mobile devices that are not captured in the exercise from a capture-recapture statistical modeling of the capture history.
US10244502B2
Methods and apparatuses for capillary network device registration implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. Registration or bootstrap messages may be received by a capillary network device where the WTRU acts as a gateway for communication between the capillary device and a network such as a 3GPP network. A capillary network device identifier (CNDID) is sent to the capillary device. A packet data protocol (PDP) context or PDN connection may be established with the network and the CNDID may be sent to a machine type communications (MTC) server. The WTRU may create the registration message, establish a connection with the network, and forward the registration message to the MTC server. Methods and apparatuses implemented in a network are also disclosed for identifying, addressing, and triggering the capillary devices from the MTC server. The trigger message may include fields for group communication, reducing signaling, and enabling charging.
US10244501B2
Apparatus and methods to support parallel communication using multiple subscriber identities in a wireless communication device via multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) are disclosed. A representative method includes establishing a connection with a first wireless network via a first wireless cellular protocol software stack for a first subscriber identity associated with a first subscriber identity module; registering with a second wireless network via a second wireless cellular protocol software stack for a second subscriber identity associated with a second subscriber identity module; and receiving radio frequency signals from the second wireless network via the second wireless cellular protocol software stack in parallel with communicating with the first wireless network via the first wireless cellular protocol software stack. The first and second wireless cellular protocol software stacks share at least a portion of radio frequency wireless circuitry for communicating with the first and second wireless network respectively.
US10244497B2
The invention refers to synchronizing a client clock of a network node to a reference clock, wherein the network node performs the steps of receiving from the reference clock synchronization data, determining a comparison value indicative of a degree of deviation of the client clock with respect to the reference clock, and determining a synchronization state (S1, S2) out of a free running state (S1) and a locked state (S2), based on the comparison value, a first threshold (TH1), and a second threshold (TH2). The invention further refers to a telecommunication node (21) and a computer program.
US10244493B2
A method for a device to device (D2D) communication-supporting user equipment detecting a synchronization signal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: on the basis of a first index set having a plurality of root indexes on a Zadoff-Chu sequence, detecting a first synchronization signal transmitted by a network; and, on the basis of a second index set having a plurality of root indexes that are different from the first index set, detecting a second synchronization signal transmitted by a D2D synchronization source, wherein the total number of the root indexes of the second index set is configured to be the total number of the root indexes of the first index set −1.
US10244492B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The method may include transmitting a first synchronization signal in a set of beam directions during a first symbol period of a synchronization subframe and transmitting a second synchronization signal in another set of beam directions during a second symbol period of the synchronization subframe. The second set of beam directions may be spatially interleaved with the first set of beam directions. Additionally, the method may include monitoring a first and second set of beam directions during a first and second symbol period of a random access subframe, respectively. Additionally, the method may include receiving, from a base station, first and second synchronization signals in a synchronization subframe, decoding the first synchronization signal, and transmitting an access request based at least in part on the decoded first synchronization signal.
US10244488B2
Technologies for the calibration of a body presence sensor include a mobile computing device configured to calibrate the body presence sensor based on a present physical configuration mode of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may be adjustable into multiple physical configuration modes based on the intended use of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device controls a transmit power level of an associated communication circuit based on whether the body presence sensor detects a body presence within proximity to the mobile computing device.
US10244487B2
In a wireless information distribution apparatus, a transmission unit transmits radio waves for distributing information. An adjustment unit acquires first data indicating a degree in which a person is present around the wireless information distribution apparatus. Moreover, the adjustment unit acquires second data serving as an index of a possibility that another apparatus that distributes information by radio waves is present around the wireless information distribution apparatus. The adjustment unit adjusts, based on the first data and the second data, the intensity of the radio waves to be transmitted by the transmission unit.
US10244471B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for receiving D2D discovery information and an apparatus. The method for receiving D2D discovery information includes: sending, by an upper layer of a radio resource control RRC layer of a D2D communication device, a first instruction to a physical layer of the D2D communication device, where the first instruction is used to instruct the physical layer to switch from a D2D sleep state to a D2D listening state; and receiving, by the physical layer of the D2D communication device, the first instruction and switching from the D2D sleep state to the D2D listening state according to the first instruction, to listen to D2D discovery information. This reduces power consumption of the D2D communication device and prolongs a standby time of the D2D communication device.
US10244458B2
A method, computer system, and/or computer program product controls access to a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point in a retail establishment. A predetermined retail activity threshold is established for a retail establishment, where the retail establishment has a patron service area with a WLAN access point, and where a determination has been made that exceeding the predetermined retail activity threshold without increasing patron traffic out of the retail establishment will cause an excessive wait time for occupying the patron service area. In response to determining that the predetermined retail activity threshold is being exceeded, a secondary criterion is examined in order to determine if the mobile device should be disconnected from the WLAN access point, in order to motivate a user of the mobile device to leave the patron service area. If so, then the mobile device is disconnected from the WLAN access point.
US10244452B2
The present invention provides a method and system for facilitating efficient handoff and data throughput in mobile broadband communication systems. Methods implemented by a system constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention include selectively enabled soft handoff, performing Layer 2 bearer functions at the base station and using the mobile device to coordinate soft handoff and interference avoidance without the need for a centralized coordination function.
US10244448B2
A method for controlling user equipment (UE) to access a communications network of a high-speed moving vehicle, a core network control plane node device, a base station, UE, and a communications system. The method includes determining that UE accessing a public network is first-type UE, and transferring the UE to the communications network of the high-speed moving vehicle. The first-type UE is UE used by a user taking the high-speed moving vehicle.
US10244445B2
A wireless network for mobile communications has a connectionless framework using native internet protocol (IP). In this connectionless framework, packet routing may be based on user endpoint (UE) physical IP address, which is associated with the prefix of an associated access node (e.g. eNB). In addition to using the connectionless-IP framework for the traffic flow carried by one access point (e.g. eNB) at a time, advanced mobile call processing features, such as carrier aggregation and dual connectivity, are enhanced to leverage the packet-oriented connectionless radio access network and wireless core network architecture by using the SDN architecture and a wireless network specific software-defined network controller.
US10244442B2
Transmission techniques using configurable channels for the downlink and/or uplink are described. In one aspect, the downlink channel and/or uplink channel may be independently selected for a terminal. The terminal may establish a connection with a base station on default downlink and uplink channels. Another downlink channel and/or another uplink channel may be selected based on various factors such as channel quality, loading, and interference. The terminal would then switch to the new downlink and/or uplink channel for communication. In another aspect, the base stations broadcast sector information used by the terminals for communication and/or channel selection. The sector information may include various types of information such as the available downlink and uplink channels, the frequencies of the available channels, the loading on the available channels, and QoS information. The terminals may select a sector, a downlink channel, and/or an uplink channel based on the sector information.
US10244441B2
Techniques for enhancing the inter-frequency measurement gap to reduce measurement delay between an user equipment (UE) and an evolved NodeB (eNB). These embodiments may include identifying, by a UE, a measurement gap configuration that includes a measurement gap repetition period (MGRP), that is less than 40 milliseconds, ms; and performing inter-frequency or inter-radio access technology, RAT, measurement based on the measurement gap configuration. The embodiments may also include receiving, by an eNB, a request from a UE, for a measurement gap configuration that includes a measurement gap repetition period (MGRP) less than 40 ms; and transmitting an indication of a gap pattern that includes a MGRP that is less than 40 ms. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10244432B2
A method for discontinuous reception (DRX) implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) during cell reselection including initiating cell reselection; disabling DRX operation, wherein disabling DRX operation enables continuous reception; transmitting a CELL UPDATE message; receiving a CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message; and enabling DRX operation based on the received CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message.
US10244424B2
The present invention provides a unified, rank independent mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs. Each antenna port is uniquely associated with one code division multiplexing (CDM) group and one orthogonal cover code (OCC). The mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs is chosen such that, for a given antenna port, the CDM group and OCC will be the same for every transmission rank.
US10244420B2
A wireless device and a method performed therefore are provided for reporting and logging an event, the wireless device being operable in a wireless communication network. The method comprises determining (110) that an event is to be logged and/or reported; and determining (120) if the location of the wireless device is a known location or is the same location as the last time the event was logged and/or reported. The method further comprises, when the location of the wireless device is a known location or the same location as the last time the event was logged and/or reported: logging (130) and reporting to a network node, according to an enhanced reporting and logging functionality.
US10244415B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a measurement method, including: acquiring, by user equipment, a status of using a target unlicensed frequency band by a target radio access technology RAT; and selecting, by the user equipment, a corresponding measurement mode according to the usage status to measure a radio condition of the target unlicensed frequency band. The embodiments of the present invention further disclose user equipment, a network device, and a system. In the present invention, the user equipment can accurately measure the radio condition of the unlicensed frequency band, so as to provide reference information for the network device to schedule the user equipment.
US10244406B2
The disclosure is directed to a system, apparatus, and method for continuously monitoring data output from a wireless sensor on a mesh network at a frequency higher than mesh formation/propagation. For example, the system may include a wireless gateway, an amplifier coupled to the wireless gateway, a first antenna coupled to the amplifier, a second antenna coupled to the amplifier, and a wireless sensor. The wireless sensor may be a wireless temperature sensor configured to monitor the temperature of a cryopreserved material product. The wireless gateway forms the mesh network. The first antenna may be located on a first level of a building, and the second antenna may be located on a second level of the building, where the second level may be at an elevation higher than the first level.
US10244402B2
A network for providing air-to-ground (ATG) wireless communication in various cells may include an in-flight aircraft including an antenna assembly, a plurality of ATG base stations, a plurality of terrestrial base stations. Each of the ATG base stations defines a corresponding radiation pattern, and the ATG base stations are spaced apart from each other to define at least partially overlapping coverage areas to communicate with the antenna assembly in an ATG communication layer defined between a first altitude and a second altitude. The terrestrial base stations are configured to communicate primarily in a ground communication layer below the first altitude. The terrestrial base stations and the ATG base stations are each configured to communicate using the same radio frequency (RF) spectrum in the ground communication layer and ATG communication layer, respectively.
US10244390B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods relating to operating a security system are described. In one embodiment a method may include receiving at a receiving unit a protected signal sent from a portable transmitter, the receiving unit in communication with a security system panel, assessing at least one characteristic of the protected signal, modifying at least one characteristic of the protected signal based at least in part on the assessing, and comparing the protected signal to a stored signal after the modifying.
US10244389B1
A system and related method for encrypting HFDL position reports of an aircraft involves determining the position of the aircraft based on signals received from navigational satellites and generating data packets based on the position and an aircraft identifier such as an ICAO address. The data packets are encrypted for transmission to HF ground stations as a position report normally would be (e.g., as a performance diagnostic packet or a frequency diagnostic packet). However, the encrypted position data can only be decrypted by a control key provided to traffic control authorities or a subscriber key provided to the aircraft owner or authorized personnel. Only holders of the control key or subscriber key may decode the aircraft position and track the aircraft's heading or position.
US10244380B2
Disclosed is a method in which a User Equipment will be able to register near instantly onto an available preferred roaming network, when the cellular radio of the UE is powered on. The method disclosed comprises of a roaming destination determined from a mobile boarding pass or input via User Interface of an Application installed on the Mobile Equipment or via UI on the Operating System of the ME, where the Application or OS compares the roaming destination with a PLMN list to obtain the preferred PLMN ID of that roaming destination which is selected and updated to specific files within the UICC. LTE and/or UMTS band information can also be obtained for the roaming destination and an MRU database updated to include the LTE and/or UMTS band information. A specific REFRESH command that is sent from the UICC to the ME prior to turning off the cellular radio of the UE, is used in the disclosed method to achieve near instant or instant registration onto the preferred visited PLMN when the cellular radio of the UE is turned on upon arrival at roaming destination. Alternatively, the ME can send a reset signal to the UICC when turning on the cellular radio of the UE upon arrival at the roaming destination.
US10244378B2
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for selecting, by a user equipment (UE) located outside a coverage of a base station, a neighboring UE with which the UE will perform device-to-device (D2D) communication. According to the method, it is possible to quickly find out whether a neighboring UE is located within the coverage of a base station and is capable of operating as a relay, through a DMRS and a detection signal received from the neighboring UE.
US10244375B2
Methods and systems for associating or pairing a mobile device with a local output device via a central or mobile connect server system are provided. Pairing is performed by initiating a pairing request from an output device that is passed to the mobile connect server for processing. The mobile connect server responds to the request with a pairing code that is displayed by the output device. A user of the mobile device then enters the displayed pairing code in the mobile device. The mobile device transmits the entered pairing code to the mobile connect server and, in response to a match, the mobile device is paired to the output device. Pairing can enable various functions, including an ability to apply stored user preference data to control programming or other information displayed by the output device in response to commands entered in the mobile device.
US10244370B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a message associated with a user at an information exchange system. At least one correspondent associated with the user may be determined, based on the message. A social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent may be assessed with respect to a social-networking system. The information exchange system may provide an interface for display to the user, the interface comprising information associated with the message. If the social connection is confirmed, the interface may include social-networking information associated with the at least one correspondent. Otherwise, the interface may provide functionality to create a social connection between the user and the at least one correspondent with respect to the social-networking system.
US10244365B2
Wanted vehicles (e.g., stolen or the subjects of AMBER alerts) may respond to receipt of broadcast messages identifying the vehicle by vehicle identification number, license plate number, or other identifier (if programmed into the car). The identifier may be broadcast over any public radio station as an embedded digital message, transmitted from police or fire broadcast stations, transmitted from wireless mobility towers, or the like.
US10244362B2
A method is provided for determining the position of a mobile technology platform within a structure, wherein the mobile technology platform is equipped with a gyroscope, a magnetometer and at least one accelerometer. The method includes deploying a set of RF (radio frequency) beacons within the structure, wherein each RF beacon emits an RF signal; recording, at each of a set of sampling locations within the structure, the RF signature created by the RF signals received at the location, wherein said recording is performed by a digital image correlation (DIC) platform which traverses the structure, and which correlates the recorded RF signatures to a floor map of the structure; forming an RF fingerprint of the structure from the recorded RF signatures; and using the RF fingerprint, in conjunction with readings from the gyroscope, magnetometer and at least one accelerometer to determine the location of the device within the structure.
US10244361B1
Systems and methods of managing map data on electronic devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of downloading pushpin data for a map is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an electronic network, an indication of a current map segment, the current map segment comprising map data for a current location of a device, the current map segment corresponding to a portion of a map displayed on the device, receiving pushpin criteria for the device, identifying pushpin data based on the current map segment and the pushpin criteria, the pushpin data indicating a pushpin location; and transmitting, on the electronic network, the pushpin data.
US10244357B1
PROXIMITY ALERT MOBILE APPLICATION SOFTWARE. is disclosed. The Proximity Alert Mobile Application relies on existing mobile devices and system technologies common to most people. Additionally, the Proximity Alert Mobile Application alerts all users of the application when proximity violations occur so all effected parties can take action.
US10244356B2
A method of tracking a service queue using a single-point signal monitor in which at least one customer carries a wireless device may include: receiving a received signal strength from the wireless device as a trace; identify first segments of the trace containing mostly positive sloped received signal strength; identify second segments of the trace containing mostly negative sloped received signal; extract attributes from the first and second segments as child variables for two parent nodes in a Bayesian Network in which the two parent nodes respectively model a beginning of service and a leaving period for a service queue; and inputting the extracted attributes into Bayesian Network; and determining a beginning of service and leaving period using the Bayesian Network. The method may also include determining critical time points in a trace using a K-L divergence technique.
US10244322B2
A space frame reinforced tweeter dome is disclosed. The tweeter dome includes a space frame and a convex diaphragm attached to the space frame. The space frame can include a crown portion in the form of a triangular frame and three leg portions each extending from a corresponding vertex of the triangular frame. Each leg portion has a distal foot adapted for connection to a voice coil former for movement therewith. The convex diaphragm can be comprised of a soft, e.g., textile, material while the space frame is comprised of rigid material such as metal. The space frame reinforced tweeter dome is free from ringing while being sufficiently rigid to follow the enormous accelerations of a music signal at high frequencies.
US10244319B2
A method performed by an audio decoder for reconstructing N audio channels from an audio signal containing M audio channels is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bitstream containing an encoded audio signal having M audio channels and a set of spatial parameters, the set of spatial parameters including an inter-channel intensity difference parameter and an inter-channel coherence parameter. The encoded audio bitstream is then decoded to obtain a decoded frequency domain representation of the M audio channels, and at least a portion of the frequency domain representation is decorrelated with an all-pass filter having a fractional delay. The all-pass filter is attenuated at locations of a transient. A matrixed version of the decorrelated signals are summed with a matrixed version of the decoded frequency domain representation to obtain N audio signals that collectively having N audio channels where M is less than N.
US10244314B2
An audio system includes one or more loudspeaker cabinets, each having loudspeakers. The system outputs an omnidirectional sound pattern to determine the acoustic environment. Sensing logic determines an acoustic environment of the loudspeaker cabinets. The sensing logic may include an echo canceller. A playback mode processor adjusts an audio program according to a playback mode determined from the acoustic environment of the audio system. The system may produce a directional pattern superimposed on an omnidirectional pattern, if the acoustic environment is in free space. The system may aim ambient content toward a wall and direct content away from the wall, if the acoustic environment is not in free space. The sensing logic automatically determines the acoustic environment upon initial power up and when position changes of loudspeaker cabinets are detected. Accelerometers may detect position changes of the loudspeaker cabinets.
US10244308B2
An audio speaker having an adsorptive insert in a speaker back volume, is disclosed. More particularly, an embodiment includes an adsorptive insert having a rigid open-pore body formed by bonded adsorptive particles. The rigid open-pore body includes interconnected macropores that transport air from the speaker back volume to adsorptive micropores in the bonded adsorptive particles during sound generation. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10244304B1
Systems and methods for attaching or joining a personalization accessory to headphones, earphones, ear buds and listening devices that produce, enhance and/or cancel acoustics and go in, on, and/or over the ear.
US10244301B2
An ear-worn electronic device comprises a shell defining an enclosure of the device. Electronics are disposed within a void in the enclosure. One or more capacitors, which may be supercapacitors, are situated on or within the shell and coupled to the electronics. The one or more capacitors can be part of a circuit of the electronics that provides power management for the ear-worn electronic device.
US10244299B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a wearable personal sound speaker system kit. The kit includes a speaker housing adapted to securely hold a speaker; an attachment mechanism adapted to secure the kit to a worn item; and a connector adapted to couple the speaker housing to the attachment mechanism. The kit is adapted to support the speaker proximate to a user's ear without contacting the ear. Numerous additional features are disclosed.
US10244293B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus to allow a user to use a device network by a natural and simple operation by automatically selecting a device for providing a response to a request, the information processing apparatus including: a request acquiring part configured to acquire a request to a system; a response determining part configured to determine a response to the request; a device selecting part configured to select, on the basis of at least an attribute of the response, a device that provides the response among devices included in the system; and a device controller configured to perform control that causes the selected device to provide the response.
US10244291B2
In an embodiment, a system and method permit a network subscriber to display on a channel of the network video data from a subscriber video database. The system may include, in addition to the network and the subscriber database, a server and a set top box. The set top box is configured to receive commands causing the set top box to retrieve video data from a network subscriber database, display the video data on a display unit; and to transmit the video data over the network to the server. The server is configured to transmit the video data from the server over the network such that the video data is displayable on a channel of the network.
US10244289B2
A method of providing a Non-Real-Time (NRT) service includes receiving a file configuring the NRT service, first signaling information, and second signaling information in a state of being IP-packetized and contained in a single ensemble, configuring and displaying a service guide using the first signaling information acquired from the ensemble, acquiring a first content identifier of content selected from the displayed service guide, accessing a FLUTE session using the second signaling information acquired from the ensemble and acquiring a second content identifier matched with the first content identifier from the accessed FLUTE session, and receiving and storing at least one file configuring the content based on the acquired second content identifier.
US10244285B2
Disclosed herein are a machine architecture implementing a staging automation process, including features such as multiple IR transmitters and composite video inputs for automated high volume quality testing. Diagnostic display outputs from a unit under test are input to OCR and video quality algorithms to validate that the units under test are ready for a functional test process at the next stage.
US10244282B2
A method and apparatus are provided for synchronizing between rendering of a multimedia stream by a rendering device and execution of an operation by a software application by at least one execution device. The method includes in the rendering device: receiving the multimedia stream comprising pieces of additional data synchronized with a multimedia item; detecting, in the multimedia stream, an item of destination information indicating that the pieces of additional data are intended for a distinct execution device; extracting the pieces of additional data; transmitting the pieces of additional data to the execution device; triggering the execution, by a software application, of an operation to process the transmitted additional data; and rendering the multimedia item.
US10244278B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform identity matching across audience measurement systems are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a data normalizer to normalize audience measurement events corresponding to media exposure data obtained from a first audience measurement system and a second audience measurement system, a tree builder to build a k-dimensional tree based on normalized audience measurement events, a candidate identifier to calculate a distance between a query event and a first audience measurement event included in a search space in the k-dimensional tree, identify the query event and the first audience measurement event as a candidate match when the calculated distance satisfies a distance threshold, an array builder to generate metrics at an identifier-level based on a plurality of candidate matches, and a thresholder to identify an identifier mapping linking a first user identifier to a second user identifier when the metrics satisfy respective metric thresholds.
US10244276B2
Devices and methods for allocating bandwidth in a data communication network having available bandwidth, particularly when allocating bandwidth for data of more than one video content item.
US10244275B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting signaling information in a digital broadcast system, the method comprising the steps of: adaptively generating a signaling table relating to signaling information transmitted from a data link layer on the basis of at least one structure among a hierarchical structure and a flat structure on the basis of a characteristic of service configuration; and transmitting the generated signaling table.
US10244273B2
A source device for transmitting content to a sink device is provided. The source device may include an interface configured to perform high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) authentication with the sink device, and a controller configured to determine an HDCP version supported by the sink device, convert the content so as to be encrypted in the HDCP version supported by the sink device in response to a determination that another HDCP version applied to the content is not supported by the sink device, encrypt the converted content in the HDCP version supported by the sink device, and control the interface to transmit the content to the sink device.
US10244267B2
An image decoding method of decoding, on a per-block basis, a coded image included in a bitstream, includes: performing arithmetic decoding on a current block to be decoded; determining whether or not the current block is at the end of a slice; determining, when it is determined that the current block is not at the end of the slice, whether or not the current block is at the end of a sub-stream which is a structural unit of the image that is different from the slice; and performing arithmetic decoding on a sub-last bit and performing arithmetic decoding termination, when it is determined that the current block is at the end of the sub-stream.
US10244261B2
A method for encoding a transform block in an encoded video bitstream is provided. The method includes encoding a non-zero map indicating positions of the transform block containing non-zero transform coefficients, encoding a respective lower-range level map, and encoding a coefficient residual map. A lower-range level map indicates which values of the non-zero transform coefficients are equal to and which are greater than the map level. Each residual coefficient of the coefficient residual map corresponds to a respective non-zero transform coefficient of the transform block having an absolute value exceeding the maximum map level. An apparatus including a processor and a memory for decoding a transform block is also provided. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to decode, a non-zero map, decode lower-range level maps up to a maximum map level, and decode a coefficient residual map.
US10244259B2
A method and apparatus of three-dimensional/multi-view coding using aligned reference information are disclosed. The method operates by receiving input data associated with a current block of a current frame in a dependent view, determining a first DV (Disparity Vector) from one or more neighboring blocks of the current block, wherein the first DV refers to a first reference view to derive first reference information, selecting a second reference view for the current block to derive second reference information, aligning the first reference information associated with the first reference view with the second reference information associated with the second reference view, and applying inter-view encoding or decoding to the input data utilizing the first DV or the second reference information after applying said aligning the first reference information with the second reference information.
US10244248B2
A residual processing circuit has a single-path pipeline and a single-path controller. The single-path pipeline has an inverse scan (IS) circuit, an inverse quantization (IQ) circuit and an inverse transform (IT) circuit arranged to process a current non-zero residual data block in a pipeline manner. The current non-zero residual data block is at least a portion of a transform unit. The single-path controller controls pipelined processing of the current non-zero residual data block at the single-path pipeline. The single-path controller instructs the IS circuit to start IS processing of a next non-zero residual data block before the IT circuit finishes a first half of IT processing of the current non-zero residual data block.
US10244221B2
A display apparatus providing a multi-view image is provided, which may include a panel unit to provide light through a plurality of pixels corresponding respectively to a plurality of viewpoints, and an optical unit to provide the light to a left eye position and a right eye position at a pre-designated viewing distance, respectively, wherein the optical unit may be configured for light from pixels for view images having discontinuous viewing indices, among the plurality of pixels, to be transferred to the left eye position and the right eye position.
US10244220B2
A multi-camera time slice system and method of producing a three-dimensional (3D) integrated time slice image array uses multiple cameras to capture a subject to produce an array of subject images with transparent backgrounds. The array of subject images with transparent backgrounds is merged with an array of foreground images with transparent backgrounds and an array of background images, which are captured in a similar manner as the array of subject images, to produce the 3D integrated time slice image array.
US10244217B2
A projection display unit includes a projection optical system, a polarization separation device, and a detection optical system. The projection optical system includes an illuminator, a projection lens, and a light valve. The light valve modulates illumination light supplied from the illuminator on a basis of an image signal, and outputs the modulated illumination light toward the projection lens. The polarization separation device is disposed between the light valve and the projection lens. The polarization separation device separates entering light into a first polarized component and a second polarized component, and outputs the first polarized component and the second polarized component in respective directions that are different from each other. The detection optical system includes an imaging device. The imaging device is disposed in a position that is optically conjugate to a position of the light valve, and receives, via the projection lens and the polarization separation device, light based on invisible light applied along a plane in vicinity of the projection surface. The following conditional expression (1): d1<β×d2 is satisfied.
US10244214B2
An image capturing apparatus includes a projector and a camera. The projector includes a light source unit and a projector lens barrel unit. The camera includes a camera lens barrel unit. As viewed in a direction that is orthogonal to a direction toward which an optical axis of the projector travels, the projector lens barrel unit is arranged to overlap with the camera lens barrel unit, and the light source unit is arranged so as not to overlap with the camera. A duct via which air to be blown to the light source travels is arranged in such a manner that the air travels in a direction orthogonal to the direction toward which the optical axis of the projector travels.
US10244209B1
Methods and systems for monitoring a remote agent. An agent's workstation may be provided with an application that receives a trigger condition at an agent workstation during a communication between the remote agent and a caller. During the communication, it may be determined if video imagery of the remote agent is required. If so, video imagery capture may be triggered. The video imagery may be associated with activities of the remote agent during the capture, and the video imagery stored at a recorder for later playback.
US10244198B2
A system for testing an individual for illicit or other substances is described. The system operates in tandem with a mobile device (smartphone) application, which employs a camera of the mobile device to capture and record the self-administered specimen collection process for verification and rule compliance. The system guides the user through the process via on-screen prompts on the mobile device, and includes tracking of the collected specimen from the moment of collection until it is sealed in a tamper-proof container to be mailed for external testing at a lab. A breathalyzer may also be used with the system to test for the presence of alcohol in the user's body, the use of which is also monitored and recorded via the on-board camera of the mobile device for verification.
US10244187B2
A hybrid three dimensional imaging camera comprises a 2-D video camera utilizing a focal plane array visible light detector and a 3-D flash laser radar utilizing an infrared focal plane array detector. The device is capable of capturing a complete 3-D scene from a single point of view. A production system combining multiple hybrid 3-D cameras around a subject provides 3-D solid models of an object or scene in the common field of view.
US10244185B2
A method for mixing a first video signal and a second video signal, the method comprising at a mixing device receiving the first video signal; receiving the second video signal; receiving a transformation information signal dividing the first video signal into a transparent region and a non-transparent region and representing a spatial relationship between the first video signal and the second video signal; transforming the second video signal in accordance with the transformation information signal; and combining the non-transparent region of the first video signal with a portion of the transformed second video signal, the portion of the transformed second video signal being rendered in the transparent region of the first video signal.
US10244184B2
A method and device for filming a Star trail video, and a computer storage medium. The method includes the steps of: after shooting begins, an image is collected via a camera every set time; a current image and a previous image are composited to generate a composite image; the composite image is captured, and the captured composite image is encoded; when shooting is ended, a video file is generated from the data of the encoded composite image.
US10244169B2
An image processing apparatus including an interface that receives an input identifying a subject, and a processor that generates a panoramic image based on captured image data so that the subject is positioned in a reference position in the panoramic image.
US10244161B2
In one example, a camera includes an imaging sensor to translate light into a digital image, a storage device to save the digital image in a digital format, and a privacy module. The privacy module is configured to set a privacy setting of the newly-captured digital image to indicate that the newly-captured digital image is a private digital image based at least on the privacy module being set to a privacy mode and to set the privacy setting to indicate that the newly-captured digital image is a non-private digital image based at least on the privacy module not being set to the privacy mode. The newly-captured digital image is saved in the digital format regardless if the newly-captured digital image is a private digital image or a non-private digital image. The camera includes an image display interface to display, without authenticating private image credentials, only non-private digital images.
US10244153B2
An imaging apparatus provided with a lens module which has a main body and two vane members. The main body holds a lens on an inside thereof. The vane members are plate shaped sections projected from an outside surface of the main body, which are provided with through-holes enabling fastening members to be threaded through. A base is provided with an imaging element and configured to fix thereto the main body. The case which accommodates the lens, the lens module and the base has two thread-holes formed on an inside thereof, into which the fastening members are fastened thereto. The lens module is fixed to the case by threading the fastening members through the through-holes, and fastening the fastening members into the thread-holes.
US10244150B2
An apparatus for capturing an image includes a body; an image capturing device configured to capture an image; and a connector configured to rotatably connect the image capturing device to the body and rotate the image capturing device based on position information of an object.
US10244147B2
An image capturing unit includes a sensor unit that image-captures a predetermined area including a subject; and a reference chart unit that is arranged in the predetermined area and captured with the subject by the sensor unit.
US10244143B2
An image processing apparatus scans an image of a document into image data, splits the image data into a plurality of areas to generate split image data, magnifies the split image data, and aggregates the magnified split image data at least based on a font size of one or more characters included in the split image data.
US10244136B2
An operation panel of an image forming apparatus receives in a login state and does not receive in a logout state a job setting instruction, etc. When a communication section receives a confirmation request to confirm use status of the image forming apparatus, a controller of the image forming apparatus specifies a requester who is a user of a communication device having transmitted the confirmation request and determines whether the image forming apparatus is to be set in a reserved state based on communication with the communication device. When a user information set of the requester is input in a state in which the image forming apparatus is in the reserved state, the controller causes the operation panel to transition from the logout state to the login state. The controller refuses additional login from a user other than the requester during the image forming apparatus being in the reserved state.
US10244131B2
In general, an image forming apparatus according to the present embodiment comprises an image forming section, a reading section and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on a sheet. The reading section reads the image on the sheet to generate scan image information. The controller generates background image information obtained by excluding extraction image information from the scan image information and forms the background image information, first identification information of the sheet and orientation information indicating orientation of the sheet on the sheet through the image forming section.
US10244130B2
An information processing apparatus is provided that includes an operation unit implemented by an information processing terminal connected via a communication line. The information processing apparatus includes a memory storing a program and a processor configured to execute the program to implement processes of opening a port for receiving a packet conforming to a predetermined communication protocol in response to a request from the information processing terminal, and transmitting data included in the packet to the information processing terminal in response to receiving the packet that is directed to the port.
US10244128B2
An image forming system that is capable of preventing obstruction of transmission of a packet to an information processing apparatus from a USB device supporting USBNW due to the shift to the sleep mode. The image forming system includes an information processing apparatus, an image forming apparatus with a sleep mode, and a USB device that is connected to the information processing apparatus through the image forming apparatus and is controlled by the information processing apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a first determination unit that determines whether the USB device supports USBNW, a second determination unit that determines whether a packet received from the information processing apparatus is processed by a module supporting USBNW, and a control unit that prohibits the image forming apparatus from shifting to the sleep mode when the USB device supports USBNW and when the packet is processed by the module supporting USBNW.
US10244126B2
Provided is a MTF measuring method that is capable of estimating an accurate MTF curve in one measurement. The method is a MTF measuring method for measuring the MTF of a CIS that includes a CMOS sensor, and a lens that directs incident reflected light from a document via a contact glass to the CMOS sensor. A test chart is placed on the contact glass via a transparent plate having a thickness that varies at different locations in the sub scanning direction. Then, the CIS is caused to scan in the sub scanning direction, and in one scan, is caused to measure respective MTF at multiple measurement locations where the thickness of the transparent plate differs.
US10244124B2
A method for location-dependent billing for a services that are available to a mobile terminal, a local communication connection is set up to a fixably installed external location tag with a corresponding wireless interface between the fixably installed tag and the mobile terminal, the method including the steps of accessing the external location tag and transmitting a billing rate code from the external location tag to the mobile terminal, forwarding the billing rate code from the mobile terminal to a central unit of a mobile communication network, in which the mobile terminal is logged, determining a geographic location identification of the external location tag by evaluation of the billing rate code at the central unit, and selecting a billing rate for billing for the service available to the user based on the billing rate code at the central unit.
US10244114B2
One or more embodiments related to a method of generating a graphical user interface. The method includes obtaining a metric interface hierarchy having multiple nodes, where each node defines a visualization for the node, and the metric interface hierarchy defines an ordering on the nodes. The method further includes traversing the metric interface hierarchy starting with a selected node to obtain a subhierarchy, and creating the graphical user interface from a general interface by populating the general interface with the visualization from each node in the subhierarchy according to the ordering. The method further includes providing the graphical user interface.
US10244112B2
A network function operable in a communication network, in which the network function is configured to receive a call setup request from an emergency service to set up a call between the emergency service and a user terminal, the received call setup request comprising a called party identifier. The network function determines whether the called party identifier is of a first type or of a second, different type, wherein the first type of called party identifier comprises a dialable number temporarily associated with the user terminal for use in receiving a call from the emergency service. In response to determining that the called party identifier is of the first type, the network function transmits priority indication data to a further network function in the communication network in order to cause the further network function to prioritize handling of the call between the emergency service and the user terminal.
US10244111B1
Described are techniques for exchanging data, in an automated manner, with an automated system, such as an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. Data may be exchanged with the automated system via a data connection, separate from a telecommunication connection. User data responsive to requests received from the system via the data connection, or user data that corresponds to the identity of the system, may be automatically provided. A telecommunication connection may be initiated during or subsequent to the exchange of data via the data connection. A notification may be provided to a user responsive to receipt of audio data via the telecommunication connection, or a change in the received audio data.
US10244108B1
A call center system is configured to record call data into call records. A transfer center within the call center transfers the call records to a database. A query engine, controlled from an interactive user interface, executes queries on the call data records in the database, allowing real-time analysis of the call data.
US10244099B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for determining a status of a terminal and a terminal. The method includes: transmitting, by a bone-conduction acoustic generator, a detection signal outwards; receiving, by a microphone, a reflection signal of the detection signal reflected by an external object; obtaining a distance between the terminal and the external object according to the detection signal and the reflection signal; and determining the status of the terminal in relative to the external object based on the distance.
US10244097B2
A system, method and device to interrogate for the presence of objects, to prevent the inadvertent separation of the objects from their owner. An owner is alerted when they are separated from the objects by determining when a trigger event occurs, such as a person leaving and/or entering a particular monitored area or location. These monitored areas can be retrofitted with an electronic interrogation device that monitors local conditions to determine whether a user is entering or leaving the monitored area to trigger an interrogation of the personal items. The interrogation device is constructed and arranged to communicate with the objects to determine whether the objects are with the owner. The interrogation device automatically determines the presence of a particular object at the monitored environment and automatically generates a notification when needed. The system further controls functionality of the objects, according to illustrative embodiments, when the object is present.
US10244094B2
In general, an indication is received through a user interface of an intention of a potential rider to use an autonomous vehicle. In response to the receipt of the indication, a hailing request is sent by a signaling mode to at least one autonomous vehicle that can receive the hailing request directly in accordance with the signaling mode.
US10244091B2
A portable terminal is provided for operation in a first mode in which information is provided on a first curved surface area or a second mode in which information is provided on a second curved surface area, and controlling the display to provide, in response to an occurrence of an event while in the first mode, information related to the event on the first curved surface area, and provide, in response to the occurrence of the event while in the second mode, information related to the event on the second curved surface area.
US10244089B2
A mobile device can include electronic circuitry and a chassis shell adapted to protect the electronic circuitry. The chassis shell includes an opening exposing a tray inside the mobile device. The tray can include an external card slot and a patterned wall. The tray can be disposed within a cavity of a support structure of the mobile device. An input/output (I/O) component, such as a speaker, and a card reader can also be disposed within the cavity. The I/O component can communicate via at least a hole in the patterned wall (e.g., a speaker grill).
US10244082B2
Techniques are described for extending a two-way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) to enable measurement of service key performance indicators (KPIs) in a software defined network (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) architecture. The TWAMP extensions enable control messaging to be handled by a TWAMP control client executed on a centralized controller, and data messaging to be handled by a TWAMP session initiator executed on a separate network device. Techniques are also described for extending TWAMP to enable measurement of any of a plurality of service KPIs for a given service supported at a TWAMP server. The service KPIs may include one or more of keepalive measurements, round trip time measurements, path delay measurements, service latency measurements, or service load measurements. The TWAMP extensions for the service KPIs may be used in both conventional network architectures and in SDN and NFV architectures.
US10244076B2
A network device is located in a cloud routing services center that is separate from a customer network. The network device provides a user interface to solicit, from a customer device outside the cloud routing services center, structured routing criteria for virtual private network (VPN) routes over a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network and receives, from the customer device, customer routing criteria selected from the structured routing criteria. The network device retrieves network configuration data for the MPLS network and applies the customer routing criteria to the network configuration data to generate a customer VPN routing plan for the MPLS network. The network device analyzes the customer VPN routing plan to determine if the routing plan is viable and, if the routing plan is viable, configures devices in the MPLS network to implement a customer VPN based on the customer VPN routing plan.
US10244072B2
A system and method are provided for routing content requests. On a given server network, content requests comprising a character string may be routed up a hierarchical network topology until a linear chain, corresponding to the character string, is identified. Thus, the content request is forwarded up the hierarchy until an intersecting server network is reached. Then the content request is forwarded down the hierarchy until, along a published linear chain corresponding to the character string, until a content source is reached. Content is provided to the requestor along a reverse path of the content request.
US10244064B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for enhancing users' overall experiences with physical items by supplementing their physical experiences with digital experiences. According to an embodiment, an electronic device scans a smart tag associated with an item to obtain an item identifier of the item, and sends the item identifier to a server, which selects digital content to be made available to a user of the item.
US10244059B2
Techniques for providing and consuming web services, including a service library configured to store one or more web services and a host directory connected to service hosts, configured to store data related to the service hosts. The service hosts are a network and adapted to receive and fulfill deployment requests for the web services stored in the service library by instantiating one or more endpoints of one of the web services. A manager is configured to query the host directory and the service library, generate a deployment plan, and transmit deployment requests to the one or more service hosts.
US10244056B2
Examples of systems and methods are provided for communication and for forwarding display data related to a remote session between a client device and a remote server to a host device. The system may facilitate establishing the remote session with the remote server. The system may facilitate establishing a trusted relationship between the client device and the host device. The system may filter out data related to local graphical user interface (GUI) and selectively forward from the client device to the host device display data related to the remote session established between the client device and the remote server.
US10244052B2
The disclosure is directed to receiving a digitized content item that is indicated to be shared with users (e.g., all, some, or one) of a social networking system; selecting, based on one or more characteristics of the digitized content item, a second server computing device at which to further compute or store the digitized content item; and transmitting, to the second computing device, the digitized content item for storage at the second computing device. At least one of the characteristics can be a classification of a user who transmitted the digitized content item via the data communications network. By selecting second server computing devices based on characteristics, data communications network performance can be improved.
US10244050B2
A request to change one or more storage characteristics associated with a virtual storage device is received. Communications identifying the virtual storage device are routed, via a network, to a first storage endpoint. One or more operations are performed in accordance with the request. A configuration of the network is updated to route communications identifying the virtual storage device to a second storage endpoint.
US10244048B2
Workload processing is facilitated in a data processing environment including a sender system, a load balancer and a plurality of target resources. The sender system sends workloads to the load balancer, and the load balancer distributes the workloads to the plurality of target resources for processing. Facilitating workload processing includes receiving, by the load balancer, sender status-related information which is indicative of a workload capacity issue from the sender system's view related, at least in part, to the sending of the workloads to the load balancer. The load balancer distributes one or more workloads of the sender system to one or more target resources of the plurality of target resources in a manner based, at least in part, upon the received sender status-related information.
US10244043B1
A management system for a plant facility is disclosed. The system includes a first field device that measures a process value, a first control node that calculates a first control value based on the process value, a second field device that operates according to the first control value, and an application node that configures one or more parameters for calculating the first control value. The first control node compares the first control value with a second control value calculated by one of the first field device, a second control node, and the application node. When determining that the first and the second control value are identical, the first control node sets the first control value to the second field device.
US10244042B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of a first location of a first user from a mobile-client system of a first user, generating one or more search queries based on the location of the first user, executing one or more of the search queries, and sending a plurality of search results corresponding to the executed search queries to the mobile-client system.
US10244040B2
A system, method, and apparatus are provided for issuing content event notifications to members of a user community that makes content available to its members. Events involving content items of interest to a given member (e.g., creation, upload, sharing) are recognized, particularly events that involve another member connected to the given member in the community, and the relevance of the items to the member or to content topics of interest to the member is determined. Time slots during which notifications can be issued to the member are identified (e.g., using the member's calendar data), possibly in association with events on the member's calendar, and may be associated with one or more topics that interest the member. During a time slot, only notifications regarding content items related to the associated topic(s) may be issued. A do-not-disturb time slot may be defined as a period during which no notifications should be issued.
US10244023B2
A system, method and computer program product for storing streaming media content includes: receiving streaming content, at a first mobile computing device, from a content service provider over a communications network; and determining, by a secondary mobile computing device specific details of a use of the content currently being received and buffered at the first device. The second device obtains, using the determined specific details, the content expected to be consumed by the first device to a local memory storage device at the secondary device, and stores the expected content for subsequent consumption. The system and method provides for an awareness of data usage of an account instance on the secondary device; storing a set of data locally on a secondary device based on usage of a primary device; and enabling the downloading of a set of data to the secondary device via a local connection to the primary device.
US10244018B2
Disclosed is a device (DEV) for controlling Bluetooth multimedia devices, the controlling device including a Bluetooth chip (BC) arranged to implement a modified A2DP profile (A2DP′) so as to create a point-to-multipoint link (LNK) from the Bluetooth chip to several Bluetooth multimedia devices (SPK1, SPK2, SPKN), the Bluetooth chip of the controlling device being arranged to stream several interconnected multimedia streams, each to a respective Bluetooth multimedia device from among the several Bluetooth multimedia devices, based on a non-blocking Bluetooth usage. The description also refers to a method for controlling Bluetooth multimedia devices, to a computer program arranged to implement such a method as well as to a storage medium storing such a computer program.
US10244010B2
In at least some example embodiments, a data processing apparatus is configured to recover a network connection within an application framework that hides sockets by separating acquisition and processing into different threads of the same process, and, thus, when the processing thread is unable to retrieve a frame from the acquisition thread, the data processing device may terminate the acquisition thread with impunity since all important application state may safely remain within the processing thread.
US10244008B1
Techniques are disclosed for managing communication channels in a communication system that includes communication devices and a communication server. In one embodiment, a communication device may receive an invitation to join a new communication channel, the invitation comprising a universal resource locator (URL) link to a location that contains instructions for joining the new communication channel. The communication device may then launch a companion application in response to activating the URL link where the companion application may be associated with an account administered by a communications server. The companion application may be configured to manage one or more communication devices. A user may select from among the communication devices managed by the companion application to be added to the new communication channel and send, to the communication server, an acceptance to the invitation to join the new communication channel. The acceptance may include an identity of the selected communication devices to add to the new communication channel.
US10244006B2
A system comprising: a SIP Proxy Server, and DMR Gateway(s) to interface the SIP Proxy Server with DMR Network(s) matching Private/professional Mobile Radio (PMR) features; each DMR Gateway is univocally assigned with a SIP ID and is designed to: interpret messages from the SIP Proxy Server to manage DMR signalling/data/voice features toward DMR Terminals, and initiate DMR features on account of DMR Terminals operating under it and make requests for DMR signalling/data/voice features toward destinations belonging to another Network; each DMR Gateway is designed to: transcode an over-the-air, manufacturer-specific DMR Terminal registration into a SIP REGISTER message to result in the SIP Proxy server perceiving and managing the DMR Terminal as a SIP User Agent; the SIP Proxy Server is designed to manage: DMR signalling features, including voice call set-up, and DMR data features using the SIP MESSAGE method, and/or DMR signalling/data/voice group features.
US10244003B2
A media session between an initiating endpoint and a responding endpoint is effected, there being a plurality of available paths through a communication network via which the media session could be established. Type metrics associated with the available paths convey the directness of the available paths and are for making a selection of an available path for the media session. Network information indicative of the quality of the available paths and collected from a plurality of network nodes comprises contributions from network nodes other than the initiating and receiving endpoints which have current and/or have had past visibility of at least parts of the available paths. Said selection is influenced so as to cause the endpoints to select for the media session a higher quality but less direct available path in favor of a more direct but lower quality available path.
US10244001B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first request from a first device to access a first resource of the system and determining whether to grant access to the first resource based on a first access control list stored in the system, the first access control list associated with the first device, the first device having a first relevance value, and based on the determination, granting the access to the first resource; and receiving a second request from a second device to access a second resource of the system and forwarding the second request to an access manager service coupled to the system to determine whether to grant access to the second resource based on a second access control list stored in the access manager service associated with the second device, the second device having a second relevance value, receive an access grant from the access manager service and based thereon, granting the access to the second resource.
US10243997B2
A method implemented by an agent operating on a mobile device communicating to a cloud-based system includes opening up local listening sockets on the mobile device; redirecting outgoing traffic from all application on the mobile device except the agent to the local listening sockets; and forwarding the outgoing traffic from the local listening sockets to the cloud-based system with additional information included therein for the cloud-based system.
US10243994B2
An identity management system is augmented to provide a methodology to generate an objective measure of administrative effectiveness with respect to account certification. In the approach, erroneous account information is intentionally inserted into a recertification campaign. The erroneous account information is tracked through the recertification process and used as a measurement to evaluate whether a particular manager/administrator whose accounts are impacted is successful in recognizing the erroneous account information (e.g., as a percentage of erroneous account records located). The dummy information is tracked and used to generate a quantitative measure of the effectiveness of a particular recertification campaign or a particular manager who is responsible for recertifying accounts. The results can also be used to drive other enterprise metrics and compliance systems.
US10243989B1
An email inspection system receives emails that are addressed to recipients of a private computer network. The emails are inspected for malicious content, and security information of emails that pass inspection is recorded. When an email is detected to have malicious content, the recorded security information of emails is checked to identify compromised emails, which are emails that previously passed inspection but include the same malicious content. A notification email is sent to recipients of compromised emails. The notification email includes Simple Mail Transfer Protocol headers that facilitate identification of the recipients, blocking of incoming emails with the same malicious content, and identification of public Mail Transfer Agents that send malicious emails, i.e., emails with malicious content.
US10243987B2
Protecting a runtime Web service application. A web service application is instrumented to log its operation and allow recreation of its execution trace. Trace point vulnerabilities are identified using one or more data payloads. Candidate trace point operations associated with the trace point vulnerabilities are identified. Supplementary candidate operations are computed based on the existing trace point operations and the one or more data payloads. The Web service application is further instrumented with the one or more supplementary candidate operations.
US10243981B2
A system automatically detects bots and/or botnets.
US10243977B1
Automatically detecting a malicious file using name mangling strings. In one embodiment, a method may include (a) identifying a file, (b) identifying name mangling strings in the file, (c) concatenating the name mangling strings together, (d) hashing the concatenated name mangling strings to generate a signature for the file, (e) clustering the file with other files with matching signatures into a cluster, (f) determining that any of the files in the cluster is malicious, (g) adding the signature to a list of signatures of files known to be malicious, (f) identifying a network device file stored on a network device, (g) repeating (b)-(d) on the network device file, (h) determining that the signature for the network device file matches any signature in the list of signatures of files known to be malicious, and (i) performing a security action on the malicious file on the network device.
US10243969B2
Identifying network loops is disclosed including determining a first data packet having a time to live (TTL) that at least meets a first condition, the first data packet having a destination internet protocol (IP) address; within a time period after the determining of the first data packet, identifying a plurality of second data packets that are to be transmitted to the destination IP address; and determining whether a network loop exists for the destination IP address based on TTLs of the plurality of second data packets.
US10243966B2
A computer-implemented method for controlling a connection between a virtual machine and a physical device comprises receiving a connection request for connecting the physical device to the virtual machine and determining whether the virtual machine satisfies a first connection permission condition and whether the physical device satisfies a second connection permission condition. In response to a determination that the virtual machine does not satisfy the first connection permission condition, a configuration of the virtual machine is changed to satisfy the first connection permission condition. In response to a determination that the physical device does not satisfy the second connection permission condition, a configuration of the physical device is changed to satisfy the second connection permission condition. In response to a determination that the virtual machine satisfies the first connection permission condition and that the physical device satisfies the second connection permission condition, the received connection request is accepted.
US10243959B1
A cloud computing system. The system comprises a network, a data store communicatively coupled to the network, a plurality of compute nodes, at least some of the compute nodes comprising a cloud computing framework agent coupled to an agent gate keeper, where the cloud computing framework agent communicates with the network via the agent gate keeper, an image management component coupled to an image management gate keeper, where the image management component manages images that execute in the compute instances on the compute nodes and communicates with the network via the image management gate keeper, and a security engine coupled to the network that receives a request to initiate an image on a compute instance, analyzes the image to determine an authentication metric, and when the authentication metric matches a validated authentication value, sends the image to the image management component for loading and instantiating in the computer instance.
US10243951B2
A system for information confirmation using a cloud computing platform to provide a service by which an individual's video recorded and fingerprint authenticated sworn affidavit or statement called a “Confirmation” can be given upon request of another individual and stored in a third party service provider's cloud based vault for future retrieval in the case of any legal or other forms of action that may need to be taken in the future.
US10243949B2
A connection server is a connection system that is able to perform communication with a plurality of user side terminals and establishes a connection between the user side terminals, and includes a passcode generator that generates and transmits a passcode to the user side terminal, a passcode storage unit that stores a passcode in association with the user side terminal, a passcode receiving unit that receives a transmission passcode from the user side terminal, a passcode authentication unit that determines whether there is a stored combination of passcodes that matches a combination of a generated passcode and a received transmission passcode, and a connection unit that establishes a connection between the user side terminals in response to the determination.
US10243945B1
Managed identity federation provides numerous options for authentication to access one or more services. A user authenticates with an identity verification provider and provides proof of authentication to a service of a service provider. The service of the service provider is configured to verify the user's identity using a centrally managed identity provider configuration. This configuration is distributed without intervention of the service's administrators. This centrally-managed configuration allows a variety of enterprise and third-party services to utilize the service provider's billing, security, and other administrative services.
US10243942B2
The accessibility of a hyperlinked files is displayed. A hyperlink that references a resource is extracted from a target file. An attempt to acquire the resource is made by performing a first authentication operation. A first object is received in response to performing the authentication operation. A second object is acquired by performing a second authentication operation using pre-determined authentication information. The first object and the second object are compared to determine if the first object is the same as the second object. Information indicating the accessibility of the resource is presented via a display apparatus.
US10243938B2
A system includes circuitry for rewriting blockchains in a validity-preserving operation. In some cases, using a key secret held by a trusted party. In some cases, the blockchains may include a series of blocks secured integrity codes that may prevent non-tamper-evident rewrites by non-trusted parties that are not in possession of the key secret. In some cases, the key may allow valid but tamper-evident rewrites of the blockchain by trusted entities. In some cases, integrity outputs may be generated from the integrity codes based on the content of the previous blocks in the series such that attempts by untrusted parties to replace a block may be detected through coding-inconsistencies with other blocks.
US10243936B2
A method of automatic security parameter renewal includes determining if the security parameter satisfies a renewal condition, the determining including automatically detecting a time when a security parameter is going to expire, and automatically updating the security parameter when the renewal condition is satisfied. The automatically updating the security parameter includes modifying a certificate upon receipt of a new certificate.
US10243934B1
A document controller receives from an access device a web-based document storage request to store an electronic document. The document controller retrieves a storage location attribute associated with the electronic document which includes a location at which the document controller is to reside for the electronic document to be stored. The document controller processes the storage request by comparing its current location with the storage location attribute. In response to a match between the current location and the storage location attribute, the document controller stores the electronic document. In response to no match, the document controller does not store the electronic document. The document controller stores a result of the processing of the storage request in the request record datastore. The document controller receives a report request for results stored in the request record datastore, and in response, generates a report to include the stored result.
US10243921B2
According to one aspect, a system and method of exchanging GRUUs (Globally Routed User Agent URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)) between a first telephony-enabled device and a second telephony enabled device using a circuit-switched message is provided. Once exchanged, the telephony enabled devices can exchange SIP (session initiated protocol) communications routed by the GRUUs. Any one of the telephony-enabled devices can add a media component to the SIP communications. According to another aspect, a system and method of generating GRUUs is provided. According to another aspect, a system and method of handing off communications to a packet switched network from a circuit switched network is provided.
US10243915B2
A method and a system for managing flat and routed clients in a cluster using single virtual IP (VIP) are provided herein. The method includes broadcasting an ARP request from a client to a cluster of nodes; monitoring the broadcasted ARP request at one of the nodes and ignoring the ARP request at all other nodes; in a case that the monitored ARP requests is associated with a different target VIP for same client IP, determining the client associated with the ARP request as a routed client, otherwise the client is determined as a flat client; applying at least one load balancing logic for assigning one of the nodes to the client associated with the ARP request, wherein both flat clients and routed clients are treated as independent clients counted separately; and notifying the client associated with the ARP of a MAC address of the assigned node.
US10243892B2
A system and method are provided for providing access to media provided by a media service. A first request and a second request are sent by the media service to a first device and a second device using a messaging protocol, the first request and second request being associated with the ability to access the particular media using the media service. The media service receives, via the messaging protocol, a first response from the first device and a second response from the second device. A determination is made as to whether the first response and the second response are compatible. A dispute resolution between the first device and the second device is initiated based on determining that the first response and the second response are not compatible. Access to the particular media provided by the media service is permitted or denied according to the dispute resolution.
US10243891B2
A cross-device messaging integration capability is disclosed, which allows a user using a first device to indicate, using a first user computing device, an intent to perform one or more messaging actions at one or more second user computing device(s). The first and second devices may be different devices. The user may receive a reminder or other notification of the user's intent at the second device(s).
US10243890B2
Methods and apparatus related to determining reply content for a reply to an electronic communication and providing the reply content for inclusion in the reply. Some of those implementations are directed to determining, based on an electronic communication that includes an event and is sent to a user, reply content that is tailored to the electronic communication and tailored to schedule data of the user that is temporally related to the event, and providing the reply content for inclusion in a reply by the user to the electronic communication. For example, the reply content may be automatically included in the reply and/or suggested for inclusion in the reply.
US10243879B2
An intelligent placement engine generates a placement map that provides a configuration for deploying a service based at least in part, on one or more configuration parameters. A data center in which the service is to be hosted is defined using a data center definition, while the service is defined using a service definition. The configuration parameters include estimated probabilities calculated based on estimated resource consumption data. The resource consumption data is estimated based at least in part on historical data distributions.
US10243878B2
Various implementations disclosed herein enable improved allocation of fog node resources, which supports performance driven partitioning of competing client applications. In various implementations, methods are performed by a fog orchestrator configured to determine allocations of fog resources for competing client applications and partition the competing client applications based on the fog resource allocations. Methods include receiving reservation priority values (RPVs) associated with a plurality of client applications competing for a contested fog node resource, transmitting, to a subset of client devices, a request to provide updated RPVs, and awarding the contested fog node resource to one of the plurality of client applications based on the received RPVs and any updated RPVs. In various implementations, methods also include determining, for each of the plurality of client applications, a respective mapping for a respective plurality of separable components of the client application based on the awarded contested fog node resource.
US10243877B1
A device may receive a packet associated with an application. The device may identify a filter associated with the application. The device may determine that information associated with the packet matches information associated with the filter. The device may compare a count, associated with the filter, and an expediting threshold associated with expediting processing of the packet based on determining that the information associated with the packet matches the information associated with the filter. The device may selectively expedite processing of the packet based on comparing the count and the expediting threshold.
US10243873B2
Embodiments of the invention provide for systems and computer program products for the management of logically partitioned computing resources of a data processing system configured with a plurality of hypervisors that each manages one or more logical partitions of the computing resources. Each hypervisor and logical partitions managed thereby are allocated to a domain of a plurality of domains. Logical partitions and hypervisors allocated to a first domain are monitored to determine whether additional computing resources are needed for the first domain. Responsive to determining that additional computing resources are needed for the first domain, a second domain having available computing resources is determined. At least a portion of the available computing resources of the second domain are used by the first domain.
US10243868B1
A network device and method of constraining a client's access to a packet memory of a network device are provided. A packet memory is configured to store packets, and a client is configured to access the packet memory based on the client receiving a credit. A rate limiter is configured to grant credits to the client according to a configurable threshold. The configurable threshold comprises a sum of an integer component and a fraction component, and the sum defines an average rate at which the credits are granted to the client by the rate limiter. A network port is configured to receive packets from the client.
US10243864B1
Described are techniques for modifying the data rate used to transmit audio data from a master device to slave devices. After receiving a signal, each slave device requests transmission of one or more packets and reports an individual error rate. A cumulative error rate may also be determined based on the individual error rates and the retransmission requests. If any individual error rate or the cumulative error rate exceeds a maximum threshold, the data rate used to transmit the audio data is decreased. If an individual error rate is less than a minimum threshold, the data rate may be increased. If an error rate exceeds a critical threshold, the data rate may be reduced to a minimum value supported by the devices.
US10243862B2
A method for sampling packets for a network flow, includes: receiving a packet at a network port of a network switch appliance, the network switch appliance comprising an instrument port for communication with a network monitoring instrument; determining whether the packet belongs to a network flow that is desired to be monitored, wherein the act of determining is performed based at least in part on one or more information in a control plane using a processing unit; and passing the packet to the instrument port if the packet belongs to the network flow.
US10243852B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a look-up table creation method and query method. The creation method includes: receiving a look-up table create message sent by a controller, where the look-up table create message includes an identifier of a look-up table and a look-up mode of the look-up table; creating a look-up table according to the look-up table create message and setting a look-up mode of the look-up table; receiving an entry add message sent by the controller, where the entry add message includes a to-be-added forwarding action and an index parameter of the forwarding action; and adding, according to the entry add message, an entry corresponding to the entry add message to the look-up table.
US10243846B2
For a managed network including multiple host machines implementing multiple logical networks, some embodiments provide a method that reduces the memory and traffic load required to implement the multiple logical networks. The method generates configuration data for each of multiple host machines including (i) data to configure a host machine to implement a set of logical forwarding elements that belong to a set of routing domains and (ii) identifiers for each routing domain in the set of routing domains. The method then receives data regarding tunnels endpoints operating on each of the host machines and an association with the routing identifiers sent to the host machines. The method then generates a routing domain tunnel endpoint list for each routing domain based on the data received from each of the host machines including a list of the tunnel endpoints associated with the routing domain which the host machines can use to facilitate packet processing.
US10243845B2
At an SDN controller executing using a processor and a memory, a tracing packet is configured with a default value in a tag field. The tracing packet is inserted from the SDN controller into the SDN at a switch in the SDN. A returned packet and a port identifier is received at the controller, from the switch, the returned packet including a modified content in a location of the tracing packet that is different from the tag field. The port identifier corresponds to a port of the switch on which the switch received the returned packet from an middlebox. A function of the middlebox is identified by analyzing a modification applied to the modified content by the middlebox. The function of the middlebox and a location of the middlebox in the SDN are saved. The location includes the port identifier and an identifier of the switch.
US10243841B2
In one embodiment, a method includes computing at a controller, a primary path and a backup path for transmittal of multicast data from service nodes in communication with the controller and a multicast source to access nodes in communication with multicast receivers, and transmitting from the controller, information for the primary path and the backup path to the access nodes for use by the access nodes in receiving the multicast data on the primary path and the backup path, and switching transmittal of the multicast data to the multicast receivers from the primary path to the backup path upon identifying a failure in the primary path to provide fast reroute at the access nodes. A multicast control plane runs in the controller without operating in the access nodes. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.
US10243832B2
The disclosure proposes a routing message delivery method, a relay node using the same method, and a communication network using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, the proposed routing message delivery method would include at least but not limited to initiating a timer having a first timer value that is a non-zero positive number, forwarding a first routing message via a first path in response to receiving the first routing message before the timer expires, initiating a second routing message via the first path and a second path in response to not receiving the first routing message before the timer expires, constructing a current network topology, evaluating the first path and the second path within the current network topology, and updating the current network topology.
US10243831B2
A method of updating a score in a network of linked nodes is provided. Scoring information including a node identifier and a score value for a node in a network of nodes is received. The score value is determined using an analytic model and a parameter value. An anchored network record for which the node is an anchor is identified using the node identifier. A node record for the node is identified in the identified anchored network record. A network score value is computed based on the score value. The identified node record is updated with the score value and the computed network score value. A next anchored network record that includes the node is identified using the node identifier. A second node record for the node is identified in the identified next anchored network record. The second node record is updated based on the updated, identified node record.
US10243830B2
Priority of a route, which carries a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) tunneling end point (VTEP) Internet protocol (IP) address of a port of a VXLAN tunnel corresponding to a first VXLAN IP GW to be migrated, is lowered. The route is then released to a VTEP at peer end of the VXLAN tunnel. Priority of a static route destined for a virtual machine (VM) is also lowered. The static route is then released to a network device in a non-virtual network. At least two VXLAN IP GWs possess a same VTEP IP address of a port of a VXLAN tunnel. Before priority of route corresponding to first VXLAN IP GW is lowered, priority of route carrying the same VTEP IP address released by each of at least two VXLAN IP GWs is same. Priority of static route from each of at least two VXLAN IP GWs to the VM is same. When controller monitors no data flow between VM and network device in the non-virtual network passes the first VXLAN IP GW, migration actions may be executed.
US10243814B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing and using a deep packet inspection virtual function. A control system can detect a service request. The control system can analyze a policy to determine a function of a service to which the service request relates, a virtual machine that will host the function, and a deep packet inspection virtual function associated with the service. The control system can trigger loading of an image to the virtual machine and instantiation of the virtual machine. The image can include the function of the service and the deep packet inspection virtual function. The control system can validate the service and the deep packet inspection virtual function.
US10243808B2
A graphical user interface may be provided. In some embodiments, the graphical user interface may include a plurality of rows. A first row may include a first entry field and a first visual indicator and a second row may include a second entry field and a second visual indicator. The first entry field may be assigned a first profile. A selection of a second profile for the second entry field may be received and a selection of the second visual indicator may be received. A third row may be added in response to the selection of the second visual indicator after the selection of the second profile to be assigned to the second entry field.
US10243807B2
A method for predicting operational lifetime of a node in a communication network is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining an expected operational lifetime for the node (22), monitoring at least one of hardware identification data, operational data or operating environment data for the node (24), obtaining historical failure data for a subset of nodes in the communication network having monitored data corresponding to the monitored data of the node (26) and adjusting the expected operational lifetime for the node according to the obtained historical failure data (28). Also disclosed are a computer program product for carrying out the above method and a network element (500, 600) configured to carry out the above method.
US10243798B2
Although MIB extensions allow for access to a rich dataset about a variety of SNMP-enabled devices, utilizing the rich dataset for various management tasks can involve collection of a vast amount of data from an SNMP-enabled device. For instance, a network management system may collect several tables of utilization data for thousands of interfaces divided into multiple sets of interfaces on an SNMP-enabled device to calculate the average utilization of a single group of interfaces. Moreover, the values for some OIDs are other OIDs. In at least these cases, the conventional request-response exchange for data collection is insufficient. Expressions can be written with in an expression languages as data collection queries (“embedded queries”) for interactive querying over multiple exchanges for SNMP data collection.
US10243796B2
The use of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) of a user device to perform Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) update may replace the conventional use of multiple SMS messages to update the UICC of a user device. A UICC update request may be sent to a UICC update service of a wireless communication network via a communication session by a trusted update application that is executing in the TEE. Subsequently, the UICC update service may send a UICC update file to the user device via the communication session for storage in the TEE. A copy of the UICC update file is then transferred from the TEE to modem software of a modem in the user device. The modem software chunks the UICC update files into multiple UICC update data chunks. The data chunks are sent by the modem software to the UICC to update the UICC.
US10243791B2
Provided are methods and systems for adjusting of subscriber policies. A method for adjusting of subscriber policies may include applying traffic enforcement rules to a data traffic associated with a subscriber. The method can further include determining network conditions associated with the data traffic. The method can include modifying, based on the determination of the network conditions, attributes according to attribute adjustment rules to obtain modified attributes. The method can further include modifying the traffic enforcement rules based on the modified attributes to obtain modified traffic enforcement rules.
US10243789B1
A method for universal scaling of software network functions involves receiving, at a switch of a network, a batch of data units during a first period. The network further includes one or more network function (NF) instances of an NF service, and a scaling controller. The switch transmits one or more units of data during the first period to an NF instance of the NF service. An estimated maximum safe data unit rate is determined for the NF instance, and a representative safe data unit rate is determined for the NF service. A total number of data units designated to be received by the NF service during the first period is determined, and a total number of NF instances of the NF service to be provisioned in the network is determined at the scaling controller using the estimated total number of data units and the representative safe data unit rate.
US10243787B2
The present invention provides a platform that enables devices, services and applications to be connected together. An in-home gateway device provides the hub for this connectivity, by connecting and coordinating in-home (and/or in-office) devices and cloud-based services. Creating a “connected environment” via this platform requires co-ordinating multiple device manufacturers and service providers, and multiple standards/protocols. Advantageously, the platform removes the requirement for different manufacturers of different devices to adopt common protocols to enable device connection, and further, the platform removes the burden of configuration away from the consumer.
US10243782B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a first tuning state of a media processor of a subscriber. The first tuning state includes a satellite service channel, wherein the satellite service channel provides a first media content item that is processed by the media processor for presentation. A terrestrial service channel is identified that provides a second media content item. Access to the terrestrial service channel is provided by control of a switch. Subsequent processing of the second media content item by the media processor is facilitated by replacing the first media content item, responsive to the determining of an unavailability of the satellite service channel Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10243781B1
A device may receive, from an ingress device, a packet for a protocol session associated with detecting faults in a path of a network that includes a link aggregation group (LAG). The packet may be encapsulated with a user datagram protocol (UDP) header that includes a dynamically assigned UDP source port identifier. The LAG may include a set of links. The device may select, using the dynamically assigned UDP source port identifier, a link in the LAG to use in the path. The device may provide, using the selected link, the packet to one or more downstream devices to permit a downstream device, of the one or more downstream devices, to determine whether packet timeout has occurred. The device may receive an instruction to maintain the protocol session or to close the protocol session and close the path. The device may provide the instruction to the ingress device.
US10243773B1
Low-complexity computational processing provides a set of selective mapping weights for reducing peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) in transmitted Multiple Input, Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) signals. A MIMO precoder and invertible transform generates a base discrete-time MIMO-OFDM signal from a set of data symbols and MIMO precoding weights. A matrix multiplier multiplies the set of data symbols with a sparse update weight matrix, and the resulting product is MIMO-precoded and modulated onto an OFDM signal to produce a discrete-time update signal. A linear combiner sums the discrete-time update signal and the base discrete-time MIMO-OFDM signal to produce an updated discrete-time MIMO-OFDM signal from which the PAPR can be measured.
US10243762B1
An analog-based architecture is used to produce tap spacings in an n-tap fractionally-spaced equalizer without the need for digital clock-driven elements. The analog voltage-controlled delay cell circuits control the amount of applied delay based on the measured phase difference between quarter-rate clock signals. Because low speed clock signals are sufficient for comparison purposes, the analog delay cells can be placed before the quarter-rate multiplexors in the data path. The use of analog-based delay cells eliminates the need to route high-speed clock signals to multiple digital delay elements that are typically used to achieve fractionally spaced data signals in n-tap FIR equalizers. Timing margin issues can also be eliminated since digital clocked elements are not used to produce the fractionally spaced delays. The analog-based delay approach also consumes less power relative equalizers that use multiple digital delay elements requiring high speed clock signals.
US10243758B2
An apparatus and method are provided for filtering transactions performed between a master device and a slave device, where each transaction comprises one or more transfers. The apparatus has a first interface for coupling to the master device and a second interface for coupling to the slave device. Routing circuitry is used to route, between the first interface and the second interface, signals representing each transfer. Filtering decision generation circuitry is arranged to perform a combinatorial operation to generate a filtering decision dependent on current values of one or more received input variables. The routing circuitry is then responsive to the filtering decision indicating a block condition for a current transfer, to block the current transfer by preventing one or more of the signals representing that current transfer from being passed between the first interface and the second interface in either direction. The filtering decision generation circuitry is responsive to assertion of the current transfer within the apparatus to generate the filtering decision, and thereafter to maintain that filtering decision for a duration of time that the current transfer is asserted, irrespective of a change in the values of the input variables. Such an approach provides a high performance solution while also enabling certain bus protocol violation scenarios to be avoided.
US10243743B1
A method of exchanging value across a blockchain network comprising receiving first and second transaction smart contracts, recording the first transaction smart contract to the second transaction smart contract, and registering global variable names and defining values thereof. The method further comprises receiving a transaction notification and recording the transaction to the second transaction smart contract.
US10243738B2
Standardized digital signature schemes (e.g., Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA), Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EC-DSA), etc.) may be employed to prove authenticity of a message containing credentials. Proving possession of valid credentials may be performed using a combination of garbled circuits with message authentication codes (MACs) and proof of knowledge protocols (e.g., Sigma protocol, Schnorr protocol, etc.). Such techniques may allow proving entities to prove possession of valid credentials using standardized signature schemes without revealing those credentials directly to a verifying entity.
US10243731B2
Hardware acceleration supports complex software processes. In particular, a hardware security module provides encryption support for transaction chains. In one implementation, the security module circuitry provides high-speed security features and acceleration of the security features for blockchain processing.
US10243728B2
A method of verifying the sensitivity of an electronic circuit executing a Rijndael-type algorithm to side channel attacks, wherein: each block of data to be encrypted or to be decrypted is masked with a first mask before a non-linear block substitution operation is applied based on a substitution box, and is then unmasked with a second mask after the substitution; the substitution box is recalculated, block by block, before the non-linear operation is applied, the processing order of the blocks of the substitution box being submitted to a permutation; and a side channel attack is performed on the steps of recalculating, block by block, the substitution box.
US10243719B2
A MIMO wireless communication device includes, in part, a first transmit path adapted to transmit a first transmit signal from a first antenna, a second transmit path adapted to transmit a second transmit signal from a second antenna, a first receive path adapted to receive a first receive signal, an interference cancellation circuit and a controller. The cancellation circuit includes a cascaded filter structure each filter including a multitude of filter taps each including a variable element. The controller dynamically varies a value applied to each of the plurality of variable elements in accordance with frequency response characteristics of the variable element to remove a portion of a self-interference and/or cross-talk interference signal present in a signal received by the device. The device measures the frequency response characteristic of a multitude of communication channels, used in determining the values, via one or more preamble symbols that are jointly transmitted from the first transmit antenna and the second transmit antenna. A second portion of the interference signal is removed by a digital cancellation circuit using a multitude of samples of a transmitted signal.
US10243716B2
The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting multi-carrier aggregation (CA) and discloses various methods and devices for aperiodic feedback of channel state information (CSI). The method for aperiodic feedback of the channel state information (CSI) in the wireless access system supporting the multi-carrier aggregation (CA), according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a first message including an aperiodic CSI request field and uplink grant from a base station; receiving a second message including bitmap information indicating a downlink component carrier (DL CC) subjected to CSI measurement from the base station; measuring the CSI in consideration of at least one of the aperiodic CSI request, uplink grant, and bitmap information; and transmitting the measured CSI to the base station through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to thereby receive aperiodic feedback of the same.
US10243715B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a new unified and flexible frame structure for 5G (5th generation) mobile telecommunications standard and related radio access technology (RAT). The disclosed embodiments use communication frames with multiple partition types and are able to span a wide range of 5G deployment scenarios in a flexible and scalable manner.
US10243709B2
A method (200) of determining mutual information of a composite receive signal, the composite receive signal comprising a reference signal and a data signal, includes the following acts: estimating (201) a base metric of the composite receive signal based on the reference signal, the base metric being indicative of a channel quality; and determining (202) the mutual information based on the base metric and the data signal.
US10243704B2
A network device (e.g., an evolved Node B (eNB) or user equipment (UE)) can process or generate a measurement gap pattern to enable network measurements of carriers or bands during measurement gaps on a per component carrier (CC) basis. The transmitting or receiving of the measurement objects (e.g., carriers or band) communicatively coupled on the network and the measurement gap pattern can be communicated via one or more radio resource control (RRC) signals, and re-configured according to a supporting CC data set identifying one or more criteria related to each CC such as UE capabilities, associations of the UE capabilities to measurement gap configurations, types of measurement gap period/gap offsets, different measurement gap patterns, an absence of a measurement gap, or other criteria related to CCs, respectively. In response to the supporting CC data set, measurement gap patterns can be dynamically re-configured per CC.
US10243700B2
An acknowledgment (ACK) frame has two parts: a group ACK part and a scheduling information part. In the group ACK part, an ACK/NACK indicator is included for a previous uplink (UL) transmission per station (STA). In the scheduling information part, information included for the following UL transmission per selected STA may comprise, for example, one or more of: a number of selected STAs, a media access control (MAC) address of each selected STA, a data transmission duration per selected STA, a transmission rate per selected STA, a request transmission duration, a pilot transmission order, or a STA transmission order.
US10243697B2
Provided is a data decoding method of a wireless communication device. The method includes receiving a plurality of sub-frames. The method further includes accumulating data signals respectively included in each of the plurality of sub-frames. The method further includes updating a channel estimation value based on reference signals included in a most recent sub-frame of the plurality of sub-frames. The method further includes calculating a log likelihood ratio (LLR) based on the accumulated data signals and the updated channel estimation value. Furthermore, the method includes decoding data based on the LLR.
US10243695B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method includes decoding a codeword corresponding to a preset decoding scheme to detect reliability information of each of codeword bits included in the codeword, wherein at least one of a number of quantization bits and a range of a quantization level used for detecting reliability information in the decoding scheme is determined based on a degree of a node on a bipartite graph of a low density parity check (LDPC) code.
US10243693B2
The present invention relates to an optical transceiver using FEC, an optical transceiving system comprising the same, and a remote optical wavelength control method and, specifically, to an optical transceiver using FEC, the optical transceiver comprising: a laser diode driver (LDD) for driving a laser diode (LD) for outputting light; a transmitter optical sub-assembly (TOSA) for transmitting an optical signal received from the LD driver; a receiver optical sub-assembly (ROSA) for receiving the optical signal from the transmitter optical sub-assembly; a micro controller unit (MCU) for controlling the transmitter optical sub-assembly and the receiver optical sub-assembly and analyzing the optical signal; and a forward error correction (FEC) which is controlled by the micro controller unit and generates the optical signal by including, in an overhead excess data frame, control or monitoring request information of a subscriber-side base station.
US10243692B2
Provided is a method for correcting errors in a data transmission network, comprising: transmitting a plurality of uncoded information packets across a network path; transmitting a plurality of coded packets for recovering information packets lost in transmission across said network path, the coded packets being temporally interspersed among said uncoded information packets, wherein the coded packets are encoded based on information packets transmitted prior to a previously transmitted coded packet; and determining the interspersion of the coded packets according to a packet loss rate.
US10243689B2
This invention generally relates to interference mitigation, and more specifically to interference mitigation in wireless communications networks. The proposed solution takes advantage of the clear channel assessment (CCA) function used by WLAN networks. Hence, by jamming the interfering WLAN channel during a predetermined time period, the interfering WLAN network is forced to withhold transmissions on the WLAN interfering channel during a backoff period of time. The solution of the subject application makes use of this backoff period to enable a WPAN network to transmit critical information such as, but not limited to, a request for changing the current working frequency.
US10243688B2
Methods and systems for reach extension of multi-carrier channels using unequal subcarrier spacing may decrease FWM by grouping the subcarriers into groups of 2 subcarriers, and apply a secondary, unequal spacing between the groups. In this manner, nonlinear interactions may be reduced and the transmission reach of a multi-carrier channel may be extended.
US10243671B1
Techniques and circuits are proposed to increase averaging in the clock recovery band based on an amount of channel overlap in receivers using excess bandwidth for clock recovery, to mitigate the impact of spectral energy leaking into an active channel of interest from an adjacent active channel and to improve the accuracy of the phase estimate of the received transmitted clock.
US10243666B2
A communication apparatus comprises a regular optical transceiver that generates regular subcarrier signals serving as subcarrier signals, a narrowband optical transceiver capable of generating narrowband subcarrier signals serving as subcarrier signals each having a narrower frequency band than the regular subcarrier signal, and a subcarrier configuration determiner that determines the configuration of a plurality of subcarrier signals in a super-channel signal, based on information on the number of optical filter stages to pass through. The regular optical transceiver shifts the positions of the regular subcarrier signals in the super-channel signal, according to optical frequency shift amounts indicating shift amounts of the plurality of subcarrier signals represented by the configuration determined by the subcarrier configuration determiner. The narrowband optical transceiver shifts the positions of the narrowband subcarrier signals in the super-channel signal according to the optical frequency shift amounts.
US10243652B2
Method and apparatus for the detection of distortion or corruption of cellular communication signals
A system for troubleshooting signals in a cellular communications network, and in particular, for determining the cause of distortion or corruption of such signals, includes a robotic or other type of switch. The robotic switch can tap into selected uplink fiber-optic lines and selected downlink fiber-optic lines between radio equipment and radio equipment controllers in a wireless (e.g., cellular) network to extract therefrom the I and Q data. The selected I and Q data, in an optical form, is provided to an optical-to-electrical converter forming part of the system. The system includes an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) or the like, and an analytic computer unit, or web server, and SSD (Solid State Drive) and magnetic disk storage, among other components of the system. The system analyzes the I and Q data provided to it, and determines the cause, or at least narrows the field of possible causes, of impairment to transmitted signals. The system includes a display which provides the troubleshooting information thereon for a user of the system to review, or other form of a report, and may communicate the analytical findings to a remote location over a public or private internet protocol network.
US10243637B2
A correction circuit (200) for providing at least one correction parameter (206) for correcting channel state information includes: a first input (201) for receiving at least one transport performance indicator (202) indicating a transport performance of data received over a radio channel; a second input (203) for receiving channel state information (204); and an output (205) for providing the at least one correction parameter (206) based on a relationship between the at least one transport performance indicator (202) and the channel state information (204).
US10243633B2
A method and apparatus for configuring UE transmit antenna selection in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receiving a configuration of UE transmit antenna selection from a network, and determines whether to apply the configuration of UE transmit antenna selection according to a configuration of dual connectivity. When the configuration of dual connectivity is not received from the network, it is determined to apply the configuration UE transmit antenna selection.
US10243631B2
A method and apparatus for performing distributed computation of precoding estimates within a DAS. An RRH comprises a receiver component arranged to receive uplink signals from active user devices. The RRH further comprises a processing component arranged to perform channel estimation for each active user device m, based on the received uplink signals, to obtain channel estimates Hm,i between each active user device m and the RRH, compute intra-RRH interference precoding estimates Fm for each active user device m based on the channel estimates Hm,i, and solve interference-free conditions to obtain inter-RRH interference precoding estimates for each RRH j within the DAS.
US10243620B2
The present invention relates to a wireless power transmission apparatus and a method therefor. The present invention provides a wireless power transmission apparatus including: a power transmission module; a first communication module; a second communication module; and a controller for searching out a first wireless power reception device performing wireless power transmission/reception, transmitting a second magnetic field signal of a second frequency band through the power transmission module, sensing a second response signal to the second magnetic field signal through the second communication module, and searching out a second wireless power reception device performing wireless power transmission/reception by means of the second frequency band according to whether the second response signal is received.
US10243619B2
A device (5; 16; 26) that processes a Near Field Communication type application which device (5; 16; 26) comprises: a host controller circuit (3; 27) that processes device applications, that use the Near Field Communication type application, and that processes a host driver (7; 28) that communicates based on a first interface protocol (NCI; EMV); a NFC controller circuit (4; 33) that processes a Near Field Communication type contactless interface (6; 35) and a controller driver (11; 32) that interfaces with the host controller circuit (3; 27), wherein the host controller circuit (3; 27) processes a first transmission module (9; 30) that interfaces with the host driver (7; 28) based on the first interface protocol (NCI; EMV) and with the controller driver (11; 32) based on a second interface protocol, which first transmission module (9; 30) furthermore processes substantially all none-time critical and/or memory consuming tasks of the Near Field Communication type application and wherein the NFC controller circuit (4; 33) comprises a second transmission module (12, 34) that processes all time critical tasks for the Near Field Communication type application towards the Near Field Communication type contactless interface (6; 35).
US10243607B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device may include a flexible support and a control unit electrically coupled to the flexible support. The control unit receives a trigger signal, and generates a corresponding control signal according to the trigger signal. The flexible support is correspondingly deformed according to the control signal. The electronic device provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure generates, according to the trigger signal, the control signal for controlling deformation of the flexible support, thereby achieving electrically controlled deformation, and improving the intellectualization of electronic equipment.
US10243602B2
A wireless receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter that converts a signal corresponding to a received signal into a digital signal on the basis of multiple reference voltages and outputs the digital signal. The wireless receiver also includes a control circuit that controls at least one of the multiple reference voltages on the basis of the digital signal that is output from the analog-to-digital converter.
US10243601B2
A system and method for frequency reuse for wireless point-to-point backhaul. Frequency reuse is enabled through the cancellation of interfering signals generated by interference sources. In one embodiment, a conventional dish antenna is complemented with one or more additional auxiliary antennas (e.g., isotropic). The one or more additional auxiliary antennas enable cancellation of interfering signals whose direction of arrival (DOA) is off the dish antenna's bore-sight.
US10243597B2
In some embodiments, techniques are provided for extending the functionality of a receiving unit which is configured to express a state during an event. In some embodiments, a receiving unit configured to receive a first set of transmissions during an event from one or more transmitting units and express a state in response may also be configured to receive a second set of transmissions from other components at a time other than during the event and express a state in response to receiving the second set of transmissions.
US10243594B2
The circuit includes a transformer having a first primary coil coupled to a first power amplifier (PA), a second primary coil coupled to a second PA, and a secondary coil. The secondary coil supplies a current to an antenna based on a first direction of a first phase of a first amplified constant-envelope signal in the first primary coil with respect to a second phase of a second amplified constant-envelope signal in the second primary coil. A first load impedance is associated with the first PA and a second load impedance is associated with the second PA. The first load impedance and the second load impedance receive currents from the first PA and second PA, respectively, based on a second direction of the first phase of the first amplified constant-envelope signal with respect to the second phase of the second amplified constant-envelope signal.
US10243589B2
Exemplary embodiments for providing multi-bit error correction based on a BCH code are provided. In one such embodiment, the following operations are repeatedly performed, including shifting each bit of the BCH code rightward by 1 bit while filling the bit vacated due to the rightward shifting in the BCH code with 0, calculating syndrome values corresponding to the shifting of the BCH code, and determining a first error number in the BCH code under the shifting based on the syndrome values corresponding to the shifting of the BCH code. In the case where the first error number is not equal to 0, modified syndrome values are calculated corresponding to the shifting of the BCH code. The modified syndrome values are those corresponding to the case that the current rightmost bit of the BCH code under the shifting is changed to the inverse value. Additional operations are performed as described herein.
US10243587B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to very large-scale integration (VLSI) circuit implementations of circuits for managing results from list decode methods. In accordance with some examples disclosed herein, a plurality of potential error patterns for correcting errors in a codeword may be received. The plurality of potential error patterns may be generated using a plurality of different list decode methods. Error patterns among the plurality of potential error patterns may be determined and marked as candidate error patterns using a set of error pattern screens. Error weights may be assigned to the candidate error patterns based on a quantity of bit errors in each symbol included therein. Weights for candidate error patterns that are indicative of a memory device failure may be adjusted using a scaling factor. An error pattern among the candidate error patterns may be selected to correct the errors in the codeword based on the assigned error weights.
US10243584B2
A memory device including a parity check circuit and a mask circuit may be provided. The parity check circuit may perform parity check on data sampled according to a data strobe signal, which does not include a post-amble. The mask circuit may generate a parity error signal based on results of the parity check, and output the parity error signal during a time period determined according to a burst length of the data.
US10243582B1
Superconducting interface circuits and methods convert between non-return-to-zero (NRZ) encoded voltage signals and reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) compliant signals of opposite-polarity single flux quantum (SFQ) pulse pairs, and vice-versa, so as to provide high-speed NRZ input to, and output from, RQL computing circuitry.
US10243579B2
The disclosure includes a successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital converter (ADC). The SAR ADC includes a sampling network to store a sample of an analog signal. The SAR ADC also includes a comparator to successively compare the sample to reference values to determine a digital value corresponding to the sample of the analog signal. The comparator employs a plurality of comparator preamplifiers. The comparator also includes a programmable trim filter. The programmable trim filter is selectively set to adjust a bandwidth of the comparator preamplifiers to a bandwidth value corresponding with a preamplifier settling time subceeding a preamplifier settling threshold.
US10243577B1
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a split-capacitor digital-to-analog converter (DAC) having a Most Significant Bits (MSBs) sub-DAC with one or more MSBs encoded with one or more binary capacitors and one or more MSBs encoded with one or more thermometer capacitors, a Least Significant Bits (LSBs) sub-DAC, a termination capacitor coupled to the LSBs sub-DAC, and a scaling capacitor coupled between the LSBs and MSBs sub-DACs, and coupled to receive an analog input voltage, a high reference voltage, and a low reference voltage, and to provide an output voltage. The ADC includes a comparator coupled to receive the output voltage, successive-approximation-register (SAR) circuitry coupled to the comparator and providing an uncalibrated digital value corresponding to an uncalibrated digital representation of the input voltage, and calibration circuitry configured to apply one or more calibration values to the uncalibrated digital value to obtain a calibrated digital value corresponding to a calibrated digital.
US10243571B2
A source-synchronous clocking signal is sampled by an edge sampler triggered by a phase-adjusted version of the clocking signal. The output of the edge sampler is used as a phase-error indicator for a filtered feedback loop that aligns the phase-adjusted clocking signal to minimize, on average, the difference between the received source-synchronous clocking signal and the phase-adjusted version of the clocking signal minus the setup time of the sampler. This forms a delay-locked loop configuration. The phase adjustment information used to produce the aligned phase-adjusted clocking signal is then to produce a receiver clocking signal that is used to sample the source-synchronous data signal.
US10243565B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor logic element including a field effect transistor of the first conductivity type and a field effect transistor of the second conductivity type. A gate of the first FET is an input of the semiconductor logic element, a drain of the second FET is referred to as the output of the semiconductor logic element and a source of the second FET is the source of the semiconductor logic element. By applying applicable potentials to the terminals of the field effect transistors it is possible to influence the state of the output of the logic element. Also disclosed are different kinds of logic circuitries including the described logic element.
US10243560B2
Systems and methods for maintaining a slew rate while loading flash memory dies are described. In one embodiment, the systems and methods may include placing one or more comparator circuits connectively between one or more channel controllers and a plurality of flash memory dies and maintaining a slew rate in relation to the one or more channel controllers writing data to a plurality of flash memory dies inside the solid state drive. In some cases, a hardware controller of a solid state drive may include the one or more channel controllers. In some cases, the plurality of flash memory dies may include at least one NAND die.
US10243556B2
An operation unit comprises a touch panel display, a home key and a power saving key. The power saving key includes an indication portion, and a first indication portion out of the indication portion has light permeability, and a color of its surface is a dark color, and a second indication portion has no light permeability or has it hardly, which is constituted by a double-layered print. In a surface side of this second indication portion, a figure indicative of a power saving key is printed in silver ink, and in a rear side thereof, a figure indicative of the power saving key is printed in black ink. In a normal state, when a backlight is lit, a surface of the first indication portion is bright, and a surface of the second indication portion is darker than the surface of the first indication portion. On the other hand, in a power saving mode, when a light guide plate does not emit light, the surface of the first indication portion is dark, and the surface of the second indication portion is brighter than the surface of the first indication portion. Therefore, presence and location of the power saving key can be notified in a visible manner.
US10243553B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of driving a switching transistor includes receiving an activation signal for the switching transistor and generating a sequence of random values. Upon receipt of the activation signal, a control node of the switching transistor is driven with a drive strength based on a random value of the sequence of random values.
US10243552B2
There is provided a drive circuit for turning on/off a power element which controls a main current flow between a first main electrode and a second main electrode in response to a drive signal applied to a control electrode. The drive circuit includes a first semiconductor switching element and a second semiconductor switching element which are connected in series and provided between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal, a third semiconductor switching element and a fourth semiconductor switching element which are connected in series with a semiconductor element, and a control circuit which controls turn-on/off of the power element by turning on/off the first to fourth semiconductor switching elements. The semiconductor element has a negative temperature characteristic.
US10243551B1
Aspects of the present disclosure disclose a power semiconductor device coupled to a load operable to draw a load current comprising a power switch having a first terminal coupled to the load and a controller coupled to a control terminal of the power switch. The controller comprises a gate driving circuit configured to provide control of the control terminal of the power switch during normal switching operations; an overvoltage detection circuit configured to detect an overvoltage event occurring at the first terminal of the power switch; and an overvoltage protection circuit configured to provide control of the control terminal of the power switch during detection of the overvoltage event.
US10243549B2
There is provided a drive circuit for turning on/off a power element which controls a main current flow between a first main electrode and a second main electrode in response to a drive signal applied to a control electrode. The drive circuit includes a a first semiconductor switching element and a second semiconductor switching element which are connected in series with a semiconductor element and provided between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal, third semiconductor switching element and a fourth semiconductor switching element which are connected in series, and a control circuit which controls turn-on/off of the power element by turning on/off the first to fourth semiconductor switching elements. The semiconductor element has a positive temperature characteristic.
US10243544B1
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for processing analog signals with a wide dynamic range. In some implementations, the analog signal may be a current signal that is logarithmically scaled to decrease its dynamic range and converted to an output voltage using two or more diodes. A first diode may be used to scale a first range of the current signal and a second diode may be used to scale a second range of the current signal.
US10243540B2
A digital filter includes: integration calculation units (10) that are cascade-connected, are fed time-division-multiplexed data, the time-division-multiplexed data being formed of pieces of data on M channels that are time-division multiplexed, the pieces of data on the respective channels being updated at a rate equal to a sampling frequency fs, operate in accordance with a clock having a frequency fs×M, and integrate the time-division-multiplexed data for every M samples; a frequency conversion unit (11) that operates in accordance with a clock having a frequency fD×M, decimates data at the sampling frequency fs input from the integration calculation unit (10) in the last stage at a sampling frequency fD, and delays data obtained as a result of decimation by (M−1) samples; and difference calculation units (12) that operate in accordance with the clock having the frequency fD×M, are cascade-connected to the output of the frequency conversion unit (11), and each subtract, from data input thereto, data M samples before.
US10243536B2
In an elastic wave device, a multilayer film including a piezoelectric thin film is provided on a support substrate, an interdigital transducer electrode is provided on one surface of the piezoelectric thin film, a wiring electrode is connected to the interdigital transducer electrode, the wiring electrode includes a lead electrode portion and a pad electrode portion, an external connection terminal is located above the pad electrode portion, the external connection terminal is electrically connected to the pad electrode portion, and the external connection terminal is bonded onto the pad electrode portion on the support substrate so that at least the piezoelectric thin film of the multilayer film is not present below the pad electrode portion.
US10243527B2
A low noise amplifier comprising an adjustable gain and a variable impedance controller is provided. The low noise amplifier is configured to sink current and to adjust a shunt resistance substantially simultaneously.
US10243522B2
A low-noise amplifier device includes an inductive input element, an amplifier circuit, an inductive output element and an inductive degeneration element. The amplifier device is formed in and on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate supports metallization levels of a back end of line structure. The metal lines of the inductive input element, inductive output element and inductive degeneration element are formed within one or more of the metallization levels. The inductive input element has a spiral shape and the an amplifier circuit, an inductive output element and an inductive degeneration element are located within the spiral shape.
US10243519B2
Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are presented, where the amplifier can have a varying supply voltage that varies according to a control voltage. The control voltage can be related to a desired output power of the amplifier and/or to an envelope signal of an input signal to the amplifier. Particular biasing for selectively controlling the stacked transistors to operate in either a saturation region or a triode region is also presented. Benefits of such controlling, including increased linear response of an output power of the amplifier, are also discussed.
US10243508B2
Disclosed is a solar module, comprising a plurality of lamellar solar panels, which are mounted on a common axis so as to be able to pivot between a first position, in which they are positioned one on top of the other in a substantially coincident manner, and a second position, in which they are fanned out substantially adjacently, wherein, of every two adjacent solar panels, only the axis-side end section of the one solar panel has at least one guide and only the axis-side end section of the other solar panel has two stops which interact with the guide and are spaced from each other in the tangential direction, and wherein the solar panels are spaced from each other in the fanned out second position in their radially projecting sections that adjoin the aforementioned end sections.
US10243506B2
A seal includes an elongated body having a first end and a second end, an interior surface and an exterior surface, and a hole extending from the first end to the second end. The hole defines the interior surface of the body. The seal further includes a first flange disposed adjacent the hole on the first end of the body and a second flange disposed adjacent the hole on the second end of the body.
US10243499B2
A motor driving apparatus and a home appliance including the same. The motor driving apparatus includes a temperature sensing unit to sense a compressor temperature, an inverter including a plurality of switching elements to convert a direct current (DC) voltage into an alternating current (AC) voltage and to supply AC voltage to a motor used to drive the compressor, and a controller to control the inverter. The controller performs control to apply motor preheating current for preheating of the motor during a first period before startup of the motor, and varies depending on the sensed temperature a time during which the motor preheating current is applied or a current application level. A reduction in power consumption during the preheating of the compressor is achieved.
US10243498B2
Ripple power having a first variation range is input into a DC link (DC power supply lines). Buffer power is provided and received between the DC link and a power buffer circuit, so that the DC link outputs DC power having a second variation range smaller than the first variation range. An inverter receives the DC power as an input, and outputs AC power to a motor. A power control unit controls the power buffer circuit and the inverter on the basis of a compensation rate that sets the second variation range. A compensation rate setting unit performs a setting in which the compensation rate when a rotational speed of the motor belongs to any of a plurality of first predetermined ranges is higher than the compensation rate when the rotational speed belongs to a second predetermined range other than the plurality of first predetermined ranges.
US10243494B2
Method and systems are provided for adjusting an engine torque in response to changes in a desired engine torque. In one example, a method may comprise responsive to increasing desired engine torques, monotonically decreasing an alternator torque to a first level from a second level when not injecting fuel to engine cylinders, and stepping up the alternator torque from the first level to the second level while initiating engine combustion, and then monotonically decreasing the alternator torque from the second level to the first level in response to the alternator torque reaching the first level. In this way, a method may comprise adjusting a load exerted on an engine by an alternator mechanically coupled to said engine during both cylinder combustion, and during non-fueling conditions.
US10243487B2
A bridge with a support structure supporting a deck section provided with at least one energy-converting device for converting kinetic energy into electrical energy. The energy-converting device is at least partly positioned in or on a bridge bearing and/or the energy-converting device at least partly used as a bridge bearing at the same time.
US10243486B2
Included are a vibrator including a protruding portion that performs high frequency vibration; a friction member, the vibrator being pressed to cause the protruding portion to abut to the friction member; a fixing member to which either the vibrator or the friction member; a movable member that moves integratedly with either the vibrator or the friction member; a plurality of rotating members enabling relative movement between the friction member and the movable member; and a falling off restriction portion that prevents the rotating members provided in either the fixing member or the movable member from falling off, wherein the falling off restriction portion abuts to an opposed portion opposed to the falling off restriction portion to restrict a movable range of the movable member in a pressing direction and to prevent the rotating members from falling off.
US10243485B2
An electrostatic rotating electrical machine employs axially extending electrically conductive pegs (for example, on a stator) interacting with the least one of a comparable set of overlapping axially extending pegs on a rotor or a dielectric sleeve which experiences an induced electrostatic charge electrostatically attracted to the stator pegs. A dielectric sleeve may also encase either one or both of the rotor pegs and stator pegs to provide improved electrostatic field shaping and reduced dielectric fluid usage and mechanical susceptibility.
US10243479B2
A power harvesting circuit, a rectifier circuit and a capacitor. The rectifier circuit includes a diode circuit and a diode voltage reduction circuit. The diode circuit passes a current when a received RF signal has a first polarity and to substantially blocks the current when the received RF signal has a second polarity. The diode voltage reduction circuit is operably coupled to reduce a voltage drop of the diode circuit. The capacitor is operably coupled to convert the rectified signal into a DC supply voltage.
US10243478B2
Provided are circuits and methods for a power converter that converts AC input power into DC output power using a first output circuit that provides a first output comprising a DC voltage with a first AC voltage ripple and a second output circuit including a floating capacitor and one or more power switching device, and provides a second output comprising a second AC voltage ripple, wherein the first output and the second output are connected together in series, such that the first AC voltage ripple is substantially cancelled and substantially ripple-free DC output power is provided. Embodiments significantly reduce the total output capacitance requirement without sacrificing power factor, thus avoiding the need for electrolytic capacitors and enabling the use of long-life film capacitors. The circuits and methods are particularly suitable for use in applications where ripple-free high power and high reliability are required, such as in high power LED lighting.
US10243475B2
A power conversion device includes a low-pass filter, a second inductor, a first switch, a third switch, a second capacitor, and a controller. The low-pass filter is configured for direct coupling to an alternating current power source. The first switch is connected in series with a second switch, a first connection point. The third switch is connected in series with a fourth switch, a second connection point. The second capacitor is coupled to the first switch, the second switch, the third switch, and the fourth switch. The controller turns on and off the first, the second, the third, and the fourth switches based on a voltage of the alternating current power source directly coupled to the low-pass filter, a circuit current through the second inductor, a voltage across the second capacitor, and an average output voltage of the load circuit.
US10243474B2
An asymmetric electronic half-bridge converter includes a positive input terminal and a negative input terminal for receiving a DC voltage, and two output terminals for providing a regulated output voltage or a regulated output current. The electronic converter moreover includes a half-bridge, a transformer and a rectification and filter circuit. The half-bridge includes a first and second electronic switch, connected in series between the two input terminals, wherein a respective capacitance and a respective diode are associated with the first and second electronic switch. A first terminal of the primary winding is connected to the intermediate point between the first and second electronic switch, and a second terminal of the primary winding is connected via a first capacitor to the positive or negative input terminal. The rectification and filter circuit is connected between the secondary winding and the output terminals.
US10243473B1
An LED driver is provided having a gate drive integrated circuit with an adaptive operating mode which operates between a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The gate drive integrated circuit is designed to primarily operate in the first operating mode which includes a predetermined minimum on-time and a predetermined maximum off-time for enabling and disabling gate drive signals to a switch, respectively. The second operating mode begins at the minimum on-time and the maximum off-time. The LED driver further includes a controller configured to monitor an on-time and an off-time of the gate drive signals. The controller is further configured responsive to the second operating mode to fix the on-time equal to the predetermined minimum on-time and to continually adjust the off-time greater than or equal to the maximum off-time.
US10243471B2
A controller includes a first power circuit, a second power circuit, and a charging control circuit. The first power circuit is coupled to a bypass terminal and a first terminal to be coupled to receive charge from a secondary winding. The first power circuit transfers charge from the first terminal to the bypass terminal. The second power circuit is coupled to the bypass terminal and a second terminal to be coupled to a receive charge from an output of a power converter. The second power circuit transfers charge from the second terminal to the bypass terminal. The charging control circuit controls which of the first and second power circuits transfers charge to the bypass terminal.
US10243469B1
These teachings apply with respect to a direct current (DC)-output converter and provide for adjusting a number of switching pulses per burst cycle as a function, at least in part, of converter output loading. This adjustment can be made by controlling burst frequency with respect to at least one predetermined threshold frequency. The predetermined threshold frequency can comprise a non-audible frequency such that the number of switching pulses is adjusted to prevent the burst frequency from itself constituting an audible signal. The adjustment of the number of switching pulses per burst cycle may only occur when the output loading is less than a predetermined level of loading. These teachings may also provide for clamping the pulse frequency for the pulses in each burst package to a particular value when dynamically controlling the number of pulses in each burst package. The aforementioned particular value may constitute, for example, a highest available switching frequency.
US10243463B2
An apparatus comprises a voltage supply configured to provide an input voltage, a buck-boost converter coupled to the voltage supply and comprising an inductor, and a buck-boost controller coupled to the power supply and the buck-boost converter. The buck-boost controller comprises a mode controller coupled to the buck-boost converter and a comparator coupled to the mode controller and the buck-boost converter. The comparator is configured to compare an error signal based on an output voltage of the buck boost-converter to an output current of the inductor to produce a control signal. The mode controller is configured to control the output voltage at least in part according to the control signal.
US10243461B2
A voltage regulator circuit includes a comparator configured to compare whether an output voltage of the voltage regulator circuit is either equal to or less than a reference voltage; a control unit, coupled to the comparator, and configured to use a duty ratio of the output voltage to an input voltage of the control unit to estimate a time period; a first transistor, coupled to the control unit, and configured to be selectively turned on based on the estimated time period; and an inductor, coupled to the first transistor, configured to conduct an inductor current, wherein when the comparator determines that the output voltage is either equal to or less than the reference voltage, the first transistor is turned on during the estimated time period to allow the inductor current to be increased so as to accordingly increase the output voltage.
US10243460B2
Method and apparatus for dynamic voltage transition control in semi-resonant and resonant converters
A voltage converter includes a power stage coupled to a power source, a passive circuit coupling the power stage to an output capacitor, a synchronous rectification (SR) switch operable to couple the passive circuit to ground when the SR switch is conducting, a linear controller and an adaptive voltage positioning (AVP) circuit. The linear controller is operable to control switching of the SR switch and switch devices included in the power stage, to regulate an output voltage of the voltage converter based on a reference voltage. The AVP circuit operable to generate an offset voltage applied to the reference voltage based on a first signal representing output current of the voltage converter, and to subtract a second signal from the first signal. The second signal approximates a surge current applied to the output capacitor via the passive circuit for charging the output capacitor during transitions in the reference voltage.
US10243457B2
A voltage regulator system, comprising: a switched capacitor (SC) regulator that operates at a switching frequency and receives an input voltage; and a controller configured to control an operation of the SC regulator by adjusting the switching frequency of the SC regulator based on efficiency. In some embodiments, the switching frequency is swept to determine a best efficiency. In some embodiments, the switching frequency is swept at each of a plurality of values for the input voltage. In some embodiments, the system includes further one or more switches in series with the SC regulator. In some embodiments, the SC regulator includes an output terminal that is coupled to a battery.
US10243448B2
System and method for protecting a power converter. An example system controller for protecting a power converter includes a signal generator, a comparator, and a modulation and drive component. The signal generator is configured to generate a threshold signal. The comparator is configured to receive the threshold signal and a current sensing signal and generate a comparison signal based on at least information associated with the threshold signal and the current sensing signal, the current sensing signal indicating a magnitude of a primary current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter. The modulation and drive component is coupled to the signal generator.
US10243447B2
A controller controls power between a source and a load with a link capacitor. (a) A switch vector is selected based on load and source values, a capacitor voltage value, and a switch state selection mode. The switch vector identifies an on or off configuration for load and source switches during a subcycle that allow or do not allow current flow between the link capacitor and the load switch or source switch. (b) The state of the load and source switches is controlled in the on configuration or in the off configuration based on the selected switch vector. (c) It is determined that it is time to select a next switch vector. (a) to (c) are repeated for each subcycle of the determined number of switching subcycles. At least one load switch and at least one source switch are simultaneously in the on configuration during at least one subcycle.
US10243441B2
A linear controlled motion system comprises a track formed from one or more track sections and having at least one mover mounted to the track and effective for receiving articles at one location and transporting the articles to another location. The system includes at least one magnetic linear motion motor for providing a magnetic field effective for moving each mover in a controlled motion along the track and a magnetic flux bridge for reducing changes in the magnetic flux that reduces the efficiency or interferes with the operation of the controlled motion system.
US10243420B2
In an embedded magnet rotor for a rotary electric machine, permanent magnets are respectively accommodated in magnet housing apertures that pass axially through a rotor core that is held by a shaft, an adhesive is injected into and cured in gaps between the permanent magnets and the rotor core in the magnet housing apertures, and fixes the permanent magnets to the rotor core, a first end plate is held by the shaft so as to contact a first axial end of the rotor core, and blocks first axial end openings of the plurality of magnet housing apertures, and a fill rate of the adhesive that is injected into the gaps is increased gradually from a first axial end toward a second axial end of the magnet housing apertures.
US10243418B2
A three-phase alternating-current winding is configured by connecting first conductor terminals and second conductor terminals that are disposed in a circular arc-shaped region using connecting units, electric power supplying terminals of the three-phase alternating-current winding are constituted by the first conductor terminals and the second conductor terminals that are disposed in the circular arc-shaped region, a number of parallel phase windings in the three-phase alternating-current winding is n, where n is a natural number that is greater than or equal to one, an angular range of the circular arc-shaped region is less than or equal to (180×n) electrical degrees, and the second conductor terminals that constitute the electric power supplying terminals are positioned between adjacent first conductor terminals when viewed from a radially outer side.
US10243410B2
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided, comprising: a first power extraction unit configured to extract a first amount of power from an RF field present on the RF antenna and to provide said first amount of power to one or more circuits of the electronic device; a second power extraction unit configured to extract a second amount of power from the RF field and to provide said second amount of power to an output of the electronic device; a control unit configured to control the second amount of power provided to said output. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding power management method for use in an electronic device is conceived. According to third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions is provided.
US10243409B2
A control method for use in a primary side power converter (1) of an inductive power transfer (IPT) system. The power transfer from the primary side to one or more secondary pick-ups is monitored, and the operating frequency of the primary side power converter (1) is varied in proportion to a difference between the monitored power transfer and a power capability of the primary side power converter. The frequency variation can be sensed by the or each pick-up (2) to regulate the power transfer and to prevent overloading from occurring.
US10243402B2
A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a shielding member attached to an inner surface of an external part, a shielding wall formed on the shielding member, a first coil attached to a surface of the shielding member that faces the inner surface of the external part, and a second coil attached to the surface of the shielding member, with the second coil surrounds the first coil on a same plane and the shielding wall being disposed between the first and second coil.
US10243399B2
The present invention provides a wireless power transmission apparatus installable on a wall, the wireless power transmission apparatus comprising: a housing configured to allow a wireless power reception apparatus to be placed thereon; a plug, a part of which is embedded in the housing, the plug being configured to be coupled with a socket for alternating current power installed on a wall; and a transmission unit which is embedded in the housing, converts an alternating current power supplied from the plug to a direct current power, and outputs a wireless power signal to the wireless power reception apparatus.
US10243395B2
A control method for a system having an inverter with a direct current (DC) connection includes a DC source and an additional DC source or DC sink connected in parallel to the DC connection. An actuator configured to adjust at least one of voltage at the DC source, current supplied by the DC source, and output supplied by the DC source, or the voltage at the DC sink, current drawn by the DC sink, and the output drawn by the DC sink adjusts at least one parameter of the system relating to at least one of voltage, current, and output at the DC source, the DC sink, and/or the DC connection such that voltage at the DC connection, current flowing through the DC connection, output supplied through the DC connection to the inverter, or output supplied through the DC connection from the inverter, corresponds to a predetermined value.
US10243392B2
An electronic device may include a charging pad have a plurality of metal contacts, and a fiber device having a plurality of non-conductive material and a plurality of conductive material. At least one of the plurality of conductive material may be aligned with at least one of the plurality of metal contacts.
US10243391B2
An electronic apparatus comprises a power receiving unit configured to receive electric power transmitted from a power transmitting apparatus in a non-contact manner, and charge a battery that powers the electronic apparatus with the electric power; a temperature monitor configured to change output according to temperature; and a charge controller configured to instruct the power receiving unit to execute charge control of the battery based on the output of the temperature monitor.
US10243388B2
Disclosed herein is a charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor, capable of increasing a battery charging capacity while reducing the volume, weight, and/or cost of a vehicle increased due to an on-vehicle charging circuit. The charging system includes an inverter converting a DC output of a battery into a plurality of AC signals having different phases, a wound rotor synchronous motor having a plurality of stator coils, to which the AC signals having different phases are respectively input, and a field coil forming a mutual inductance with the stator coils, the field coil being installed in a rotor to form a magnetic flux using the DC output of the battery, and a controller allowing the battery and the field coil to be insulated from each other in a charge mode in which electricity from a grid is applied to the field coil of the wound rotor synchronous motor.
US10243376B2
According to at least one aspect, embodiments herein provide a method for operating a battery charging system, the method comprising receiving, by a first rectifier, a first AC voltage, receiving, by a second rectifier, a second AC voltage, converting, by the first rectifier, the first AC voltage to a first DC voltage, converting, by the second rectifier, the second AC voltage to a second DC voltage, biasing, by the second rectifier, the first rectifier with the second DC voltage, biasing, by the second rectifier, a battery charger with the second DC voltage, providing, by the first rectifier, a biased voltage to the battery charger, and providing, by the battery charger, a second power to a battery.
US10243373B2
Provided are a power control system, power control device, server device, and method for controlling a power control system in which the power control device can control load devices even when communication between the power control device and the server device is cut off, and which allow for timely discovery that communication has been cut off. A server device (20) extracts at least one of an elapsed time and remaining number of control instructions not acquired by a power control device (10) by polling and provides a warning when at least one of the elapsed time and the remaining number is at least a predetermined value. When the server device does not respond to polling, the power control device (10) creates a control instruction based on control guideline information and executes the control instruction.
US10243371B2
A control system, apparatus, and method to control load sharing of multiple generator sets of a power supply system are described. Load transient set points to add an individual generator set can include a transient percentage threshold to characterize load transients as a load transient, a transient count threshold, and a transient count time period during which a detected number of load transients is compared with the transient count threshold. A controller can determine whether to add the individual generator set based on whether the detected number of load transients is equal to the transient count threshold within the transient count time period and control addition of the individual generator set responsive to the detected number of load transients equaling the transient count threshold.
US10243370B2
A system for integrating energy storage into a modular power converter includes at least one energy storage unit coupled to a first converter for converting a first direct current (DC) voltage of the at least one energy storage unit into a first high frequency alternating current (AC) voltage. At least three phase legs of the modular power converter generate three phase AC voltages. Each phase leg includes a plurality of switching modules connected in series. The switching modules have a plurality of fully controllable semiconductor switches, an energy storage device, and a second converter coupled to the respective energy storage device for converting a second DC voltage of the energy storage device into a second high frequency AC voltage. In the system, three similarly positioned switching modules of the three phase legs form one power unit. Further, a high frequency transformer is provided which has at least one primary winding connected to the first converter and at least three secondary windings, each connected to the second converter of each of the three similarly positioned switching modules. A controller is configured to regulate at least one electrical parameter of the modular power converter.
US10243368B2
The disclosed Unifying Electrical Interface presents a versatile connectivity platform having the merging capabilities permitting more than a singular voltage, level or type to be made available from an electrical outlet. When wired fully, the choice of AC and/or DC made available to the consumer is broadened. Direct Current (DC) provided via the UEI would originate from a locally based DC source access point obviating the need to use wall chargers or power supplies that wastefully consume energy even when in standby mode. By this approach, the UEI based system extends an avenue for renewable energy technology to be made readily available in a building; while offering a synergistic advantage for the end user, the energy provider and the environment by reducing energy waste. That power conservation and accessibility will result in greater choice and savings for the consumer and will reduce the need for excess production from electric providers.
US10243361B2
An amount of electricity passing through an electrical grid is controlled by balancing amount of electricity for each energy provider and each energy consumer. In response to transmitting requests for the electricity, a decentralized control system receives an amount of electricity each energy operator agrees to supply or demand to satisfy the requests, as well as a sensitivity of the amount of electricity to a variation of at least one parameter of a corresponding request. The system updates parameters of at least some requests in directions governed by the corresponding sensitivities to produce a balanced amount of electricity for each energy provider and each energy consumer. The system causes the energy providers to supply into the electrical grid their corresponding balanced amounts of electricity and causes the energy consumers to consume from the electrical grid their corresponding balanced amounts of electricity.
US10243353B2
The DC-DC converter includes a series circuit of switching elements; a series circuit of capacitors; diodes respectively connected between one end of each of the series circuits; a series circuit constituted by a DC power source, a circuit breaker, and reactors; and a control circuit. The control circuit steps up a voltage of the DC power source through a chopper operation and causes the stepped up voltage to be outputted from both ends of the capacitor series circuit. When determining that a short circuit has occurred in one of the switching elements, the control circuit turns the other switching element that is free from the short circuit ON before the circuit breaker opens, thereby overriding and terminating the chopper operation and suppressing overvoltage caused by the short circuit.
US10243351B2
A method of current differential protection performed in a control device is disclosed, wherein the control device has a first operate-restrain characteristic with a differential characteristic pick-up setting ID. The method includes: determining currents of all terminals of a protected object; determining a differential current based on the determined currents; determining direct current, DC, components in the respective determined currents; detecting a fault; and adjusting, for a detected external fault, the operate-restrain characteristics by setting an adjusted differential characteristic pick-up setting ID_adj to be equal to the sum of the differential characteristic pick-up setting ID and the determined DC components, providing an adapted operate-restrain characteristics. Corresponding control device, computer program and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10243350B2
The present invention relates to a protection circuit and a ground fault circuit interrupter. A protection circuit may include a power supply circuit, a ground fault detection circuit, a signal amplifying and shaping circuit, a microcontroller control circuit, a power supply detection and indicator circuit, a tripping mechanism control circuit, and a reverse grounding detection and execution circuit. The microcontroller control includes a microcontroller, a first capacitor, and a reset filter circuit. The reset filter circuit comprises a reset IC, a second capacitor, and another capacitor. A ground fault circuit interrupter may comprise an interrupter body with a protection circuit in the interrupter body. The practice of the present disclosure may address installation safety risks of conventional ground fault circuit interrupters and arc fault circuit interrupter and improve the safety of ground fault circuit interrupters.
US10243343B2
Method and system allowing more accurate detection and identification of unwanted arcing include novel processing of signal voltage representing recovered power-line current. In one implementation, arc-faults are detected based on numerical analysis where individual cycles of line voltage and current are observed and data collected during each cycle is processed to estimate likelihood of presence of arc-event within each individual cycle based on pre-defined number of arc-events occurring within pre-defined number of contiguous cycles. In another implementation, fast transient current spikes detection can be done by: computing difference values between consecutive line-current samples collected over a cycle, average of differences, and peak-to-peak value of line-current; comparing each difference value to average of difference; comparing each difference value to peak-to-peak value; and, based on calculation of composite of two comparisons, using thresholds to determine if arcing is present within processed cycle.
US10243340B2
A space damper for 4-cable bundles of overhead power transmission lines is disclosed, comprising a framework (10) where—from four support arms (20a-20b) depart, at the distal ends of which there are provided clamps for fastening electric cables, said arms (20a-20c) being constrained to the framework (10) through respective dampening hinges (30a-30c), wherein the spacer damper is configured so that the vertical, natural-mode frequencies thereof are higher than the corresponding horizontal, natural-mode frequencies thereof.
US10243339B2
A cable hanger includes: a base panel having opposed ends; a pair of arms, each of the arms attached to a respective end of the base panel and having a free end; a pair of locking projections, each of the locking projections attached to a respective free end of the arms; and a pair of gripping members, each gripping member attached to a respective arm, each gripping member having opposed ends, wherein one of the ends of each gripping member is fixed to the arms and the other of the ends of each gripping member is fixed to the arm or to the base panel. The arms and locking projections are configured to spread apart to enable insertion of a cable between the arms, wherein the gripping projections engage and grip the cable, and wherein the locking projections are configured to be inserted into the aperture of the supporting structure.
US10243334B1
A cable pathway divider, for installation on a cable runway, includes a pair of post halves and a ring-shaped locking member. Each post half includes a base portion and an extension portion, and the base portions of the post halves are arrangeable at opposite sides of a cross member of a cable runway. The post halves are securable to one another from opposite sides of the cross member, via clamping arrangement of the ring-shaped locking member relative to the post halves, such that the extension portions extend into a space above the cable runway to divide the cable runway into at least two cable paths.
US10243333B2
A disclosed wire stripper device comprises a sectioned shaft having a removable section thereof configured to have a first joint between a first bearing end of the shaft and a midsection and a second joint between the midsection and a second bearing end of the shaft. The first joint and second joints comprise a midsection portion at each joint and a complementary shaft portion of the respective first and second bearing ends. A first removable coupling is configured to hold the first joint portions together and a second coupling configured to hold the second joint portions together during a rotation of the sectioned shaft and allow a decoupling of the first and second joint portions otherwise. A method for the maintenance of a wire stripper device is disclosed comprising removing a section of a sectioned shaft by removing the coupling collars retaining the joints of the shaft sections.
US10243331B2
A an open relay device and system includes a chassis having one or more openings; external connectors on a first wall of the chassis, the external connectors having a plurality of external connection terminals; ground bussing modules attached to a second wall of the chassis; junction bussing modules attached to a third wall of the chassis; relay sockets attached to a fourth wall of the chassis; and wiring electrically connecting the external connectors to the ground bussing modules, the junction bussing modules, and the relay sockets, the wiring further electrically connecting the relay sockets to the junction bussing modules and the ground bussing modules.
US10243329B2
A tunable external resonator laser is mode-hop-free for broadband and has a laser chip which emits light; a lens which collimates the light emitted from the laser chip, a diffraction grating which diffracts the light collimated by the lens, a support body to which the diffraction grating is fixed, and a movable mirror which reflects the light diffracted by the diffraction grating, wherein the diffraction grating is arranged a prescribed distance apart from a Littman-type tunable external resonator laser arrangement in which the movable mirror rotates on a pivot which is the intersection point of the surface of said movable mirror and the surface of the diffraction grating.
US10243326B2
A waveguide includes a narrow waveguide, wide waveguides, and tapered waveguides. A width Ww of the wide waveguides is wider than A width Wn of the narrow waveguide. The tapered waveguides have their width continuously varying so as to couple the narrow waveguide and the wide waveguides, respectively. Assuming a length of the waveguide as L and an area as S, Ks=S/(Wn·L) and 1
US10243320B2
Disclosed herein are Low Size Weight and Power efficient Laser Diode pump modules and High Power Fiber Amplifiers incorporating such pump modules for amplifying laser light produced by a seed laser. The pump modules are configured for forced fluid cooling, and are provided with cooling channels that allow for varying combinations of a coolant mass flow rate F of the coolant, a pressure drop P of the coolant, and a steady state temperature T of the laser diodes in the pump modules, uniquely and significantly, and thereby allowing for optimizing such variables for a particular application.
US10243310B1
This disclosure discloses a technology that enables a first set of electrical connectors hosted via a first carrier board to simultaneously engage with a second set of electrical connectors hosted via a second carrier board. This simultaneous engagement occurs based on a movement of the first carrier board toward the second carrier board, or vice versa, such that the first set of electrical connectors progressively engages and aligns with the second set of electrical connectors to enable signal communication therethrough. The movement of the first carrier board toward the second carrier board can be facilitated via a fastener.
US10243302B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a base and a tongue located at the front end of the base, a shielding shell sleeved outside the base and the tongue and forming a mating space, and multiple upper-row terminals and multiple lower-row terminals fixed on the base. Each upper-row and lower row terminal has a contacting portion exposed from the upper or lower surface of the tongue, a soldering portion extending out of the base, and a connecting portion located between the contacting portion and the soldering portion. The upper-row terminals and the lower-row terminals include respectively at least one upper-row ground terminal and at least one lower-row ground terminal. An extending portion extends from each of the connecting portions of the upper-row ground terminal and the lower-row ground terminal, and the cutting surface of each extending portion urges against the shielding shell.
US10243298B2
A connector includes first terminals configured to be connected to first electric cables, a housing having terminal housing cylinder portions configured to contain the first terminals in parallel, terminal housing portions provided between the terminal housing cylinder portions, second terminals configured to be connected to second electric cables and to be contained in the terminal housing portions, and fasteners configured to fasten and fix terminal metal fittings connected to end portions of the first electric cables to the first terminals protruding from rear ends of the pair of terminal housing cylinder portions. By the fasteners, the terminal metal fittings are fixed to side faces of the first terminals from directions intersecting with axis directions of the first terminals, the side faces being opposite to faces of the first terminals which face each other.
US10243295B2
An electrical connector assembly for electric submersible pumps (ESPs) has a fluid impenetrable seal 3D-printed between the power cable and an internal housing component of the electrical connector assembly. Electrical insulation or dielectric for a conductor of the power cable may also be 3D-printed integrally with the fluid seal. The housing component, such as an internal electrical housing, may also be 3D-printed integrally with the printed seal. Likewise, in an implementation, the 3D-printed seal, the internal housing component, and an outer pothead case may all be 3D-printed as a unit onto the power cable. The 3D-printed seal and associated pothead components may be composed of a variety of chemical-resistant materials, such as printed polyarylether-ketones, printed fluorinated polymers, and metal alloys. The 3D-printed seal may also include barrier materials or reinforcement fillers to enhance strength and chemical resistance to well fluids and gases.
US10243294B2
An electronics module having an environmentally sealed swiping spring pin connector includes an electronics housing having first, second, third, and fourth sides and defines an axis extending from a front to rear of the housing. The first side defines an electrical connector having a first mounting seat that is sloped at an angle relative to the first side. The second side defines an electrical connector having a second mounting seat that is sloped at the angle relative to the second side and is sloped in an opposite direction as the first mounting seat. One electrical connector includes a plurality of spring-loaded pins that are generally orthogonal relative to the respective mounting seat and are biased in an extended position. The other electrical connector defines a plurality of pin receiving receptacles that are generally orthogonal angle to the respective mounting seat. A gasket is positioned on one of the mounting seats.
US10243292B2
An embodiment includes a holder assembly with terminals that are supported by insert molding. The terminals are electrically connector to conductors, which can be covered with an insulative covering, and thus provide easy to connector holder assemblies. The holder can include features that allow an LED module to be inserted into a recess in the housing and retained via a friction fit. Such a configuration allows the assembly to be shipped as an assembly without the need to solder the LED module to the holder and while still ensuring a reliable electrical connection between the LED module and the corresponding holder assembly.
US10243284B2
An electrical connector has a first wafer having a first housing with a first plurality of contact beams extending from the first housing in a first plane. A second wafer has a second housing with a second plurality of contact beams extending from said second housing in a second plane substantially parallel to the first plane. A dividing panel member extends from the insulative housing between the first plurality of contact beams and the second plurality of contact beams. Each of the contact beams extending from the wafer pair is configured to mate with a corresponding backplane contact in a backplane connector. The contact beams extending from the wafer pair and the backplane contacts are configured such that each pair of corresponding contacts includes a first contact point and a second contact point. When the wafer pair is fully received by the backplane connector, contact between the contact beam and the backplane contact is maintained at both the first and second contact points. Each of the contact beams includes a pivot member configured such that the electrical connector has a low initial insertion force, but a high normal force when fully mated with the backplane connector.
US10243281B2
Electrical connectors used to ground and/or electrically bond objects such as panels having metal outer and inner walls. The electrical connectors use male and female posts having associated washers that facilitate the flow of electric current between the outer and inner walls while providing a watertight seal.
US10243267B2
A point-to-point (PtP) communication system includes a near end antenna device configured to transmit a narrow antenna beam over a wireless link, and includes a far end antenna device configured receive the narrow antenna beam over the wireless link. The near end antenna device including a directive element configured to focus an electrical field into the narrow antenna beam, and including a beam steering element (e.g., a phased array feeder (PAF) assembly) configured to generate the electrical field and to track the far end antenna, and further including a communication interface unit (e.g., an outdoor unit) configured to perform operations on a transmitted signal and a received signal.
US10243264B2
A trident antenna arrangement (300) is described. The antenna arrangement includes a driving element (302), a first parasitic element (304), a second parasitic element (306), a feed point (308), and a ground plate (309) disposed on a substrate (310). The parasitic elements have different lengths which causes a dual resonance. Operation of the driving element and parasitic elements over the substrate and the ground plate allows the antenna system to be minimally impacted by the conductive material underneath. The antenna arrangement is used to transmit water meter (110) readings from a remote location to a utility.
US10243257B2
A portable electronic device cover, according to the present invention, comprises a conductive plate which is spaced at a predetermined distance from an antenna mounted in a portable electronic device and is arranged at a position overlapped with at least a part of the antenna when the portable electronic device is mounted in the portable electronic device cover.
US10243254B2
An access control device including a credential reader circuit structured to enter a standby mode, awaken from the standby mode, and receive data from a nearby credential, and a credential detection circuit. The credential detection circuit includes a memory configured to store program instructions, an antenna circuit, and a processor electrically coupled to the antenna circuit and to the credential reader circuit, wherein the processor configured to execute the stored program instructions to: transmit an energizing signal; receive a modulated energizing signal with the antenna circuit; transmit an activation signal to the credential reader circuit in response to the received modulated energizing signal, wherein the received modulated energizing signal includes I and Q values; receive a false detection signal from the credential reader circuit; and adjust an impedance of the antenna circuit.
US10243249B2
An improved multi-stage broadband directional coupler with at least one line junction between two successive coupling sections has a) a change in the line thickness (LD) and/or b) a change in the line width (LB) and/or c) a change in the coupling distance (KA) between the adjacent coupling sections of the two coupling lines. An electrically conductive cover connected to the coupler housing is provided adjacent to the at least one line junction.
US10243235B2
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 boron derivative. The lithium secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, a separator, and the secondary battery electrolyte. The secondary battery electrolyte according to the present invention has advantages of excellent stability at a high temperature, high discharge capacity at a low temperature, and excellent life cycle characteristics.
US10243234B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a secondary battery having high energy density with long-term life. The present invention relates to a secondary battery comprising a negative electrode comprising a silicon-containing compound and an electrolyte solution comprising a fluorine-containing ether compound, a fluorine-containing phosphoric acid ester, a sulfone compound and a cyclic carbonate compound in a predetermined amount respectively.
US10243230B2
A fuel battery 11 includes a cell laminated body 21 including lamination of a plurality of cells 20, a current-collecting plate 22 disposed at an end of the cell laminated body 21, the current-collecting plate being made of a metal material, and an anti-rust plate 23 disposed between the cell laminated body 21 and the current-collecting plate 22, the anti-rust plate being made of a metal material that is different from the metal material of the current-collecting plate 22. The anti-rust plate 23 includes a protrusion 31, and the current-collecting plate 22 includes a fitting hole 41, into which the protrusion 31 is fitted.
US10243224B2
The invention relates to a method for switching off a fuel cell system (100) having a fuel cell stack (10), that has anode chambers (13) and cathode chambers (12), and a cathode supply (20) having a cathode supply path (21) for supplying an oxygenated cathode operating gas into the cathode chambers (12), a compressor (23) arranged in the cathode supply path (21) and a cathode exhaust path (22) for discharging a cathode exhaust gas from the cathode chambers (12). The method comprises the steps of: (a) Maintenance of the cathode chambers (12) under excess pressure while preventing a flow of cathode operating gas through the cathode chambers (12) while keeping the cathode operating gas that is present in the cathode chambers (12) oxygen-depleted; (b) Expansion of the oxygen-depleted cathode operating gas present in the cathode chambers (12) via the cathode supply path (31) [sic] and/or the cathode exhaust path (22), and (c) Separation of the cathode chambers (12) from the environment.
US10243222B2
A gasket is arranged between a fastening portion of an end plate arranged at an end in a cell stacking direction of a cell stack of a fuel cell and a case covering a periphery of the cell stack. The gasket is configured to seal a gap between the fastening portion and the gasket and a gap between the case and the gasket. The gasket includes a base plate and an elastic material layer. The base plate has a slope section that connects an inner peripheral section and an outer peripheral section to each other. The inner peripheral section and the outer peripheral section are located at different positions in a thickness direction of the base plate. The slope section is inclined with respect to the inner peripheral section and the outer peripheral section.
US10243214B2
To increase the conductivity and electric capacity of an electrode which includes active material particles and the like and is used in a battery, a graphene net including 1 to 100 graphene sheets is used instead of a conventionally used conduction auxiliary agent and binder. The graphene net which has a two-dimensional expansion and a three-dimensional structure is more likely to touch active material particles or another conduction auxiliary agent, thereby increasing the conductivity and the bonding strength between active material particles. This graphene net is obtained by mixing graphene oxide and active material particles and then heating the mixture in a vacuum or a reducing atmosphere.
US10243197B2
Provided is a lithium metal anode comprising a Langmuir-Blodgett films as an artificial solid electrolyte interface layer, a lithium metal battery comprising the same, and a preparation method thereof. Various ultra-thin film layers made of carbon and ceramic are formed on the surface of the LiM to serve as a stable artificial SEI layer and suppress formation and perforation of lithium dendrite and side reactions.
US10243195B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode body and an electrolytic solution in an outer can and a cathode external terminal on the open-end side of the outer can. The battery further includes a current cutoff mechanism (CID). The CID is located on the electrical conduction pathway between the cathode external terminal and the electrode body and interrupts the electrical coupling therebetween in response to an increased internal pressure in the battery. The CID includes a seal lead, a diaphragm, and a dielectric film. The seal lead has a cylindrical opening on the electrode body side. The diaphragm tightly closes the cylindrical opening and, in response to the increased internal pressure in the battery, deforms to interrupt the electrical coupling between the electrode body and the seal lead. The dielectric film is on the electrode body side of the diaphragm.
US10243194B2
A first terminal including an insertion hole is placed on one side of a lid of a battery case with one or more insulating materials interposed therebetween. An inner circumferential surface defining the insertion hole includes a first rim and a second rim at a position farther away from the one or more insulating materials than the first rim is. The second rim includes an inclined surface with a recess that includes a bottom at a position set back inside the first terminal from the inclined surface. The second terminal has a shaft part inserted through a mounting hole of the lid and the insertion hole. A leading end of the shaft part is riveted, and at least a portion of the shaft part reaches into the recess.
US10243186B2
Apparatus, methods and systems are provided for thermal runaway and gas exhaust management for high power batteries. A battery module has a plurality of cell-containing carriers stacked on top of one another to form a cell stack having a front end and a rear end. A duct extends through the cell stack between the front end and the rear end for collecting escaped gases from the battery cells. A self-closing one-way pressure relief valve is located in the duct toward the rear end of the cell stack. The pressure relief valve connects to a piping system for carrying the gases to a remote location where the gases can be safely released and dispersed.
US10243182B2
A power battery module includes a battery accommodating assembly having a plurality of separators, the separator comprising: a separator body; a left cover; and a right cover, in which adjacent separators are detachably connected with each other; a battery group; a power connection member, a line snap-fit, a power connection line and a signal collection assembly.
US10243178B2
A packaging material 1 for a power storage device is configured to include a polyamide resin layer 2 as an outer layer, a polyolefin resin layer 3 as an inner layer, and an aluminum foil layer 4 arranged between both the layers. A thickness of the packaging material 1 for a power storage device is 90 μm or less, a tensile breaking strength of the packaging material for a power storage device is 110 N/15 mm width or more, and a tensile breaking elongation of the packaging material for a power storage device is 90% or more. This enables to provide a packaging material for a power storage device thin in thickness and light in weight which is capable of securing excellent formability even when deep shape forming is performed and also is high in mechanical strength and excellent in impact resistance.
US10243173B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a light-emitting element over the first substrate, a sealing film over the light-emitting element, a first insulating layer over the sealing film, a second insulating layer over the sealing film, a light-shielding layer over the second insulating layer, and a second substrate over the light-shielding layer. The first insulating layer has an opening in a region thereof overlapping a light-emitting region of the light-emitting element. The second insulating layer has an inverted-conical or inverted-pyramidal depression above the light-emitting region of the light-emitting element. The light-shielding layer is located in a region overlapping the light-emitting region of the light-emitting element.
US10243169B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a first substrate, a thin film transistor over the first substrate, a protection layer over the thin film transistor, a light emitting diode over the protection layer, a passivation layer over the light emitting diode, a second substrate over the passivation layer, and a plurality of polymeric nanoparticles disposed within at least one of the protection layer or the passivation layer, wherein a refractive index of the plurality of polymeric nanoparticles is different than both a refractive index of the protection layer and a refractive index of the passivation layer.
US10243161B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate, a driving transistor, a first insulation layer, a first electrode and a second insulation layer. The driving transistor is disposed on the substrate and includes a gate electrode, and the gate electrode projects a first projection profile on the substrate. The first insulation layer is disposed on the driving transistor. The first electrode is disposed on the first insulation layer, and projects a second projection profile on the substrate. The second insulation layer is disposed on the first electrode and the first insulation layer. The second insulation layer has an opening, the opening exposes a portion of the first electrode, and the opening projects a third projection profile on the substrate.
US10243156B2
In one aspect, a method for placing carbon nanotubes on a dielectric includes: using DSA of a block copolymer to create a pattern in the placement guide layer on the dielectric which includes multiple trenches in the placement guide layer, wherein there is a first charge on sidewall and top surfaces of the trenches and a second charge on bottom surfaces of the trenches, and wherein the first charge is different from the second charge; and depositing a carbon nanotube solution onto the dielectric, wherein self-assembly of the deposited carbon nanotubes within the trenches occurs based on i) attractive forces between the first charge on the surfaces of the carbon nanotubes and the second charge on the bottom surfaces of the trenches and ii) repulsive forces between the first charge on the surfaces of the carbon nanotubes and the first charge on sidewall and top surfaces of the trenches.
US10243151B2
Disclosed is a novel organic semiconductor material which has a twisted quaterphenylene skeleton as a central unit and simultaneously possesses a skeleton having an electron-transporting property and a skeleton having a hole-transporting property at the terminals of the quaterphenylene skeleton. Specifically, the organic semiconductor material has a [1,1′:2′,1″:2″,1′″]quaterphenyl-4-4′″-diyl group, and one of the terminals of the [1,1′:2′,1″:2″,1′″]quaterphenyl-4-4′″-diyl group is bonded to a skeleton having an electron-transporting property such as a benzoxazole group or an oxadiazole group. A skeleton having a hole-transporting property such as diarylamino group is introduced at the other terminal. This structure allows the formation of a compound having a bipolar property, a high molecular weight, an excellent thermal stability, a large band gap, and high triplet excitation energy.
US10243142B2
A display panel, a polymer light emitting diode and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The polymer light emitting diode includes: an organic light emitting layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; a hole transport part formed on the first surface of the organic light emitting layer; and an electron transport part formed on the second surface of the organic light emitting layer, the electron transport part including a nanocomposite layer.
US10243135B2
A piezoelectric device includes a substrate, a lower electrode disposed above the substrate, a lower bonding layer disposed on the lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer containing a piezoelectric material disposed on an upper surface of the lower bonding layer, and an upper electrode disposed above the piezoelectric layer. The lower bonding layer includes an electrode material portion containing an electrode material of the lower electrode and a piezoelectric material portion containing a piezoelectric material. The electrode material portion and the piezoelectric material portion interdigitate with each other in the lower bonding layer.
US10243134B2
An object is to cause a piezoelectric film to perform a piezoelectric operation at a higher voltage than the conventional piezoelectric film. An aspect of the present invention is a piezoelectric film, wherein a voltage at which a piezoelectric butterfly curve that is a result obtained by measuring a piezoelectric property of a piezoelectric film takes a minimum value is larger by 2 V or more than a coercive voltage of a hysteresis curve that is a result obtained by measuring a hysteresis property of said piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric film includes an anti-ferroelectric film, and a ferroelectric film formed on the anti-ferroelectric film.
US10243129B2
A thermoelectric module may include a module housing surrounding a module interior. Thermoelectric elements and conductor bridges may be arranged in the module interior. A first side of the module housing may include a first side wall connected in a heat-conducting fashion to first conductor bridges. A second side of the module housing may include a second side wall connected in a heat-conducting fashion to second conductor bridges. The thermoelectric elements may extend between the first and second conductor bridges. A liquid metal layer and a first electrical insulation layer may be arranged between the first conductor bridges and the first side wall. At least one further liquid metal layer may be arranged between the first conductor bridges and the first electrical insulation layer. At least one other liquid metal layer may be arranged between the first electrical insulation layer and the first side wall.
US10243127B2
Discussed herein are half-Heusler thermoelectric materials including niobium, iron, antimony, and titanium that are formed by ball-milling and hot-pressing the ball-milled power to obtain various thermoelectric properties and an average grain size above 1 μm.
US10243124B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having a light emitting surface from which the light emitting element is configured to emit a first light having a first peak emission wavelength in a wavelength range of 380 nm or longer and 430 nm or shorter. A light transform layer is disposed on the light emitting surface of the light emitting element to transform the first light to a second light having a second peak wavelength longer than the first peak wavelength. A reflecting film is provided on the light transform layer to reflect the first light and to transmit the second light. The reflecting film has a reflectivity of 40% or more in a reflection spectrum of the reflecting film with respect to a light having a wavelength of 380 nm or longer and 430 nm or shorter and an angle of incidence from 0° to 85°.
US10243120B2
Solid state lighting (SSL) devices and methods of manufacturing SSL devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an SSL device comprises a support having a surface and a solid state emitter (SSE) at the surface of the support. The SSE can emit a first light propagating along a plurality of first vectors. The SSL device can further include a converter material over at least a portion of the SSE. The converter material can emit a second light propagating along a plurality of second vectors. Additionally, the SSL device can include a lens over the SSE and the converter material. The lens can include a plurality of diffusion features that change the direction of the first light and the second light such that the first and second lights blend together as they exit the lens. The SSL device can emit a substantially uniform color of light.
US10243119B2
A light-emitting device package according to an embodiment comprises lenses arranged in and on a light-emitting device. The lenses comprise an upper surface including a recessed part; a groove part arranged on one or more areas of the upper surface; a bottom surface facing the light-emitting device; a supporting part arranged on the bottom surface; and an outer surface that is slanted with respect to the bottom surface and that contacts the groove part, wherein the groove part is arranged more outwardly from the lens than the support part relative to the light-emitting device.
US10243116B1
A LED device includes LED chips mounted on a substrate, a first fluorescent layer, a second fluorescent layer and a package housing. The LED chips emit a blue light. The first fluorescent layer has a first side facing to the LED chips for converting the blue light to a red light. The second fluorescent layer has a first side attached to a second side of the first fluorescent layer for converting the blue light to a red light emitted from a second side of the second fluorescent layer. The package housing holds the substrate and the first fluorescent layer.
US10243111B2
The present disclosure describes wafer-level processes for fabricating optoelectronic device subassemblies that can be mounted, for example, to a circuit substrate, such as a flexible cable or printed circuit board, and integrated into optoelectronic modules that include one or more optical subassemblies stacked over the optoelectronic device subassembly. The optoelectronic device subassembly can be mounted onto the circuit substrate using solder reflow technology even if the optical subassemblies are composed of materials that are not reflow compatible.
US10243106B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element, a plurality of bumps and a cover member. The bumps are disposed between the substrate and the light emitting element to mount the light emitting element on the substrate. The bumps include a plurality of first bumps bonded to a first electrode of the light emitting element, and a plurality of second bumps bonded to a second electrode of the light emitting element. The first bumps are spaced apart from exposed portions of a first semiconductor layer of the light emitting element. The first bumps include a plurality of large bumps and a plurality of small bumps each having a smaller surface area than each of the large bumps in a plan view. The cover member covers the light emitting element, the bumps, and the substrate.
US10243105B2
A multilayer structure including a hexagonal epitaxial layer, such as GaN or other group III-nitride (III-N) semiconductors, a <111> oriented textured layer, and a non-single crystal substrate, and methods for making the same. The textured layer has a crystalline alignment preferably formed by the ion-beam assisted deposition (IBAD) texturing process and can be biaxially aligned. The in-plane crystalline texture of the textured layer is sufficiently low to allow growth of high quality hexagonal material, but can still be significantly greater than the required in-plane crystalline texture of the hexagonal material. The IBAD process enables low-cost, large-area, flexible metal foil substrates to be used as potential alternatives to single-crystal sapphire and silicon for manufacture of electronic devices, enabling scaled-up roll-to-roll, sheet-to-sheet, or similar fabrication processes to be used. The user is able to choose a substrate for its mechanical and thermal properties, such as how well its coefficient of thermal expansion matches that of the hexagonal epitaxial layer, while choosing a textured layer that more closely lattice matches that layer. Electronic devices such as LEDs can be manufactured from such structures. Because the substrate can act as both a reflector and a heat sink, transfer to other substrates, and use of external reflectors and heat sinks, is not required, greatly reducing costs. Large area devices such as light emitting strips or sheets may be fabricated using this technology.
US10243104B2
A composition of matter comprising a plurality of nanowires on a substrate, said nanowires having been grown epitaxially on said substrate in the presence of a metal catalyst such that a catalyst deposit is located at the top of at least some of said nanowires, wherein said nanowires comprise at least one group III-V compound or at least one group II-VI compound or comprises at least one non carbon group IV element; and wherein a graphitic layer is in contact with at least some of the catalyst deposits on top of said nanowires.
US10243095B2
A method is provided for making a molded photovoltaic module. The module includes a flexible polymeric flex-circuit substrate having an electrically conductive printed wiring pattern and solder pads defined on it. Small photovoltaic cells are affixed to the flex-circuit substrate by back-surface contacts in electrical contact with the solder pads. At least one thermoformable polymeric film is joined to the flex-circuit substrate. Each said solder pad comprises a solder composition that, after an initial melt, has a melting point that lies above at least a portion of the temperature range for thermoforming the polymeric film.
US10243076B2
Disclosed is a graphene-based ternary barristor using a Schottky junction graphene semiconductor. A graphene channel layer is doped with N-type and N-type dopants to have two different Fermi levels and form a PN junction. Accordingly, a voltage is applied to a gate electrode layer to move the Fermi levels of the graphene channel layer and adjust the height of the Schottky barrier, thus generating current. Also, the height of the Schottky barrier is adjusted depending on the doping concentration of the graphene channel That is, the height of the Schottky barrier is changed depending on the applied gate voltage, and thus the flow of current is changed. Also, it is possible to adjust the height of the Schottky barrier by adjusting the doping concentration of the graphene channel. Accordingly, since the graphene-based ternary barristor has a high current ratio by adjusting a gate voltage, the graphene-based ternary barristor may be applied to a logic circuit.
US10243074B2
A method of fabricating features of a vertical transistor include performing a first etch process to form a first portion of a fin in a substrate; depositing a spacer material on sidewalls of the first portion of the fin; performing a second etch process using the spacer material as a pattern to elongate the fin and form a second portion of the fin in the substrate, the second portion having a width that is greater than the first portion; oxidizing a region of the second portion of the fin beneath the spacer material to form an oxidized channel region; and removing the oxidized channel region to form a vacuum channel.
US10243073B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for co-integrating a short-channel vertical transistor and a long-channel transistor. One method may include: from a starting substrate, forming a wide fin, wherein the wide fin comprises a wide active region; depositing a recess mask over a top surface of the starting substrate; recessing a long channel based on the deposited recess mask; depositing a gate electrode and a gate material, to form a gate structure; and forming SD contacts in an SD region of the long-channel transistor.
US10243070B2
A property of a semiconductor device (high electron mobility transistor) is improved. A semiconductor device having a buffer layer, a channel layer, an electron supply layer, a mesa type cap layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate insulating film covering the cap layer, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, is configured as follows. The cap layer and the gate electrode are separated from each other by the gate insulating film, and side surfaces of the cap layer, the side surfaces being closer to the drain electrode and the source electrode, have tapered shapes. For example, a taper angle (θ1) of the side surface of the cap layer (mesa portion) is equal to or larger than 120 degrees. By this configuration, a TDDB life can be effectively improved, and variation in an ON-resistance can be effectively suppressed.
US10243060B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a stacked nanosheet and resulting structures having uniform low-k inner spacers. A nanosheet stack is formed opposite a major surface of a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes multiple nanosheets. Cavities are formed between adjacent ones of the multiple nanosheets. The cavities are filled with an oxide material and portions of the oxide material are nitridized to form inner spacers positioned between the adjacent ones of the multiple nanosheets.
US10243053B1
One illustrative IC product disclosed herein includes a gate structure for a transistor, a conductive source/drain contact structure and an insulating source/drain cap structure positioned above the conductive source/drain contact structure, wherein the insulating source/drain cap structure has a first notch formed therein. In one illustrative example, the product also includes a sidewall spacer that has a second notch in an upper portion of the sidewall spacer, wherein a first portion of the insulating source/drain cap structure is positioned in the second notch, and a conductive gate contact structure comprising first and second portions, the first portion of the conductive gate contact structure being positioned in the first notch and the second portion of the conductive gate contact structure being in contact with the gate structure.
US10243046B2
A p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (pMOS) planar fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) device and a method of fabricating the pMOS FDSOI are described. The method includes processing a silicon germanium (SiGe) layer disposed on an insulator layer to form gaps on a surface opposite a surface that is disposed on the insulator layer, each of the gaps extending into the SiGe layer to a depth less than or equal to a thickness of the SiGe layer, and forming a gate conductor over a region of the SiGe layer corresponding to a channel region of the pMOS. The method also includes performing an epitaxial process on the SiGe layer at locations corresponding to source and drain regions of the pMOS planar FDSOI device.
US10243035B2
A method of manufacturing a switching element is provided. The method including: preparing a semiconductor substrate which includes an n-type drain region, a p-type body region, and a trench penetrating the body region and reaching the drain region; and forming a lateral surface p-type region extending along a lateral surface of the trench below the body region by heating the semiconductor substrate so as to make a part of the body region flow into the trench. The switching element includes: a gate insulating layer covering an inner surface of the trench; a bottom p-type region in contact with the gate insulating layer at a bottom surface of the trench and connected to the lateral surface p-type region; an n-type source region; and a gate electrode provided in the trench.
US10243033B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a substrate; a scan line on the substrate, extending in a first direction, and configured to transmit a scan signal; a data line on the substrate, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and configured to transmit a data voltage; a common voltage line in the same layer as the data line and configured to transmit a common voltage; a first electrode on the data line and an assistance member on the common voltage line, the first electrode and the assistance member being separated from each other in the first direction or the second direction; a second electrode on the first electrode and the assistance member; and an organic emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The assistance member is separated from the data line in the first direction.
US10243031B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first plastic layer, a second plastic layer on the first plastic layer, and a black organic layer between the first and second plastic layers, a buffer layer on the substrate, a thin film transistor on the buffer layer, and a plurality of display elements electrically, at least one of the display elements being connected to the thin film transistor, the display elements respectively being arranged in a plurality of pixels.
US10243030B2
A display device comprises a substrate having a foldable first region and a second region adjacent to the foldable first region, wherein a folding axis overlaps the foldable first region. The display device further comprises a first transistor overlapping the foldable first region and having a first channel region with a first dimension along a first direction that is substantially perpendicular to the folding axis. The display device further comprises a second transistor overlapping the second region and having a second channel region with a second dimension along the first direction, wherein the first dimension is less than the second dimension.
US10243026B2
A display device may include a pixel and a light shutter. The pixel may include a first region and a second region. The light shutter may be disposed in the second region. The light shutter may include a first electrode, a heat generation layer disposed on the first electrode, and a phase change layer disposed on the heat generation layer. The phase change layer may include a phase change material of which optical property is changed depending on temperature.
US10243024B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit, a first wire unit, and a dummy unit. The substrate includes a first area, a second area, and a bending area. The bending area is disposed between a first area and a second area. The display unit is disposed in the first area. The first wire unit is electrically connected to the display unit and includes a plurality of first wires disposed on the substrate over the first area, the bending area, and the second area. The plurality of first wires include a plurality of holes disposed in the bending area and spaced apart from each other by a first pitch. The dummy wire unit includes a plurality of dummy wires disposed in the bending area.
US10243016B2
A method is provided for three-dimensional wafer scale integration of heterogeneous wafers with unequal die sizes that include a first wafer and a second wafer. The method includes manufacturing the second wafer in accordance with a periodicity that matches the periodicity of the first wafer. The method further includes placing, by a laser-based patterning device, a pattern in spaces between dies of the second wafer. The method also includes stacking the first wafer onto the second wafer. The first wafer includes logic circuitry, and the second wafer includes a backside illuminated image sensor.
US10243015B1
A method for fabricating a photosensor array integrated circuit includes forming an isolation trench by a method comprising depositing a hard mask layer on a [110]-oriented single-crystal silicon substrate wafer, depositing, exposing, and developing a photoresist on the hard mask layer to define photoresist openings of locations for the trenches, dry plasma etching through the photoresist openings to form openings in the hard mask layer of locations for the trenches, and performing an anisotropic wet etch through the openings in the hard mask layer. In particular embodiments, the trenches are lined with P-type silicon, a silicon dioxide dielectric, and an additional oxide layer before being filled with tungsten.
US10243012B2
A method for manufacturing a display device, which does not easily damage an electrode, is provided. In the first step, a terminal electrode, a wiring, and a functional layer are provided over a first substrate; the terminal electrode, the wiring, and the functional layer are electrically connected to one another; an insulating layer is provided over the terminal electrode; a first layer is provided over the terminal electrode and the insulating layer; an adhesive layer is sandwiched between the first substrate and a second substrate; the second substrate and the adhesive layer include a first opening overlapping with part of the first layer; and the insulating layer includes a second opening inside the first opening in a top view. In the second step, part of the first layer is removed by emitting particles having a high sublimation property to the first layer, so that the terminal electrode is exposed.
US10242999B2
A memory device includes a pair of common source lines disposed on a substrate spaced apart from each other and extended in a first direction; a plurality of ground select lines disposed between the pair of common source lines, extended in the first direction, and disposed on the same level; a plurality of word lines disposed on the plurality of ground select lines between the pair of common source lines, extended in the first direction, and disposed on the same level, at least a portion of the plurality of word lines being connected by a connection electrode; and a plurality of first separation insulating patterns disposed between individual ground select lines of a portion of the plurality of ground select lines and extended in the first direction. The at least portion of the plurality of word lines is connected by a connection electrode.
US10242994B2
A monolithic three-dimensional memory device includes a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers located over a top surface of a substrate, an insulating cap layer overlying the first alternating stack, a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second electrically conductive layers and overlying the insulating cap layer, memory openings extending through the second alternating stack, the insulating cap layer, and the first alternating stack, memory stack structures located within the memory openings, and annular spacers located within the insulating cap layer and laterally surrounding a respective one of the memory stack structures.
US10242991B2
A method for forming a floating gate memory cell includes: forming an active region on a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate stack on the active region, the gate stack including a first gate layer defining a floating gate of the memory cell structure, a dielectric layer formed on the first gate layer, and a second gate layer defining a control gate of the memory cell structure formed on the dielectric layer; forming first and second source/drain regions in the active region, self-aligned with the gate stack; forming an erase/injection gate on at least a portion of the dielectric layer and spaced laterally from the control gate, the erase/injection gate being proximate to and above the floating gate; and forming multiple contacts providing electrical connection with the first and second source/drain regions, the control gate and the erase/injection gate.
US10242976B2
In one embodiment, a microelectronic package structure comprises a substrate comprising at least one waveguide, a first instrument integrated circuit coupled to the substrate, a photonic engine coupled to the substrate and comprising an integrated circuit body, a transmit die. and a receive die. The photonic engine is positioned adjacent the at least one waveguide such that optical signals may be exchanged between the at least one waveguide and the transmit die and the at least one waveguide and the receive die. Other embodiments may be described.
US10242972B2
A package structure is provided, which includes: a dielectric layer having opposite first and second surfaces; a circuit sub-layer formed in the dielectric layer; an electronic element disposed on the first surface of the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the circuit sub-layer; a plurality of conductive posts formed on the first surface of the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the circuit sub-layer; and an encapsulant formed on the first surface of the dielectric layer and encapsulating the electronic element and the conductive posts. Upper surfaces of the conductive posts are exposed from the encapsulant so as to allow another electronic element to be disposed on the conductive posts and electrically connected to the circuit sub-layer through the conductive posts, thereby overcoming the conventional drawback that another electronic element can only be disposed on a lower side of a package structure and improving the functionality of the package structure.
US10242967B2
Structures and methods of fabricating semiconductor wafer assemblies that encapsulate one or die in a cavity etched into an oxide bonded semiconductor wafer stack. The methods generally include the steps of positioning the die in the cavity, mechanically and electrically mounting the die to the wafer stack, and encapsulating the die within the cavity by bonding a lid wafer to the wafer stack in one of multiple ways. Semiconductor processing steps are applied to construct the assemblies (e.g., deposition, annealing, chemical and mechanical polishing, etching, etc.) and connecting the die (e.g., bump bonding, wire interconnecting, ultrasonic bonding, oxide bonding, etc.) according to the embodiments described above.
US10242963B2
Provided is a manufacturing method of a sensor including the following steps. A mold having a cavity is provided. At least one chip is disposed in the cavity. The chip has an active surface and a back surface opposite to each other. The active surface faces toward a bottom surface of the cavity. A polymer material is filled in the cavity to cover the back surface of the chip. A heat treatment is performed, such that the polymer material is solidified to form a polymer substrate. A mold release treatment is performed to isolate the polymer substrate from the cavity. A plurality of conductive lines are formed on a first surface of the polymer substrate. The conductive lines are electrically connected with the chip.
US10242951B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method and resulting structures for forming optically readable chip identification (CID) codes using dummy controlled collapse chip connection (C4) bumps. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a product chip is formed on a wafer. A chip location identifier including a plurality of controlled collapse chip connection (C4) bumps is formed on a surface of the product chip. The chip location identifier encodes a unique location of the product chip on the wafer prior to dicing. The plurality of C4 bumps are arranged into one or more optically readable alphanumeric characters.
US10242948B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate including a base and a plurality of conductive posts extending from the base. The substrate can be a wafer-shape, panel, or singulated form. The conductive posts can have a circular, rectangular, tapered, or narrowing intermediate shape. A semiconductor die is disposed through an opening in the base between the conductive posts. The semiconductor die extends above the conductive posts or is disposed below the conductive posts. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and around the conductive posts. The base and a portion of the encapsulant is removed to electrically isolate the conductive posts. An interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die, encapsulant, and conductive posts. An insulating layer is formed over the semiconductor die, encapsulant, and conductive posts. A semiconductor package is disposed over the semiconductor die and electrically connected to the conductive posts.
US10242943B2
Stacked capacitor structures using TSVs are provided. In one aspect, a stacked capacitor structure includes: a first substrate having at least one first capacitor formed in a TSV in the first substrate; and a second substrate, bonded to the first substrate, having at least one second capacitor formed in a TSV in the second substrate, wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor each comprises a first electrode and a dielectric that both surround a second electrode that is at a core of the TSV, wherein the dielectric separates the first electrode from the second electrode, and wherein the second substrate is bonded to the first substrate such that the first capacitor is stacked on the second capacitor. A method of forming a stacked capacitor structure is also provided.
US10242939B2
A semiconductor device includes: an oscillator; a semiconductor chip that includes an oscillation circuit connected to the oscillator, a timer circuit that generates a timing signal of a frequency according to a oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit, and a frequency correction section that corrects a frequency of the timing signal based on temperature data; and a discrete device that includes at least one of a temperature sensing device that detects a peripheral temperature, that supplies the detected temperature as temperature data to the frequency correction section, and that is provided as a separate body to the semiconductor chip, or a capacitor that is electrically connected to both the oscillator and the oscillation circuit and that is provided as a separate body to the semiconductor chip, wherein the oscillator, the semiconductor chip and the discrete device are contained within a single package.
US10242935B2
A packaged semiconductor device includes a die attached to a die flag of a lead frame wherein the die includes a first, second, third, and fourth minor side, wherein the first and second minor sides are opposite each other and the third and fourth minor sides are opposite each other. The device includes an outer-most lead of the lead frame extending outwardly from the first minor side of the die and closest to the third minor side, wherein the outer-most lead includes a thinned region located between the die and a full thickness portion of the outer-most lead. The device includes an electrical connection between the die and the outer-most lead, and an encapsulant surrounding the die, the electrical connection, and surrounding at least a portion of an outer edge of the thinned portion of the outer-most lead such that the full thickness portion of the outer-most lead extends beyond the encapsulant.
US10242931B2
A heat sink and method for using the same for use in cooling an integrated circuit (IC) chip is provided herein. The heat sink includes a manifold block, a liquid-filled cooling system, and a compliant foil affixed to the manifold block and backed by a liquid in the closed loop cooling system. The pressure provided by the liquid behind the foil causes the foil to bow, and to conform to non-planarities in the surface of the IC chip, thus reducing air gaps and increasing thermal coupling between the IC chip and the heat sink.
US10242925B2
The invention relates to an electronic component (1) comprising at least one semiconductor chip (4) and at least one substrate (6), the semiconductor chip (4) being encapsulated in a polyorganosiloxane resin (3), which is the result of hardening a composition comprising at least: one portion (A) comprising at least one polyorganosiloxane (A1) which contains at least two —CH═CH2 reactive groups per molecule; one portion (B) comprising a polyorganosiloxane (B1) which comprises at least two Si—H groups per molecule; and at least one hydrosilation catalyst (C1), the components (A1) and (B1) being in quantities such that the molar ratio of Si—H/—CH═CH2 in the composition is no lower than 0.4.
US10242924B2
A base-attached encapsulant for semiconductor encapsulation is used for collectively encapsulating a device-mounted surface of the semiconductor device-mounted substrate having semiconductor devices mounted thereon or a device-formed surface of a semiconductor device-formed wafer having semiconductor devices formed thereon. The base-attached encapsulant has a base and an encapsulating resin layer containing an uncured or semi-cured thermosetting resin component formed onto one of the surfaces of the base, and a linear expansion coefficient α1 of the semiconductor device to be encapsulated by the base-attached encapsulant, a linear expansion coefficient α2 of a cured product of the encapsulating resin layer, and a linear expansion coefficient α3 of the base satisfy both of the following formula (1) and (2); α1<α3<α2 (1) −2<α1+α2−2α3<2 (2) wherein the unit of the linear expansion coefficient is ppm/K. The base-attached encapsulant for semiconductor encapsulation which suppress package warpage even if a package with a large area is encapsulated.
US10242922B2
A semiconductor wafer includes dielectric regions of different thicknesses, some of the dielectric regions being thinner and other ones of the dielectric regions being thicker. The semiconductor wafer further includes a stress circuit operable to stress at least one of the dielectric regions internally within the semiconductor wafer for assessing dielectric reliability. A corresponding method of internally assessing dielectric reliability of a semiconductor technology is also provided.
US10242916B2
A method for forming strained fins includes etching trenches in a bulk substrate to form fins, filling the trenches with a dielectric fill and recessing the dielectric fill into the trenches to form shallow trench isolation regions. The fins are etched above the shallow trench isolation regions to form a staircase fin structure with narrow top portions of the fins. Gate structures are formed over the top portions of the fins. Raised source ad drain regions are epitaxially grown on opposite sides of the gate structure. A pre-morphization implant is performed to generate defects in the substrate to couple strain into the top portions of the fins.
US10242907B2
A method for forming a pattern for an integrated circuit is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes (a) providing a hardmask layer; (b) overlaying the hard mask layer with a set of parallel material lines delimiting gaps therebetween; and (c) providing a spacer layer following the shape of the material layer. The method further includes (d) removing a top portion of the spacer layer, thereby forming spacer lines alternatively separated by material lines and by gaps; and (e) providing a blocking element in a portion of a gap. The method also includes (f) etching selectively the hard mask layer by using the material layer, the spacer lines and the blocking element as a mask, thereby providing a first set of parallel trenches in the hardmask layer, wherein a trench has a blocked portion; and (g) selectively removing the blocking element.
US10242906B2
A metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) with integrated passive structures and methods of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The method includes forming a stacked structure in an active region and at least one shallow trench isolation (STI) structure adjacent to the stacked structure. The method further includes forming a semiconductor layer directly in contact with the at least one STI structure and the stacked structure. The method further includes patterning the semiconductor layer and the stacked structure to form an active device in the active region and a passive structure of the semiconductor layer directly on the at least one STI structure.
US10242904B2
A frame unit is transferred from a cassette to a predetermined position. The frame unit has a platelike workpiece, a tape attached to the workpiece, and a ring frame supporting a peripheral portion of the tape. The apparatus includes a holding unit for the frame unit, a moving unit for the holding unit, and a control unit. The holding unit includes a pair of gripping portions for gripping a front portion of the ring frame at two separate positions, and an abutting portion adapted to abut against the outer circumference of the ring frame. The ring frame is gripped, partially drawn from the cassette, and released. The abutting portion is brought into abutment against the outer circumference of the ring frame so as to move the ring frame into the cassette. The ring frame is gripped again, raised, and transferred to the predetermined position.
US10242901B2
Various embodiments of aligning wafers are described herein. In one embodiment, a photolithography system aligns a wafer by averaging individual via locations. In particular, some embodiments of the present technology determine the center locations of individual vias on a wafer and average them together to obtain an average center location of the set of vias. Based on a comparison of the average center location to a desired center location, the present technology adjusts the wafer position. Additionally, in some embodiments, the present technology compares wafer via patterns to a template and adjusts the position of the wafer based on the comparison.
US10242900B2
A storage facility for semiconductor containers is provided. The storage structure has partitioning walls including a side wall portion extending along a vertical direction, and holding space partitioned off from exterior space by the partitioning walls. Inactive gas enriched air, which contains higher concentration of inactive gas than concentration of inactive gas contained in air in the exterior space, is supplied to the holding space. A first opening for allowing containers being carried into and out of the storage structure to be moved through the side wall portion is formed in the side wall portion. A first inlet opening is located at a position in the exterior space and adjacent an edge of the first opening. A first drawing-in device is provided to discharge air drawn in through the first inlet opening into discharge space which is outside the holding space and is divided off from the exterior space.
US10242899B2
A wafer cassette for storing wafers comprises a case and a plurality of carriers for carrying the wafers. Each of the carriers is pivotally and movably mounted to a pivot of the case, and can selectively accommodate in or depart from an accommodation space of the case for benefit of the wafer loading or unloading.
US10242893B2
A method and apparatus for de-chucking a workpiece is described that uses a swing voltage sequence. One example pertains to a method that includes applying a mechanical force from an electrostatic chuck against the back side of a workpiece that is electrostatically clamped to the chuck, applying a sequence of voltage pulses with a same polarity to the electrodes, each pulse of the sequence having a lower voltage than the preceding pulse, each pulse of the sequence having a lower voltage than the preceding pulse, and determining whether the workpiece is released from the chuck after the sequence of additional voltage pulses and if the workpiece is not released then repeating applying the sequence of voltage pulses.
US10242890B2
Embodiments of substrate supports with a heater are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate support may include a first member to distribute heat to a substrate when present above a first surface of the first member; a heater coupled to the first member and having one or more heating zones to provide heat to the first member; a second member disposed beneath the first member; a tubular body disposed between the first and second members, wherein the tubular body forms a gap between the first and second members; and a plurality of substrate support pins disposed a first distance above the first surface of the first member, the plurality of substrate support pins to support a backside surface of a substrate when present on the substrate support.
US10242869B2
A method of manufacturing a switching element includes forming a recessed portion in a surface of a GaN semiconductor substrate in which a first n-type semiconductor layer is exposed on the surface, growing a p-type body layer within the recessed portion and on the surface of the GaN semiconductor substrate, removing a surface layer portion of the body layer to expose the first n-type semiconductor layer on the surface of the GaN semiconductor substrate, and leave the body layer within the recessed portion, forming a second n-type semiconductor layer which is separated from the first n-type semiconductor layer by the body layer and is exposed on the surface of the GaN semiconductor substrate, and forming a gate electrode which faces the body layer through an insulating film.
US10242868B1
In one instance, the seed crystal of this invention provides a nitrogen-polar c-plane surface of a GaN layer supported by a metallic plate. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the metallic plate matches that of GaN layer. The GaN layer is bonded to the metallic plate with bonding metal. The bonding metal not only bonds the GaN layer to the metallic plate but also covers the entire surface of the metallic plate to prevent corrosion of the metallic plate and optionally spontaneous nucleation of GaN on the metallic plate during the bulk GaN growth in supercritical ammonia. The bonding metal is compatible with the corrosive environment of ammonothermal growth.
US10242863B2
A substrate processing apparatus for processing a wafer including a temporary substrate and a semiconductor device. The substrate processing apparatus includes a first half portion, a second half portion and a liquid supply unit. The first half portion includes a working platform. The second half portion includes an upper cover having a first surface and a plurality of second holes. The liquid supply unit provides a liquid. The wafer is placed on the working platform, and a second surface of the semiconductor device and the first surface are spaced by a distance sufficient for allowing the liquid to come into contact with the first surface when the liquid flows at the second surface to generate a suction force on the second surface. As such, a peel force is formed between the temporary substrate and the semiconductor device to cause the two to separate from each other.
US10242861B2
According to one embodiment, a processing apparatus includes a first supply section, a second supply section, a gas supply section, and a sublimation section. The first supply section supplies a first fluid on surfaces of a plurality of workpieces. The second supply section supplies a fluid containing a sublimable material on the surfaces of the plurality of workpieces to which the first fluid is supplied. The gas supply section supplies gas on the surfaces of the plurality of workpieces to which a fluid containing the sublimable material is supplied. The sublimation section sublimates a layer containing the sublimable material formed on each surface of the plurality of workpieces. The gas supply section controls a thickness of the layer containing the sublimable material formed each surface of the plurality of workpieces by controlling a flow velocity of the gas in each surface of the plurality of workpieces.
US10242860B2
An electrostatic trap such as an orbitrap is disclosed, with an electrode structure. An electrostatic trapping field of the form U′(r, ϕ, z) is generated to trap ions within the trap so that they undergo isochronous oscillations. The trapping field U′(r, ϕ, z) is the result of a perturbation W to an ideal field U(r, ϕ, z) which, for example, is hyperlogarithmic in the case of an orbitrap. The perturbation W may be introduced in various ways, such as by distorting the geometry of the trap so that it no longer follows an equipotential of the ideal field U(r, ϕ, z), or by adding a distortion field (either electric or magnetic). The magnitude of the perturbation is such that at least some of the trapped ions have an absolute phase spread of more than zero but less than 2 π radians over an ion detection period Tm.
US10242852B2
The invention relates to the detection of fatty acids. In a particular aspect, the invention relates to methods for detecting very long chain fatty acids and branched chain fatty acids by mass spectrometry.
US10242849B2
A system and method of identifying a selected process point in a multi-mode pulsing process includes applying a multi-mode pulsing process to a selected wafer in a plasma process chamber, the multi-mode pulsing process including multiple cycles, each one of the cycles including at least one of multiple, different phases. At least one process output variable is collected for a selected at least one of the phases, during multiple cycles for the selected wafer. An envelope and/or a template of the collected at least one process output variable can be used to identify the selected process point. A first trajectory for the collected process output variable of a previous phase can be compared to a second trajectory of the process output variable of the selected phase. A multivariate analysis statistic of the second trajectory can be calculated and used to identify the selected process point.
US10242848B2
A carrier ring for use in a chamber implemented for depositing films and chambers that use the carrier ring are provided. The carrier ring has an annular disk shape with an outer edge side and a wafer edge side. The carrier ring has a top carrier ring surface that extends between the outer edge side to the wafer edge side. The wafer edge side includes a lower carrier ring surface that is lower than the top carrier ring surface. The wafer edge side also includes a plurality of contact support structures. Each contact support structure is located at an edge of the lower carrier ring surface and has a height that is between the lower carrier ring surface and the top carrier ring surface, and the contact support structure has tapered edges and corners. A step is defined between the top carrier ring surface and the lower carrier ring surface, such that a top facing edge is disposed at a top of the step and a lower inner edge is disposed at the bottom of the step. Each of the top facing edge and the lower inner edge have a rounded non-sharp edge and a top of each of the contact support structures is configured for contact with a bottom edge surface of a wafer for lifting and lowering and moving the wafer.
US10242841B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a specimen holder having a structure capable of maintaining a seal surface regardless of a change of environment. A specimen holder according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a specimen holder axis part having a specimen and/or a specimen mesh setting part, an external cylinder part capable of housing the specimen holder axis part, and a seal part for sealing the specimen and/or the specimen mesh setting part from atmosphere wherein the seal part is set to a step part which is set to a portion of the external cylinder part. Further, in a referred embodiment of a specimen holder according to the present invention, it is characterized in that the seal part set to the step part is as a first seal part, further the specimen holder has a second seal part which exists in a tip part of the specimen holder and exists in a direction of a central axis of an electron microscope comparing to the specimen and/or the specimen mesh setting part.
US10242838B2
A radiographic apparatus including a target array and an X-ray detecting unit. The target array includes a plurality of targets and a forward shielding member. The forward shielding member includes a plurality of partitions. The X-ray detecting unit includes a detecting portion. The partitions each have sloping surfaces whose angles of inclination change along an array direction.
US10242833B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for accessory tripping and resetting of circuit breakers are disclosed. Embodiments of the invention include a breaker handle; a breaker trip bar; an accessory trip device; an accessory pocket configured to receive the accessory trip device; and an adapter module disposed within the accessory pocket between the accessory trip device and the breaker handle, and coupled to the breaker handle, the breaker trip bar, and the accessory trip device, the adapter module including linkages configured to boost a force output by the accessory trip device. Numerous additional features and aspects are disclosed.
US10242831B2
A shunt tab assembly is for an electrical switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker. The electrical switching apparatus includes a housing, separable contacts enclosed by the housing, an operating mechanism for opening and closing the separable contacts, and a number of shunts. The operating mechanism includes a trip unit. The shunt tab assembly includes a shunt tab structured to be electrically connected to the shunts, a biasing element structured to bias the shunt tab toward a predetermined position with respect to the housing, and a fastener structured to mechanically couple and electrically connect the trip unit to the shunt tab.
US10242822B2
The present application contemplates a switching device comprising: an outer casing defining an internal volume of the switching device; one or more electric poles, each electric pole comprising one or more mobile contacts and one or more contacts adapted to be coupled or uncoupled during a switching operation of the switching device; a contact shaft accommodated in the internal volume of the switching device and adapted to rotate about a rotation axis during a switching operation of the switching device, the contact shaft having a body comprising one or more contact seats to accommodate at least partially the mobile contacts, so that the mobile contacts rotate with the contact shaft about the rotation axis during a switching operation of the switching device; a control mechanism comprising a supporting frame fixed to the outer casing to provide support to movable members of the control mechanism and one or more connecting rods to provide a force to move the contact shaft during a switching operation of the switching device.
US10242817B2
A switch includes a housing including a bottom surface and a protrusion formed on the bottom surface, a board that is placed on the bottom surface of the housing and includes a fixed contact, the board and the protrusion being fitted together, a movable contact that is disposed to cover at least portions of the fixed contact and the protrusion and configured to be inverted, and an operation part that presses the movable contact toward the fixed contact.
US10242811B2
A motor drive for actuation of an on- or off-load tap changer the drive has a drive motor, a load transmission having a first drive shaft carrying a first drive wheel and connected with the drive motor and a second drive shaft carrying a second drive wheel, and a mechanical coupling between the first and second drive wheels. The second drive shaft is operatively connected at a first end with the on- or off-load tap changer and at a second end with an indicator transmission. A setting indicator operatively connected with the indicator transmission displays the current setting of the on- or off-load tap changer, and a disengageable coupling is provided between the setting indicator and the load transmission.
US10242809B2
A non-aqueous lithium-type power storage element comprising an electrode laminate body and a non-aqueous electrolyte being housed in an external body, the electrode laminate body having a negative electrode body, a positive electrode body and a separator.
US10242807B2
Provided is a lithium ion capacitor that is capable, during internal short circuiting, of suppressing an increase in capacitor temperature and controlling the onset of gasification, smoking and ignition, and of having preferably both low resistance (i.e., high output density) and high cycle characteristics. The lithium ion capacitor comprises an electrode laminated body stored in a casing together with a non-aqueous electrolytic solution containing a lithium ion-containing electrolyte; wherein the electrode laminated body is laminated so that a negative electrode collector having a negative electrode active material comprised of a carbon material, and a positive electrode body having a positive electrode active material face each other through a laminated separator where a polyolefin porous membrane and an insulating porous membrane are laminated; and characterized in that the insulating porous membrane is in contact with the negative electrode body.
US10242804B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic body having dielectric layers laminated in a thickness direction, the dielectric layers having a greater width than a length; an active layer in which capacitance is formed, by including first and second internal electrodes alternately exposed to end surfaces of the ceramic body opposite to each other in a length direction with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; upper cover layer; lower cover layers being thicker than the upper cover layer; and first and second external electrodes, wherein, when half of thickness of the ceramic body is denoted by A, thickness of the lower cover layer is denoted by B, half of thickness of the active layer is denoted by C, and thickness of the upper cover layer is denoted by D, 1.042≤(B+C)/A≤1.537 is satisfied.
US10242801B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a first and a second external electrodes; internal electrode layers that are alternately connected to the first and the second external electrodes; and dielectric layers including a ceramic material as a main component, wherein a D20% diameter of the ceramic material of an end margin region, in which internal electrode layers connected to one of the first external electrode and the second external electrode face with each other and does not face with internal electrode layers connected to the other, is smaller than that of a capacity region in which internal electrode layers connected to different external electrodes face with each other and a D80% diameter of the ceramic material of the end margin region is larger than that of the capacity region, or 1/(log D80−log D20) of the ceramic material of the capacity region is larger than that of the end margin region.
US10242796B2
A surface-mount inductor including a coil formed by winding a rectangular wire and a molded body for accommodating the coil, where the coil includes: a first roll formed by winding a rectangular wire, a second roll formed by winding the rectangular wire in position adjacent to the first roll along the winding axis, and a third roll formed by winding the rectangular wire on the second roll in a partially overlapping manner in a position adjacent to and opposite from the first roll along the winding axis, the ends of the wire being brought out from the outermost turns of the first roll and the third roll as lead ends, and the winding axis is parallel with the mounting face and the lead ends being extended over the surface of the molded body, as well as the method for manufacturing the same.
US10242792B2
A multilayer body includes a first pattern conductor, and first and second via conductors. A first end of the first via conductor is electrically coupled with a second signal electrode, and a second end thereof is electrically coupled with the first pattern conductor. A first end of the second via conductor is electrically coupled with the first pattern conductor. The first pattern conductor extends such that a distance between the second via conductor and a second shield electrode is larger than a distance between the first via conductor and the second shield electrode, a distance between the second via conductor and a third shield electrode is larger than a distance between the first via conductor and the third shield electrode, and a coupling portion between the second via conductor and the first pattern conductor is outside an area of the second signal electrode.
US10242791B2
A coupled-inductor module includes: a magnetic core including a first magnetic column, a second magnetic column, a third magnetic column extending in a first direction and two covers extending in a second direction, the first magnetic column disposed between the second magnetic column and the third magnetic column, the two covers respectively connected to the ends of the first magnetic column, the second magnetic column and the third magnetic column; and windings including a first winding and a second winding respectively wound around the first magnetic column, the first winding and the second winding being spaced apart from each other in the first direction. The magnetic core is provided with at least one air gap, and the windings and the air gap are not overlapped with each other.
US10242790B2
A number of toroidal ferromagnetic cores for an inductor may be arranged to form a ferromagnetic multi-core array, through which a calculated sequence of wire turns is wound. The array may be structured within certain permitting geometries, to a preferred geometrical shape for use within a downhole tool. The array of cores can take any practical form, include square, rectangular, hexagonal, circular, or the like, as long as the magnetic fluxes of all coils wound about a given core create a magnetic flux within the core that flows in the same direction within the core.
US10242785B2
A valve for metering fluid has an electromagnet for actuating a valve needle controlling a metering opening. The electromagnet generates, upon current flow, a magnetic flux that proceeds via an outer pole, a hollow-cylindrical inner pole, an armature displaceable on an armature guidance region embodied on the valve needle, and a working air gap delimited by the armature and inner pole. Disposed fixedly on the valve needle is an entraining element that penetrates axially displaceably into an entraining element guidance region embodied in the inner pole and has a radial stop shoulder for the armature which delimits a take-up travel or pre-stroke travel. The entraining element is extended into an additional inner pole having a pole surface formed by the stop shoulder, and is embodied magnetically conductively and a magnetic flux between the armature and valve needle is suppressed by way of a magnetically nonconductive material.
US10242783B2
Numerous arrangements for permanent magnets are disclosed that can focus the flux produced by the magnets. Depending on the particular application in which the disclosed designs and techniques are used, efficiency and reliability may be increased by minimizing flux leakage, increasing peak flux density, and shaping the flux fields to improve the effective coercivity of the flux focusing permanent magnet arrangement when loaded, and to achieve customized voltage and current waveforms. The disclosed magnet assemblies may be incorporated into a machine, such as a motor/generator, having windings and may be disposed for movement relative to the windings. The magnet assembly may be mounted on a support formed of one or more ferromagnetic materials, such as a back iron. The disclosed flux focusing magnet assemblies may be formed using a variety of manufacturing methods.
US10242777B2
Provided is a sintered magnet that is an R-T-B based sintered magnet having a region having a concentration of at least one heavy rare earth element decreasing from the surface toward the inside, in which the at least one heavy rare earth element includes at least either of Tb or Dy, R includes Nd, T includes Fe, Co, and Cu, there is a grain boundary phase containing at least either of Tb or Dy and Nd between two main phase particles, and a value obtained by subtracting a half value width of a concentration distribution curve of Cu from a half value width of a concentration distribution curve of Tb or Dy in a part including the grain boundary phase is from 10 to 20 nm.
US10242774B2
A chip resistance element includes a base substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, two sides connecting the first surface and the second surface to each other, and two end surfaces connecting the first surface and the second surface to each other; a resistive layer disposed on the second surface; and a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal disposed to be respectively connected to the resistive layer and to be separated from each other on the second surface. The third terminal having a second surface portion disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal on the second surface and a side portion connected to and disposed on one of the two sides of the base substrate.
US10242771B2
A peg apparatus is described that is suitable for use with an electrical wire harness peg board. The pegs are utilized on a wire harness peg board during the assembly of a wire harness, and are particularly well suited for use in an automated assembly of the electrical wire harness where a constant upward, downward or lateral tension is desired without altering the free ends of each wire of an assembled wire harness.
US10242769B2
Disclosed is a flame retardant resin composition comprising: a polyolefin resin; a silicone-based compound blended at a ratio of 3 parts by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyolefin resin; a fatty acid containing compound blended at a ratio of 5 parts by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyolefin resin; calcium carbonate blended at a ratio of 10 parts by mass or more and less than 100 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyolefin resin; and aluminum hydroxide blended at a ratio of 5 parts by mass or more and 60 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyolefin resin.
US10242766B2
A highly bendable insulated electric wire includes a conductor part that has a plurality of non-compressed strands made of a copper alloy, each of the non-compressed strands having a cross-sectional area of 0.13 sq. mm, and a covering part that is provided on the conductor part, wherein the conductor part has an elongation of 7% or more and a tensile strength of 500 MPa or more, and the covering part is made of 100 degree Celsius heat-resistant polyvinyl chloride and has an elongation of 100% or more at a temperature of −40 degree Celsius.
US10242762B2
A copper alloy wire rod containing Ag: 0.5 wt % or more and 6 wt % or less and the balance including inevitable impurities and Cu, in which, on a cross section parallel to a longitudinal direction of the copper alloy wire rod, within a range observed with a visual field of 1.7 μm in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and 2.3 μm in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction, the copper alloy wire rod has at least one rectangular range that is a rectangular range having a width perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of 0.2 μm and a length parallel to the longitudinal direction of 2.3 μm and entirely includes five or more second phase particles containing Ag and having a maximum length in the longitudinal direction of less than 300 nm.
US10242756B2
Various systems and methods for predicting metabolic and bariatric surgery outcomes are provided. The systems and methods can also provide predictions for non-surgical metabolic and bariatric treatments. In general, a user can receive predictive outcomes of multiple bariatric procedures that could be performed on a patient. In one embodiment, a user can electronically access a metabolic and bariatric surgery outcome prediction system, e.g., using one or more web pages. The system can provide predictive outcomes of one or more different bariatric surgeries for the patient based on data gathered from the user and on historical data regarding outcomes of the different bariatric surgeries. The system can additionally provide predictive outcomes for not having any treatment and/or a comparison of the predictive outcomes of the one or more different bariatric surgeries to the predictive outcomes for not having any treatment.
US10242745B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a temperature sensor that generates a first voltage which is based on a temperature of the semiconductor memory device, compares the first voltage with a second voltage that is based on a result of previous temperature measurement, and generates a voltage generation signal based on a result of comparing the first voltage with the second voltage, and a voltage generating circuit that generates a voltage applied to the memory cell array based on the voltage generation signal.
US10242739B2
A semiconductor memory cell and arrays of memory cells are provided In at least one embodiment, a memory cell includes a substrate having a top surface, the substrate having a first conductivity type selected from a p-type conductivity type and an n-type conductivity type; a first region having a second conductivity type selected from the p-type and n-type conductivity types, the second conductivity type being different from the first conductivity type, the first region being formed in the substrate and exposed at the top surface; a second region having the second conductivity type, the second region being formed in the substrate, spaced apart from the first region and exposed at the top surface; a buried layer in the substrate below the first and second regions, spaced apart from the first and second regions and having the second conductivity type; a body region formed between the first and second regions and the buried layer, the body region having the first conductivity type; a gate positioned between the first and second regions and above the top surface; and a nonvolatile memory configured to store data upon transfer from the body region.
US10242734B1
Provided are techniques for resuming storage die programming after power loss. In response to receipt of an indication of the power loss, data that was to be programmed to multi-level cell NAND blocks are copied to single level cell NAND blocks and a pulse number at which programming was interrupted is stored. In response to receipt of an indication to resume from the power loss, the data is copied from the single level cell NAND blocks to a page buffer, the pulse number is retrieved, and programming of the multi-level cell NAND blocks is resumed at the retrieved pulse number using the data in the page buffer.
US10242733B2
Cell power supply lines are arranged for memory cell columns, and adjust impedances or voltage levels of the cell power supply lines according to the voltage levels of bit lines in the corresponding columns, respectively. In the data write operation, the cell power supply line is forced into a floating state according to the bit line potential on a selected column and has the voltage level changed, and a latching capability of a selected memory cell is reduced to write data fast. Even with a low power supply voltage, a static semiconductor memory device that can stably perform write and read of data is implemented.
US10242731B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cell rows; and a refresh address generator configured to store flags respectively corresponding to the plurality of memory cell rows, generate refresh row addresses respectively corresponding to the plurality of memory cell rows by performing a count operation, and according to the flags, change a refresh period of the plurality of memory cell rows.
US10242729B2
Disclosed herein is a device includes a command generation circuit: that activates first and second command signals, an internal circuit that includes a plurality of transistors that are brought into a first operation state when at least one of the first, and second command signals is activated, and an output gate circuit that receives a first signal output from the internal circuit, the output gate circuit being configured to pass the first signal when the second command signal is deactivated and to block the first signal when the second command signal is activated.
US10242723B1
A method and apparatus for performing a background calibration in a memory subsystem is disclosed. A memory subsystem includes a memory controller coupled to a memory. The memory controller is coupled to receive data during reads from the memory on a functional data path and a duplicate data path. The memory controller further includes calibration circuitry. During reads of data conducted during normal operation, the calibration circuit calibrates a first delay locked loop (DLL) in the duplicate data path. A second DLL, in the functional data path, may be adjusted based on the calibrations conducted in the duplicate data path.
US10242721B2
The present disclosure is related to shifting data using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus can include a first sensing component and a second sensing component. The first sensing component can include a first sense amplifier coupled to a first pair of complementary sense lines and a first compute component comprising a number of first pass transistors. The second sensing component can include a second sense amplifier coupled to a second pair of complementary sense lines. The second sensing component can include a second compute component comprising a number of second pass transistors. The first pair of complementary sense lines can be coupled to the number of first pass transistors and the number of second pass transistors.
US10242720B2
A sense amplifier and method thereof are provided. The sense amplifier includes first and second transistors coupled to first and second bit lines, respectively. The first and second transistors are configured to connect the first and second bit lines to a differential amplifier during a first state (e.g., when a differential voltage is present on the first and second bit lines and prior to a sense signal transition) and to isolate the first and second bit lines from the differential amplifier during a second state (e.g., after the sense signal transition). The sense amplifier further includes a third transistor configured to deactivate the differential amplifier during the first state and configured to activate the differential amplifier during the second state.
US10242718B2
Embodiments of a system and method for providing a flexible memory system are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a substrate is provided, wherein a stack of memory is coupled to the substrate. The stack of memory includes a number of vaults. A controller is also coupled to the substrate and includes a number of vault interface blocks coupled to the number of vaults of the stack of memory, wherein the number of vault interface blocks is less than the number of vaults.
US10242714B2
Innovations in reconstruction and rendering of panoramic video are described, including the use of a platform rendering engine to provide a screen projection based on a view direction specified for an application through an interface. For example, based at least in part on the view direction specified for the application, at least a section of panoramic video in an input projection is identified. At least some of sample values of the at least a section of the picture of panoramic video in the input projection are mapped to a screen projection. The screen projection is output for display to a buffer for the application. Thus, an application may use panoramic video, including updating a view direction, without itself having to render a screen projection for the panoramic video.
US10242713B2
A method is provided for processing and displaying biometric data of a user, either alone or together (in synchronization) with other data, such as video data of the user during a time that the biometric data was acquired. The method includes storing biometric data so that it is linked to an identifier and at least one time-stamp (e.g., a start time, a sample rate, etc.), and storing video data so that it is linked to the identifier and at least one time-stamp (e.g., a start time). By storing data in this fashion, biometric data can be displayed (either in real-time or delayed) in synchronization with video data, and biometric data can be searched to identify at least one biometric event. Video corresponding to the biometric event can then be displayed, either alone or together with at least one biometric of the user during the biometric event.
US10242711B2
A method includes grouping media items associated with a user into segments based on a timestamp associated with each media item and a total number of media items. The method also includes selecting target media from the media items for each of the segments based on media attributes associated with the media item. The method also includes generating a video that includes the target media for each of the segments by generating a first animation that illustrates a first transition from a first item from the target media to a second item from the target media with movement of the first item from an onscreen location to an offscreen location, wherein the first item is adjacent to the second item in the first animation and determining whether the target media includes one or more additional items. The method also includes adding a song to the video.
US10242702B1
A recording head has a near-field transducer overlapping a core near a media-facing surface of the recording head. The near-field transducer has an enlarged portion formed of a plasmonic material and a peg extending from the enlarged portion. The enlarged portion includes a stacked feature that reduces the emission of a polarization rotated portion of light to a recording medium.
US10242700B2
A method and system provide a magnetic read apparatus. The magnetic read apparatus includes a read sensor. The read sensor includes a pinning layer, a nonmagnetic insertion layer and a pinned layer. The nonmagnetic insertion layer has a location selected from a first location and a second location. The first location is between the pinned layer and the pinning layer. The second location is within the pinning layer.
US10242698B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk, and a spindle motor configured to rotate the disk, wherein the spindle motor comprises a plurality of windings. During a power failure the head is unloaded by generating a periodic signal, shorting the windings of the spindle motor based on the periodic signal in order to generate a power voltage, and adjusting the periodic signal based on an amplitude of the power voltage.
US10242697B2
A pitch information generation device includes a first envelope generator configured to generate, with regard to a first sound range, a first envelope that attenuates at a first rate of change from a detected value corresponding to a peak in the sound signal, a second envelope generator configured to generate, with regard to a second sound range, which includes a sound range of higher frequency than the first sound range, a second envelope that attenuates from a detected value corresponding to a peak in the sound signal at a second rate of change. The second rate of change is greater than the first rate of change. A pitch information identifier is configured to identify the pitch information based on the first envelope and the second envelope.
US10242687B2
The invention relates to a codec and a discriminator and methods therein for audio signal discrimination and coding. Embodiments of a method performed by an encoder comprises, for a segment of the audio signal: identifying a set of spectral peaks; determining a mean distance S between peaks in the set; and determining a ratio, PNR, between a peak envelope and a noise floor envelope. The method further comprises selecting a coding mode, out of a plurality of coding modes, based at least on the mean distance S and the ratio PNR; and applying the selected coding mode for coding of the segment of the audio signal.
US10242684B2
Systems and methods for adjusting audio levels in a plurality of audio signals are disclosed. One or more input signals containing one or more audio signals are depacketized. The audio signals are analyzed to determine if audio levels of the signals correspond to a desired audio level for at least some of the signals. The audio levels of signals that do not correspond are adjusted. Packets that do not require adjustment and the resulting adjusted packets are combined to form one or more output signals corresponding to the one or more input signals.
US10242677B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include a training module configured to determining a set of detection normalization threshold values associated with speaker dependent voiced sound pattern (VSP) detection. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining segment templates characterizing a concurrent segmentation of a first subset of a plurality of vocalization instances of a VSP, each segment template provides a stochastic characterization of how a particular portion of the VSP is vocalized by a particular speaker; generating a noisy segment matrix using a second subset of the plurality of vocalization instances of the VSP, wherein the noisy segment matrix includes one or more noisy copies of segment representations of the second subset; scoring segments from the noisy segment matrix against the segment templates; and determining detection normalization threshold values at two or more known SNR levels for at least one particular noise type based on a function of the scoring.
US10242672B2
An intelligent assistant leverages private data specific to users and data available publically on one or more networks to improve the functionality of devices used to present content. A user's actions in a content authoring application are observed by the intelligent assistant and used to predict the user's actions. The public data related to the content in the presentation are also used to augment the presentation and to suggest best practices in presenting the content. In some aspects, a “practice” presentation is given by the user to provide the intelligent assistant a baseline to which to assist the user in realtime comply with during a “live” presentation or to receive suggestions in how to improve the presentation prior to presenting it “live”.
US10242662B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the method includes receiving a voice input from a user device; generating a recognition output; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the recognition output; receiving a user input of one or more letters replacing the user selected one or more terms; determining suggested correction candidates based in part on the user input and the voice input; and providing one or more suggested correction candidates to the user device as suggested corrected recognition outputs.
US10242661B2
Techniques (300, 400, 500) and apparatuses (100, 200, 700) for recognizing accented speech are described. In some embodiments, an accent module recognizes accented speech using an accent library based on device data, uses different speech recognition correction levels based on an application field into which recognized words are set to be provided, or updates an accent library based on corrections made to incorrectly recognized speech.
US10242657B2
A kit for attenuation of noise includes a noise source audio transducer, two ear pieces, and a control unit. The two ear pieces have respective resilient bodies that engage outer portions of ear canals of respective ears of a user while respective in-ear transducers of the two ear pieces are respectively positioned in inner portions of the ear canals. The respective in-ear transducers detect discrepancies (e.g., incomplete superpositioning) between the noise and the anti-noise. The respective in-ear transducers optionally detect respective secondary path effects in the ear canals. The noise source audio transducer detects noise generated by a noise source (e.g., snoring noise). The control unit configures an adaptive filter based at least in part on an error signal, and optionally based in part on secondary path effects. The control unit generates signals representative of anti-noise. The two ear pieces produce the anti-noise responsive to the signals. The two ear pieces produce masking noise with sound level that varies in direct correlation with sound level of the noise generated by the noise source.
US10242645B2
A display method includes: receiving an input signal; performing a color separation process on the input image to generate color information and an intensity image; performing a filtering process on the intensity image to generate an intensity coarse image and an edge image; generating a color coarse image according to the intensity coarse image and the color information; performing a pure color analysis on the color coarse image to generate a first pure color coarse image, a second pure color coarse image and a third pure color coarse image; and displaying the first pure color coarse image, the second pure color coarse image, the third pure color coarse image and the edge image in a first time period, a second time period, a third time period and a fourth time period respectively.
US10242643B2
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to constraining communication among HMD devices. One example provides a computing system comprising a logic machine and a storage machine holding instructions. The instructions are executable to receive, for each of a plurality of head-mounted display devices, vantage point data, determine, for each of the plurality of head-mounted display devices, whether one or more other head-mounted display devices are within a vantage point scope of that head-mounted display device, the vantage point scope being based on the vantage point data of that head-mounted display device, and constrain, for each of one or more head-mounted display devices, delivery of communication data from that head-mounted display device to one or more of the plurality of head-mounted display devices, such constraint based on whether that head-mounted display device is within the vantage point scope of one or more of the plurality of head-mounted display devices.
US10242642B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of cooperating with a transparent display apparatus and a method for controlling the same, wherein the mobile terminal capable of cooperating with the transparent display apparatus includes a wireless communication unit capable of performing transmission and reception of information with the transparent display apparatus, a display unit capable of outputting path search information, and a controller capable of transmitting screen information related to the path search information to the cooperative transparent display apparatus, through the wireless communication unit such that the screen information related to the path search.
US10242639B2
A method of changing a light transmittance of a head-mounted display device including a display and an optical lens and a head-mounted display device. The method includes obtaining, by a sensor, a first illuminance around the head-mounted display device; determining a first light transmittance based on the first illuminance and a type of a content to display on the display; changing, by a processor, a light transmittance of the optical lens to the first light transmittance; and wherein when the first illuminance is greater than a second illuminance, the first light transmittance corresponding to the first illuminance is less than a second light transmittance corresponding to the second illuminance.
US10242638B2
A display adjusting device, a power source circuit, a display device and a display adjusting method are provided. The display adjusting device includes a start signal detection unit, configured to, in a case that a gate drive circuit including multiple stages of gate drive circuit units scans multiple rows of gate lines arranged in the display panel, detect a gate drive signal outputted by a last row of shift register unit included in each stage of gate drive circuit unit, where the gate drive signal serves as a start signal of a next stage of gate drive circuit unit adjacent to the stage of gate drive circuit unit, and a gamma main voltage setting unit, configured to set a corresponding gamma main voltage based on the start signal.
US10242637B2
The invention provides a CMOS GOA circuit, which improves the NAND gate in the latch module and the inverter to connect the latch clock signal to the NAND gate in the latch module or the inverter to control the latch module to realize the input and latch of the cascade signal through the voltage change in the latch clock signal. Compared to the known technique, the present invention reduces the number of TFTs required by the latch module without affecting the normal operation of the circuit, and facilitates the implementation of the narrow border or borderless display products.
US10242634B2
A display device is disclosed. A display panel includes a plurality of subpixels of a plurality of colors arranged in a matrix form, and a plurality of gate lines and data lines respectively connected to the subpixels. A data driver is configured to supply data voltages to the subpixels through a plurality of source channels and the data lines. A switch circuit is configured to connect one of the source channels selectively to one of the data lines during a first scan period in one horizontal period and to a different one of the data lines during a second scan period in the one horizontal period. The data driver is configured to supply data voltages of one color to the one of the source channels during both the first scan period and the second scan period in the one horizontal period.
US10242626B2
A stage includes an output unit configured to supply a scan signal to an output terminal according to voltages of first and second nodes; a first driver configured to control the voltages of the first and second nodes so that when a start signal or an output signal of a previous stage is supplied to a first input terminal, the scan signal is supplied from the output unit; and a second driver configured to control the voltages of the first and second nodes, corresponding to signals supplied to a second input terminal, a fourth input terminal and a fifth input terminal, wherein the second driver comprises eighth and ninth transistors coupled in series between the output terminal and the second node, and wherein a gate electrode of the eighth transistor is coupled to the first node, and a gate electrode of the ninth transistor is coupled to the fourth input terminal.
US10242619B2
A system for driving a display that includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in an array, each of the pixel circuits including a light emitting device and a driving transistor for conveying a driving current through the light emitting device. Methods of measuring characteristics of circuit elements of pixels sharing a monitor line include the control of biasing to selectively turn off circuit elements or render their response known while measuring other circuit elements of interest.
US10242615B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device and a compensation circuit of an OLED. The compensation circuit of the OLED includes: a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, a third TFT, a fourth TFT, a fifth TFT, a sixth TFT, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. As such, the compensation circuit of the present disclosure only requires the scanning signals and the emission signals, so as to simplify configurations of the circuit, and to reduce costs.
US10242605B2
A display device and chip bonding method thereof are provided. The display device includes a flexible display panel and a chip bonded to the non-display area of the flexible display panel with the extension directions of individual bumps satisfying, depending on the area in which the bumps are located, the following requirements: in each row of bumps, at least the individual bumps in lateral zones have their extension lines on the same side converging at a same point on the reference line, and the two bumps belong to a same bump group have their extension lines respectively forming an angle with respect to the reference line, the angles being equal to each other.
US10242603B2
The invention relates to a display frame for graphic advertising material that is suited for use with a pricing system. The frame has a flat body which is traversed by parallel lipped channels that releasably receive inserts. The frame is moulded from plastics material with webs of the channels provided by connectors. The inserts are configured to display pricing in a manner that allows variation and these allow for pricing changes to be made while the same graphic material is maintained on the display frame. The graphic material may also be provided by inserts and removably secured in the channels. In a preferred embodiment, the frame has movable clamping-rails along outer edges. The clamping-rails are resiliently biased into a closed condition by clips with resiliently deformable cam formations to retain a suitably sized poster and/or transparent screen against the front side of the frame. The clamping-rails and clips for biasing the rails are also moulded from plastics material.
US10242602B2
A marking tag is configured to attach to a product via a band. The tag includes a body formed of a sheet material and configured with an interior area defined by a perimeter cut. An interior cut is disposed in the interior area, the interior cut defining a triangular portion. The interior cut is configured to guide the band past the triangular portion. The interior area does not have any sheet material removed therefrom. In another aspect, a method of attaching a marking tag to a product via a band is described. The method includes obtaining the marking tag, guiding the band along the interior cut past the triangular portion of the marking tag, and retaining the tag relative to the product via frictional engagement of the band and the tag along the interior cut.
US10242595B2
A system for operating a visually impaired accessible signage, the system comprising: an accessibility tag configured to attach to a signage or to a surface near the signage, store communication information, communicate with a mobile device and prompt display of information by the mobile device, wherein the information is gained from an information file, and a database configured to store at least one information file. Additional embodiments of the system and methods for use thereof are described herein.
US10242592B2
A system for tracking position of one or more moving transmission sources is disclosed. The transmission source can transmit a signal while moving from a first position to a first expected position and a receiver can receive the signal. The transmission source can include an antenna. An audio source can transmit an audio signal at a predetermined frequency and a controller can determine a second position of the transmission source, calculate an offset between the second position with the first expected position, and compare the offset with a predetermined threshold. A first rate of movement can be calculated based on a distance traveled between the first position and the second position with respect to the predetermined frequency. A first indication can be transmitted to at least one user device including the first location offset with the predetermined threshold and the first rate of movement.
US10242589B2
A makeup assisting apparatus includes a first image acquirer that acquires a first image which is a captured image of a first face, a first facial part acquirer that acquires an area of a portion of the first face, a second image acquirer that acquires a second image which is a captured image of a second face to which makeup is applied, and a second facial part acquirer that acquires an area of a portion of the second face. A reference makeup acquirer acquires makeup from the second image for each of the portions of the second face, based on the area of the portion of the second face, the makeup being a way of applying the makeup and a makeup presenter that presents, to a user, the acquired makeup in association with the corresponding area of the portion of the first face.
US10242588B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic character enhancement for rendering digital content. Example methods may include identifying a reading speed indicative of a rate at which a user desires to read, determining a number of words in a portion of content to present to the user, and determining a base time interval for at least one word of the portion of content based at least in part on the reading speed. Methods may include determining an average difficulty value of the portion of content, determining that a first difficulty value of a first word exceeds the average difficulty value, and determining a first time adjustment for the first word based at least in part on the first difficulty value. Methods may include determining a first time interval based at least in part on the base time interval and the first time adjustment.
US10242585B2
Embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems and methods for detecting neurological activity indicative of a dream state of a human. Many embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems and methods for detecting neurological activity of a human indicative of a dream state or the onset thereof and delivering an input to the user (such as an audio or other sensory input) during the dream state. Particular embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for detecting neurological activity indicative of the onset or occurrence of a dream state of a human and delivering an audio or other sensory input during the user's dream state. The audio input may be used for learning, delivering messages to the user's subconscious, and/or promoting a state of relaxation.
US10242582B1
A system for assisting an aircraft in an emergency landing includes a processor with a non-transitory processor-readable medium storing processor-executable code. The processor-executable code causes the processor to detect an all engine failure of an aircraft. In response to the detected all engine failure, the processor-executable code further causes the processor to determine at least one of an aerodynamic and environmental attribute associated with the aircraft and a descent rate of the aircraft based on the at least one aerodynamic and environmental attribute, calculate a maximum distance the aircraft can travel without engine power based on at least one of the attribute and descent rate; calculate a range for the aircraft based on the maximum distance; and generate a display of the range and provide the display to a display system of the aircraft.
US10242570B2
A traffic adjustment or a traffic command, for example, is based on data congestion on a cellular network. Position data is received from a mobile device. A portion of a cellular network that corresponds to the position data is selected. The portion of the cellular network may be the geographic area covered by a cell. The network state of the portion of the cellular network is identified. A traffic device is also identified. The traffic device may be a traffic light or a variable speed sign. The traffic adjustment or traffic command for the traffic device is calculated based on the network state.
US10242568B2
Technologies are described to adjust a learning rate of Q-learning being used to control traffic signals at an intersection. In some examples, a method may include generating control actions for traffic signals at an intersection based on Q-learning, determining a frequency of change in traffic pattern of the intersection, and adjusting a learning rate of the Q-learning based on the determined frequency of change in traffic pattern of the intersection. The Q-learning may determine the generated control actions based on at least a portion of historical traffic data of the intersection, and the change in traffic pattern may be a change from a first traffic pattern of the intersection to a second traffic pattern of the intersection.
US10242566B2
A personal hygiene system includes a personal hygiene device having a receiver unit, a control unit, and a functional unit; and a separate control device having a transmitter unit. The control unit drives the functional unit in at least one of a first functional mode and a second functional mode different from the first functional mode. The control unit inhibits provision of the second functional mode while the control unit is in a default state. The transmitter unit sends at least a first signal to the receiver unit of the personal hygiene device when the separate control device is switched from a default control mode to a first control mode. The control unit can be switched from the default state into a first state when the first signal is received by the receiver unit, in which first state the control unit permits provision of the second functional mode at least during a first allowance period.
US10242559B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for limiting service availability when a sensor device is non-operational due to a noise floor change. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a connected home system includes a controller device configured to monitor a plurality of sensor devices deployed within a premises, and a sensor device of the plurality of sensor devices. The sensor device can monitor radio frequency (“RF”) noise in a radio environment associated with the premises. The radio environment is associated with an RF noise floor. The sensor device can determine whether the radio frequency noise exceeds a noise threshold. In response to determining that the RF noise exceeds the noise threshold, the sensor device can cause the controller device to exclude the sensor device from being monitored by the controller device until the RF noise returns to below the noise threshold.
US10242557B2
An improved user-responsive medical trauma treatment device system and methods are provided. The present invention makes several improvements to the emergency medical treatment industry by implementing advanced diagnostics and user-triggered feedback to more appropriately address the situation at hand.
US10242553B2
Systems and methods for downloading configuration data to control panel devices and peripheral devices in a connected system are provided. Some methods can include a master device in the connected system receiving and implementing a change to configuration data of the master device, the master device identifying the change to the configuration data of the master device, and the master device broadcasting a configuration message to a plurality of slave devices of the master device, wherein the configuration message can include the change to the configuration data of the master device.
US10242550B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve an apparatus, systems, and methods for soiled garment detection and notification. The method may include determining a laundering status of a garment based on a comparison of sensor data and a baseline odor level of the garment. The sensor data, which comprises a measure of odor being released by the garment, may be obtained from an olfactory sensor. The method further includes causing display of a user interface to present the laundering status of the garment.
US10242532B2
A system for playing blackjack requires a player or electronic system to: (i) receive a first bet from a player; (ii) deal an initial two-card hand to the player; (iii) deal one or more additional cards to the player; (iv) determine whether a sum total value of the initial two-card hand and the one or more additional cards exceeds twenty-one; (v) if so, offer the player an opportunity to place an additional bet; (vi) receive, from the player, the additional bet; (vii) in response receiving the additional bet, deal a final card to the player (optionally from a shoe that is different from that used for the initial hand); (vii) subtract a value of the final card from the sum total value to yield a new value; and (ix) based on the new value, determine whether the player has a winning hand, a push, or a losing hand.
US10242531B2
Systems and methods enable one or more players to play a game of chance. A system includes a processor and a memory device configured to store processor executable instructions to provide a game of chance in which a plurality of house indicia is selected from a pool of house indicia and in which one or more player indicia is provided. The processor is programmed by the instructions to randomly select a predetermined number of house indicia from the pool of house indicia, provide a random chance of selecting a bonus indicia, determine whether a winning number of matching indicia has been achieved by identifying each player indicia that matches one of the selected predetermined number of house indicia, and present a bonus to the player upon a determination that the bonus indicia matches a player indicia and that a winning number of matching indicia has been achieved.
US10242530B2
A dynamic multi-currency interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller, the interactive controller constructed to: receive identification of valid currency types; present the valid currency types; receive identification of a chosen currency type chosen; communicate the chosen currency type and application telemetry; and receive an application resource. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: generate and communicate a wager outcome. The system also includes the application controller operatively connecting the wager controller to the interactive controller by a network, the application controller constructed to: determine the identification of the valid currency types using currency rules; communicate the identification of the valid currency types; determine a wager request; communicate the chosen currency type and the wager request; receive the wager outcome; determine the application resource; and communicate the application resource.
US10242524B2
Systems and methods include a wagering game machine having a three-dimensional monitor. Certain events are 3D transition events that cause certain graphical elements presented by the wagering game to be rendered as real 3D objects using the three-dimensional monitor.
US10242521B2
A paper money recycling bin and paper money processing device; the paper money recycling bin includes a box and a partition plate installed in the box; symmetrical vertical groove groups are provided on a left inner wall and a right inner wall of the box; each vertical groove group includes a plurality of vertical grooves; and a left edge and a right edge of the partition plate are inserted in the vertical grooves to partition the internal space of the box, thus preventing a gap in the space, and avoiding the situation of tilting, irregular stacking or jamming when paper money subsequently enters.
US10242509B2
A vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) may control a vehicle subsystem and be configured to receive from a remote server via a vehicle telematics unit (TCU), a parameter definition of a processed parameter to be computed by the ECU; generate the processed parameter according to the parameter definition based on a raw parameter generated by the ECU; and send the processed parameter to a vehicle data buffer associated with the ECU for upload to the remote server via the TCU.
US10242502B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for generating and providing an augmented reality overlay for display in connection with an augmented reality display device. For example, systems and methods described herein identify a user being viewed through an augmented reality display device, and builds an augmented reality overlay for the user that is displayed on a view of the user through the augmented reality display device. Systems and methods described herein build the augmented reality overlay based on the location of the augmented reality display device, and on other networking system information including a networking system relationship between the user wearing the augmented reality display device and the user who is being looked at through the augmented reality display device.
US10242494B2
An embodiment of a conditional shader apparatus may include a conditional pixel shader to determine if one or more pixels meet a shader condition, and a pixel regrouper communicatively coupled to the conditional pixel shader to regroup pixels based on whether the one or more pixels are determined to meet the shader condition. Another embodiment of a conditional shader apparatus may include a thread analyzer to determine if a set of threads meet a thread condition, and a conditional kernel loader communicatively coupled to the thread analyzer to load an appropriate kernel from a set of two or more kernels based on whether the set of threads are determined to meet the thread condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10242493B2
An apparatus and method for performing coarse pixel shading (CPS). For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: A method for coarse pixel shading (CPS) comprising: pre-processing a graphics mesh by creating a tangent-plane parameterization of desired vertex attributes for each vertex of the mesh; and performing rasterization of the mesh in a rasterization stage of a graphics pipeline using the tangent-plane parameterization.
US10242487B2
Systems and methods of geometry processing, for rasterization and ray tracing processes provide for pre-processing of source geometry, such as by tessellating or other procedural modification of source geometry, to produce final geometry on which a rendering will be based. An acceleration structure (or portion thereof) for use during ray tracing is defined based on the final geometry. Only coarse-grained elements of the acceleration structure may be produced or retained, and a fine-grained structure within a particular coarse-grained element may be Produced in response to a collection of rays being ready for traversal within the coarse grained element. Final geometry can be recreated in response to demand from a rasterization engine, and from ray intersection units that require such geometry for intersection testing with primitives. Geometry at different resolutions can be generated to respond to demands from different rendering components.
US10242479B2
An information processing device, method and computer program product provide mechanisms for making a moving photograph. The information processing apparatus includes a moving area detector configured to detect a moving area in images of a processing target image group. The processing target image group includes a base image and a plurality of reference images. A display controller causes the base image to be displayed along with each of the plurality of reference images in succession.
US10242475B2
A driving support device according to an embodiment includes an estimation unit, a rendering unit, and an erasing unit. The estimation unit estimates a running state of a movable body based on an image taken on the movable body. The rendering unit produces a prediction line that indicates a predicted direction of travel of the movable body based on the running state estimated by the estimation unit, and superimposes and renders the prediction line on the taken image. The erasing unit erases the prediction line rendered by the rendering unit in a case where the estimation unit estimates that the movable body is stopped.
US10242470B2
An energy management system is provided. The system includes an information collector which is configured to collect a first information in accordance with elapsing of time, including information on energy consumption of a subject of energy management or information on factors involved in a change of the energy consumption; and a display controller which is configured to collate a second information in which is included the first information, which is collected by the information collector, or specified energy performance for each second unit divided by one or a plurality of boundaries of an operating status which changes in accordance with the elapsing of time of the subject of energy management for each first unit which is divided by one or a plurality of physical or logical boundaries of the subject of energy management, based on the first information collected by the information collector to be the first unit and the second unit to cause the collated result to be displayed on a display.
US10242469B2
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing a presumptive drafting solution. Input from a cursor control device is received, wherein the input reflects a movement in a computer drawing program of a cursor over a drawing having one or more geometric entities (having one or more geometric attributes). In one or more embodiments, a relevant geometric entity is identified based on how the cursor is moved over the drawing. A presumptive drafting solution is then provided based on the identified relevant geometric entity. In addition, prior drawing solutions (having one or more solution attributes) are obtained and compared to the one or more geometric attributes. A drawing solution having one or more solution attributes similar to the one or more geometric attributes may be provided to the user.
US10242462B2
A video encoder, a method of encoding a frame of video data, and a three-dimensional modeling system producing an encoded video stream are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) receiving from an application a frame of video data to be encoded, (2) determining a gamer's attention area for the frame of video data and (3) changing an encoding of the frame of video data by allocating bits for the frame based upon the gamer's attention area.
US10242456B2
A system and method for markers with digitally encoded geographic coordinate information for use in an augmented reality (AR) system. The method provides accurate location information for registration of digital data and real world images within an AR system. The method includes automatically matching digital data within an AR system by utilizing a digitally encoded marker (DEM) containing world coordinate information system and mathematical offset of digital data and a viewing device. The method further includes encoding geographic coordinate information into markers (e.g., DEMs) and decoding the coordinate information into an AR system. Through use of the method and corresponding system, marker technology and the basis of geo-location technology can be combined into a geo-located marker, thereby solving the problem of providing accurate registration within an augmented reality.
US10242455B2
A self-contained, low-cost, low-weight guidance system for vehicles is provided. The guidance system can include an optical camera, a case, a processor, a connection between the processor and an on-board control system, and computer algorithms running on the processor. The guidance system can be integrated with a vehicle control system through “plug and play” functionality or a more open Software Development Kit. The computer algorithms re-create 3D structures as the vehicle travels and continuously updates a 3D model of the environment. The guidance system continuously identifies and tracks terrain, static objects, and dynamic objects through real-time camera images. The guidance system can receive inputs from the camera and the onboard control system. The guidance system can be used to assist vehicle navigation and to avoid possible collisions. The guidance system can communicate with the control system and provide navigational direction to the control system.
US10242451B2
To perform an ideal calibration operation, a start switch started manually or by an on-vehicle camera calibration device, a start switching device started by an operation of the start switch and projection devices installed in an outer periphery of a vehicle body, including at least one or more light sources irradiating the surroundings of the vehicle body with light are provided, in which whether a calibration operation is possible or not is determined based on references on a road surface projected by the projection devices.
US10242450B2
The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system (10) for inspecting an object (97) in a volume (40). The ultrasound imaging system comprises an image processor (36) configured to conduct a segmentation (80) of the object (97) simultaneously out of three-dimensional ultrasound mage data (62) and contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound image data (60). In particular, this may be done by minimizing an energy term taking into account both the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data. By this, the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data may even be registered during segmentation. Hence, this invention allows a more precise quantification of one organ in two different modalities as well as the registration of two images for simultaneous visualization.
US10242442B2
A method for image analysis comprises receiving one or more images of a plurality of lesions captured from a body of a person, extracting one or more features of the plurality of lesions from the one or more images, analyzing the extracted one or more features, wherein the analyzing comprises determining a distance between at least two lesions with respect to the extracted one or more features, and determining whether any of the plurality of lesions is an outlier based on the analyzing.
US10242427B2
Geometries of the structures and objects deviate from their idealized models, while not always visible to the naked eye. Embodiments of the present invention reveal and visualize such subtle geometric deviations, which can contain useful, surprising information. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method can include fitting a model of a geometry to an input image, matting a region of the input image according to the model based on a sampling function, generating a deviation function based on the matted region, extrapolating the deviation function to an image wide warping field, and generating an output image by warping the input image according to the warping. In an embodiment of the present invention, Deviation Magnification inputs takes a still image or frame, fits parametric models to objects of interest, and generates an output image exaggerating departures from ideal geometries.
US10242422B2
An apparatus may include a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a hypervisor. The hypervisor may include a command parser to parse graphics memory addresses associated with a workload of a virtual machine of the apparatus, and generate a first shadow global graphics translation table (SGGT) for translating the graphics memory addresses. The hypervisor may further include a GPU scheduler to check conflict between the first SGGTT and a second SGGTT containing graphics memory addresses used by working sets being-executed or to-be-executed by the render engines of the GPU, and schedule the workload of the virtual machine to a render engine when there is no conflict between the first SGGTT and the second SGGTT. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10242415B2
Content uploaded to a video distribution service is analyzed to determine if a portion matches part of any reference work. If a match is found, treatment of the uploaded content is determined based on stored rule data, and based on one or more factors. These factors can include, e.g., the length of the matching portion, the part of the reference work from which the matching portion was apparently copied, the confidence of the match, the popularity of the uploaded content (or of the reference work), the geography from which the content was uploaded (or the geography to which it is to be downloaded), etc. Further determinations may be made by human evaluators (including crowd-source approaches). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US10242413B2
In one embodiment, a method includes rendering, based on a three-dimensional model, a virtual object in a three-dimensional virtual environment, where the rendering is customized for a user of the virtual environment, the customized rendering being based on a current stage of the user in a course of stages, wherein the course comprises a plurality of stages including a first stage, a final stage, and one or more intermediate stages, each stage being associated with one or more transition conditions, wherein the course comprises at least one path through the stages from the first stage to the final stage, detecting, in the virtual environment, one or more actions by the user, updating the current stage of the user in response to the detected actions, and providing information relating to the updated current stage of the user to an interested party.
US10242412B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current geo-location of a mobile client computing device associated with a first user; and selecting content associated with the current geo-location that was provided by a second user. The selection is based at least in part on a relationship between the first and second users. The method also includes sending to the mobile client computing device while the mobile client computing device is at or near the current geo-location a notification associated with the content.
US10242408B2
In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, at a server, onboard diagnostic data associated with an operational state of a vehicle of a user; calculating vehicle-related trip expense data based on the vehicle trip distance data included in the onboard diagnostic data; generating a message including the vehicle-related trip expense data and wirelessly transmitting the message to a mobile device having an interface to present the vehicle-related trip expense data. The onboard diagnostic data may include vehicle trip distance data for a vehicle trip. The vehicle-related trip expense data may be based on a first cost rate associated with a first segment of the vehicle trip and a second rate associated with a second segment of the vehicle trip, and the calculating may be performed by a processor of the server. The onboard diagnostic data may be compatible with the OBD-II standard.
US10242407B1
The disclosure includes technology for analyzing financial instrument data and generating a forecast. An example method receives financial instrument data for a financial instrument; determines a financial dimension; parses the financial instrument data for occurrences of the financial dimension; computes historical price statistics for a set of time intervals relative to occurrences of the financial dimension; and generates pricing forecast relative to a point in time based on the historical price statistics.
US10242403B2
Methods, apparatuses, and article of manufactures for receiving a plurality of bids and offers for a binary options instrument. Each bid and offer comprises a quantity and a price. A subset of bids and offers from the plurality of received bids and offers is generated. At least one rule is applied to the subset of bids and offers to generate a reduced subset of bids and offers. A binary options index is computed from the reduced subset of bids and offer. A request for a binary options transaction that is based on the computed binary options index is received.
US10242393B1
Described is a system and method for presenting event information to a user and, if necessary, obtaining confirmation of different aspects (user, item, action) of the event. In some implementations, an event includes a user, an action, and an item. For example, an event may include a user picking an item from an inventory location, a user placing an item into a tote associated with the user, etc. if the aspects of the event cannot be determined with a high enough degree of confidence, a user interface may be generated and sent to the user requesting confirmation of one or more of the aspects of the event.
US10242392B2
A server communicable with a submitter terminal and a purchaser terminal delivers, to a purchaser, a self-shot video responding to a request from the purchaser in a system in which the submitter submits a self-shot video as a product and the purchaser purchases the product. The server includes a receiver that receives product information from the submitter terminal, a sender that sends the received product information to the purchaser terminal, a receiver that receives a purchase instruction from the purchaser terminal displaying the product information, a receiver that receives request information for self-shooting from the purchaser terminal, a sender that sends the received request information to the submitter terminal, a receiver that receives a self-shot video shot based on the displayed request information from the submitter terminal, and a sender that sends the received self-shot video to the purchaser terminal.
US10242389B2
The invention provides a system for promoting computer network pages. The system includes a mobile station that allows a user to conduct telephone calls and connect to a computer network. A call management server selects and transmits an audible advertisement for a network page to a user, based on profile information of the user. A gateway then causes a menu including a selection choice for connecting to the advertised computer network page to appear on the mobile station when the user connects to the computer network.
US10242388B2
A system and method of selecting on-line advertisements in a real-time bidding exchange is disclosed. A bid request associated with a first data set is received. Advertisements are filtered based on each advertisement's campaign constraints as applied to the first data set. A heuristic score for each filtered advertisement is determined based on a small subset of features from the first data set or randomly generated. A bid value is then determined based on a substantial number of the features from the first data set only for each of a top fraction of filtered the advertisements that have the highest heuristic scores. A final bid value and its associated advertisement is selected and sent to a sender of the bid request for presenting in an on-line advertisement space as an impression.
US10242387B2
Disclosed aspects relate to managing a set of offers using a dialogue. An adaptive profile may be received with respect to a client. The adaptive profile may indicate a set of client profile data, a set of client event data, and a set of client context data. A dialogue may be established with the client based on the adaptive profile. A set of offers may be resolved by an offer management engine based on the dialogue. The set of offers may be presented to the client.
US10242380B2
A method includes determining a recommended aspect for future content, action, or behavior. The recommended aspect is determined at least in part based on activity data that indicates aspects of other content authored by or interacted with by a plurality of authors in a social network prior to receipt of the selection. The method also includes providing the recommended aspect for the future content, action, or behavior for a unique author in the social network. The method also includes determining whether the unique author posted the future content, action, or behavior with the recommended aspect in the at least one social network. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the determination of whether the unique author posted the future content, action, or behavior with the recommended aspect, an agility rating that indicates a responsiveness of the unique author to the recommended aspect.
US10242375B2
Some embodiments are directed to a processor based computer system for enabling an implementer to select software for deployment to a vehicle control system. The system can include a processor based computer system that is configured to perform a first identifying step that includes identifying available V2X applications for the system, a second evaluation step that includes evaluating parameters for the V2X applications identified in the first identifying step, and a third ranking step that includes raising or lowering the ranking of each V2X application based on the second evaluation step.
US10242368B1
Systems and methods provide software-based contactless payments. According to various embodiments, a system for software-based contactless payment includes a token manager that generates a token and provides the token to a mobile device of a customer for use with a transaction, a communication interface that receives the token in association with a transaction, and a processor that processes the token using to determine whether to authorize the transaction.
US10242363B2
A computer-based method for authenticating a suspect consumer as an authorized cardholder during a payment card transaction is provided. The method includes registering the authorized cardholder within a portable computer device by receiving a reference sample of the authorized cardholder. The portable computer device includes a processor, a memory, and a camera. The method also includes storing, in the memory, the reference sample of the authorized cardholder and associated payment card information. The method further includes using the camera to capture a transaction sample of the suspect consumer during the payment card transaction using the camera. The method also includes comparing, by the processor, the transaction sample to the reference sample stored in the memory. The method further includes authenticating the suspect consumer as the authorized cardholder based at least in part on the comparison.
US10242349B1
According to one or more embodiments, a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for managing vegetation across distribution systems are provided. The method may include receiving, by a computer, voltage data from one or more data sensors. The computer may determine one or more locations of one or more voltage fault conditions based on the received voltage data. A score may be assigned to each of the determined locations by the computer. The computer may then identify a subset of one or more work orders corresponding to the one or more determined locations from among a database of work orders. A subset of locations may be determined by the computer from among the one or more locations based on the assigned scores and the identified subset of work orders. A field visit may then be scheduled by the computer based on the determined subset of locations.
US10242338B2
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided that permit a customer to purchase one or more products but not take possession of the products or cause delivery of the products at the time of the purchase order. The products are then stored at one or more product storage locations of the retailer while being marked as purchased by the customer in an inventory management database of the retailer. The customer is provided with a customer interface including a plurality of input fields configured to allow the customer to define one or both of: a delivery time period and a delivery destination for delivery of at least a portion of the products purchased by the customer; and a pickup location and a pickup time period for at least a portion of the products purchased by the customer.
US10242335B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for courier management. For example, in one embodiment, a courier application is executed on a mobile computing device to retrieve a list of stops associated with a courier from a computing device over a network. The list of stops includes a plurality of orders to be delivered, wherein a customer location is associated with each order. The courier application generates user interfaces to facilitate a confirmation that items associated with orders have been delivered, to facilitate an input of a review of the performance of the courier, and to perform other functions.
US10242331B2
In various implementations, a supplemental system may be provided. The supplemental system may be coupled to business intelligence environment(s) to facilitate visual identification of meaningful differences. In some implementations, expressions to exclude may be identified and specifications associated with BI Artifacts may be instrumented based on the expressions to exclude. Enhanced Business Intelligence Artifact Outputs may be generated to visually identify differences between BI Artifact Outputs that are not associated with expressions to exclude.
US10242328B2
The present disclosure is directed to tracking telecommunication expenses. In some implementations, a method includes aggregating data associated with telecommunication services used by an employee. One or more policies of an enterprise are automatically identified for evaluating the used services. The enterprise policies are associated with the employee. A violation of one or more enterprise policies is determined based, at least in part, on comparing the aggregated data to the enterprise policies.
US10242324B2
The present disclosure describes an automated, cognitive based computing system using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to sense, predict, and infer network conditions, configured to dynamically manage transmission of information between communication nodes. The communication nodes comprise orbital nodes positioned in orbit above earth and terrestrial nodes coupled with earth interconnected via a hybrid mesh network topology. One or more automated, cognitive based physical computing processors, using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms to sense, predict, and infer network conditions, determine a target terrestrial node to receive information initially stored on a first orbital node; determine transmission conditions between the target terrestrial node and the first orbital node based on output signals from sensors; dynamically determine whether transmission conditions between the first orbital node and the target terrestrial node prevent optical transmission of the information directly from the first orbital node to the target terrestrial node; and, responsive to a determination that transmission conditions prevent optical transmission of the information to the target terrestrial node from the first orbital node, automatically transmit the information along an alternate route between the first orbital node and the target terrestrial node, wherein the alternate route includes transmission between some orbital node and an alternative target terrestrial node other than the target terrestrial node.
US10242322B2
Features are disclosed for generating request decision models for use by client computing devices to determine request paths or modes for content requests. The request modes may correspond to direct requests (e.g., requests made from a client device directly to a content server hosting requested content) or to indirect requests (e.g., requests made from the client device to the content server via an intermediary system). The request decision models may be trained by a machine learning algorithm using performance data (e.g., prior content load times), contextual information (e.g., state information associated with devices at times content requests are executed), and the like.
US10242319B2
A baseline predictive maintenance method for a target device (TD) and a computer program product thereof are provided. Fresh samples which are generated when the target device produces workpieces just after maintenance are collected, and a new workpiece sample which is generated when the target device produces a new workpiece is collected. A plurality of modeling samples are used to build a TD baseline model in accordance with a conjecturing algorithm, wherein the modeling samples include the new workpiece sample and the fresh samples. A TD healthy baseline value for the new workpiece is computed by the TD baseline model, and a device health index (DHI), a baseline error index (BEI) and baseline individual similarity indices (ISIB) are computed, thereby achieving the goals of fault detection and classification (FDC) and predictive maintenance (PdM).
US10242315B2
Techniques for representing a finite state machine forming are described herein. The techniques include a method that identifies screens of a computing program. The method may include correlating the identified screens with states of a finite state machine. Events indicating transition between the identified screens may be determined as well as data flow associated with the events. The method may include forming a graph representing the screens, events, and data flow in the finite state machine.
US10242311B2
A convolution engine, such as a convolution neural network, operates efficiently with respect to sparse kernels by implementing zero skipping. An input tile is loaded and accumulated sums are calculated for the input tile for non-zero coefficients by shifting the tile according to a row and column index of the coefficient in the kernel. Each coefficient is applied individually to tile and the result written to an accumulation buffer before moving to the next non-zero coefficient. A 3D or 4D convolution may be implemented in this manner with separate regions of the accumulation buffer storing accumulated sums for different indexes along one dimension. Images are completely processed and results for each image are stored in the accumulation buffer before moving to the next image.
US10242310B2
A system and method for automatically mapping LATs and candidate answers to multiple taxonomies without a need to merge these taxonomies. The method includes using a syntactic analysis of a corpus to extract all type instances of the LAT. The extracted instances are then mapped to a given taxonomy and clustered in a set of supertypes. Each supertype receives a score based on the coverage of LAT instances in the corpus. The method includes mapping the candidate answer to the same taxonomy to determine if the candidate answer is an instance of a significant supertype. Then the score of a candidate answer is obtained by aggregating or taking a maximum of the score of the matched significant supertypes. This score evaluates the type match between the LAT and candidate answer for a taxonomy. Multiple taxonomies can be used to increase the chance of LAT and candidate answer mapping.
US10242309B2
Provided are an information recording object and a reading device devised so that embedded information is difficult to guess. The information recording object 30 provided with a combined image comprising an image C1 printed in a lustrous layer 31 and an image C2 formed on the image C1 and printed in a transparent layer 32 is characterized in that: the image C1 and the image C2 are each printed with an ink for which the amount of reflected light differs according to viewing angle; for the combined image, one image is visible depending on the viewing angle; the image C2 is an image in which there is a regularity in feature points in a spatial frequency domain F2; and the image C1 is an image in which the feature points in a spatial frequency domain F1 are disposed at positions that block said regularity.
US10242301B2
A dispenser with a replaceable cartridge containing a product to be dispensed, and a housing configured to removably receive the cartridge. The cartridge has a surface that is marked with a first marking, and the housing has a surface that is marked with a second marking. The housing is configured so that, when the cartridge is received by the housing, the first marking and the second marking together form a machine readable code that is detectable from outside of the housing.
US10242290B2
Methods and systems are provided, which identify specified metrology target abnormalities using selected metrics and classify the identified target abnormalities geometrically to link them to corresponding sources of error. Identification may be carried out by deriving target signals such as kernels from specified regions of interest (ROIs) from corresponding targets on a wafer, calculating the metrics from the target signals using respective functions and analyzing the metrics to characterize the targets.
US10242289B2
A method for operating a computer graphic system, the method comprising: inputting a media content object (MCO) into a feature extractor comprising semantic abstraction levels; extracting feature maps from the MCO on each of the semantic layers; selecting at least a portion of the MCO to be analyzed; determining, based on the analysis of the feature maps from the portion of the MCO and the analysis of a previous state of a recognition unit, one or more feature maps selected from the feature maps of the semantic layers; determining a weight for each feature map; repeating the determining steps N times, each time processing, based on the analysis, each feature map by applying the corresponding weight; inputting the processed feature maps to the recognition unit; and analyzing a number of the processed feature maps until a prediction about the portion of the MCO is output.
US10242286B2
An index is assigned to each entry in the set of possible coverage masks and two functions are generated. One function translates an index to a coverage mask. Also, a sparse function generates an index from a coverage mask. These functions may be realized in hardware and are used during decompression and compression, respectively.
US10242269B2
Techniques are disclosed for locating an occupant within an area. The system includes a first sensor including a first plurality of pixels for receiving a thermal energy input from the occupant within a first field of view (FOV) and a second sensor including a second plurality of pixels for receiving the input within a second FOV. A first distance from the occupant to the first sensor is determined based on the input received by at least one pixel of the first plurality of pixels and a first sensor location from an origin. A second distance from the occupant to the second sensor is also determined based on the input received by at least one pixel of the second plurality of pixels and a second sensor location relative to the origin. A coordinate position for the occupant relative to the origin is determined based on the determined first and second distances.
US10242268B2
A method includes generating an intensity value based on illumination received at a pixel of an imaging system. The intensity value is generated by integrating values using a first counter of a detector during a first period of time. The method also includes integrating the values repeatedly during smaller second periods of time within the first period of time using a second counter of the detector. The second counter has a lower bit resolution than the first counter. The method further includes resetting the second counter for each of the second periods of time. In addition, the method includes generating a pixel event indicator in response to the second counter outputting a specified value. The method may also include determining whether one or more neighboring detectors also generated one or more pixel event indicators and generating an event indicator when the one or more neighboring detectors also generated the one or more pixel event indicators.
US10242263B1
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of providing digital access to safety deposit boxes. The systems and methods provide a portal to digitally access a locker by a user. The systems and methods receive a request to access the locker from the user and authenticate the user to provide access. The systems and methods receive a trigger to capture an image of the locker and capture an image of the interior of the locker. The systems and methods identify items within the locker using recognition algorithms; and associate the items with identified labels. The systems and methods annotate the captured image with the identified labels, wherein the annotations are overlaid onto the capture image to create an augmented reality image of the locker. The systems and methods send the image to the user on a user device associated with the user.
