US10251320B2
Disclosed is a managing device for cooling an inverter. The managing device for cooling an inverter includes a fan controller configured to provide an electric current flowing in a cooling fan; and a controller configured to determine whether the current flowing in the cooling fan is out of a preset range, and, when the current is out of the preset range, configured to control the cooling fan with a control voltage different from an operating voltage of the cooling fan.
US10251319B2
Disclosed herein is a heat radiation apparatus using modular cooling apparatuses. The heat radiation apparatus includes one or more modular apparatuses, and a housing in which the modular apparatuses are inserted. The housing includes an outer frame, and one or more bridges that support the modular cooling apparatuses in the outer frame. A step is formed at the outer frame and the bridges to mount a radiation plate thereon.
US10251317B2
A data center system can include a mobile support structure; one or more enclosures for removable electronic equipment where the enclosures are housed by the support structure; a cooling system in fluid communication with the enclosures for cooling of the electronic equipment where the cooling system is housed by the support structure; and a power system operably connected to the electronic equipment and the cooling system for supplying power thereto where the power system comprises a generator housed by the support system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10251304B1
A lightweight plastic housing with metal rack rails attached within to support industry-standard electronics modules. The plastic is preferably corrugated plastic folded from a single cut sheet and secured with adhesive. The sheet is folded to make an enclosure having a rectangular cross section, and a fifth short panel overlaps a first panel. Box closures, possibly auto-locking box closures, form the top and bottom of the housing. Metal rack rails and supports for the rack rails are installed through a front opening of the housing and are attached to and supported by the plastic housing. Supports include lengths of asymmetric channel stock extending between the top and the bottom of the housing at four corners to maintain the rack rails spaced apart from the sides of the housing. Upper and lower cross supports extend between front and rear supports.
US10251302B2
A flexible architecture for installing electronic equipment in a data center rack is provided, in the form of a virtual chassis. The virtual chassis simultaneously accepts multiple types of equipment items (e.g., computing devices, storage devices, communication devices) and/or multiple versions of a given type of equipment item, by altering the physical configuration of the chassis. As a result, cells or spaces of multiple different form-factors may be defined for receiving the equipment. Also, services such as data and power may be pre-attached to a virtual chassis so that when a computer server or other item is installed, it is automatically connected to the services without separate effort. One or more electronic equipment items, when installed in a cell of the chassis, may mate automatically with multiple data connectors and/or power connectors.
US10251301B2
A cable management device includes a wiring body, having a first sidewall, a second sidewall and a groove rail, wherein the groove rail is formed between the first and second sidewalls and has a input end, a output end, and a corner between the input end and the output end. A first resisting element extends from one side of the first sidewall of the wiring body. A first elastic connecting element includes a first connecting part and a first elastic arm, wherein the first connecting part is connected between the wiring body and the first elastic arm. A second resisting element extends from one side of the second sidewall of the wiring body. A second elastic connecting element has a second connecting part and a second elastic arm, wherein the second connecting part is connected between the wiring body and the second elastic arm.
US10251299B1
A bezel lock system includes a bezel, convert bracket (CB), and lock. The bezel attaches to a chassis panel. The CB slideably secures a latching bracket (LB) of the bezel to a chassis, when in a locked position. The CB slides a length of a release gap along a transverse path from the locked position to a released position. The lock restricts removal of the bezel from the chassis when the lock is engaged in a locked orientation (LO). The lock includes a cam bracket (CamB) that rotates between locked and unlocked orientations. In the LO, the CamB constrains the CB from moving inward on the path by abutting the CB; CB is confined between the LB and CamB. In the unlocked orientation, the CamB is disposed out of the CB's path, allowing the CB to retract inward to the release position, which allows the bezel to detach from the panel.
US10251289B2
A head-mounted display includes a display device, a bonding structure connected to the display device, an adjusting mechanism connected to the bonding structure, and a rotation button connected to the adjusting mechanism. When the rotation button is rotated, the length of the bonding structure is changed by the adjusting mechanism.
US10251282B2
Maintenance of a flow tank is facilitated. A sub-module is provided adjacent to a main module. A board is introduced in the sub-module, and is heated by a heater that is at a heating position, is moved to the main module, solder is applied by a flow tank in parallel with insertion of a component by a component insertion device, and thereby the component is mounted. If a maintenance condition is established, introduction of boards is stopped, the heater is moved to a standby position, and the flow tank is moved to a maintenance position of the sub-module. Maintenance is performed on the flow tank and since the component insertion device is not present above the flow tank, it is possible to facilitate inspection, removal, and the like of the flow tank.
US10251280B2
An integrated circuit with a micro inductor or with a micro transformer with a magnetic core. A process of forming an integrated circuit with a micro inductor with a magnetic core. A process of forming an integrated circuit with a micro transformer with a magnetic core.
US10251276B2
The disclosure relates to a printed circuit board for an electronic component. The printed circuit board includes: an electrically insulating substrate; a number of electrically conductive conductor tracks; and at least one sensor dome having a sensor head and having a carrier body for accommodating the sensor head. The carrier body is formed integrally with the substrate. The disclosure also relates to a method for producing the printed circuit board.
US10251270B2
A printed circuit board having multiple layers of circuitry, the printed circuit board including a first layer having a first cylindrical opening with a first diameter, the first cylindrical opening formed through at least the first layer and formed about a particular axis; and a second layer having a second cylindrical opening with a second diameter, the second cylindrical opening formed through at least the second layer and formed about the particular axis, where the first cylindrical opening is a portion of a conductive via, and where the second diameter is smaller than the first diameter.
US10251268B2
A circuit structure is provided to which an electronic component can be easily mounted (electrical connection of terminals). A circuit structure that includes a substrate provided with a conductive pattern on one face, a conductive member fixed to another face of the substrate, and an electronic component that has first terminals and, which are a portion of a plurality of terminals, electrically connected to the conductive member, and a terminal, which is a portion of the plurality of terminals, electrically connected to the conductive pattern provided on the substrate, wherein the conductive member has a shape in which at least a portion of the second terminal of the electronic component is not overlapped.
US10251264B2
A membrane circuit structure with function expandability is provided. The membrane circuit structure includes a substrate, a lower circuit layer and a covering layer. The substrate includes a first region and at least one second region. The at least one second region is arranged near the first region. The lower circuit layer is printed on the first region. The lower circuit layer is made of a first conductive material. The covering layer is electroplated on a portion of a surface of the lower circuit layer. The covering layer is made of a second conductive material. At least one expansion line is welded on the corresponding second region, and electrically connected with the covering layer and a corresponding function-expanding unit.
US10251257B2
An electronic apparatus and heat dissipation and EMI shielding structure thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a substrate, at least one chip disposed on the substrate, and the heat dissipation and EMI shielding structure. The heat dissipation and EMI shielding structure covers the chip and includes a shielding frame and a heat dissipation element. The shielding frame has an opening to expose the chip, and the heat dissipation element is disposed on the shielding frame and covers the opening. The conjunction of the shielding frame and the heat dissipation element can protect the chip from being interfered with electromagnetic waves, and the heat generated by the chip can be dissipated by the heat dissipation element.
US10251245B2
A method includes the steps of obtaining distance measurements between a device and a number of lighting fixtures, processing the distance measurements to assign coordinates to each one of the lighting fixtures, and facilitating registration of the coordinates of a subset of the lighting fixtures to obtain registered coordinates for all of the lighting fixtures. The coordinates indicate a relative location of each one of the lighting fixtures with respect to one another. The registered coordinates indicate a location of each lighting fixture in a desired coordinate space. Accordingly, a location of a lighting fixture within a desired coordinate space can be easily obtained, which may enable significant additional functionality of the lighting fixture.
US10251242B1
Techniques for employing an enhanced light device to determine desirable information to a user are presented. Such light device(s) can comprise or be associated with a light management component (LMC) that can employ sensors to monitor respective characteristics or conditions of a device, an environment, and/or a user to determine respective contexts for the device, environment, or user, wherein the user can interact with or be in proximity to the device or environment. The light device(s) collects data, including sensor data, relating to the device or environment from the device, the environment, or other data sources. The LMC determines a desirable subset of information to present to the user based on the respective contexts. The LMC facilitates presenting the desirable subset of information to the user via the light device or a communication device of the user that is communicatively connected to the light device.
US10251237B2
A light device comprises at least one light module having a front side and a rear side, as well as a lighting means arranged for emitting light from the front side, a lighting means arranged for emitting light from the rear side, and a control unit. The control unit is configured for adjusting the front-side lighting means and the rear-side lighting means. In particular, the control unit is configured to calibrate the light module to a light level that can be preset, to dynamically adjust the front-side lighting means for the display of information, and to adjust the rear-side lighting means such that it is adapted to the dynamically adjusted front-side lighting means, so that the calibrated light level is constant. In this way, the light device can influence the lighting properties in a target area in such a way that an impairment of the illumination of the target area is minimal for displaying the information even with varying lighting properties of the front lighting means.
US10251232B1
A dynamic light display may include an array of lighting elements behind a translucent material. The array of lighting elements may be controlled by an electronic controller which controls activation and deactivation as well as intensity levels of the individual lighting elements of the array. The electronic controller may generate dynamically moving light shapes which move around on the array. The dynamically moving light shapes are diffused through the translucent material to produce dynamic light display sequences, which may serve a wide range of applications.
US10251225B2
An illumination device includes a light emitting diode (LED) module and a control circuit. The control substrate comprises at least one essential circuit component and at least one non-essential circuit component. The device also includes a multi-mode power supply configured to supply power to the LED module and the control circuit. The multi-mode power supply comprises: (i) a primary power supply component configured to supply power to the at least one essential circuit component, the LED module, and the at least one non-essential circuit component; and (ii) a secondary power supply component configured to supply power to only the at least one essential circuit component.
US10251211B1
A vehicle connection maintenance system includes a receiver, a transmitter, an electronic controller. The receiver is disposed in a vehicle and is configured to receive a signal from a portable device to enable the portable device to wirelessly connect to a connection system in the vehicle. The transmitter is disposed in the vehicle and is configured to transmit information related to the portable device. The electronic controller is configured to the cause the transmitter to transmit information when the receiver has received the signal from the portable device and the portable device is connected to the connection system of the vehicle to maintain wireless connection between the portable device and the connection system of the vehicle and prevent the portable device from wirelessly connecting to a remote system, the information indicating that the portable device is wirelessly connected to the connection system in the vehicle.
US10251209B2
A smart 3GDT schema has been disclosed, in detail, a method for controlling the communication of a network system has been disclosed. The network system comprises a UE, a NodeB, a RNC, a SGSN, and a GW. The UE is arranged to be in communication with the RNC via the NodeB, and the RNC is arranged to be in communication with the SGSN which in turn being arranged to be in communication with the GW for non-3GDT communication of the network system, or the RNC is arranged to be in communication with the GW for 3GDT communication of the network system. In this method, statistics of payload transferred between the UE and the GW has been monitored, and if the statistics of payload within a predetermined time period exceeds a first threshold, and the UE is in the non-3GDT communication, then switching the non-3GDT communication to the 3GDT communication. The present application has also disclosed the SGSN, GW, and the network system adaptive to perform the method.
US10251200B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may identify a potential collision between a scheduled legacy transmission time interval (TTI) communication and a scheduled shortened TTI (sTTI) communication, the legacy TTI communication having a legacy TTI duration that is longer than an sTTI duration associated with the sTTI communication. The apparatus may determine whether the legacy TTI communication is within a threshold time of being transmitted. The apparatus may transmit at least one of the sTTI communication, the legacy TTI communication, or any combination thereof, based at least in part on the determination.
US10251194B2
In an operation scheduler adapted to schedule in an asynchronous contention-based system a first FIFO queue is adapted to store one trigger message or one operation request. A message router is coupled to the first FIFO queue and is adapted to route instructions to a second FIFO queue or a memory and locate in the memory the instructions of a suspended operation associated with a trigger message and authorize execution of the suspended operation. An arbitration unit is coupled to the second FIFO queue and to the memory, and is adapted to schedule the execution of instructions associated with a standalone non-preemptable operation during a period of time within which at least one operation of the first sequence is being suspended.
US10251190B2
Provided are an uplink frequency selection scheduling method and device. The method includes: receiving, by a base station, a sounding reference signal (SRS) sent by a user equipment (UE); determining an interference intensity of a PRB; determining a scheduling priority of the PRB according to the channel quality of the SRS and the interference intensity of the PRB; and conducting uplink frequency selection scheduling according to the scheduling priority. The embodiments of the present invention can improve the uplink performance of a TD-LTE system.
US10251181B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a wireless device, a method therein for buffer status reporting, a network node and a method therein for assigning resources. The method for the wireless device includes determining an amount of data in the buffer to be transmitted in addition to an amount of data previously transmitted but not acknowledged, transmitting a buffer status report to the network node in which the report includes information on the determined amounts, and receiving from the network node a scheduling assignment for enabling the wireless device to transmit of the unacknowledged data and the remaining data in the buffer.
US10251177B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for allocating a wireless resource in order to prevent interference in a wireless LAN. A method for allocating a wireless resource in a wireless LAN may comprise the steps of: allocating, by an AP, a plurality of wireless resources for a plurality of STAs included in a BSS, in the entire bandwidth, respectively; and transmitting, by the AP, a PPDU to the plurality of STAs through the plurality of wireless resources, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of wireless resources is a combination of a plurality of wireless units defined in different sizes on a frequency axis, and each of the plurality of wireless resources can be determined in consideration of the size of the bandwidth of at least one STA supporting a bandwidth smaller than the size of the entire bandwidth from among the plurality of STAs.
US10251168B2
Disclosed are a method, a base station and a user equipment for subframe configuration in a time division duplex system. The method comprises: a base station determining a subframe number of a flexible subframe in a radio frame; the base station determining a feature of the flexible subframe corresponding to the subframe number, where the feature indicates that the flexible subframe is an uplink subframe or a downlink subframe; and the base station sending to a user equipment a first signaling via a downlink control channel, where the first signaling includes the feature of the flexible subframe corresponding to the subframe number.
US10251164B2
A wireless communications system is described which comprises a base station, a relay device, and a terminal device. The terminal device is operable to receive from the base station an allocation of uplink resources for transmitting uplink data to the relay device, and to transmit uplink data to the relay device using the uplink resources allocated to the terminal device. The relay device is operable to receive the transmitted uplink data from the terminal device on the allocated resources, to receive an allocation of uplink resources for relaying the received uplink data to the base station, and to transmit the received uplink data to the base station using the uplink resources allocated to the relay device.
US10251162B2
Systems and methods for the management of communications related to telecommunications-based devices are provided. Telecommunications-based devices initiate requests to gateway computing devices corresponding to a radio communication network to establish data communications. The gateway computing device accepts the communication request and specifies an ordered preference of one or more communication protocols that will be used telecommunications-based devices accessing the wireless communication network. The telecommunications-based device processes the acceptance and selects a communication protocol from the ordered preference provided by the gateway computing device.
US10251153B2
A communication device includes a transceiver unit for receiving from a central installation a broadcast message containing information for initiating communication between the communication device and the central installation, and a control unit for selecting a hardware address for the communication device in response to the information contained in the broadcast message. The selected hardware address can be used for addressing the communication device for messages from the central installation. The transceiver unit is designed to communicate with the central installation using the selected hardware address for the duration of a session. The control unit is designed to delete the selected hardware address after the duration of the session has expired. Selecting a hardware address randomly and deleting the hardware address after the session has expired allows communication between the communication device and the central installation, while maintaining the identity of the communication device anonymous.
US10251148B2
A method for locating a terminal equipped with a UICC card, connected to a cellular telecommunications network and located in a current cell, the terminal storing in the UICC card an identifier of the current cell and at least one identifier of a previous cell in which the terminal was previously located. This method comprises the following steps, implemented by a processing server connected to the network: receiving said identifiers received from the terminal via the communication network; estimating location information for the terminal using location coordinates associated with at least one previous cell identified by an identifier stored in the terminal.
US10251146B2
A method for registration-less paging includes establishing a mobile device identity for a mobile device in a wireless network, determining a time instance for the identified mobile device to listen to pages, and sending a page from the wireless network to the identified mobile device during the determined time instance. In one example, the method is for a network-initiated attach procedure and includes receiving a request to attach a mobile device in a wireless network, generating a paging message based on the request to attach the mobile device, sending a paging indicator to a mobile device based on the paging message during a time instance based on an agreed rule, and accepting an attach procedure from the mobile device based on the paging indicator.
US10251140B2
In one aspect of the teachings herein, a radio network node advantageously adapts the transmission duration of a synchronization signal with respect to transmission of the synchronization signal in different directions. For example, the radio network node uses a shorter transmission duration in beam directions that are associated with better reception conditions and a longer transmission duration in beam directions that are associated with poorer reception conditions. As a consequence of varying the transmission duration according to received-signal qualities known or expected for the different directions, the radio network node can shorten the overall time needed to complete one synchronization-signal transmission cycle and use less energy, as compared to using a more conservative, longer transmission time in all beam directions.
US10251139B2
A first channel correlation is calculated for each pair of access terminals in a population of access terminals. A particular pair of access terminals is identified from the population of access terminals based on the first channel correlations. The population of access terminals includes a first access terminal of the particular pair of access terminals, a second access terminal of the particular pair of access terminals, and at least one remaining access terminal from the population of access terminals. A second channel correlation is calculated between the first access terminal and each of the at least one remaining access terminal. A third channel correlation is calculated between the second access terminal and each of the at least one remaining access terminal. One of the first access terminal and the second access terminal is selected to drop from service based on the second channel correlations and the third channel correlations.
US10251138B2
A user apparatus in a mobile communication system including a base station and the user apparatus, including: reception means configured to receive, from the base station, first system information including a first maximum transmission power value and a second maximum transmission power value, and second system information including a first signaling value and a second signaling value; and control means configured, when determining that the second signaling value included in the second system information is a value defined as a transmission condition in a cell where the user apparatus resides, to determine the second maximum transmission power value corresponding to the second signaling value as a maximum transmission power value for use in the cell.
US10251136B2
There is provided a control device, including: a control unit that controls a transmit power of a transmission device, on a basis of a temperature acquired by a sensor provided in the transmission device. The transmit power varies depending on the temperature.
US10251135B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for controlling power of a carrier signal, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, power control parameters, sent by at least one base station, of at least two carrier signals, where the at least two carrier signals are signals sent on at least two aggregation carriers; determining, by the user equipment according to the power control parameters, channel gain reference quantities corresponding to the at least two carrier signals, where the channel gain reference quantities are used to represent a magnitude of a channel gain; and controlling, by the user equipment, power of the at least two carrier signals according to the channel gain reference quantities. According to the technical solutions of the present invention, a power resource of user equipment can be effectively utilized, and network performance can be improved.
US10251129B2
Described in example embodiments herein are techniques for implementing power savings in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In accordance with an example embodiment, a centralized controller can be employed to gather data about network activity and select access points to switch to power save mode. Optionally, the controller may designate certain access points to remain active so as to monitor for clients attempting to access the WLAN. An aspect of an example embodiment is that it allows the controller to configure and manage power consumption based on demands on the overall system. In an example embodiment, techniques for implementing power savings within individual hardware components, such as access points, are disclosed. An aspect of a technique described in an example embodiment is that it provides flexibility to balance power savings and performance.
US10251121B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of determining one or more active channels. For example, an apparatus may include an energy measurement component including circuitry to measure energy on a plurality of wireless communication frequency channels; a mapping component configured to determine a two-dimensional energy detection map of an Access Point (AP) scan, the two-dimensional energy detection map including a plurality of energy values mapped to a plurality of time slots and to the plurality of frequency channels; and an channel detector component configured to detect one or more active channels of the plurality of wireless communication frequency channels, based on the two-dimensional energy detection map.
US10251117B2
A data processing method when the handover or change appears between systems includes: a Mobility Management network element sends a data forwarding tunnel identifier of a target side processing network element to a user plane anchor network element, obtains a data forwarding tunnel identifier of the user plane anchor network element, and sends the data forwarding tunnel identifier of the user plane anchor network element to a source data forwarding network element.
US10251114B2
Local IP access is provided in a wireless network to facilitate access to one or more local services. In some implementations, different IP interfaces are used for accessing different services (e.g., local services and operator network services). A list that maps packet destinations to IP interfaces may be employed to determine which IP interface is to be used for sending a given packet. In some implementations an access point provides a proxy function (e.g., a proxy ARP function) for an access terminal. In some implementations an access point provides an agent function (e.g., a DHCP function) for an access terminal. NAT operations may be performed at an access point to enable the access terminal to access local services. In some aspects, an access point may determine whether to send a packet from an access terminal via a protocol tunnel based on the destination of the packet.
US10251108B2
Provided are a method for performing interworking of a terminal in a wireless communications system, and a terminal using said method. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a threshold value with respect to a single parameter in which a plurality of parameters for determining whether a traffic control is performed between a first network and a second network are combined; measuring the value of the single parameter with respect to the second network; and determining whether traffic control has been performed by comparing the result of the measurement of the single parameter to the threshold value.
US10251105B2
The present document describes a dynamic mobility management system. The disclosure describes a mobility management mechanism that is able to maintain the IP address assigned when a session was initiated in the user device to exchange data packets between the end-points of a given data service. This is possible through the management of the distributed mobility anchors, tunnels, interfaces and IP addresses, where a mobile node is configured to bind to the previously accessed mobility access router, such that the previously established network sessions of the mobile node are re-established through said previously accessed mobility access router. The disclosure is applied in the Information and Communication Technology domain, more precisely in the mobility management in communication networks.
US10251097B2
The present disclosure generally relates to aspects of applying policy and charging rules to bearers in a communication network. The policy and charging rules are provided for application to at least a dedicated bearer. The technique presented herein may be implemented in connection with a mobile terminal moving between an access point of a first type supporting default and dedicated bearers and an access point of a second type supporting default and not supporting dedicated bearers. A method embodiment of the present disclosure removes an established dedicated bearer and temporarily suspends application of the rules to the dedicated bearer upon a move from an access point of the first type to an access point of the second type. A network endpoint of an ongoing session kept agnostic of the removal of the dedicated bearer. Upon a move from the access point of the second type to an access point of the first type, the dedicated bearer is re-established and the rules are re-applied to the re-established dedicated bearer.
US10251096B2
A method for user detachment when a handover or change occurs in a heterogeneous network is provided. The method includes: a user equipment (UE) is handed over or switched from a source network to a target network; a network element on a network side determines whether to detach the UE from the source network, and if yes, the network element on the network side detaches the UE from the source network. A system and a device for user detachment when a handover or change occurs in a heterogeneous network, and another method for user detachment when a handover or change occurs in a heterogeneous network are also provided.
US10251089B2
Managing connections to be established between clients and access points for the purposes of accessing wireless services is contemplated. The connections may be managed according to a predictive load balancing strategy where connections may be established and adjusted in anticipation of predicted client demands, such as to achieve an optimized throughput.
US10251087B2
Capacity limited devices may initiate real-time Internet protocol (IP) flows that may include voice data for voice calls. Talk-over patterns may be identified, and an IP flow may be modified based at least in part on the identified talk-over pattern. Such a modification of an IP flow may include, for example, dropping one or more downlink or uplink packets of the IP flow, modifying a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) grant to suppress one or more uplink transmissions, or modifying a reliability target associated with the IP flow to reduce a number of redundant transmissions or number of retransmissions.
US10251086B2
A first user equipment is configured to mitigate multi-antenna inter-stream interference. A method by the first UE includes determining, based on one or more criteria, a number of multi-antenna streams whose interference can be currently mitigated by the first UE, and transmitting information based on the number of multi-antenna streams to a first network node, to a second network node, and/or to a second UE. A related method by a first network node serving or managing the first UE includes obtaining information based on a number of multi-antenna streams whose interference can be currently mitigated by a first UE at the first UE, and performing one or more radio operational tasks using the information based on the number of multi-antenna streams whose interference can be currently mitigated.
US10251084B2
The present invention relates to a method for multi-RAT scheduling, and an apparatus therefor, in a heterogeneous wireless communication system. A cellular controller, which controls a terminal in a cellular network, receives a multi-RAT buffer status report from a terminal, determines a UL resource for each corresponding heterogeneous wireless communication network, transmits a multi-RAT BSR response message corresponding to the buffer status report to the terminal, and allocates the UL resource to the terminal by means of the heterogeneous wireless communication network.
US10251081B2
Separate aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reports are handled for static subframe(s), in which the direction of signal transmission is fixed, and flexible subframe(s), in which the direction of signal transmission is variable. A method by a UE includes receiving a trigger for an aperiodic CSI report as part of an uplink (UL) grant from a radio node in a static downlink (DL) subframe, where the trigger indicates a CSI subframe set, out of at least two alternative CSI subframe sets. An aperiodic CSI measurement is performed for a CSI reference resource in the indicated CSI subframe set, and the result of the CSI measurement is reported to the radio node. One of the at least two alternative CSI subframe sets relates to the one or more static subframes, and another one of the at least two alternative CSI subframe sets relates to the one or more flexible subframes.
US10251079B2
Cloud-based management of cell-based test systems is described. For example, at a server that is communicatively coupled to a cell-based test system via a network (that is, in the cloud), a test case from a test case library is selected and accessed. The test case is selected according to the type of user equipment to be tested at the cell-based test system. The test case is sent from the server over the network to the cell-based test system. The cell-based test system can automatically perform the test case on the user equipment. Results from performing the test case on the user equipment are then stored on the cloud; that is, the test results are received at the server from the cell-based test system over the network and stored at the server. A report based on the test results can be prepared and stored on the server (in the cloud).
US10251078B2
An example apparatus includes an impression logger to store mobile device impressions, the mobile device impressions corresponding to usage of a mobile device application to access first media; a classifier to determine whether a first number of detections of a first service set identifier (SSID) during a first time period satisfies a detection threshold, determine whether a second SSID was detected for a second time period that satisfies a time threshold, increment a counter when the detection threshold and the time threshold are satisfied, classify the first SSID as a vehicle SSID when the counter satisfies a quantity threshold; a logic circuit to, when the first SSID is a vehicle SSID, determine that at least one of the mobile device impressions occurred while the mobile device was in a vehicle.
US10251070B2
A first acquisition unit acquires theoretical values of received intensity of radio waves from a transmission point received at a plurality of reception points. A second acquisition unit defines a reception point associated with one of a plurality of theoretical values of received intensity acquired by the first acquisition unit as a measurement point and acquires a measured value of received intensity at the measurement point thus defined. A determination unit that determines a correction range in accordance with a difference between the measured value of received intensity acquired by the second acquisition unit and the theoretical value of received intensity at the measurement point acquired by the first acquisition unit. A correction unit corrects the theoretical value of received intensity at the reception point included in the correction range determined by the determination unit, based on the measured value of received intensity acquired by the second acquisition unit.
US10251067B2
Periodic Radio Resource Management (RRM) reporting from user equipments (UEs) is beneficial for a network to efficiently select a carrier with a cleaner channel to serve the UEs. To enable periodic RRM reporting from UEs, periodic beacon signal transmission for UE measurements is necessary. However, in a shared spectrum, precise periodic transmission cannot be guaranteed due to channel contention. A method of transmission with periodic time windows for beacon signal transmission is proposed to resolve potential issues. Under the proposed solution, beacon signal can be transmitted in a certain periodic fashion without frequent physical layer signaling. Furthermore, periodic beacon signal transmission for measurements can be kept with low transmission failure rate due to channel contention.
US10251061B2
The described computing system may have a first electronic device capable of being coupled to a first communications network, a second electronic device capable of being coupled to a second communications network, an out-of-band management device capable of communicating with the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The first electronic device may be capable of accessing a remote program via the out-of-band management device thereby providing access to a remotely located second electronic device. In a preferred embodiment, this is done utilizing mobile communications technology.
US10251058B2
A cross layer authentication method based on radio frequency fingerprint, it includes the following steps: S1. In the first time slot, the legitimate transmitter A sends the first packet to the legitimate receiver B, and then B identifies the first data packet by the upper layer authentication; S2. The legitimate recipient B extracts the RF fingerprint eigenvector of the legitimate sender A, and stores it in the memory of the legitimate receiver B; S3. In the next time slot, the sender X sends the second packet to the legitimate receiver B, and the legitimate recipient B extracts the RF fingerprint eigenvector of the sender X; S4. Set sample of the RF fingerprint eigenvector; S5. legitimate receiver B estimates the similarity between the RF fingerprint eigenvector of the sender X and sample of the RF fingerprint eigenvector. This invention is in advantage of low computational complexity, small delay and high precision.
US10251055B2
A personal mobile device receives a session-request message requesting establishment an encrypted-audio session with a call-initiating device. In response, one or more call-response inquiries are presented via a user interface of the mobile device. The one or more call-response inquiries include an accessory-status inquiry with respect to an accessory to the mobile device. The mobile device receives, via the user interface, an accessory-unready indication with respect to the accessory, which is associated with the presented accessory-status inquiry. In response to receiving the accessory-unready indication, the mobile device establishes a communication link with the call-initiating device and refrains from exchanging audio data with the call-initiating device via the established communication link. The mobile device makes an accessory-ready determination and responsively establishes the encrypted-audio session at least in part by receiving encrypted-audio data from the accessory and forwarding, via the established communication link, the encrypted-audio data to the call-initiating device.
US10251053B1
A method of storing device information, provisioning data, and event information using distributed ledger technology (DLT). a manufacturer creates a first block of a first category comprising wireless communication device information, the block stored in a non-transitory memory of the device, a wireless communication service provider provisions device on a network, a server maintained by the wireless communication service provider creates a second block of a second category comprising information associated with the provisioning of the device, an application executing on the device stores the second block by in the non-transitory memory, creating a chain of blocks, the application uses at least part of the chain of blocks to provide authentication of the device to the network, and the block foundry server creates at least one block of a third category.
US10251051B2
A method for providing a multi number service using a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) comprises the steps of: according to a command received from the outside of a UICC, selecting any one subscriber identification information set among a plurality of subscriber identification information sets stored in a memory allocated to a subscriber identification information set managing application; and activating the selected subscriber identification information set.
US10251049B2
A system and method for identifying mobile users in a site includes: receiving, in real time, data packets from wireless access points; identifying unique device identifications from the received data packets, and time stamping each identified unique device identification; determining repetitive or false unique device identifications in the identified unique device identification; and eliminating the repetitive or false unique device identifications in the identified unique device identification to obtain a plurality of accurate unique device identifications.
US10251044B2
A method of transmitting emergency and non-emergency communications between a system backend facility (system) and at least one mobile platform (platform), the method comprising establishing a communication link between the system and the platform, providing a single-action voice calling module of the platform for communicating with the system, providing a message reception module of the platform for receiving a message sent from the system, providing a single-action location information transmission module of the platform for sending location information of the platform to the system, providing a single-action location information extraction module of the system for locating at least one recipient associated with the platform based on a predetermined attribute of the platform, and providing a single-action information dispatch module of the system for sending information to the located at least one recipient associated with the platform via the first protocol.
US10251042B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to configuring a network remote from a user's personal network, with parameters governing the user's personal network, in response to user activity, and at a location and time based on the user activity. In an illustrative example, the network may be a Wi-Fi network. The user's personal network may be, for example, the user's home SSID for accessing the user's personal Wi-Fi access device. In some examples, the user activity may be a request for access to the remote network using the user's home SSID. The requested access may be provided at a time and location agreed to with an SSID portability provider. Various examples may advantageously provide portable access to the Internet, for example, using the user's home SSID already configured on the user's devices so that the user's devices can seamlessly and securely access the Internet via the remote network.
US10251036B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a network architecture implementing convergence of a small cell and an M2M system, a related method, and a related device. The network architecture includes: a small cell in a small cell system and an M2M platform device in an M2M system. The small cell is connected to a service interface of the M2M platform device by using a first interface, service data in the M2M system is transmitted between the small cell and the M2M platform device by using the first interface, and when the service data needs to be sent to a user terminal served by the small cell, the small cell sends the service data to the user terminal.
US10251034B2
A method, device, and a vehicle information system are provided for persisting application context from the mobile device to the vehicle information system. An operating context is determined for at least one application executing on the mobile device. A user interface view for display by the vehicle information system is generated and provided to the vehicle information system. The user interface view comprises at least one application user interface element associated with the at least one application, and the application user interface element comprises an application entry point defined by the operating context for the at least one application.
US10251033B2
A request for a first resource by a user is received. In response to receiving the request for a first resource, a second resource is determined based on the first resource and a resource usage pattern of the user. A response to the request for the first resource is provided. The response includes the first resource and the second resource.
US10251032B2
A method for sharing data in a transmitting-side electronic device communicating with a receiving-side electronic device is provided. The method includes connecting a voice call with the receiving-side electronic device; obtaining a sharing object to be shared with the receiving-side electronic device; and transmitting data corresponding to the sharing object to the receiving-side electronic device through a data session formed based on information related to the voice call.
US10251029B2
The present invention provides an apparatus of transmitting broadcast signals. The apparatus includes, an encoder encoding service data, a constellation mapper mapping the encoded service data by either QAM, NUQ (Non Uniform QAM) or NUC (Non Uniform Constellation), a mapper mapping the mapped service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a modulator modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US10251024B2
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for determining in situ locations of physical objects using mobile devices within a facility. Multiple mobile devices may scan different identifiers of different physical objects disposed in a facility. The mobile devices may transmit the identifiers to a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system may query a database to determine the in situ location of the physical objects associated with the identifiers. In response to not being able to retrieve a in situ location of a physical object, the distributed computing system may determine a path of the mobile device which transmitted the identifier associated with the physical object with the unknown in situ location. The distributed computing system may determine the in situ location of the physical object for which the in situ location was unknown based on the path and the known locations of the other physical objects.
US10251015B2
Disclosed is a method for determining filter coefficients of an audio precompensation controller for the compensation of an associated sound system, including N≥2 loudspeakers, including estimating, for each one of at least a pair of the loudspeakers, a model transfer function at each of M control points distributed in Z≥2 spatially separated listening zones in a listening environment of the sound system. The method also includes determining, for each of the M control points, a zone-dependent target transfer function at least based on the zone affiliation of the control point; and determining the filter coefficients of the audio precompensation controller at least based on the model transfer functions and the target transfer functions of the M control points. Consequently, an audio precompensation controller for an associated sound system can be obtained that enables improved and/or customized sound reproduction in two or more listening zones simultaneously.
US10251014B1
A method plays sound clips in binaural sound to users during an electronic communication between two or more users. A processor convolves the sound clips with HRTFs so the sound externally localize away from a head of the user listening to the sound clip. The sound clips play to users during the electronic communication without transmitting the sound clips to electronic devices of the users.
US10251011B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) sensory enhancements using ray tracing. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to normalize environment information captured by multiple capture devices, and calculate, for an observer, the sound sources or sensed events vector paths. The systems, apparatuses and methods may detect and/or manage one or more capture devices and assign one or more the capture devices based on one or more conditions to provide observer an immersive VR/AR experience.
US10251010B2
An audio processing system and method which calculates, based on spatial metadata of the audio object, a panning coefficient for each of the audio objects in relation to each of a plurality of predefined channel coverage zones. Converts the audio signal into submixes in relation to the predefined channel coverage zones based on the calculated panning coefficients and the audio objects. Each of the submixes indicating a sum of components of the plurality of the audio objects in relation to one of the predefined channel coverage zones. Generating a submix gain by applying an audio processing to each of the submix and controls an object gain applied to each of the audio objects. The object gain being as a function of the panning coefficients for each of the audio objects and the submix gains in relation to each of the predefined channel coverage zones.
US10251000B2
A hearing assistance device for informing about the state of a wearer includes: an input part configured to receive a selection input for either an ambient listening function or a music listening function; at least one microphone configured to pick up ambient sound; a speaker configured to send the ambient sound to the wearer; a communication part configured to perform wired or wireless communication with an external electronic communication device; an indication part configured to indicate that the ambient listening function or the music listening function is being performed; and a controller configured to perform the ambient listening function to pick up ambient sound from the microphone according to a selection input from the input part and send the ambient sound to the speaker, or perform the music listening function to play stored music or music received from the communication part and send the music to the speaker.
US10250988B2
A speaker in the present disclosure includes a magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap, a frame fixed to the magnetic circuit, a voice coil disposed in the magnetic gap, a cylindrical bobbin around which the voice coil is formed, and a diaphragm configured so that the inner circumferential side of the diaphragm is fixed to the bobbin and the outer edge of the diaphragm is supported by the frame with an edge member intervening therebetween. The diaphragm has an elliptical shape that is non-axisymmetric with respect to a center axis passing through the center of the bobbin. The diaphragm is formed by vacuum molding of a sheet-like raw material (thermoplastic CFRP sheet) in which long-fiber fillers are oriented in one direction in a thermoplastic resin. The orientation of the long-fiber fillers is set so as to match the short-axis direction of the diaphragm.
US10250987B2
The present disclosure provides a carbon fiber dome. The carbon fiber dome includes at least two carbon fiber prepreg layers. The at least two carbon fiber prepreg layers include carbon fiber prepregs made by at least two weaving methods. In addition, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing the carbon fiber dome as described above. The method includes the following steps: using prepreg resin to pre-impregnate carbon fiber materials made by at least two weaving methods; and pre-impregnating the carbon fiber materials made by at least two weaving methods for bonding each other.
US10250984B2
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.
US10250978B1
A system includes a gain control circuit configured to dynamically select a gain value based on an estimated temperature for a speaker voice coil, a base gain value, and a threshold temperature value. The system also includes a power control circuit configured to determine a power limit value based on the gain value. The system also includes a filter circuit configured to adjust values of a digitized audio signal based on the power limit value. The system also includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) coupled to the filter circuit and configured to convert a digital output of the filter circuit to an analog audio signal.
US10250969B2
An air valve and a speaker are provided. The air valve comprises a valve body, an elastic valve plate, an air inlet penetrating through an inner surface and an outer surface of the valve body, and an air outlet penetrating through an inner surface and an outer surface of the valve plate. The valve plate is connected with the valve body in a sealing manner to form an annular sealing area encircling the air outlet and the air inlet, and the inner surface of the valve body covers the air outlet, and/or the inner surface of the valve plate covers the air inlet. The speaker is provided with or incorporates the air valve. The air valve can be opened or closed via elastic deformation of the valve plate of the air valve.
US10250968B2
A multimedia system includes at least a first pair of satellite loudspeakers for radiating left and right channel signals, the satellite loudspeakers having a first lower cutoff frequency. The loudspeaker system also includes a separate subwoofer having a first upper cutoff frequency. The first lower cutoff frequency is higher in frequency than the first upper cutoff frequency. The loudspeaker system also includes a center loudspeaker array. The center loudspeaker array radiates center channel signals, and also directionally radiates left and right channel signals in the frequency range between the first lower cutoff frequency and the first upper cutoff frequency. The multi-channel loudspeaker system may also incorporate additional satellite loudspeakers for reproduction of surround channel signals.
US10250967B2
An array of speaker modules includes a first speaker module having at least one electroacoustic driver and a housing that together define a first acoustic cavity having a first cavity volume. The array also includes a second speaker module having at least one electroacoustic driver and a housing that together define a first enclosed volume that is greater than the first cavity volume by a first volume difference. The second speaker module includes a first internal enclosure having a first internal volume that is substantially equal to the first volume difference. The portion of the first enclosed volume that is outside the first internal volume defines a second acoustic cavity having a second cavity volume that is substantially equal to the first cavity volume. This configuration enables the performance of low frequency acoustic drivers in the speaker modules to be substantially matched without requiring complicated alternative approaches for matched performance.
US10250965B2
The present disclosure describes a multi-mode headset incorporating both bone conduction and aural transducers. Bone conduction plates of the headset rest on a users' temples, just in front of each ear in one implementation, and create sound through vibrations in a first mode, allowing the user to listen to the headset while still leaving environmental or external sounds audible. In a second mode, the user detaches aural transducers or earbuds from an attachment point and inserts them into the user's ears, blocking external noise and providing passive and/or active noise isolation. In a third mode, both the bone conduction plates and aural transducers may be used simultaneously, providing additional amplitude and potentially wider frequency response. The headset may include a switch, such as a magnetic proximity sensor detecting the position of the aural transducers, to control a mixer or amplifier to re-route audio through the aural transducers. Accordingly, the user may switch between modes and listen to high quality, noise-isolated audio; or audio while remaining aware of external noises.
US10250952B2
Systems and methods for the optimized allocation of content within a universe of inventory are described. For example, a method may include receiving content comprising at least one characteristic and at least one goal. A universe of inventory may be accessed that comprises a plurality of targets which may be assigned into a plurality of segments based on at least one demographic vector. An allocation optimization model may be generated based on the at least one content characteristic, the at least one goal and the plurality of segments. The content may be presented to the targets based on the allocation optimization model. Viewing data may be received that comprises data associated with target consumption of the content and the allocation optimization module may be re-optimized based on the viewing data. Additional factors, such as resource constraints and/or filtering rules, may be used when re-optimizing the allocation optimization module.
US10250947B2
Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
US10250941B2
Systems and methods for mapping affiliated graphs using video fingerprints are disclosed. Some embodiments include receiving first media corresponding to a first package encoding of a video content; identifying a first set of frames of the first media and generating video fingerprints for the first media; receiving second media corresponding to a second package encoding of the same video content; identifying a second set of frames of the second media and generating video fingerprints for the second media; generating a mapping comprising alignment information of one or more frames of the first set of frames and one or more frames of the second set of frames; and outputting the generated mapping for determining a switch point for switching from the first package encoding to the second package encoding during display of the video content.
US10250937B2
Systems and methods for transitioning between media assets are described. In the described techniques, a client device may receive and render a first plurality of coded segments corresponding to a first media asset. Subsequently, while rendering the first media asset, the client device may receive a second plurality of coded segments corresponding to a second media asset. In order to transition between the media assets, a starting point for the rendering of the second media asset is determined.
US10250933B2
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for providing content recommendation by obtaining metadata associated with a media object, extracting from the metadata a plurality of terms associated with the media object, and mapping at least a portion of the plurality of terms to buckets. A query vector having attributes corresponding to the buckets is used to perform a query on a database storing media object documents having attributes corresponding to the buckets.
US10250932B2
Methods and apparatus for the automated creation of targeted or focused content extractions and/or compilations (e.g., highlight reels). In one embodiment, the extractions or compilations are created for use in a content delivery network. In one variant, incoming live feeds are recorded. Time-stamped metadata from sources (either internal or external) able to identify moments and events of interest is used to parse or select portions of the live feeds to generate clips related thereto. Those clips are then sent to users (including optionally their mobile devices) for viewing. In some embodiments, a recommendation engine is used to select clips matching interests of a particular user or group of users. Varied sources of metadata may be used, and networked resources may be utilized to in the implementation of internal “excitement” monitoring systems. Myriad configurations may be implemented including server or head-end based configurations, consumer premises based deployments, and/or distributed implementations.
US10250931B2
A media content management application that allows a user to create and customize a version of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. Based on semantic criteria, the media content management application may use editing/assembly software packages to construct a version of the media content for an intended audience. In addition, the media content management application uses semantic criteria to provide the user with options for optimizing the cost of the version of media content, options for delivering the version of media content, and/or options for delivery mediums to transmit the version of media content.
US10250925B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for providing media to a requester at a particular playback rate associated with the requester. The method includes receiving a request from a requester for a playback session of media that includes a time varying content. In response to receiving the request, a profile associated with the requester is accessed to determine a playback rate of the media for the requester. In response to determining the playback rate of the media for the requester, the media is provided to the requester at the determined playback rate. The method further includes monitoring the playback session of the media for playback changes by the requester and dynamically adapting the playback rate associated with the requester based on the type and frequency of playback changes.
US10250916B2
A device is configured to perform a method that detects a trigger marker for an action corresponding to a segment of a multimedia signal. A fingerprint is generated based on the segment of the multimedia signal at a trigger time point. The generated fingerprint is stored in a database and communicated to the device. During playback of the multimedia signal, fingerprints of segments of the multimedia signal are generated and matched against fingerprints in the database. When a match is found, one or more associated actions for the segment are retrieved by the device. The trigger time point may be determined as a time point near or at the segment of the multimedia signal with the matched fingerprint. In this way, trigger markers for actions may be enabled without modifying the multimedia signal.
US10250914B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for providing a start trigger for a live video broadcast. In particular, in some embodiments the systems and methods described herein provide a live video stream received from a broadcaster client device to one or more viewer client devices. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein determine whether an audience satisfies a triggering event to provide the video stream to an audience of viewers. The systems and methods provide content for a wait screen in response to determining that the audience does not satisfy the triggering event, and provide the video stream in a live broadcast in response to determining that the audience does satisfy the triggering event.
US10250913B2
Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.
US10250910B1
A method for temporal filtering based on motion detection on areas of different sizes includes computing a plurality of motion scores of a plurality of areas in a target picture in a sequence of pictures by motion detection of the areas between the target picture and a reference picture in the sequence of pictures, where the areas may be at least two overlapping areas of different sizes, computing a combined motion score by combining the plurality of motion scores, and generating a filtered picture by temporal filtering the target picture with the reference picture based on the combined motion score. At least one of (i) the motion scores and (ii) the filtered picture may be based on one or more gain settings in a circuit.
US10250905B2
Techniques and tools for conversion operations between modules in a scalable video encoding tool or scalable video decoding tool are described. For example, given reconstructed base layer video in a low resolution format (e.g., 4:2:0 video with 8 bits per sample) an encoding tool and decoding tool adaptively filter the reconstructed base layer video and upsample its sample values to a higher sample depth (e.g., 10 bits per sample). The tools also adaptively scale chroma samples to a higher chroma sampling rate (e.g., 4:2:2). The adaptive filtering and chroma scaling help reduce energy in inter-layer residual video by making the reconstructed base layer video closer to input video, which typically makes compression of the inter-layer residual video more efficient. The encoding tool also remaps sample values of the inter-layer residual video to adjust dynamic range before encoding, and the decoding tool performs inverse remapping after decoding.
US10250897B2
This invention introduces a variant in a video parameter set extension syntax element which allows more flexible signaling regarding tile alignment between each layer with respect to the layers it directly depends on.
US10250896B2
An image compression method based on JPEG-LS is presented. In the method, the M×N pixels in the source image are divided into k groups. M, N, and k are all integers larger than one. Each group corresponds to a plurality of pixels among the M×N pixels. The decorrelation procedure and the context modeling procedure are performed for each of the plurality of pixels in the ith group of the k groups. The compensation look-up table is not refreshed until all pixels in the ith group are performed with the decorrelation procedure and the context modeling procedure.
US10250893B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a method and device for encoding a frame. The method includes the steps of determining a backlight frame from the frame, calculating a residual frame responsive to the frame and the backlight frame, and predictive-encoding of the residual frame using a predictor of the residual frame calculated from an imposed frame (IMF), where the imposed frame is a low-dynamic version of the frame to be encoded. The disclosure relates also a method and device for decoding at least one bitstream representing a frame.
US10250886B2
A prediction information derivation unit derives inter prediction information candidates from inter prediction information of coded prediction blocks neighboring a prediction block subject to coding within the same picture as the prediction block subject to coding and inter prediction information of a prediction block in a coded picture that is different from the prediction block subject to coding. The prediction information derivation unit determines an inter prediction information candidate to be used for inter prediction of the prediction block subject to coding from the inter prediction information candidates that have been derived. A second bitstream generation uni codes an index that indicates the inter prediction information candidate based on the number of the inter prediction information candidates.
US10250885B2
A video system for coding a stream of video data that includes a stream of video frames divides each video frame into a matrix of a plurality of subblocks, wherein each subblock includes a plurality of pixels. The video system operates in accordance with nine prediction modes. Each prediction mode determines a prediction mode according to which a present subblock is to be coded. One of the nine prediction modes is selected to encode the present subblock, wherein the selected prediction mode provides for a minimum error value in the present subblock.
US10250878B2
The invention relates to a method for determining predictor blocks of a first resolution layer image from blocks of a second resolution layer image of a spatially scalable video codec, wherein a resolution of the first resolution layer image is higher than a resolution of the second resolution layer image, the method comprising: up-scaling each block of the second resolution layer image to a corresponding block of an up-scaled second resolution layer image; and filtering each block of the up-scaled second resolution layer image by a sharpening filter to obtain a predictor block of the first resolution layer image.
US10250869B2
A method of driving a display device operably switchable between a two-dimensional (2D) display mode and a three-dimensional (3D) display mode. The display device has four electrodes alternatively arranged between first and second substrates. The method includes applying a first voltage to the first electrodes of the first electrode structures and the second electrode structures, a second voltage to the second electrodes of the first electrode structures and the second electrode structures, a third voltage to the third electrodes of the first electrode structures and the second electrode structure; and a fourth voltage to fourth electrodes of the first electrode structures and the second electrode structure, respectively.
US10250866B1
A set of light field sensors may generate light field output signals conveying light field information within fields of view of the set of light field sensors. The generation of the light field outputs signals may be characterized by a subpixel accuracy. The subpixel accuracy may be enabled by a physical link between the set of light field sensors. The fields of view of the set of light field sensors may overlap over an overlap volume. An object may be located within the overlap volume. The light field information characterizing light field emanating from the object may be combined.
US10250864B2
A method for adjusting and generating enhanced 3D-effects for 2D to 3D image and video conversion applications includes controlling a depth location of a zero parallax plane within a depth field of an image scene to adjust parallax of objects in the image scene, controlling a depth volume of objects in the image scene to one of either exaggerate or reduce 3D-effect of the image scene, controlling a depth location of a segmentation plane within the depth field of the image scene, dividing the objects in the image scene into a foreground group and a background group, selectively increasing or decreasing depth volume of objects in the foreground group, selectively increasing or decreasing depth separation of objects in the foreground group relative to the objects in the background group, and generating an updated depth map file for a 2D-image.
US10250849B2
An overlay network platform facilitates a multi-party videoconference. End users participate using client-based browser or mobile application rendering software, such as a web browser, and using a protocol such as WebRTC. Dynamic speaker selection among the participants is facilitated by continuously determining the “relevance” of a participant's stream with respect to other participants in the conference. Thus, for example, a particular participant stream might be deemed to have a higher relevance if it is the stream corresponding to a person that is currently speaking, that has spoken recently, or that is about to speak. Streams with higher relevance are then selectively delivered at higher quality relative to less relevant streams. Preferably, individual client machines determine which streams are requested and at which quality based in part on their local resource capabilities.
US10250846B2
Systems and methods for providing video subtitling and text communications (e.g., real time text (RTT) and conventional text messaging) during video calls. The system can include video calling with voice recognition based subtitles. The system can also include a call log to provide a textual record of the audio portion of the video call. The system can utilize embedded or online (e.g., cloud-based) voice recognition systems to provide the subtitles and call log. The system can enable users to send RTT, standard text, or other messages to multiple users participating in a video call via a public text interface. The system can also enable users to send private RTT, standard text, or other messages to specified participants during video calls using parallel interfaces.
US10250845B1
In a remote interaction method performed by a remote collaboration system comprising a robot device and a head mounted display, the robot device is located in a remote space and comprising a projector, a panoramic camera and a high resolution camera. The head mounted display is located in a local space apart from the remote space. A communication between the robot device and the head mounted display is established based on a communication request. The remote space is observed by the head mounted display based on first image information and second image information. The first image information is collected by the panoramic camera and received from the robot device. The second image information is collected by the high resolution camera and received from the robot device. Necessary information to be provided to the remote space is searched by the head mounted display based on a result of observing the remote space. The necessary information received from the head mounted display is provided by the robot device to the remote space using the projector.
US10250836B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image sensing apparatus, a control method, and an electronic device capable of reducing a settling time of a vertical signal line at the time of a read operation of pixels. A column processing unit A/D converts pixel signals of a plurality of pixels. A vertical signal line feeds the pixel signals output from the pixels to the A/D converter. A pull-up circuit increases a potential of the vertical signal line at the time of starting a read operation of the pixels. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to a CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor that performs an interleaving operation or the like.
US10250832B1
An image sensor has a stacked pixel arrangement including both rolling and global shutter readout circuits wherein each pixel includes an adjustable transfer transistor gate voltage level for modifying electric charge within a photodiode during exposure depending on incident light intensity. The sensor also has a row decoder circuit providing readout signals to each row of the imaging cells during both a readout interval and during a calibration interval for each row. The row decoder may employ one of several of its features to provide a self-knee point calibration following an image signal readout in order to minimize photo conversion variations that lead to fixed pattern noise and to enhance dynamic range.
US10250831B2
Conventional methods for imaging transient targets are constrained by a trade-off between resolution and frame rate, and transient targets moving faster than the detector frame typically result in image blurring. Imagers using digital-pixel focal plane arrays (“DFPAs”) have on-chip global pixel operation capability for extracting a single transient-feature (i.e., single-frequency discrimination) in a snapshot that depends on the number of counters implemented per pixel. However, these DFPA systems are not capable of multi-target and multi-frequency discrimination. Imagers described herein achieve multi-target transient signature discrimination orders of magnitude faster than the readout frame rate using in-pixel electronic shuttering with a known time-encoded modulation. Three-dimensional (x,y,t) data cube reconstruction is performed using compressive sensing algorithms.
US10250830B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a valid area including pixels that are not shielded from light; a first light-blocked area and a second light-blocked area each including pixels that are shielded from light; an analog-to-digital converting unit to convert the electric charge accumulated by the pixels belonging to the first light-blocked area, the valid area, and the second light-blocked area, to image data at a time; a signal reading unit to read light-blocked data obtained from the first light-blocked area and the second light-blocked area, and valid data obtained from the valid area, in units of pixels; a reference black level estimating unit to estimate a reference black level of the light-blocked data; and a level correction unit to correct, based on the estimated reference black level, a size of the valid data obtained simultaneously with the light-blocked data used in estimating the reference black level.
US10250827B2
An imaging apparatus has a focus adjustment mechanism based on auto focus adjustment of an imaging plane phase difference scheme. An imaging element has a plurality of micro-lenses and a plurality of photoelectric conversion units corresponding to the micro-lenses and acquires a pupil-divided image signal. An auto focus (AF) signal processing unit and a camera control unit perform shading correction on a image for each pupil division acquired from the imaging element. The recording medium control unit controls an operation of recording a correction value to be used in shading correction in a recording medium when the image signal before correction for each pupil division is recorded in the recording medium.
US10250823B2
A method of operating a hyperspectral imaging device includes receiving a light beam at a liquid crystal retarding device, and driving the liquid crystal retarding device with a pre-computed voltage waveform, wherein the voltage waveform is selected to reach a target optical retardance over time for the liquid crystal retarding device.
US10250820B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The device includes a light emitter, an image sensor including first pixels controlled based on a first parameter and second pixels controlled based on a second parameter, a sensor, and a processor. The processor detects a first object and a second object in an image area, determines the first and second parameters based on a first property of the first object and a second property of the second object, said determination is based on a light intensity that is outputted from the light emitter and reflected by the first and second objects, acquires a first image of the first object according to the first parameter and a second image of the second object according to the second parameter, and synthesizes a first area corresponding to the first object with a second area corresponding to the second object.
US10250817B2
An intelligent shading umbrella comprises a base assembly, a stem assembly coupled to a base assembly, and a center support assembly coupled to a stem assembly, the center support assembly comprising one or more arm support assemblies. The intelligent shading umbrella further comprises one or more blades, coupled to the arm support assemblies, a shading fabric, coupled to at least the one or more blades; and a camera, the camera to capture images of an area in proximity to the intelligent shading umbrella. The camera may be located in the center support assembly and the center support assembly may rotate with respect to the base assembly, allowing the camera to capture a variety of images of an area in proximity to the intelligent shading umbrella.
US10250811B2
In an example embodiment, a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method comprises generating a preview of a scene by a first camera of an apparatus in a first mode, and generating one or more image frames of the scene by at least one second camera of the apparatus in the first mode. The method comprises selecting at least one image frame from the one or more image frames as at least one capture image in a second mode. The apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory comprising computer program code, to perform generating the preview of the scene by the first camera in the first mode, generating image frames of the scene by the at least one second camera in the first mode; and selecting the at least one capture image from the image frames in the second mode.
US10250807B2
An imaging device includes: an area setting unit which sets a first area and a second area other than the first area on the captured image acquired by an imaging unit; a main subject setting unit which sets a main subject based on the captured image acquired by the imaging unit or another image; a subject tracking unit which periodically detects the position of the main subject on the captured image acquired by the imaging unit; a variable power unit which zooms on a zoom-up side or a wide angle side; and a control unit which directs the variable power unit to zoom on a wide angle side when a zoom state of the variable power unit is on a zoom-up side and the main subject exists in the second area, wherein the variable power unit zooms according to the direction of the control unit.
US10250804B2
An induction-powered camera capable of being installed external to a building without any building alterations is described. The induction-powered camera may include a continuous power source. The induction-powered camera may transmit one or more images to a control panel associated with security and/or automation systems. The induction-powered camera may be movable and/or removable with undue burden. An apparatus for a security and/or automation system is described. The apparatus may include a first half of the apparatus and an electricity transmission unit positioned within the first half. An electricity receiving unit may be positioned a predetermined distance away from the electricity transmission unit. The electricity receiving unit proximate a second half of the apparatus and a camera may be proximate the second half of the apparatus, the camera powered by the electricity receiving unit.
US10250803B2
A video generating system includes: a storage device, a camera device, and a processor. The camera device obtains a 360-degree panoramic video. The processor determines a plurality of meaningful angles of the 360-degree panoramic video, separates the 360-degree panoramic video into a plurality of durations according to the meaningful angles, and generates a normal video according to the durations associated with the meaningful angles. Each duration corresponds to one of the meaningful angles.
US10250802B2
An apparatus for processing a wide viewing angle image may include: a correction parameter generating unit for analyzing an image input from a camera to generate a correction parameter, a projection geometry generating unit for generating a projection geometry to output a wide viewing angle image by using the correction parameter, and a wide viewing angle image packaging unit for encoding the input image, the correction parameter and the projection geometry to generate a wide viewing angle image package. A method for processing a wide viewing angle image may be performed using the apparatus.
US10250801B2
A camera system and an image-providing method are disclosed to overcome that conventional cameras cannot make a decision by themselves as for whether and/or how to capture images. The disclosed camera system includes a camera for capturing images and a computer device used to calculate an estimated camera location and pose for the camera. The camera system also includes a location adjusting device and a pose adjusting device to adjust the camera to the estimated camera location and pose.
US10250800B2
Image data and position and orientation data collected by a computing device can be aggregated to create enhanced videos. One example of an enhanced video is a panoramic video generated from a single video camera having a standard field of view. Enhanced videos can also be created to have a display resolution that is greater than is capable of being recorded by at least one video camera of the computing device providing input to the computing device. Enhanced videos can also be streamed live to a viewer, and the viewer can change the perspective of the streamed video or auto-center and auto-focus on a specified location or object in the streamed video.
US10250795B2
A method, system, and computer program product to obtain a focus point of a current scene. The method includes performing a first focus procedure in a first direction via a main lens of a main camera of an image capturing device having at least two cameras. The method further includes concurrently performing a second autofocus procedure in a second direction that is opposite the first direction via at least one auxiliary lens of at least one auxiliary camera. The method further includes identifying a focus point within autofocus data collected during the first and second focus procedure. The method further includes, in response to determining the focus point was identified by the at least one auxiliary camera: terminating the first focus procedure; and automatically synchronizing a position of the main lens to that of the at least one auxiliary lens.
US10250792B2
Videography of climbing surfaces and improved positional control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are disclosed. Currently, videography using UAVs (e.g. drones) avoid vertical structures. Rather, such drones are designed to navigate open aerial spaces. For example, UAVs often include sensors and piloting programming to avoid vertical walls. In climbing scenarios, however, a UAV provides improved videography of the vertical surface as described herein. As such, attributes of a vertical, semi-vertical, or non-uniform vertical surface can be recognized by a UAV. These surface attributes can be used to pilot and/or control a UAV. In certain embodiments, a transmitter is disposed on the climber, a normal climbing surface vector is determined, and UAV control settings are generated thereby to position the UAV. And, improved communication can be provided so as to relay real-time video capture of climbing activity to one or more persons on the ground.
US10250790B2
The electric apparatus includes first and second electrically driven elements operating in response to receipt of electric signals whose polarities reverse periodically at mutually same periods, and a signal outputter outputting the electric signals respectively to the first and second electrically driven elements. The first and second electrically driven elements are arranged such that each of their element surfaces faces toward the element surface of the other electrically driven element or such that their element surfaces face toward a same plane from mutually opposite sides across the plane. The signal outputter outputs the electric signals such that, in each period of the electric signals, a time period in which their polarities are mutually opposite is longer than a time period in which their polarities are mutually identical.
US10250789B2
An electronic device (100) includes a modulated light projector (119) and an electronic rolling shutter (ERS) imaging camera (1302) having a sensor array (1306) with a set of pixel rows. The electronic device includes a controller (1304) to control the modulated light projector (119) to project a modulated light flash (1608, 1810, 2010) during capture of a first image frame (1606, 1806, 2006) by the sensor array. The controller is to initiate the modulated light flash while each pixel row of the set is exposed for gathering light and to terminate the modulated light flash before a pixel row of the set is exposed for capture of a next image frame by the sensor array. The electronic device further includes a processor (802) to determine modulated light image data (1320) based on the first image frame. The controller also may control the modulated light projector to refrain from projecting the modulated light flash during capture of a second image frame (1602, 1612, 1802, 1816, 2002, 2018), adjacent to the first image frame.
US10250786B2
An image capturing module comprises a lens and a body. The body is provided with a circuit board component comprising a main control board, an image sensing board and an image processing board that are electrically connected. The image sensing board is substantially perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens. The main control board is disposed at the back of the image sensing board and located at a side thereof away from the lens. The image processing board is disposed at a side edge of the body.
US10250780B2
A video processing circuit detects a risk boundary, which a portion of the boundary between a dark pixel and a bright pixel in an image represented by a video signal Vid-in, and is determined by a tilt azimuth of liquid crystal molecules, from the boundary, and corrects a video signal corresponding to at least one of the dark pixel and the bright pixel which is contiguous to the detected risk boundary in at least one field of a plurality of fields constituting one frame such that a period in which the risk boundary is present in one frame period is shortened.
US10250778B2
A distributed authentication system and method comprises a smart card and a smart card reader, at least one processor; and a storage device communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the storage device storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: receiving information that is provided to the smart card reader from the smart card, the information including authentication information, identifying at least one device where authentication is desired, storing the information on a server wherein the server is accessible by the at least one device where authentication is desired, providing the stored information to the at least one device where authentication is desired, and authenticating a user of the at least one device where authentication is desired according to the stored information.
US10250777B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image display unit, an area specifying unit, an area display unit, a reference specifying unit, and a reference display unit. The image display unit displays a first image and a second image. The area specifying unit specifies a first area which is at least a portion of the first image. The area display unit displays a second area on the second image. The second area corresponds to the first area. The reference specifying unit specifies a first reference in the first area. The reference display unit displays a second reference in the second area in such a manner that a relative position of the first reference with respect to the first area matches a relative position of the second reference with respect to the second area.
US10250775B2
In the image processing device, method and system of the present invention, a destination identifier of an image file is stored, the destination identifier indicating one of a plurality of external stations as a destination station which receives the image file from the image processing device through a network. At least one of a sender identifier of the image file, a subject identifier of the image file and a scan condition of the image file is stored. The image file is transmitted, together with at least one of the sender identifier, the subject identifier and the scan condition, through the network to one of the external stations indicated by the stored destination identifier.
US10250772B2
A device management apparatus configured to manage a managed device connected thereto via a network, the device management apparatus includes circuitry configured to: present use change information that allows a use change instruction of a function provided in the managed device; determine set values corresponding to the use change instruction for set values of various setting items required to execute the function to which the use change is instructed; and change the set values of the setting items related to the function to which the use change is instructed, for each of managed devices, from the set values before the use change instruction to the determined set values.
US10250766B2
An imaging device includes an information processing terminal acting as an operation unit and a main unit implementing an imaging function. The information processing terminal includes: a language acquisition unit configured to obtain a predetermined selectable language of an operating system and a language of a character string added to an application program by a terminology module; a display unit configured to display the predetermined selectable language of the operating system and the language of the character string added to the application program by the terminology module, as a list of selectable language candidates, on a language setting screen provided to a user to select a display language of the operating system; and a language setting unit configured to change the display language of the operating system into the language selected from the list of the selectable language candidates by the user.
US10250764B2
A display system includes a display apparatus, at least one recording medium container, and a display controller. The display apparatus includes a display that displays an image. The display apparatus enables a user to see an object by using the display apparatus. The object is actually located on a line extending from a line of sight of the user. The at least one recording medium container accommodates a recording medium on which an image is to be formed. The display controller displays, on the display, information regarding an intended image that is an image to be formed on the recording medium to be placed in the recording medium container. The display controller displays the information when the user looks at the recording medium container by using the display apparatus.
US10250756B2
Methods for provisioning wireline or wireless services and goods to at least one prepaid or postpaid customer in a communications network are provided. In one such method, a request is received for at least one service or good from a prepaid customer and it is determined based upon the request if sufficient funds are available to pay for the requested service and, if not, a warning message is sent to the customer. If funds are available a payment for the requested service or good is deducted from the customer's account, the account balance is updated, and an authorization is sent to the service node that facilitates the requested service or good. Upon receipt of the authorization, the service node is permitted to access the requested service or good in accordance with a parameter. Other similar methods are provided for postpaid customers.
US10250752B2
A telecommunication network 30 for telecommunications between telecommunication end point devices 36,37,38, such as telephones or video phones, the telecommunication network 30 comprising a plurality of telecommunication device control systems 40 implemented by a computer system. Each telecommunication device control system 40 is shared by telecommunication end point devices 36,37,38 allocated to it and is configured to control communication connections involving telecommunications originating from telecommunication end point devices 36,37,38 allocated to it and other telecommunication end point devices. At least some functionality of the plurality of telecommunication device control systems 40 is shared by at least some parts of the computer system.
US10250747B2
A method, system, and computer program product, include receiving a request for registration from a service provider, upon the service receiver having authorized the request for registration, registering characteristic information of the service call in a user device of a service receiver, and upon a lapse of time, deregistering the characteristic information from the user device.
US10250745B2
Identifying the cellular number on a cellular device capable of supporting multiple cellular numbers
Technologies for displaying information about a number used to contact a cellular device is described herein. A customizable field in a contact is used to designate which number of plurality of numbers usable by the cellular device the originating device associated with the contact is using to connect to the cellular device.
US10250733B1
In various embodiments, different mobile phones are provided, comprising: a touchscreen including a backlight; a near field communication interface; at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the touchscreen, the near field communication interface, and the at least one non-transitory memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to initiate various capabilities and/or functionalities in connection with a lock screen displayed on the touchscreen.
US10250730B2
An adapter apparatus for an earphone accessory is provided. The adapter apparatus includes an earphone jack, a connection interface, a pre-amplifier and a device adapter circuit. The earphone jack is suitable for a plug of the earphone accessory to plug in. The connection interface is suitable for being electrically connected with a portable device. The pre-amplifier is electrically connected to the earphone jack to receive an earphone control signal of the earphone accessory and to provide an amplified earphone control signal. The device adapter circuit is electrically connected to the pre-amplifier and the connection interface to receive the amplified earphone control signal of the earphone accessory and provide a device control signal to the portable device via the connection interface.
US10250716B2
Improved perceived load time for browser and mobile application pages is achieved by adjusting boxcarring of action requests from coupled data consuming applications on the user device, using the priority level of regions and components in component-driven cloud applications. Priority labels differentiate among display regions rendered by the data consuming application and the priority labels further differentiate among components within respective display regions. The middleware application batches the action requests into batches based at least in part on the priority labels, into boxcars segregated by priority label according to a predetermined segregation schedule, and dispatches the boxcars of batched action requests to the server. Performance is also dynamically speeded up, by adjusting inter-boxcar intervals used to dispatch batches of action requests from the user device to a production server, based on the dynamically measured network communication latency between the user device and the server.
US10250708B1
A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. Each computing node typically is functionally-equivalent to all other nodes in the core. The nodes operate on blocks independently from one another while still maintaining a consistent and logically-complete view of the blockchain as a whole.
US10250705B2
Embodiments of the present invention may track a user's interaction trajectory associated with a problem occurred on a website. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an interaction history of interactions between a user and a website may be obtained. An action description associated with actions performed by a user on a website is received. Then, at least one interaction matching the action description is retrieved from an interaction history of interactions between the user and the website. Further, an interaction trajectory may be generated based on the retrieved at least one interaction.
US10250703B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method for location-based content publishing. The method includes a step for receiving indication of a user subscription to one or more publisher feeds, wherein each of the one or more publisher feeds provides multiple content items, each content item being associated with a location. The method also includes a step for receiving a request for content items, wherein the request includes information about the user's location based on a mobile device of the user. The method also includes a step for selecting content items provided by the one or more publisher feeds based on the user's location and based on the location associated with the content items. The method also includes a step for providing at least a portion of the selected content items for display on the user's mobile device.
US10250688B2
The present invention concerns a method and a device for transmitting sensor data in a wireless network. The network is based on a shared transmission channel. Access to the shared transmission channel is scheduled by the master node. The slave node comprises an acquisition device producing said data. The method comprises on the slave node: obtaining a request for acquiring data from the master node; estimating the value of a time information representative of a delay for the acquisition device to acquire a block of data ready for transmission; sending a message to the master node comprising the estimated time information; receiving an authorization of transmission from the master node, said authorization of transmission being scheduled at a time depending on the estimated time information; and transmitting a block of data to the master node after said reception according to the received authorization. Accordingly, the communication channel is reserved at the right time allowing minimizing the bandwidth and the latency.
US10250687B2
In a vehicle remote operation system, when acquiring remote operation request information from a user of a vehicle 100, a server 210 in a command administration center 200 transmits access request information, requesting an access to the center 200 as a predetermined connection destination, to a command acquisition ECU 110a mounted on the vehicle 100. When acquiring the access request information transmitted from the center 200, the ECU 110a accesses to the center 200 as the predetermined connection destination connected to a network 400. Thus, the command information server 212 in the center 200 provides command information, corresponding to a remote operation command corresponding to a remote operation requested by the user of the vehicle 100, to the ECU 110a via the network 400. The ECU 110a then supplies the command information to the corresponding vehicle ECU 110 for allowing the vehicle 100 to operate as requested by the user.
US10250686B2
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations and functions. The computing device detects a potentially adverse storage issue with a memory device of a storage unit (SU) of set(s) of storage unit(s) (SU(s)). The computing device also determines whether to transfer at least one EDSs (associated with the memory device) to another memory device for temporary storage therein. Based on a determination not to transfer, the computing device identifies at least one alternate storage location and facilitates transfer of the at least one EDSs for temporary storage therein. When the potentially adverse storage issue has subsided, the computing device facilitates transfer of the at least one EDSs back.
US10250681B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a system that controls content distribution using a feedback loop. Content is distributed over multiple different online channels using a same initial maximum selection value for distribution over each different online channel. An observed distribution amount required for distribution of the content over the multiple different online channels is received through a feedback loop and for multiple different distributions of the content. Based on the observed distribution amount received through the feedback loop, a realized distribution amount is determined for the multiple different distributions across the multiple different online channels. The maximum selection value is adjusted based on a difference between the realized distribution amount and a reference distribution amount specified by a provider of the content. The content is distributed over the multiple different online channels using the adjusted maximum selection value.
US10250674B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a radio access method, apparatus, and system, which can implement mutual transmission and processing of collaborative data between sites on a basis of low-cost deployment and high availability, and improve network performance. In the method, a basic DU is deployed in a site, and the method may include: receiving, by a switching device, a first data packet sent by a first basic DU; determining to send the first data packet to a second basic DU for collaborative processing; and sending the first data packet to the second basic DU, so that the second basic DU performs collaborative processing on the first data packet and a second data packet, where the second data packet and the first data packet are of a same data type. Embodiments of the disclosure are applicable to the communications field.
US10250666B2
Systems and methods for generating a dashboard image for viewing on a remote computing device. The system may include a business database storing a plurality of business values; a dashboard generator; an image generator and a web page generator. The dashboard generator may be configured to derive a plurality of key performance indicator values from the business database and generate a dashboard corresponding to the plurality of key performance indicator values. The image generator may be configured to generate the dashboard image, such that the dashboard image corresponds to the dashboard. As well, the web page generator may be operatively coupled to the image generator and configured to generate a dashboard web page corresponding to the dashboard image. The method may include: receiving a dashboard image request from the remote computing device; deriving a plurality of key performance indicator values from a business database; creating a dashboard image corresponding to the key performance indicator values; and generating a dashboard web page corresponding to the dashboard image.
US10250664B2
Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of “faster than real time” encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.
US10250661B2
In a method of controlling a real-time conference session there is a first user and a second user connected to a media processing unit. The first user has a passive mode wherein data is received at and transmitted by the first users communication terminal as passive data but not received by the communication terminal of the second user and an active mode wherein the data received and transmitted by the first user's terminal and received by the second user's terminal as active data. When the first user switches from the passive mode to the active mode there is a duration of the conference call that is left to be transmitted to the second user. That portion has been recorded and is played at a faster rate to the second user.
US10250659B2
Client buffer thresholds are dynamically adjusted to provide quick start up and smooth playback in a variety of network conditions. In some examples, multiple buffer configurations are available. An initial buffer configuration may be used in typical circumstances and will yield good behavior in most cases. A modified buffer configuration can be used when limited available network resources prevent smooth playback. In some embodiments, a client buffer configuration is continuously adapted based on network throughput and data transfer rates.
US10250657B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a streaming media application. Media blocks of a media stream may be buffered at a quality level determined by an amount of available bandwidth. When excess bandwidth is made available, a higher quality replacement for a buffered media block may be obtained concurrent to streaming the media blocks. The replacement media block then replaces the lower quality media block in the buffer such that the higher quality replacement media block is rendered.
US10250652B2
A data transmission system including a plurality of terminal devices that are connected to a communication network and that transmit or receive content data among the terminal devices. At least one of the terminal devices that receives the content data includes a code amount change requesting unit that, based on an output time interval of an output signal corresponding to predetermined content data, transmits a code amount reduction request to request reduction of a code amount of the predetermined content data while designating a transmission source of the content data as a destination; and a code amount changing unit that, in response to a code amount reduction request transmitted from another terminal device, reduces a code amount of corresponding content data.
US10250650B2
One embodiment provides a non-transitory medium containing computer program code that performs an operation that includes retrieving, for each of two or more identified users, a respective musical preferences model representing a plurality of acoustical characteristics of musical content determined based on preferences of the respective user. Additionally, the operation includes generating a common musical preferences model representing a set of common acoustical characteristics of musical content for the two or more identified users, based on the musical preferences models for each of the two or more identified users. The operation also includes identifying a library of available musical content. Furthermore, the operation includes creating a playlist of two or more musical selections from the library of available musical content, based on the common musical preferences model.
US10250644B2
A protection application detects and removes unwanted applications. The protection application scans a client device for suspected unwanted applications. A security server provides an application rating for detected applications to the client device. The application rating is generated based on application retention data received from client devices indicating whether users of the clients choose to remove or retain the application when given the option. The application retention data may be weighed based on a categorization of the clients providing the application retention data into to clients expected to have different reliability levels. The security server can also provide a definition specifying all known components associated with a suspected unwanted application. Responsive to a selection to remove a suspected unwanted application, the protection application uninstalls all components of the application.
US10250638B2
Systems, methods, computer-readable storage mediums including computer-readable instructions and/or circuitry for control of transmission to a target device with a cloud-based architecture may implement operations including, but not limited to: detecting, at least in part via a cloud-based architecture, an elapsed time since a prior authorization of a transmission to a target device; comparing, at least in part via a cloud-based architecture, the elapsed time since a prior authorization of a transmission to a target device against a threshold transmission interval associated with a target device; and authorizing, at least in part via a cloud-based architecture, at least one transmission to a target device in response to the comparison.
US10250637B2
An appliance and a method of pre-establishing SSL session connections for SSL connection establishment are provided. The appliance comprises a secure session pre-handshake establishment module configured to facilitate a secure session connection between an appliance and a server associated with a website, wherein the facilitation causes the appliance to receive session information, determine whether session information corresponding to the secure session connection request has been cached, determine whether the server is associated with a server group based on the determination that session information has not been cached, and form secure session connections between the appliance and servers listed in the server group based on the determination that the server is associated with a server group.
US10250621B1
A processing device in one embodiment comprises a processor coupled to a memory and is configured to direct one or more web crawlers to obtain textual information from a plurality of data sources accessible over at least one network, to extract terms likely to be associated with indicators of compromise from the obtained textual information, to filter the extracted terms to identify terms corresponding to respective valid indicators of compromise, to generate links between the terms corresponding to the respective valid indicators of compromise, and to convert the links and the corresponding terms into an output document in a specified indicator of compromise format. Feedback from an analyst device receiving the output document may be used to adjust a filter parameter of the extracted term filtering. Additionally or alternatively, one or more parameters of a network security system may be adjusted based at least in part on the output document.
US10250620B2
Described is a technology by which a signature used by network traffic intrusion prevention/detection systems includes logic that helps a prevention/detection engine detect that signature. A signature to detect is compiled into executable logic that is executed to communicate with an engine that evaluates network traffic. The signature logic provides an expression set (such as group of regular expressions) for the engine to match against a token corresponding to the network traffic. When matched, the engine notifies the logic and receives a further expression set to match, or a communication indicative that that the signature was detected. The signature thus directs the analysis, facilitating a lightweight, generic engine. Safety of the signature logic is described as being accomplished through layers, including by publisher signing, and by compilation and execution (e.g., interpretation) in safe environments.
US10250615B2
Disclosed are various examples of providing analog security for digital data. Content is split into a plurality of framelets. A first framelet is sent to a first client device. A second framelet is sent to a second client device. When the first and second client devices are oriented such that the first and second framelets are aligned in a particular manner, the content is made viewable to a user.
US10250610B2
A request for communicating with a first user is received by a second user. The request includes a first identification specific to the first user. The first identification is different from an account used by the first user in the communication. Based on a communication mapping associated with the first user, it is determined whether the second user is allowed to communicate with the first user using the first identification. The communication mapping indicates authorized users allowed to communicate with the first user and respective identifications allowed to be used by the authorized users. The account used by the first user in the communication is obtained to initiate the communication with the first user. The account used is obtained in response to determining that the second user is allowed to communicate with the first user using the first identification.
US10250606B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a network access method, a proximity communications server, a relay terminal, and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a relay access verification request sent by a relay terminal, where the relay access verification request is sent by a relay terminal after a relay connection request sent by a terminal is received; verifying, according to the relay access verification request, whether the terminal is authorized to perform network access by using the relay terminal; and sending a relay authorization response message to the relay terminal, where the relay authorization response message carries indication information indicating whether the terminal is allowed to perform network access by using the relay terminal. Therefore, it is achieved that communications reliability is enhanced when a mobile communications network supports a trunking communications function and when some terminals are out of a mobile communication connection or outside network coverage.
US10250603B1
The launching of new software code, virtual machines, and other such instances can undergo one or more scans before being fully available in an electronic environment. One or more policies may apply to such a launch, which can cause the launch to first be performed under a first network configuration, wherein the instance may not be granted access to resources other than scanning infrastructure. After one or more scans are performed, the results can be compared against the policies and, if the results pass, the instance can be caused to operate in a second network configuration, whether launching a new instance in a production environment, altering the configuration of the network, or other such tasks. The policies can be set by a provider of the relevant resources, an administrator of one or more affected resources, an administrator of the instance, or another appropriate party.
US10250596B2
A method for monitoring encrypted communication sessions between computing devices includes intercepting messages of a handshaking procedure between a client and a server device, the handshaking procedure establishing an encrypted communication session between the client and server. The method further includes determining, from the messages, a session context for the encrypted session and an identifier associated with the session context. The method further includes storing the session context in a database indexed by the identifier. The method further includes intercepting, subsequent to the storing, second messages of a second handshaking procedure between the client and a second server device, the where second handshaking procedure resumes the encrypted communication session after an interruption. The method additionally includes determining that the second messages includes the identifier associated with the session context, retrieving, from the database, the session context using the identifier, and monitoring the resumed encrypted communication session using the session context.
US10250588B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for determining reputations of digital certificate signers may include (i) identifying a group of endpoint devices that have accessed files to which a digital certificate signer has attached digital certificates that assert the files are legitimate, (ii) determining, for each endpoint device, whether a security state of the endpoint device is compromised or uncompromised based on a security analysis of computing events detected on the endpoint device, (iii) classifying the digital certificate signer as potentially malicious by determining that the files were accessed more frequently by endpoint devices with compromised security states than by endpoint devices with uncompromised security states, and (iv) protecting a security state of an additional endpoint device by preventing the additional endpoint device from accessing a file with a digital certificate signed by the digital certificate signer. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10250586B2
Implementations for managing mobile devices associated with enterprise operations include actions of receiving a request to access information regarding a mobile application for download to and installation on a mobile device of a user, the request including an enterprise identifier, receiving a tenant-specific configuration based on the identifier, the tenant-specific configuration including criteria for mobile applications to be available for download to and installation on mobile devices associated with the enterprise, transmitting a request for a list of available mobile applications to an application and certification database, the request including the tenant-specific configuration, receiving the list of available mobile applications, which includes a subset of mobile applications of a superset of mobile applications, the subset of mobile applications being provided based on the tenant-specific configuration, and providing graphical representations of each mobile application in the list of available mobile applications for display to the user.
US10250579B2
A capability is provided for securely transferring a file within network-based storage. A capability is provided for securely transferring a user file of a user from a first server to a second server. The first server may be associated with a first service provider and the second server may be associated with a second service provider. The secure transfer of a user file from the first server to the second server may be performed based on a One-Click File Transfer capability in which only a single click by the user is needed in order for the user file to be transferred. The secure transfer of a user file from the first server to the second server may be performed based on a Zero-Click File Transfer capability in which the user file may be transferred without any interaction by the user.
US10250578B2
Aspects may relate to performing an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) to create an IPsec security association (SA) between a first device and a second device based upon both an authentication header (AH) and an encapsulating security payload (ESP), free of creating a child security association. Information exchange may then be allowed between the first device and the second device based upon the IPsec SA.
US10250571B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support a mechanism to offload IPSec/IKE processing of virtual machines (VMs) running on a host to an embedded networking device, which serves as a hardware accelerator for the VMs that need to have secured communication with a remote device/server over a network. By utilizing a plurality of its software and hardware features, the embedded networking device is configured to perform all offloaded IPSec operations on data packets transferred between the host and the remote device over the network as required for the secured communication before the data packets can be transmitted over the network. The embedded networking device, in effect, acts as a proxy on behalf of the VMs running on the host to perform the offloaded IPSec operations as well as serving as the network interface for the secured communication between the VMs and the remote device.
US10250563B2
Secure device and proxy operation include generating, using a processor, a first proxy and a first proxy companion paired with the first proxy and providing the first proxy to a host data processing system for installation therein. The first proxy in the host data processing system and the first proxy companion communicate. A proxy change event for the host data processing system is detected. Responsive to the detecting, a second proxy and a second proxy companion paired with the second proxy are generated. The second proxy is provided to the host data processing system for installation therein.
US10250558B2
Method and apparatus are described for delivering triggers and small data. In an embodiment, a receiver may be configured to receive a trigger or small data packet, and a transmitter may be configured to transmit a subscriber information request to see whether a subscriber is present. The receiver may be further configured to receive an identity of a second node on a condition that the subscriber is present. The transmitter may be further configured to transmit the trigger or small data packet to the second node over an interface, the second node configured to create an Internet Protocol (IP) packet with an IP address containing the trigger or small data packet and deliver the IP packet to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) using the IP address and a default or dedicated bearer of the WTRU.
US10250550B2
A social message monitoring method is implemented by receiving, from a social network server, a social message, and obtaining a theme probability vector of the social message, comparing the theme probability vector of the social message with a theme probability vector of each representative message to obtain a theme similarity, and acquiring a similarity between the social message and each representative message according to the theme similarity, and saving the social message in a message class that contains a representative message most similar to the social message, and outputting the message class to a social network client when a quantity of social messages in the message class reaches a first threshold or themes of social messages in the message class are consistent.
US10250549B2
A mechanism for automatically organizing electronic messages is described herein. Social groups of a particular user that may be representative of topics, people, projects, and the like can be automatically learned based at least in part upon historical correspondence of the user. Moreover, messages can be automatically prioritized based at least in part upon historical correspondence patterns. Electronic messages may be presented to the user in accordance with group information and how important the messages are to the user.
US10250547B1
In some examples, a method includes receiving, from one or more client devices, a stream of messages composed by one or more users of the one or more client devices, wherein each of the messages includes a particular hashtag, determining, using a set of metrics that are based at least in part on the messages, a trending score that represents a magnitude of a trend for the particular hashtag, in response to determining that the trending score satisfies a threshold, sending, to a content provider system, a set of demographic data that describes one or more of the users who associated with the particular hashtag, and, in response to receiving, from the content provider system, targeted content that is based at least in part on the particular hashtag and the set of demographic data, sending, for display at the one or more of the one or more client devices, the targeted content.
US10250546B2
A method for managing an e-mail response based on the e-mail domains of the recipients is provided. The method receives a first e-mail sent to a plurality of e-mail addresses that includes e-mails with different domain names, provides a list of different domain names associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses and an e-mail address of a sender of the first e-mail, generates, based on a selection of one or more of the different domain names, a distribution list including one or more e-mail addresses limited to e-mail addresses having a selected domain name, and providing the distribution list in an addressee field associated with the e-mail response.
US10250544B2
There is provided electronic equipment including: an instruction receiving unit that receives an instruction of a setting modification regarding the electronic equipment; and an electronic mail sending unit that sends an electronic mail including access information on a web page for permission of the setting modification by the modification instruction to a mail address corresponding to a predetermined administrator in a case of receiving the modification instruction. The electronic equipment further includes: a setting modification unit that modifies the setting according to the modification instruction based on the access to the web page.
US10250540B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for displaying a challenge question in a challenge user interface displayed on a mobile device, displaying an idea user interface in response to user selection of the challenge question from the challenge user interface, receiving an idea based on user input to the idea user interface, the idea addressing subject matter of the challenge question, and transmitting an idea data set digitally representing the idea to a back-end system, the back-end system hosting an idea generation platform.
US10250537B2
A messaging system communicates animated messages. The system generates personalized avatars of messaging participants. These avatars can be made to represent visible attributes of the participants in different art styles. For example, a tall, thin, bespectacled, brunette might be represented as a tall, thin, bespectacled, brunette avatar rendered in the style of a favorite cartoon. Messaging participants can then send messages in which the avatars of the sender and the recipient or recipients interact. For example, a message sender might convey a message “hug” that is displayed on a message recipient's device as an animation in which the sender's avatar embraces the recipient's avatar.
US10250534B2
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for converting messages received from different sources into a universal file management system format managed by a central server. Each message may be sent from a sender to at least one recipient in a communication system. Upon receiving the messages, the central server converts each message into at least one folder and file. The files or folders can be stored in a secure central repository or memory. The secure central repository may include directory-sync servicing to virtually a user communication device other than the server. Files or folders may be marked as sensitive and restricted from access, copying, or other distribution. Sensitive files and folders, representing messages received can be restricted to viewing via a real-time communication application running on a user's communication device and portal connection to the secure central repository.
US10250523B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for unified bandwidth management for network traffic. In particular, two or more network devices may be grouped into a single set, and bandwidth management is performed on the single set. The grouping of network devices into a single set facilitates dynamic adjustment of bandwidth management based on real-time variations in network traffic that may arise during standard operations of the network.
US10250514B2
According to one aspect, a communications system for sending a data packet, including a first device, comprising a processor, the processor configured to compose an addressing bitmask and, address the data packet with the bitmask; and, a transmitter connected to the processor for transmitting the addressed data packet; and a second device, comprising a receiver for receiving the addressed data packet; and a processor attached to the receiver, the processor configured to perform a bitmask test on the bitmask contained in the addressed data packet such that, if the test is failed, then the addressed data packet is discarded.
US10250503B2
A routing method for a wireless mesh network and a wireless node performing the method are provided. The method includes performing a route algorithm and finding available paths to reach a destination node, recording the available paths, a parent-child node relationship, and a link-state in a route table, and transmitting or transferring data by using an optimal path among the available paths. The method also includes selecting another available path as the optimal path when the optimal path is not operable, updating the route table, and notifying a parent wireless node. The method further includes performing a block route algorithm when receiving a node-added message for creating a block route table in a block where the newly-added node belongs, updating the route table according to the block route table for acquiring updated available paths, selecting one of the updated available paths as the optimal path, and notifying the parent wireless node.
US10250502B2
The present disclosure discloses a software defined network SDN-based data processing system, and the system includes: a source data node, configured to receive a first data packet, and send to a corresponding source control node; the source control node, configured to receive the first data packet, where the first data packet carries a destination address of the first data packet; and determine a destination control node; and the destination control node, configured to receive the first data packet, and generate a second data packet and a matching policy rule. According to a software defined network-based data processing system in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the collaboration capability between nodes is improved so as to reduce the redundancy of multi-node processing in a network device, thereby improving the service processing efficiency of the network. The present disclosure further discloses a software defined network-based data processing method and device.
US10250501B2
A service packet forwarding method and an apparatus, where the method includes receiving, by a classifier, a first service packet, generating, by the classifier, a second service packet according to a packet characteristic, and sending, by the classifier, the second service packet to a forwarder. Each piece of service chain information indicates a route of one service chain, a service packet carries multiple pieces of service chain information, and routes of multiple service chains constitute an entire path for forwarding the service packet.
US10250497B1
A first network device may activate the first network device as being associated with a Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) group. The first network device may receive, from a second network device, a duplicate address detection message. The first network device may compare a data link layer address associated with the duplicate address detection message and a Virtual Media Access Control (VMAC) address of the VRRP group. The first network device may disregard the duplicate address detection message after comparing the data link layer address and the VMAC address of the VRRP group.
US10250496B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving a first data frame and a second data frame by a device driver of a first virtual network interface controller (vNIC) of a plurality of vNICs sharing a physical network interface controller (NIC) of a computing system, storing, by the device driver of the first vNIC, the first and second data frames in a first queue for the first vNIC, generating, by the device driver of the first vNIC, an optimized data frame comprising the first and second data frames, wherein the optimized data frame specifies a modified Ethernet preamble, and sending the optimized data frame to a hypervisor of the computing system.
US10250495B2
A method for processing data packets in a communication network includes establishing a path for a flow of the data packets through the communication network. At a node along the path having a plurality of aggregated ports, a port is selected from among the plurality to serve as part of the path. A label is chosen responsively to the selected port. The label is attached to the data packets in the flow at a point on the path upstream from the node. Upon receiving the data packets at the node, the data packets are switched through the selected port responsively to the label.
US10250494B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request to create a path through a network, wherein the path originates on a first network device and terminates on the second network device; identifying a first controller associated with the first network device, wherein the first controller proxies control plane functions for the first network device; identifying a second controller associated with the second network device, wherein the second controller proxies control plane functions for the second network device; and computing the path using the first controller as a source and the second controller as a destination. The first controller installs the computed path on the first network device and the second controller installs the computed path on the second network device.
US10250492B2
A connection-oriented network has a working path and a segment recovery path for a segment of the working path. The working path has a branch node at an end of the segment where the segment recovery path connects to the working path. The branch node is not located at an end node of the working path. Control plane signalling is received at an end node of the working path from a node along the working path, indicating that a failure has occurred along the working path. The end node determines, from the received control plane signalling, if the failure has occurred outside the segment of the working path. When it is determined that the failure has occurred outside the segment of the working path, a notification is sent to the branch node. The notification is an instruction not to reroute to the segment recovery path.
US10250487B2
A device may configure a dynamic set of bypass label-switched paths (LSPs), to protect one or more protected LSPs, based on configuration information. The dynamic set of bypass LSPs may be initially configured to include zero or more bypass LSPs. The configuration information may indicate a first condition for adding a bypass LSP to the dynamic set of bypass LSPs, and a second condition for removing a bypass LSP from the dynamic set of bypass LSPs. The device may determine that a network traffic condition, associated with the dynamic set of bypass LSPs, is satisfied. The device may modify the dynamic set of bypass LSPs to add, remove, or reconfigure one or more bypass LSPs based on determining that the network traffic condition is satisfied.
US10250484B2
A method and system for implementing a network service computation system uses distributed graph processing at a plurality of network controllers corresponding to a plurality of network domains. Each network controller may manage and maintain a network graph for its respective network domain. Each network controller many communicate with nodes (or vertices) in its respective network domain, while the network controllers may communicate with each other for path discovery and computation purposes.
US10250482B2
Particular embodiments execute tasks to measure performance in a computing system. The method uses a master computing device and helper client computing devices. The helper client computing devices may be situated in a pool where the helper client computing devices are available to help a master computing device to perform a task. When the master computing device wants to perform a task, the master computing device may send a message to the pool requesting help with a task. Helper client computing devices can respond to the message when the helper clients are available to join in groups to process tasks. Once the master computing device configures a group with helper client computing devices that responded to the message, the master computing device and the helper client computing devices perform the task together.
US10250480B2
An approach, executed by a computer, includes receiving at least an initial polling quantity and an initial polling frequency and polling an endpoint application using the initial polling quantity and the initial polling frequency. The approach includes determining a first number of events not consumed in a queue of a listening application and a second number of events generated at the endpoint application and remaining in a queue at the endpoint application and comparing the number of events in each queue. The approach includes adjusting at least one of the initial polling quantity and the initial polling frequency based, at least in part, on the comparison of the first number of events not consumed in the queue of the listening application and the second number of events generated at the endpoint application and remaining in the queue at the endpoint application.
US10250467B2
Performance thresholds are defined for operators in a flow graph for a streaming application. A streams manager deploys the flow graph to one or more virtual machines (VMs). The performance of each portion of the flow graph on each VM is monitored. A VM is selected. When the performance of the portion of the flow graph in the selected VM does not satisfy the defined performance threshold(s), a determination is made regarding whether the portion of the flow graph is underperforming or overperforming. When the portion of the flow graph is underperforming, the portion of the flow graph is split into multiple portions that are implemented on multiple VMs. When the portion of the flow graph is overperforming, a determination is made of whether a neighbor VM is also overperforming. When a neighbor VM is also overperforming, the two VMs may be coalesced into a single VM.
US10250461B2
A method and associated system automatically migrates a non-cloud service from a legacy non-cloud virtualized computing environment into a cloud-computing environment. These methods and systems enhance standard cloud-management systems with the introduction of independent infrastructure-discovery and application-discovery tools. By autonomously examining the legacy non-cloud environment, these tools can produce information describing characteristics of the legacy service in sufficient detail to enable the cloud-management system to generate and automatically insert an entry for the legacy service into the cloud-computing environment's service catalog. When a user of the cloud-computing environment subsequently requests the non-cloud service, the cloud-management platform may then use the new entry to provision the legacy service as though it had been a standard cloud service.
US10250460B2
A platform management system includes: a control unit configured to implement a device smart agent to: receive a management request; calculate a projected resource usage for an agent host device based on execution of the management request; determine a performance degradation of a primary device function of the agent host device based on the projected resource usage; determine a request type of the management request based on the performance degradation; generate an inter-device communication based on the request type of the management request; and a communication unit, coupled to the control unit; configured to: transmit the inter-device communication from the device smart agent for receipt by a non-agent device or an agent enabled device.
US10250458B2
Ways are disclosed for determining a utilization of a server or group of servers. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a disk utilization factor (DUF) that indicates a utilization of one or more mass-storage disks of some server; determining a processor utilization factor (PUF) that indicates a utilization of one or more processors running on the first server; and based on the DUF and PUF deriving a server-utilization factor (SUF) that indicates a level of utilization of the first server, which includes incorporating one or more of (1) power-usage data or (2) financial-cost data that are associated with each of the disks and processors.
US10250454B2
A method is provided in association with a managed system having a substantial number of resources. The method includes the step of selecting an attribute that is common to all of the resources, wherein each resource has a status in regard to the selected attribute that is one of a plurality of prespecified statuses that are available for the attribute. The method further includes compressing the group of resources into a set of subgroups, wherein each subgroup corresponds to a different prespecified status of the plurality, and each resource having a given status is placed into the subgroup that corresponds to the given status. Each of the subgroups is represented by a display element on a single computer display screen, and specified information is displayed with each display element, wherein the specified information for a display element pertains to all of the resources placed into the subgroup that are represented by the display element.
US10250448B2
There is provided a method of communicating information from a first node to a second node, the method comprising the first node transmitting a device name for the first node; the second node detecting the device name for the first node; and the second node determining the occurrence of an event at the first node and/or information from the first node from the detected device name for the first node.
US10250444B2
A method, system, and computer program product configure elements of a hybrid network. The method may include a processor obtaining at a first controller communicatively coupled to components of a hybrid network, a requirement for the hybrid network; the components include a first component type and a second component type. After obtaining the requirement, the processor generates a plan to configure a component of the first component type and a component of the second component type. The processor configures the component of the first component type according to a first portion of the plan by utilizing a security protocol over an unsecured connection. The processor configures the component of the second component type according to a second portion of the plan by transmitting this portion to a controller of components of the second component type in the hybrid network. The controller configures the component upon receipt of the portion.
US10250437B2
An identification server includes a definitions database stored on a storage of the identification server; a network device identifier configured to identify a network device; and an identification files generator configured to generate an identification file based on an identity of the network device. The definitions database includes at least one entry including at least one condition, at least one configuration action, and an availability status.
US10250435B2
A device network includes an Internet-of-things (IoT) device, a gateway device, a communication device, and a monitor system. The monitor system establishes a first communication path to the IoT device via the gateway device, determines that the gateway device has failed and that the first communication path has been interrupted, determines that the communication device is within communications range of the IoT device, and directs the communication device to establish a second communication path between the IoT device and the monitor system via the communication device in response to determining that the communication device is within communications range of the IoT device.
US10250431B2
System and methods thereof for optimizing communication between a civilian and different dispatchers
A system for optimizing communication between civilians and authorities. The system enables optimal routing of message delivery from civilians to different dispatchers. The system enables adaptive optimization of the delivery of such messages by continuously identifying data collected by an agent installed on a user device. The messages typically comprise one or more portions, such as data, call, multimedia, etc. The system further identifies the communication target to which the message is sent. The system then determines an optimal route for sending each of the portions of the message. According to an embodiment, the determination may further be made based on metadata associated with the location of the user device. Then, each portion of the message is sent to the communication target via the optimal route.
US10250421B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting a broadcast signal. The method of transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention provides a system capable of supporting future broadcast services in environments supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast using terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet. In addition, efficient signaling methods capable of covering both terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet in environments supporting future hybrid broadcast are provided.
US10250419B2
A method and system is provided for allowing signals across electrical domains. The method includes applying a clock signal (of at least 1 GHz) to an electronic element in a location having first electrical properties. Data is output from the first electronic element; and received at a second electronic element located in a location having second electrical properties. The first and second electrical properties are different by either voltage and clock frequency.
US10250418B2
An EHF receiver that determines an initial slicing voltage level and dynamically adjusts the slicing voltage level and/or amplifier gain levels to account for characteristics of the received EHF electromagnetic data signal. The architecture includes an amplifier, detector, adaptive signal slicer, and controller. The detector includes a main detector and replica detector that convert the received EHF electromagnetic data signal into a baseband signal and a reference signal. The controller uses the baseband signal and reference signal to determine an initial slicing voltage level, and dynamically adjust the slicing voltage level and the gain settings of the amplifier to compensate for changing signal conditions.
US10250413B2
In a facility system, a first gateway PLC connected to first processing machines and second gateway PLCs connected to second processing machines are connected to an upper-level network. Further, the first gateway PLC and the second gateway PLCs control operation mutually associated between the first processing machines and the second processing machines on the basis of mutually associated information which is acquired from the first processing machines and the second processing machines.
US10250405B2
Disclosed herein is a system comprising: a networking device, a storage, and a proxy server, wherein the proxy server is configured to identify a first group of contents from first data received from a content server, to modify the first data to generate second data by replacing the first group of contents with labels, and to transmit the second data to the networking device; wherein the networking device is configured to read the labels in the second data, to request contents from the storage based on the labels, to replace the labels with the contents received from the storage to generate third data, to transmit the third data to a mobile device.
US10250400B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals including encoding DP (Data Pipe) data carrying at least one service, mapping the encoded DP data onto constellations, time interleaving the mapped DP data, building a signal frame including the time interleaved DP data, modulating data in the built signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the broadcast signals are carried in consecutive super frames, wherein each of the super frames includes multiplexed signal frames for different service in a time domain, wherein the signal frame includes a preamble located at the beginning of the at least one signal frame, wherein the preamble includes signaling information for identifying the signal frame.
US10250395B1
Systems and methods for cryptologic blockchain interoperability are provided. A furnisher participant of a furnisher DLT network may receive a request to export or share token data stored on a furnisher blockchain that stores the token data based on a furnisher DLT. The furnisher participant may transmit, to a plurality of validator participants of the furnisher DLT network, a consensus request to certify the token data is stored on a furnisher blockchain. The furnisher participant may receive certifications that the token data is stored on the furnisher blockchain. The certifications may include digital signatures respectively signed by the validator participants. The furnisher participant may generate a multi-signature certification message. The furnisher participant may communicate the multi-signature certification message to the data receiver. The data receiver may verify the digital signatures based on public keys of the validator participants of the furnisher DLT network.
US10250386B2
Methods and systems are provided for power management and security for wireless modules in “Machine-to-Machine” communications. A wireless module operating in a wireless network and with access to the Internet can efficiently and securely communicate with a server. The wireless network can be a public land mobile network (PLMN) that supports wireless wide area network technology including 3rd generation (3G) and 4th generation (4G) networks, and future generations as well. The wireless module can (i) utilize sleep and active states to monitor a monitored unit with a sensor and (ii) communicate with wireless network by utilizing a radio. The wireless module can include power control steps to reduce the energy consumed after sending sensor data by minimizing a tail period of a radio resource control (RRC) connected state. Messages between the wireless module and server can be transmitted according to the UDP or UDP Lite protocol with channel coding in the datagram body for efficiency while providing robustness to bit errors. The wireless module and server can utilize public key infrastructure (PKI) such as public keys to encrypt messages. The wireless module and server can use private keys to generate digital signatures for datagrams sent and decrypt messages received. The communication system between the wireless module and the server can conserve battery life in the wireless module while providing a system that is secure, scalable, and robust.
US10250381B1
A device may receive first content data from a content provider, the first content data including data identifying content. The device may generate second content data based on the first content data, the second content data including information that causes content validation to be performed on the content. The device may also provide the second content data to a content validation node, the content validation node being included in a content validation network implementing a blockchain network that includes executable instructions for performing content validation. In addition, the device may obtain, from the content validation network, validation results associated with the content, and provide, to a user device, data that causes display of a validation indicator with the content, the validation indicator being based on the validation results.
US10250378B2
According to one embodiment, a base station apparatus includes: a radio equipment control that generates a baseband signal including data; a microwave apparatus that modulates the baseband signal to a microwave to transmit by radio; a microwave apparatus that demodulates the received first microwave to the baseband signal, then extracts a clock from a cycle of the data included in the baseband signal, imports the baseband signal in synchronization with the clock, and plays back the data; and a radio equipment that modulates the data played back by the microwave apparatus to a high-frequency signal, and the microwave apparatus outputs dummy data instead of the played back data when a frequency fluctuation amount of the clock exceeds a predetermined range.
US10250374B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for operating a HARQ from user equipment (UE). The method comprises the steps of: the UE receiving downlink data from each cell, when at least one TDD-based cell and at least one FDD based cell are established according to carrier aggregation (CA), a specific TDD-based cell is established as a primary cell of the carrier aggregation (CA), and the at least one FDD-based cell is established as a secondary cell of the carrier aggregation (CA); the UE confirming a PUCCH format to be used for transmitting a HARQ ACK/NACK for the downlink data; and the UE determining the number of bits for transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK when use of the specific PUCCH format for transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK is confirmed.
US10250366B2
A method for transmitting, by a base station, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of generating a DMRS sequence; mapping the DMRS sequence to resource elements of respective layers; and transmitting, through respective antenna ports corresponding to the respective layers, the DMRS sequence mapped to the resource elements, wherein if the number of layers exceeds a predetermined number, the DMRS sequence is mapped to the resource elements according to a pattern on at least two bundled consecutive resource blocks.
US10250350B2
An optical switch (10) comprising: input ports (12, 14) arranged to receive optical signals from directions D1 to Dn; output ports (16, 18) arranged to output optical signals to the said directions; drop ports (20); add ports (22); a first switch array (24) arranged to receive from a first said input port (12) optical signals at a plurality of wavelengths, and comprising switch elements (26) each arranged to selectively direct optical signals to a respective drop port. The optical switch (10) further comprising optical filters (28), each arranged to receive from the first input port optical signals having bypass wavelengths, each optical filter arranged to transmit to a respective one of the output ports (18) optical signals at different bypass wavelengths; and a second switch array (30) arranged to receive from the other input ports (14) optical signals at some of said wavelengths, the second switch array comprising a plurality of switch elements (32) arranged to selectively add optical signals received from the add ports at others of said wavelengths.
US10250347B1
TDM circuitry that includes a rotary multiplexer and a memory circuit is provided. A first rotary multiplexer circuit may receive N-bit wide data in accordance to a time division multiple access (TDMA) scheme. The N-bit wide data includes multiple sets of M-bit wide data. The first rotary multiplexer may rotate these sets of the M-bit wide data. The memory circuit is coupled to the first rotary multiplexer circuit. The memory circuit stores each of rotated set of M-bit wide data. A second rotary multiplexer circuit may read k-th bits of the each of the stored M-bit wide data from the memory circuit and may rotate these k-th bits before outputting these k-th bits serially, where k is an integer having a value greater than 0.
US10250346B2
Methods (500, 800) and corresponding systems (100, 200, 300, 400, 900) for generating a pilot symbol (330) include providing an M-point parallel transform sequence that is a discrete Fourier transform of a CAZAC sequence (312, 504-508). The M-point parallel transform sequence (312) is distributed (316, 510) to a set of M subcarriers among N subcarriers to form an N-point frequency-domain sequence (318) wherein the M subcarriers are evenly spaced apart. An N-point inverse fast Fourier transform (320, 512) is performed to convert the N-point frequency-domain sequence to an N-point time-domain sequence (322). The N-point time-domain sequence is converted (324, 514) to a serial sequence (326), and a cyclic prefix is added (328, 516) to the serial sequence to form a pilot symbol (330).
US10250342B2
In a measuring system in which a wireless terminal that is a measurement target is rotated centering around the standard point O at each rotation angle of the wireless terminal, and thus a reception performance is acquired, when the reception performance is obtained, a power of a measurement signal that is supplied to the measurement antenna is corrected for a propagation loss error and a gain error that occur in association with rotation of the wireless terminal, angle correction for an angle error that occurs in association with the rotation of the wireless terminal is performed on the reception performance at each rotation angle, which is acquired with the measure signal having the corrected power, and thus the reception performance in a case where it is assumed that a terminal antenna of the wireless terminal is rotated at a position of a standard points is obtained.
US10250331B2
A subscriber device includes a demultiplexer configured to demultiplex input wavelength-multiplexed light into a plurality of light signals for each wavelength, a plurality of light receivers configured to receive each of the plurality of light signals obtained through demultiplexing by the demultiplexer and to convert the light signals into electrical signals, a plurality of limiting amplifiers configured to amplify each of the plurality of electrical signals output from the plurality of light receivers, and a plurality of signal selection units configured to select a plurality of signals to be received from among a plurality of amplified signals output from the plurality of limiting amplifiers.
US10250325B2
A network switching system is used for monitoring an operation status of an in-line device, including an operating voltage of a hardware unit of the in-line device, an operating system running in the in-line device and at least one application running in the operating system. Once an abnormal status is detected in any of the operating voltage of the hardware unit, the operating system and the application, the network switching system switches a working mode of the in-line device from a normal mode to a bypass mode, to ensure normal communication between first and second network devices connected to the in-line device.
US10250322B2
A transmission system includes: a first transmission device that receives a first signal from the work path; a second transmission device, coupled to a protection path in a redundant configuration with respect to the work path, that receives a second signal from the protection path; and a first communication device coupled to the first and second transmission devices, wherein the first communication device, when detecting switching information from the first transmission device, notifies the first transmission device of first switching notification information and notifies the second transmission device of second switching notification information, the first transmission device stops relaying the first signal to the first communication device in response to the first switching notification information from the first communication device, and the second transmission device starts to relay the second signal to the first communication device in response to the second switching notification information from the first communication device.
US10250319B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying applications in satellites. In one example, a satellite device includes a communication interface and a virtualized execution system. The virtualized execution system is configured to receive state information via the communication interface from at least a peer satellite device related to execution of one or more software payloads by the peer satellite device, and execute one or more virtual nodes based at least on the state information.
US10250318B2
Embodiments are described for a machine and process that include a computer code specially programmed on a non-transitory medium to change an altitude, of an aircraft that remains certified for flight by a pilot, such that the aircraft contains an altimeter having a fixed altimeter setting. The computer code may be configured to: receive an assigned altitude and a barometric pressure for a location of the aircraft; determine a differential between a height above mean sea level indicated on an altimeter using the new barometric pressure for the location of the aircraft and a height above mean sea level indicated on an altimeter based upon the fixed altimeter setting; modify, based upon the differential, a flight planned altitude for the aircraft, to create a pilotless altitude; send the pilotless altitude to the aircraft; and fly the aircraft at the assigned altitude via commanding flight at the pilotless altitude.
US10250312B2
Methods and systems for simultaneous transmission between a transmitter and a plurality of receivers. The transmitter receives information identifying respective preferred transmission sectors for transmission from the transmitter to each receiver. The transmitter transmits a first multi-user simultaneous transmission to a first set of two or more receivers. The first set of receivers is selected for the first set by identifying that the preferred transmission sectors for transmission to the first set of receivers are included in a first virtual grouping of two or more transmission sectors. The two or more transmission sectors belonging to the first virtual grouping are defined by the transmitter.
US10250309B2
It is possible to reduce the overhead associated with downlink channel estimation in massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) networks by processing training sequences according to a transformation matrix. The transformation matrix maps a generic dictionary to a non-generic dictionary associated with an antenna geometry of a MIMO antenna array. The transformation matrix can be computed based on the two dictionaries. In one embodiment, the training reference signal is precoded to obtain a precoded training reference signal, which is then transmitted over a MIMO antenna array. The training precoder used to precode the training reference signal is designed according to the transformation matrix to mitigate a dependence that the training reference signal transmission has on the antenna geometry.
US10250306B2
A method and apparatus determine parameters and conditions for line of sight MIMO communication. A transmitter can transmit reference symbols from a regularly spaced subset of a set of transmitting device antenna elements of the transmitter with elements spanning one or more spatial dimensions. The transmitter can signal transmit antenna element spacings in each dimension that can be used by the transmitter for data transmission.
US10250295B2
The invention provides for a network power-supply voltage adaptor arranged to receive an input voltage (V in) from a network trunk cable and to present an internal voltage derived from the said input voltage (V in), the adaptor being arranged, when at least one of the input voltage (V in) or the said internal voltage is above a reference voltage (Ref V), to regulate the received input voltage (V in) to provide an adaptor output dc power supply voltage (V out) at a substantially constant dc power supply level less than that of the input voltage (V in), and independent of changes in the input voltage level (V in), and the adaptor further comprising at least one communication feed-through loop (55, 56, 66, 68) for the passage of substantially unaltered communications signals through the adaptor.
US10250294B2
In one or more embodiments, a plurality of PLC endpoints and a data processing circuit are configured to share information, in the form of data blocks over power lines in a power line communication (PLC) network. A first signal representing a transmitted one of the data blocks is received over a first one of the plurality of different communication channels. A second signal representing the transmitted one of the data blocks is received over a second one of the plurality of different communication channels. Information carried by said one of the data blocks is discerned, as a function of a signal versus noise measure associated with the first signal and the second signal, by combining energy from the first and second signals, and converting the combined energy for generating output data.
US10250281B2
A device includes a non-volatile memory, a traffic analyzer, and a parameter adjuster. The traffic analyzer is configured to generate a traffic type indicator based on one or more read requests from an access device to access data at the non-volatile memory. The traffic type indicator has a first value responsive to the one or more read requests corresponding to a first traffic type and has a second value responsive to the one or more read requests corresponding to a second traffic type. The parameter adjuster is configured to designate one or more decode parameter values based on the traffic type indicator.
US10250279B2
A writing circuit for writing write data into a memory comprises an evaluator configured for providing an error handling code on the basis of the write data. A modifier reversibly modifies extended write data comprising both the write data and the error handling code in dependence on address information related to a writing address in order to provide modified extended write data. A writer writes the modified extended write data in a position of the memory defined by a writing address. A reading circuit for reading extended read data from a memory comprises a reader configured for reading the extended read data from a position of the memory defined by a reading address. A de-modifier modifies the extended read data in dependence on address information related to a reading address in order to provide extracted read data and an extracted error handling code. An error-detector detects based on the extracted error handling code whether the extracted read data comprises an error.
US10250278B2
These present disclosure provides devices and techniques to compress a list of integers. A circuit may include a sorter to sort a list of integers and a subtractor to determine a range of integers represented in the list and to recursively subdivide the range into sub-ranges. The circuit may also include a bit determiner to determine an amount of information (e.g., bits) to use to add indications of the integers in the list to a compresses list information element based on the range and the sub-ranges.
US10250277B1
The present invention relates to a successive approximation register (SAR)-type analog-digital converter (ADC), which can amplify a residual voltage without a non-linearity problem caused by an output voltage of a residual voltage amplifier, thereby performing high-resolution analog-digital conversion at low power consumption.The SAR-type ADC may include: a coarse/fine SAR conversion unit configured to receive an analog input voltage and convert the received voltage into an MSB digital signal in a coarse SAR conversion mode, and receive a feedback voltage and convert the received voltage into an LSB digital signal in a fine SAR conversion mode; and a residue integration unit configured to repeatedly amplify a residual voltage with a predetermined gain by a predetermined number of times and output the amplified voltage as a final target multiple, the residual voltage corresponding to a voltage difference between the analog input voltage and an analog voltage obtained by converting the digital signal into an analog signal.
US10250271B2
According to one embodiment, a quantum computation apparatus includes a plurality of quantum nonlinear oscillators, a controller, and a measuring device. Each of the quantum nonlinear oscillators implements superposition of distinguishable quantum states by bifurcating one quantum state via a quantum adiabatic change controlled by a bifurcation parameter. The quantum nonlinear oscillators couple with each other by nondissipative coupling accompanying no loss. The controller individually controls the bifurcation parameters of the quantum nonlinear oscillators. A measuring device measures outputs from the quantum nonlinear oscillators.
US10250252B2
In one embodiment, a control circuit may be configured to form a switching signal to switch a power transistor at a frequency to regulate an output voltage of the power supply to a target value wherein the control circuit is configured to operate in a normal operating mode and a start-up mode and wherein the control circuit is configured to switch the switching signal at a target frequency in response to operating in the normal operating mode. A first circuit may be configured to control the frequency of the switching signal to increase from a first frequency to a second frequency that is less than the target frequency in response to operating in the start-up mode.
US10250247B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that can directly compare two negative potentials. The semiconductor device includes a first to a third transistor and a load and is configured to compare a first negative potential and a second negative potential. The first negative potential and the second negative potential are input to a gate of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor, respectively. Each drain of the first transistor and the second transistor is electrically connected to the load. The third transistor serves as a current source. The first transistor and the second transistor each include a backgate. A positive potential is input to the backgates.
US10250244B2
Various methods and devices that involve pulsed signals are disclosed. An example minimum pulse-width (MPW) circuit comprises a first and second logic circuit. A first input of the first logic circuit is connected to an input of the MPW circuit. A first input of the second logic circuit is communicatively coupled to an output of the first logic circuit. The MPW circuit also comprises a MPW filter circuit communicatively coupled to an output of the second logic circuit, a one-shot circuit communicatively coupled to an output of the minimum pulse-width filter circuit and located on a first feedback path, and another one-shot circuit communicatively coupled to the output of the minimum pulse-width filter circuit and located on a second feedback path. A second input of the first logic circuit is on the first feedback path. A second input of the second logic circuit is on the second feedback path.
US10250241B2
An apparatus and corresponding method for outputting a protocol pulse based on a speed signal representing speed of an object. The apparatus includes a zero-crossing circuit, and a delay circuit. The zero-crossing circuit is configured to output the protocol pulse at a zero-crossing of the speed signal. The delay circuit is coupled to the output of the zero-crossing circuit and configured to delay the protocol pulse. A first edge of the protocol pulse is asynchronous with a clock, and a second edge of the protocol pulse is synchronous with the clock.
US10250238B2
Examples of a signal calculator include a voltage multiplier and a time divider. The voltage multiplier copies time information corresponding to a first voltage and generates a third voltage using a second current corresponding to a second voltage during a first period corresponding to the copied time information. The time divider generates an output according to a result of comparing a voltage generated by a first current on the basis of a voltage corresponding to a first time with a second voltage corresponding to a second time.
US10250235B2
A charge pump with low-voltage startup is presented. The charge pump circuit is comprised of transistor pairs arranged in stages, where the charge pump circuit is configured to receive an input voltage and generate an output voltage whose magnitude is larger than magnitude of the input voltage. An energy storage device is configured to receive and store voltage from the charge pump circuit. A switching circuit is interfaced with the control terminals of the transistors in the charge pump circuit. In response to leakage current through the transistors in the charge pump circuit, the switching circuit switches on select transistors in the charge pump circuit while voltage stored by the energy storage device is below threshold voltage of the transistors in the charge pump circuit.
US10250226B2
An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode including a first electrode layer which is provided on the piezoelectric substrate and contains Pt as a main component and a second electrode layer which is laminated on the first electrode layer and contains Cu as a main component, and a dielectric film that is provided on the piezoelectric substrate and covers the IDT electrode. The piezoelectric substrate is made of lithium niobate. The dielectric film is made of silicon oxide. The elastic wave device uses Rayleigh waves propagating along the piezoelectric substrate.
US10250216B2
Multistage matching networks and analytical frameworks for improving and/or optimizing the networks is provided. In one example, a framework relaxes the resistive constraint on the input and load impedances of the stages of a multistage matching network and allows them to be complex. Based on this framework, the design of multistage matching networks can be improved or optimized, such as using a method of Lagrange multipliers. A design optimization approach, for example, can be used to predict an optimum distribution of gains and impedance characteristics among the stages of a multistage matching network. The efficiency of matching networks designed using this example approach is compared with a conventional design approach, and it is shown that significant efficiency improvements are possible.
US10250212B2
Radio frequency devices and methods are provided where a network like a filter network or impedance matching network comprises a series connection of at least two inductors.
US10250209B2
Provided is a power amplification module that supports a plurality of communication systems. The power amplification module includes: two power amplifiers that can be selectively connected in parallel with each other; a switch that, in accordance with one communication system selected from among the plurality of communication systems, selects one power amplifier that is to operate by itself from among the two power amplifiers or selects the two power amplifiers and connects the two power amplifiers in parallel with each other; and a phase correction circuit that, when the two power amplifiers are both selected, corrects a phase difference by being selectively connected between the outputs of the two selected power amplifiers such that a phase difference is not generated between the output signals of the two selected power amplifiers.
US10250208B2
A circuit for amplifying signals from a Micro Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) capacitive sensor is provided. First and second input nodes receive a sensing signal applied differentially between the input nodes. A first amplifier stage and a second amplifier stage, respectively, produce a differential output signal between first and second output nodes. A common mode signal is detected at the output nodes. A voltage divider having an intermediate tap node is coupled between the first output node and the second output node. A feedback stage is coupled between the tap node of the voltage divider and the inputs of the first amplifier stage and the second amplifier stage, where the feedback line is sensitive to the common mode signal at the output nodes.
US10250207B2
A system for a feedback transimpedance amplifier with sub-40 khz low-frequency cutoff is disclosed and may include amplifying electrical signals received via coupling capacitors utilizing a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) having feedback paths comprising source followers and feedback resistors. The feedback paths may be coupled prior to the coupling capacitors at inputs of the TIA. Voltages may be level shifted prior to the coupling capacitors to ensure stable bias conditions for the TIA. The TIA may be integrated in a CMOS chip and the source followers may comprise CMOS transistors. The TIA may receive current-mode logic or voltage signals. The electrical signals may be received from a photodetector, which may comprise a silicon germanium photodiode and may be differentially coupled to the TIA. The chip may comprise a CMOS photonics chip where optical signals for the photodetector in the CMOS photonics chip may be received via one or more optical fibers.
US10250206B2
A voltage detection circuit includes two detection capacitors, which are paired and configured differentially, first to third detection switches, a drive part, a minimum selector and a maximum selector. The first detection switch is formed of a pMOS transistor, which opens and closes a path between one of the detection capacitors and an input node. The second detection switch is formed of an nMOS transistor, which opens and closes a path between the other of the detection capacitors and an input node. The third detection switch is formed of a series circuit of a pMOS transistor and an nMOS transistor, which open and close a path between two detection capacitors. The driving part turns on and off complementarily between the first and second switches and the third detection switch. The minimum selector applies a lower one of voltages of the input nodes as a substrate potential of the nMOS transistor. The maximum selector applies a higher one of the voltages of the input nodes as a substrate potential of the pMOS transistor.
US10250204B2
A power amplification device capable of detaching an element relating to the power amplification of an RF signal from an element relating to the combining of RF signals. The amplifying unit 1 is provided with a plurality of groups of amplifier circuits 2 that amplifies the power of a RF signal and the plurality of groups of amplifier circuits each includes a predetermined number of the amplifier circuits 2. A combining unit 5 includes a first combiner 7 and a second combiner 8. The first combiner 7 is provided in association with the group of the amplifier circuits 2, combines RF signals output from the amplifier circuits 2 belonging to the corresponding group, and outputs the RF signal after combining. The second combiner 8 combines the RF signals output from each first combiner 7 and outputs the RF signal after combining. Each first combiner 7 is a combiner usable for an RF signal in a specific frequency band. The amplifying unit 1 is attachable to and detachable from the combining unit 5.
US10250192B2
An outphasing amplifier includes a first class-E power amplifier having an output coupled to a first conductor and an input receiving a first RF drive signal. A first reactive element is coupled between the first conductor and a second conductor. A second reactive element is coupled between the second conductor and a third conductor. A second class-E power amplifier includes an output coupled to a fourth conductor and an input coupled to a second RF drive signal, a third reactive element coupled between the second and fourth conductors. Outputs of the first and second power amplifiers are combined by the first, second and third reactive elements to produce an output current in a load. An efficiency enhancement circuit is coupled between the first and fourth conductors to improve power efficiency at back-off power levels. Power enhancement circuits are coupled to the first and fourth conductors, respectively.
US10250182B2
A method and apparatus for focusing light onto a plurality of solar cells. The apparatus comprises a plurality of solar cells, a plurality of groups of reflectors corresponding to the plurality of solar cells, and a control module in communication with the plurality of solar cells and the plurality of groups of reflectors. The control module includes control logic for monitoring an electrical output from the plurality of solar cells and repositioning the plurality of groups of reflectors when the electrical output is below a selected threshold.
US10250180B2
The invention relates to a holding device (1) for a solar panel (2) on a parapet (3) of a balcony, said device having at least the following components: —a connection arrangement (4) for connecting an element to be held, wherein the connection arrangement has at least one support (5, 6, 7, 8) for placing on a parapet; and —at least one transverse strut (9, 10) for bridging a parapet width, wherein the at least one transverse strut is connected to the connection arrangement and has at least one flange (12, 13) for placing on a parapet, wherein by means of a movement of the at least one flange towards the connection arrangement, the at least one flange and the at least one support press in opposite directions against the parapet. The invention disclosed relates to a holding device which allows for greater flexibility with regard to the structure of a balcony parapet.
US10250176B2
A method and device for controlling the n LLM coils of an LLM stator making it possible to change the polarity of the coil voltage of the n LLM coils more easily and with little circuit complexity. It is proposed to apply a first operating potential to n first input terminals of n half bridges, and apply a second operating potential to n second input terminals of the n half bridges. For each half bridge, a first switch is connected between a center point of the respective half bridge and the first input terminal, and a second switch is connected between the center point of the relevant half bridge and the second input terminal. The center point of the n half bridges is connected in each case to n first terminals of then LLM coils, and the second terminals of then LLM coils are connected in a control point that is regulated to a predetermined potential.
US10250174B2
A motor driving device for a motor having a stator and a rotor rotationally driven by an input of an AC voltage includes: an inverter circuit having multiple units corresponding to multiple phases respectively, each unit having a pair of a switching element and a reflux diode connected in anti-parallel to the switching element; and a control device controlling the inverter circuit to convert a DC voltage into the AC voltage and to output the AC voltage to the stator coil. The control device includes: a field weakening control unit adjusting the AC voltage to control a magnetic field of the stator coil to weaken a field magnetic flux of the rotor; and a regenerative current control unit switching an anti-regenerative side switching element to flow a regenerative current when the AC voltage stops while the field weakening control unit performs the field weakening control.
US10250171B2
An electric motor control apparatus controls an electric motor system that includes a power converter including switching elements and a three-phase alternating-current motor. The electric motor control apparatus includes generating devices for generating modulation signals by respectively adding corresponding triple harmonic signals to phase voltage command signals and a control device for controlling switching elements on the basis of a magnitude relation between each of the modulation signals and a carrier signal. Each of the triple harmonic signals includes a signal component that increases the absolute value of a peak value of a signal level of the corresponding modulation signal above the absolute value of a peak value of a signal level of the carrier signal in a corresponding one of phases.
US10250166B2
The invention relates to transformers. More particularly, the invention relates to transformers using (preferably electrostatic and more preferably dielectric elastomer) transducers such as generators and actuators. The invention further provides a priming circuit therefor.
US10250157B2
The present disclosure relates to a synchronous rectification circuit. Operation states of four transistor switches in the synchronous rectification circuit are adjusted in accordance with a detected input voltage signal of the synchronous rectification circuit to achieve synchronous rectification. Moreover, the transistor switches in a rectifier bridge and a switching control circuit are all integrated into a single chip to have an increased integration level, a reduced chip size, and high efficiency. The present disclosure also relates to a switching power supply comprising the above synchronous rectification circuit.
US10250155B2
An electric power conversion device has semiconductor modules, a main P bus bar, a main N bus bar, a capacitor module, an input P bus bar and an input N bus bar. The input N bus bar is connected to the DC power source. The main N bus bar is connected to a negative electrode terminal of the semiconductor module to supply the DC power. A capacitor N bus bar, a filter capacitor and a smoothing capacitor in the capacitor module are molded by capacitor molded resin. The capacitor N bus bar is connected to a negative electrode terminal of the filter capacitor. The input N bus bar has a first N connection section connected to the capacitor N bus bar and a second N connection section connected to the main N bus bar. The main N bus bar is arranged outside of the capacitor mold resin.
US10250154B2
A data processing device is provided. The data processing device in a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system includes a measurement module measuring a voltage or current for one or more points in the HVDC system; and a data processing and control unit generating measurement data units using measurement values measured at the measurement module and performing serial transmission on the generated measurement data units through time division multiplexing (TDM), wherein the data processing and control unit includes a plurality of data unit generation parts, and each of the plurality of data unit generation parts outputs a transmission completion signal representing that the transmission of a measurement data unit is completed.
US10250150B2
A driving module of a resonant converter receives an enabling signal and a voltage across a switch of a secondary side, and generates a control signal for first and second switches of the secondary side. The driving module cyclically controls switches of a primary full-bridge switching stage and both switches of the secondary side. After a fixed time, the driving module turns off the low-side switch and turns on the high-side switch, waits for a rising edge of the enabling signal, waits for zero current in the secondary side switches, turns off the first switch via the control signal after a variable delay relative to the rising edge of the enabling signal, keeps the second switch on, waits for zero voltage across the first switch, switches back on the first switch via the control signal when the voltage measured across the first switch drops below a variable threshold.
US10250147B2
A switch-mode power supply includes a control element in a primary circuit for controlling a transformer for transmitting electric energy from the primary circuit to a secondary circuit, a first regulating element in the secondary circuit for regulating an electric output variable of the secondary circuit, and a second regulating element in the primary circuit for regulating an electric controlled variable of the control element as a function of a temperature of the primary circuit, the second regulating element being thermally coupled to an element of the primary circuit whose temperature is to be ascertained.
US10250144B2
An example relates to a method for operating a converter comprising a primary side of a transformer and a secondary side of the transformer, wherein a switching element is used for conveying energy from the primary side to the secondary side, the method comprising (i) determining a voltage drop across the primary side of the transformer; (ii) determining at least one additional voltage drop across at least one component of the converter's primary side; and (iii) determining an input voltage at the converter via the voltage drops.
US10250140B2
In order to reduce the cost of a switch-mode converter delivering a continuous voltage to the terminals of a load (Z), the present invention proposes a circuit having two windings (Lp, Ls) and a single magnetic core.
US10250139B2
According to one embodiment of this disclosure, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a voltage regulator configured to produce a regulated voltage, a plurality of current circuits coupled in parallel between an output node and a power node, each of the plurality of current circuits including first and second transistors coupled in series, the first transistor of each of the plurality of current circuits being biased with the regulated voltage, and a control circuit configured to activate the second transistor of selected one or ones of the plurality of current circuits responsive, at least in part, to a voltage at the output node.
US10250135B2
In one embodiment, a control circuit configured to control a switch mode power supply, can include: (i) a compensation signal generating circuit configured to generate a compensation signal according to an error between an output voltage feedback signal and a first reference voltage of the switch mode power supply; (ii) a switching signal generating circuit configured to control a switching operation of a power switching device of the switch mode power supply according to the compensation signal; (iii) a judge circuit configured to determine an operation state of the switch mode power supply according to the output voltage feedback signal; and (iv) a loop gain regulating circuit configured to regulate a loop gain of the control circuit according to the operation state.
US10250130B2
A switched capacitor converter and a method for configuring the switched capacitor converter are disclosed. The switched capacitor converter includes a capacitance resource with a cathode and an anode and a switching matrix with a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, and at least one switch configured to switch among two or more connections selected from the group consisting of a connection of the first terminal to the anode and the second terminal to the cathode and a connection of the second terminal to the anode and the third terminal to the cathode.
US10250125B2
A power supply controller having a shortened reset time due to a small hiccup voltage includes an electrical circuit providing a repeated voltage hiccup of a supply voltage of the controller of a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) when the controller enters a latched state. A plurality of comparators each have an input coupled with the controller supply voltage. A multiplexer and two latches are included, each coupled with one or more comparator outputs, and a restart controller is coupled with an output of one of the latches. The restart controller in various implementations toggles a switch to activate and deactivate a current sink to create the supply voltage hiccup. In other implementations, the switch is excluded and the restart controller toggles a voltage startup transistor to couple and decouple a voltage source with the supply voltage to create the voltage hiccup.
US10250112B2
The invention implements a variation of the electrical transverse flux machine (motor or generator) that employs ferromagnetic excitation elements mostly located on the stator rather on the rotor. The excitation elements are employed in nearly-complete magnetic circuits that are periodically completed by the movement of the rotor. The varying flux that is thus generated is used to cause an EMF in windings, for the case of generators, or for the case of motors, appropriate EMF is used to cause varying flux that in turn causes rotation of the motor.
US10250096B2
Obtain a rotary electric machine in which an insulation capability of bus-bar units is maintained in order to supply current to a coil of a stator of the rotary electric machine, and the whole stator can be downsized. In the arc-shaped bus-bar units which are laminated and arranged on a coil end of a stator of the rotary electric machine, a neutral-point bus-bar unit, which includes a neutral-point bus-bar is arranged at a midpoint of phase's bus-bar units, which include phase's bus bars.
US10250095B2
According to the present invention, a wire insulation layer (112) and an interlayer insulation layer (113) are formed on a wire (111). A main insulation layer (114) is formed by winding highly thermally conductive mica tape. A first outer insulation layer (115) formed from heat-shrinking material and a second outer insulation layer (116) formed from a highly thermally conductive resin are formed at a coil end section. Due to this configuration, the thermal conductivity of the coil, particularly of the coil end section, is improved, thereby enabling improved cooling performance.
US10250091B2
The invention relates to an electric machine, which comprises a stator (1) and a rotor (2) that can be moved in relation to the stator. The stator (1) has a first multi-strand winding (I) and at least a second multi-strand winding (II), which each comprise two sub-windings (A1, A2) mechanically shifted in relation to each other. In a slot (3) of the stator, a number of windings (Nw1) of the first sub-winding (A1) of a multi-strand winding is different from a number (Nw2) of windings of the second sub-winding (A2) of said multi-strand winding. The stator (1) has a number of slots (3) that is twice the number of slots minimally required for a given pole pair number p of the rotor (2) for one of the multi-strand windings.
US10250086B2
An electromagnetic generating transformer comprises one or more flux assembly having one or more magnetic field source having a positive pole and a negative pole and a magnetic field passing in a path between the positive pole and the negative pole and a conductor magnetically coupled with the one or more magnetic field source, the magnetic field source and the conductor being fixed relative to one another; a shunt is coupled with a motive source and configured to move the shunt into a primary position and a secondary position, wherein the magnitude of the magnetic field passing between the positive pole and the negative pole varies when the shunt is moved between the primary position and the secondary position.
US10250084B2
Systems and methods are described for receiving wireless power and providing wired power. In some embodiments, a predictive phase estimation apparatus comprises a transceiver module configured to receive a plurality of beaconing signals from a wireless client during a beacon cycle. The predictive phase estimation apparatus also comprises a phase compensation module configured to store the received plurality of beaconing signals, a phase predictor module is coupled to the transceiver module and configured to calculate predictive phases based on the received plurality of beaconing signals and based on beaconing signals received from the wireless client prior to the beacon cycle, and a signal converter coupled to the transceiver module. The signal converter is configured to form transmission signals based on the predictive phases and supply the transmission signals to the transceiver module. The transceiver module also transmits the transmission signals for delivery of wireless power to the wireless client.
US10250081B2
A wireless power transfer foreign object detector having, at least one secondary receiver coil, an adjustable load electrically coupled to the at least one secondary receiver coil, and at least one temperature sensor providing at least one temperature detection signal, wherein the at least one temperature sensor responsive to at least one thermal state of the at least one secondary receiver coil, and wherein foreign object detection is based at least in part upon the at least one temperature detection signal.
US10250053B2
The present invention provides a battery charger and battery charging method controlled with a charging waveform input of an AC-DC switching circuit to a DC link and a DC-DC stage converter for outputting a regulated DC voltage. The method determining the charging waveform comprising the steps of selecting a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) zero-off charging waveform signal input to the AC-DC switching circuit and calculating a ripple power at the DC link based on the signal input power and output power of the regulated DC voltage output.
US10250051B2
An electronic device docking station may include a connector and a base. The connector may include a connector head, a connector plug, and a flexible cable. The connector head may have a neck, a face, a first recess configured to interface with a releasable pivot mechanism, and a pivot surface. The connector plug may extend from the face of the connector head, the plug being configured to connect to an electronic device. The flexible cable may extend from the neck the connector head. The base may include a second recess and a fulcrum surface. The second recess may be configured to interface with the releasable pivot mechanism and thereby releasably secure the connector head to the base. The fulcrum surface may be configured to contact the pivot surface.
US10250047B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a battery disconnect unit capable of being stably driven, and minimizing damage of a circuit, by including a means to protect the circuit at high temperatures without an additional power source. In some embodiments, the battery disconnect unit includes a first main relay electrically connected between a first pole of a battery and an inverter; a second main relay electrically connected between a second pole of the battery and the inverter; a pre-charge relay connected to the second main relay in parallel; and a self-operating switch connected between the first pole of the battery and the second main relay, and configured to autonomously open a circuit providing an electric power from the battery when a ambient temperature is drastically increased, or when an over-current occurs.
US10250045B2
A battery pack includes an arrangement of battery cells organized in battery groups connected in series, with each group having one or more battery units connected in parallel, and each battery unit comprising one or more series-connected battery cells connected to a battery switch. Charging of the battery pack uses pulse charging. The charging pulses provided to the battery units can be determined based on one or more measured characteristics of battery cells comprising the battery unit so that charging of the battery units can be optimized according to those characteristics. The charging pulses provided to each battery group are timed so that there is an uninterrupted flow of charging current through all the battery groups at all times.
US10250043B2
A battery pack system module may include a module bypass switch for allowing charge current to bypass the battery pack system module. A charge switch and a discharge switch may be coupled with the module bypass switch. When other battery pack system modules are coupled in series with the module, balancing between modules may be achieved by allowing charge current to bypass the unbalanced modules and charge other modules. For example, when an unbalanced module is at a higher level of charge than other modules, a charge switch and a discharge switch in the unbalanced module de-activate and a module bypass switch activates to allow charge current to rapidly bring other modules into balance. The discharge switch and the charge switch allow the charging current to bypass the unbalanced module creating little or no additional heat dissipation.
US10250040B2
A data center operable using only electric power based on renewable energy. The data center includes at least one device driven by the electric power, a storage battery for storing the electric power, and a controller for switching the operating mode of the device over the course of time on the basis of predicted values for the amount of electric power generated using renewable energy, the amount of electric power stored in the storage battery, and the amount of electric power consumed by the device.
US10250037B2
A harmonic current compensator is connected in parallel with a harmonic generating load to a system power supply and supplies a compensation current Ia to limit a harmonic component contained in a load current IL to be input from the system power supply to the harmonic generating load. The harmonic current compensator includes: a load current detector that detects the load current IL; a compensation current detector that detects the supplied compensation current Ia; a control amount computing portion that computes a control amount of the compensation current Ia based on the harmonic component contained in the load current IL detected by the load current detector and the compensation current Ia detected by the compensation current detector; and a limiter that limits an upper limit of the compensation current Ia.
US10250035B2
Improvements to a distributed automation power grid are selected to improve storm survivability. Using historical information about storms, link sets are determined that, when added to the power grid, would restore connectivity after damage by each of the storms. One of the link sets is then selected based on costs and rewards, and is added to a grid representation. Survivability of the modified grid representation is then estimated, and additional link sets are determined and selected until survivability surpasses a minimum level or a budget is exceeded.
US10250031B2
The magnetic coil driving circuit of the magnetic contactor according to the present invention comprises a semiconductor switch configured to open or close a circuit for magnetizing or demagnetizing a magnetic coil; a pulse width modulation unit configured to output a pulse signal as a control signal for turning on or off the semiconductor switch; a control unit configured to output a control signal for changing a pulse width of the pulse signal to the pulse width modulation unit; and a temperature detection and protection unit configured to detect a temperature inside the magnetic contactor, output an output signal for turning off the semiconductor switch when the temperature exceeds an allowable temperature, and control the semiconductor switch by the pulse signal from the pulse width modulation unit when the temperature is within the allowable temperature.
US10250030B2
A surge protector for providing electricity to an electronic device. The surge protector including a housing defining a module slot and including a module connector positioned within the module slot and a module insertable into the module slot and including at least one connector port and a housing connector. The housing connector can be operably connectable to the module connector when the module is inserted into the module slot. The cable can be connected to the module and housing such that the module can be positioned at a location remote from the housing.
US10250027B2
A DC and/or an AC power transmission circuit protection system is for protection of a cabling medium. The circuit protection system includes a power supply, a powered device and a circuit protection module that includes an over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or a heat circuit protector. The protection system is disposed between the power supply and the powered device, and interrupts an electrical current that flows through the cabling medium when the over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or the circuit protector exceeds a predetermined level. There is also provided a method to dispose the circuit protection system and the circuit protection module within the circuit and to interrupt the circuit when over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or heat circuit protector exceeds a predetermined level.
US10250026B2
This invention is a device for connecting an end of a HV cable to an HV installation, comprising a pre-fabricated pipe-like unit (2) and the method for installing this device. The pipe-like unit comprises a connection piece (6, 6b) made out of an electrically conducting material and an insulator tube (5, 5r) which is connected to the connection piece (6, 6b) in a fluid-tight way. The insulator tube (5, 5r) is made out of an insulating material. The HV installation is typically a HV joint or a termination.
US10250021B2
A high-voltage DC cable joint including a multi-wall layered construction having individual concentrically arranged layers. The joint includes, from inside to outside, an inner conductive rubber layer, a field grading rubber layer made from a predetermined tailored formulation, an insulating rubber layer and an outer conductive rubber layer. The field grading rubber layer separates and interconnects the conductive rubber layers, and wherein the rubber layers are cross-linked by a by-product-free manufacturing method. The cable joint is preferably made from platinum cured rubbers by moulding process steps. In a preferred embodiment the cable joint is made by injection moulding.
US10250020B2
A method, apparatus, and system are described for a radial bus Shared Resource Distributed electrical power Distribution System, which has multiple electrical power distribution platforms and a radial power distribution bus. The multiple electrical power distribution platforms are coupled to the radial bus in an interlaced fashion to supply AC electrical power to the downstream electrical loads. The electrical loads are dual corded and are configured to nominally receive AC electrical power from two separate power distribution platforms. A first power distribution platform electrically connects to a first set of the dual corded electrical loads. Also, the first power distribution platform electrically connects to a second set of the dual corded electrical loads. A second power distribution platform electrically connects to the first set of the dual corded electrical loads, and the second power distribution platform electrically connects to a third set of the dual corded electrical loads.
US10250012B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array may include a plurality of VCSELs. A size of an emission area of a first VCSEL, of the plurality of VCSELs, may be different from a size of an emission area of a second VCSEL of the plurality of VCSELs. The first VCSEL may be located closer to a center of the VCSEL array than the second VCSEL. A difference between the size of the emission area of the first VCSEL and the size of the emission area of the second VCSEL may be associated with reducing a difference in operating temperature between the first VCSEL and the second VCSEL, or reducing a difference in optical power output between the first VCSEL and the second VCSEL.
US10250011B2
Driver circuitry including an inductor configured to be used both as an inductor of a buck converter and to provide high-speed pulse driving of a load. The driver circuitry includes the buck converter, which includes a first switch, a second switch and a comparator configured to drive the first switch and the second switch. The inductor is connected between the first switch and the second switch of the buck converter and the load and supplies current to drive the load.
US10250004B2
A method of forming an electrical cable connector for electrically connecting to a camera of a vehicle includes providing a cable, a plurality of terminals and a retaining element. The terminals are pressed into respective receiving portions and passageways of the retaining element, such that pin ends of the terminals protrude from the retaining element. Ends of the electrically conductive wires of the cable are electrically connected at wire receiving ends of the terminals. When the terminals are pressed into the retaining element and the wire ends are electrically connected at the wire receiving ends of the terminals, a wire-terminal-retainer construction is formed at the end of the cable. The wire-terminal-retainer construction is placed in a molding device and a unitary connector end is molded at and over the wire-terminal-retainer construction. The molded unitary connector end includes a connector portion and a sleeve portion.
US10249999B2
Methods and systems for monitoring a brush holder assembly and/or detecting wear of a brush in a brush holder assembly are disclosed. One method includes sending data from a plurality of remote monitoring locations to a central control unit, where the data may be evaluated in order to monitor states of brushes at a plurality of remote electrical facilities. For example, multiple images of a marker tracking longitudinal movement of the brush may be acquired. A comparison of the images, for example, a comparative imaging technique, such as pixel-by-pixel comparison, may then be performed in order to evaluate a condition of the brush, such as the wear rate, wear state, or life expectancy of the brush.
US10249998B2
A combination outlet connector is disclosed. The combination outlet connector includes an outlet core having three T-shaped apertures. The outlet core has a core outer surface to mate with a first connector type, such as a C14 connector, and electrical terminals are positioned in corresponding apertures. A removable adapter sleeve is positionable around the outlet core and has a sleeve outer surface to mate with a second connector type, such as a C20 connector. The adapter sleeve includes a sleeve aperture at least partially congruent with the core outer surface. The electrical terminals are configured to connect with mating terminals of the first and second connector types. A removable adapter shroud can be positioned around the outlet core. The shroud includes a shroud inner surface to receive the first connector type and a shroud flange having a shroud aperture at least partially congruent with the core outer surface.
US10249996B2
I rewired a standard one gang electrical outlet receptacle with an 110/120 volt three position toggle switch (ON, OFF, ON). The rewiring allowed for the top outlet to be hot when the toggle was up (ON) and the bottom outlet would be OFF. Conversely, the bottom outlet would be hot when the toggle was down (ON) and the top outlet would be OFF. When the toggle switch was flipped to the middle position (OFF), both outlets would be off. Plugged a 3.5 mm plug from a set of amplified external speakers into my headphone port on the side of my television. The external speakers were plugged into the top outlet on my rewired receptacle. The bottom outlet on my rewired receptacle provided power to my “BOOM BOX.” Flipping my three position toggle switch up turned on my television audio while flipping the toggle switch down would “Silence” my television audio and turn on my “BOOM BOX” radio.—My rewired receptacle is the origin of the Television Commercial Silencer Electrical Wall Outlet Receptacle Tap.
US10249979B2
A waterproof component includes a housing body, a mat seal, mat seal cover, and an elastic ring. The housing body includes an attachment-hole-insertion portion having a mat-seal-accommodating chamber, an abutting portion to abut a first peripheral surface of the attachment hole, a locking claw provided on an insertion tip side of the attachment hole insertion portion, the locking claw to be locked to a second peripheral surface of the attachment hole, and a cover locking portion provided on an insertion tip side of the attachment-hole-insertion portion. The mat seal has an electric wire press-fitting hole. The mat-seal-accommodating chamber accommodates the mat seal. The mat seal cover locks to the cover-locking portion, the mat seal cover interposes the mat seal between the mat seal cover and a bottom wall of the mat-seal-accommodating chamber. The elastic ring is disposed on an outer periphery of the attachment-hole-insertion portion.
US10249969B2
High reliability is achieved with a protected state guaranteed for housings with reinforcing brackets being rigid to be free from displacement and misorientation. A connector includes: a connector body; a terminal installed in the connector body; and a reinforcing bracket fit to the connector body. The connector body includes a recess in which a mating connector body of a mating connector fits, and an insular part that is in the recess and fits in a groove part of the mating connector body. The reinforcing bracket includes an inner reinforcing bracket fit to an insular end part that is an end portion of the insular part in a longitudinal direction. The inner reinforcing bracket includes a body part that is disposed on an upper surface of the insular end part, an end plate that is connected to the body part and is disposed on an end surface of the insular end part, a pair of side plates that are connected to right and left ends of the body part and are disposed on right and left side surfaces of the insular end part, and a pair of connecting legs that are each connected to a lower end of a corresponding one of the side plates and extend outward in a right and left direction of the connector body.
US10249965B2
A busbar includes a plate-shaped body section and a wire connection section extended from the body section. The body section includes a first plate section, a second plate section, and a folding-back section connecting the first plate section and the second plate section. The first plate section and the second plate section are stacked mutually by folding-back the folding-back section. The first plate section has an outer shape that is positioned to a busbar accommodation section of a wire routing member made of insulation resin. A maximum width dimension of the second plate section in a direction parallel to the folding-back section is smaller than that of the first plate section in the direction parallel to the folding-back section.
US10249953B2
A fixed beam ramp electromagnetic band gap (EBG) antenna including a radiating element and an electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure both disposed within a ramped cavity. The cavity is designed with the ramp leading to the EBG structure disposed about a base of the cavity. The radiating element can be disposed above the EBG structure and the EBG structure may have a plurality of unit cells. The EBG structure can be provided both, horizontally on the floor of the cavity and vertically along a back wall of the cavity. The use of both horizontal and vertical EBG structures combined with the ramped cavity increases the bandwidth and enhances the beam steering of the antenna system.
US10249946B2
A method for adapting an antenna circuit including at least one first capacitive element and an inductive element in series, and at least one second capacitive element having a first electrode connected between the first capacitive element and the inductive element, wherein data representative of the voltage of said first electrode are applied to the second electrode of the second capacitive element.
US10249944B1
Disclosed are a system, apparatus, and method for improving performance of antennas in electronic devices. The disclosed system, apparatus, and method uses a transparent dielectric substrate as an antenna. The transparent dielectric substrate may receive energy from a wave launcher and printed circuit board. To work as an antenna, the whole structure may include at least one wave launcher located between the dielectric transparent substrate and a printed circuit board. Also, the structure may include a ground at the bottom of solid dielectric transparent substrate with a separation space. The space should not be less than wavelength 1/10 of fundamental resonant frequency.
US10249935B2
An enclosure for an access point for attachment to a handrail includes a first half-shell including a first peripheral flange portion and a second half-shell including a second peripheral flange portion, the first half-shell and the second half-shell being attached together along the first peripheral flange portion and the second peripheral flange portion to form the enclosure; a mounting plate disposed within the enclosure, the mounting plate including a peripheral edge portion coextensive with the first and second peripheral flange portions, the peripheral edge portion including first and second sides opposed to the respective first and second peripheral flange portions; and a seal disposed along the first and second sides of the peripheral edge portion, the seal on the first side being sandwiched between the first peripheral flange portion and the first side, the seal on the second side being sandwiched between the second peripheral flange portion and the second side.
US10249927B2
A system includes an RF input coupled to a plurality of channel filters through an inductive manifold. Each of the channel filters is configured as a series resonator and has a frequency of greater than about 1 GHz. The frequency of the channel filters decreases as their distance from the RF input increases. Components of each of the channel filters, which may include a series inductor, series capacitor, and shunt capacitor, are configured using high-Q transmission lines. A tunable notch filter, such as an absorptive tunable band-stop filter, may be included within the channel filters. The system may be used for protection of wideband receivers.
US10249925B2
An apparatus comprises a plurality of waveguides, wherein the waveguides include a dielectric material; an outer shell; and a supporting feature within the outer shell, wherein the waveguides are arranged separate from each other within the outer shell by the supporting feature.
US10249920B2
A battery cell assembly includes a pouch-type battery cell having a battery member, an external housing, and first and second electrical terminals. The external housing has a central housing portion and a peripheral lip member extending around a periphery of the central housing portion. The central housing portion encloses the battery member therein. The first and second electrical terminals are electrically coupled to the battery member and extend outwardly from the peripheral lip member. The assembly further includes a first tube disposed against the peripheral lip member of the external housing. The peripheral lip member extends around the first tube such that the first tube is at least partially disposed within a first interior region defined by the peripheral lip member.
US10249917B2
A power source device includes: a battery assembly including a plurality of battery cells which are aligned; a bus bar module formed by linking a plurality of bus bar storing portions which store a plurality of bus bars which link and connect electrodes of the battery assembly; a smoke exhausting duct provided on one side of the battery assembly; and a control board provided on the smoke exhausting duct and electrically connected to a voltage detection terminal for detecting a voltage of each of the battery cells. In the smoke exhausting duct, a portion where the control board is provided is in a flattened shape having a smaller height and a larger width in comparison with another portion.
US10249916B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery module. The battery module includes a housing defined by one or more walls. A wall of the housing includes an opening configured to create a passageway between an interior of the housing and an exterior of the housing. The battery module includes a connector barrel disposed within the opening. The connector barrel is a hollow conduit with a first open end opposite a second open end, and the connector barrel is configured to receive a low voltage signal connector through the first open end and a vehicle control module connector through the second open end. An external surface of the connector barrel includes a pair of protrusions configured to enable intimate contact between the wall of the housing and the connector barrel.
US10249912B1
An electrical control system having a primary microcontroller, a secondary microcontroller, a slave IC, and a communication IC is provided. The communication IC sets a fault line to a first logic level indicating that an overvoltage condition has been detected in a battery cell. The secondary microcontroller sends a message to the primary microcontroller via a communication bus indicating that the overvoltage condition has been detected in response to the fault line having the first logic level. The primary microcontroller determines that both the message from the second microcontroller was received and the fault line has the first logic level to confirm that the communication bus is functioning as desired and that the secondary microcontroller is functioning as desired.
US10249910B2
A rechargeable lithium-ion cell has a cell capacity and includes a positive electrode having a recharged potential and a negative electrode. The rechargeable lithium-ion cell also includes a charge-carrying electrolyte. The charge-carrying electrolyte includes a charge-carrying medium and a lithium salt. The rechargeable lithium-ion cell also includes a redox shuttle having the following structure.
US10249909B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including an electrode assembly the electrode assembly being fastened with a rectangular or square fixing tape applied to cover the end of the coil, the side of the fixing tape in contact with the electrode assembly including self-adhesive portions having a pressure-sensitive adhesive and a non-adhesive portion having no pressure-sensitive adhesive, the self-adhesive portions being disposed at both ends of the non-adhesive portion in the direction of the width of the fixing tape so that the non-adhesive portion is interposed between the self-adhesive portions, the battery satisfying 0.9≤Wb/Wa≤1 and 0.35≤Wc/Wa≤0.8 wherein Wa is the height of the electrode assembly, Wb is the width of the fixing tape and Wc is the width of the non-adhesive portion.
US10249908B2
A new battery cell structure uses a battery cell structure comprising a plurality of strips so that only a fraction of the power in the cell can be fed to a dendrite which has shorted an anode and cathode. The dendrite still occurs, but can be rendered benign. In addition, a fuse can be added to the cell structure so that shorted cells can be removed from the circuit.
US10249904B2
The present invention provides an electrochemical cell including: an electrode body; an exterior packaging body in which a plurality of substrates including a first substrate formed from a ceramic material are stacked in the first direction, and a cavity in which the electrode body is accommodated is formed; a first electrode connection wiring that is formed in the exterior packaging body and connects a first electrode layer and an external substrate to each other; and a second electrode connection wiring that is forming in the exterior packaging body and connects a second electrode layer and the external substrate to each other. At least the first electrode connection wiring is formed in the first substrate, and an attachment portion, to which a fastening member configured to mount at least the first electrode connection wiring to the external substrate is attached, is formed in the first substrate.
US10249902B2
Disclosed herein are a secondary battery transfer apparatus for transferring a secondary battery in a secondary battery manufacturing process and a method for detecting a loading defect of a secondary battery in a carrier receiving the secondary battery. The secondary battery transfer apparatus includes a carrier having a receipt space to receive a secondary battery, a transfer unit transferring the carrier, a loading detection sensor sensing the secondary battery when the secondary battery inserted into the carrier reaches a designated height, and a controller receiving a result of sensing of the loading detection sensor and controlling operation of the transfer unit. The secondary battery transfer apparatus and the detection method detect whether or not a case of the secondary battery is damaged due to friction with the carrier and thus recognize a product defect in advance.
US10249900B2
A method for making a composite membrane includes the steps of coating a first layer of ionomer on an intermediate support, laminating a dry porous support into the wet first layer of ionomer, impregnating the porous support with ionomer from the coated ionomer layer, optionally drying the impregnated porous support and the first layer of ionomer, coating a second layer of ionomer on the impregnated porous support, drying the second layer of ionomer until most of the solvent is evaporated, and delaminating the composite membrane from the intermediate support. The composite membrane thus obtained includes a porous support impregnated with the ionomer and on each side of the impregnated support a dense ionomer layer.
US10249899B2
The disclosure relates to a method for making fuel cell system. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell module curved to form a chamber. The fuel cell module includes a container having a number of through holes and a membrane electrode assembly located on the container and cover the number of through holes. The membrane electrode assembly includes a proton exchange membrane having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a cathode electrode located on the first surface and an anode electrode located on the second surface. A fuel cell module is at least partially immerged in the fuel and the oxidizing gas is supplied in to the chamber of the fuel cell module.
US10249887B2
In this fuel cell, a cell holder (40) is provided with an inflow passage (44) for allowing flow into a frame of the cell holder (40), and a convex support (34) for supporting an insulating portion (50) and a first seal member (60) is provided in the inflow passage (44).
US10249878B2
A positive electrode and a negative electrode are stacked so as to face each other with a separator and a low spring constant film interposed therebetween. The positive electrode or the negative electrode has a first spring constant that is the lowest spring constant of the positive electrode, the negative electrode and the separator. The low spring constant film has a second spring constant. The second spring constant is lower than the first spring constant.
US10249875B2
A method of preparing a negative electrode active material of the present invention includes mixing a lithium precursor and a titanium precursor, and sintering the precursor mixture to prepare a lithium titanium-based active material including a lithium titanium oxide, wherein a residual amount of lithium in the lithium titanium-based active material is 2,000 ppm or less based on a total amount of the lithium titanium-based active material. The preparation method allows the residual amount of lithium to be 2,000 ppm or less in a range, in which rate capability is not significantly reduced, by appropriately controlling sintering temperature, wherein the method may provide a lithium secondary battery, in which an amount of gas generated is extremely small even if stored at high temperature, a thickness expansion rate is consequently considerably low, and, simultaneously, the rate capability is also excellent.
US10249869B2
A method of producing an electrode body includes obtaining a state in which an electrode active material layer in a wet state which includes a first solid component containing electrode active material particles and a first liquid phase component and which includes the first solid component at a weight ratio in a range of 70 to 85% is present on the collecting foil, and applying an insulating particle paint which includes a second solid component containing insulating particles and a second liquid phase component and which includes the second solid component at a weight ratio in a range of 35 to 50% onto the electrode active material layer in the wet state, wherein a surface tension value of the first liquid phase component is in a range of 90 to 110% of a surface tension value of the second liquid phase component.
US10249863B2
A method for producing a microporous material comprising the steps of: providing an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE); providing a filler, providing a processing plasticizer, adding the filler to the UHMWPE in a mixture being in the range of from about 1:9 to about 15:1 filler to UHMWPE by weight; adding the processing plasticizer to the mixture; extruding the mixture to form a sheet from the mixture; calendering the sheet; extracting the processing plasticizer from the sheet to produce a matrix comprising UHMWPE and the filler distributed throughout the matrix; stretching the microporous material in at least one direction to a stretch ratio of at least about 1.5 to produce a stretched microporous matrix; and subsequently calendering the stretched microporous matrix to produce a microporous material which exhibits improved physical and dimensional stability properties over the stretched microporous matrix.
US10249860B2
Provided is a cartridge frame which is inserted between a plurality of unit battery cells stacked in the fabrication of a modularized battery and a battery module having the same. The cartridge frame according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an inter-cell separation plate with a planar shape inserted between adjacent unit battery cells to separate the adjacent unit battery cells, and a sidewall part extending in a direction perpendicular to the planar surface of the inter-cell separation plate at an edge other than an edge of a direction in which an electrode terminal of the battery cell is drawn, among edges of the inter-cell separation plate, wherein for at least a portion of the sidewall part, an inner sidewall coming into contact with a side surface of the unit battery cell is made from metal, and an outer sidewall facing the inner sidewall is made from plastic.
US10249832B1
To provide an organic electroluminescence device having a high luminous efficiency and a novel compound that can be used as a material for an organic electroluminescence device having a high luminous efficiency.A compound represented by the following formula (3-I), wherein at least one of R1 to R7 and R10 to R11 is —N(R36)(R37). R31 to R37 are independently a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group including 1 to 50 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group including 3 to 50 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group including 6 to 50 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent heterocyclic group including 5 to 50 ring atoms.
US10249829B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes a compound represented by Formula 1: When the compound represented by Formula 1 is used as electron-transporting material, an organic light-emitting device including this compound may show significantly improved efficiency, driving voltage, high luminance, and long lifespan characteristics.
US10249826B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, an emitting layer and a cathode, in which the emitting layer includes a first compound and a second compound. The first compound is a delayed-fluorescent compound represented by a formula (1) below. The second compound includes at least one of a partial structure represented by a formula (21) below and a partial structure represented by a formula (22) below in one molecule.
US10249818B1
According to one embodiment, a memory element includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer is conductive. The second layer is conductive. The third layer includes hafnium oxide and is provided between the first layer and the second layer. The first layer includes a first region, a second region, and a third region. The first region includes a first element and a first metallic element. The first element is selected from a group consisting of carbon and nitrogen. The second region includes a second metallic element and is provided between the first region and the third layer. The third region includes titanium oxide and is provided between the second region and the third layer.
US10249816B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive random access memory device, the method including forming a memory structure on a substrate, the memory structure including a lower electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction structure, and an upper electrode sequentially stacked; forming a first capping layer to cover a surface of the memory structure by a deposition process using a plasma under first conditions; and forming a second capping layer on the first capping layer by a deposition process using a plasma under second conditions different from the first conditions.
US10249815B2
Provided is an electronic device including a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory may include: a variable resistance element that exhibits different resistance states for storing data; and a lower contact plug coupled to the variable resistance element and disposed under the variable resistance element, and wherein a width of the lower contact plug increases from a top surface of the lower contact plug to a bottom surface of the lower contact plug.
US10249812B2
A filter includes: an input terminal; an output terminal; and a ladder circuit that includes one or more series acoustic wave resonators connected in series between the input terminal and the output terminal and one or more parallel acoustic wave resonators connected in parallel between the input terminal and the output terminal, and in which characteristic impedance of at least one point in a pathway between the input terminal and the output terminal in a passband is greater than at least one of input impedance of the input terminal and output impedance of the output terminal in the passband.
US10249807B2
A solid state light-emitting device (LED) lighting apparatus comprising a leadframe assembly comprising leadframes spaced apart at a pitch, each leadframe comprising at least one pad, interconnects each linking two adjacent leadframes, LEDs mounted on the leadframes, and bidirectional spreading lenses disposed about the LEDs, each bidirectional spreading lens having a spreading axis and a null axis perpendicular to the spreading axis, each bidirectional spreading lens directing more light in opposite directions along the spreading axis than the null axis, the spreading axis being aligned along the length of the stretched leadframe assembly.
US10249801B2
A light emitting diode package includes a light emitting diode chip disposed in a housing, a first phosphor configured to emit green light, and a second phosphor configured to emit red light. White light is configured to be formed by a synthesis of light emitted from the light emitting diode chip, the first phosphor, and the second phosphor. The second phosphor has a chemical formula of A2MF6:Mn4+, A is one of Li, Na, K, Rb, Ce, and NH4, and M is one of Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta, and the Mn4+ of the second phosphor has a mole range of about 0.02 to about 0.035 times the M.
US10249800B1
In one embodiment, a pixel for an electronic display includes a first subpixel, a second subpixel stacked on top of the first subpixel, and a third subpixel stacked on top of the second subpixel. Each of the first, second, and third subpixels comprises a polygon shape. Each of the first, second, and third subpixels comprises an emissive layer, a transparent cathode layer, and a transparent anode layer.
US10249796B2
The present application discloses a light emitting diode comprising a substrate; and a light emitting layer on the substrate. The light emitting layer comprises, an N-type doped layer; a quantum well active layer; and a P-type doped layer. At least one of the N-type doped layer and the P-type doped layer comprises an uneven layer adapted to concentrate light emitting from the light emitting layer.
US10249793B2
A light emitting diode includes an active region configured to emit light, a composite electrical contact layer, and a transparent electron blocking hole transport layer (TEBHTL). The composite electrical contact layer includes tow materials. At least one of the two materials is a metal configured to reflect a portion of the emitted light. The TEBHTL is arranged between the composite electrical contact layer and the active region. The TEBHTL has a thickness that extends at least a majority of a distance between the active region and the composite electrical contact layer. The TEBHTL has a band-gap greater than a band-gap of light emitting portions of the active region. The band-gap of the TEBHTL decreases as a function of distance from the active region to the composite electrical contact layer over a majority of the thickness of the TEBHTL.
US10249784B2
An optical sensor includes: a light emitting element 40; a lower substrate 20 on which the light emitting element 40 is provided; an upper substrate 10 provided so that the light emitting element 40 is positioned between the upper substrate 10 and the lower substrate 20; and an optical block 30 provided on the upper substrate 10. The upper substrate 10 includes a division-type photodiode SD. The optical block 30 is configured to reflect light emitted from the light emitting element 40 toward a measurement target R, and light reflected by the measurement target R is incident onto the division-type photodiode SD.
US10249781B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for counting single photons including an edge combiner configured to detect an edge of each of applied clocks using a plurality of Phase-Locked Loops (PLL) to generate a combined signal; a sampling unit configured to sample all events occurring in each SPAD of a single photon detection diode (SPAD) array using an OR tree and an XOR tree; and a calculation unit configured to count the sampled events based on the combined signal to count single photons.
US10249778B2
A solar cell structure for wireless charging includes a substrate and at least one thin film solar cell disposed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the thin film solar cell has a winding coil structure. Accordingly, in the thin film solar cell, the electrode which is the winding coil structure may be used as electromagnetic induction coil or millimeter-wave radio wave receiving radiator.
US10249776B2
Discussed is a method of manufacturing a heterojunction solar cell, including: forming a metal compound on a semiconductor substrate; forming a transparent conductive oxide on the metal compound; forming an electrode forming material on the transparent conductive oxide; and sintering the electrode forming material using light sintering to form an electrode part. The transparent conductive oxide may be sintered by light sintering to form a transparent conductive oxide layer formed of the transparent conductive oxide.
US10249770B2
The solar cell module according to the present invention includes: a supporting substrate; a back electrode layer arranged on the supporting substrate; a light absorbing layer arranged on the back electrode layer; a front electrode layer arranged on the light absorbing layer; and a bus bar arranged to be in contact with the top and side surfaces of the back electrode layer. In the solar cell according to an embodiment, the bus bar is arranged to be in contact with the top and side surfaces of the back electrode layer, which enables charge transfer both in the direction of the top surface and in the direction of the side surface, thereby facilitating the transfer of charge moving on the back electrode layer in the direction of the bus bar. Accordingly, the solar cell module according to an embodiment can increase the amount of charge transfer from the back electrode layer to the bus bar, thereby improving the efficiency of the solar cell module overall.
US10249763B2
A semiconductor device, an array substrate, and a display device, and their fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary semiconductor device includes a first electrode, an insulating layer, and a second electrode, over a substrate. A conductive layer is on the insulating layer. A semiconductor layer is on the first electrode, on a first sidewall of the insulating layer, on the conductive layer, on the second sidewall of the insulating layer, and on the second electrode. A first gate electrode is over a portion of the semiconductor layer that is on the first sidewall of the insulating layer. A second gate electrode is over a portion of the semiconductor layer that is on the second sidewall of the insulating layer.
US10249762B2
A nano-sheet semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The nano-sheet structure includes a substrate and at least one alternating stack of semiconductor material layers and metal gate material layers. The nano-sheet semiconductor structure further comprises a source region and a drain region. A first plurality of epitaxially grown interconnects contacts the source region and the semiconductor layers in the alternating stack. A second plurality of epitaxially grown interconnects contacts the drain region and the semiconductor layers in the alternating stack. The method includes removing a portion of alternating semiconductor layers and metal gate material layers. A first plurality of interconnects is epitaxially grown between and in contact with the semiconductor layers and the source region. A second plurality of interconnects is epitaxially grown between and in contact with the semiconductor layers and the drain region.
US10249761B2
A thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate is provided which includes: a substrate; a TFT disposed above the substrate; and a capacitor disposed above the substrate and electrically connected with the TFT, wherein the capacitor includes: a lower electrode layer disposed above the substrate and including an electrically conductive material as a main component; an upper electrode layer disposed above and opposed to the lower electrode layer and including, as a main component, an oxide semiconductor material to which electrical conductivity is given; and a capacitor insulating layer disposed between the lower electrode layer and the upper electrode layer. An extension extending outward from at least a portion of the outer edge of the lower electrode layer in plan view is provided to the lower electrode layer. In plan view, the upper electrode layer covers the lower electrode layer except the extension.
US10249760B2
The disclosure discloses a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof, a liquid crystal display panel, a transition pattern is disposed between a doping pattern and a source electrode pattern, the transition pattern covers sidewalls of the source electrode pattern and the drain electrode pattern respectively to insulate an active pattern and the sidewalls of the source electrode pattern and the drain electrode pattern in direct contact, so as to reduce leakage current of a TFT. Moreover, two sides of the transition pattern adjacent to the active pattern are covered by the doping pattern, which can reduce contact impendence of the active pattern and the source electrode pattern as well as the drain electrode pattern, so as to prevent the problem of insufficient charge of the TFT.
US10249755B1
An asymmetric field-effect transistor having different gate-to-source and gate-to-drain overlaps allows lower parasitic capacitance on the drain side of the device and lower resistance on the source side. Source and drain regions having different configurations can be formed simultaneously using the same precursor materials.
US10249754B2
A semiconductor device is provided that includes a first of a source region and a drain region comprised of a first semiconductor material, wherein an etch stop layer of a second semiconductor material present within the first of the source region and the drain region. A channel semiconductor material is present atop the first of the source region and the drain region. A second of the source and the drain region is present atop the channel semiconductor material. The semiconductor device may be a vertically orientated fin field effect transistor or a vertically orientated tunnel field effect transistor.
US10249750B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer. A second semiconductor layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer. A structure layer is disposed on the second semiconductor layer. A metal film covers a side surface of the first semiconductor layer, a side surface of the second semiconductor layer, and an upper surface of the structure layer. A flexible substrate covers the metal film.
US10249748B2
A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate of a first conductivity type having a first surface and a second surface on a side of the substrate opposite the first surface; a first nitride semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type which is disposed on the first surface of the substrate and includes an acceptor impurity; a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer, the second conductivity type being opposite to the first conductivity type; a first electrode disposed on the second surface of the substrate; a second electrode disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer.
US10249737B2
A layer of amorphous silicon is formed on a germanium-on-insulator substrate, or a layer of germanium is formed on a silicon-on-insulator substrate. An anneal is then performed which causes thermal mixing of silicon and germanium atoms within one of the aforementioned structures and subsequent formation of a silicon germanium-on-insulator material.
US10249736B2
A method of forming the fin structure that includes forming a replacement gate structure on a channel region of the at least one replacement fin structure; and forming an encapsulating dielectric encapsulating the replacement fin structure leaving a portion of the replacement gate structure exposed. The exposed portion of the replacement gate structure is etched to provide an opening through the encapsulating dielectric to the replacement fin structure. The replacement fin structure is etched selectively to the dielectric to provide a fin opening having a geometry dictated by the encapsulating dielectric. Functional fin structures of a second semiconductor material is epitaxially grown on the growth surface of the substrate substantially filling the fin opening.
US10249731B1
VFET devices and techniques for formation thereof having well-defined, sharp source/drain-to-channel junctions are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VFET device includes: forming a SiGe layer on a substrate, wherein the SiGe layer as formed on the substrate is undoped; forming an Si layer on the SiGe layer, wherein the Si layer as formed on the SiGe layer is undoped; patterning fins in the Si layer; forming sacrificial spacers along sidewalls of the fins; forming recesses in the SiGe layer between the fins; growing an epitaxial material in the recesses, wherein the epitaxial material grown in the recesses includes a source and drain dopant; annealing the epitaxial material to diffuse the source drain dopant into the SiGe layer under the fins forming bottom source and drains of the VFET device; and removing the sacrificial spacers. A VFET device formed by the method is also provided.
US10249729B1
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device. After forming SiGe epitaxial layer within the Core_p region, the hard mask is removed. A contact etch stop layer (CESL) is deposited on the composite spacer structure and the epitaxial layer. An ILD layer is deposited on the CESL. The ILD layer is polished to expose a top surface of the dummy gate. The dummy gate and a first portion of the first nitride-containing layer of the composite spacer structure are removed, thereby forming a gate trench and exposing the first gate dielectric layer. The first gate dielectric layer is removed from the gate trench, and a second portion of the first nitride-containing layer and the oxide layer are removed from the composite spacer structure, while leaving the second nitride-containing layer intact.
US10249725B2
A semiconductor device includes an active layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, a first insulating layer, a gate metal layer, a via, a first source metal layer, a drain metal layer, and a second source metal layer. The source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode are present on the active layer. The first insulating layer is present on the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the gate electrode. The gate metal layer, the first source metal layer, the second source metal layer, and the drain metal layer are present on the first insulating layer. The gate metal layer includes a narrow portion and a wider portion. The via is present between the metal gate layer and the gate electrode. The second source metal layer is present between the gate metal layer and the drain metal layer.
US10249724B2
An electrical device including at least one contact surface and an interlevel dielectric layer present atop the electrical device, wherein the interlevel dielectric layer includes at least one trench to the at least one contact surface of the electrical device. A conformal titanium liner is present on the sidewalls of the trench and is in direct contact with the at least one contact surface. The conformal titanium liner may be composed of 100 wt. % titanium, and may have a thickness ranging from 10Å to 100Å.
US10249721B2
A semiconductor device includes a source trench extending into a semiconductor body from a first surface of the semiconductor body. A source trench dielectric and a source trench electrode are in the source trench. A gate trench dielectric and a gate trench electrode are in a gate trench extending into the semiconductor body from the first surface. A body region of a first conductivity type is between the gate and source trenches. A source region of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type is between the gate and source trenches. An interconnection electrically couples the body region and the source trench electrode. The interconnection adjoins a lateral face of the source trench electrode and the body region. A source contact is on the source trench electrode at the first surface.
US10249715B2
Properties of a semiconductor device are improved. A semiconductor device is configured so as to include a voltage clamp layer, a channel underlayer, a channel layer, and a barrier layer, which are formed in order above a substrate, a trench that extends up to the middle of the channel layer while penetrating through the barrier layer, a gate electrode disposed within the trench with a gate insulating film in between, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed above the barrier layer on both sides of the gate electrode, and a fourth electrode electrically coupled to the voltage clamp layer. The fourth electrode is electrically isolated from the source electrode, and a voltage applied to the fourth electrode is different from a voltage applied to the source electrode. Consequently, threshold control can be performed. For example, a threshold of a MISFET can be increased.
US10249709B2
Nanosheet FET devices having substrate isolation layers are provided, as well as methods for fabricating nanosheet FET devices with substrate isolation layers. For example, a semiconductor device includes a nanosheet stack structure formed on a substrate, which includes a rare earth oxide (REO) layer formed on the substrate, and a semiconductor channel layer disposed adjacent to the REO layer. A metal gate structure is formed over the nanosheet stack structure, and a gate insulating spacer is disposed on sidewalls of the metal gate structure, wherein end portions of the semiconductor channel layer are exposed through the gate insulating spacer. Source/drain regions are formed in contact with the exposed end portions of the semiconductor channel layer. A portion of the metal gate structure is disposed between the semiconductor channel layer and the REO layer, wherein the REO layer isolates the metal gate structure from the substrate.
US10249704B2
A capacitor that includes a conductive porous base material with a porous part; an upper electrode opposite the porous part, the upper electrode having, as its main constituent, a material selected from one of ruthenium, platinum, and an alloy of ruthenium and platinum; and a dielectric layer between the upper electrode and the conductive porous base material.
US10249698B2
The present application provides a transparent OLED display panel. By providing the second power supply line and the first data line in the transparent region of the transparent OLED display panel in the first metal layer and the second metal layer, respectively and makes the two insulating layer arranged in a stacking manner, and the second data line and the third data line are respectively provided in the first metal layer and the second metal layer and makes the two insulating layer arranged in a stacking manner, compared to the interval arrangement in the conventional technology, the area of the traces of the transparent region of the transparent OLED display panel can be greatly reduced, the transmittance of the transparent OLED display panel is enhanced and to facilitate the development of the high resolution transparent OLED display panel.
US10249694B2
Disclosed is an organic EL display device which includes: a first resin substrate 10a; a basecoat film 11a provided on the first resin substrate 10a; an organic EL element 18 provided over the basecoat film 11a, a first sealing film 19 covering the organic EL element 18; a second resin substrate 10b facing the first resin substrate 10a, and provided closer to the first sealing film 19 with an adhesive layer 21 interposed between the second resin substrate 10b and the first sealing film 19; and a second sealing film 23a provided outside the first sealing film 19 and enhancing adhesion between the basecoat film 11a and a stack including the first sealing film 19 and the adhesive layer 21.
US10249693B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus for selectively realizing circular polarization according to external light conditions, including a substrate; an organic light-emitting device on the substrate; a sealing member on the organic light-emitting device; a phase retardation layer on a surface of the substrate, the organic light-emitting device, or the sealing member; and a linear polarization layer on another surface of the substrate, the organic light-emitting device, or the sealing member, wherein the linear polarization layer is located to be closer to a source of external light than the phase retardation layer, and wherein the linear polarization layer comprises a photochromic material.
US10249690B2
An organic EL display device provided with a display portion includes a flexible base material (substrate) in which the display portion is provided, an inorganic film provided on the base material, a display element portion that is provided on the inorganic film and is provided to form the display portion, and a suppression portion that is provided outside the display portion and suppresses progression of cracking that has occurred in a peripheral portion of the base material.
US10249687B2
A self-light emitting display unit capable of improving manufacturing yield is provided. Sizes of color pixel circuits corresponding to pixels for R, G, and B are respectively set unevenly within a pixel circuit according to a magnitude ratio of drive currents which allow color self-light emitting elements in the pixel to emit with a same light emission luminance. Thereby, the pattern densities of color pixel circuits respectively corresponding to the pixels for R, G, and B become even to each other, and the pattern defect rate as the whole pixel circuit is decreased.
US10249685B2
Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
US10249682B2
A non-volatile storage apparatus is proposed that includes a plurality of serially connected non-volatile reversible resistance-switching memory cells, a plurality of word lines such that each of the memory cells is connected to a different word line, a bit line connected to a first end of the serially connected memory cells and a switch connected to a second end of the serially connected memory cells. In one embodiment, the memory cells include a reversible resistance-switching structure comprising a first material, a second material and a reversible resistance-switching interface between the first material and the second material, a channel, and means for switching current between current flowing through the channel and current flowing through the reversible resistance-switching interface in order to program and read the reversible resistance-switching interface. A process for manufacturing the memory is also disclosed.
US10249681B2
A method of manufacturing a cross-point memory array device is disclosed. In the method, a substrate is provided. A plurality of first conductive line patterns are formed over the substrate. An insulating layer is formed over the first conductive line patterns. The insulating layer includes an insulative oxide. A plurality of switching film patterns are formed on the first conductive line patterns by selectively doping a plurality regions of the insulating layer. A plurality of memory structures are formed on the plurality of switching film patterns, respectively. A plurality of second conductive line patterns are formed on the plurality of memory structures.
US10249675B1
An image sensor comprises a semiconductor material having a front side and a back side opposite the front side; a dielectric layer disposed on the front side of the semiconductor material; a poly layer disposed on the dielectric layer; an interlayer dielectric material covering both the poly layer and the dielectric layer; an inter-metal layer disposed on the interlayer dielectric material, wherein a metal interconnect is disposed in the inter-metal layer; and a contact pad trench extending from the back side of the semiconductor material into the semiconductor material, wherein the contact pad trench comprises a contact pad disposed in the contact pad trench, wherein the contact pad and the metal interconnect are coupled with a plurality of contact plugs; and at least an air gap isolates the contact pad and side walls of the contact pad trench. The poly layer and the semiconductor material between adjacent two STI structures of a plurality of first and second STI structures are used as hard masks to form the plurality of contact plugs by selectively removing the dielectric materials between a first side of the plurality of first STI structures and the metal interconnect, wherein each of the plurality of contact plugs extends from the first side of each of the plurality of first STI structures through each of the plurality of first STI structures into the interlayer dielectric material and vertically abuts the metal interconnect.
US10249668B2
There is provided an x-ray sensor (21) comprising an active detector region including a plurality of detector diodes (22) at a first side of the sensor, and a common junction termination (23) at a second opposite side of the sensor. Normally, this implies that the junction termination (23) is moved from the top side where the active detector area is located to the bottom side of the sensor, allowing for full utilization of the active detector area at the top side with detector diodes to the very edge of the sensor.
US10249665B2
A solid state imaging device having a back-illuminated type structure in which a lens is formed on the back side of a silicon layer with a light-receiving sensor portion being formed thereon. Insulating layers are buried into the silicon layer around an image pickup region, with the insulating layer being buried around a contact layer that connects an electrode layer of a pad portion and an interconnection layer of the surface side. A method of manufacturing such a solid-state imaging device is also provided.
US10249657B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image sensing device, a drive method, and an electronic apparatus that are configured to suppress the color mixture of a phase difference detection signal to an image sensing signal. The solid-state image sensing device has a pixel area configured to be arranged with a plurality of pixels in which a first photoelectrical conversion section for photoelectrically converting a visible light of a first wavelength range and a second photoelectrical conversion section for photoelectrically converting a visible light of a second wavelength range are formed in different depths as viewed from a cross-sectional direction, and a drive section configured to execute a drive operation of reading each pixel signal having a level corresponding to charges generated in each of the first photoelectrical conversion section and the second photoelectrical conversion section from each of the above-mentioned plurality of pixels. Further, in each of the above-mentioned plurality of pixels, at least one of the first photoelectrical conversion section and the second photoelectrical conversion section is configured as divided when viewed from a planar direction. The present technology is applicable to a solid-state image sensing device capable of detecting an image plane phase difference, for example.
US10249651B2
A semiconductor device using an oxide semiconductor is provided with stable electric characteristics to improve the reliability. In a manufacturing process of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, an oxide semiconductor film containing a crystal having a c-axis which is substantially perpendicular to a top surface thereof (also called a first crystalline oxide semiconductor film) is formed; oxygen is added to the oxide semiconductor film to amorphize at least part of the oxide semiconductor film, so that an amorphous oxide semiconductor film containing an excess of oxygen is formed; an aluminum oxide film is formed over the amorphous oxide semiconductor film; and heat treatment is performed thereon to crystallize at least part of the amorphous oxide semiconductor film, so that an oxide semiconductor film containing a crystal having a c-axis which is substantially perpendicular to a top surface thereof (also called a second crystalline oxide semiconductor film) is formed.
US10249637B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: forming a tunnel oxide layer and a charge-storage layer in a region of a flash memory transistor; forming a first oxide film; removing the first oxide film in regions of a first transistor and a second transistor; forming a third oxide film by adding a first oxide layer between a first oxide film and a semiconductor substrate in a region of a third transistor while forming a second oxide film in the regions of the first transistor and the second transistor by oxidation; removing the second oxide film in the region of the first transistor; and forming a fifth oxide film by adding a second oxide layer between the second oxide film and the semiconductor substrate in the region of the second transistor while forming a fourth oxide film in the region of the first transistor by oxidation, and forming a sixth oxide film by adding a third oxide layer between the first oxide layer and the semiconductor substrate in the region of the third transistor.
US10249628B2
A semiconductor device includes a device isolation region defining an active region in a substrate, and gate structures buried in the active region of the substrate. At least one of the gate structures includes a gate trench, a gate insulating layer conformally formed on an inner wall of the gate trench, a gate barrier pattern conformally formed on the gate insulating layer disposed on a lower portion of the gate trench, a gate electrode pattern formed on the gate barrier pattern and filling the lower portion of the gate trench, an electrode protection layer conformally formed on the gate insulating layer disposed on an upper portion of the gate trench to be in contact with the gate barrier pattern and the gate electrode pattern, a buffer oxide layer conformally formed on the electrode protection layer, and a gate capping insulating layer formed on the buffer oxide layer to fill the upper portion of the gate trench.
US10249627B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes an upper interlayer insulating layer disposed on a substrate. A first electrode spaced apart from the upper interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. A contact structure penetrating the upper interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. An upper support layer having a first portion covering an upper surface of the upper interlayer insulating layer, to surround an upper side surface of the contact structure, and a second portion extending in a horizontal direction from the first portion and surrounding an upper side surface of the first electrode, is disposed. A dielectric conformally covering the first electrode and a second electrode on the dielectric are disposed.
US10249625B1
A coated, printed electronic device may comprise a plurality of contact pads arranged in a pattern, a plurality of electrode traces arranged in another pattern, the plurality of electrode traces comprising a set of bottom electrode traces and a set of top electrode traces, each electrode trace in electrical communication with an associated contact pad of the plurality of contact pads, a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell located at an intersection of a pair of electrode traces of the plurality of electrode traces and comprising a bottom electrode layer formed from a region of one of the bottom electrode traces, a top electrode layer formed from a region of one of the top electrode traces, and a ferroelectric layer between the bottom and top electrode layers, and a protective layer covering the plurality of electrode traces and extending laterally beyond each edge of each electrode trace to provide a buffer zone surrounding each electrode trace, the buffer zone extending from an end of each electrode trace to cover a portion of each associated contact pad in an overlapping region, wherein each contact pad also has at least one uncovered edge.
US10249617B2
A device includes a field effect transistor (FET) integrated with at least a portion of a bipolar junction transistor (BJT), in which a back gate of the FET shares an electrical connection with a base of the BJT, and in which a reverse voltage can be applied to the back gate of the FET.
US10249615B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a heterostructure configured to support formation of a channel during operation, first and second dielectric layers supported by the substrate, the second dielectric layer being disposed between the first dielectric layer and the substrate, a gate supported by the substrate, disposed in a first opening in the first dielectric layer, and to which a bias voltage is applied during operation to control current flow through the channel, the second dielectric layer being disposed between the gate and the substrate, and an electrode supported by the substrate, disposed in a second opening in the first and second dielectric layers, and configured to establish a Schottky junction with the substrate.
US10249610B1
In some examples, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) device comprises an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) comprising a source terminal, an anode terminal, a gate terminal, and a body terminal; and at least one reverse bias device comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal couples to the source terminal and the second terminal couples to the body terminal.
US10249609B2
An integrated circuit device for protecting circuits from transient electrical events is disclosed. An integrated circuit device includes a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and a second BJT cross-coupled with the first BJT to operate as a first semiconductor-controlled rectifier (SCR), where a base of the first BJT is connected to a collector of the second BJT, and a base of the second BJT is connected to an emitter or a collector of the first BJT. The integrated circuit device additionally includes a triggering device comprising a first diode having a cathode electrically connected to the base of the first BJT. The integrated circuit device further includes a third BJT cross-coupled with the second BJT to operate as a second SCR, where the third BJT has a collector connected to the base of the second BJT and a base connected to the collector of the second BJT.
US10249603B2
A pixel structure, a display device, and a method of manufacturing a pixel structure, the pixel structure including a base substrate; at least one first electrode arranged in an upper portion of the base substrate; at least one second electrode having a circular shape extending along a circumferential direction around the at least one first electrode; and a plurality of LED elements connected to the first and second electrodes.
US10249602B2
The present invention provides a light emitting diode display and a manufacture method thereof. The manufacture method of the light emitting diode display according to the present invention arranges an anode contact layer to increase the contact area of the second anode of the light emitting diode and the first anode of the TFT backplate to ensure the fine contact between the second anode and the first anode for avoiding the problem that the second anode and the first anode are in bad contact due to the poor welding for stabilizing the luminous performance of the light emitting diode to promote the display quality of the light emitting diode display; furthermore, the present application uses ink jet printing to form the anode contact layer and the cathode insulation layer, and the manufacture process is simple and the production cost is low.
US10249599B2
Embodiments are related generally to electronic displays and, more particularly, to emissive displays made with transparent sheets having phosphor dots on the surface for the purpose of color conversion.
US10249586B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor chip package and resulting structures having a mixed under-bump metallization (UBM) size and pitch on a single die. A first set of UBMs having a first total plateable surface area is formed on a first region of a die. A second set of UBMs having an equal total plateable surface area is formed on a second region of the die. A solder bump having a calculated solder height is applied to a plateable surface of each UBM. The solder height is calculated such that a volume of solder in the first region is equal to a volume of solder in the second region.
US10249578B2
Devices and methods for resisting or preventing physical tampering of electronic components are described. A tamper resistant apparatus comprises a tampering sensor having a surface at which a first and second conductive portion are disposed. A core-shell particle (or a plurality of particles) is disposed on the surface of the tampering sensor. The core-shell particle has a liquid metallic core and a shell surrounding the core. When tampering occurs, forces associated with the tampering cause the core-shell particle to rupture. The released metallic core material can form a conductive pathway between the first and second conductive portions of the tampering sensor. The tampering sensor triggers a security response when the first and second conductive portions are electrically connected to each other by the metallic material from the ruptured core-shell particle(s).
US10249554B2
A heat transfer assembly useful for dissipating heat from the heat emitting device is disclosed. The assembly includes a module inlet for receiving a coolant, at least one module having a first part with a recess to receive a portion of the heat emitting device, and a second part having a shaped cutout portion and a solid portion, where the second part allows a uniform compression of a seal component disposed on the first part. The first part and the second part are mechanically connected to each other; and a module outlet is used for discharging a heat absorbed coolant after absorbing heat from the heat emitting device, where the at least one module is connected to the module inlet and the module outlet. In another embodiment, multiple modules are configured in a symmetrical layout to provide a balanced flow of the coolant in the heat transfer assembly.
US10249553B2
A cooling apparatus for a heat-generating element includes: a heat sink on which the heat-generating element is mounted; a cooling component having a recess, the cooling component and the heat sink being faced and joined to each other so that the recess forms a coolant passage; and a sealing member provided between the heat sink and the cooling component so as to seal the coolant passage and separate an interior and exterior of the coolant passage. A first distance is longer than a second distance with regard to a distance between facing surfaces of the heat sink and the cooling component near the sealing member, the first distance being between the facing surfaces at an interior side of the coolant passage separated by the sealing member, and the second distance is a distance between the facing surfaces at an exterior side of the coolant passage separated by the sealing member.
US10249552B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor package having a double-sided heat dissipation structure, and more particularly, to a semiconductor package having a double-sided heat dissipation structure which rapidly transfers high heat generated in a semiconductor chip to substrates exposed to upper and lower surfaces of the package to have excellent dissipation effect.That is, a semiconductor package having a double-sided heat dissipation structure of the present disclosure includes a package body formed by molding, a first substrate which is provided at an inner lower portion of the package body and has a lower surface exposed to the outside of the package body, a semiconductor chip mounted on an upper surface of the first substrate, a lead frame which is attached to the first substrate and extends to the outside of the package body, a second substrate which is provided at an inner upper portion of the package body and has an upper surface exposed to the outside of the package body, a first metal unit in which one side is bonded to an upper surface of the semiconductor chip and the other side is bonded to a lower surface of the second substrate, and a second metal unit in which one side is bonded to an upper surface of the first substrate and the other side is bonded to the lower surface of the second substrate.
US10249543B2
A method for fabricating a gate stack of a semiconductor device comprises forming a first dielectric layer over a channel region of the device, forming a first nitride layer over the first dielectric layer, forming a first gate metal layer over the first nitride layer, forming a capping layer over the first gate metal layer, removing portions of the capping layer and the first gate metal layer to expose a portion of the first nitride layer in a p-type field effect transistor (pFET) region of the gate stack, depositing a scavenging layer on the first nitride layer and the capping layer, depositing a second nitride layer on the scavenging layer, and depositing a gate electrode material on the second nitride layer.
US10249541B2
A method for fabricating a nanosheet semiconductor structure includes forming a first nanosheet field effect transistor (FET) structure having a first inner spacer comprised of a first material and a second nanosheet FET structure having second inner spacer comprised of a second material. The first material is different than the second material. The first nanosheet FET structure is formed by creating a first inner spacer formation within a first silicon germanium (SiGe) channel, wherein the first SiGe channel is comprised in a first channel region of a first FET region. The second nanosheet FET structure is formed by creating a second inner spacer formation within a second SiGe channel, wherein the second SiGe channel is comprised in a second channel region of a second FET region.
US10249540B2
Embodiments are directed to a method and resulting structures for a dual channel complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) having common gate stacks. A first semiconductor fin is formed on a substrate. A second semiconductor fin is formed adjacent to the first semiconductor fin on the substrate. An oxide layer is formed over the first and second semiconductor fins and annealed at a temperature effective to increase a germanium concentration of the second semiconductor fin. The annealing process is selective to the second semiconductor fin and does not increase a germanium concentration of the first semiconductor fin.
US10249535B2
A method of forming a logic or memory cell with less than or equal to 0 nm of TS extending past the active fins and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming gates across pairs of fins on a substrate; forming pairs of RSD between the gates on the fins; forming a planar SAC cap on each of the gates; forming a metal layer over the substrate coplanar with the SACs; forming a TS structure in the metal layer over the fins, the TS structure formed over the pairs of RSD, each upper portion having a width equal to or less than an overall width of a pair of fins; forming spacers on opposite sides of the upper portions; removing the metal layer between adjacent spacers; forming an ILD over the substrate; and forming a CA on each upper portion and a CB on a gate through the ILD.
US10249529B2
A method of making a channel region in a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate having a first transistor area arranged adjacent to a second transistor area; growing an epitaxial layer on the second transistor area of the substrate; forming a trench in the substrate between the first transistor area and the second transistor area; performing a condensation technique to thermally mix materials of the epitaxial layer and the substrate; and filling the trench with a dielectric material to form a shallow trench isolation region between a first channel region of the first transistor and a second channel region of the second transistor; wherein performing the condensation technique is performed after forming the trench.
US10249509B2
Provided is a method and system for cleaning a substrate with a cleaning system comprising a pre-treatment system using an atomic oxygen generator. The substrate includes a layer to be cleaned and an underlying dielectric layer having a k-value. Pre-treatment gas comprising oxygen and an inert gas are delivered into an atomic oxygen generator, generating a process gas containing atomic oxygen. A portion of a surface of the substrate is exposed to the process gas while controlling two or more cleaning operating variables to ensure meeting two or more cleaning objectives and ensure completion of cleaning in the pre-treatment process time. In an embodiment, cleaning of the substrate in the pre-treatment process is set at less than 100 percent and a subsequent wet cleaning process is used to complete the substrate cleaning. In another embodiment, the pre-treatment system is configured to complete cleaning of the substrate.
US10249504B2
In some embodiments, a method includes wet-etching a first film layer of a plurality of film layers stacked on a semiconductor substrate, the wet-etching of the first film layer performed using a first chemical, where the first film layer is an outermost film layer stacked on the semiconductor substrate. The method further includes wet-etching a second film layer of the plurality of film layers using a second chemical. The method also includes using a mechanical grinding wheel to grind the semiconductor substrate to reduce a thickness of the semiconductor substrate.
US10249499B2
A method for manufacturing a vertical power semiconductor device is provided, wherein a first impurity is provided at the first main side of a semiconductor wafer. A first oxide layer is formed on the first main side of the wafer, wherein the first oxide layer is partially doped with a second impurity in such way that any first portion of the first oxide layer which is doped with the second impurity is spaced away from the semiconductor wafer by a second portion of the first oxide layer which is not doped with the second impurity and which is disposed between the first portion of the first oxide layer and the first main side of the semiconductor wafer. Thereafter a carrier wafer is bonded to the first oxide layer. During front-end-of-line processing on the second main side of the semiconductor wafer, the second impurity is diffused from the first oxide layer into the semiconductor wafer from its first main side by heat generated during the front-end-of-line processing.
US10249497B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a gate insulating film provided on a front surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate and including any one or a plurality of an oxide film, a nitride film, and an oxynitride film, and a gate electrode containing poly-silicon and provided on the gate insulating film. A concentration of fluorine in the gate insulating film at an interface with the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate is equal to or higher than 1×1019 atoms/cm3.
US10249495B2
Methods for forming a diamond like carbon layer with desired film density, mechanical strength and optical film properties are provided. In one embodiment, a method of forming a diamond like carbon layer includes generating an electron beam plasma above a surface of a substrate disposed in a processing chamber, and forming a diamond like carbon layer on the surface of the substrate. The diamond like carbon layer is formed by an electron beam plasma process, wherein the diamond like carbon layer serves as a hardmask layer in an etching process in semiconductor applications. The diamond like carbon layer may be formed by bombarding a carbon containing electrode disposed in a processing chamber to generate a secondary electron beam in a gas mixture containing carbon to a surface of a substrate disposed in the processing chamber, and forming a diamond like carbon layer on the surface of the substrate from elements of the gas mixture.
US10249490B2
A single fin or a pair of co-integrated n- and p-type single crystal electronic device fins are epitaxially grown from a substrate surface at a bottom of one or a pair of trenches formed between shallow trench isolation (STI) regions. The fin or fins are patterned and the STI regions are etched to form a height of the fin or fins extending above etched top surfaces of the STI regions. The fin heights may be at least 1.5 times their width. The exposed sidewall surfaces and a top surface of each fin is epitaxially clad with one or more conformal epitaxial materials to form device layers on the fin. Prior to growing the fins, a blanket buffer epitaxial material may be grown from the substrate surface; and the fins grown in STI trenches formed above the blanket layer. Such formation of fins reduces defects from material interface lattice mismatches.
US10249489B2
Low dielectric organosilicon films are deposited by a process comprising the steps of: providing a substrate within a vacuum chamber; introducing into the vacuum chamber a gaseous silicon containing precursor composition comprising at least one organosilicon precursor selected from the group consisting of Formula (I) and Formula (II): wherein, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as defined herein, and applying energy to the gaseous structure forming composition in the vacuum chamber to induce reaction of the at least one organosilicon precursor to deposit a film on at least a portion of the substrate.
US10249488B1
A semiconductor device with three transistors of same conductive type but different threshold voltage is provided in the present invention, wherein the first transistor includes a high-k dielectric layer, a first bottom barrier metal layer, a second bottom barrier metal layer, a work function metal layer and a low resistance metal. The second transistor includes the high-k dielectric layer, the first bottom barrier metal layer, the second bottom barrier metal layer and the low resistance metal, and a third transistor on the substrate. The third transistor includes the high-k dielectric layer, the first bottom barrier metal layer and the low resistance metal.
US10249472B2
A charged particle beam device is described, which includes: a beam source configured to generate a charged particle beam propagating along an optical axis (A); an aperture device with a first number of apertures configured to create a first number of beamlets from the charged particle beam, wherein the first number is five or more, wherein the apertures are arranged on a ring line around the optical axis (A) such that perpendiculars of the apertures onto a tangent of the ring line are evenly spaced. The charged particle beam device further includes an electrostatic multipole device configured to individually influence the beamlets. Further, a charged particle beam influencing device and a method of operating a charged particle beam device are described.
US10249471B2
The present invention relates to an automatic sequence for repeatedly performing SEM observation and FIB processing by using a low acceleration voltage for a long time. In order to realize very accurate three-dimensional structure/composition analysis, in the automatic sequence for repeatedly performing sample observation using a scanning electron microscope using a CFE electron source and sample processing using a FIB device, low temperature flushing using the CFE electron source is performed at predetermined timing except for a SEM observation time. According to the present invention, the automatic sequence for repeatedly performing the sample observation using the scanning electron microscope using the CFE electron source and the sample processing using the FIB device can be performed for a long time. Therefore, it is possible to acquire a SEM image which achieves high resolution and improved current stability while the low acceleration voltage is used.
US10249464B2
A modular circuit breaker includes a module assembly coupled to a primary assembly. The primary assembly includes a primary housing, separable contacts disposed therein, a first terminal conductor electrically connected to one of the separable contacts, a conductive tab electrically connected to another one of the separable contacts and which extends outward from a first end of the primary housing, an operating mechanism disposed in the primary housing for selectively opening and closing the separable contacts, and a trip mechanism disposed in the primary housing cooperative with the operating mechanism to trip open the separable contacts. The module assembly includes a module housing having a second terminal conductor positioned therein and electrically connected to the conductive tab, a third terminal conductor structured to be electrically connected to a neutral conductor of a load, and a fourth terminal conductor structured to be coupled to a neutral bus.
US10249461B2
A controllable trip device includes a magnetic actuator, including a coupling member intended to be coupled to a switching mechanism of an electrical circuit breaker to cause the switching thereof and a coil configured to displace the coupling member towards a tripped position when it is supplied with a pulse of a current of intensity greater than a first predefined threshold for a duration greater than or equal to a predefined duration, a control device, configured to supply the coil, immediately on receipt of a control signal, with a series of pulses of duration equal to the predefined duration and of intensity greater than or equal to the first threshold and less than or equal to a second threshold equal at most to 120% of the first threshold.
US10249458B2
An electronic seal includes a housing, a cover, at least one touch piece, and, a transmission mechanism. The housing has at least one through track, in which the through track is disposed on the bottom of the housing. The cover is disposed on the housing and covers the housing. The touch piece is movably disposed on the through track and is partially exposed out of the housing. The transmission mechanism includes a driving member, in which the driving member drives the touch piece to move along the through track when the driving member is actuated relative to the housing.
US10249451B2
A permanent magnet drive on-load tap-changing switch including a changing switch circuit and a high-speed mechanism. The circuit includes structurally identical odd and even-numbered tap-changing switch circuits. The mechanism includes a traveling mechanism used for bearing a moving contactor, a moving magnet group connected with the traveling mechanism, and a fixed magnet group producing an attracting/repelling force with respect to the moving magnet group. The moving magnet group includes a first and second permanent magnet connected at homonymic magnetic poles. An exposed homonymic magnetic pole of the first and the second permanent magnet face directly the fixed magnet group. The fixed magnet group includes a rotating permanent magnet that rotates to change a force applied to the moving magnet group, allowing the moving contactors to either come into contact with or be separated from working contactors and dual-contact synchronous transition contactors.
US10249442B2
A method for manufacturing a solid electrolyte aluminum-electrolytic capacitor, includes: (1) welding a capacitor core of a capacitor onto an iron bar, applying a voltage for chemical treatment, and thereafter, washing and drying the capacitor core; (2) impregnating the dried capacitor core in a dispersion B for 1˜30 minutes; (3) removing the capacitor core, creating a vacuum and then impregnating the capacitor core in the dispersion B for 1˜10 minutes; (4) while in the dispersion B, breaking the vacuum and performing pressurization for 1˜10 minutes; (5) while in the dispersion B, performing depressurization to atmospheric pressure, for 1˜10 minutes; (6) placing the capacitor core in a temperature of 50˜100° C. and drying for 20˜60 minutes, and then in a temperature of 110˜200° C. and drying for 20˜60 minutes; (7) impregnating the dried capacitor core in a dispersion C for 1˜30 minutes; (8) placing the capacitor core in a temperature of 65˜100° C. and drying for 20˜60 minutes, and then in a temperature of 135˜165° C. and drying for 20˜60 minutes; and (9) Repeating steps (3) to (8) at least once.
US10249437B2
A multilayer electronic component and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The multilayer electronic component includes a body including a multilayer structure in which first internal electrode patterns and second internal electrode patterns different from the first internal electrode patterns are alternately stacked and containing a dielectric material. First and second side parts are disposed on respective outer surfaces of a first pair of opposing outer surfaces of the body. First and second external electrodes are disposed on respective outer surfaces of a second pair of opposing outer surfaces of the body, and the first and second external electrodes are electrically connected to the first and second internal electrode patterns, respectively. The first internal electrode patterns are exposed to the outer surfaces of the first pair of outer surfaces of the body on which the first and second side parts are disposed.
US10249434B2
A capacitor that includes a conductive porous substrate having a porous portion; a dielectric layer on the porous portion and containing an oxygen element and at least metal element; and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer. The porous portion has a path integral value of 1 μm/μm2 to 16 μm/μm2, and a porosity of 20% to 90%, and a ratio Z expressed by (1) below is 0.79 or more, Z = O d / M d O r / M r ( 1 ) where Od and Md respectively represent signal intensities of the oxygen element and the metal element when the dielectric layer is analyzed by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and where Or and Mr respectively represent signal intensities of the oxygen element and the metal element when a reference material having stoichiometric composition of the oxygen element and the at least one metal element constituting the dielectric layer is analyzed by the EDS.
US10249432B2
An inductive energy transmission system including: a primary coil connectible to an electrical useful voltage source, the primary coil being connected to a first capacitor, the first capacitor being connected to a local ground potential of the energy transmission system; and a secondary coil inductively coupled to the primary coil; wherein a second capacitor is situated between the primary coil and the local ground potential of the energy transmission system.
US10249418B2
A permanent magnet material and a method thereof. The permanent magnet material comprises one or more rare earth elements and one or more transition metal elements, wherein the atomic percentage of the one or more rare earth elements is less than or equal to 13%, and the permanent magnet material has a maximum magnetic energy product of greater than or equal to 18 MGOe.
US10249417B2
A ferrite sintered magnet includes a composition expressed by a formula (1) of Ca1-w-xLawAxFezComMnaO19. In the formula (1), “w”, “x”, “z”, “m”, and “a” satisfy a formula (2) of 0.21≤w≤0.62, a formula (3) of 0.02≤x≤0.46, a formula (4) of 7.43≤z≤11.03, a formula (5) of 0.18≤m≤0.41, and a formula (6) of 0.046≤a≤0.188. In the formula (1), “A” is at least one kind of element selected from a group consisting of Sr and Ba.
US10249415B2
A method of manufacturing a feedthrough dielectric body for an active implantable medical device includes the steps of: a) forming an alumina ceramic body in a green state, or, stacking upon one another discrete layers of alumina ceramic in a green state and pressing; b) forming at least one via hole straight through the alumina ceramic body; c) filling the at least one via hole with a ceramic reinforced metal composite paste; d) drying the alumina ceramic body and the ceramic reinforced metal composite paste; e) forming a second hole straight through the ceramic reinforced metal composite paste being smaller in diameter in comparison to the at least one via hole; f) filling the second hole with a substantially pure metal paste; g) sintering the alumina ceramic body, the ceramic reinforced metal composite paste and the metal paste; and h) hermetically sealing the feedthrough dielectric body to a ferrule.
US10249402B2
A C12A7 electride thin film fabrication method includes a step of forming an amorphous C12A7 electride thin film on a substrate by vapor deposition under an atmosphere with an oxygen partial pressure of less than 0.1 Pa using a target made of a crystalline C12A7 electride having an electron density within a range of 2.0×1018 cm−3 to 2.3×1021 cm−3.
US10249401B2
As a small-diameter conductor for electric wires for automobiles, provided is an aluminum alloy wire satisfying all requests of sufficient strength, elongation and electroconductivity. The wire is an aluminum alloy wire including: magnesium; silicon; and aluminum and inevitable impurities as the balance, the content (M) by atomic percentage (at %) of the magnesium in the wire and the content (S) by atomic percentage (at %) of the silicon satisfying the following expressions (1) and (2), a metallic microstructure of a cross section of the wire having an average crystal grain size of 3 to 20 μm, a precipitation size of the metallic microstructure in the cross section being 100 nm or less, and the number density of the precipitations in the cross section being one or more per square micrometer. [Formula 1] 0.2≤M≤1.19 (1), and −0.81M+1.44≤S≤−1.54M+2.31 (2).
US10249399B2
The invention provides for a method for producing isotopes using a beam of particles from an accelerator, whereby the beam is maintained at between about 70 to 2000 MeV; and contacting a thorium-containing target with the particles. The medically important isotope 225Ac is produced via the nuclear reaction (p,2p6n), whereby an energetic proton causes the ejection of 2 protons and 6 neutrons from a 232Th target nucleus. Another medically important isotope 213Bi is then available as a decay product. The production of highly purified 211At is also provided.
US10249387B2
A method is for managing an electronic medical record (EMR) entry which is to be written into a data storage device possessed by a patient and includes generating information associated with a health professional who provides a health care service that results in the EMR entry, and a location which is related to the health care service, determining whether to permit writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device according to the information thus generated, determining whether the patient agrees with writing of the EMR entry into the data storage device according to input of the patient, and writing the EMR entry into the data storage device when writing of the EMR entry is permitted by the EMR management system and is agreed upon by the patient.
US10249385B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating record matching and entity resolution and for enabling improvements in record linkage. A power-spectrum-based temporal pattern-specific weight may be incorporated into record linkage methods to enhance the record linkage accuracy and statistical performance. For example, in embodiments, a value-specific weight may be calculated from a population-based frequency of field-specific values and provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative importance of specific values found in a field. A timeseries-derived Bayesian power spectrum weight may be calculated from the population-based frequency of temporal pattern-specific values in terms of intensities at various frequencies of the power spectrum computed from the timeseries, and further provides an opportunity to capture and measure the relative importance of specific sequences of care episodes.
US10249378B1
This invention introduces a flash memory device and a method which are capable of quickly recovering the over-erased memory cells while preventing adverse influence to normal cells that are not over-erased. The flash memory device comprises a memory array and a memory controller coupled to the memory array. The memory controller is configured to select a memory block which comprises at least one over-erased memory cell. The memory controller is further configured to apply a negative voltage to the common bulk line and the common source line of the selected memory block. The memory controller is further configured apply a positive voltage to word lines that are coupled to the at least one over-erased memory cell in the selected memory block, and apply the positive voltage to word lines that are not coupled to any one of the at least one over-erased memory cell in the selected memory block.
US10249374B2
A voltage supply circuit includes a step-down circuit configured to receive a power supply voltage, step down the power supply voltage to generate a step-down voltage having a constant value lower than a value of the power supply voltage, and a booster circuit configured to boost the step-down voltage to generate an output voltage, the output voltage having a value greater than the value of the power supply voltage.
US10249367B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a column address decoding unit configured to decode a column address and generate a column select signal; a row address decoding unit configured to decode a row address and generate a word line select signal; a driving driver unit configured to provide different voltages to a plurality of resistive memory elements in response to the column select signal; a sink current control unit configured to generate a plurality of sink voltages with different voltage levels in response to the word line select signal; and a plurality of current sink units configured to flow current from the plurality of respective resistive memory elements to a ground terminal in response to the plurality of sink voltages.
US10249366B2
An integrated circuit system, and a method of manufacture thereof, including: an integrated circuit die; a non-volatile memory cell in the integrated circuit die and having a bit line for reading a data condition state of the non-volatile memory cell; and a voltage clamp in the integrated circuit die, the voltage clamp having a semiconductor switch connected to the bit line for reducing voltage excursions on the bit line.
US10249357B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a memory region and a peripheral region defined thereon, wherein the peripheral region comprises at least one transistor, the memory region comprises a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell comprises at least one gate structure and a capacitor structure, a mask layer disposed on the capacitor structure in the memory region, and a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate within the peripheral region, wherein a top surface of the dielectric layer is aligned with a top surface of the mask layer.
US10249350B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to parity determinations using sensing circuitry. An example method can include protecting, using sensing circuitry, a number of data values stored in a respective number of memory cells coupled to a sense line of an array by determining a parity value corresponding to the number of data values without transferring data from the array via an input/output line. The parity value can be determined by a number of XOR operations, for instance. The method can include storing the parity value in another memory cell coupled to the sense line.
US10249349B2
According to one embodiment, a control system includes: a memory device; and a controller. The memory device includes a first cell transistor. The controller is configured to store information on a first temperature associated with a temperature of the memory device upon a write of data in the first cell transistor, obtain a second temperature of the memory device, determine an adjustment from adjustments based on a combination of the first temperature and the second temperature, and instruct the memory device to use for a first parameter a first value and a value which is based on the determined adjustment to read data from the first cell transistor.
US10249343B2
A hard disk drive holder includes a bottom plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. Gaps and a first bending line define a bendable portion and an unbendable portion on the bottom plate. The first side plate has first positioning portions. The second side plate has second positioning portions. The first side plate and the second side plate are respectively and integrally connected to opposite sides of the bottom plate. The first positioning portions and part of the second positioning portions are correspondingly disposed to install a first hard disk drive. The bendable portion has a plurality of third positioning portions, and the third positioning portions and part of the second positioning portions are correspondingly disposed to be adapted for installing at least one second hard disk drive. A size of the second hard disk drive is less than a size of the first hard disk drive.
US10249342B2
A base unit includes a connector electrically connected to a motor having a central axis extending in a vertical direction, and a connector support portion arranged to support a board portion of the connector. The connector support portion includes a bottom plate portion arranged to extend perpendicularly to the central axis, and arranged to support a lower surface of the board portion; a window portion arranged to pass through the bottom plate portion in an axial direction, and arranged to cover or overlap with an electrode terminal of the connector when viewed in the axial direction; a first recessed portion defined in an upper surface of the bottom plate portion around the window portion, and arranged to overlap with the lower surface of the board portion when viewed in the axial direction; and a second recessed portion defined in the upper surface of the bottom plate portion, and arranged to be spaced apart from the first recessed portion. The first recessed portion has a thermosetting adhesive arranged therein to fix the bottom plate portion and the board portion to each other. The second recessed portion has a temporarily fixing adhesive arranged therein to temporarily fix the bottom plate portion and the board portion to each other.
US10249333B2
A TAMR (thermally assisted magnetic recording) write head uses weakly plasmonic materials to create plasmon near field energy. The replacement of highly plasmonic materials like Au with weakly plasmonic materials like Rh avoids the thermal deformations of softer metals like Au. To maintain the performance of the head, it includes pre-focusing structures that concentrate plasmon energy by the creation of surface plasmon polaritons which are converted to more narrowly confined plasmons by excitation by a tapered waveguide. A waveguide blocker at the distal end of the waveguide enhances the formation of surface plasmon polaritons at the interface between the blocker and the distal end of the waveguide. A pair of symmetrically disposed optical side shields are formed to either side of the pole tip and a weakly plasmonic optical field enhancer further strengthens the optical field.
US10249322B2
An audio processing device is described comprising an energy distribution determiner configured to determine an energy distribution of a sound and an acoustical environment determiner configured to determine based on the energy distribution whether the sound includes a sound caused by the acoustical environment.
US10249320B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for normalizing the speaking volume of participants in meetings are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes collecting speaking volume samples from multiple participants of a group event, wherein said speaking volume samples are derived from microphones; comparing said speaking volume samples to a predetermined volume level; determining which of the microphones is being used by which of the multiple participants during the group event; automatically amplifying a broadcast volume of each audio output device during periods of audio input attributed to each microphone determined as being used by the participants attributed to a speaking volume sample that is below the predetermined volume level; and automatically reducing a broadcast volume of each audio output device during periods of audio input attributed to each microphone determined as being used by the participants attributed to a speaking volume sample that exceeds the predetermined volume level.
US10249313B2
A method of decoding an encoded audio bitstream and generating frequency bandwidth extension is disclosed. The method includes decoding the audio bitstream to produce a decoded low band audio signal and generate a low band excitation spectrum corresponding to a low frequency band. A sub-band area is identified within the low frequency band using a parameter which indicates energy information of a low band spectral envelope. A high band excitation spectrum is generated for a high frequency band by copying a sub-band excitation spectrum from the identified sub-band area to a high sub-band area corresponding to the high frequency band. Using the generated high band excitation spectrum, an extended high band audio signal is generated by applying a high band spectral envelope. The extended high band audio signal is added to the decoded low band audio signal to generate an audio output signal having an extended frequency bandwidth.
US10249312B2
A device for processing audio data obtains data representing quantized versions of a set of one or more spatial vectors. Each respective spatial vector of the set of spatial vectors corresponds to a respective audio signal of the set of audio signals. Each of the spatial vectors is in a Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) domain and is computed based on a set of loudspeaker locations. The device inverse quantizes the quantized versions of the spatial vectors.
US10249311B2
Audio encoder for encoding audio input data to obtain audio output data includes an input interface for receiving a plurality of audio channels, a plurality of audio objects and metadata related to one or more of the plurality of audio objects; a mixer for mixing the plurality of objects and the plurality of channels to obtain a plurality of pre-mixed channels, each pre-mixed channel including audio data of a channel and audio data of at least one object; a core encoder for core encoding core encoder input data; and a metadata compressor for compressing the metadata related to the one or more of the plurality of audio objects, wherein the audio encoder is configured to operate in at least one mode of the group of two modes.
US10249300B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In one example process, a spoken user request associated with a plurality of data items is received. The process determines whether a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level. In response to determining that a degree of specificity of the spoken user request is less than a threshold level, one or more attributes related to the spoken user request are determined. The one or more attributes are not defined in the spoken user request. Additionally, a list of data items based on the spoken user request and the one or more attributes is obtained. A spoken response comprising a subset of the list of data items is generated and the spoken response is provided.
US10249299B1
Techniques for tailoring beamforming techniques to environments such that processing resources may be devoted to a portion of an audio signal corresponding to a lobe of a beampattern that is most likely to contain user speech. The techniques take into account both acoustic characteristics of an environment and heuristics regarding lobes that have previously been found to include user speech.
US10249294B2
A speech recognition method capable of automatic generation of phones according to the present invention includes: unsupervisedly learning a feature vector of speech data; generating a phone set by clustering acoustic features selected based on an unsupervised learning result; allocating a sequence of phones to the speech data on the basis of the generated phone set; and generating an acoustic model on the basis of the sequence of phones and the speech data to which the sequence of phones is allocated.
US10249291B2
An animation display system is provided. The animation display system includes a display; a storage configured to store a language model database, a phonetic-symbol lip-motion matching database and a lip motion synthesis database; and a processor electronically connected to the storage and the display, respectively. The processor includes a speech conversion module, a phonetic-symbol lip-motion matching module, and a lip motion synthesis module. A lip animation display method is also provided.
US10249287B2
A headphone includes a feedback microphone that receives a front air chamber sound including an external sound, the feedback microphone being provided on a front air chamber side, a driver unit that emits a noise-canceling sound into the front air chamber, the noise-canceling sound canceling at least a part of the sound included in the front air chamber sound received by the feedback microphone, a balanced microphone that receives the noise-canceling sound emitted from the driver unit, the balanced microphone being provided in a region on a side of the driver unit opposite the front air chamber, and a sound generating part that generates the noise-canceling sound by adding a signal based on the noise-canceling sound received by the balanced microphone to a signal based on the front air chamber sound received by the feedback microphone.
US10249276B2
A speaker system includes one or more rotating speakers (or speakers with rotating reflectors) that are synchronized in absolute angular position to another rotating speaker or synchronized to audio effects to generated by a signal processing system driving a stationary or rotary speaker. Knowledge of absolute angular position in a multi-rotor speaker array or signal processing system allows for control of rotary position to accomplish acoustic effects otherwise not possible, such as matched-velocity profiles with differential phase control and motion profiles that are not based on simple rotation.
US10249266B2
Techniques are described for preserving desktop state between login sessions in desktop computing environments. During an active login session of a desktop by a user, the system intercepts all requests to open a file and records the requested file paths. The information can be recorded locally or at a remote location, such as a server accessed over a network connection. Before the login session is terminated, the system determines all open windows and captures a screenshot of each window that is open on the desktop at the time of terminating the login session. The location of each window is also determined and recorded along with the screenshots before the session is terminated. When the user starts a new active login session at a later time, the state of the desktop is restored using the recorded file paths, screenshots and window locations.
US10249263B2
Methods and apparatus for rendering and displaying high dynamic range (HDR) digital image content. An HDR rendering and display system may support the rendering and display of standard dynamic range (SDR) and HDR content to both HDR-enabled and standard displays. The HDR rendering and display system renders digital image content into the HDR space and maps the rendered HDR content into the display space of HDR or standard displays using display processing techniques that may preserve at least some of the HDR content even for standard displays. The HDR rendering and display system may take into account various information including but not limited to display characteristics such as size, control inputs, current image characteristics such as image brightness, and environmental information such as viewer position and ambient lighting levels to dynamically adapt the rendering and display of the digital image content according to ambient viewing conditions at the target display.
US10249251B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display unit a plurality of pixels performing that perform color reproduction by combining outputs of sub-pixels; an illumination unit including a first light source, a second light source, and a third light source; a measuring unit that measures intensity of light included in external light other than the light from the illumination unit; and a control unit that controls the intensity of the light to be emitted from each of the first light source, the second light source, and the third light source and controls gradation values of the respective sub-pixels based on the intensity of the external light measured by the measuring unit.
US10249246B2
The invention provides a GOA circuit, comprising a plurality of GOA units, for a positive integer n, n-th GOA unit comprising: a first TFT (T1), a second TFT (T2), a third TFT (T3), a fourth TFT T(4), a fifth TFT (T5), a sixth TFT (T6), a seventh TFT (T7), an eighth TFT (T8), a ninth TFT (T9), a tenth TFT (T10), a first capacitor (C1) and a second capacitor (T2). The invention, based on known GOA circuit, uses T9 and T10 so as to achieve forward and backward scanning without D2U and U2D control signals, which facilitates narrow border design and simplifies corresponding driving timing and reduce IC cost.
US10249238B2
The present application discloses a pixel driving circuit configured to operate in a display cycle including sequentially an initialization period, a compensation period, and a light-emitting period, the pixel driving circuit including a driving transistor having a gate, a source, and a drain; a first storage capacitor having a first terminal connected to the gate of the driving transistor and a second terminal connected to a first power signal input port; an emission control sub-circuit disposed between the source of the driving transistor and the first power signal input port; a data write-in sub-circuit disposed between a data input port and the drain of the driving transistor which is also connected to the emission control sub-circuit; a compensation sub-circuit disposed between the source of the driving transistor and the first terminal of the first storage capacitor; and a light emitting device having a first terminal connected to the emission control sub-circuit and a second terminal connected to a second power signal input port; the data write-in sub-circuit is configured to control a data voltage signal to be passed into the drain of the driving transistor during the compensation period; the compensation sub-circuit is configured to control a connection between the source and the gate of the driving transistor during the compensation period to set the driving transistor to a conduction state for inducing a source-to-drain current until a gate voltage of the driving transistor reaches a value substantially equal to the data voltage signal plus a threshold voltage of the driving transistor.
US10249222B2
Label apparatus having identification tags and tamper evident pattern release layers and methods of producing such labels are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first substrate, a first pattern of adhesive, a tamper-evident release layer, a second pattern of adhesive, a tag, a third pattern of adhesive, and a second substrate. The first pattern of adhesive includes a first adhesive. The first pattern of adhesive and the tamper-evident release layer are disposed on the first substrate. The second and third patterns of adhesive include a second adhesive. The second pattern of adhesive is disposed on the first substrate and surrounded by the first pattern of adhesive. The tag includes a remaining portion coupled to the first pattern of adhesive and a removable portion coupled to the second pattern of adhesive. The third pattern of adhesive is coupled to the tag, the first pattern of adhesive, and the second substrate.
US10249221B2
A combination wristband and label form has a first sheet and a backing. The first sheet has a top portion with a plurality of die cut labels, and each of the labels is removable from the form. The first sheet also has a bottom portion comprising a release liner having a release material. The backing has a top portion with a release liner having a release material and a bottom portion having wristband configured to receive an indicia. The wristband is separable from the form and is formed of a single ply of water-resistant and tamper-resistant material. The wristband has a first lateral end and a second lateral end extending outwardly from a central portion, and a fraction of the central portion is a label die cut into the first sheet top portion. The first lateral end has an adhesive area and the second lateral end has perforations without adhesive.
US10249220B2
A processor device has an executable implementation of a cryptographic algorithm implemented being white-box-masked by a function f. The implementation comprises an implemented computation step S by which input values x are mapped to output values s=S[x], and which is masked to a white-box-masked computation step T′ by means of an invertible function f. As a mapping f there is provided a combination (f=(c1, c2, . . . )*A) of an affine mapping A having an entry width BA and a number of one or several invertible mappings c1, c2, . . . having an entry width Bc1, Bc2, . . . respectively, wherein BA=Bc1+Bc2+ . . . . Output values w are generated altogether by the mapping f. Multiplicities of sets Mxi, i=1, 2, . . . =Mx11, Mx12, . . . Mx21, Mx22, . . . are formed from the output values a of the affine mapping A.
US10249217B2
A system for providing a tactile display is disclosed. The system utilizes magnetic forces and actuators in order to move a series of tactile elements. The system can be arranged such that the display may include an entire array of thousands of elements.
US10249214B1
A complete personal nutrition, health, wellness and fitness monitor is disclosed that captures, monitors, and tracks many relevant health and wellness factors. Image of all consumed items is captured with a three dimensional reference object, matched to reference images in a database in terms of shape, color, size and texture, identified, and the volume of the respective items is determined. In addition, molecular optical fingerprinting of consumable products provides information about actual food composition, including vitamins and contaminants that affect food safety. Using energy and nutrition information of items in another database, full nutritional content and energy is evaluated for all of the items in the image. Combined with activity monitoring that captures energy output, the monitor actively tracks overall energy balance and nutritional content for every consumable item in real time, and makes proactive recommendations with respect to nutrition, exercise, and general lifestyle for overall nutrition, health, wellness, and fitness.
US10249213B2
A multi-node motion measurement and analysis system comprises at least one motion measurement module and a receiver unit. The motion measurement module is bound to a hand-held sports appliance through an adjustable fixture or being bound to a human body. A binding position on the human body is rearrangeable based on different measurement requirements. The motion measurement module comprises a sensor module configured to measure information of acceleration, angular velocity and magnetic force, a first microprocessor module connected to the sensor module and configured to generate information of orientation, and a first RF module configured to receive the information of acceleration, angular velocity, magnetic force and orientation and transmit the received information to the receiver unit. The receiver unit generates motion information according to the information of acceleration, angular velocity, magnetic force and orientation, and calibrates the motion measurement module bound to different positions on the human body.
US10249210B2
The present invention provides a system for pitch correction. The interactive surface is embedded with a host, an antenna, a memory unit, a voice input device, an audio recognition device, and a media player. The function of each light-emitting contact point is determined or changed by the host in accordance with preset programs. Each physical sheet is embedded with an RFID tag and is printed with a set of pitch marks with increasing difficulty levels, and the location of a functioning area on a physical sheet for the light-emitting contact points is determined in accordance with the preset programs, and the light-emitting contact points correspond to the location of the functioning area. Once a physical sheet is placed on the interactive surface, the host assigns preset flashing rules to the array of light-emitting contact points in accordance with the preset programs as well as the RFID tag embedded in the physical sheet, and generates a preset flashing pattern on the physical sheet, and activates touch functions of the corresponding light-emitting contact points. The visible feedback provides users a straightforward understanding how much their voices deviate from the reference pitches.
US10249209B2
Real-time pitch detection of voiced musical notes involves converting sound waves, produced by a voiced rendition of one or more musical notes, to a time domain electronic audio signal. The electronic audio signal is processed to determine a true pitch of the time domain electronic audio signal. True pitch information is displayed in real-time, concurrent with the voiced rendition of each musical note. A pitch indicator conveys to a user information concerning the true pitch which has been determined. The true pitch is determined by segmenting the electronic audio signal into a plurality of audio signal samples and applying a constant-Q transform. Additional processing steps are applied to reduce pitch detection errors.
US10249203B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to using an image of a fiducial located indicating a parking location for the aircraft to provide docking guidance data to a pilot of an aircraft. The fiducial has vertically-separated indicia and laterally-separated indicia. A camera is configured to mount at a camera location so as to be able to capture two-dimensional images of a scene external to the aircraft. The two-dimensional image includes pixel data generated by the two-dimensional array of light-sensitive pixels. A digital processor identifies first and second sets of pixel coordinates corresponding to the two vertically-separated and the two laterally-separated indicia, respectively. The digital processor then calculates, based at least in part on the identified first pixel coordinates corresponding to the two vertically-separated indicia, a range to the parking location.
US10249201B2
An example air vehicle includes a transponder to transmit a code indicative of a communications systems failure on the air vehicle. The example air vehicle includes a satellite receiver to receive, after the transponder code has been transmitted, a message from a satellite in communication with the air vehicle. The satellite receiver is to identify the message as including a command for the air vehicle and decode the message to determine the command. The example air vehicle includes a processor to execute the command.
US10249194B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for assessing one or more features of drivers within a threshold distance of a self-driving vehicle which has sensors to monitor driving conditions on a travel route within the threshold distance, predicting the behavior of one or more vehicles within the threshold distance based on the assessment of those features, and utilizing the predicted behavior for the self-driving vehicle to drive on the travel route. Changes in the condition or usage of the travel route, the surroundings, and pedestrians and other types of vehicles in the vicinity of the travel route can go into the assessment. Changes in the assessment can alert the self-driving vehicle to change course and the way it monitors data. Information regarding other drivers can be privatized and utilized using a blockchain system.
US10249191B2
A vehicle management method includes allowing a start of a corresponding vehicle when one of a plurality of unique identified removable cards (UIRC) is connected to one of a plurality of vehicles, and matches the corresponding vehicle, and connecting a plurality of started vehicles, via each of the unique identified removable cards, to enable communication among the plurality of started vehicles such that each of the plurality of started vehicles outside a coverage of a vehicle management center is capable of directly obtaining traffic information from nearby vehicles of the plurality of started vehicles.
US10249183B2
The present invention relates to a device (roadside relay device 2) configured to generate a traffic index used for traffic signal control. This device includes: a storage unit 24 configured to store therein area information on a coordinate system, the area information forming a predetermined area on a road; a communication unit 21 configured to receive probe information S5 including a vehicle position and temporal information of a traveling vehicle 5; and a control unit 23 configured to generate the traffic index on the basis of the area information and the probe information S5.
US10249182B1
A vehicle control system (VCS) includes external communication interfaces, such as a Bluetooth interface, for communicating with a user communication and control device, such as a smart phone or a tablet. The user is enabled to operate certain features of the vehicle, such as the remote start, power locks/trunk, climate control, and security features, through the smart phone. The VCS may also communicate with a remote server via the user's smartphone, for example, providing telematics data and receiving service reminders for display to the user on the smartphone, the VCS, or a display built into the vehicle. The VCS may be custom installed in the vehicle using the user's or the installer's smartphone, without a physical connection from the VCS to the smartphone.
US10249180B2
An implantable medical device has a broadband RF receiver operating within an RF band and having stored information of a characteristic receiver frequency representing the RF within the RF band at which the broadband RF receiver has sufficient receiver sensitivity. The stored information is retrieved in response to a message from an external communication device and is included in a response generated by the implantable medical device and transmitted to the communication device. The information enables the communication device to select its transmission frequency at a subsequent transmission instance to the relevant implantable medical device. The chances of successful reception at the subsequent transmission instance are thereby increased.
US10249179B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method an device for transmitting a control signal in a multi-device system, where a first device determines a second device to be controlled by a remote controller of the first device to be connected with the first device; determines from a received signal a first value of the button for controlling the first device; determines a second value of the button, corresponding to the first value of the button, for controlling the second device; and transmits the second value of the button to the second device, so that the second device operates according to the received second value of the button, and with this technical solution, a multi-device system can be controlled by the remote controller of the single device without infrared learning by the first device to thereby simplify operations of the first device to control the other device.
US10249178B1
A condition monitoring sensor system having a power supply; a condition monitoring sensor; a processor; a permanently powered power-on timer; and a watchdog timer. The permanently powered power-on timer is set for a first predetermined duration and is configured to wake the processor by connecting the processor to the power supply if the power-on timer elapses. Upon waking up, the processor is configured to reset the power-on timer to the first predetermined duration and is configured to control at least the condition monitoring sensor. The condition monitoring sensor may take condition monitoring data. Upon waking up, the processor is configured to set the watchdog timer for a second predetermined duration. The watchdog timer is powered via the power supply, which forces the processor and the watchdog timer to enter a sleep mode by disconnecting the processor and the watchdog timer from the power supply if the watchdog timer elapses.
US10249173B1
A computer-implemented method for monitoring a condition of a person includes receiving, at a computerized device, at least one signal from a condition sensor and determining if a condition is an emergency condition of a user based on the at least one signal.
US10249172B2
A precise, gesture-based, safety monitoring system, method and device. The present invention comprises a controller, wherein the controller upon detection of a distress signal, sends an alert signal along with the Location information of the user to a Remote Server. The Remote Server, upon receiving an alert signal sends an SMS and e-mail along with the Location information to a Mobile device of the registered emergency numbers of the user and responds in real-time.
US10249163B1
A system is provided. The system includes a sensor located within a work area of a facility. The sensor detects events in the work area and outputs sensor signals in accordance the events detected in the work area. The system includes a processor communicatively coupled to the sensor. The processor processes the sensor signals utilizing one or more pattern recognition systems. The system includes an interface communicatively coupled to the processor. The interface generating outputs based on each state of the one or more pattern recognition systems.
US10249159B2
A method for surveillance of a predetermined region includes: —a) preparing at least one surveillance device provided with a sensor configured to detect moving entities in a predetermined region under surveillance; —b) preparing at least one remote control device which can be carried by a user; —c) detecting a moving entity in the predetermined region under surveillance, via the surveillance device; —d) sending, by the surveillance device, a request for authorization; —e) responding, by the remote control device, to the request for authorization by sending authorization data; —f) comparing the authorization data with check data for authorizing the entity detected if the result of the check is positive; —g) making available an alarm signal if the result of the check is negative or inhibiting the alarm signal if the result of the check is positive.
US10249155B1
Systems and methods for mounting light emitting diodes for a visual alarm device in multiple planes are provided. The visual alarm device can include a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on a printed circuit board and configured to flash during an emergency situation, wherein each of the plurality of LEDs can be mounted in a respective one of a plurality of planes.
US10249140B1
A system and method for playing an online game. The system includes player devices associated with the online game and a server arrangement communicably coupled with the player devices. The server arrangement is configured to receive a request from a player device to initiate the online game; determine at least one passive player device based on predefined condition; transmit an authorization request to the at least one passive player device to play the online game as virtual player; receive an authorization response from the at least one passive player device; create at least one virtual player for the at least one passive player device, based upon the received authorization response, and initiate the online game among the at least one virtual player and the at least one player device, wherein the at least one passive player device is different from the at least one player device.
US10249136B2
Electronic gaming machines including a plurality of real world controller modules, wherein each real world controller module is constructed to provide a gambling game; a game world controller, wherein the game world controller is constructed to: connect to a selected real world module; receive a conveyance of actions taken by a player, during the player's consumption of one or more elements of an entertainment game; trigger a commitment of a wager of real world credits in the selected real world controller module's gambling game; receive a gambling outcome of the wager of real world credits; increment in the entertainment game using the communications network, the one or more elements of the entertainment game when real world credits are won; and decrement in the entertainment game using the communications network, the one or more elements of the entertainment game when real world credit is lost.
US10249121B2
A system and method are described regarding a wireless lockbox that can be used to manage real estate sales tours. A system can include various owners and buyers that create a searchable real estate listing. Buyers can review the list via computing device, such as a smartphone, and request home tours. Owners can review requests and approve potential buyers to tour their property. When the potential buyer approaches the property, software on their computing device can communicate via Bluetooth, or another wireless network, and unlock the wireless lockbox.
US10249117B2
A vehicular electronic key system includes an electronic key and a wireless communication device. The electronic key includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and a first controller that switches an operating state between an ON state where a function of the first communication unit is operated, and an OFF state where the function of the first communication unit is at least partially stopped, based on a result of communication of the second communication unit with the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device includes a third communication unit, and a second controller. The first controller switches the operating state when the first controller detects that the electronic key has been moved by a predetermined distance or longer outside a vehicle based on at least a result of communication of a predetermined signal by the second communication unit.
US10249116B1
A method and system for facilitating an access request. The method may be executed in the processor of a server computing device and comprises receiving, at a memory of the server computing device, the request for access, the request for access performed using a security device at an access point device communicatively coupled to the server computing device, localizing a mobile computing device having a preestablished association with the security device, and enabling the request for access when a position of the mobile computing device as determined from the localizing is within a predetermined threshold distance from a location of the access point device.
US10249114B2
Control of access by a requesting entity to an asset includes defining an approved state of the requesting entity. A validation of a representation of the approved state of in a non-repudiatable form in obtained from an event validation system. The requesting entity is triggered to determine its current state by an access-control entity, which compares the current state with the approved state and allows access by the requesting entity to the asset only if the current state is the same as the approved state. In a pre-authorization procedure, one or both of the entities issues a data set challenge to the other, which then validates the challenge via the event validation system and returns this validation to the challenging entity, which then checks the validation to see if it is correct. Data sets may be validated, for example, with hash tree based signatures or blockchain entries.
US10249109B1
Methods and systems for assessing, detecting, and responding to malfunctions involving components of autonomous vehicles and/or smart homes are described herein. Malfunctions may be detected by receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors. One of these sensors may be selected for assessment. An electronic device may obtain from the selected sensor a set of signals. When the set of signals includes signals that are outside of a determined range of signals associated with proper functioning for the selected sensor, it may be determined that the selected sensor is malfunctioning. In response, an action may be performed to resolve the malfunction and/or mitigate consequences of the malfunction.
US10249104B2
A system and method for observing and reporting key vehicle events based upon information collected by a wide array of sensors already included in modern motor vehicles is provided. The system and method may be particularly valuable for electric vehicle applications.
US10249099B1
A system and method for providing positional error correction for particles of destructible objects in a three-dimensional volume in a virtual space includes electronic storage to store center-of-mass information of a set of objects, using a high-precision floating point format. Prior to runtime and/or interactive manipulation of the set of objects, a texture map is generated that includes positional information in a floating point format having less precision than the high-precision floating point format. A simulation uses this texture map to determine simulated center-of-mass information of the set of objects. This simulated center-of-mass information is compared with the previously stored center-of-mass information to determine which objects have positional errors, and which offsets are needed to correct the positional errors. The stored center-of-mass information is adjusted by the determined offsets, such that subsequent use, during interactive runtime, has no or reduced positional errors and/or artifacts caused by positional errors.
US10249091B2
An augmented reality (AR) output device or virtual reality (VR) output device is worn by a user, and includes one or more sensors positioned to detect actions performed by a user of the immersive output device. A processor provides a data signal configured for the AR or VR output device, causing the immersive output device to provide AR output or VR output via a stereographic display device. The data signal encodes audio-video data. The processor controls a pace of scripted events defined by a narrative in the one of the AR output or the VR output, based on output from the one or more sensors indicating actions performed by a user of the AR or VR output device. The audio-video data may be packaged in a non-transitory computer-readable medium with additional content that is coordinated with the defined narrative and is configured for providing an alternative output, such as 2D video output or the stereoscopic 3D output.
US10249087B2
A method of atlas packing includes receiving a three-dimensional (3D) mesh that includes a plurality of triangles representing surfaces of one or more objects; for each respective triangle, determining a normal of the respective triangle, and categorizing the respective triangle into one of six directions along positive and negative of x-, y-, and z-directions; categorizing triangles in each respective direction into one or more layers orthogonal to the respective direction; for each respective layer, identifying one or more connected components; projecting each respective connected component onto a plane orthogonal to the respective direction to obtain a corresponding projected two-dimensional (2D) connected component; cutting the projected 2D connected component into one or more sub-components; packing the bounding boxes of all sub-components into one or more atlases; and for each respective triangle of each sub-component, copying a texture of a corresponding triangle of the 3D mesh to the respective triangle.
US10249081B2
Portable globes may be provided for viewing regions of interest in a Geographical Information System (GIS). A method for providing a portable globe for a GIS may include determining one or more selected regions corresponding to a geographical region of a master globe. The method may further include organizing geospatial data from the master globe based on the selected region and creating the portable globe based on the geospatial data. The portable globe may be smaller in data size than the master globe. The method may include transmitting the portable globe to a local device that may render the selected region at a higher resolution than the remainder of the portable globe in the GIS. A system for providing a portable globe may include a selection module, a fusion module and a transmitter. A system for updating a portable globe may include a packet bundler and a globe cutter.
US10249062B2
An image rendering method includes: loading, at an electronic device, an image by an application executed on the electronic device; loading, at the electronic device, reference color arrangement information; and determining, at the electronic device, a pixel format for a texture creation of the loaded image based on a comparison between a color value of the loaded image and the loaded reference color arrangement information.
US10249060B2
A tool erosion detecting system for a machine having a ground engaging tool is disclosed. The tool erosion detecting system may include a camera configured to generate a first image of the ground engaging tool on a display device, an input device configured to receive a user input, and a controller in communication with the camera and the input device. The controller may be configured to generate an augmented reality view of the ground engaging tool. The augmented reality view may include the first image of the ground engaging tool generated by the camera and a second image of a ground engaging tool superimposed on the first image and being associated with a selected wear level, wherein the selected wear level is based on the user input.
US10249053B2
A system and method for scanning a three-dimensional surface is disclosed. In one example, the method is evidenced by receiving scan data of the three dimensional surface, the scan data comprising a plurality of scan points defining a plurality of polygons and obtained from a scan direction, grouping the plurality of polygons into blotches having at least one polygon, wherein no polygon of a blotch shares a common edge with a polygon of any other blotch, computing a directional vector for each blotch, the directional vector of each blotch weighted by an area of the blotch, computing a further scan direction from the directional vectors for the blotches and commanding a scanner to scan from the further scan direction.
US10249049B1
An apparatus include a processor and a coprocessor. The processor may be configured to track a plurality of positions of a plurality of maximum values in a plurality of images in a video signal. The coprocessor may have a circuit configured to (i) receive a plurality of sample values from the images and (ii) estimate the positions of the maximum values in the images. Each estimation generally includes a parabolic estimation operating on the sample values in a respective local region oriented parallel to an axis. The circuit may be implemented solely in hardware.
US10249044B2
In one embodiment, a method includes detecting one or more objects in an image, generating at least one mask for each of the detected objects, wherein each of the masks is defined by a perimeter, classifying the detected objects, receiving gesture input in relation to the image, determining whether one or more locations associated with the gesture input correlate with any of the masks, and providing feedback regarding the image in response to the gesture input. Each of the masks may include data identifying the corresponding detected object, and the perimeter of each mask may correspond to a perimeter of the corresponding detected object. The perimeter of the corresponding detected object may separate the detected object from one or more portions of the image that are distinct from the detected object.
US10249041B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented medical data processing method for determining a mapping of medical image content into a reference system, the method comprising executing, on a processor of a computer, steps of: a) acquiring, at the processor, medical image data describing a digital medical image of an anatomical structure of a patient's body; b) acquiring, at the processor, image attribute data describing attribute information associated with the medical image data, the attribute information including an indication of an initial reference system in which spatial relationships of the digital medical image are defined; c) acquiring, at the processor, reference system transformation data describing a spatial relationship (REG) between the initial reference system and a second reference system which is different from the initial reference system; d) determining, by the processor and based on the medical image data and the reference system transformation data, transformed image data describing a representation of the digital medical image in the second reference system.
US10249036B2
A surgical instrument navigation system is provided that visually simulates a virtual volumetric scene of a body cavity of a patient from a point of view of a surgical instrument residing in the cavity of the patient, wherein the surgical instrument, as provided, may be a steerable surgical catheter with a biopsy device and/or a surgical catheter with a side-exiting medical instrument, among others. Additionally, systems, methods and devices are provided for forming a respiratory-gated point cloud of a patient's respiratory system and for placing a localization element in an organ of a patient.
US10249034B2
A method of adjusting a sensitivity parameter value for substrate defect inspection used in a substrate defect inspection apparatus compares, for each pixel value of a selected virtual inspection substrate, using reference pixel data to be used after adjustment, the deviation amount from an allowable range corresponding to the position thereof and the sensitivity parameter value before the adjustment when each pixel value is deviated from the allowable range, and updates the deviation amount as a new sensitivity parameter value when the deviation amount exceeds the sensitivity parameter value and a difference between the deviation amount and the sensitivity parameter value is equal to or less than a threshold value.
US10249030B2
Obtaining a good image is important for reading indicia. Often, however, objects are not well aligned with an indicia reader's digital imager. This misalignment may lead to images in which an indicium may appear distorted due to perspective. This perspective distortion makes indicia reading difficult. In general, perspective distortion of an imaged object may be corrected using knowledge of the true size, shape, and/or orientation of the physical object. The present invention embraces the use of a dimensioning system to obtain the 3D information necessary to provide this knowledge. Then, using this knowledge, to transform a distorted image of an indicium into a corrected image of the indicium without distortion. This corrected image may then be processed to read the undistorted indicium.
US10249029B2
Methods and systems for an image construction component capable of generating pixel information for certain regions of an image based on other, existing regions of the image. For example, the image construction component may identify a target block of pixels for which to generate pixel information and then use pixel information for pixels surrounding the target block of pixels in order to identify similar image information within pixels in another part of the image. These identified pixels may then be used in defining the pixel information of the target block of pixels and also used in blending the target block of pixels with the defined pixels surrounding the target block of pixels.
US10249026B2
A pixel filter receives a sequence of pixels, each pixel having an associated pixel value. A first recursive filter operation is performed in a first direction through the sequence of pixels to form a first filtered pixel value for each pixel, and a second recursive filter operation is performed in a second direction through the sequence of pixels to form a second filtered pixel value for each pixel. The first and second filtered pixel values for a given pixel are determined in dependence on the pixel value at that pixel and the filtered pixel value preceding that pixel in their respective direction of operation, the filtered pixel value of the preceding pixel being scaled by a measure of similarity between data associated with that pixel and its preceding pixel. For each pixel of the sequence, the first and second filtered pixel values are combined to generate a filter output for the pixel.
US10249022B2
A computer-implemented method comprises: extracting a setting from a description file of a virtual pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera used to capture an original image through a wide-angle lens; determining a first set of coordinates of a pixel of the original image for each cell of a sparse conversion map represented as a first look-up table, wherein the sparse conversion map corresponds to a sparse grid of pixels of an output image; determining, via interpolating the first set of coordinates, a second set of coordinates of a pixel of the original image for each cell of a full conversion map, wherein the second set of coordinates is represented as a second look-up table, wherein the full conversion map corresponds to a full grid of pixels of the output image; instructing a display to present the output image, wherein the original image is less rectilinear than the output image.
US10249015B2
Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.
US10249013B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and system for wireless payment of transport fare. During operation, the system receives a request at a server from a mobile device for information of a payee's account, which is associated with a public transport and corresponds to a wireless network identifier of a wireless network located on the public transport. The server may determine information of the payee's account corresponding to the wireless network identifier. The server then sends the payee's account information to the mobile device. The system may then receive, from the mobile device, a payment order to make a payment to the payee's account.
US10249012B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for the coordination of payment of medical goods and/or services of patients in developing countries by relatives of those individuals living abroad, such as in the diaspora of particular cultures or nationalities.
US10248999B2
A system and method for optimizing the frequency of market information updates in an electronic trading environment are described herein. According to one example embodiment, by optimizing the frequency of market information updates, the burden on the client device to update the graphical user interface may be reduced, while still providing an accurate portrayal of the market to the user. An example method includes associating different precedence levels with messages comprising market information. Messages containing market information related to the inside market may be associated to a higher precedence level. Whereas messages containing market information relating to the quantities at prices outside the inside market may be associated with a lower precedence level. Based on the precedence level associated with a message, a client device may update the graphical user interface or the message may be stored in a data structure until a pre-defined condition is satisfied.
US10248998B2
A system and method for generating and displaying annotations in relation to one or more prices corresponding to trader-related or market related events are described. In one embodiment, a trader may enter an annotation to be displayed in relation to one or more price levels. Alternatively, a trader may configure a dynamic annotation to be dynamically displayed in relation to some price level(s) upon detecting a predetermined event related to one or more tradeable objects. Also, a trader may configure one or more alarms to be displayed or played in combination with the annotations.
US10248994B2
A method, system, and non-transitory physical storage medium for rendering theme-based digital assets in a media-based project having one or more searchable templates searchable through a graphical user interface (GUI), the method including tagging each of the searchable templates with one or more tag words relative to each searchable template's content; automatically retrieving one or more tag words corresponding to a current template of a currently-active media-based project; automatically retrieving one or more related tag words that correspond to the tag words of the current template; automatically forming one or more tag groups for the current template, each tag group comprising one or more of the tag words and/or one or more of the related tag words; and automatically searching for one or more related templates from among the searchable templates using one or more of the tag groups as search terms in a search engine.
US10248981B1
An example system may include an acquisition system including a robotic manipulator and a camera coupled to the robotic manipulator. The example system may further include one or more network servers storing program instructions that, upon execution by at least one processor of the one or more network servers, cause the one or more network servers to perform various operations. The operations may include: receiving, from a client application operating on a client device, a product visual order; generating a product profile corresponding to the product visual order in a product visual database; transmitting, to the acquisition system, acquisition instructions for acquiring product visual data indicative of the tangible product; transforming captured product visual data into a product visual of the tangible product; and storing the product visual in the product profile.
US10248977B2
A management server and method for performing resource management operations in a distributed computer system takes into account information regarding multi-processor memory architectures of host computers of the distributed computer system, including information regarding Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures of at least some of the host computers, to make a placement recommendation to place a client in one of the host computers.
US10248970B1
An approach to facilitating virtual item promotions via time-period-based virtual item benefits is provided. A store interface may present offers to users of a game space to purchase item instances of virtual items associated with in-space benefits. Item instances of a first virtual item may be configured to be activated by the users in the game space to obtain one or more first in-space benefits. A promotion that is conducted for the game space may be managed such that, during a first promotion time period, item instances of the first virtual item purchased through the store interface may be modified instances of the first virtual item. The modified instances may be configured to be activated by the users in the game space during a second promotion time period to obtain one or more second in-space benefits.
US10248956B2
A method for placing advertisements selects a first content from a variety of content, analyzes the first content for the presence of advertiser references, and matches a first advertisement from an advertiser to the first content by using the advertiser references. This method determines a set of presentation preferences for presentation of the first advertisement in conjunction with the first content and includes the set of presentation preferences with the first content. In some cases, the method embeds the presentation preferences as advertising information into the first content. Advantageously, the method presents the first advertisement in conjunction with the first content by using the presentation preferences. Further, the method tracks the presentation of content for monetization events and stores the tracking information in a log. The monetization event includes, for example, an impression, a click, an acquisition, and/or a conversion. Further embodiments include a system and a computer readable medium for implementation of the foregoing.
US10248954B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates identity verification based on various features of a card. During operation, a server receives a request for identity verification, where the request corresponds to an account and includes an image of a verifiable card. The server extracts a card feature from the verifiable card image for use as a verifiable card feature. In response to determining that the verifiable card feature matches a corresponding card feature of a registered card of the account, the server determines successful identity verification.
US10248950B2
Embodiments allow loading and reloading contactless payment devices using only a contactless terminal interface, while providing user authentication. The contactless terminal interface could be at a merchant POS location, kiosk, or embedded or attached to a personal computing device with contactless read/write capability such as a personal computer or mobile phone or Internet device.
