US10304439B2
An image processing device includes a controller and a display. The controller adds an expression to a displayed face image in accordance with an audio when the audio is output. Further, the controller generates an animation in which a mouth contained in the face image with the expression moves in sync with the audio. The display displays the generated animation.
US10304438B2
A noise-cancellation system for a headphone (HP) that comprises a speaker (200, 210) for emitting a speaker signal, a microphone (300, 310, 320, 330) for receiving a microphone signal and a proximity sensor (400, 410) for a receiving a proximity signal comprising quantitative information on the distance of the an object (OBJ) from the proximity sensor (400, 410) has a signal processing device (100). The signal processing device (100) is designed to generate a compensation signal based on the microphone signal, wherein the generation of the compensation signal comprises filtering with an adjustable filter characteristic. The compensation signal is combined with an audio signal in order to generate the speaker signal. The filter characteristic is adapted based on the distance.
US10304432B2
An electronic musical instrument includes a keyboard, a sound-producing system, and a control unit. A panning value indicating a left-right balance of sound outputted from a left speaker and a right speaker in stereo sound production is assigned to each key of the keyboard such that the left-right balance of soundboard resonant sound waveform data for certain higher-pitch keys is shifted towards the left-speaker as compared with the left-right balance of soundboard resonant sound waveform data for certain lower-pitch keys that are located to the left of the higher-pitch keys so as to produce realistic piano sound mimicking an actual piano.
US10304428B2
A system 100, for determining the velocity of a hammer 120 of a keyboard instrument, with a light transceiver 140 and processing circuitry 160. The light transceiver 140 being configured to transmit a light signal to a hammer 120 to measure a hammer velocity, receive a reflected light signal from the hammer 120 indicative of the velocity of the hammer 120 and send an electrical signal to the processing circuitry 160, where the electrical signal is based on the reflected light signal from the hammer 120. The processing circuitry 160 being configured to receive and process the electrical signal so that a time interval between the electrical signal passing through a first trigger point and a second trigger point and the velocity of the hammer 120 can be determined.
US10304426B2
A closed end woodwind instrument is provided designed for use with an inventive teaching method, notation system, and repertory. The combined system is designed for teaching basics of music and to provide a simple, convenient and enjoyable instrument. The instrument is formed of a body, which defines an internal cavity. A mouthpiece has a windway that connects to the internal cavity. The windway allows a user to blow air through the mouthpiece into the cavity and through the instrument. A labium is positioned along the windway, such that it splits air flowing through the windway. A plurality of tone holes are in communication with the internal cavity to allow air to exit the cavity. Upon blocking or opening these tone holes, different tones can be produced by the instrument.
US10304419B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a display driver integrated circuit, a memory and a processor, which implements the method. The method includes outputting a first screen to a display in a first resolution, when a resolution change condition is detected by a processor, changing the first screen to display a second screen in a second resolution different from the first resolutions; and adjusting performance of a system resource of the electronic device.
US10304414B2
Methods of integrity checking digitally displayed data in a display system having a display comprising a pixel array and a display system having a CPU configured to output data, a display screen comprising a pixel array with viewable and non-viewable areas, a GPU configured to receive the outputted data from the CPU and graphically render the information on the viewable area of the display screen, and a GIM engine configured to determine the integrity of drawn graphical information.
US10304405B2
The embodiments of the present application disclose a display driving method for driving a display system, comprising: receiving K image information sequentially; generating combined image information according to the K image information; and displaying a combined image based on the combined image information; wherein generating combined image information comprises: receiving kth image information, storing the kth image information as a data matrix with mk rows and nk columns, and recording a storage address associated with nkth data in each row to acquire a kth address table, wherein various rows in the data matrix are stored sequentially by using addresses in a (k−1)th address table as first addresses, where K, mk, nk are integers greater than 1, and k is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to K; and repeating the above operations until k is equal to K.
US10304404B2
A gate driver on array (GOA) and a liquid crystal display are disclosed. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascaded GOA units and a plurality of pull-down maintaining circuits. The cascaded GOA units are configured for respectively outputting gate driving signals of first level signals to charge corresponding horizontal scanning lines within a display area when being controlled by a plurality of clock signals. Each of the pull-down maintaining circuits corresponds to at least two cascaded GOA units, and each of the pull-down maintaining circuits is configured for maintaining the corresponding at least two cascaded GOA units to output second level signals as the gate driving signals during a non-operation period. As described above, the disclosure can reduce the amount of the pull-down maintaining circuits, so as to decrease the width of the layout of the GOA circuit to meet the need to design a narrow-frame liquid crystal display.
US10304401B2
The present invention provides a display driving circuit and a liquid crystal display panel with adding a first AND gate (AND1), a second AND gate (AND2) and a third AND gate (AND3). Two input ends of each of the three gates receives a branch control signal and a conditioning signal (BURR), and the conditioning signal (BURR) first performs several high and low voltage level conversions and then maintains the high voltage level, respectively in the high voltage level durations of the respective branch control signals to make the signal outputted by the output end of the first AND gate, the signal outputted by the output end of the second AND gate and the signal outputted by the output end of the third AND gate first perform several high and low voltage level conversions and then maintain the high voltage level.
US10304398B2
A driver IC for driving a display panel, a display device and a method for driving the driver IC are provided. The driver IC is provided with N pins corresponding to N signal transmission lines of the display panel respectively. Each pin is connected to one corresponding signal transmission line through one transmission wire. The N pins include a first pin and a second pin. The transmission wires include a first transmission wire connected to the first pin and a second transmission wire connected to the second pin and having a length less than the first transmission wire. The driver IC includes a signal generation module configured to generate N driving signals. The N driving signals include a first driving signal corresponding to the first pin and a second driving signal corresponding to the second pin and having a current intensity less than the first driving signal.
US10304393B2
A brightness compensation method and a brightness compensation circuit for a display device are provided. The brightness compensation method includes the following steps. Receive original image data. Receive backlight timing parameters. Perform brightness compensation according to the image data and the backlight timing parameters. The step of performing brightness compensation includes adjusting at least one of pixel driving data, a driving gamma level, and a driver boost level.
US10304391B2
An active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display device and a controlling method thereof. The AMOLED display device (100) comprises a system power IC (110), a driver IC (120), an AMOLED panel (130), a power line (111) and a feedback line (112). The AMOLED panel (130) includes a plurality of pixel circuits. The system power IC (110) outputs a positive power supply voltage (ELVdd1) to the plurality of pixel circuits via the power line (111), and the driver IC (120) detects a positive power supply voltage (ELVdd2) actually applied to the plurality of pixel circuits via the feedback line (112) and compensates for data voltages (Vdata) based on the positive power supply voltage (ELVdd2) actually applied to plurality of pixel circuits. The driving chip detects the positive power supply voltage (ELVdd2) actually applied to plurality of pixel circuits, and automatically adjusts a minimum grayscale voltage (VREG1) and a maximum grayscale voltage (VGS) based on the positive power supply voltage (ELVdd2) actually applied to the plurality of pixel circuits, such that a certain difference value can be maintained between the data voltage (Vdata) and the positive power supply voltage (ELVdd2) actually applied to the plurality of pixel circuits, thus eliminating Gamma offset.
US10304386B2
A display device includes a switching element having a first input/output terminal electrically connected to a first signal line, a first wiring electrically connected to a second input/output terminal of the switching element, a transistor having a gate electrode connected to the first wiring, a second wiring electrically connected to a source or drain of the transistor, a pixel electrode connected to the second wiring, a first insulating layer which is arranged between the first wiring and the second wiring and is arranged between the first wiring and the pixel electrode, a second insulating layer between the first insulating layer and pixel electrode, and a conducting layer between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, the conducting layer including a region overlapping the pixel electrode. The conducting layer includes a dividing groove dividing the conducting layer into a plurality of regions at a region overlapping the pixel electrode.
US10304380B2
An organic light-emitting pixel driving circuit, a driving method, and an organic light-emitting display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a light-emitting element, an initialization unit, a threshold detecting unit, a compensating unit, a first light-emitting control unit and a second light-emitting control unit. The initialization unit transmits a data voltage signal to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, and transmits a reference voltage signal to a source electrode of the driving transistor and an anode of the light-emitting element. The threshold detecting unit detects a threshold voltage of the driving transistor and holds at least one voltage signal inputted to the driving transistor. The compensating unit transmits a first power supply voltage signal to the gate electrode of the driving transistor. The first and second light-emitting control units are connected to first and second light-emitting control signal lines, respectively.
US10304365B2
An image correction device includes: a first target unevenness characteristic calculation unit that calculates a first target unevenness characteristic based on a first uncorrected unevenness characteristic and a correction amount, the first uncorrected unevenness characteristic being an uncorrected unevenness characteristic at a first gradation, the uncorrected unevenness characteristic being a characteristic of brightness unevenness of a display panel when uncorrected, the correction amount being calculated based on a backlight drive value and a black level; a second target unevenness characteristic calculation unit that calculates a second target unevenness characteristic based on a second uncorrected unevenness characteristic and the backlight drive value, the second uncorrected unevenness characteristic being the uncorrected unevenness characteristic at a second gradation; and a correction data generation unit that generates correction data for each gradation for correcting an image signal, based on the first and second uncorrected unevenness characteristics and the first and second target unevenness characteristics.
US10304364B2
What is disclosed are structures and methods for testing and repairing emissive display systems. Systems are tested with use of temporary electrodes which allow operation of the system during testing and are removed afterward. Systems are repaired after identification of defective devices with use of redundant switching from defective devices to functional devices provided on repair contact pads.
US10304357B2
Label-holder element for electric switchboard terminal blocks (100), comprising a body (10;110;210;310;410) extending in a longitudinal lengthwise direction (X-X), transverse widthwise direction (Y-Y) and vertical thickness direction (Z-Z), with a front face (10a) provided with a seat (20) for labels (30), side faces (10b) and a rear face (10c;110c;210c;310c;410c), said seat (20) having a top edge (20a) and bottom edge (20b) arranged opposite each other in the longitudinal direction (X-X) and formed with engaging means (21,22;521,522) for a label (30), and means (40;140;240) projecting outwards from the rear face of the body (10), with an elasticity in the longitudinal direction (X-X) and suitable for coupling with means (101,100;210) for supporting the label-holder element on a terminal block (100;1100).
US10304355B2
Guiding the blind includes receiving, via a camera module, a signal sent from a processing module to instruct the camera module to take an image of an informational blind pathway including a digital object identifier, capturing, via the camera module, the image of the informational blind pathway, sending, via the camera module, the image to the processing module, receiving and analyzing, via the processing module, the image sent by the camera module, acquiring, via the processing module, information included in the digital object identifier in the image of the informational blind pathway, converting, via the processing module, the information included in the digital object identifier into speech information, and outputting the speech information to be played on an audio device.
US10304348B2
A computer-implemented wardrobe packing method, system, and a computer program product, include selecting a plurality of items stored in a memory to pack into a container, generating a packing order of the plurality of items based on packing preference data and item data stored in the memory, creating and displaying a video of step-by-step packing instructions for the plurality of items in the packing order, monitoring and comparing an actual packing process to a generated packing order, and controlling said displaying of step of the step-by-step packing instructions, in response to said monitoring and comparing.
US10304331B2
An approach is provided for determining tunnel speed for a vehicle travelling through a tunnel. A tunnel processing platform aggregates probe data associated with at least one vehicle into at least one tunnel path based, at least in part, on a network geometry topology for at least one tunnel. The tunnel processing platform also designates at least one probe point collected upstream of the at least one tunnel as at least one starting point of the at least one tunnel path and at least one temporary probe point as at least one endpoint of the at least one tunnel path, wherein the at least one temporary probe point is downstream of the at least one tunnel. It then determines at least one temporary tunnel speed for the at least one tunnel path based, at least in part, on the timestamp for the at least one probe point and the current time associated with the at least one temporary probe point.
US10304312B2
The imaging apparatus comprises an image sensor and a controller. In the image sensor, charge accumulation and reading out in a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array are controlled per line. The controller identifies one or more lines from lines of the image sensor to generate control information for controlling illumination light on the basis of the one or more lines identified.
US10304311B2
A communicator for autonomous monitoring, detecting, and tracking of movement and orientation of a portion of a body of a wearer is disclosed. The communicator includes a sensor configured to detect a translational and/or rotational movement of the portion of the body of the wearer; an altimeter to measure changes in altitude of the portion of the body of the wearer; and a processor configured to determine an orientation and/or position of the portion of the body of the wearer. The processor further configured to compensate for the measured changes in altitude. The sensor is implemented at least by one of the following: accelerometer(s), gyroscope(s), and/or magnetometer(s).
US10304306B2
Image-based fire detection methods are provided which include analyzing a field of view based on a plurality of images, determining if changes occur, and analyzing whether any such changes are due to smoke-like material. Changes due to large objects are ruled out, and drift in the scene or shaking of the image collection device is accounted for by the method. The methods employ representing images of the field of view with quantifiable values and comparing to thresholds established for each event, and activating an alarm if changes due to smoke-like material are detected. The fire detection methods may also include monitoring a field of view for changes, and only performing the analysis on the images if changes are detected. The monitoring and validating stages of the methods include collecting images at different sampling rates for different amounts of information.
US10304304B1
An asset tag device including a housing, a battery disposed within the housing, a circuit board disposed within the housing and in electrical communication with the battery. The circuit board includes a local memory, a transceiver to detect local signals and transmit a response packet, and a processor. The processor to identify the detected local signals, determine whether the detected local signals include at least one beacon signal, store, to the local memory, the at least one beacon signal, sort, in the local memory, the stored at least one beacon signal by proximity to the asset tag device, parse the sorted at least one beacon signal, and append tag information to the parsed at least one beacon signal to generate the response packet.
US10304296B2
A doorbell switch includes a user input device configured to receive a user command to activate a doorbell sound output device, and activation circuitry configured to generate an activation signal in response to the user input device receiving the user command to activate the doorbell sound output device. A doorbell sound output device controller includes a switching device configured to control flow of electrical current between the doorbell sound output device controller and the doorbell sound output device, and control circuitry configured to control the switching device to enable flow of electrical current between the doorbell sound output device controller and the doorbell sound output device in response to receiving the activation signal from the doorbell switch.
US10304295B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for making a deposit by a customer are provided. The system includes a financial institution computing system. The financial institution computing system is communicable with an ATM over a network, and structured to receive deposit information from the ATM and to determine an amount of funds from the deposit that are available to the customer for immediate withdrawal at the ATM based on the deposit information. The deposit information includes an event indicator. The event indicator has a first value when the customer voluntarily enters a keyed-in deposit amount into the ATM, a second value when the customer is prompted to enter a keyed-in deposit amount into the ATM by the ATM, and a third value when the customer does not enter a keyed-in deposit amount into the ATM. The first value, the second value, and the third value are all distinct from one another.
US10304292B2
A method of managing bets includes receiving first types of bets and second types of bets. Each first type of bet comprises a bet that the number of units earned by a participant in a plurality of events will fall within a first range of numbers. Each second type of bet comprises a bet that the number of units earned by the participant over a course of a plurality of events will fall within a second range of numbers. The total number of units earned by the participant is determined based on the positioning of the participant in each event. The method includes determining whether the first or second type of bets are winning bets. A betting pool is determined based on the total amounts associated with the first and second types of bets. A payout is determined based on the betting pool and the total amounts of the winning bets.
US10304288B2
A gaming machine includes an input device and a processor coupled to the input device. The input device is configured to receive a game play event from a player. The processor is programmed to determine whether a jackpot trigger condition is satisfied based at least in part on the game play event. The jackpot trigger condition includes a target quantity of games played, a target set of game tokens, a target pattern of game symbols, and/or a target pattern of game play outcomes. The processor is further programmed to award a jackpot credit to one or more players when the jackpot trigger condition is satisfied.
US10304285B2
An electronic gaming machine constructed to receive credits from a plurality of users, is disclosed, comprising an interactive controller and a process controller operatively connecting the interactive controller to a wager server, which generate a multi-user interactive application, allow for the purchase of virtual avatars, generate goal values, and accept user input through a user interface to award application elements and adjust the characteristics of the virtual avatars.
US10304279B2
The gaming system, gaming device and method provides a reel game that includes stacks of symbols configured on the reels to provide a large number of winning symbol combinations. The gaming device includes a plurality of reels wherein each reel includes a reel-strip and a plurality of symbols. Each of the plurality of reels is configured to include one or more stacks of symbols wherein a stack of symbols is formed by placing a plurality of identical symbols adjacent to each other on a single reel. If two non-adjacent reels each generated a stack of identical symbols and at least one reel positioned between the two non-adjacent reels generated symbols different from the symbols used to form the stack of identical symbols, at least one symbol on the at least one reel positioned between the two non-adjacent reels is modified into the symbol that forms the stacks of identical symbols.
US10304278B2
A gaming system includes an input interface, an output interface and processing circuitry. A data stream defining a VR environment is transmitted by the processing circuitry to a VR headset. The VR headset displays visual imagery depicting the VR environment seen from a first viewpoint. The processing circuitry receives an input indicative of a selection of a second viewpoint and directs the VR headset to display visual imagery depicting the VR environment seen from the second viewpoint.
US10304277B2
A computing system can receive a first transport request from a computing device of a respective user while a rider application is operating in the default mode, and transmit a confirmation indicating information about a paired driver that is assigned to the first transport request to the computing device of the respective user. The computing system may further receive a second transport request from the computing device of the respective user while the rider application is operating in the secondary mode, and transmit data comprising a unique match code to the computing device of the respective user, causing the rider application to generate and output digital signature.
US10304270B2
Various embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, wired and wireless network communications, and wearable computing devices for establishing a secure, closed-loop communication channel for authorizing access to rental properties. More specifically, a system, a device and a method are configured to facilitate authorization via secure communications between an inquiring entity and a responding entity to access a rental property. In one or more embodiments, a method can include establishing a data arrangement representing a messaging dialog between an inquirer and a responder. The messaging dialog may include data representing exchange of electronic messages. Further, the method may include suppressing transmission of the identity data of the inquirer and the responder during the exchange of the electronic messages to form secured messages, and generating anonymized transaction data representing authorization to access the rental property.
US10304268B1
A method for credentialing visitors to an access-controlled environment includes providing a smart-phone based credentialing platform, providing an electronic badge having electronically controlled indicia thereon, enrolling a visitor by entering visitor information based on requirements of an administrator, approving the requirements of the step of enrolling are met, requesting, by a visitor, a location for which access is desired, and approving the request. The method further includes the steps of checking in on the smart-phone to establish check-in data, communicating between the smart-phone and the badge indicia data for forming a display image on the display of the badge, recording geo-location data of the visitor, checking out of the system, recording check-in data and check-out data and removing the indicia from the badge display.
US10304261B2
Duplicated wireless transceivers associated with a vehicle to receive and send sensitive information
A vehicle is provided that comprises two or more radio frequency (RF) antennas and two or more RF transceivers to communicate wirelessly sensitive information associated with a user of the vehicle (the two or more RF antennas being at different physical locations on an exterior of the vehicle). The vehicle determines which one of the two or more RF antennas is receiving a strongest signal from a common signal source, selects a first RF transceiver associated with the RF antenna with the strongest signal to send the sensitive information associated with the user to the common signal source, and sends the sensitive information associated with the user to the first RF transceiver for transmission to the common signal source.
US10304260B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing an automated verification and analysis of vehicle inspection reports to a vehicle management system. Among other features, the vehicle management system can determine the type of vehicle to be inspected during a vehicle inspection report, provide customized reports associated with the identified vehicle, and provide automatic analysis and verification that the vehicle inspection report was completed in accordance with the defined parameters of the vehicle inspection report.
US10304251B2
Systems and techniques from displaying virtual representations of real-world spaces and objects in various environments are disclosed. A source environment at a first location can be scanned by a head-mounted display (HMD) device to generate three-dimensional datasets corresponding to the physical environment at the first location. The three-dimensional datasets can include detected physical properties associated with the physical environment. At a second location, the HMD can re-create the source environment, and render for display a virtual representation of the physical environment based on the three-dimensional datasets, where the virtual representation of the source environment is rendered to maintain any one of the detected physical properties associated with the physical environment. Further, at the second location, the HMD can enable a user to view one or more physical objects within the virtual representation of the physical environment such that the physical object is perceived to be within the source environment.
US10304248B2
Provided is a method of providing an augmented reality interaction service, the method including: generating reference coordinates based on a 3-dimensional (3D) image including depth information obtained through a camera; segmenting a region corresponding to a pre-set object from the 3D image including the depth information obtained through the camera, based on depth information of the pre-set object and color space conversion; segmenting a sub-object having a motion component from the pre-set object in the segmented region, and detecting a feature point by modeling the sub-object and a palm region linked to the sub-object based on a pre-set algorithm; and controlling a 3D object for use of an augmented reality service by estimating a posture of the sub-object based on joint information of the pre-set object provided through a certain user interface (UI).
US10304241B2
A method and system for synthesising a terrain are provided. The method includes: providing access to multiple exemplar terrain templates and generating a working terrain image with target terrain dimensions and an associated working terrain height image. Generating the working terrain image includes sampling a plurality of the exemplar terrain templates for addition of the templates to the working terrain image, and performing image synthesis to improve the working terrain image including height matching the exemplar terrain samples. The method enables control of modification of the working terrain image by applying user-defined constraints to modify the synthesised terrain. The method outputs the working terrain image as a synthesised terrain in the form of a height-field.
US10304237B2
A method for constructing a 3D reference map useable in real-time mapping, localization and/or change analysis, wherein the 3D reference map is built using a 3D SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) framework based on a mobile laser range scanner A method for real-time mapping, localization and change analysis, in particular in GPS-denied environments, as well as a mobile laser scanning device for implementing said methods.
US10304225B2
Generating a chart-type agnostic data structure for defining a chart for use in chart rendering, animation, interactivity, and accessibility via a web client is provided. Aspects of a charting system are operative to represent output of a server-side chart layout engine in a data structure that can transmitted to and consumed by the web client for rendering an interactive chart. For example, aspects of the charting system enable for chart layout and chart rendering to exist separately, providing efficient chart layout and preventing external exposure of chart layout code.
US10304221B2
This patent application relates to Data visualization techniques for representing population data for a relatively large number of subjects associated with multiple populations. A graphical representation can be created to represent population data elements and corresponding population data values for the populations over time. The graphical representation can be utilized to analyze the populations.
US10304217B2
An image is reconstructed based upon a filtered backprojection (FBP) technique using a reconstruction filter which is customized or shaped by parameters including a weight value that is determined for weighing projection data according to a predetermined noise model. The weight value is determined based upon rays or views in the projection data. A regularization term is also combined with the noise-weighted FBP.
US10304216B2
Image processing method displaying processed image representing result of color modification process
An image processing method includes: (a) displaying a plurality of candidate image processes to be performed on image data, the plurality of candidate image processes including a color modification process; (b) receiving an instruction indicating the color modification process selected from among the plurality of candidate image processes; (c) displaying a display image corresponding to the image data on the display; (d) designating a display image; and (e) displaying a processed display image that represents a result of the selected color modification process performed on the image data corresponding to the designated display image before the selected color modification process on the image data corresponding to the designated display image is performed.
US10304213B2
An apparatus for a near lossless compression scheme is described herein. The apparatus includes an image processing pipeline and a compressor. The image processing pipeline is to apply a plurality of processing stages to high dynamic range images to output a plurality of intermediate processed images, wherein each image comprises a plurality of pixel components. The compressor is to generate compression tiles of the plurality of intermediate processed images, wherein each output of the plurality of processing stages is compressed independently of the other processing stage.
US10304210B2
A method and apparatus for calibrating a camera are provided. The method includes: detecting at least one edge of fixed object in image received from a camera, determining at least one horizontal midpoint of the at least one edge, calculating a first pixel distance between the determined at least one horizontal midpoint and a pre-stored at least one horizontal midpoint, calculating second pixel distances between a plurality of points on the detected at least one edge of the fixed object and a pre-stored plurality of points of the at least one edge of the fixed object, determining whether to recalibrate the camera based on the first pixel distance and the second pixel distances, and recalibrating the camera if the determining determines to recalibrate the camera.
US10304207B2
A method, electronic device, and non-transitory computer readable medium for optical tracking are provided. The method includes identifying at least one object within an environment, from received image data. The method also includes assigning a volatility rating to the identified object. Additionally, the method includes determining one or more tracking points associated with the identified object. The method also includes determining a priority rating for the each of the one or more tracking points associated with the identified object based on the assigned volatility rating of the identified object. The method also includes selecting the one or more tracking points for optical tracking based on the priority rating.
US10304205B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a moving object detection unit configured to detect a moving object from a moving image; a detection unit configured to detect from the moving image a line corresponding to the moving object; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection unit, whether the moving object is a self-moving object.
US10304203B2
A method for texture reconstruction associated with a three-dimensional scan of an object includes scanning, at a processor, a sequence of image frames captured by an image capture device at different three-dimensional viewpoints. The method also includes generating a composite confidence map based on the sequence of image frames. The composite confidence map includes pixel values for scanned pixels in the sequence of image frames. The method further includes identifying one or more holes of a three-dimensional model based on the composite confidence map.
US10304197B2
A computer implemented method for determining a centerline of a three-dimensional tubular structure is described. The method includes providing an edge-detected data set of voxels that characterize a boundary of the tubular structure according to a three-dimensional voxel data set for the tubular structure. A gradient field of a distance transformation is computed for the edge-detected dataset. A voxel data set corresponding to a centerline of the tubular structure is computed according to derivative of gradient field.
US10304195B2
An information processing apparatus detects a line segment from an image, determines whether four sides of a plate are detected based on the detected line segment, calculates an aspect ratio of the detected four sides in a case where it is determined that four sides of the plate are detected, and determines whether the aspect ratio satisfies a first condition. In a case where it is determined that four sides of the plate are not detected, the information processing apparatus searches a vicinity of the detected line segment for an object, and determines whether the object satisfies a second condition. The information processing apparatus judges that a recognition target area is included in the image in a case where it is determined that the first condition or the second condition is satisfied.
US10304178B2
Methods and systems for diagnosing semiconductor wafer are provided. A target image is obtained according to graphic data system (GDS) information of a specific layout in the semiconductor wafer, wherein the target image includes a first contour having a first pattern corresponding to the specific layout. Image-based alignment is performed to capture a raw image from the semiconductor wafer according to the first contour. The semiconductor wafer is analyzed by measuring the raw image, so as to provide a diagnostic result.
US10304175B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for utilizing depth videos to analyze material handling tasks. A material handling facility may comprise a depth video system and a control system programmed to receive a plurality of depth videos including performances of the material handling task. For each of the plurality of depth videos, training data may identify sub-tasks of the material handling task and corresponding portions of the video including the sub-tasks. The plurality of depth videos and the training data may be used to train a model to identify the sub-tasks from depth videos. The control system may apply the model to a captured depth video of a human agent performing the material handling task at a workstation to identify a first sub-task of the material handling task being performed by the human agent.
US10304172B2
The location of the optical axis of a plenoptic imaging system is determined. In one approach, the plenoptic image is noise filtered, down-sampled, low-pass filtered, and again noise filtered. Slices through this image that have the highest power are used to determine the location of the optical axis. Once the location of the optical axis is determined, corrections for aberrations such as distortion can be applied.
US10304170B2
The present invention relates to a method for imaging a target object within media which bring about simultaneously scattering and aberration capable of imaging of deep depth and high resolution not only by maximizing an accumulation of a single aberration but also by noticeably reducing an distortion of image using simultaneous correction of the scattering and the aberration.
US10304169B2
Provided is a method and device for correction restoration and analysis alarming of a distorted image. The method includes that: an original distorted image acquired by a distortion lens is received, and original distorted coordinates of each coordinate point in the original distorted image are acquired; and pre-stored distortion parameters of the distortion lens are acquired, and restored coordinates of each coordinate point in the original distorted image are determined to obtain a restored image.
US10304166B2
Sub-regions within one or more face images are identified within a digital image, and enhanced by applying an artificial glint symmetrically and/or synchronously to image data corresponding to sub-regions of eyes within the face image. An enhanced face image is generated including an enhanced version of the face that includes certain original pixels in combination with pixels corresponding to the one or more eye regions of the face with the artificial glint.
US10304161B2
An image processing apparatus obtains an input image acquired by image capturing, and classifies the input image into a main subject region and a background region. The image processing apparatus determines virtual image capturing conditions corresponding to an output image to be generated, based on the positional relationship between a main subject and a background subject in an image capturing environment when the input image was captured. The image processing apparatus deforms, of the input image, an image classified into the background region, and generates a background image of the output image that corresponds to the determined virtual image capturing conditions. The image processing apparatus composes, of the input image, an image classified into the main subject region and the background image, thereby generating the output image.
US10304155B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for compressing pixel data are disclosed. In one embodiment, if a block of pixel data is equal to a constant value, a processor compresses the block down to a metadata value which specifies the constant value for the entire block of pixel data. The processor also detects if the constant value is equal to a video specific typical minimum or maximum value. In another embodiment, the processor receives a plurality of M-bit pixel components which are most significant bit aligned in N-bit containers. Next, the processor shifts the M-bit pixel components down into least significant bit locations of the N-bit containers. Then, the processor converts the N-bit containers into M-bit containers. Next, the processor compresses the M-bit containers to create a compressed block of pixel data which is then stored in a memory subsystem.
US10304154B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating inference coordination and processing utilization for machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting, at training time, information relating to one or more tasks to be performed according to a training dataset relating to a processor including a graphics processor. The method may further include analyzing the information to determine one or more portions of hardware relating to the processor capable of supporting the one or more tasks, and configuring the hardware to pre-select the one or more portions to perform the one or more tasks, while other portions of the hardware remain available for other tasks.
US10304152B2
Watermark encoders and decoders can be integrated into operating systems, Internet browsers, media players, and other applications and devices. Such integration enables the watermark-enabled application or device to provide additional functionality and information available via the watermark. The watermark, for example, may link to metadata or actions related to a media object. To exploit this watermark enabled functionality, the integrated application uses a watermark decoder to access the related metadata and actions. The user interface of the integrated application is enhanced to present metadata and actions linked via the watermark. Similarly, watermark encoders may be integrated into applications to convert media objects into enhanced, watermarked objects. A variety of other arrangements and features are also detailed. Many arrangements can be implemented using object identifiers other than watermarks.
US10304151B2
The present disclosure relates to signal processing such as image processing, signal encoding, digital watermarking and data hiding. A sparse or dense digital watermark signal can be conveyed with a narrow-band absorption material corresponding to a center wavelength of a Point of Sale (POS) barcode scanner. The POS barcode scanner typically captures 2D imagery. Since the narrow-band absorption material absorbs over a narrow-band it is relatively imperceptible to the Human Visual System (HVS) but can be seen by the POS scanner.
US10304131B2
Market data is recorded from a real live exchange. The recording data can be played back in real time or delayed, in any manner, to simulate the recorded market. Moreover, one or more users can participate in the simulated market just as if they were participating in a real-live market. The system provides a realistic trading environment without the associated risks of trading in a live-market such as losing money and the cost of making trades. The system may be used for training purposes and for purposes of testing and analyzing various trading strategies. Software developers and testers may also utilize the realistic environment to develop trading products or applications. Additionally, the system provides a means for demonstrating trading application products.
US10304114B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh-based environmental augmentation are presented. Attribute data associated with a user may be received from a plurality of attribute sources. A portion of the attribute data may include real-time data. A portion of the real-time data indicative of an identity of the user may be identified. The identity of the user may be authenticated with respect to the real-time data by analyzing the identified portion of the real-time data. Based on the authentication of the identity of the user, a user activity being performed by the user may be identified based on the real-time data, and the user activity may be augmented according to a user setting.
US10304110B2
A ticket purchase application is installed in a communication device to facilitate event ticket purchase. An operating system of the communication device recognizes a type of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that indicates an entertaining or sporting event. The URL includes a unique code associated with a specific event. The operating system of the communication device may detect user interactions that trigger the URL. When the URL is triggered, the ticket purchase application may be started and the unique code in the URL may be parsed and forwarded to the ticket purchase application. The ticket purchase application uses the unique code to identify the event and searches for tickets associated with the event. The ticket purchase application may list available tickets of the event in an order based on the user's preference. Accordingly, a user may quickly find and purchase a desired ticket by clicking on an URL.
US10304106B2
Computer based systems and methods allow designing (e.g., customization) of consumer products, such as articles of footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, etc., by users.
US10304105B2
A shopping guide robot system and an associated customer identification notification method. The system comprises the shopping guide robot and a background service terminal. A body of the shopping guide robot has a control unit, a movement unit, a communication module and a camera unit that collect images. The control unit has a customer identification module, which identifies a human face in an image and sends a first signal after determining that the human face is a customer. The control unit receives the first signal and sends a second signal to the background service terminal through the communication module. The background service terminal receives the second signal and sends a notification signal. In this manner, background personnel does not need to stare at a monitoring screen constantly to view whether a customer needs to be served. A background automatically prompts whether a customer enters or needs help, reducing work strength.
US10304104B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects an orientation of the face of a customer in a store, an estimating unit that estimates the customer's state of mind in accordance with a chronological change of the detected orientation of the face of the customer, and an output unit that outputs guidance information that guides the customer to a customer service, in accordance with the estimated customer's state of mind.
US10304101B2
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to verify minimum age of accountholders, to enable age restrictions on purchases.
US10304100B2
A matching support device which achieve matching between demand information and supply information, quickly and accurately reflecting changes in information. The present invention is provided with an information recording unit 11 which acquires supply information and/or demand information in order to record the supply information and/or the demand information, a matching unit 12 which performs the matching between the demand information and the supply information, and a result transmission unit 14 which transmits results of the matching to a supplier terminal and a consumer terminal. The information recording unit 11, during an arbitrary period specified from the supplier terminal and/or the consumer terminal, continues reception of the supply information and/or the demand information and holds a record of the supply information and/or the demand information for the arbitrary period. The matching unit 12 performs the matching between the supply information and the demand information for the arbitrary period.
US10304098B2
A request for quote (RFQ) engine (10) includes a data and metrics designer (22) that generates, in response to input from a user, a data and metrics model (42) for an RFQ template using a data and metrics meta-model (32). The RFQ engine (10) also includes a state transition designer (24) that generates, in response to input from the user, a state transition model (44) for the RFQ template using a state transition meta-model (34). Furthermore, the RFQ engine (10) includes a workflow designer (26) that generates, in response to input from the user, a user interface workflow (46) for the RFQ template using a workflow meta-model (36). In addition, the RFQ engine includes an execution engine (40) that executes the RFQ template that includes the data and metrics model (42) generated by the data and metrics designer (22), the state transition model (44) generated by the state transition designer (24), and the user interface workflow (46) generated by the workflow designer (26). The RFQ template is executed to generate an RFQ.
US10304092B2
A system is disclosed for presenting advertisements for products and related products for a consumer based on the products being purchased.
US10304091B1
Systems, methods and computer readable media for providing a point-of-sale system that can be configured to facilitate the sale of products and transmit transaction data to a cloud based system are provided herein. The cloud based system can be maintained by a promotional party and be configured to generate deal offers and/or provide other services based on the transaction data received. In some embodiments, a fee may be charged for some or all of the services offered and/or the transactional data provided to the promotional system may be governed by an agreement between the promotional party and the merchant.
US10304085B2
The disclosure is related to an advertisement service using mobile vehicles. Particularly, the disclosure relates to providing advertisement content selected based on statistical information on an advertisement target at an advertisement display location. Furthermore, the selected advertisement content may be provided to a corresponding mobile vehicle before the corresponding mobile vehicle arrives at the advertisement display location.
US10304084B2
There is provided a method for monitoring of web browser media object(s) received in response to a web browser request rendering a web page, comprising: loading ad-monitoring code with the web page that includes at least one designation for placement of at least one web browser media object received in response to a web browser request by the web browser; monitoring, using the ad-monitoring code, at least one of actions and events driven by the at least one web browser media object; identifying a deviation from a set-of-rules according to an analysis of the monitored at least one of actions and events, wherein the set-of-rules define at least one of allowable and prohibited actions and events of the at least one web browser media object; and at least one of filtering and outputting an indication of the at least one web browser media object identified as deviating from the set-of-rules.
US10304078B2
The present system provides a user remuneration in exchange for participation in a qualifying event. The system has an internet interface for interacting with a plurality of users and a plurality of advertisers, an account database; and a token generation module. The token generation module is configured such that when a user encounters a qualifying event on the internet as presented by the advertiser, the token generation module, upon login by the user, delivers an authentication token to the advertiser. When the user finishes the qualifying event, the authentication token is authenticated by the advertiser and returned to the system, such that the system can account for a remuneration for the user to be credited in an account associated with the user in the account database.
US10304074B2
Devices, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for a redemption header for merchant offers, such as online coupons, are provided. In some embodiments, an offers website may provide offers, such as online coupons, in a browser executing on a user device. When a user selects an online coupon, the browser is redirected to a merchant website associated with the online coupon and a coupon code value is copied to a clipboard. Additionally, a redemption header having the coupon code and instructions is added in the merchant webpage. A webpage element for the redemption header, such as an inline frame, is created in the merchant webpage and the redemption header is provided based on an offer identifier stored in a browser-accessible storage item such as a cookie.
US10304064B2
A method and system are disclosed for facilitating the completion of a questionnaire. A storage medium stores a plurality of questions and associated answers. Similar questions are linked. An interface presents to a user through a computer network a presented question as part of a questionnaire to be completed. The interface also presents to the user answers associated with similar questions linked to the presented question. Upon user selection, an answer to a similar question is stored as an answer to the selected question. The user may modify the answer. The method and system may present additional questions and answers associated with similar questions linked to the additional question. A user may have access to stored questions, add questions, and link similar questions. Answers to questions may be stored before the user completes the questionnaire. The questionnaire may include fields populated with information previously supplied by the user without user selection. The storage medium may be a database.
US10304063B2
A method (400, 500) of advertising. The method can include communicating to a client (106) a hyperlink corresponding to a virtual world (300) and associating with the hyperlink an identifier corresponding to an advertisement (302) to be presented to a user (108) in the virtual world during a user session. The method also can include identifying an identifier (114) corresponding to an advertisement to be displayed in a virtual world during a user session in response to receiving a request (116) from a client identifying a uniform resource identifier corresponding to the virtual world, and presenting the advertisement within the virtual world during the user session. A method (600) of providing financial incentives for advertising can include receiving an advertising activity indicator (120, 122) and processing the advertising activity indicator to determine financial incentives to be provided to an entity associated with the website.
US10304060B2
A method of routing a voice communication from an information handling system to one of a plurality of queues includes automatically obtaining an identifier from the information handling system that uniquely identifies the information handling system, and transmitting the identifier so that the voice communication can be routed to one of the queues.
US10304057B1
A touchless vend system includes a first processor and a second processor, each within a vending machine and communicably coupled to one another. The first processor can receive a signal representing a product selection, associated with a product in the vending machine, from a mobile device. The first processor can transmit a payment authorization to a controller of the vending machine, and transmit the signal representing the product selection to the second processor. The second processor receives the signal representing the product selection from the first processor, converts the signal representing the product selection into an electronic signal based on a make, a model, and version information of the vend machine, and sends the electronic signal to the controller to cause vending of the product.
US10304056B1
A system for identifying and associating merchant attributes data of a merchant with transaction data may be integrated with existing payment processing systems to provide for detailed merchant attributes data (e.g., merchant name, merchant ownership data, and merchant address data). The system may receive and modify merchant attributes data retrieved from an external source (e.g., an acquirer computer or third party to a transaction) and store the merchant attributes data in a database. The merchant attributes data may be retrieved and correlated with transaction data and provided to entities (e.g., issuer computers) involved with the transaction for authorization decisioning, fraud analysis, and data analytics.
US10304055B2
An embodiment of the invention extends to a device (which may be considered an asset that is purchased or which provides a service that may be purchased) that can be controlled through the use of a mobile communications apparatus such as a cellular phone. The cellular phone is connected to a transaction processing system that allows a user to pay for the use of the device. The transaction processing system communicates with the device to allow usage of the device only if the user has successfully paid for such use. A further embodiment of the invention relates to collecting usage information of the device and collating this information at a location remote from the device.
US10304054B2
An electronic transaction verification system for use with transaction tokens such as checks, credit cards, debit cards, and smart cards that gathers and transmits information about the transaction token and biometric data. Customers can be enrolled in the system by receiving customer information that includes at least a biometric datum, associating the received customer information with a transaction instrument issued to the customers and storing the received customer information and the issued transaction instrument information in a database for future reference.
US10304049B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for computing distance between devices. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining an approximate distance between a merchant computer and a customer device based on a strength of a wireless signal associated with data transmitted and received between the merchant device and customer device. The actions further include validating the approximate distance based on signals from a plurality of motion sensors of the customer device to generate a validated distance. The actions further include generating a list with the one or more customers ranked in the list based on the validated distance. The actions further include presenting, on the merchant device, the list of the one or more customers.
US10304048B2
There are provided systems and methods for authentication depending on device capabilities and user requests based on situational information collected in advance of a device becoming non-operational. A user may wish to utilize some device process, such as access and use of a device application or other module. For example, a user may wish to utilize a payment application of the communication device, or authenticate the user using a service provider accessible through the communication device. If the communication device becomes non-operational (e.g., lack of power or signal strength), the user may be prevented from authenticating through the communication device. Thus, the user may establish a limited use authentication credential from situational data to the user and device (e.g., location or current image) that allows the user to authenticate with the service provider. The authentication credential may be limited to a location, amount, and/or type of authentication.
US10304047B2
The invention provides a method and system for providing financial details from a mobile device of a user for use in a transaction. The method is performed on a mobile device of the user and includes the steps of generating, on a token generating component, a session-specific token by applying an algorithm requiring a dynamic key; providing financial details for use in a transaction; incorporating the session-specific token and the financial details into a modified form the financial details; and transferring the modified form of the financial details from the mobile device to initiate the transaction. A corresponding method and system for validating financial details received, at a server of an issuing authority, is also provided.
US10304043B1
Approaches provide for a point-of-sale system that includes, for example, a stand that supports a computing device. The computing device can run software configured to provide functionality for a point-of-sale system. The computing device can be connected to peripheral components, such as a cash drawer, a receipt printer, etc. through a hub or other device configured to host at least one of a plurality of peripheral ports and/or operate as a single client to the computing device.
US10304041B2
A method and a system for providing a payment cardholder with multiple funding source options for a payment card are provided herein. First, a managing platform associates at least two funding sources with the payment card. The funding sources include a first funding source and a second funding source. Next, the first funding source is designated as a default funding source and a set of pre-defined routing rules for funding transactions made with the payment card. Then, the managing platform intercepts each transaction of the payment card and routes the transactions to an issuer funding system for the first funding source using the managing platform.
US10304039B2
A product disassembling method and non-transitory computer readable media thereof are provided. According to the components of the product and the disassembling attributes of the components, the disassembling sequence that minimizes the total disassembling time can be planned. The method includes the following steps: an initial disassembling sequence solution is randomly generated. The disassembling sequence solution is updated by using an update mechanism. The disassembling time of the update disassembling sequence solution is calculated by using a fitness function. The best fitness value is obtained after the continuously updating, so as to determine whether to update or maintain the initial disassembling sequence solution. The corresponding disassembling sequence is considered as the best planning result.
US10304037B2
A spatial event map system including server-side data processor that maintains a spatial event map which locates events in a workspace. The spatial event map includes a log of events, entries in the log having a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time. The system includes logic to send messages including an event, a location of a graphical target of the event in the workspace and a time, to client-side network nodes; and to receive messages identifying events that create or modify a graphical target, and to add corresponding entries to the log of events. The events can include history events that are sent to the other client-side network nodes, and added to the log for the corresponding history events, and ephemeral events that are sent to other client-side network nodes without adding corresponding entries in the log.
US10304021B2
In some embodiments, the presentation manager is configured to provide an interface requesting information regarding a proposal from a digital device over a network and receive the information from the digital device. The business object manager is configured to instantiate a business object based on the received information and store the instantiated business object within a data structure residing in a computer readable medium. The business rule manager is configured to generate a business rule associated with the business object, the business rule comprising instructions to perform an operation, the instructions being conditional based on the instantiated business object. The metadata manager is configured to generate metadata associated with the instantiated business object, store the generated metadata in the computer readable medium, perform the operation based on the business rule and the generated metadata, and instruct the presentation manager to provide a second interface indicating a status of the proposal.
US10304020B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for deploying employees to roles in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to basing employee deployment decisions at least in part on a combination of quantitative data and qualitative assessments of performance by various employees in various roles. Qualitative assessments may, for example, relate to an employee's success in promoting customer satisfaction, or to the accuracy of quantitative data relating to a task or function.
US10304018B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling a display screen for scheduling tasks with graphical objects are described. In one embodiment, a method includes in response to receiving a request to modify a scheduling data structure, determining that the request is directed towards scheduling a first task. The example method may also include analyzing the scheduling data structure to identify candidate time slots usable to satisfy the request. The example method may also include controlling a display screen to display graphical objects that correspond to the candidate time slots. The example method may also include in response to receiving user input, via a graphical object, that selects a first time slot from the candidate time slots, generating a set of scheduling instructions.
US10304016B2
There are systems and methods for monitoring a vehicle in a fleet of vehicles and a worker that is driving the vehicle, the system comprising a headless check-in switch and a headless check-in indicator; a headless vehicle monitoring device, mounted in the vehicle, comprising: a communication module configured to communicate with a worker monitoring server; a processor, executing computer-readable instructions stored on a non-transitory medium, configured to: obtain a start monitoring signal from the headless check-in switch to launch a monitoring session; communicate the start monitoring signal to the worker monitoring server; prompt, via the headless check-in indicator, a worker to check-in; receive, via the headless check-in switch, a check-in signal; send the check-in signal to the worker monitoring server; and confirm, via the headless check-in indicator, a check-in status received from the worker monitoring server.
US10304007B2
A method for using a plurality of decision engines to produce a single decision comprises: receiving heterogeneous data from the plurality of decision engines comprising a set of class labels from each of the plurality of decision engines, wherein the set of class labels from at least a first decision engine differs from the set of class labels from at least a second decision engine; generating a single set of unified class labels from the heterogeneous data; calculating at least one value corresponding to each of at least a subset of the unified class labels; and performing decision fusion on at least the subset of the unified class labels and corresponding values to produce the single decision.
US10304002B2
Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) may allow a user to interact with a computer via a variety of mechanisms, such as hand, head, and body gestures. Various of the disclosed embodiments allow information captured from a depth camera on an HCI system to be used to recognize such gestures. Particularly, the HCI system's depth sensor may capture depth frames of the user's movements over time. To discern gestures from these movements, the system may group portions of the user's anatomy represented by the depth data into classes. “Features” which reflect distinguishing features of the user's anatomy may be used to accomplish this classification. Some embodiments provide improved systems and methods for generating and/or selecting these features. Features prepared by various of the disclosed embodiments may be less susceptible to overfitting training data and may more quickly distinguish portions of the user's anatomy.
US10304001B2
A target estimator that properly conditions measurement variates in the case of a series of sensor measurements collected against a target, a system model that captures visible and hidden stochastic information including but not limited to target state, target identity, and sensor measurements and that marginalizes measurement failure and a dynamic mixed quadrature expression facilitating real-time implementation of the estimator are presented.
US10304000B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for selecting cohorts. In one implementation, a model-assisted selection system for identifying candidates for placement into a cohort includes a data interface and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is programmed to access, via the data interface, a database from which feature vectors associated with an individual from among a population of individuals can be derived; derive, for the individual, one or more feature vectors from the database; provide the one or more feature vectors to a model; receive an output from the model; and determine whether the individual from among the population of individuals is a candidate for the cohort based on the output received from the model.
US10303998B2
A floating gate setup method, system, and computer program product include, in an initial setup of weights for a floating gate including rows, columns, and a separate input line: comparing a current weight to a desired weight, performing a feedback to the input line to set a voltage to change the floating gate FET VT and the current weight, and checking that the current weight is within a predetermined tolerance of the desired weight.
US10303992B2
A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least one first colorable area, the first barcode being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, at least a second barcode including at least one second colorable area, the second barcode not being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator and a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable.
US10303987B2
In an illustrative embodiment, a system for identifying products on a production line includes image capturing devices that acquire images of containers moving along a production line at an inspection location. The system also includes a rejection device and a controller that configures the image capturing devices for image acquisition based on properties of the containers, identifies a product associated with each of the containers based on a portion of a product identification code and a portion of additional features detected in the images, and determines whether the identified product matches predetermined properties or characteristics, resulting in a pass result, otherwise a non-pass result occurs. When a non-pass result occurs, the controller outputs a signal to actuate the rejection device that removes the container from the production line.
US10303985B2
There is provided a class estimation apparatus. A data reception unit receives an input of a feature amount of data. An identification device reception unit receives an input of an identification device having a tree structure. A table storage unit stores a probability table and a feature amount table in a leaf node of the tree structure. A probability table correction unit corrects the probability table. A class estimation unit estimates a class of the data.
US10303982B2
In various embodiments, training objects are classified by human annotators, psychometric data characterizing the annotation of the training objects is acquired, a human-weighted loss function based at least in part on the classification data and the psychometric data is computationally derived, and one or more features of a query object are computationally classified based at least in part on the human-weighted loss function.
US10303981B1
A method for learning parameters of an object detector based on R-CNN is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device (a) if training image is acquired, instructing (i) convolutional layers to generate feature maps by applying convolution operations to the training image, (ii) an RPN to output ROI regression information and matching information (iii) a proposal layer to output ROI candidates as ROI proposals by referring to the ROI regression information and the matching information, and (iv) a proposal-selecting layer to output the ROI proposals by referring to the training image; (b) instructing pooling layers to generate feature vectors by pooling regions in the feature map, and instructing FC layers to generate object regression information and object class information; and (c) instructing first loss layers to calculate and backpropagate object class loss and object regression loss, to thereby learn parameters of the FC layers and the convolutional layers.
US10303972B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes acquiring a first image by a first user. The method further includes performing, using a processor, a comparative analysis of the first image and at least one other image acquired within a threshold time by at least one other user. The method also includes establishing a real-time communication interface between the first user and the at least one other user in response to the comparative analysis.
US10303971B2
A method of classifying an image is disclosed. The method comprises: applying a computer vision procedure to the image to detect therein candidate image regions suspected as being occupied by a target; presenting to an observer each candidate image region as a visual stimulus, while collecting neurophysiological signals from a brain of the observer; processing the neurophysiological signals to identify a neurophysiological event indicative of a detection of the target by the observer; and determining an existence of the target in the image is based, at least in part, on the identification of the neurophysiological event.
US10303965B2
A framework for defective pixel identification is described herein. In accordance with one aspect, the framework performs a machine learning technique to train a classifier using a training image dataset. The trained classifier is applied to a current image to identify one or more defective pixels, which may then be corrected.
US10303953B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating person tracking and data security in machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting, by a camera associated with one or more trackers, a person within a physical vicinity, where detecting includes capturing one or more images the person. The method may further include tracking, by the one or more trackers, the person based on the one or more images of the person, where tracking includes collect tracking data relating to the person. The method may further include selecting a tracker of the one or more trackers as a preferred tracker based on the tracking data.
US10303950B1
Automated video correction techniques are disclosed. In some examples, an example method may include identifying features in each video frame of the multiple video frames in a video, and identifying one or more major scenes in the video based on a matching of the features in each video frame. The method may also include, for each identified major scene, identifying a key reference frame based on the features in each video frame, identifying one or more bad video frames based on a comparison with the key reference frame, and identifying one or more sequences of bad video frames based on the identified one or more bad video frames. The video may then be corrected by removing the identified one or more sequences of bad video frames from the video.
US10303946B2
A method for offline-service multi-user interaction based on augmented reality (AR) includes scanning, by an AR client terminal of a user, an offline service label at an offline service site. Information of the offline service label is transmitted to a server terminal. Based on the information of the offline service label, the server terminal establishes a service group including the user and a second user that scanned the offline service label. In response to transmitting the information of the offline service label, service data is received from the server terminal. The service data includes information related to the user and information related to the second user. Based on the service data, a service interactive interface is outputted. The service interactive interface displays the information related to the user and the information related to the second user at a position corresponding to the offline service label in an AR scene.
US10303942B2
A short-term cloud forecasting system includes a cloud segmentation processor that receives image data from images captured by an all sky camera. The cloud segmentation processor calculates a probability for each pixel in an image that the pixel is representative of a cloud. A cloud motion estimation processor calculates a motion vector representing estimated cloud motion calculates weights representing the likelihood that the cloud motion will cause a cloud to occlude the sun at a time in the near future. An uncertainty processor calculates one or more uncertainty indexes that quantify the confidence that a cloud forecast is accurate. Combining the cloud probabilities, the global motion vector and the at least one uncertainty index, in a sun occlusion prediction processor produces a short-term cloud forecast based on the image data that may be used as input to control systems for controlling a power grid.
US10303941B2
Provided are methods and systems for identifying location of light sources from airborne aircraft. Light sources are ground based and may be low power lasers and other like devices. An aircraft equipped with a detecting module, such as a camera of a ground maneuver camera system, may defect light source output and associate this output with the relative position of the aircraft to the light source. This information may be analyzed together with aircraft location information (at the time of light source detection) to generate a light source location estimate. In some embodiments, other information, such as transmission from other aircraft and/or ground based nodes can be used. The estimate may be transmitted to a ground based node, such as a law enforcement unit. The data from multiple aircraft and/or ground based nodes may be aggregated to more precisely identify the light source location.
US10303940B2
An HMD device includes a display panel and an x-prism beamsplitter disposed along a first axis between the display panel and an expected position of an eye of a user. The x-prism beamsplitter directs a first light beam in a first direction from the display panel to the eye along the first axis, directs a second light beam in a second direction along a second axis substantially perpendicular to the first axis, and directs a third light beam in the second direction along the second axis, wherein the second light beam is representative of the first light beam and the third light beam is representative of a reflection of the first light beam off of the eye. The HMD device further includes an imaging camera to capture a composite image comprising a combination of both a representation of the second light beam and a representation of the third light beam.
US10303936B2
According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to receive an image; a recognition unit configured to acquire a recognition result of a user based on the received image, wherein the recognition result includes a position of the user, the user being associated with a display terminal; an image determination unit configured to determine an object based on the recognition result; and a display control unit configured to control display of the object on the display terminal.
US10303928B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to uses of face detection in video, and especially in video calls. In some embodiments, face detection may be used to center a camera shot by maintaining a face in the center of a screen. The centering may be applied selectively, such as by overriding centering if the user is looking off-screen. The video may also be cropped to better fit a face in a screen, or to allow multiple faces to appear on screen. In some embodiments, emphasizing the face over the background (or parts of the face over the whole face) allows for improvement in video call performance. Moreover, these techniques can be used to bring certain areas of a camera shot into focus while de-emphasizing the background (or vice versa).
US10303925B2
Various embodiments relate generally to a system, a device and a method for optimizing processes for compressing media content. An uncompressed content item is received in a media content management system. One or more parameters associated with the uncompressed content item are determined. A plurality of variants of the uncompressed content item is generated using the one or more parameters, the plurality of variants including one or more compressed content items. A candidate set comprising at least one of the one or more compressed content items is determined from the plurality of variants based on one or more filtering factors. A validated compressed content item is selected from the candidate set based on one or more validation criteria, and the validated compressed content item is stored in a database in the media content management system.
US10303908B2
A mobile device with wrist neutral data capture is provided. The device comprises: a housing; a data capture component configured to change an aiming pattern; a display; an orientation sensor configured to detect an orientation; one or more touch sensors at the housing; a memory storing wrist neutral touch data associated with a wrist neutral grip corresponding to predetermined grip position locations at the touch sensor(s); and a controller configured to: when touch data received at the touch sensor(s) matches the wrist neutral touch data stored in the memory, control the aiming pattern of the data capture component according to the orientation detected by the orientation sensor; and when the touch data does not match the wrist neutral touch data, control a notification device to provide an indicator of the housing being out of the wrist neutral grip.
US10303903B2
In a general aspect, an integrated circuit can include a network configured to detect fault-injection attacks on the integrated circuit, the network including a plurality of optical sensors. The integrated circuit can also include a surveillance flip-flop coupled with the network, the surveillance flip-flop being configured to signal a fault when one or more optical sensors of the plurality of optical sensors changes state. The integrated circuit can further include at least one inductive winding included in the network, the at least one inductive winding being configured to generate an induced voltage that causes switching of at least one optical sensor of the plurality of optical sensors when the at least one inductive winding is subjected to an electromagnetic flux capable of causing a fault-injection in the integrated circuit.
US10303891B2
An automated manufacturing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a job creator for generating a device programming job by encrypting a file based on an input component, the input component including an instruction set; a distribution network for distributing the device programming job to a manufacturing site; an assembly controller for decrypting the device programming job at an authorized manufacturing site; and an intelligent module for executing the device programming job decrypted by the assembly controller at the authorized manufacturing site for programming an assembly device.
US10303886B2
A component for processing a datum requiring protection, which component implements at least one security function for protecting the datum requiring protection, and a method for implementing a security function for protecting a datum requiring protection in such a component. The datum requiring protection is assigned to a protection target class. The security function includes at least one protective measure from a selection of protective measures associated with the protection target class.
US10303883B2
In some examples, a computing device includes a data port, device memory to store firmware for the computing device, and verification circuitry. The verification circuitry may override operation of the data port responsive to a determination that firmware verification mode criteria are satisfied. The verification circuitry may also extract firmware data from the device memory for verification of the firmware and provide the firmware data to an external device connected to the computing device through the data port.
US10303879B1
A multi-tenant trusted platform module (MTTPM) is attached to a communication bus of a virtualization host. The MTTPM includes a plurality of per-guest-virtual-machine (per-GVM) memory location sets. In response to an indication of a first trusted computing request (TCR) associated with a first GVM of a plurality of GVMs instantiated at the virtualization host, a first memory location of a first per-GVM memory location set is accessed to generate a first response indicative of a configuration of the first GVM. In response to an indication of a second TCR associated with a second GVM, a second memory location of a second-per-GVM memory location set is accessed to generate a second response, wherein the second response is indicative of a different configuration of the second GVM.
US10303877B2
Methods of preserving and protecting user data from modification or loss due to malware are disclosed, as well as systems and computer program products related to the same.
US10303873B2
A detection device generates an event sequence from events that are acquired for each of identifiers that distinguish among terminals in a monitoring target network or pieces of malware, by taking into account an order of occurrence of the events. The detection device retrieves events that commonly occur in event sequences belonging to a same cluster among clusters including event sequences with similarities at a predetermined level or higher, and extracts, as a detection event sequence, a representative event sequence based on a relationship between events that have high occurrence rates in similar common event sequences. The detection device detects a malware infected terminal in the monitoring target network based on whether the event sequence generated based on a communication in the monitoring target network and the extracted detection event sequence match each other.
US10303870B2
An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit which receives first input information which is arbitrary set in conjunction with a login of the first user, a restriction unit which starts imposing a restriction of use of the information processing apparatus at a predetermined timing in a case that a second user logs in to the information processing apparatus while a login state of the first user is continued and a release unit which releases the restriction in response to inputting of second input information, which matches the first input information received by the reception unit, while the use of the information processing apparatus is restricted.
US10303858B2
Tools and techniques for performing life cycle management of user-selected applications on wireless communications devices are described herein. In part, the tools provide machine-readable media for presenting to the subscriber a list of available applications for installation on the device, and for receiving selections from the subscriber of one or more of the applications. Additionally, the tools provide methods for selling advertising space on the devices.
US10303857B2
A method of providing access to content at a first device, the method comprising: receiving an item of content, wherein at least part of the item of content is encrypted, the encrypted at least part of the item of content being decryptable using at least one decryption key; in a first software client: obtaining a transformed version of the at least one decryption key; performing a decryption operation on the encrypted at least part of the item of content based on the at least one decryption key to obtain an intermediate version of the at least part of the item of content, wherein said performing the decryption operation uses a white-box implementation of the decryption operation that forms part of the first software client and that operates using the transformed version of the at least one decryption key; and performing an encryption operation on at least a portion of the intermediate version based on at least one encryption key to obtain re-encrypted content, wherein said performing the encryption operation uses a white-box implementation of the encryption operation that forms part of the first software client; and providing, to a digital rights management client that executes on the first device, (a) a rights object that enables the digital rights management client to obtain one or more second decryption keys corresponding to the at least one encryption key, the one or more second decryption keys enabling the digital rights management client to decrypt the re-encrypted content and (b) the re-encrypted content.
US10303844B2
Measurement of circulating ST2 and natriuretic peptide (e.g., NT-proBNP) concentrations is useful for the prognostic evaluation of subjects, in particular for the prediction of adverse clinical outcomes, e.g., mortality, transplantation, and heart failure.
US10303839B2
Methods and systems for determining electrically relevant placement of metrology targets using design analysis are disclosed. The method may include: identifying at least one critical design element of an integrated circuit based on a design of the integrated circuit; determining whether the design of the integrated circuit allows for an insertion of a metrology target in a vicinity of the at least one critical design element; and modifying the design of the integrated circuit by inserting a metrology target into the vicinity of the at least one critical design element when the design of the integrated circuit allows for the insertion of the metrology target.
US10303826B2
A method for creating a finite element model of a filler compounded rubber including a filler dispersed in a matrix rubber, including a first step of defining a filler model in which the filler is discretized using a finite number of elements, a second step of defining a matrix rubber model independently of the filler model, the matrix rubber model being created by discretizing a space in which at least the matrix rubber occupies using a finite number of elements, and a model-embedded step of embedding the filler-model in the matrix rubber model. The model-embedded step includes overlapping the filler-model with the matrix rubber model without considering sharing of the respective nodes of the filler model and the matrix rubber model, and defining a filler compounded rubber model by providing a constraint condition to at least a boundary between the filler and matrix rubber models.
US10303819B2
Techniques for allocating hydrocarbon production include receiving a selection of a particular area identification (ID) of a plurality of area IDs stored on the server; determining based on the selected particular area ID, a plurality of hydrocarbon production values that include periodic area-level hydrocarbon production values associated with the particular area ID and a plurality of wells associated with the particular area ID; determining a decline curve model for the area-level hydrocarbon production values associated with the particular area ID; modeling the aggregated periodic well-level hydrocarbon production values with the determined decline curve model; and determining allocated well-level hydrocarbon production values based at least in part on the selected decline curve model to display at a client device.
US10303813B2
Methods and systems are described for mapping a living space. An example computer-implemented method for mapping a living space includes receiving information about an exterior perimeter of the living space, receiving information about a plurality of interior boundaries of the living space, receiving information about a location for each of a plurality of barriers of the living space, and generating an electronic map of the living space using the information about the exterior perimeter, the plurality of interior boundaries, and the location of each of the plurality of barriers.
US10303796B2
In an example embodiment, a first data change and a second data change to data stored in a distributed database are received. The first data change and the second data change are batched in a communication to an index manager. The distributed database is reindexed based on the first data change and the second data change by creating a revised first shard index for a first shard in the distributed database and a revised second shard index for a second shard in the distributed database. The first shard and the second shard are instructed to update respective shard indexes. Confirmation that the first shard index has been updated is received. Then confirmation that the second shard index has been updated is received. In response to both of the confirmations, both the first shard and the second shard are instructed to commit their respective updates.
US10303781B1
A system and method for deriving associations between assets is disclosed. The method includes determining a first fingerprint for a first asset, determining a second asset that matches at least a portion of the first asset based on the first fingerprint, determining whether the first asset and the second asset have a common owner, and responsive to determining that the first asset and the second asset have the common owner, creating an association between the first asset and the second asset.
US10303774B2
A method and device for automatically changing or updating a configuration or setting of a communication system is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes providing information to the communication system, the information comprising natural human language, storing the information in a digital storage device, detecting a triggering event in the information, and changing the configuration or setting of the communication system automatically using a processor. The information is an input to the communication system, an input from at least one alternate communication system, or a combination of an input to the communication system and an input from the at least one alternate communication system.
US10303771B1
A device receives document information associated with a document, and receives a request to identify insights in the document information. The device performs, based on the request, natural language processing on the document information to identify words, phrases, and sentences in the document information, and utilizes a first machine learning model with the words, the phrases, and the sentences to identify information indicating abstract insights, concrete insights, and non-insights in the document. The device utilizes a second machine learning model to match the abstract insights with particular concrete insights that are different than the concrete insights, and utilizes a third machine learning model to determine particular insights based on the non-insights. The device generates an insight document that includes the concrete insights, the abstract insights matched with the particular concrete insights, and the particular insights determined based on the non-insights.
US10303767B2
System and method for supplementing a question answering system with mixed-language source documents
Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions which are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement a mixed-language question answering supplement system, the method comprising receiving a question in a target language; determining the question cannot be answered using a target-language only corpus; applying natural language processing to parse the question into at least one focus; for each focus, determining if one or more target language verbs share direct syntactic dependency with the focus; for each of the one or more verbs sharing direct syntactic dependency, determining if one or more target language entities share direct syntactic dependency with the verb; determining one or more Abstract Universal Verbal Types associated with each verb; for each of the one or more Abstract Universal Verbal Types, determining whether a dependency between a source language entity and a source language verb is of the same type as the dependency between the target language verb and the target language entity; if the dependency is similar, returning the source language entity as a member of a set; populating the set of returned source language entities for each focus in the target language question; identifying one or more parallel passages wherein all core arguments are matched; for each parallel passage: identifying the presence or absence of oblique nominal arguments; and measuring the precision of the oblique nominal arguments in the parallel passages against those present in the target language question; and returning an answer to the target question in the target language based on a scoring of the parallel passages based on the accuracy of their respective oblique nominal arguments.
US10303763B2
An apparatus comprising a memory and a processor configured for semi-autonomous natural language processing domain adaptation related activities. The processor coupled to the memory and configured to identify a corpus of documents of an evaluation domain and generate a first lexicon based on the corpus of documents of the evaluation domain, and determine a threshold that indicates a sufficiency of domain adaptation of the evaluation domain based at least in part on the first lexicon. The processor is further configured to identify a corpus of documents of a client domain, generate a second lexicon based on the corpus of documents of the client domain, determine a metric associated with the corpus of documents of the client domain and the second lexicon, and determine that domain adaptation of the client domain is complete when the metric exceeds the threshold.
US10303758B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for natural language understanding in combination with real-time automated humanized verification in conversation agent messaging are described.
US10303752B2
Systems and methods for transferring a web content display from one container to another container are disclosed. A request to transfer a first web content display hosted in a first container having a first document object model (DOM) tree to a second container having a second DOM tree is received. The first web content display has a state comprising a plurality of state components. A second web content display hosted in the second container is created. If a first state component is dependent on a property of the first DOM tree associated with a host of the first web content display: the first state component is adjusted in the second web content display according to a corresponding property of the second DOM tree.
US10303748B2
The invention discloses a method and device for providing webpage browsing based on a Webkit kernel to solve the problem of poor security resulting from using the kernel control of Webbrowser. The method comprises: setting a page object exporting interface of the Webkit kernel; starting the Webkit kernel in a first independent process; invoking the page object exporting interface to create a Webkit kernel based page object in a second independent process; and invoking a Webkit kernel in the first independent process via the page object to conduct a page browsing operation and page content loading based on the Webkit kernel. The present application can well solve the problems that in a browser the version of the Webbrowser kernel lags, the security thereof is poor, and it does not support a non-Microsoft platform, as well as the problems of a high technical threshold, difficult upgrade, an oversized installation package, etc. resulting from directly using the webkit kernel.
US10303747B2
The embodiments disclose a method and system for controlling address input. The method includes: receiving an event of characters input to an address input; matching the characters input to one or more pre-stored Uniform Resource Locator (URL) entries, and generating a URL entry which includes the characters input; and in response to the URL entry from among the one or more matched pre-stored URL entries, linking a particular matched pre-stored URL entry to a corresponding web page.
US10303742B2
Disclosed is a method of generating a multi-level summary of an article. The method may comprise generating, by a computing device, a low-level summary from article-matter in an article. The method may also comprise generating, by the computing device, a mid-level summary based on the low-level summary and the article-matter. The method may also comprise generating, by the computing device, an upper-level summary based on the mid-level summary, the low-level summary, and the article-matter.
US10303741B2
A method for adapting tabular data for narration is provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of categories used to organize data is identified in a first tabular portion of a document. A structure of the categories is analyzed. An inference is drawn about data in a first cell in the first tabular portion based on a position of the first cell in the structure. The first tabular portion of the document is transformed into a first narrative form using the inference.
US10303736B2
An FFT device for performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is described. The FFT device comprises: a control unit arranged to control a sequence of transformation rounds; and a coefficient unit for providing transformation data; and a transformation unit arranged to receive the transformation data and to perform the respective linear transformation on the basis of the transformation data. The coefficient unit comprises or is integrated in a Random Access Memory (RAM) unit, the RAM unit comprising a set of memory blocks. The set of memory blocks comprises: a subset of window memory blocks or a subset of window-FFT memory blocks. The set of memory blocks further comprises a subset of FFT memory blocks providing a set of twiddle coefficients or a reduced set of twiddle coefficients.
US10303734B2
Techniques for performing marking and reminding on contents in a web page are disclosed. A browser client of a mobile terminal presets reminder content and a display style and stores the same in the mobile terminal. The method comprises: acquiring a source code of a web page; looking up the source code to obtain content to be reminded semantically associated with the preset reminder content; and marking and displaying the content to be reminded using the preset display style in the web page. The present invention marks content which concerns a user before a web page is displayed to the user after loading has finished, and marks and displays new content in a designated format using a special preset style, so that the new content is more conspicuous in a page.
US10303730B2
Computer implemented systems store descriptions of multiple different types of marketplace items as a collection of parameter-value pairs, using a table having a plurality of rows and columns, wherein values for at least two of the items are stored in cells of first and second ones of the rows, respectively; keys that provide information that can be used to decipher differential mappings of a plurality of the columns to a plurality of parameters in different ones of the rows; and one or more interfaces that collectively display previously stored parameters and values to a human end-user.
US10303716B2
Digital content, such as video, audio, multimedia, and similar files may be segmented at a determined frame resolution rate and analyzed to determine a fingerprint for each content segment. An identifier that uniquely identifies each content segment may be determined based on the fingerprint of the respective content segment. The identifier may be associated with data relating to the content segment and with one or more identifiers that uniquely identify other content segments of the content. The content segment identifiers may be used to construct a content segment sequencing representation that represents the playback of the content segments in playback order.
US10303710B2
A computer system identifies and prioritizes issues in electronic documents from electronic social media sources and/or from traditional media sources. The computer system includes a communication network linked to one or more of the sources and a computer server in communication with the communication network. The computer server is configured to receive electronic documents from the sources via the communication network. The computer server has memory and a processor, the memory including processor executable instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor. The instructions comprise data collection instructions, topic modeling instructions including instructions for weighing and instructions for indicating a distribution for identified issues within each of the retrieved documents, issue assignment instructions, instructions for determining, and instructions for ranking.
US10303705B2
An organization categorization system and method is disclosed. The organization categorization system and method relies on server data to discover which business organizations are consuming the finite resources of the server and in what proportions. Organizations are categorized according to their consumption of resources. The categorization system and method further ascribes a relative business value to each organization to facilitate the allocation of resources among the various organizations in a business. In an example embodiment, users of the server resources use the SAS programming language and the server resources execute SAS applications that support the SAS programming language. The organization categorization system and method connects an executed computer program to a business-defined classification of applicability to purpose. The system and method employs a double level of abstraction to link specific programming styles, first to a general solution case (“design pattern”), and then to link the general solution idiomatically to the business case.
US10303692B2
Technologies for selecting a media representation out of a plurality of representations of the same media offered by a media provider wherein the selected representation is a preferred representation and the selecting is based on metadata of the media representations evaluated against scoring criteria.
US10303691B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a column-oriented database processing method, where a column-oriented database includes a marker column and more than one data column, the data column is used to store specific data in a column store manner, a value of a marker bit of each row in the marker column is used to indicate validity of data that is located in a same row as the marker bit, and the method includes: receiving a query request sent by an application program, where the query request contains a query condition; querying the more than one data column according to the marker column and the query condition to obtain a query result that meets both the query condition and a requirement that a marker bit of the query result in the marker column is valid; and sending the query result to the application program.
US10303679B2
Technologies are provided for reducing or eliminating transaction consistency anomalies that can occur during data replication, such as during database table replication. For example, commit values can be used to coordinate requests so that the requests are not performed on database tables with inconsistent data.
US10303678B2
Disclosed aspects relate to using a database driver to manage application resiliency with respect to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. A transaction request having a set of command data is received. The set of command data for the transaction request is captured in a memory device coupled with the database driver. The transaction request is connected with a first asset of the shared pool of configurable computing resources. An error event is detected related to the first asset. It is ascertained that the error event indicates a configuration for an automatic client reroute (ACR) operation. Using the ACR operation, the transaction request is connected with a second asset of the shared pool of configurable computing resources. The set of command data for the transaction request is transmitted from the memory device coupled with the database driver to the second asset.
US10303667B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for infinite versioning by automatic coalescing. In a particular embodiment, a method provides determining an age range for a plurality of data versions stored in a secondary data repository and identifying first data versions of the plurality of data versions that are within the age range. The method further provides determining a compaction ratio for the first data versions and compacting the first data versions based on the compaction ratio.
US10303661B2
A non-volatile mass storage device is provided comprising memory circuitry accessible to a host data processing device via a communication link. The non-volatile mass storage device comprises processing circuitry for locally accessing the memory circuitry of the file system and is capable of triggering generation of a file for storage on the memory circuitry by connection of the non-volatile mass storage device to the host data processing device. The generated file comprises information dependent upon a state of the non-volatile mass storage device. A corresponding method of operating a non-volatile mass storage device is provided and a computer program is provided for obtaining the information dependent upon the state of the non-volatile mass storage device, for locally accessing the memory circuitry and for generating the file for storage on the memory circuitry.
US10303657B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, a device and a computer program product for layer deduplication are provided. The method comprises obtaining a first image generated for a first container, the first image including a plurality of layers associated with the first container. The method further comprises in response to determining that a first layer in the first image is identical to a second layer to be created, creating the second layer by generating a data archive associated with the first layer. In addition, the method comprises generating, based on the created second layer, a second image for a second container.
US10303651B2
A system includes reception of an instruction to load data associated with an archiving object and an archiving session into a database system, determination of an archive file associated with the archiving object and the archiving session, determination of one or more database tables of the database system and fields of the one or more database tables associated with the archive file, automatic generation of processor-executable code of a subroutine pool based on the fields of the one or more database tables, and execution of the processor-executable code of the subroutine pool to read one or more data objects of the archive file, populate one or more internal tables based on records of the one or more data objects, and insert the one or more internal tables into corresponding ones of the one or more database tables of the database system.
US10303644B2
A system architecture, a method, and a computer program product are disclosed for attaching remote physical devices. In one embodiment, the system architecture comprises a compute server and a device server. The compute server includes a system memory, and one or more remote device drivers; and the device server includes a system memory and one or more physical devices, and each of the physical devices includes an associated device memory. The compute server and the device server are connected through an existing network fabric that provides remote direct memory access (RDMA) services. A system mapping function logically connects one or more of the physical devices on the device server to the compute server, including mapping between the system memories and the device memories and keeping the system memories and the device memories in synchronization using the RDMA.
US10303643B2
A multi-modulation scheme is provided that combines pulse-width modulation and phase modulation to transmit a plurality of GPIO signals as virtual GPIO signals.
US10303642B2
An information handling system may include a first computing device, a second computing device, a connector device connecting the first computing device and the second computing device, and a controller. The connector device may be assembled from a set of components, where one or more of the components have a memory storing signal integrity characteristics for the component. The controller may be connected to the component memories, and may also be connected to the first computing device and the second computing device.
US10303641B2
An authentication and information system for use in a surgical stapling system includes a microprocessor configured to demultiplex data from a plurality of components in the surgical system. The authentication and information system can include one wire chips and a coupling assembly with a communication connection.
US10303639B2
A method of fabricating a printed circuit board (PCB) is presented. The PCB includes a glass security layer. The method includes forming the glass security layer upon a PCB wiring layer. The method includes optically attaching an optical electromagnetic radiation (EM) emitter upon the glass security layer. The method includes optically attaching an optical EM receiver upon the glass security layer. The method further includes electrically connecting an optical monitor device to the optical EM receiver.
US10303636B2
A system-on-a-chip (SOC) board includes a first switch and a plurality of local system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices coupled to the first switch. Each local SOC device includes one or more scheduler for one or more carriers and one or more hardware queues for storing paging packets to be scheduled by the scheduler for wireless transmission. One of the local SOC devices is a transport SOC (TSOC) device that implements a call processing module that is configured to receive a paging packet, forward a copy of the paging packet for storage in a hardware queue associated with each scheduler in the TSOC device that has registered to receive paging packets, and provide a copy of the paging packet to the first switch in response to one or more of the schedulers in the other local SOC devices registering to receive paging packets.
US10303633B2
A method of controlling a mode of a device is provided. The method includes determining a Vbus voltage on a Vbus pin in a USB connector on the device, comparing the Vbus voltage with a threshold, and configuring the device based on the comparison of the Vbus voltage and the threshold.
US10303628B2
Flow logic supports concurrency of multiple threads and/or tag IDs to be concurrently communicated across the interconnect while allowing the one or more target IP cores to be able to reorder incoming request transactions from the initiator IP core in a manner that is optimal for that target IP core while relieving that target IP core from having to maintain the sequential issue order of transaction responses to the incoming request transactions in the thread or tags when processed by the target IP core. The flow logic cooperates with the reorder storage buffers to control an operation of the reorder storage buffers as well as control issuance of at least the request transactions from the initiator IP core onto the interconnect in order to maintain proper sequential ordering of the transaction responses for the thread or tags when the transaction responses are returned back to the initiator IP core.
US10303618B2
An operating system monitors a performance metric of a direct memory access (DMA) engine on an I/O adapter to update a translation table used during DMA operations. The translation table is used during a DMA operation to map a virtual address provided by the I/O adapter to a physical address of a data page in the memory modules. If the DMA engine is being underutilized, the operating system updates the translation table such that a virtual address maps to physical address corresponding to a memory location in a more energy efficient memory module. However, if the DMA engine is over-utilized, the operating system may update the translation table such that the data used in the DMA engine is stored in memory modules that provide quicker access times—e.g., the operating system may map virtual addresses to physical addresses in DRAM rather than phase change memory.
US10303614B2
The present disclosure includes memory having a static cache and a dynamic cache. A number of embodiments include a memory, wherein the memory includes a first portion configured to operate as a static single level cell (SLC) cache and a second portion configured to operate as a dynamic SLC cache when the entire first portion of the memory has data stored therein.
US10303610B2
A method for prefetching data into a cache is provided. The method allocates an outstanding request buffer (“ORB”). The method stores in an address field of the ORB an address and a number of blocks. The method issues prefetch requests for a degree number of blocks starting at the address. When a prefetch response is received for all the prefetch requests, the method adjusts the address of the next block to prefetch and adjusts the number of blocks remaining to be retrieved and then issues prefetch requests for a degree number of blocks starting at the adjusted address. The prefetching pauses when a maximum distance between the reads of the prefetched blocks and the last prefetched block is reached. When a read request for a prefetched block is received, the method resumes prefetching when a resume criterion is satisfied.
US10303593B2
A method for detecting at a migration destination medium a change in data during media migration between write once read many (WORM) media according to one embodiment includes writing data for WORM from a migration source medium to the migration destination medium; holding an identifier (ID) of the source medium in a non-user storage area in the destination medium; and holding information indicating a feature of the data in the non-user storage area.
US10303590B2
Various embodiments automatically test software automation scripts. In one embodiment, at least one software automation script is obtained. The software automation script is configured to automatically place a computing system into a target state. A plurality of test cases for the software automation script is executed. Each of the plurality of test cases is a separate instance of the software automation script configured based at least on one or more different states of the computing system. The software automation script is determined to be one of idempotent and non-idempotent and/or one of convergent and non-convergent based on executing the plurality of test cases.
US10303579B2
A method for automatic debug session analysis for related work item discovery, is provided. The method includes recording metadata describing a particular debug session associated with a user for a respective work item. The method further includes associating the metadata recorded in the particular debug session with the respective work item. In response to the user working on a new issue, comparing the metadata saved with other work items. In response to identifying a work item with a predetermined level of similar metadata from debug sessions, notifying the user of a potential work item match. In response to not identifying a work item with a predetermined level of similar metadata from debug sessions, refraining from suggesting the new issue for future matches.
US10303577B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a storage medium for determining a health state of an information system. At first, a baseline configuration document corresponding to the information system is received, and data records under inspection of the information system are acquired. The baseline configuration document defines baselines. Then, each of the data records under inspection is compared with at least one baseline defined in the baseline configuration document to obtain a comparing result between each of the data records under inspection and the at least one baseline. At last, the health state of the information system is determined according to the comparing result between each of the data records under inspection and the at least one baseline. A health-determining apparatus relative to the above-mentioned method is also provided.
US10303576B1
Systems and methods for containerized IT intelligence and management. In one embodiment, a system for containerized IT financial management comprises at least one collector, at least one meter, at least one connector, and a reporting dashboard. The at least one collector is customized and connected to at least one container platform. The at least one collector sends capacity and consumption metrics to the at least one meter for processing and aggregation.
US10303574B1
Self-generated thermal stress evaluation concepts are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a computing device, a cooling system, such as fans, that draws heat away from the computing device, and a management controller. The management controller can sense a temperature in the computing device and compare it against a temperature profile. The temperature profile can specify one or more target temperatures in the computing device over time. Based on the comparison, the management controller can adjust a cooling capacity of the cooling system. The adjustment to the cooling capacity can be achieved by reducing the speed of the fans, for example, to raise the temperature in the computing device. Processing tasks can also be executed in the computing device and, in response to the detection of an error in the computing device, the management controller can record the error and a profile for the error for further evaluation.
US10303572B2
This disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for improving fault tolerance in virtual storage area network. In one embodiment, a virtual storage area network fault tolerance apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises one or more hardware processors and one or more memory units storing instructions executable by the one or more hardware processors for identifying a fault associated with a hard drive included in a first disk array that includes one or more parity drives; determining that the one or more parity drives included in the first disk array are already in use; receiving an indication that one or more parity drives included in a second disk array are available for providing fault tolerance for the first disk array; and transferring data associated with the hard drive included in the first disk array for storage in the one or more parity drives included in the second disk array.
US10303564B1
A distributed database system may implement reduced transaction I/O. In various embodiments, a plurality of log records may be stored in persistent storage for a plurality of pages of a log-structured storage system. A coalesce operation may be performed for at least some of the plurality of data pages for the log-structured storage system. The coalesce operation may, in some embodiments, coalesce two or more log records for one of the plurality of pages to generate an instance of the page and store the instance of the page to a new location in the persistent storage. Log records for one or more of the plurality of pages may be excluded from the coalesce operation. These excluded log records may not be dependent on a prior version of the page or portion of the page corresponding to the log record. Excluded log records may include one or more of redo records, undo records, or transaction table records.
US10303557B2
In certain systems disclosed herein, a distributed data monitoring and management system is provided that can replicate a distributed storage environment. The distributed data monitoring and management system can intelligently and automatically configure data access nodes to form a structure that matches the distributed storage environment. By matching the structure of the distributed storage environment, the distributed structure of the data may be maintained, enabling the data to be backed up from and/or restored to the distributed storage environment and/or migrated to another distributed storage environment without altering the distribution of the data. Further, embodiments herein enable the transfer of data from a non-distributed environment to a distributed storage environment. Thus, in some cases, an entity can migrate data from a local storage structure to a network-based distributed storage structure.
US10303555B1
In one approach, data blocks or files that have a history of change are tagged for automatic transfer to backup on the assumption that they have changed since the last backup. Other data blocks and files are first tested for change, for example by comparing digital fingerprints of the current data versus the previously backed up data, before transferring to backup.
US10303551B2
Various embodiments for troubleshooting a network device in a computing storage environment by a processor. A determination is made if a parity error in a specific port is either an instruction cache parity error or a recoverable data cache type parity error. If the parity error is determined not to be the instruction cache parity error, and determined not to be the recoverable data cache type parity error, a full recovery operation is initiated.
US10303549B2
A method for authenticating a user device request by a dispersed storage managing unit (DSMU) in a dispersed storage network (DSN) begins by the DSMU receiving from a proxy element an authentication request for a portion of a user device request, verifying the request and when validated determining when a permissions list indicates the user device has access permission. The method continues with the proxy element being allowed to execute the portion of the user device request and receiving from another proxy element an authentication request for another portion of the user device request. The method then continues with the request being verified, and when validated, determining when the permissions list indicates the user device has access permission. The method then continues with the another proxy element being allowed to execute the authentication request for the another portion of the user request.
US10303547B2
A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure coding, despite loss of two of the storage nodes. The method includes determining that one of the storage nodes is unreachable and determining to rebuild the user data for the one of the storage nodes that is unreachable. The method includes reading the user data across a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding and writing the user data across the remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding. A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis that can proactively rebuild the user data stored within the storage nodes is also provided.
US10303539B2
A method for automatically detecting and diagnosing problems in computer system functioning includes determining changed objects from computer system monitoring data, calculating temporal correlations from errors and changes sequences for each changed object, identifying and ranking suspicious computer system behavior patterns from the temporal correlations, and outputting said ranked suspicious computer system behavior patterns.
US10303531B2
A method performed by a server computing system includes generating an operation for a web service, the operation corresponding to at least one main method of a console application, receiving input data from a client device through the operation, writing the input data to a memory store, executing the console application using the input data of the memory store, injecting code into the console application, the code to change input/output streams from a console input/output to the memory store. The method further includes writing an output of the console application to the memory store.
US10303529B2
A system and method are provided for communicating information in a data structure between applications. According to the method, a description of a data structure is sent from a first application to a second application, and there is received from the second application an identification of at least one portion of the data structure that is requested by the second application. The first application marshals a subset of the data structure consisting of the at least one portion that was identified, and there is sent from the first application to the second application the marshalled subset of the data structure.
US10303527B1
An application programming interface (API) may provide accessing an active directory and searching for a native active directory object to identify data stored in the active directory. The procedure may also include retrieving schema information associated with the active directory applying the schema information to an application and overriding the application configuration based on the schema information. The procedure may also include translating the native object into a different language dictionary than a current language dictionary.
US10303526B2
One embodiment receives a request for a screen of a user interface (UI) of a software application from a second computing device, wherein the screen comprises one or more UI components; accesses a set of features of the second computing device; for each UI component contained in the screen, generates first code for rendering and displaying the UI component on the second computing device based on the set of features of the second computing device; and transmits the first code to the second computing device.
US10303516B1
One exemplary system can determine datasets to be transmitted to client devices for eliciting performance of a computing-task. The datasets include a first dataset and a second dataset. The system can then generate sets of data-curves for each of the datasets based on test data. The system can also generate a new client-device (NCD) projection based on the test data. The system can generate a new client-device task-completion (NCDTC) projection using (i) the NCD projection, and (ii) a particular set of data-curves for the first dataset. The system can determine a first value based at least in part on the NCDTC projection. The system can also determine a second value via series of steps. The system can determine an impact value by subtracting the second value from the first value. The system may allocate computing resources based on the first value, the second value, or the impact value.
US10303511B2
A multitask workflow is proactively identified based upon user context information. For discrete tasks of the multitask workflow, modules directed to such tasks are identified from among other modules also directed to the same task, and are proactively presented to the user. Modules are selected based upon predetermined values associated with such modules, which can be indicative of capabilities, relationships, incentives associated with presentation of the modules to the user, and other like valuations. The modules offer visually enticing experiences to aid the user in performing a task, of the multitask workflow, and thereby increasing the user's interaction performance. Additionally, the modules exchange information to increase user efficiency in performing the multitask workflow. Multiple computing devices associated with a user can execute different modules of the multitask workflow, enabling two or more users to collaborate on the multitask workflow or otherwise research and perform tasks associated with the multitask workflow.
US10303510B2
A computer system includes one or more devices that are capable of multitasking (performing at least two tasks in parallel or substantially in parallel). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a first one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the first task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task). In response to detecting that one of the devices is performing a second one of the tasks, the system prevents the devices from performing at least one of the tasks other than the second task (such as all of the tasks other than the first task).
US10303506B2
A technique for operating a computer system to support an application, a first application server environment, and a second application server environment includes intercepting a work request relating to the application issued to the first application server environment prior to execution of the work request. A thread adapted for execution in the first application server environment is created. A context is attached to the thread that non-disruptively modifies the thread into a hybrid thread that is additionally suitable for execution in the second application server environment. The hybrid thread is returned to the first application server environment.
US10303503B2
An apparatus and method for hardware protection of a virtual machine monitor (VMM) runtime integrity watcher is described. A set of one or more hardware range registers that protect a contiguous memory space that is to store the VMM runtime integrity watcher. The set of hardware range registers are to protect the VMM runtime integrity watcher from being modified when loaded into the contiguous memory space. The VMM runtime integrity watcher, when executed, performs an integrity check on a VMM during runtime of the VMM.
US10303496B2
The invention discloses a system for accessing and viewing Internet content on a portable device by means of a proxy server. The server requests web content, renders it and sends compressed image parts to the device. In order for the device to be cost-competitive, its processing operations are generally limited to decompressing image parts and displaying them. The server sends information to the device that allows it to locally create, display and manage text boxes, in which the user can type immediately. As a user types into a local text box, text input data is communicated to the server and processed therein before further requests for web content. By simultaneously managing multiple text boxes locally, the present invention reduces instances of data transfer from the server to the device, which decreases the likelihood of lag and improves the performance of the device.
US10303494B2
An RF digitization and collection system (RFDCS) and methods for implementing the RF digitization and collection system to manage an application storage and retrieval space (App Space), wherein the App Space includes apps that may perform various offline and/or real-time transforms of RF signals received, stored, or played back on the RFDCS. Also, in the various embodiments, the RFDCS may govern the system resources available to these apps while ensuring that the RFDCS's core system functions are not impacted by the execution of one or more of these apps in the App Space. Thus, the RFDCS may enable users to utilize real-time signal processing by running various specialized apps without compromising the RFDCS's core system function, thereby promoting dynamic “on-the-fly” transformation of raw RF signals without compromising the user's overall experience.
US10303491B2
A method of running an application program across systems is proposed, the method comprises loading a target application program; applying for a memory space on a current operating system for the target application program; modifying an address of a global variable and an address of an absolute jump instruction in the target application program according to an address of the applied memory space to adapt to the memory space of the current operating system; obtaining a SWI instruction of the target application program; and redirecting the SWI instruction to an instruction of calling the current operating system.
US10303469B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a commit graph for a software project maintained in a version control system having a directory-based branching structure. One of the methods includes receiving data representing a commit history of a software project maintained in a version control system having a directory-based branching system in which each branch of the commit history has a respective branch directory and each revision is identified by a branch path and a revision number. The commit history is traced backward in time from a starting commit of a branch to identify an initial commit in which a branch directory for the branch was created. The commit history is then processed forward in time from the initial commit to generate a tree-structured commit graph.
US10303446B2
A program generating method acquires a first image set, and retrieves a similar image that is similar to a processing target image included in the first image set, from a database. For each of N number of second image sets in the database, an integrated similarity of an image included in the second image set with respect to the processing target image is calculated based on a first similarity between the image included in the second image set and the processing target image, a second similarity between the second image set and the first image set, and the completeness of the first image set, and the similar image is retrieved based on the integrated similarity.
US10303444B2
Developer-composed custom application session parameters are disclosed. In various embodiments, a definition of a custom application session parameter is received via a software development tool user interface. Application code to store and manage the custom application session parameter, including by making the custom application parameter available across a plurality of application user interface pages, is generated programmatically based at least in part on the definition.
US10303433B2
This invention is provided with: a memory unit for storing lip movement recognition data; an imaging unit for capturing a video including at least the lip portion of the operator; a lip movement recognition unit for performing a comparison between data representing the movement of the lip portion of the operator obtained from the imaging unit and the lip movement recognition data, and thereby recognizing the operation to execute; and a controller for performing an operation executable in accordance with the lip movement recognition unit.
US10303425B2
Merchant/consumer calls may be recorded and evaluated according to a variety of criteria. The call recordings and analyses thereof, as well as consumer tracking information, may be displayed in a user interface of a web-based online portal for convenience in evaluating the use and efficacy of marketing channels as well as the quality of merchant/consumer interactions. In an aspect, the user interface provides a representation of a variety of telephone calls as an interactive keyword cloud that presents business-value-specific keywords targeted for detection during such telephone calls. The keyword cloud may depict keywords in a range of colors, sizes, and relative positioning to connote varied degrees of significance, such as a relative rate of occurrence of keywords in the represented telephone calls. Each keyword in the keyword cloud may contain a hyperlink to related content such as a listing of telephone calls containing the keyword.
US10303421B2
Display control device and display control method for indicating a position outside a display region
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that can more exactly indicate a position outside a display region. An outside-display-region-position designation unit designates a position outside a display region of an image display unit, and a drawing/sound control unit controls output of a sound of an AR object from a sound output unit while moving the AR object toward the designated position. The present technology can be applied to a wearable computer, for example, a glasses-type device having a pair of image display units for a left eye and a right eye.
US10303419B2
A display processing apparatus connected to a plurality of information processing terminals through a network, displays first image data received from a first information processing terminal of the information processing terminals on a display in a full-screen display mode in response to a switching request, transmits response information that includes non-display information indicating non-display of image data to a second information processing terminal other than the first information processing terminal in the full-screen display mode, and receives an update request from the second information processing terminal in response to the response information, the update request not including second image data to be transmitted from the second information processing terminal and including predetermined information having a data amount smaller than a data amount of the second image data.
US10303408B2
The present disclosure provides a method for printing via printing device-independent instructions. A rendered print job is received from a printer driver. A value of an attribute of the rendered print job is obtained. Determination regarding whether the value of the attribute of the rendered print job corresponds to one of a plurality of values acceptable by a printing device for the attribute is made. In response to a determination that the value is acceptable, the rendered print job is sent directly to the printing device. In response to a determination that the value is not acceptable, the rendered print job is re-rendered with a value acceptable by the printing device for the attribute, and the re-rendered print job is sent to the printing device.
US10303395B2
A storage apparatus includes a memory device and a processor. The memory device stores therein first management information regarding a first backup for each generation. The first backup is backup of a file stored in a storage device. The first management information includes first identification information indicating presence or absence of update of the file in association with metadata corresponding to the file. The processor is configured to receive a first request to perform first update of updating the file. The processor is configured to store, upon receiving the first request, a first copy of the file before the first update in a predetermined first area. The processor is configured to perform the first update upon storing the first copy. The processor is configured to register, as the first identification information, update information indicating presence of update of the file in the first management information in association with the metadata.
US10303390B1
Handling fingerprint collisions in a storage system that includes one or more storage devices, including: determining whether a fingerprint associated with a first data segment matches a fingerprint associated with a data segment stored within the storage system; responsive to determining that the fingerprint associated with the first data segment matches the fingerprint associated with the data segment stored within the storage system, determining whether the first data segment matches the data segment stored within the storage system; and responsive to determining that the first data segment does not match the data segment stored within the storage system, resolving a fingerprint collision between the first data segment and the data segment stored within the storage system.
US10303384B1
One or more control circuits of a storage system are configured to intelligently set a task readiness indicator for tasks on a task command queue. A memory controller may divide each of the tasks into one or more chunks. The memory controller initiates processing of at least some of the chunks for at least two tasks and determines a task readiness factor each of the tasks based on how far respective chunks have progressed in the processing. The memory controller sets a ready indicator in a task status register for a selected task based on the task readiness factor of the tasks. Therefore, task latency may be reduced. In one aspect, the memory controller allocates a ring buffer to chunks of an executing task. This ring buffer may assure that there will always be memory for the chunks of the task.
US10303381B2
A method having a safety sensor and a safety sensor having at least one first evaluation unit having a first evaluation program, and at least one second evaluation unit having a second evaluation program. A two-channel system is formed with each evaluation unit being connected to a respective random access memory, and with each evaluation unit having a respective program memory, with a bidirectional communication channel being arranged between the evaluation units. A cross-comparison of the evaluation results can be carried out between the evaluation units, with a user program being able to be stored in at least one of the two program memories and/or in one of the two random access memories, with at least that evaluation unit which executes the user program having a memory protection device which is configured to restrict memory access of the user program to a defined memory region within the random access memory.
US10303372B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory being a cache memory of the nonvolatile memory, and a first controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory device further includes a second controller configured to receive a device write command and an address, and transmit, to the volatile memory through a first bus, a first read command and the address and a first write command and the address sequentially, and transmit a second write command and the address to the first controller through a second bus, in response to the reception of the device write command and the address.
US10303354B2
An electronic device displays a plurality of user interface representations in a stack on a display. The device detects a first drag gesture by a first contact at a location on a touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a location of a first user interface representation on the display. While the first contact is at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the location of the first user interface representation on the display and is moving across the touch-sensitive surface in a direction that corresponds to a first direction on the display, the device moves the first user interface representation in the first direction on the display at a first speed in accordance with a speed of the first contact on the touch-sensitive surface and moves a second user interface representation, disposed above the first user interface representation in the stack, in the first direction at a second speed greater than the first speed.
US10303346B2
An information processing apparatus includes cursor control, display position change, and range selection units. When switching operation for switching to a selection mode for selecting characters included in a display region displayed in a display unit is detected, the cursor control unit displays another cursor different from a cursor displayed in the display region. When moving operation for moving the display region is detected in the selection mode, the display position change unit maintains one cursor at an original display position or a certain position near the original display position in the display unit, and moves a display position of the display region together with the other cursor in accordance with the moving operation. The range selection unit determines, to be a selection range, a region between the one cursor and the other after the movement of the display position of the display region by the display position change unit.
US10303341B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation to enhance readability of on-screen objects, the operation comprising determining a distance of a user from a screen displaying a plurality of objects, monitoring, by a gaze module, a gaze of the user, determining a focal point of the gaze of the user relative to the screen, and modifying, based on the distance and the focal point, one or more attributes of a first object corresponding to the focal point, wherein the one or more attributes comprise at least one of a size of the first object and a zoom factor applied to the first object.
US10303339B2
A vehicular human-machine interface, an instrument cluster and a method of providing information to a driver of a vehicle. The interface includes a multi-information display that provides a driver numerous dynamically-adjustable icons that are representative of a vehicle systems such that the driver can view, and if necessary, control through the interface. During use by a driver to navigate among the various icons being displayed, the human-machine interface enhances a driver's visual acuity by providing notorious indicia of the status of a particular vehicle system that may be of interest to the driver. In addition, by having certain information be arranged in a dynamic presentation format for selective viewing rather than arranged statically, certain information not of immediate interest can be temporarily removed, thereby freeing up the display to show a larger number of the icons on any particular screen being viewed.
US10303336B2
A digital device providing a text messaging service including a display configured to display a text messaging interface; a transceiver configured to transceive at least one message to and from an external device; and a processor configured to cause the display to display the at least one message on the text messaging interface. The processor is further configured to in response to a first input, cause the display to display an application interface including at least one icon in the displayed text messaging interface, in response to a second input, display a map application instead of the displayed text messaging interface, and in response to a third input, transmit a message to the external device. In addition, the transmitted message including a first map image indicating where the digital device is currently located and link information executing the map application.
US10303321B2
Disclosed is a touch window. The touch window includes a cover substrate; a substrate on the cover substrate; and an electrode on the substrate, wherein the substrate includes one surface facing the cover substrate and an opposite surface opposite to the one surface, the electrode is disposed on the opposite surface, and the cover substrate and the substrate have flexible curved surfaces.
US10303318B2
Capacitance distribution on a touch panel is detected with a simple configuration. A drive switch element between each of electrodes and a corresponding drive line is made to turn on and the drive line is driven on the basis of a code sequence. A sense switch element between each of the electrodes and a corresponding sense line is made to turn on and a linear sum signal of each of the electrodes is read along the sense line.
US10303308B2
A touch panel that includes a piezoelectric film having a first principal surface and a second principal surface that are opposed to each other, a capacitance detection electrode arranged on one side of the first principal surface of the piezoelectric film and configured to detect a touched position, and a piezoelectric voltage detection electrode arranged on one side of each of the first principal surface and the second principal surface of the piezoelectric film and configured to detect a piezoelectric voltage in accordance with an amount pressed into the piezoelectric film.
US10303298B2
A touch screen includes column-direction wirings extending in a column direction, row-direction wirings extending in a row direction orthogonal to the column direction, and detection cells provided in areas in which the column-direction wirings and the row-direction wirings are three-dimensionally intersect with each other. The touch screen further includes additional capacitors that are provided in a mounting region in which mounting terminals of a plurality of lead lines, each of which is connected to one of the column-direction wirings or one of the row-direction wirings, are mounted, and are configured to apply electrostatic capacitance to the plurality of lead lines, and at least one potential fixed terminal configured to fix a potential of one electrode of each of the additional capacitors.
US10303293B2
A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.
US10303285B2
A display with an inner visible display area and an outer support area which does not provide a display function is enhanced with an electrode arrangement. The electrode arrangement provides for a substrate layer on which a transmitting electrode is arranged which is surrounded by a plurality of receiving electrodes, wherein at least the transmit electrodes is transparent and at least partially covers the inner visible display area and the receiving electrodes are arranged on portions of the substrate layer covering the outer support area.
US10303283B2
Provided is a touch control display penal and a touch control circuit thereof. A test signal line and a touch control signal line are redesigned without any change in a conventional pixel structure, such that the touch control circuit as formed has both a test function and a touch detection function. Therefore, not only the manufacturing costs of an in-cell touch display device are effectively reduced, but the manufacturing procedure is simplified, and the yield rate of the touch display panel is improved as well.
US10303282B2
The subject technology discloses a system for filtering out touches on a touch sensitive input device (e.g., touchpad) during a typing-intensive task. A typing task detection module receives key-press events and computes the typing speed in terms of keys per second in combination with a determined amount of typing based on a number of received key-press events. When input speed and amount of continued typing are higher than a threshold, the typing task detection module then determines that the user is performing a typing task. The typing mode and other characteristics of user's typing activity are used to adjust the responsiveness of touchpad. The subject technology further includes a touchpad responsiveness adjustment module. This module receives the determined typing speed and amount of typing from the typing task detection module, and adjusts the input sensitivity (which controls the responsiveness) of the touchpad to filter out accidental finger touches.
US10303281B2
The present disclosure relates to a contact sensitive device and a contact sensitive device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base film, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a thermochromic layer. A protruding pattern is disposed on the base film. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed on the base film and are spaced apart from each other with the protruding pattern therebetween. The third electrode is in contact with the protruding pattern. The thermochromic layer is disposed on the third electrode.
US10303273B2
In one or more embodiments, an information handling system may be communicatively coupled to a pointing device that communicates interaction data via a first bus via a first data format and may include a controller that receives the interaction data via the first bus and transforms the interaction data into a second data format and communicates the interaction data to a second bus via the second data format. If a status of a resource associated with the pointing device is queried, the controller may be instructed to cease transforming the interaction data from the pointing device, permitting another device to receive the interaction data and provide the interaction data to a processor of the information handling system. As the other device receives the interaction data and provides the interaction data to the processor, additional and/or full functionality of the pointing device may be realized and/or accomplished.
US10303271B2
A transmitter is provided by the present application. The transmitter comprises a tip section, wherein the transmitter is configured for generating a first signal according to a pressure level applying to the tip section and for transmitting an electric signal including the first signal via the tip section, wherein a property of the electric signal reflects the pressure level.
US10303266B2
A method is provided for selecting controls, which implements a control interface, a display, and at least one sensor capable of detecting at least one control object, including a step (i) of obtaining information on the distance between the control object(s) and the control interface using the sensor(s), and a step (ii) of displaying, on the display, at least one symbol representing a control or set of controls according to a display mode, wherein the method further includes a step of using the distance information to determine the display mode of the symbol(s). A device is also provided for implementing the method and to an apparatus.
US10303264B2
An optical encoder has a displacement generating unit, a light-emitting unit and an optical navigation integrated circuit. The displacement generating unit has an axle body movable along a central axial line thereof. The axle body has a free end with a diameter larger than a part of the axle body and a planar working surface formed on the free end. The light-emitting unit is configured for operatively providing a light beam to irradiate the working surface of the displacement generating unit. The light beam has a divergence angle within a range to reduce scattering. The optical navigation integrated circuit receives the reflected light beam reflected by the working surface, and calculates a relative displacement between the optical navigation integrated circuit and the working surface.
US10303258B2
Indicia-reading systems that interface with a user's nervous system include a device with electrodes capable of detecting electromagnetic signals produced in the brain or skeletal muscles of a user. The systems also include a computer with a processor and memory. The computer is configured to monitor the electromagnetic signals that are detected by the electrodes. The computer is also configured to perform operations in response to certain monitored electromagnetic signals. The computer may be an indicia-reading device configured to acquire indicia information in response to certain detected electromagnetic signals. The computer may also be a vehicle-mounted computer configured to sound an alarm in response to certain detected electromagnetic signals.
US10303252B2
An electronic device has a home button that is available in a plurality of different contexts to dismiss user interfaces in response a first type of input. The device detects a first input of the first type directed to a displayed first user interface. In response, the device determines whether user interface tactile outputs are enabled. If so, the device performs a first operation and provides a corresponding first tactile output. If not, the device performs the first operation and forgoes providing at least a portion of the corresponding first tactile output. After performing the first operation, the device detects a second input of the first type on the home button. In response, the device performs a second operation that is associated with the home button and provides tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button, regardless of whether user interface tactile outputs are enabled.
US10303242B2
A media chair apparatus (200), system (100), and method (900). The media chair apparatus (200) includes a support assembly (400) that can be at least temporarily substantially fixed in an at least substantially fixed position while a seat assembly (300) rotates relative to the support assembly (400). A port (500) in the support assembly (400) can be used to interface with the operating environment (80) while a port (500) in the rotatable seat assembly (300) can be used to interface with a portable access device (150) used by the user (90) to access or otherwise enhance a media experience (800).
US10303238B2
In an embodiment, a system may include multiple processors and an automatic power state controller (APSC) configured to switch the processors between various operating points. The operating points may be described by data programmed into the APSC, and the APSC may include a register that is programmable with a target operating point request identifying a target operating point for the processors from among the described operating points. The data describing the operating points may also include an indication of whether or not the number of processors that may be concurrently active at the operating point is limited. Based on the indication and the number of active processors, the APSC may override the requested operating point with a reduced operating point. In some embodiments, a digital power estimator (DPE) may monitor operation of the processors and may throttle the processors when high power consumption is detected.
US10303219B2
This is directed to an electronic device enclosure. The enclosure includes an outer periphery member forming an outer surface of a device, and to which an internal platform is connected. Electronic device components can be assembled to one or both surfaces of the internal platform. The enclosure can include front and back cover assemblies assembled to the opposite surfaces of the outer periphery member to retain electronic device components. One or both of the cover assembles can include a window through which display circuitry can provide content to a user of the device.
US10303214B2
A docking mechanism is described. The docking mechanism may include a locking protrusion and a locking receptacle configured to receive the locking protrusion and having an inclined surface. The docking mechanism may include a wedging member abutting the inclined surface. The docking mechanism may include a locking detent. The locking detent may have a spring configured to bias the locking detent towards the locking protrusion. Computing devices that include docking mechanisms are also described. Methods of use of the docking mechanisms are also described.
US10303211B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a conic OLED panel portion and a base OLED panel portion. The conic OLED panel portion includes peripheral display surfaces forming a truncated conic shape with an open base region around a center of the conic OLED panel portion. The OLED base portion includes a display surface. The base OLED panel portion is positioned to cover the open base region of the conic OLED panel portion such that the peripheral display surfaces surround the base display surface. The OLED display approximates a circular convex display. The conic OLED panel portion may be fabricated from a flat, flexible OLED panel portion that is bent along the fold regions defining bending axes between the peripheral display surfaces to form the truncated conic shape.
US10303207B2
An electronic device includes a support element, a second cover, a second guiding element and including a pushing element. The support element includes a first cover and a first guiding element. The first guiding element is connected to the first cover. The second guiding element is slidably jointed to the first guiding element to move relative to the first guiding element in a direction and is connected to the second cover. The pushing element is connected to the second cover and configured to push against the support when the second cover rotates relative to the second guiding element to make the support element move relative to the second guiding element.
US10303202B1
A method for designing a system on a target device includes placing the system on the target device. A netlist retiming is performed on the placed system. A clock allocation and a clock region optimization are performed utilizing information from the placing and the netlist retiming.
US10303201B2
A digital filter with a pipeline structure includes processing structures timed by respective clock signals. Each processing structure in turn is formed by a number of processing modules for processing input samples. A phase generator aligns the processing modules with the input samples so that each input sample is processed by a respective one of the processing modules. An up-sampling buffer and a down-sampling buffer are used when the processing structures operate at different clock frequencies (thus implementing different clock domains) so as to convert signal samples between the clock domains for processing in the processing structures.
US10303184B1
Autonomous flight is performed in an open loop mode over a first range of altitudes, wherein a plurality altitude-related data from a plurality of altitude-related sensors is ignored while performing the autonomous flight in the open loop mode. The autonomous flight is performed in a closed loop mode over a second range of altitudes, wherein: the plurality of altitude-related data from the plurality of altitude-related sensors is used while performing the autonomous flight in the closed loop mode, and the first range of altitudes is a non-overlapping, lower range of altitudes compared to the second range of altitudes. The altitude-related data may include, among other things, a radar signal or a phase associated with a radar signal.
US10303167B2
An automated drone security system for surveilling a location includes one or more drones with onboard sensors and an imaging device for measuring surveillance data. The surveillance data may include images, telemetry data, infrared data, or other detectable information of the location. Drones may be capable of executing one or multiple flight operations as well as storing and transmitting the surveillance data to a server assembly operable for coordinating the drone and receiving the surveillance data. A drone dock may be included for drone launching, landing, and/or storing the drones. A user computing device may be in communication with the server assembly and the drone(s), the user computing device being capable of receiving user input and displaying surveillance data from the drone. Flight operations associated with surveilling the location may be automatically and/or manually controlled by the user computing device and/or or the server assembly in connection with the location.
US10303165B2
The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal having an unmanned air vehicle, the mobile communication terminal being smart-phones, tablet-phones, or tablet-PCs which are carried by users and used for mobile communication, and the unmanned air vehicle being kept in the mobile communication terminal or in various mobile communication terminals that may be developed in the future, and being capable of navigating and performing various operations according to a control using the mobile communication terminal. The present invention provides a mobile communication terminal having an unmanned air vehicle, which includes: an unmanned air vehicle including a flying means, a wireless communication means and an image capturing means; and a mobile communication terminal part including: a hangar part in which the unmanned air vehicle is kept; an unmanned air vehicle control means controlling the unmanned air vehicle to navigate and capture images through wireless communication with the unmanned air vehicle; and a manipulation part through which a control command of a user is input to the unmanned air vehicle control means.
US10303158B2
A three dimension (3D) printing coloring method and a 3D printing system are provided. The method includes: generating printing object information according to model information of a 3D object, where the printing object information includes first contour coloring information and second contour coloring information; determining whether a similarity degree of the first contour coloring information and the second contour coloring information conforms to a default condition; if the similarity degree conforms to the default condition, controlling, according to the first contour coloring information and the second contour coloring information, a 3D printing device to perform a simultaneous coloring operation on a first printing layer and a second printing layer of a 3D object. Therefore, a working efficiency of the 3D printing device can be improved.
US10303157B2
An additive manufacturing method for a 3D object is provided and includes (a) providing a 3D digital model of the 3D object; (b) dividing the 3D digital model into repeat arrangement of at least one type of polyhedral 3D units and an X-Y plane is an acute angle or an obtuse angle; (c) cutting the 3D digital model along a Z-axis into a plurality of 2D slices; (d) defining a scanning path covering one of the 2D slices; (e) providing an energy beam to a material on a working plane along the scanning path to form a construction layer corresponding to the one of the 2D slices; and (f) repeating the steps (d) and (e) to build up the 3D object by adding a plurality of construction layers in sequence.
US10303139B2
A system for managing performance of one or more electrical components in real-time includes one or more sensors to provide working conditions of one or more energy consuming devices. The system further includes one or more actuators coupled to and configured to control the one or more energy consuming devices. Additionally, the system includes a computing device in electrical communication with the one or more sensors and the one or more actuators. The system also includes a database capable of retaining an instruction program for the computing device. The computing device includes a processor that is configured to receive data from the one or more sensors, analyze data from the one or more sensors, and execute the instruction program received from the database in order to optimize operation of the one or more energy consuming devices based on one or more criteria.
US10303137B2
A controller is provided for coordinated control of various subsystems, such as a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) subsystem, a camera subsystem, and a security subsystem, in a structure such as a home, by allowing automatic as well as manual changes to be made to the subsystems within their respective constraints. The controller may change the states or settings of the subsystems automatically upon occurrences of certain conditions, or allow the user to change them by switching a structure mode for the subsystems between a home mode and an away mode. A change in the structure mode may effect changes to some or all of the states or settings for some or all of the subsystems.
US10303134B2
Methods and apparatus for multimode RFST communications in process control systems is disclosed herein. A disclosed example apparatus includes an example RFST module associated with a process control device of a process control system. The example RFST module includes a plurality of RFSTs configured to communicate by different communication protocols. The example RFST module also includes a power module to power the RFST module to enable communications with a processor or memory associated with the process control device.
US10303129B2
Provided is a machining time prediction device including a predicted machining speed table where predicted machining speeds are registered in association with shape groups used for classification based on a shape of a machining path, a machining path generation unit generating machining path data including the machining path based on the program, a shape group determination unit determining which shape groups partial machining paths belong to, a path length addition unit adding and summarizing path lengths of the partial machining paths for the respective shape groups, a predicted machining time calculation unit calculating predicted machining times of the respective shape groups on the basis of a predicted machining speed table and the path lengths of the respective shape groups, a predicted machining time summation unit calculating a predicted machining time of the machining path by adding the predicted machining times of the respective shape groups, and a display unit displaying the predicted machining time of the machining path.
US10303117B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly, a rotatable image bearing member, and a cartridge detachably mountable to the main assembly, the cartridge including a rotatable developer carrying member. A first swingable member is provided in the main assembly, engages with one end of the cartridge in an axial direction of the developer carrying member when the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly, and swings integrally with the cartridge, and a second swingable member is provided in the main assembly, engages with the other end of the cartridge in the axial direction of the developer carrying member when the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly, and swings integrally with the cartridge.
US10303103B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing device, and a controller capable of executing an operation in a forced consumption mode in which toner is consumed without being transferred onto a recording material. The controller includes a difference calculating portion configured to calculate a difference between an image amount of a predetermined image forming number and a reference value. The reference value is set i) at a first reference value when information on an average image amount per predetermined image forming number or per predetermined driving time of the developing device is less than a value corresponding to a predetermined reference image amount, and is set ii) at a second reference value lower than the first reference value when the information on the average image amount is not less than a predetermined reference image amount.
US10303093B2
An image forming apparatus has an image forming portion, and a fixing portion including a first rotatable member and a second rotatable member that form a nip, and a detecting portion configured to detect a temperature of the first rotatable member. An acquiring portion acquires a rotation time of the first rotatable member, and a notifying portion provides a notification prompting exchange of the first rotatable member on the basis of an accumulated value of the rotation time of the first rotatable member acquired by the acquiring portion, the rotation time being subjected to weighting on the basis of the temperature of the first rotatable member detected by the detecting portion.
US10303091B2
The voltage detection apparatus includes a transformer, in which a primary side and a secondary side are insulated from each other and the primary side connected in parallel with a first line and a second line, configured to output from the secondary side a voltage supplied to the primary side according to an alternating voltage; a detection circuit configured to detect a frequency of an alternating voltage; and a correction unit configured to acquire information corresponding to a voltage output from the transformer and information corresponding to a frequency detected by the detection circuit, and that corrects the information corresponding to the voltage according to the information corresponding to the frequency.
US10303090B2
A developing apparatus includes a partition member disposed in a first chamber above a discharge space communicated to the discharge port positioned downstream of a return conveyance portion in the first direction, and configured to divide a space within a first chamber in a gravity direction. The partition member is configured to extend from a wall portion on a downstream side of a developer container to a position corresponding to a downstream end of a return conveyance portion or to a position further upstream beyond the position corresponding to the downstream end of the return conveyance portion in the first direction. A surface, opposed to a first conveyance screw, of the partition member is positioned downward in the gravity direction than an upper end of a first communication port and upward in the gravity direction than the first conveyance screw.
US10303087B2
A remanufactured toner cartridge and related method includes a modified driven gear that is associated with an internal seal removal mechanism. The driven gear is modified so that driving rotational force from a printer is not transmitted to the seal removal mechanism during a post test of the remanufactured cartridge. When the post test is complete a fixing member, which may include a pin, is used to return the modified driven gear to an operational configuration so that when the cartridge is subsequently installed in a printer, driving rotational force from the printer is transmitted to the removal mechanism to remove the internal toner seal, thereby permitting cartridge operation.
US10303065B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for actuating an element in an optical system, in particular an optical system of a projection exposure apparatus, wherein the optical element is tiltable about at least one tilting axis via at least one joint having a joint stiffness, comprising at least one actuator for exerting a force on the optical element, wherein the actuator has an actuator stiffness which at least partly compensates for the joint stiffness.
US10303057B2
Various polycycloolefinic polymers containing phenolic pendent groups and compositions thereof useful for forming self-imageable films encompassing such polymers are disclosed. Such polymers encompass norbornene-type repeating units containing phenolic pendent groups which contain very low levels of fluorine containing monomers. The films formed from such polymer compositions provide self imageable, low-k, thermally stable layers for use in microelectronic and optoelectronic devices.
US10303049B2
Methods and systems for contacting a polymerizable material on a surface of a substrate with a patterning surface of a template; curing the polymerizable material in a working environment, comprising a first gas, the working environment proximate to the surface of the substrate; after introducing a second gas into the working environment, separating the patterning surface of the template and the surface of the substrate to achieve at least a particular distance between the patterning surface and the surface of the substrate; and after achieving the particular distance, introducing a third gas into the working environment, wherein, for a given pressure of the working environment, the second gas has a breakdown voltage less than that of the first gas up to the particular distance, and the third gas has a breakdown voltage less than that of the second gas at distances greater than the particular distance.
US10303047B2
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a small optical integrator for increasing color mixing property and homogeneity. An optical integrator is provided with a light entrance surface and exit surface (002, 003), and side surfaces (004, 005, 006, 007) that connect the entrance surface and the exit surface, and is internally filled with a light guide material having a refractive index. The light guide material contains scattering particles for scattering light that have a refractive index different from the refractive index of the light guide material. The light that has entered via the entrance surface propagates from the entrance surface side toward the exit surface while being scattered by the scattering particles in the light guide material, wherein part of the scattered light is guided to the exit surface by propagating while being confined, by internal reflection on the side surfaces, in the light detector.
US10303043B2
An image projection apparatus includes a light modulation element, a pixel shift unit that includes an optical element configured to shift an optical path of light from a pixel in the light modulation element and to shift a position on a projection surface of projected pixel formed on the projection surface by a projection optical system with the light, and an attachment portion to which the pixel shift unit is attached. The optical element shifts the optical path by a shift amount in accordance with an attachment angle of the pixel shift unit relative to a plane orthogonal to an optical axis from the light modulation element to the projection optical system. The attachment portion is configured to select a plurality of angles for the attachment angle.
US10303030B2
A privacy display comprises a polarized output spatial light modulator, reflective polarizer, switchable liquid crystal retarder and polarizer. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. Further, display reflectivity is reduced for on-axis reflections of ambient light, while reflectivity is increased for off-axis light. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction and increased frontal reflectivity to ambient light. In a wide angle mode of operation, the liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance and reflectivity are unmodified.
US10303027B2
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a substrate; a gate line that is disposed on the substrate and extends in a first direction; a first insulating film that is disposed on the gate line; a semiconductor pattern that is disposed on the first insulating film; a first transparent electrode that is disposed on the semiconductor pattern, and has a first electrode and a second electrode being spaced apart from each other; a second insulating film that is disposed on the first transparent electrode and partially exposes the first electrode; a data line disposed on the second insulating film and extends in a second direction different from the first direction; a second transparent electrode that is disposed on the second insulating film and at least partially overlaps the second electrode; and a connecting electrode in direct contact with a portion of the exposed first electrode and the data line.
US10303021B2
A method for manufacturing a BOA liquid crystal display panel is provided. The BOA liquid crystal display panel is structured to have a TFT entirely located on a first black matrix and further, a second black matrix is arranged between the TFT and the passivation protection layer such that the second black matrix and the first black matrix completely enclose the TFT to block light emitting from a backlight module located under an array substrate in a direction toward an active layer and also to block reflecting light irradiating the active layer from lateral sides and a top side to better prevent light irradiating the active layer of the TFT for preventing photo leakage current, ensuring stable performance of the TFT device, and improving image displaying quality. The method helps overcome the issue of photo leakage current induced by backlighting irradiating the active layer of the TFT.
US10303015B2
External connection terminals in a conductive film and circuit-side terminals in a flexible circuit are respectively arranged in a first direction and are disposed through an anisotropic conductive membrane so as to at least partially overlap each other, the conductive film has detection electrodes and lead wires respectively connecting the detection electrodes to the external connection terminals, at least two external connection terminals have connection portions with the lead wires disposed at different locations, and, in each external connection terminal, an overlapping region between the circuit-side terminal and the anisotropic conductive membrane has ends in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a width W1 of a first end in the first direction being located on a connection portion side between the external connection terminal and the lead wire is smaller than a width W2 in the first direction of the external connection terminal overlapping the first end.
US10303009B2
A display device with a wide viewing angle is provided. A display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes a first display element, a second display element, and an insulating layer. The first display element includes a first pixel electrode configured to reflect visible light. The second display element is configured to emit visible light. The second display element includes a second pixel electrode and a common electrode. The first pixel electrode is positioned on an opposite side of the insulating layer from the second pixel electrode. The common electrode is positioned on an opposite side of the second pixel electrode from the insulating layer. A shortest distance X between a first plane and a second plane is longer than or equal to 500 nm and shorter than or equal to 200 μm. The first plane includes a plane of the first pixel electrode on the insulating layer side in a display region of the first display element, and the second plane includes a plane of the common electrode on the insulating layer side in a display region of the second display element.
US10302999B2
There are provided a light source device and a display device, in which the contact of the light guiding plate with the light source can be prevented. The light source device includes a light guiding plate and a light source member disposed opposite to a light-entering surface of the light guiding plate, wherein light radiated by the light source enters from the light-entering surface and emits from a light-emitting surface of the light guiding plate. The light source device further includes a frame structure and a heat radiator supporting the light source member, wherein the frame structure includes a contact-preventing part disposed between the substrate of the light source member and the light-entering surface to prevent the contact of the light-entering surface with the light source, and portions of the heat radiator and the contact-preventing part each facing the light source have light reflectivity.
US10302994B2
There is provided an optical member capable of causing, when used for a liquid crystal display apparatus, light output from a light source to enter a liquid crystal display panel with high efficiency. An optical member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a polarizing plate; a reflective polarizer; a polarization converting layer; and a prism layer, the polarizing plate, the reflective polarizer, the polarization converting layer, and the prism layer being integrated in the stated order, wherein the polarization converting layer satisfies the following expression: L90/L0≥0.2.
US10302985B1
A GOA circuit comprises a plurality of GOA structural units connected in cascade, and each GOA structural unit outputs a line scanning signal to a corresponding one line of pixel units. An Nth stage GOA structural unit comprises a forward-reverse scan control module, a node signal control input module, an output control module, a voltage-stabilizing module, a node Q pull-down module, a node P pull-down module, a gate signal pull-down module, a GAS signal function module and a self-lifting capacitor. A gate of a first TFT of the voltage-stabilizing module receives a third GAS signal, a source thereof is connected to the forward-reverse scan control module and the node Q pull-down module, and a drain thereof is connected to the first node. The third GAS signal is VGH signal during the scan period of the touch panel, and is a VGL signal in a suspending period of the touch panel.
US10302975B2
Mach-Zehnder interferometers comprise heater elements configured to have projections in the plane of optical waveguides positioned such that two adjacent sections of one optical waveguide arms are heated by a common heater element. The heater and at least a substantial section of the heated waveguide segments can be curved. Configurations of an optical waveguide arm can comprise an outer curved heated section, an inner curved heated section, and a loopback waveguide section connecting the outer curved heated section and the inner curved heated section, with average radius of curvature selected to form an open accessible space. Appropriate configurations of the two optical waveguide arms provide for nested configurations of the arms that provide for a compact structure for the interferometer.
US10302969B2
An eyeglass system including primary glasses and detachably engageable auxiliary glasses. The auxiliary glasses include a first and second auxiliary lens connected together by a bridge. Each lens has an exterior surface, an interior surface, and a peripheral edge extending between the interior and exterior surfaces. An aperture is defined in each of the lenses and the aperture extends between the interior and exterior surfaces, and originates in the peripheral edge and extends for a distance into the lens. A connector is engaged in the aperture in each of the lenses and this connector detachably engages the primary glasses. Preferably, the aperture is keyhole-shaped and the connector includes a boss that is a complementary keyhole shape. The connector may be provided with a magnet that is attracted to a magnet embedded in a lens of the primary glasses.
US10302964B2
A contact lens for collecting tear or delivering a drug includes an inner lens placed on an eyeball, an outer lens provided at an outer side of the inner lens to overlap the inner lens, and a plurality of pillars disposed between the inner lens and the outer lens to form a space between the inner lens and the outer lens, wherein the contact lens has a plurality of interfacing ports for connecting a chamber with an outside of the contact lens.
US10302959B2
An optical device includes: a piezoelectric element of a sheet shape; a restriction section attached to the piezoelectric element, the restriction section configured to restrict a movable area in the piezoelectric element to a polygonal predetermined region; an optical element attached to the movable area of the piezoelectric element; and a plurality of electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric element, the plurality of electrodes configured to be applied with voltage independently, wherein: the electrodes are disposed at adjacent two comers in the movable area; and the piezoelectric element expands and contracts based on voltage applied to the electrodes in a manner that a periphery of the corner where the electrode is disposed in the movable area expands and contracts in multiple directions including two directions along two sides forming the corner.
US10302951B2
A head mounted display system for use with a mobile computing device includes a main body configured to be worn on a human head. A lens assembly within the main body includes a first lens configured to focus vision of a wearer on a first area of a display of the mobile computing device when the mobile computing device is secured to the main body. A first contact point disposed in a fixed position relative to the first lens is configured to contact a surface of the display when the mobile computing device is secured to the main body. The first contact point is detectable by the mobile computing device and usable by the mobile computing device to derive a position of the display relative to the at least one lens.
US10302949B2
A virtual image display apparatus includes a diffraction optical member including a diffraction section that directs the orientation of image light based on diffraction toward the position of a viewer's eye and a light transmissive substrate that is disposed in the diffraction section and on the side facing the eye and supports the diffraction section, and an image forming section that outputs the image light toward the diffraction optical member, and the light transmissive substrate is a color separation correcting section that corrects color separation produced by the diffraction section.
US10302946B2
A display apparatus includes: a frame 10 to be mounted on the head of a viewer; and an image display device 100 attached to the frame 10. The image display device 100 includes: an image forming device 111; and an optical device 120 that guides an image from the image forming device 111 to an eye of the viewer. The optical device 120 includes: a first deflecting unit 130 that deflects the image from the image forming device 111; and a second deflecting unit 140 that deflects the image deflected by the first deflecting unit 130, toward the eye 21 of the viewer. A light reflecting member 151 is further provided to face the image forming device 111, with the optical device 120 being interposed between the image forming device 111 and the light reflecting member 151. Light emitted from the image forming device 111 passes through the optical device 120, is reflected by the light reflecting member 151, reenters the optical device 120, and is deflected by the first deflecting unit 130.
US10302944B2
A head-mount type display device includes an image display device adapted to allow a user to visually recognize an image in a state of being mounted on a head of a user, a detection section disposed in the image display device and adapted to detect biological information of the user, a control section adapted to perform control of the image visually recognized by the user using the image display device, and an annunciation section adapted to inform the user of image control information as information related to the control of the image based on a variation in the biological information detected.
US10302926B2
An arrangement for lightsheet microscopy. In the arrangement, a detection objective includes a first adaptive optical detection correction element arranged in the beam path or which can be introduced into the latter. Alternatively, or in addition, an illumination objective includes a first adaptive optical illumination correction element arranged in the beam path or which can be introduced into the latter. With the two correction elements, aberrations which occur because of the inclined passage through boundary surfaces of the separating layer system of light to be detected or of light for illuminating the sample can be reduced for a predetermined range of detection angles (δ) or of illumination angles (β) and/or for a predetermined range of the thickness of the at least one layer of the separating layer system.
US10302920B2
The invention discloses a six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; a fifth lens with refractive power; a sixth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image side and object side of each of the six lens is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US10302912B2
An optical lens set includes: a first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens element, said first lens element has negative refractive power, said second lens element has negative refractive power, said fourth lens element has an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, and said fifth lens element has an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, in addition, at least one lens element of the six lens elements disposed adjacent to an aperture stop has positive refractive power and made by glass material, except for the lens elements with glass material, other lens elements with refractive powers are plastic lens elements, the Abbe numbers of the second and the third lens element are ν2 and ν3 respectively, and the optical imaging lens satisfies: |ν2−ν3|≤15.000.
US10302905B2
An optical system includes, disposed in sequence along an optical axis starting on an object side: a first lens group having a positive refractive power, which remains fixed relative to an image surface upon focusing; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, which moves along the optical axis upon focusing, wherein: the first lens group includes: a first partial lens group that comprises at least two positive lenses and has a positive refractive power; and a negative lens, the second lens group includes: at least one meniscus lens with a convex surface thereof facing the object side; a second partial lens group that includes at least one negative lens and at least one positive lens, and has a positive refractive power; and a cemented lens that is formed by bonding together a plurality of lenses and has a positive refractive power, wherein: a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.
US10302889B2
A gimbal transmission cable management system is disclosed. The system can include a first gimbal portion and a second gimbal portion rotatable relative to one another to provide rotation about a gimbal axis. The system can also include a cable retainer fixed relative to one of the first and second gimbal portions and defining a cable volume between the cable retainer and at least one of the first and second gimbal portions. In addition, the system can include a transmission cable coiled about the gimbal axis within the cable volume. Bi-directional relative rotation of the first and second gimbal portions can alternately coil and uncoil a portion of the transmission cable about the gimbal axis within the cable volume.
US10302877B2
An optical cross-connect component mutually connecting an end of a first optical fiber group and an end of a second optical fiber group is disclosed. The optical cross-connect component includes a plurality of first connectors housing therein the end of the first optical fiber group, and a plurality of second connectors housing therein the end of the second optical fiber group. The m×n optical fibers in the first optical fiber group are housed in any of the plurality of first connectors, and the m×n optical fibers in the second optical fiber group are housed in any of the plurality of second connectors. The end of the first optical fiber group and the end of the second optical fiber group are connected so as to be butted to each other.
US10302876B2
A connector comprising a first outer housing defining at least one cavity, the cavity being cylindrical, a first insert disposed in the cavity, the first insert comprising at least a first housing, the housing being cylindrical, a first ferrule in the first housing, the first ferrule configured with arcuate sides to be received in the cavity, the first ferule comprising an end face, at least one alignment hole for receiving an alignment pin defined in the end face, and at least one fiber-receiving channel for receiving an optical fiber, an optical fiber disposed in the fiber-receiving channel of the first ferrule.
US10302873B1
A bridge adapter that includes a first end and a second end. The bridge adapter further including a first ferrule connection on the first end and a second ferrule connection on the second end. The bridge adapter also including an optical path optically connecting the first ferrule connection and the second ferrule connection. Also, a method of connection optical cable having multiple pitches, the method including connecting a first optical cable having a first fiber pitch to a bridge adapter and connection having a second fiber pitch to the bridge adapter. The method further including directing an optical signal through the first optical cable, the bridge adapter, and the second optical cable, wherein the directing includes sending the optical signal through an optical wave bridge in the bridge adapter and having the first fiber pitch on a first end and the second fiber pitch on the second end.
US10302869B1
A photonic assembly includes an optical die including a suspended membrane structure arranged thereon. A cavity is arranged beneath the suspended membrane structure. An optical interconnect structure is arranged on the optical die. The photonic assembly also includes an optical adhesive arranged on the optical die in contact with the optical interconnect structure. The optical adhesive is arranged beneath the suspended membrane structure to at least partially fill the cavity beneath the suspended membrane structure. The photonic assembly also includes a structural adhesive arranged on the optical die adjacent to the optical adhesive.
US10302860B2
A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and a transition region, with a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. The body portion of the core member has a first dielectric constant. The transition region of the core member has a graduated dielectric constant value that gradually changes from the first dielectric constant value adjacent the body portion to a third dielectric constant.
US10302850B2
The present invention provides a backlight module, comprising an optical film assembly, a light guide plate, a reflective sheet, and the optical film assembly comprises a first prismatic glass, and the first prismatic glass comprises a display region, two side walls, a junction region, and the display region and the reflective sheet are oppositely located, and the side wall is formed by the display region extending downward, and the side wall is connected between the display region and the junction region to form an accommodation space, and the light guide plate and the reflective sheet stack up together inside the accommodation space, and the light guide plate is located between the reflective sheet and the optical film assembly, and the reflective sheet is located between the light guide plate and the junction region.
US10302845B2
Light-emitting quantum dot films, quantum dot lighting devices, and quantum dot-based backlight units are provided. Related compositions, components, and methods are also described. Improved quantum dot encapsulation and matrix materials are provided. Quantum dot films with protective barriers are described. High-efficiency, high brightness, and high-color purity quantum dot-based lighting devices are also included, as well as methods for improving efficiency and optical characteristics in quantum dot-based lighting devices.
US10302844B2
A display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may have color filter elements such as red, green, and blue color filter elements. A layer of opaque material may be used to form a black matrix. The black matrix may have openings that receive the color filter elements. A backlight unit may produce backlight illumination for the display. A reflector layer may be interposed between the black matrix and the backlight unit. The reflector layer may have openings aligned with the openings in the black matrix and the color filter elements and may overlap the black matrix. Some of the backlight from the backlight unit may pass through the color filter elements. Other backlight may by be recycled by being reflected off of the reflector layer, thereby enhancing backlight efficiency.
US10302840B2
There is provided a backlight capable of easily eliminating a bright portion generated near lateral surfaces of a light guide plate, even when a plate-like reflective member is brought close to the lateral, surfaces of the light guide plate. The backlight includes, a light guide plate including a light emission surface, a reflective surface, and at least one of the lateral surface as an incident surface, a light source disposed to face the incident surface, a reflective member which is disposed to face another lateral surface other than the incident surface and includes a diffusion reflective surface, and an adhesive member for adhering the reflective member to the another lateral surface of the light guide plate, wherein a length of the adhesive member in a thickness direction of the light guide plate is smaller than a thickness of the light guide plate.
US10302826B1
Embodiments described herein relate to methods of forming gratings with different slant angles on a substrate and forming gratings with different slant angles on successive substrates using angled etch systems. The methods include positioning portions of substrates retained on a platen in a path of an ion beam. The substrates have a grating material disposed thereon. The ion beam is configured to contact the grating material at an ion beam angle ϑ relative to a surface normal of the substrates and form gratings in the grating material. The substrates are rotated about an axis of the platen resulting in rotation angles ϕ between the ion beam and a surface normal of the gratings. The gratings have slant angles ϑ′ relative to the surface normal of the substrates. The rotation angles ϕ selected by an equation ϕ=cos−1 (tan(ϑ′)/tan(ϑ)).
US10302818B2
A photonic crystal structure includes a nano structure layer including a plurality of nano particles of various sizes, and a photonic crystal layer on the nano structure layer. The plurality of nano particles are spaced apart from each other. The photonic crystal layer has a non-planar surface, and is configured to reflect light of a particular wavelength.
US10302813B2
A method for quantitatively evaluating multiple computer-based plate tectonic models for application in a geographic region of interest, in some embodiments, comprises: selecting a plurality of computer-based plate tectonic models; using multiple computer-based plate tectonic models to generate one or more predictions for one or more geological parameters; obtaining observational data for each of said one or more geological parameters; for each of said one or more geological parameters, quantitatively comparing the predictions and the observational data to determine model rankings; and displaying said model rankings on a computer display.
US10302811B2
A data reduction method for transmission of a borehole image to the surface of the earth using restricted band widths of LWD telemetry systems. The data reduction method is based on the measurement physics rather than mathematical compression algorithms. Measured data from a sensor are fitted, within the logging tool, to a response function relating sensor response to a parameter of interest. The coefficients of the fitted response function are scaled and then telemetered to the surface. The measured data are reconstructed at the surface by combining the telemetered coefficients with the response function. A borehole image is formed by combining reconstructed reduced data. Parameters of dipping beds intersecting the borehole can be determined from the coefficients.
US10302810B2
A method of detecting presence and location uses sensor data received from a plurality of thermopiles, each thermopile having a different field of view. In response to detecting a change in the sensor data, stored background values for each field of view are accessed and then the location of a body (e.g. a human or animal) is determined based on differences between the sensor data and sensor values predicted using a forward model and the stored background values for each field of view. Having determined the location, the stored background values are updated based on differences between the sensor data and the predicted sensor values for a body at the determined location.
US10302807B2
The present specification discloses systems and methods for identifying and reporting contents of a tanker, container or vehicle. Programmatic tools are provided to assist an operator in analyzing contents of a tanker, container or vehicle. Manifest data is automatically imported into the system for each shipment, thereby helping security personnel to quickly determine container contents. In case of a mismatch between container contents shown by manifest data and the contents as ascertained from the scanning system, the container or vehicle may be withheld for further inspection.
US10302802B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to provide a skin-effect correction. The skin-effect correction can be based on a pre-calculated correction coefficient library. In various embodiments, a skin-effect correction procedure can be applied that only uses a single-frequency R-signal measurement. In addition, an embodiment of a skin-effect correction procedure using a single-frequency R-signal measurement can be applied whenever the quality of the data from one of the multiple frequencies normally used in a multi-frequency method is reliable. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10302789B2
In order to use near-field measurements to obtain signature of a signal penetrating seafloor in a shallow water surveyed area, the water-bottom reflections' effect is removed. The removal is performed by obtaining first a far-field initial estimate from stacked primary pulses in the near-field measurements, and then estimating water-bottom reflection portions for different depths using differences between the near-field measurements and the far-field initial estimate. The signature of the air-gun for each shot is then deblended from the near-field measurement for the shot using the one of the water-bottom reflection portions according to a water-bottom depth associated with the shot location.
US10302788B2
A coal collapse column identification method and related apparatus that includes acquiring seismic shot gather data in a target region and a seismic wave migration velocity file; calculating a diffraction wave travel time of each piece of single-shot data at different imaging points according to the data; performing Mahalanobis distance calculation processing on each single-shot data and the diffraction wave travel time thereof to acquire a diffraction wave amplitude value sample point of each piece of single-shot data; imaging respectively on a diffraction wave of each piece of single-shot data; and superposing imaging processing results of all the single-shot data corresponding to the seismic shot gather data to obtain a diffraction wave imaging result of the seismic shot gather data so as to facilitate coal collapse column identification according to the diffraction wave imaging result. A diffraction wave corresponding to seismic shot gather data is extracted through a Mahalanobis distance.
US10302784B2
A seismic-detection sensor device includes two accelerometers having different sensitivities. The seismic-detection sensor device provides excellent precision and operability monitoring.
US10302771B2
A PET detecting module may include a scintillator array configured to receive a radiation ray and generate optical signals in response to the received radiation ray. The scintillator array may have a plurality of rows of scintillators arranged in a first direction and a plurality of columns of scintillators arranged in a second direction. A first group of light guides may be arranged on a top surface of the scintillator array along the first direction. The light guide count of the first group of light guides may be less than the row count of the plurality of rows of scintillators. A second group of light guides may be arranged on a bottom surface of the scintillator array. The light guide count of the second group of light guides may be less than the column count of the plurality of columns of scintillators.
US10302768B2
A method for facilitating removal of multipath signal interference from light data can comprise illuminating, with an illumination unit, a target with a light source. The illumination unit can be configured to project a high spatial-frequency pattern onto the target in such a way as to redistribute spectral energy to higher frequencies. The method can also comprise acquiring, with a sensor unit, reflected light data reflected from the target. The reflected light data can comprise an array of spatial domain information received from light reflected by the target. Further, the method can comprise processing, with the one or more processors, the reflected light data. The processing applies a high-pass filter within the spatial domain to the reflected light data.
US10302766B2
A range imaging system includes: a control unit that generates a light emission signal for instructing light irradiation and an exposure signal for instructing exposure; a pulsed-light source unit that emits pulsed light in response to the light emission signal; an imaging unit that includes a solid-state imaging device and performs exposure and imaging in response to the exposure signal; and a calculation unit that calculates range information. The solid-state imaging device includes a first pixel for receiving radiant light from a subject and a second pixel for receiving reflected light of the pulsed light. The calculation unit calculates the range information using an image capture signal from the first pixel and an imaging signal from the second pixel.
US10302763B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and method for detecting the proximity of an object. In an embodiment, the electronic device includes a communication module, a sound emitter, a sound receiver, and a processor. The processor receives at least one part of a voice signal from a calling party through the communication module, and determines whether there is a voice idle time in the at least one part of the voice signal. When the voice idle time is present in the at least one part of the voice signal, the processor outputs a sound wave in an inaudible frequency band through the sound emitter during the voice idle time. Then the processor receives, through the sound receiver, sound wave in the inaudible frequency band reflected from an object. Next, the processor may detect whether the object is proximate to the electronic device using the reflected sound wave in the inaudible frequency band.
US10302760B2
The invention relates to determining the presence of flowing water (B) in the vicinity of a vehicle. It relies on a pair of sensors (6a) emitting periodic signals, receiving reflected signals and comparing them to each other to determine the presence of flowing water in the area surrounding the vehicle. Another approach relies on a single sensor and analyses perturbations in the signal of said sensor. Preferably, the invention uses sensors already installed, namely parking sensors and a radar.
US10302759B1
The present invention proposes an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) architecture and process, in which priority aircraft and ADS-B IN and radar traffic information are included in the transmission of data through the telemetry communications to a remote ground control station. The present invention further proposes methods for displaying general aviation traffic information in three and/or four dimension trajectories using an industry standard Earth browser for increased situation awareness and enhanced visual acquisition of traffic for conflict detection. The present invention enable the applications of enhanced visual acquisition of traffic, traffic alerts, and en-route and terminal surveillance used to augment pilot situational awareness through ADS-B IN display and information in three or four dimensions for self-separation awareness.
US10302758B2
A method and a device for detecting a discontinuous body with ground penetrating radar, comprising acquiring a ground penetrating radar signal of a predefined underground space, where the ground penetrating radar signal carries discontinuous information about an electrical parameter of the underground space; determining, from multiple preset dip angles, a target dip angle of the ground penetrating radar signal with respect to each of multiple channels to be scanned, by a target scanning algorithm; separating the ground penetrating radar signal according to the target dip angle, to obtain a scattered wave; performing velocity continuation analysis on the scattered wave, to obtain a focusing velocity of the scattered wave; and imaging the scattered wave according to the scattered wave and the focusing velocity, to obtain an imaging result, where the imaging result is used to determine distribution information of the discontinuous body in the predefined underground space.
US10302752B2
An ultrasound imaging system includes a transducer array with a plurality of transducer elements configured to repeatedly emit in a predetermined pattern, a first beamformer configured to beamform echo signals received by the transducer array to produce a low resolution line of data for each emission, and a first communication interface configured to wirelessly transmit the low resolution lines of data for each emission in series. The ultrasound imaging system further includes a second communication interface configured to for each emission in series wirelessly receive the transmitted low resolution lines of data, a second beamformer configured to beamform the received low resolution lines of data to produce high resolution ultrasound data, and a velocity processor configured to estimate vector velocity components from the high resolution ultrasound data in a lateral direction and an axial using an autocorrelation algorithm.
US10302751B2
The disclosed invention is a computer-implemented process that identifies and extracts distinctive data characteristics from a linear array of time-sequenced A-mode ultrasonic backscatter amplitude data, where such distinctive data characteristics are indicative of material identity. The disclosed invention uses such distinctive data characteristics to create a plausible inference about whether or not an investigatory material belongs to a specific class of ultrasonically permeable materials of known classification.
US10302746B2
Mounting a LIDAR above or external to a vehicle can enhance the LIDAR field of view but can conflict with vehicle aesthetics and ergonomics. Within embodiments, vehicle-integrated systems for distributing laser beams around a vehicle to increase coverage with a low-profile laser range finder are disclosed. A LIDAR can be embedded beneath a roof or body panel of a vehicle as part of a laser distribution system including a set of reflectors and lenses operable to adapt the LIDAR field of view to the vehicle shape. The set of embedded reflectors can guide laser beams parallel (e.g. within the roof structure), to and from the set of lenses at the roof edge to transmit the guided laser into regions of the surrounding beyond the direct field of view of the LIDAR. In other embodiments a beam guide (e.g. including a headlight assembly) can enable a LIDAR to perform ranging from behind a vehicle body panel.
US10302737B2
A self-localizing apparatus uses timestampable signals transmitted by transceivers that are a part of a distributed localization system to compute its position relative to the transceivers. Transceivers and self-localizing apparatuses are arranged for highly accurate timestamping using digital and analog reception and transmission electronics as well as one or more highly accurate clocks, compensation units, localization units, position calibration units, scheduling units, or synchronization units. Transceivers and self-localizing apparatuses are further arranged to allow full scalability in the number of self-localizing apparatuses and to allow robust self-localization with latencies and update rates useful for high performance applications such as autonomous mobile robot control.
US10302734B2
Systems and methods are provided that disclose providing a positioning service for devices based on light received from one or more light sources. This light based positioning service uses light information transmitted by each light source to determine the position of the device. The positioning information can include three dimension position information in a building that can then be used to deliver services and information to a mobile device. The content delivered to a mobile device can include multimedia, text, audio, and/or pictorial information. The positioning information along with other location or positioning information can be used in providing augmented reality or location aware services. The light sources can be independent beacons that broadcast information in visible light at a rate that is undetectable by the human eye. Content can be retrieved from a server over a communications connection.
US10302731B2
Integrated image reconstruction and gradient non-linearity correction for magnetic resonance imaging
A system and method for simultaneously reconstructing magnetic resonance images and correcting those imaged for gradient nonlinearity effects are provided. As opposed to conventional methods for gradient nonlinearity correction where distortion is corrected after image reconstruction is performed, the model-based method described here prospectively accounts for the effects of gradient nonlinearity during reconstruction. It is a discovery of the inventors that the method described here can reduce the blurring effect and resolution loss caused by conventional correction algorithms while achieving the same level of geometric correction.
US10302730B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus, for an MR control sequence is activated that contains a large number of blocks that are to be activated successively, with a block of the blocks that are to be played successively having an excitation module for exciting spins in a first region of an examination object and an encoding module for spatial encoding of spins excited in the first region and for recording a signal emitted by spins excited in the first region. A sensor detects an external movement of the examination object during activation of an excitation module of a block. An optimization computer carries out an optimization of the encoding module of this block based on the detected external movement and generates an optimized encoding module. The optimized encoding module is activated.
US10302727B2
A system and method for producing high resolution diffusion information and imaging from a subject. In some aspects, the method includes receiving a plurality of low resolution diffusion images, each acquired with a different set of gradient directions and shifted in a slice direction, and generating a model correlating diffusion signals associated with the plurality of low resolution diffusion images and a high resolution diffusion image. The method also includes reconstructing the high resolution diffusion image by minimizing a cost function determined using the model. In some applications, the method further includes processing the high resolution diffusion image to generate a report providing diffusion information associated with the subject.
US10302720B2
In a method and apparatus for determining time-dependent dephasing factors of at least one spectral component of at least two spectral components in a region of interest in an object under examination, measured data of the region of interest and acquired over time by a test measurement in a magnetic resonance scanner. The contribution of at least one of the at least two spectral components in the recorded measured data is determined. Dephasing factors of the at least one spectral component are determined on the basis of the contribution determined therefor in the recorded measured data over time. Dephasing factors determined in this way can be determined individually with relatively little effort and used in Dixon techniques.
US10302713B2
In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for determining absolute three-dimensional reception sensitivity maps for reception coils in a scanner of the magnetic resonance, in particular a scanner having a basic magnetic field strength of at least 3 T, in the presence of a subject under examination that affects the reception sensitivity, spatially resolved subject parameters are determined, which specify electromagnetic properties of the subject under examination, and coil-geometry parameters are determined, which specify the spatial arrangement of the reception coils in the magnetic resonance scanner. The reception sensitivity maps are determined by simulation in a model specified by the subject parameters and the coil-geometry parameters.
US10302712B2
A magnetic field sensing apparatus including a plurality of first magnetoresistance units, a plurality of second magnetoresistance units, and a magnetic field sensing device is provided. Magnetic field sensing axes of the first and second magnetoresistance units are parallel to a first direction and a second direction respectively, and the first and second magnetoresistance units are disposed beside the magnetic field sensing device, which is configured to measure a magnetic field component in a third direction. The first and second magnetoresistance units are electrically connected to form at least one kind of Wheatstone full bridge in two different time periods to respectively measure magnetic field components in fourth and fifth directions and to cause this kind of Wheatstone full bridge to output two signals respectively corresponding to the magnetic field components in the fourth and fifth directions. The first direction to the fifth direction are different from each other.
US10302706B2
In an apparatus, an OCV calculator measures a close circuit voltage (CCV) across an equivalent circuit of a storage battery, and calculates an open circuit voltage (OCV) across the storage battery based on the CCV, the equivalent circuit, and a current flowing through the storage battery. The equivalent circuit simulates an electrochemical behavior of the storage battery. The equivalent circuit includes the OCV as a power supply voltage and a predetermined internal impedance connected in series to the power supply voltage. The internal impedance includes a capacitance. A calculator calculates an SOC of the storage battery as a function of the OCV. A determiner determines whether the capacitance is saturated as a function of an electrical parameter associated with a charge stored in the capacitance. A diagnosing unit diagnoses whether the SOC of the storage battery is appropriate according to whether the capacitance is saturated.
US10302703B2
Method and system for monitoring the safety of a rechargeable Li-ion battery (LIB). An initial electrical state of the LIB is determined and altered by application or removal of DC electrical stimulus to trigger a time-varying response. The time-varying response of the LIB is measured, and at least one primary response parameter associated with the functional form of the measured response is extracted. At least one secondary response parameter is derived from the primary response parameter. A composite response parameter may be further derived from the primary response parameter and secondary response parameter. A likelihood of a short circuit precursor condition is determined in accordance with the primary response parameter, secondary response parameter and/or composite response parameter. Based on the determined likelihood, an alert of a potential short circuit derived hazard may be provided and/or a corrective measure to mitigate or prevent a short circuit derived hazard may be implemented.
US10302692B1
Various devices, methods and systems are provided for aging-sensitive chip authentication. In one example, among others, a chip includes a reference Schmitt trigger ring oscillator (STRO) configured to enter a sleep mode during operation of the chip; a stressed STRO; a VDD charge pump configured to boost a positive voltage supplied to the stressed STRO during operation of the chip; and/or a GND charge pump configured to under-drive a ground voltage supplied to the stressed STRO during operation of the chip. In another example, a method includes detecting activation of a chip including a reference STRO and a stressed STRO and, in response to the activation of the chip, initiating sleep mode operation of the reference STRO. In response to the activation of the chip, a VDD voltage supplied to the stressed STRO can be boosted and/or a GND voltage supplied to the stressed STRO can be under-driven.
US10302686B1
Systems of detecting high-voltage lines to guard against electrocution when using heavy machinery are disclosed. Systems of the inventive subject matter include an antenna to detect the high-voltage line, and upon detection, the system can cut power to a movement system of the heavy machinery. A manual override is provided so that a user can remove the heavy machinery from an area at risk of causing electrocution either by contact with the high-voltage line or by arcing from the high-voltage line.
US10302681B2
According to one embodiment, a current detection circuit (12) includes: a detection resistor (Rs) provided between a solenoid valve (106) and a solenoid driver (11); an amplification unit (121) configured to amplify a detected voltage of the detection resistor (Rs); an AD converter (122) that is driven by a reference voltage (Vref) generated based on a reference current (Iref) and configured to convert an output voltage from the amplification unit (121) into a digital value and output the digital value as a detected current value (D1); and a correction unit configured to perform a correction on the detected current value (D1). The correction unit includes: a temperature sensor (123); a storage unit (125) configured to store information about temperature characteristics of the detected current value (D1) generated due to temperature characteristics of a reference current in each of two or more different temperature regions; and an operation unit configured to apply, to the detected current value (D1), a first correction coefficient calculated based on a detection result of the temperature sensor (123) and information about temperature characteristics of the detected current value (D1) stored in the storage unit (125).
US10302669B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating speed and/or velocity for a portable device using an optical sensor. The optical sensor may capture a plurality of samples to be processed to estimate speed. The speed or velocity may be estimated based on a determined context and/or usage of the portable device. The estimated speed or velocity may be used to supplement other navigational solutions or may be used independently.
US10302666B2
A sample analyzing method of a sample analyzer for measuring samples, using a reagent container which comprises a writable and readable storage medium, the sample analyzing method including: storing information regarding a remaining amount of a reagent in the reagent container to a memory of the analyzer read from the storage medium; updating the information in the memory in response to an aspiration of the reagent; and writing updated information in the memory to the storage medium when an aspiration of the reagent in a plurality of measurements is completed. The writing of the updated information is postponed until the aspiration of the reagent in the plurality of measurements is completed.
US10302663B2
Biomarkers relating to pancreatic Beta-cell function, pancreatic Beta-cell glucose sensitivity, insulin resistance, and/or pancreatic Beta-cell-related disorders are provided. Methods based on the same biomarkers are also provided.
US10302662B2
Methods and kits for determining heparanase procoagulant activity in a biological sample are provided. Diagnostic methods for the detection and/or monitoring of a coagulation-related pathological disorder in a mammalian subject are further provided. In addition, compositions comprising heparanase and at least one tissue factor, uses and methods based thereon in the treatment, amelioration and prevention of coagulation-related pathologic conditions are provided. Also provided are methods for screening a coagulation modulatory compound, methods and uses based thereon in the treatment, amelioration and prevention of coagulation-related pathologic conditions.
US10302661B2
The present invention relates to the generation of an Atomic Therapeutic Indicator (ATI) for a test sample by the quantification of manganese; in voxels of a 3D region of the sample, wherein the 3D region is topographically defined by co-ordinates X′×Y′×Z. The ATI is used to assess the radio-responsiveness i.e. sensitivity or resistance to radiation treatment, of a cancer i.e. a tumor/neoplasm. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of generating the ATI, assessing the radio-responsiveness of a tumor/neoplasm based on the ATI and, based on the assessment, either treating or not treating the tumor with radiation.The present invention also relates to a method of determining if a cancer is likely to reoccur post radiation treatment comprising quantifying the level of manganese in voxels of a 3D region of a test sample from the cancer and determining the frequency of high metallomic regions (HMRs) in the cancer, wherein a high frequency of HMRs is indicative that the cancer is likely to reoccur and a low frequency of HMRs is indicative that the cancer is unlikely to reoccur; and associated methods of treatment.The invention further relates to a method of determining the radio-responsiveness of a melanoma, the method comprising determining the level of melanin in a test sample from the melanoma, wherein the lower the level of melanin the more sensitive the melanoma is to radiation and the higher the level of melanin the more resistant the melanoma is to radiation; and associated methods of treatment.
US10302657B2
Diagnostic methods and tools relating to diagnosing whether a pregnant subject is at risk for developing preeclampsia and/or early-onset preeclampsia within a short period of time. The methods include determining the amounts of the biomarkers sFlt-1 or Endoglin and PIGF in a first and a second sample of said subject, said first sample being obtained prior to said second sample; calculating a first ratio from the amounts of sFlt-1 or Endoglin and PIGF determined in the first sample, and a second ratio from the amounts of sFlt-1 or Endoglin and PIGF determined in the second sample; and comparing the value of the first and the second ratio, whereby a subject being at risk for developing preeclampsia within a short period of time is diagnosed if the value of the second ratio is increased compared to the value of the first ratio by a factor of at least about 3.
US10302655B2
The disclosure relates to a method for selecting, isolating and/or recovering a peptide or polypeptide from a library or a repertoire of peptides and polypeptides (e.g., a display system) that is resistant to degradation by a protease such as a protease found in the serum. Generally, the method comprises providing a library or repertoire of peptides or polypeptides, incubating the library or repertoire with a protease under conditions suitable for protease activity, and selecting, isolating and/or recovering a peptide or polypeptide that is resistant to degradation by the protease and has a desired biological activity. The selected peptides and polypeptides have utility as therapeutics, e.g., for treating disease in humans.
US10302654B2
Methods and apparatus for assaying the level of analytes in a sample, related to VLA-4, are disclosed. A method of decreasing the level of an anti-integrin antibody in a subject is described including a) contacting a biological sample from a subject with a detectable capture agent associated with a substrate, wherein the capture agent can bind an anti-integrin antibody in the sample; b) detecting binding of the capture agent with the level of the anti-integrin antibody; and c) treating the subject with plasma exchange until the level of the anti-integrin antibody in the sample reaches a predetermined level.
US10302652B2
Disclosed is a recombinant protein composed by the fusion of Glutathione S-transferase (GST), or an esa-histidine peptide (poly-His), or Maltose Binding Protein (MBP), to the Carboxyl-terminus end of the human KHNYN protein, containing residues 597-678 or a region including at least the amino acidic region 630-678. Also disclosed is a second recombinant protein where the Carboxyl-terminus end of the human KHNYN protein, containing residues 627-678 is genetically fused in a tandem construct to the Carboxyl-terminus end of KHNYN including residues 597-678. The tandem construct is N-terminally tagged with Glutathione S-transferase (GST), or an esa-histidine peptide (poly-His), or Maltose Binding Protein (MBP). The potential use of these “Neddylation sensors” also called “Neddylation probes” to isolate mono-, poly-neddylated targets as well as substrates modified by the addition of ubiquitin-NEDD8 mixed chains is considered.
US10302646B2
A biosensor for use in detecting the presence of diseases, the biosensor comprising a detector for detecting a presence of at least one marker indicative of a specific disease. A method of determining efficacy of a pharmaceutical for treating a disease or staging disease by administering a pharmaceutical to a sample containing markers for a disease, detecting the amount of at least one marker of the disease in the sample, and analyzing the amount of the marker in the sample, whereby the amount of marker correlates to pharmaceutical efficacy or disease stage. Markers for gynecological disease. An immune-imaging agent comprising labeled antibodies, whereby the labeled antibodies are isolated and reactive to proteins overexpressed in vivo. Informatics software for analyzing the arrays, the software including analyzing means for analyzing the arrays.
US10302643B2
Methods, devices, apparatus, and systems are provided for image analysis. Methods of image analysis may include observation, measurement, and analysis of images of biological and other samples; devices, apparatus, and systems provided herein are useful for observation, measurement, and analysis of images of such samples. The methods, devices, apparatus, and systems disclosed herein provide advantages over other methods, devices, apparatus, and systems.
US10302637B2
A device for detecting target biomolecules is provided. The device consists of an electrically conductive membrane having a biological recognition component configured to bind a target biomolecule immobilized thereon. The membrane is connected to an electric circuit by means of electrodes. A voltage source applies a voltage to the membrane and a resistance monitoring device monitors the resistance of the membrane as a selected volume of fluid sample suspected of containing the target biomolecule is delivered onto the membrane.
US10302636B2
Disclosed are devices and methods for detecting analytes from a sample.
US10302631B2
Genetically encoded probe for quantification of pyruvate concentration and methods of using the same
The present invention relates to a new optical tool for detecting and quantifying pyruvate in samples, in tissues and in cellular and subcellular compartments, with high spatial and temporal resolution, this is a Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)-based pyruvate sensor comprising a bacterial PdhR transcription factor between any suitable donor and acceptor fluorescent proteins moieties. The invention also relates to methods of use of this novel optical tool for the quantification of the activity of pyruvate transporters, for the quantification of the rates of cellular pyruvate production and consumption, and for the direct quantification of the rate of mitochondrial pyruvate consumption in intact cells.
US10302628B2
A method and system for remotely monitoring intoxication of a user, comprising: prompting the user to provide a breath sample at a time point; at a breath sample acquisition device, generating a breath sample signal upon reception of the breath sample from the user, and broadcasting a unique signature proximal in time to the time point; using a sensor of a mobile computing device, generating an authentication signal derived from detection of the unique signature; at a processing system in communication with the mobile computing device and the sample acquisition device, receiving the breath sample signal and the authentication signal; generating a verification assessment that validates provision of the breath sample by the user; determining a value of an intoxication metric for the user based upon the breath sample signal; and transforming the verification assessment and the value of the intoxication metric into an analysis of intoxication of the user.
US10302623B2
One side of the surfaces of the crystal resonator 4 including an adsorbing film 46 that absorbs a sensing object on an excitation electrode 42A is pressed with the channel forming member 5 using the upper-side cover body 21 to form a channel 57, which runs from one end side to the other end side on one side of surfaces of the crystal resonator 4. A depressed portion 84 is disposed in at least one of: a position opposed to the channel 57 and at a surface on an opposite side of the channel 57 in the channel forming member 5, and a position opposed to the channel 57 and at a surface on the opposite side of the channel 57 in the pressing member with respect to the channel forming member 5.
US10302615B2
A method for determining an optimal radio frequency to break an emulsion comprises: analyzing an oil and water interface of an emulsion; defining the oil and water interface at a molecular level; simulating oscillation of molecules at the oil and water interface under different radio frequencies; and determining an optimal radio frequency to break the emulsion.
US10302609B2
Embodiments are directed to controlling a flow of a mixture of gas at a plurality of concentrations, controlling a temperature of a chamber over a temperature range, reading, by a computing device comprising a processor, gas absorbance values from a first detector included in the chamber over the plurality of concentrations and over the temperature range, generating at least one of a look-up table and a mathematical formula for the first detector based on the gas absorbance values, and causing the at least one of the look-up table and the mathematical formula to be stored in a second detector.
US10302608B1
A system and method for non-destructive testing of a monolith catalyst element includes a a piping arrangement located above and below the element that seals against a portion of the element. A test fluid passes between the piping and therefore through the portion of the sealed catalyst section. Ports located in the piping allow for sampling of the fluid before and after the catalyst section. The catalyst element may then be repositioned for testing of a second portion of the element.
US10302603B2
A rotary valve comprising a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator comprises at least three primary connection ports and at least three secondary connection ports, and wherein rotor interconnection paths are arranged to in the different rotor positions interconnect the primary connection ports with the secondary connection ports such that all of at least three secondary connection ports can be connected one at the time to each of at least three primary connection port by rotating the rotor into the different rotor positions.A chromatography system comprising at least three chromatography columns and a column inlet rotary valve, a column outlet rotary valve and a feed recirculation flow path.
US10302602B2
The present invention utilizes a high throughput testing (HTT) method of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to validate samples of pharmaceutical compositions. In one embodiment, improved sample preparation techniques comprise adding the entire vial of a sample to a wide mouth disposable bottle, adding diluent, shaking overnight, and centrifuging.
US10302588B2
A catalytic conversion characteristic of a catalyst, which indicates a relationship between an air-to-fuel ratio and a catalytic conversion efficiency of the catalyst, includes a second air-to-fuel ratio point, which is a point of starting an outflow of NOx from the catalyst and is located on a rich side of a first air-to-fuel ratio point that forms an equilibrium point for a rich component and oxygen. A constant current circuit, which induces a flow of an electric current from an exhaust side electrode to an atmosphere side electrode through a solid electrolyte layer in a sensor element, is connected to the sensor element. A microcomputer controls a current value of the electric current, which is induced by the constant current circuit, based on a difference between the first air-to-fuel ratio point and the second air-to-fuel ratio point at the catalyst.
US10302587B2
Test strip and method of operating thereof are provided. The test strip, from the top down, comprises a cover, an insulating layer, an electrode set, and a substrate. More particularly, the electrode set at least comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The insulating layer comprises a track, and the cover comprises an inlet, an indication line, and at least one vent. With the third electrode and the indication line in accordance with the present invention, a user may confirm the operation status of the test strip and the loading status of biological samples with ease to improve the accuracy of testing.
US10302580B2
A method of analyzing an iron melt for producing compacted graphite iron includes receiving thermal data from cooling of a cast melt including a predetermined amount of carbon, magnesium, balance iron and unavoidable impurities, plotting the temperature of the cast melt against time such that a plotted time-temperature curve is generated, comparing the generated plotted curve to at least one reference curve, the reference curve representing a corresponding thermal analysis of another melt, the resulting nodularity of which is known, for the purpose of predicting the nodularity of the cast melt on basis of the difference between the curves. The comparison on which the nodularity is predicted is performed along each of the curves for a time interval t1−t2 corresponding to a temperature interval T1−T2, where T1 is in the range of TEstart−TEmin where TEstart is the temperature of beginning formation of graphite in the melt and TEmin is a minimum temperature before start of eutectic recalescence in the melt, and T2 is in the range of Tsolidus−(Tsolidus−20° C.), and other time intervals in the curves are excluded from the comparison.
US10302573B2
One example of the present disclosure relates to an apparatus for spectroscopic analysis of residue. The apparatus includes a surface including a hydrophobic portion and a hydrophilic portion. The hydrophobic portion surrounds the hydrophilic portion. The hydrophilic portion includes a dimension equal to or larger than a width of a first incident non-destructive electromagnetic beam.
US10302569B2
A microscope apparatus (1A) includes a biological sample table (11) that supports the biological sample (B), an objective lens (12) disposed to face the biological sample table (11), a laser light source (13) that outputs light with which the biological sample (B) is irradiated via the objective lens (12), a shape measurement unit (20) that acquires a surface shape of the biological sample (B), a control unit (40) that generates aberration correction hologram data for correcting an aberration caused by the surface shape of the biological sample (B) on the basis of information acquired in the shape measurement unit (20), a first spatial light modulator (33) to which a hologram based on the aberration correction hologram data is presented and that modulates the light output from the laser light source (31), and a photodetector (37) that detects an intensity of light to be detected (L2) generated in the biological sample (B). Thus, a microscope apparatus and an image acquisition method capable of suppressing a decrease in condensing intensity of irradiation light inside a biological sample and spreading of a condensing shape are realized.
US10302568B2
Cell counters and methods of their use are disclosed herein. The cell counters comprise a sample mounting system that includes a base comprising a mounted lower sample surface and a cover comprising a mounted upper sample surface; a bright-field light source incorporated in the cover; an objective lens mounted below the sample mounting system; optionally, a fluorescence excitation source in optical communication with the sample mounting system; and an imaging system in optical communication with the bright-field light source and the objective lens. The mounted sample surfaces are configured for repeated use, such that disposable sample cartridges are not needed.
US10302567B2
Use of high throughput methods to analyze samples for toxic elements originating from industrial hygiene and environmental sampling are described. These methods utilize optical detection methods using plates with arrays and microwells. Methods to fabricate samples in such plates are described. The invention is particularly illustrated by demonstrating its applicability for analysis of beryllium by fluorescence and uranium by phosphorescence. This invention also discloses the use of improved filtration method and use of reagents with low background signals.
US10302561B2
A center wavelength of first pulsed light (exciting pulsed light) is variable, and a pulse rate of the first pulsed light coincides with an integer multiple of a free spectral interval of an optical oscillator at a center wavelength of second pulsed light (signal pulsed light or idler pulsed light). A center wavelength of a nonlinear gain generated by a nonlinear optical medium is made approximately coincident with the center wavelength of the second pulsed light.
US10302558B2
A gas analysis system includes: a laser light source for emitting a laser light to be transmitted through an analysis target gas; a photodetector configured to receive the laser light transmitted through the analysis target gas, for outputting a signal corresponding to an emission intensity of the received laser light; a gas analysis apparatus for analyzing the analysis target gas on the basis of the signal outputted from the photodetector; a variable light attenuator disposed between the analysis target gas and the laser light source; a transmitted-light amount detector configured to evaluate a transmitted light amount of the laser light transmitted through the analysis target gas on the basis of the signal outputted from the photodetector; and an attenuation amount controller configured to control an attenuation amount of the variable light attenuator on the basis of the transmitted light amount of the laser light evaluated by the transmitted-light amount detector.
US10302553B2
A gas exhaust by-product measurement system is provided. A gas chamber is configured to receive exhaust from the exhaust output. A light source, light detector, and at least one optical element are positioned so that a light beam from the light source is directed to the at least one optical element a plurality of times before reaching the light detector. At least one heater provides heat to the at least one optical element. A plurality of purge gas nozzles are in fluid connection with the optical cavity. A high flow line is in fluid connection between a purge gas source and the plurality of purge gas nozzles. A low flow line is in fluid connection between the purge gas source and the plurality of purge gas nozzles. At least one flow controller manages a plurality of flow rates including a high flow and a low flow.
US10302551B2
A technique for measuring atmospheric conditions includes: at a computing device, receiving, from an imager, image data representing an image of an atmospheric region; creating a cloud mask from the image data, the cloud mask including a cloud area corresponding a first area in the image that is cloud covered and a non-cloud area corresponding a second area in the image that is substantially without cloud cover; determining a measurement location in the non-cloud area that is spaced apart from a boundary of the cloud area and from edges of the cloud mask; steering a line of sight of a sensor to correspond to the measurement location; and measuring an atmospheric condition with the sensor at the measurement location within the non-cloud area.
US10302543B2
The present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for pressure-pulse decay performed on whole cylindrical samples whose entire outer surface areas are eligible to receive the pulse. Using the methods and apparatus of the present disclosure, not only is the experimental time dramatically shortened, it also allows for simultaneous determination of local permeabilities parallel and perpendicular to their native bedding planes. Currently, there is no permeability-measurement technique to capable of doing so from a single sample from a single test.
US10302533B2
A system for transferring a fluid sample in a fluid cell, includes a first and a second fluid circuit connected, respectively, to a first and a second inlet-outlet (1, 2) of a fluid cell (10), first injection elements (80) configured so as to inject, in series, into the first fluid circuit (11, 12, 13): a buffer solution, a first separation fluid volume followed by a fluid sample, then a second separation fluid volume and another buffer solution. The system includes first discharge elements arranged on the first fluid circuit near the first inlet-outlet (1), second injection elements (90, 91) arranged on the second fluid circuit (21, 22, 23) near the second inlet-outlet (2), and two-way circulation elements configured so as to circulate the fluid sample in two opposite directions in the fluid cell (10) without the passage of separation fluid into the fluid cell (10).
US10302529B2
An integrating sphere-equipped optical measurement device and optical connector polarity and type identification and loss measurement are provided. The optical measurement device includes at least two photodetectors that are optically responsive over different ranges of wavelengths. The optical measurement device receives one or more optical signals emanate from optical fibers of an optical fiber cable. The optical measurement device determines an optical intensity or loss of the one or more optical signals based on a measurement made by a corresponding photodetector whose responsivity range includes a wavelength of the one or more optical signals. The optical measurement device determines one or more respective positions where the one or more optical signals impinged on a sensor. The optical measurement device determines a polarity of the optical fiber cable based on both the one or more positions and one or more or transmitting positions of the one or more optical signals, respectively.
US10302528B2
Described are systems, devices, and methods related to a confocal laser method (CLM) for accurately measuring dioptric powers and other critical optical properties of intraocular lenses (IOLs), such as toric IOLs. Described test results demonstrate that the described CLM systems and methods can be used to measure the spherical equivalent and cylinder powers of toric IOLs with high accuracy. Furthermore, some described systems include a rotating rectangular slit aperture that can be used for precise differentiation of the two focal planes and isolation of the two focal points, and thus, for accurate measurement of the anterior cylinder axis of toric IOLs.
US10302526B2
Systems and methods for determining stresses in pipe under non-uniform exterior loads to test the pipe design for structural integrity by approximating non-uniform exterior loads on the pipe and performing a stress analysis of the pipe under the non-uniform exterior loading to determine the stresses in the pipe.
US10302524B2
Methods and systems for monitoring an integrity of electrical connectivity between a repair patch and a parent structure include providing the repair patch with an embedded sensor configured to detect electrical conductivity. The repair patch includes a ply of conductive material that overlaps a portion of a conductive layer of the parent structure. A baseline set of sensor data is acquired from the sensor indicative of an electrical connectivity between the ply of conductive material of the repair patch and the conductive layer of the parent structure. One or more additional sets of data may be obtained from the sensor and compared to the baseline set of data to determine an integrity of the electrical connectivity between the ply of conductive material of the repair patch and the conductive layer of the parent structure.
US10302515B2
Providing a fast response to a process step while allowing a sensor response to remain relatively slow. A mechanical component generates a response to a step change in a physical property and an electrical component generates an analog electrical signal indicative of the response generated by the mechanical component over a period of time. The analog electrical signal is converted into digital values and the digital values are used to indicate the final value of the step change in the physical property before the period of time has elapsed.
US10302508B2
Co-topo-polymeric indicator compositions and methods for making and using the same are provided. Indicator compositions of the invention include a polymer and undergo a color change, which may be reversible or irreversible, in response to an applied stimulus, e.g., temperature. Aspects of methods of producing the compositions include setting a fluid co-topo-polymeric precursor composition into a solid product and then subjecting the solid product (either immediately or after a delay period) to polymerizing conditions to produce the desired indicator composition. Also provided are indicator devices that include the indicator compositions of the invention. The compositions of the invention find use in a variety of different applications.
US10302501B2
A measuring device is provided which, in order to measure measured variables of an object being measured, can be placed on a surface of the object being measured. The surface supports the measuring device. The measuring device comprises at least three projecting contact surfaces, the center points of which are distributed substantially uniformly along a circle. The projecting contact surfaces, when the measuring device is placed on the surface of an object being measured, lie against the surface and are supported by the surface. A first of the contact surfaces comprises a temperature sensor for measuring the surface temperature of the object being measured, while a second and a third of the contact surfaces are provided to measure respective other measured variables.
US10302491B2
Apparatus for hyperspectral imaging, the apparatus including input optics that receive radiation reflected or radiated from a scene, a spatial modulator that spatially samples radiation received from the input optics to generate spatially sampled radiation, a spectral modulator that spectrally samples the spatially sampled radiation received from the spatial modulator to generate spectrally sampled radiation, a sensor that senses spectrally sampled radiation received from the spectral modulator and generates a corresponding output signal and at least one electronic processing device that controls the spatial and spectral modulators to cause spatial and spectral sampling to be performed, receives output signals and processes the output signals in accordance with performed spatial and spectral sampling to generate a hyperspectral image.
US10302489B2
The invention relates to a method for calibrating a spectroradiometer (1), comprising the following method steps: capture of light measurement data by the measurement of the radiation of at least one standard light source (4) using the spectroradiometer (1) that is to be calibrated; derivation of calibrated data from the light measurement data by the comparison of the captured light measurement data with known data of the standard light source (4); and calibration of the spectroradiometer (1) according to the calibration data. The aim of the invention is to provide a reliable and practical method for calibrating the spectroradiometer (1). In particular, the synchronism of spectroradiometers (1) situated in different locations (9, 10, 11) is to be produced simply and reliably. To achieve this aim, the validity, i.e. the usability, of the standard light source for the calibration is checked by a comparison of the light measurement data of the standard light source (4) with light measurement data of one or more additional standard light sources (4) of the same type, the validity of the standard light source (4) being established if the deviations of the light measurement data of the standard light sources (4) from one another lie below predefined limit values, and/or the standard light source (4) is measured using two or more standard spectroradiometers (1′) of the same type or of different types, the validity of the standard light source (4) being established if the deviations of the light measurement data from one another, said data being captured using the different standard spectroradiometers (1′), lie below predefined limit values.
US10302488B2
An optical slit device that combines microelectromechanical design techniques, semiconductor laser technology, and micro-optics to provide a spectrometer entrance slit on a semiconductor substrate with integrated calibration light sources, which integrated light enters the entrance slit and is transmitted down the same optical path as a light source under test and by which the spectrometer can be wavelength calibrated in situ is disclosed.
US10302487B2
A noise reduction apparatus includes a first delaying/combining unit configured to output first and second pulse light beams, and a second delaying/combining unit configured to branch the first pulse light beam into two pulse light beams to output third and fourth pulse light beams and branch the second pulse light beam into two pulse light beams to output fifth and sixth pulse light beams.
US10302484B2
An optical sensor including a substrate and a plurality of pixel units are provided. The pixel units are disposed on the substrate, and each of the pixel units includes a light source element, a light sensor element, a circuit unit, and an isolation element. Herein, the light source element emits light, the light sensor element senses an optical image. The circuit unit is configured to drive the light source element to emit light and to drive the light sensor element to sense the optical image. The isolation element isolates the light sensor element from the light source element. In addition, the light source element is disposed between the isolation element of the respective pixel unit and an isolation element of a neighboring pixel unit.
US10302480B2
A system and method for configuring a modular floatation device to adapt with various buoyancies is herein disclosed. In this embodiment, the system can comprise a one or more modules and a removable and reattachable buoyancy device. Each of the one or more modules can comprise a vertical shaft. Furthermore, one or more of the modules can comprise a magnetic circuit. Further, the removable and reattachable buoyancy device is attachable to the one or more modules. In another embodiment, a method for configuring a modular floatation device to adapt with various buoyancies is herein disclosed. The method can comprise connecting one or more modules together and attaching a buoyancy device to the modules. Each of the modules can comprise a vertical shaft. Furthermore, one or more of the modules can comprise a magnetic circuit.
US10302473B2
A flow sensor sub-assembly for sensing flow of a fluidic medicament is disclosed. The flow sensor sub-assembly includes a first spring contact and a second spring contact. The spring contacts are secured to a base that has a circuit for conducting an electrical signal to and from the spring contacts to a microprocessor. The first spring contact is in electrical communication with a first piezo element and the second spring contact is in electrical communication with a second piezo element. The first spring contact has a first contact force against the first piezo element and the second spring contact has a second contact force against the second piezo element, and the first and second contact forces are equivalent. A circuit board for interfacing to a flow sensor having a plurality of piezo elements for transmitting a flow signal indicative of flow of fluidic medicament is also disclosed.
US10302465B2
A light source in a rotary optical encoder can illuminate a pattern on a rotatable shaft and an optical sensor can detect either the light that is reflected or transmitted based on the pattern. A sampling rate of the optical sensor is dynamically adjusted based on a rotational speed of the rotatable shaft. A pulse rate of the light source may also be dynamically adjusted based on the sampling rate of the optical sensor.
US10302459B2
A bend sensor includes a flexible circuit substrate, an insulation pad and a flexible conductive substrate. The flexible circuit substrate includes an insulating body, a first circuit and a second circuit. The first and second circuits are disposed on opposing sides of the insulating body. The first circuit has first fingers, while the second circuit has second fingers. The insulation pad disposed on the insulating body exposes the first and second fingers. The flexible conductive substrate disposed on the insulating pad has a conductive layer separated from the first fingers and the second fingers. While the bend sensor is bent, the conductive layer on the flexible conductive substrate would deform toward the flexible circuit substrate so as to form multiple contacts with the first and second fingers. Through these contacts, a number of resistors are formed to contribute a detectable resistance for the corresponding bending amplitude to be further realized.
US10302456B1
Various embodiments include a position sensor configuration that compensates for a bias field offset. The position sensor configuration may be used for position sensing of components, such as camera components, that are movable via an actuator (e.g., a voice coil motor actuator). In some embodiments, the actuator may include an asymmetric magnet arrangement that produces an asymmetric magnetic field. The asymmetric magnetic field may include one or more bias field components that are offset relative to one or more axes. In some examples, the position sensor configuration may include one or more magnetic field sensor packages. Individual ones of the magnetic field sensor packages may include a magnetic field sensor and one or more compensation magnets. The compensation magnets may be configured to contribute to one or more compensation magnetic fields that counteract the bias field components such that the compensation magnetic fields compensate for the bias field offset.
US10302454B2
A retrofit device and method of installing such a device for supplementing a legacy flow meter in a fluid pipe system. The retrofit device enhances the function of the legacy flow meter by providing a digital interface and means for error diagnostics and tamper detection. The retrofit device adapts to the mechanical and casing form factor design of the legacy flow meter, particularly a flow meter already installed, such as buried in the ground.
US10302452B1
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for automating the verification of aerial vehicle sensors as part of a pre-flight, flight departure, in-transit flight, and/or delivery destination calibration verification process. At different stages, aerial vehicle sensors may obtain sensor measurements about objects within an environment, the obtained measurements may be processed to determine information about the object, as presented in the measurements, and the processed information may be compared with the actual information about the object to determine a variation or difference between the information. If the variation is within a tolerance range, the sensor may be auto adjusted and operation of the aerial vehicle may continue. If the variation exceeds a correction range, flight of the aerial vehicle may be aborted and the aerial vehicle routed for a full sensor calibration.
US10302448B2
An automobile periphery information display system can display actual situations around an own vehicle as superimposing on a map, and detects situations around the own vehicle with a sensor device. A navigation device specifies a current position and a travel direction of the own vehicle and reads map data of a peripheral region including the current position from a map database. An object determination unit detects existence of a detection object based on sensor information detected by the sensor device and determines a category of the detection object. Meanwhile, a position detection unit obtains positional information of the detection object based on the sensor information with the own vehicle being as a reference. An image generation unit generates a map image in which an icon corresponding to the detection object is superimposed on the map data at a position indicated by the positional information detected by the object determination unit.
US10302437B2
In a case where a specific position is designated in first road network data, first link group identification data containing a link, on which the specific position is present, is acquired, and a corresponding link group, which is a link group indicated by second link group identification data, corresponding to the first link group identification data, is extracted from second road network data. A corresponding position on a link contained in the corresponding link group, which corresponds to the specific position, is determined, and second information is acquired from second map data based on the corresponding position.
US10302427B2
Various embodiments of this disclosure relates to a methods and related apparatuses for rapidly and visually determining and verifying multiple interface alignments of parts within a system. In particular, embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and related apparatuses enabling rapid visual determining and verifying multiple interface alignments of parts within at least one first system interface part that cooperatively engage with at least one second system's interface part each having at least one system-sub-system assembly alignment datum that requires the at least one first and second system's interface parts cooperatively and engagingly align within multiple respective tolerances of alignment.
US10302417B2
Disclosed is a method of using laser sensors to measure the top surface of the granular flux powder height at the top of the continuous caster. Additionally, the laser sensor measures the height of the underlying sintered or liquid flux level absent the powder. This disclosure includes a method of utilizing a laser sensor and a gas puff to determine both the granular powder depth and the level of the underlying solid or liquid layer. The granular powder depth measurement then is utilized in a mold powder deposition system to permit feedback control so as to maintain the granular powder thickness.
US10302411B2
In order to measure the contrast of interference in an interference-based, closed-loop, phase-modulating optical sensor device, the gain of the feedback loop in a feedback controller is evaluated. This gain is found to be a measure for the contrast. The contrast evaluated in this way can e.g. be used for period-disambiguation when determining the measurand of the sensor device. The sensor device can e.g. be a high-voltage sensor or a current sensor.
US10302406B2
A mechanical device that has the ability to manage and set explosives cones in the rocks that form the hanging, which can be operated remotely, avoiding the danger of the current state of the art where operators place explosive using bamboo sticks, before detonating them, causing an imbalance in the hanging. The mechanical device also known as cone-holder, is located at the end of an automated and semi autotransportable manipulator arm for releasing hangings.
US10302404B2
The present invention provides ammunition cartridge having a two piece primer insert with a flange, a polymeric middle body extending from the primer insert to a cylindrical middle body coupling region, and a polymeric projectile end having a projectile aperture mated to the polymeric middle body.
US10302394B2
An apparatus includes an adjustment knob, an inner locking ring, and an outer locking ring threadably coupled to the inner locking ring. The adjustment knob includes at least one tooth protruding radially inward from an inner peripheral edge of the adjustment knob. The inner locking ring includes at least one tooth protruding radially outward from the inner locking ring and configured to engage the at least one tooth of the adjustment knob to prevent rotational movement of the adjustment knob. The outer locking ring is configured to move the inner locking ring in a first axial direction toward the adjustment knob when the outer locking ring is rotated in a first rotatable direction. The outer locking ring is also configured to move the inner locking ring in an opposite second axial direction away from the adjustment knob when the outer locking ring is rotated in an opposite second rotatable direction.
US10302386B2
A device for cleaning and/or loading a muzzle loading rifle. The device includes: (a) a beam, (b) a clamp, (c) an upper cradle, (d) a lower cradle; and (e) a retainer. The clamp is attached to the beam so that the beam can be clamped to an object with the longitudinal axis of the beam being vertical. The upper cradle is attached to an upper portion of the beam when the beam is clamped to an object, the lower cradle is attached to a lower portion of the beam when the beam is clamped to an object so that a muzzle loading rifle can be cradled and retained to the device with the muzzle of the rifle pointing up so that the rifle can be cleaned and/or loaded.
US10302383B2
An affixable magazine in compliance with new firearms laws that enables citizens to legally own and effectively operate a firearm, such as an AR-15. The affixable magazine allows a user to easily load ammunition through a hinged door without removing the magazine from the firearm, disassembling the action, or using tools. The affixable magazine includes: a magazine body configured to contain a stack of cartridges, and an attachable blocking tab for blocking removal of the ammunition magazine from the magazine well, the attachable blocking tab being attached after insertion of the ammunition magazine into the magazine well, and before re-engaging the upper receiver with the lower receiver. The affixable magazine also includes a magazine body having an opening, with a hinged door configured to alternately cover or reveal the opening, the magazine body including: at least one finger-pull slot with a bottom hook for locking the follower.
US10302374B2
A baffle assembly for directing air to a charge air cooler disposed within an engine compartment and mounted above a radiator module and behind a hood latch support bracket extending between an upper and lower structure of the vehicle frame. The baffle assembly includes a lower baffle for directing air upwardly towards the charge air cooler and an upper baffle for directing air downwardly towards the charge air cooler. An air diverter extends from either the lower or upper baffle for positioning behind the hood latch support bracket to reduce turbulence behind the hood latch support bracket and more uniformly distribute airflow to the charge air cooler. In other words, the air diverter reduces the recirculation region and turbulence by diverting the airflow behind the hood latch support bracket smoothly with minimum air flow losses and improves the mass flow rate through the charge air cooler, therefore significantly improving efficiency.
US10302372B2
A plate fin heat exchanger 1 includes a corrugated fin 3 and tube plates 2. An intermediate portion 33 of the corrugated fin between crest and trough portion 31 and 32 thereof has a plurality of protruding ribs 34 protruding beyond a surface of the corrugated fin and arranged in a first direction. Surfaces of the crest and trough portions being in contact with the tube plates are configured as contact surfaces 310, 320 with no protruding rib. Gently sloping portions 341 are provided between the protruding ribs and the contact surfaces of the crest and trough portions to gradually protrude from the surface of the corrugated fin with increasing distance from the contact surfaces, and are continuous with the protruding ribs.
US10302364B2
A falling film evaporator includes a plurality of evaporator tubes through which a volume of thermal energy transfer medium is flowed and a separator to separate a flow of liquid refrigerant from a vapor and liquid refrigerant mixture. A distributor distributes a flow of liquid refrigerant over the plurality of evaporator tubes. One or more vents stacks direct a flow of vapor refrigerant from the separator to a vent stack outlet in proximity to a refrigerant pool of the evaporator.
US10302359B2
A grain dryer having a column with an interior wall, an exterior wall, an inlet and an outlet. The column has an upper heated pressurized plenum and a lower, low pressure, suction plenum. Attached to the interior wall within the column is a narrowing divider that increases the path of the heated air at the pressure gradient.
US10302357B2
A process to produce at least carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide from a feed gas containing carbon dioxide, hydrogen and carbon monoxide; comprises separating at least part of the carbon dioxide from the compressed feed gas by partial condensation and/or distillation producing a carbon dioxide product and a carbon dioxide depleted stream, treating the carbon dioxide depleted stream in a treatment unit to produce a feed stream containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen, less rich in carbon dioxide than the carbon dioxide depleted stream and feeding at least part of the feed stream containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen to a separation unit operating at cryogenic temperatures to produce a carbon monoxide product.
US10302354B2
A refrigerator capable of supercooling a target liquid, housing a slush activation, and a control method thereof are provided. The refrigerator includes a temperature sensor which senses a temperature of the refrigerator's interior volume or of the target liquid therein and the temperature sensor is programmed to send warnings, alerts and messages to a user or as a default, activate a controller that cycles the compressor off and on to increase the temperature within the area where the ice nucleation and freezing is detected. In addition to a user-interactive warning system, a location system for a closed liquid container that is beginning to freeze is based on the detection of heat energy resulting from the exothermic crystallization reaction of a liquid that is beginning to freeze. A method, system and device is provided to prevent the unwanted occurrence of frozen, ruptured containers of supercooled liquid in closed containers. A refrigerator can have an inside compartment for chilling beverage containers to super cooled temperatures. A front door exterior port(s) on the refrigerator can be used for activating the slush formation from the super cooled liquid contents in the beverage containers. The front door exterior port can also be used as well for rapid chilling beverage containers to selected chilled temperatures with or with slush activation of the liquid contents in the beverage containers.
US10302349B2
A refrigerator includes a main body on which a hinge for rotatably supporting the door is mounted, a base frame mounted on the main body and having a first hinge accommodating portion formed at one end portion and a second hinge accommodating portion formed at the other end portion that is opposite to the one end portion, a hinge cover mounted on one of the first hinge accommodating portion and the second hinge accommodating portion, and configured to cover the hinge, and a cover frame configured to be coupled with the base frame by sliding in a first direction or by sliding in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
US10302337B2
An ammonia plant system upgrade utilizing both a direct and indirect multistage chilling system in the ammonia plant air compression train to increase process air flow to the secondary ammonia reformer of an ammonia plant as well as upgrades to provide more pre-heating along with increased process air flow.
US10302336B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes refrigerant circuits in which a high pressure shell compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and an indoor heat exchanger are connected; a mixed refrigerant containing 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene and a refrigerant other than 1,1,2-trifluorothylene and circulating through the refrigerant circuits; and a refrigerating machine oil enclosed in the refrigerant circuits and adjusted such that 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene will be more soluble therein than the other refrigerant is.
US10302331B2
A heating device is provided with plates stacked one on top of another. At least one first fluid channel is formed in a fluid-tight manner between a first plate package with a first and a second plate. An electrical heating element is arranged between a first plate of the first plate package and an additional plate. The electrical heating element is accommodated between the two plates in a sealed manner and is electrically insulated, wherein an inlet-side and an outlet side fluid connection of the first fluid channel is arranged on the second plate of the first plate package. The electrical heating element has a connection device for electrical contacting, which is connected to the electrical heating element and protrudes through a window in the second plate of the first plate package, wherein the fluid connections and the window are arranged adjacent to opposing lateral edges of the second plate.
US10302330B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus including a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, an outdoor heat exchanger, an outside air temperature sensor, and a controller configured to perform a hot gas defrosting operation and a reverse-defrosting operation based on a temperature obtained by the outside air temperature sensor. In the hot gas defrosting operation, hot gas discharged from the compressor without passing through the indoor heat exchanger is supplied to the outdoor heat exchanger. In the reverse-defrosting operation, refrigerant passing through the indoor heat exchanger is supplied from the compressor to the outdoor heat exchanger. The controller has at least a mixed defrosting operation mode in which the hot gas defrosting operation and the reverse-defrosting operation are performed in sequence. The controller is configured to start the mixed defrosting operation mode when the temperature obtained by the outside air temperature sensor satisfies a preset condition.
US10302328B2
Various arrangements are provided related to thermal energy coordination systems. A thermal energy coordination system may analyze solar irradiance measurements to identify an overgeneration solar energy event. The system may activate a thermal energy storage event to coincide with the overgeneration solar energy event at the plurality of solar panels. The system, which can include many network-enabled smart thermostats, may control air conditioners or other HVAC system within various structures. The system may determine a time to initiate cooling and a temperature to which to cool the structure based upon the received indication of the thermal energy storage event. Cooling may be initiated by the system based on the determined time and the determined temperature in response to the received indication of the thermal energy storage event.
US10302326B2
An air conditioner maintains a pleasant indoor temperature or humidity without making a user feel wind speed. The air conditioner includes a housing comprising a discharge plate having a plurality of discharge holes and an outlet, a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat with air introduced into the housing, a blower fan configured to allow the heat-exchanged air to flow through the discharge plate or the outlet, a discharge blade having a plurality of blade holes and configured to open and close the outlet; and a controller configured to control the heat-exchanged air to be discharged through the discharge holes and the blade holes when the outlet is closed and configured to reduce a frequency of a compressor to a predetermined value when an indoor relative humidity is within a predetermined range.
US10302324B2
Methods and apparatus to instruct movement based on sensor data. An example apparatus includes a sensor data receiver to receive sensor data from a sensor device, a preference receiver to receive a user preference, and a preference analyzer to: in response to determining that the sensor data indicates that the user preference is not met at a first location, determine if a second location has a condition that meets the user preference, and in response to determining that the second location has the condition that meets the user preference, transmitting a notification to instruct movement to the second location.
US10302316B2
A metallic tubular member having a closed end member for use in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems or refrigeration systems and method of manufacturing are presented. In one instance, the method includes providing a metallic tubular stock member having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is open and closing the first end of the metallic tubular stock member to form a first closed circular member having an outside diameter D1; forming a sealing aperture having an outside diameter D2 through the first closed circular end, wherein D2 is less than 5 percent of D1; and applying a heat-based sealing process including a metallic flow into the sealing aperture. Other methods and systems are presented.
US10302311B2
A furnace system includes an air intake that includes a pipe portion and a seal component configured to couple with the pipe portion. The furnace system also includes an internal drain disposed internal to the air intake. The internal drain includes a trough configured to collect liquid flowing along an inner surface of the pipe portion. The internal drain also includes an opening in the trough configured to guide the liquid collected in the trough to a passage through the air intake to a location outside the air intake.
US10302299B2
An atomizing burner and corresponding method for turning an atomizing burner from an ON state to an OFF state. The burner has independently controllable flows of atomizing air, combustion air, and fuel flow, the burner in the ON state having flow values of burner parameters including flow of atomizing air, flow of combustion air, and fuel flow. The method includes: changing, in response to an OFF instruction, flow of at least one of the flow of atomizing air, combustion air and/or fuel to a lower non-zero value; first discontinuing, after a first period of time since the changing, flow of fuel and flow of atomizing air; maintaining, for a second period of time since the first period of time, flow of combustion air; second discontinuing, after the maintaining, flow of combustion air; wherein the maintaining prevents buildup of excess heat inside the burner during the transition to the OFF state.
US10302293B2
A light source device includes a LED package, a container where the LED package is arranged and that is filled with nitrogen gas, and a fluorine-based coating film applied on a surface of the LED package and covering a light exit surface of the LED package. The LED package includes a LED element, a base board on which the LED element is mounted, a peripheral wall portion surrounding the LED element and extending from the base board, sealing resin disposed in an inner space within the peripheral wall portion such that the LED element is sealed with the sealing resin, and the light exit surface that is a surface of the sealing resin surrounded by the peripheral wall portion. Light from the LED element is exited outside the sealing resin through the light exit surface.
US10302284B2
The present disclosure teaches and describes an illumination device that may be coupled to a variety of objects to help provide lighting to an area. The illumination device has at least two sections that are connected by a hinge and rotate around that hinge. The illumination device further has adapters to increase the grip and hold of the device. The device may be lockable or use tension to hold it in a particular configuration. The illumination device has a number of light emitting diodes placed on the various surfaces of the device. The light emitting diodes provide lighting to assist individuals in performing tasks in dark or poorly lit areas. The lighting is controlled by a power switch which may also change the intensity of the light.
US10302274B2
A luminaire is disclosed comprising a cover plate including an light exit window and a region surrounding the light exit window, at least a part of said region comprising a plurality of first fixing members selected from one of a plurality of holes and a plurality of protrusions dimensioned to extend through said holes; a reflector having an inner volume and comprising at least one edge comprising a plurality of second fixing members, selected from the other of the plurality of holes and the plurality of protrusions dimensioned to extend through said openings; and a plurality of solid state elements within the inner volume, wherein the protrusions extend through the holes, each protrusion having a portion extending beyond the opening through which the protrusion extends, said portion being bent over an edge of the opening to secure the reflector on the cover plate, wherein the inner volume is delimited by the reflector and the cover plate and the solid state lighting elements are arranged to direct their luminous output towards the light exit window. A modular surface covering arrangement including such a luminaire and a kit for assembling such a luminaire are also disclosed.
US10302268B2
A vehicular headlamp includes: a light source emitting light; a projection lens through which the light emitted from the light source is transmitted; and a reflective plate positioned between the light source and the projection lens so as to reflect a portion of the light emitted from the light source toward the projection lens. An emission direction of at least a portion of the light reflected by the reflective plate from the projection lens is different from an emission direction of light emitted from the projection lens and forming a light distribution pattern.
US10302265B2
An LED light unit, in particular for a passenger transportation vehicle, such as an aircraft, a road vehicle, a ship or a rail car, has a support portion a light source having at least one LED, the light source being arranged on the support portion, and a refractive optical element having an inner surface and an outer surface the refractive optical element being attached to the support portion and being arranged over the light source. The refractive optical element has a chamfer portion adjacent the support portion, wherein at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface has at least one chamfer surface in the chamfer portion.
US10302261B2
An automatic lamp installation mechanism includes a support element having one end of rotatably connected to a side of a fixing base; an elastic element arranged between the support element and the fixing base, a fixing element provided on the support element and including a first catch element; and a limiting element provided on the side of the fixing base and having a triggering element and a second catch element, wherein the triggering element is located apart from the fixing base.
US10302259B2
A low voltage DC lighting apparatus is provided as a generally rectangular or cube-shaped housing including one or more low-voltage DC lights at the housing, one or more on/off light controllers and one or more status displays. During a power outage, the low voltage apparatus can be turned on to provide lighting anywhere in a home, where needed. The housing has an AC-style power socket plug which outputs a DC voltage that can drive lower voltage, DC bulbs via a conventional AC convention cord. The internal electrical circuit of the housing has a rechargeable low voltage DC battery, a charger for the battery and DC light drivers for driving the DC light outputs.
US10302257B2
A lamp apparatus for a vehicle may include a light source device configured to irradiate light; a detector configured to be distanced from the light source device and detect the light irradiated from the light source device, verifying whether the light source device is operating abnormally; and a reflector configured to have the light irradiated from the light source device incident thereon and reflect a portion of the light irradiated from the light source device wherein a portion of the light reflects toward the detector while reflecting the light irradiated from the light source device such that the light reflects toward a front of the vehicle.
US10302245B2
In one aspect, kits for constructing an apparatus are described herein which, in some embodiments, can demonstrate desirable modularity, adjustability, and reconfigurability. A kit for constructing an apparatus described herein comprises a plurality of modular blocks and fastening pins and coupling pins for connecting the modular blocks to one another. A modular block comprises a first face having one or more first apertures for receiving fastening pins and an adjacent second face having one or more second apertures for receiving coupling pins. A fastening pin comprises a sidewall aperture for receiving a coupling pin.
US10302244B2
A multi-purpose camera stand includes a lower tube, an upper tube sheathed on the lower tube, a multi-stage telescopic rod installed into the lower tube, and a mounting stand fixed to the multi-stage telescopic rod. A camera equipment is installed onto the mounting stand, and three legs are hinged to the bottom of the lower tube. After the three legs are folded, a first accommodating space for accommodating the multi-stage telescopic rod is formed, and a second accommodating space for accommodating the stand is formed in the upper tube. When the camera stand is folded, the telescopic rod is accommodated into the first accommodating space, and the mounting stand is accommodated into the second accommodating space to reduce the storage volume of the camera stand and facilitate storage and carry. In addition, the mounting stand can be rotated in different directions to fit the use of different occasions.
US10302237B2
The present invention is an improved method and assembly for repairing a pipe or the junction of two pipes, such as sewer pipes. The assembly includes a launcher device having a launcher device body, a launcher device opening disposed on the launcher device body, and a main bladder substantially surrounding the launcher device body. The main bladder includes an opening that substantially aligns with the launcher device opening. The assembly further includes an absorbent liner and a lateral bladder having a tubular lateral bladder body portion and a flange portion. The flange portion of the lateral bladder is attached to the exterior of the launcher device body. A method of using the assembly includes impregnating the liner with resinous material; inserting at least a portion of the liner into the lateral bladder; inflating the bladders; pressing the liner against the pipe; and allowing the resinous material to cure and harden.
US10302233B2
A gauge adaptor apparatus allows easy connection and removal of a gauge to a hydronic system or other fluidic piping system for taking a pressure or temperature reading. The gauge adaptor apparatus is compatible with standard hose connections and can be used to quickly and easily add a gauge onto a hydronic system without requiring extensive labor and without needing to halt the operation of the system. Gauge adaptor apparatuses can be used to take one-time readings, or they can be left permanently installed for ongoing readings of the system. Gauge adaptor apparatuses take up little space, are highly compatible with existing fluid valves and system configurations, can be installed quickly and easily without requiring much labor, and can be easily removed for system draining, servicing, or replacement.
US10302232B2
A self-sealing end fitting includes a valve, an adaptor, and a connector. The valve may define a longitudinal axis and may include a first end portion, a second end portion, a flange disposed therebetween, and a central bore. The adaptor may have a first end portion surrounding at least the second end portion of the valve, and the connector may surround at least the first end portion of the valve. A portion of the connector, a portion of the flange, and a portion of the first end portion of the adaptor may define a pocket. The valve may be configured to move axially relative to the adaptor. In embodiments, a sealing surface of the flange may contact a corresponding sealing surface of the first end portion of the adaptor to form a first seal within the pocket, and the first seal may comprise a metal-to-metal seal.
US10302226B2
The present invention concerns a device (1) designed to attach at least one cable (2) along a pipe (3), the device (1) comprising: a base (10) constituting a part of maximum height (H10) of the device (1); a channel (20) that extends along a longitudinal axis (X1) on an upper side of the device (1) and which is intended to receive the cable (2); a support surface (30) which is formed on a lower side of the device (1) and which is intended to rest against the pipe (3); two jaws which are formed protruding from the base (10) on the upper side, which border the channel (20) on either side of the longitudinal axis (X1) and which constitute a clamp (12) provided to grip the cable (2); and a transverse passage (40) which is formed through the base (10), between the channel (20) and the support surface (30), and which is intended to receive an attachment member (4) to press the device (1) against the pipe (3); characterized in that the device (1) comprises a longitudinal extension (50) prolonging the base (10), more elongated than the base (10) and having a height (H50) decreasing overall moving away from the base (10) along the longitudinal axis (X1).
US10302225B2
A vacuum valve having a valve body with a valve opening surrounded by a valve seat, a closure member displaceable parallel to a longitudinal adjustment direction between an open position, and an intermediate position, in which the closure member covers the valve opening but is raised from valve seat, and a closed position, a valve rod supporting the closure member, a longitudinal stroke linear guide which has a longitudinal stroke slider connected to the valve rod and a longitudinal stroke guide part by which the longitudinal stroke slider is guided in a linearly displaceable manner in the longitudinal adjustment direction, and a transverse stroke linear guide which includes a transverse stroke slider connected to the longitudinal stroke guide part and a transverse stroke guide part by which the transverse stroke slider is guided in a linearly displaceable in an oblique adjustment direction positioned oblique to the longitudinal adjustment direction.
US10302224B2
A noise-reducing valve structure includes a unitary spindle-shaped body having a central lumen for receiving a fluid flow and a poppet member, the body having an inner diameter adjacent the central lumen and an outer diameter and a circumferentially and axially distributed plurality of radial passages adapted to be opened and closed in accordance with a guided position of the poppet member, the plurality of radial passages extending through the spindle-shaped body from the inner diameter to the outer diameter and having a gradually increasing area from the inner diameter to the outer diameter.
US10302215B2
Exemplary illustrations of a fluid valve, e.g., a return valve for returning residual paint, rinsing agent, and compressed air from a paint line when changing color in a painting system, are disclosed. An exemplary fluid valve may be adjusted between an open position, in which the fluid valve is at least partially open, e.g., for rinsing a paint line with a rinsing agent and for pressurizing the paint line with a new color for the color change, and a closed position, in which the fluid valve is closed, e.g., for applying the new color after the color change. An exemplary fluid valve may switch to the closed position, upon actuation by the medium thereof, e.g., medium flowing through or present in the valve. In another example, a fluid valve may close depending on the fluid present at the input side.
US10302214B2
A flow control valve for a filling machine configured to fill receptacles with a pourable product, the flow control valve comprising: a tubular body defining a channel for the pourable product, the tubular body having a longitudinal axis and terminating with at least one narrowed end mouth; and a shutter movable within the channel between a closed position, and an open position. The shutter includes a main portion coupled in a sliding manner with an inner surface of the tubular body; and a narrowed closing head, wherein the main portion of the shutter includes a flat plate extending along a diameter of the channel with respect to the longitudinal axis, contacting the inner surface of the tubular body at opposite sides and defining, with the remaining portions of the inner surface, two opposite cavities, which have respective profiles shaped as circular segments and through which the pourable product can flow during operation.
US10302202B2
A valve assembly for modulating flow of a fluid through a valve may include a plunger, a flange with an orifice, a first disc with an orifice, a second disc, a gasket in contact with both the flange and the first disc, three bearing members disposed between the first disc and the flange. The three bearing members define a position and orientation of the first disc with respect to the flange, and separate the first disc from the flange, thereby defining a gap between the flange and said disc. The plunger displaces the second disc surfaces from a first position to a second position.
US10302199B2
A seal for a rotary machine may include an end cap configured to be coupled to the rotary machine. The end cap may define an end face and a bore. The seal may also include a sleeve received through the bore of the end cap and configured to receive a shaft associated with the rotary machine. The seal may also include a collar coupled to the sleeve and configured to couple the sleeve to the shaft associated with the rotary machine. The seal may further include a spacer coupled to the end face of the end cap, in a first position, such that at least a portion the spacer is between the collar and the end face of the end cap, and, in a second position, such that the portion of the spacer is not between the collar and the end face of the end cap.
US10302198B2
A sealing interface configured to prevent galvanic corrosion of a container having parts made of dissimilar materials includes a first part, a second part, and a sealant. The first part has a first sealing surface and a first exterior surface substantially perpendicular to the first sealing surface. The second part has a second sealing surface and a second exterior surface substantially perpendicular to the second sealing surface. One of the parts includes an external sealing chamfer on the respective sealing surface extending to the respective exterior surface. The sealant at least fills a space formed between the external sealing chamfer and the sealing surface of the other of the parts when the parts are connected, forming a barrier between the parts such that the exterior surfaces of the parts are not in contact and are separated by the sealant. The exterior surfaces may be flush when the parts are connected.
US10302191B2
A transmission is provided including a transmission case accommodating a transmission mechanism, a hydraulic controller having a valve body and a valve for controlling the transmission mechanism, the valve body formed with a valve insertion hole into which the valve is inserted, and an oil path communicating with the valve insertion hole, and an oil storage for storing oil. At least one of the valve body and the oil storage is integrally formed with the transmission case.
US10302184B2
A bicycle component comprises a base member and a first alumite layer. The base member is made of an aluminum alloy. The first alumite layer is provided on the base member. The first alumite layer has a thickness that is equal to or larger than 1.0 μm.
US10302173B2
A multi-speed transmission including a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers to achieve at least nine forward speed ratios is disclosed. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gearset. The plurality of selective couplers may include a number of clutches and a number of brakes. The multi-speed transmission may have four planetary gearsets and six selective couplers. The six selective couplers may include three clutches and three brakes.
US10302172B2
A window covering control assembly is used in a window covering system. The window covering control assembly comprises a driving module and a speed control module, and is provided in the shell, engaged to the weight element for simultaneous operation therewith. The driving module comprises a cord collecting assembly mounted in the shell. The cord collecting assembly is configured to operate in a first direction while a first driving force acting upon the cord collecting assembly such that the weight element descends away from the shell. The first driving force comprises at least a weight of the weight element. The speed control module is positioned corresponding to the driving module. A resistance force is selectively generated between the speed control module and the driving module, and this force reduces an operation speed of the cord collecting assembly in the first direction.
US10302170B2
A dynamic damper is coupled to an intermediate member of a damper device. A drive member of the damper device has additional abutment portions coupled to end portions of vibration absorption springs of the dynamic damper before both first and second inter-element stoppers operate. The second inter-element stoppers operate before the first inter-element stoppers operate and at least by the time when the additional coupling portions are coupled to end portions of the vibration absorption springs. Outer springs and the vibration absorption springs act in parallel to transfer torque after the additional coupling portions are coupled to end portions of the vibration absorption springs.
US10302152B2
A driving power transmission device includes a fluid pressure type clutch device that transmits driving power between two shaft members, and a pump that supplies a fluid to the clutch device. The pump includes a pump that makes a pressure of sucked fluid high; a first flow passage through which the fluid according to a pressure discharged from the pump is supplied to the clutch device during a driving of the pump; a second flow passage through which the fluid discharged from the pump is held during a stop of the pump and a pressing force is applied to the clutch device by the fluid to be held; and a switching valve that is switchable between a normal mode where a discharge port of the pump communicates with the first flow passage and a locking mode where the discharge port of the pump communicates with the second flow passage.
US10302149B2
A clutch center includes a pressure receiving part. A pressure plate includes a pressure applying part. A clutch part is disposed between the pressure receiving part and the pressure applying part. A cam mechanism includes a first cam part and a second cam part. The first cam part and the second cam part are offset from the clutch center and the pressure plate in an axial direction. The first cam part includes a first slope. The second cam part includes a second slope opposed to the first slope. When the first cam part is rotated relatively to the second cam part in a first direction making up a circumferential direction, the first and second slopes are pressed against each other and separate from each other. The pressure applying part moves toward the pressure receiving part as the first cam part and the second cam part separate.
US10302148B2
A shifting device for a motor vehicle transmission has a first coupling component, a second coupling component rotatable about a transmission axis (A), an inner friction ring which has a conical surface on a radially outer face, an outer friction ring which has a conical surface on a radially inner face, and an intermediate friction ring having a C-shaped ring cross section, including a friction cone connected to the second coupling component for joint rotation with and for axial displacement with respect to the second coupling component, while the inner friction ring and the outer friction ring are connected to the first coupling component for joint rotation with and for axial displacement with respect to the first coupling component. The friction cone extends between the conical surfaces of the inner friction ring and outer friction ring.
US10302139B2
A retainer is rotationally driven about a axis of a ball bearing, and convex areas having pockets provided therein along a ball pitch circle of the retainer and concave areas between adjacent pockets is detected by a sensor. Grease is discharged according to phases of the convex areas and concave areas in the rotationally driven retainer from a dispenser having grease discharge ports arranged to face an annular space.
US10302133B2
Bearing sealing structures are disclosed, which may include first and second frameworks configured to attach to an outer ring and an inner ring, respectively, and an elastic sealing member. The first framework may include a first radially extending part extending towards the inner ring, the second framework may include a second radially extending part extending towards the outer ring, and the second radially extending part may be located on an axially outer side of the first radially extending part. The sealing structure may form a first chamber and a second chamber in a radial direction, the first chamber being formed by the first or second radially extending part. The second chamber may be located on a radially inner side of the first chamber, and the elastic sealing member may include a first sealing member extending into the first chamber and a second sealing member extending into the second chamber.
US10302131B2
A tapered roller bearing (1) is includes an outer ring (2) having an outer ring raceway surface (2a) on the inner peripheral surface thereof, an inner ring (3) having an inner ring raceway surface (3a) on the outer peripheral surface thereof, and a plurality of tapered rollers (4) arranged in a rollable manner between the outer ring raceway surface (2a) and the inner ring raceway surface (3a). A large flange (3b) is formed on an end portion of the inner ring (3) on a large-diameter side of the inner ring, and the inner ring raceway surface (3a) continuously extends to the end face (3c) of the inner ring (3) on a small-diameter side of the inner ring. The contact angle (α) is 37°30′ to 50°. In this manner, the tapered roller bearing having high moment rigidity and long life can be provided.
US10302130B2
A self-lubricating fabric contains warp yarns or weft yarns that are composite yarns formed from fluorinated resin yarns and other yarns. The surface area of the other yarns on one surface of the fabric takes up 0 to 30% of the total surface area of the composite yarns, and the ratio of the section diameter of the other yarns to the section diameter of the fluorinated resin yarns in the composite yarns is 0.12 to 0.80. A method for producing the self-lubricating fabric and use of the self-lubricating fabric are also disclosed.
US10302119B2
An improved fastening device includes a shank portion with a first end and a second end disposed from the first end. The fastening device includes a head portion disposed adjacent the second end of the shank portion The head portion of the fastening device includes a lower perimeter adjacent the second end of the shank portion, an upper perimeter disposed away from the lower perimeter and a body portion extending between the lower perimeter and the upper perimeter. The head portion is configured to engage a standard hex-shaped socket. The lower perimeter of the head portion has a generally hex shape and the upper perimeter has a different shape than the lower perimeter.
US10302117B2
A de-coupling mechanism includes a link slidably received in a link aperture of a bracket. A pin is slidably received in a pin bore of the link and a receiving bore of the bracket. A first block is connected to the bracket and includes an initiator receiving passage in communication with the pin bore. An initiator is positioned in the initiator receiving passage and retained against a connecting passage edge and oppositely contacts an end face of a cap connected to the first block. A second block connected to the bracket includes a longitudinal channel having a channel diameter larger than a pin diameter so the pin is freely displaceable into the longitudinal channel. An end face of a retaining cap is connected to a second block end wall. The retaining cap includes a stepped portion having a step diameter smaller than the channel diameter and the pin diameter.
US10302114B2
An apparatus may comprise a plate, an arm, and an arm fastener. The plate comprises: a plate edge, an arm mounting region, and surface mounting region(s). The surface mounting region(s) is configured to affix the plate to a surface with the plate edge facing a surface terminus of the surface. The arm comprises a leg mounting region. The arm fastener is configured to adjustably hold the arm to the arm mounting region with the leg mounting region extending beyond the plate edge.
US10302112B2
A node element for a furniture system having a three-dimensional load-bearing tubular structure comprises a plurality of connection points for the mechanical fastening of two or more tubes. It further comprises two regions which are electrically insulated from each other and which are arranged such that two electrical polarities can be coaxially tapped at the connection points for the tubes.
US10302110B2
A thin, flat, generally rectangular form, constructed of resilient material forming a spring plate clamping device for the removable attachment of horizontal plant support rods onto upright stakes, thereby facilitating the construction of plant cages to support and protect vegetation.
US10302109B2
A fastening system comprising a second fastener fastened to a first fastener; the first fastener comprising a hollow housing having a side-wall and a top-wall; a first aperture formed in the side-wall and in the top-wall of the hollow housing, the first aperture configured for entry of the second fastener during fastening of the second fastener and first fastener; a second aperture formed in the side-wall of the hollow housing; a beam formed in the side-wall between the first aperture and the second aperture, the beam attached at opposing ends to the side-wall; the beam blocks the first aperture to inhibit separation of the second fastener from the first fastener through the first aperture; and the beam is configured to be deformed during fastening of the second fastener to the first fastener.
US10302095B2
A cooling air interface in a fan housing provided for diverting an amount of cooling air to cool a fan motor from a main air flow on a compression side of the fan, and delivering the cooling air to the fan motor to be cooled. The interface including a cooling air channel with an intake opening emptying into a cooling air passage having a cooling air exit opening where the cooling air is brought to the fan motor. Wall sections of the main air flow path that adjoin the intake opening, which in relation to the direction of the main air flow, are located upstream and downstream of the intake opening, extend up to the adjoining intake opening and into the cooling air channel, transitioning into the cooling air channel walls situated opposite one another in the form of rounded surfaces without corners and edges.
US10302085B2
The present invention relates to compression based engine boosting systems, and, more particularly, to a supercharger configuration for higher pressure applications.
US10302076B2
The present disclosure may relate to a pump including a centerless rim, a first roller guide shaped to roll along the centerless rim such that as the first roller guide is rotated, friction between the first roller guide and the centerless rim causes a corresponding rotation of the centerless rim. The pump may also include a second roller guide shaped to roll along the centerless rim, and a plurality of peristaltic rollers coupled to the centerless rim. The pump may additionally include a tube housing disposed proximate the plurality of peristaltic rollers, and a tube disposed between the tube housing and the peristaltic rollers such that as the centerless rim is rotated, the peristaltic rollers compress the tube against the tube housing to create negative pressure within the tube.
US10302065B2
A strip of fiber-reinforced polymeric material for a longitudinal reinforcing structure of a wind turbine blade, the strip having substantially flat upper and lower surfaces and extending longitudinally between first and second transverse edges, wherein an end region of the strip tapers in thickness towards the first transverse edge, and wherein one or more slots are defined in the tapered end region, the or each slot extending longitudinally from the first transverse edge of the strip into the tapered end region.
US10302064B2
Within examples, systems for enhanced performance blades for rotor craft are provided and methods for operation. An example system for a rotary device is provided comprising a rotor blade coupled to a rotor hub. The system also comprises an air channel disposed within the rotor blade, where the air channel is sealed proximate to a distal end of the rotor blade. The system also comprises an inlet positioned at a proximal end of the rotor blade, where the inlet is in fluid communication with the air channel. The system also comprises a plurality of outlets positioned along the rotor blade, where each of the plurality of outlets are in fluid communication with the air channel.
US10302063B2
Methods and systems are provided for addressing spark plug soot fouling. In one example, a method may include alternating one or more combustion events with spark timing advanced with one or more combustion events with nominal spark timing. The approach allows spark plug over-heating, and related issues such as knock, to be reduced.
US10302062B2
An ignition control apparatus of the present embodiment controls operation of an ignition plug provided so as to ignite an air-fuel mixed gas. The ignition control apparatus is characterized in that the ignition control apparatus includes: an ignition coil provided with a primary winding which allows a current to pass as a primary current therethrough and a second winding connected to the ignition coil, an increase and a decrease in the primary current generating a secondary current passing through the secondary winding; a DC power supply provided with a non-ground side output terminal, the non-ground side output terminal being connected to one end of the primary winding so that the primary current is made to pass through the primary winding; a first switching element configured of a semiconductor switching element provided with a first control terminal, a first power side terminal, and a first ground side terminal, the semiconductor switching element controlling on and off states of current supply between the first power side terminal and the first ground side terminal based on a first control signal inputted to the first control terminal, the first power side terminal being connected to the other end side of the primary winding, the first ground side terminal being connected to a ground side; a second switching element configured of a semiconductor switching element provided with a second control terminal, a second power side terminal, and a second ground side terminal, the semiconductor switching element controlling on and off states of current supply between the second power side terminal and the second ground side terminal based on a second control signal inputted to the second control terminal, the second ground side terminal being connected to the other end side of the primary winding; a third switching element configured of a semiconductor switching element provided with a third control terminal, a third power side terminal, and a third ground side terminal, the semiconductor switching element controlling on and off states of current supply between the third power side terminal and the third ground side terminal based on a third control signal inputted to the third control terminal, the third power side terminal being connected to the second power side terminal of the second switching element, the third ground side terminal being connected to the ground side; and an energy accumulation coil configured of an inductor, the inductor being interposed in a power line connecting the non-ground side output terminal of the DC power supply and the third power side terminal of the third switching element, the energy accumulation coil accumulating energy therein in response to turning on of the third switching element.
US10302055B2
To improve the ability to layout delivery pipes by maintaining flexibility in a mounting position of an inlet pipe to a delivery pipe main body. A delivery pipe for gasoline comprising a flat shaped delivery pipe main body 1 provided with a pair of facing wide walls 2, 3 and a pair of facing narrow walls 4, 5 that are more narrow than the pair of wide walls 2, 3, wherein an inlet pipe 7 is disposed and connected to the narrow wall 4 of the delivery pipe main body 1, and a connecting portion 10 of the inlet pipe 7 and the narrow wall 4 is covered continuously by a reinforcing material 11 from the connecting portion 10 over the wide walls 2, 3, thereby reinforcing the connection portion 10.
US10302052B2
A variable noise attenuation element includes at least two tube sections that define an overall tube length that defines a first effective length and associated first peak frequency for noise attenuation, and a valve having a valve member. The valve joins the tube sections together and includes openings that permit communication between the tube sections when the valve is in an open configuration. The valve member operates to close the opening in response to a predetermined vacuum level within the tube sections to define a second tube effective length and associated second peak frequency for attenuation that is less than the overall length. A method of attenuating noise in a vehicle using a passive attenuation arrangement operates a valve disposed between two tube sections to change an effective length of the tube and associated peak frequencies for attenuation in response to an engine operating parameter.
US10302033B2
In a hybrid vehicle, in a case where a temperature of a catalyst is equal to or larger than a prescribed temperature that is a temperature at which purification of an exhaust gas in the catalyst begins, and charging of a storage battery is not restricted, at least one of an engine load, an engine speed, and a retard angle amount of an ignition timing is made to gradually increase, and in a case where the temperature of the catalyst is equal to or larger than the prescribed temperature and the charging of the storage battery is restricted, the engine load is fixed and at least one of the engine speed and the retard angle amount of the ignition timing is made to gradually increase.
US10302029B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. The control apparatus includes a temperature sensor and an electronic control unit. The temperature sensor is configured to detect the temperature of an exhaust gas control apparatus. The electronic control unit is configured to: estimate a sulfuric compound accumulation amount on the exhaust gas control apparatus; and when a specific condition in which the sulfuric compound accumulation amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined accumulation amount and the temperature of the exhaust gas control apparatus is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature or more is satisfied, control an intake air amount adjuster such that an intake air amount when the specific condition is satisfied is increased as compared to the intake air amount when the specific condition is not satisfied in the same operation state.
US10302028B2
Provided are a work machine, a power unit, and a diesel engine of a work machine that make it possible to reduce emitted noxious substances to levels below reference values stipulated by exhaust gas regulations in advanced countries and regions while also omitting or simplifying a post-treatment device. A hydraulic pump is driven by a diesel engine that limits maximum output torque in a low revolution speed region lower than a high revolution speed region including a rated revolution speed in such a manner that the maximum output torque has a characteristic of intermediate torque lower than torque of a maximum output horsepower point at the rated revolution speed, and a hydraulic actuator is driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump.
US10302022B2
A wire throttle adjustment device 1 for performing open-close adjustment of a throttle valve by pull operation of a wire 2. The wire throttle adjustment device 1 includes an operation member 10 connected to an end part 2A of the wire 2 and configured to perform the pull operation of the wire 2. The operation member 10 includes an action part 11 that is elastically deformable by the pull operation of the wire 2 in a fully-opened state of the throttle valve. The action part 11 includes an elastically-deformable elastic arm part 12 configured to swing together with the operation part 15 and extending from the pivotally-supported part 14, and the end part of the wire 14 is connected to a tip part of the elastic arm part 12.
US10302014B2
A method comprises the steps of modifying an existing engine which includes a high pressure compressor driven by a high pressure turbine and a low pressure turbine to drive a low pressure compressor. The modifying step includes utilizing the high pressure compressor as a low pressure compressor in a modified gas turbine engine, and designing and incorporating a new high pressure compressor downstream of the low pressure compressor section in the modified engine, such that a portion of the design of the existing engine is utilized in the modified engine. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US10302010B2
Valve element for an exhaust-gas turbocharger, having a spindle which has a longitudinal extent, a lever which extends from the spindle laterally in relation to the longitudinal extent of said spindle and which has a through opening, a valve flap plate, a substantially disc-shaped fastening element, and a shank which extends through the through opening and which connects the valve flap plate to the fastening element, wherein the valve flap plate and the fastening element are connected to one another by way of a shank extending through the through opening of the lever, and wherein a spring element is provided for generating a preload between shank and lever.
US10302007B2
A turbine housing of an exhaust-gas turbocharger may include at least two spiral-shaped exhaust-gas channels separated from one another via a partition. The at least two channels may be delimited radially to the outside by the turbine housing and radially to the inside by at least two spiral tongues. A first spiral tongue may be associated with one of the channels and a second spiral tongue may be associated with the other of the channels. The at least two spiral tongues may extend in opposite directions away from the partition in a direction towards the turbine housing. According to an example, the at least two spiral tongues may be configured such that, under an increasing thermomechanical loading, the first spiral tongue fails before the second spiral tongue.
US10301998B2
A heat exchanger system for treatment of a flow of exhaust gases in an exhaust gas aftertreatment system of a vehicle. The heat exchanger system includes a nitrogen monoxide (NO) oxidation site for oxidizing nitrogen monoxide to nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The NO oxidation site is positioned such that the flow of exhaust gases at a downstream end (40) of the NO oxidation site in use of the heat exchanger system is arranged to proceed at a temperature within a predetermined temperature interval corresponding to a desired NO to NO2 (NO:NO2) ratio interval in the flow of exhaust gases. An exhaust gas aftertreatment system and a vehicle including such a heat exchanger system, and a method for using such a heat exchanger system, are also provided.
US10301993B2
An electrically heated catalyst device has a catalyst that purifies exhaust gas from an engine, and is configured to heat the catalyst with electric power that is supplied from an electric storage device. A current sensor detects a current that is supplied to the electrically heated catalyst device. A current sensor detects an input/output current of the electric storage device. A controller executes failure determination control to determine whether the current sensor has a failure. In the failure determination control, the controller estimates a current that is supplied to the electrically heated catalyst device using a detection value of the current sensor and compares the estimated current with a detection value of the current sensor to determine whether the current sensor has a failure.
US10301991B1
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing an electric heater configured to increase a temperature of an exhaust catalyst positioned in an exhaust system of an engine. In one example, a method comprises diagnosing the electric heater by activating the electric heater, routing air flow from the exhaust system to an intake of the engine, and indicating the electric heater is degraded based on a test temperature in the intake being below a threshold temperature. In this way, the electric heater may be diagnosed without inclusion of costly sensors in the exhaust catalyst, and where such diagnosis conducted periodically may reduce release of undesired emissions to atmosphere.
US10301983B2
A relief valve includes a housing including an internal flow passage through which a working fluid flows, and a relief port discharging the working fluid from the internal flow passage, and a valve body including a first pressure-receiving portion a second pressure-receiving portion receiving pressure with a pressure-receiving area that is larger than a pressure-receiving area of the first pressure-receiving portion, and a first recessed portion formed at the second pressure-receiving portion at an opposite side relative to a pressure-receiving surface of the second pressure-receiving portion and including a closed-end cylindrical shape. The relief valve includes a biasing force adjustment mechanism including a spring of which one end is held at the first recessed portion, a support portion retaining the other end of the spring and including a closed-end cylindrical shape, and a motor adjusting a rotational angle and causing the support portion to reciprocate.
US10301981B2
A method for retracting an extended pin of a sliding camshaft actuator wherein the actuator includes a magnetic field generating coil, a magnetic piston in connection with the extended pin operable to be actuated by the magnetic field generating coil, and a pin stop plate. The method comprises creating an air gap between the magnetic piston and the pin stop plate and reversing voltage on the magnetic field generating coil to retract the extended pin.
US10301980B2
The present disclosure relates to internal combustion engines. Various embodiments of the teachings may include a method for adjusting an actuator element for a camshaft of an internal combustion engine, wherein the actuator element is coupled to the camshaft to adjust a camshaft setting. The method may include determining a torque imposed by a component of the engine, based on an operating parameter and controlling an adjuster of the actuator to counteract the determined torque and resist adjustment of the actuator element and the camshaft setting. Without controlling the adjuster, the torque is transmitted from the camshaft to the actuator element and can bring about an adjustment of the actuator element and of the camshaft setting. The magnitude of the adjustment corresponds to the torque imposed by the component.
US10301979B2
The invention provides a hydraulic lash adjuster equipped with a cost effective dropout preventing mechanism for preventing a plunger from dropping out of a housing. The lash adjuster comprises: a cylindrical bottomed housing (3), a plunger (2), housed inside the housing (3), having an outer periphery in contact with the inner periphery of the housing (3), and a dropout preventing mechanism (14). The dropout preventing mechanism (14) comprises a first groove (11) formed in the inner circumferential periphery of the housing (3) and a second groove (12) formed in the outer circumferential periphery of the plunger (2) in opposition to the first groove (11), and a flexible linear member 4 disposed in the first and the second grooves (11) and (12).
US10301970B2
An axial turbine includes an upstream turbine stage that includes: a cover disposed at a distal end of an upstream bucket and opposed to an inner wall of an upstream diaphragm outer ring across a gap; and a downstream diaphragm outer ring that is disposed downstream of the upstream turbine stage and that has an inner peripheral-side end wall shaped into a flare. The inner peripheral-side end wall of the downstream diaphragm outer ring has a flare angle formed to be greater than a slant angle of an inner peripheral-side wall of the cover. In the axial turbine, the inner peripheral-side end wall of the downstream diaphragm outer ring is formed to have a meridional shape that has at least one inflection point between the upstream turbine stage and a downstream turbine stage and such that a tangent at the inflection point with respect to a steam flow direction has a positive gradient.
US10301956B2
A seal assembly extends along an axis and seals an axial (and/or radial) gap between a first component and a second component. The seal assembly includes a seal carrier and a seal element. The seal element extends axially (and/or radially) between a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the seal element is slidingly arranged within a slot in an axial end (or a radial side) of the seal carrier. The second portion of the seal element is configured to axially (and/or radially) engage the second component.
US10301943B2
The present disclosure is directed to a rotor blade for a turbomachine. The rotor blade includes an airfoil defining a cooling passage and a tip shroud coupled to the airfoil. The tip shroud includes first and second walls that at least partially define a cooling core fluidly coupled to the cooling passage. The rotor blade also includes a plurality of ribs positioned within the cooling core and coupled to the first and second walls. The reinforcing structure includes a plurality of interconnected ribs having a first rib with a first orientation and a second rib with a second orientation. The first and second orientations are different in three spatial dimensions.
US10301921B2
A system and a method are described for control of flow of oil and gas in pipelines on an installation in connection with testing of the oil and gas from a well, comprising: at least, a first test manifold (12,16) to which a number of wells are connected, a first pipeline (20) for flow of oil and gas from said first test manifold to sand separator equipment (30), at least, a second test manifold (14;18) to which a number of wells are connected and a second pipeline (22) for flow of the oil and gas from said second test manifold to the sand separator equipment (30). A crossflow manifold (10) is arranged between said first and second pipelines (20,22) and the sand separator equipment (30), where the crossflow manifold (10) is arranged to steer oil and gas from the first pipeline (20) to an inlet line (32) of the sand separator equipment (30), and to steer oil and gas from an outlet line (34) of the sand separator equipment (30) and to the second pipeline (22), and also that the crossflow manifold (10) is arranged to steer oil and gas from the second pipeline (22) to the inlet line (32) of the sand separator equipment (30), and to steer oil and gas from the outlet line (34) of the sand separator equipment (30) and to the first pipeline (20).
US10301918B2
A hydraulic fracture design model that simulates the complex physical process of fracture propagation in the earth driven by the injected fluid through a wellbore. An objective in the model is to adhere with the laws of physics governing the surface deformation of the created fracture subjected to the fluid pressure, the fluid flow in the gap formed by the opposing fracture surfaces, the propagation of the fracture front, the transport of the proppant in the fracture carried by the fluid, and the leakoff of the fracturing fluid into the permeable rock. The models used in accordance with methods of the invention are typically based on the assumptions and the mathematical equations for the conventional 2D or P3D models, and further take into account the network of jointed fracture segments. For each fracture segment, the mathematical equations governing the fracture deformation and fluid flow apply. For each time step, the model predicts the incremental growth of the branch tips and the pressure and flow rate distribution in the system by solving the governing equations and satisfying the boundary conditions at the fracture tips, wellbore and connected branch joints. An iterative technique is used to obtain the solution of this highly nonlinear and complex problem.
US10301906B2
A resettable pressure activated device (100), comprises an inner wall (102), a return spring (105), a resilient element (110) and an axially movable piston (120) arranged around the inner wall (102). The piston (120) comprises a radially extending piston area (121) in fluid communication with a central bore (101) within the inner wall (102) such that the piston (120) moves in an activation direction when a bore pressure within the central bore (101) exceeds the pressure around the device by a predetermined release pressure. The return spring (105) is configured to provide a return force that is directed opposite the activation direction and has a magnitude sufficient to return the piston (120) to an idle position when the bore pressure drops below a predetermined reset level. The resilient element (110) provides a retaining force, e.g. a friction force, equal to the difference between the release force and the return force. In a preferred embodiment, the retaining force is adjustable by adjustment means (111).
US10301895B2
A system includes a hanger running tool, which has a tool body, a first piston configured to move a first lock member between first locked and unlocked positions between the tool body and a hanger, and a second piston configured to move a second lock member between second locked and unlocked positions between the hanger and a tubing.
US10301886B2
A riser assembly is disclosed comprising: a main tube; two flanges coupled to the main tube, each flange comprising: a central lumen configured to be in fluid communication with the main tube; at least one choke/kill hole configured to receive a choke/kill line; at least one booster hole configured to receive a booster line; and a plurality of bolt holes, each bolt hole comprising a tapered portion and a dowel slot, where each bolt hole is configured to receive a nut, a bolt, and a dowel. In certain embodiments, riser strings comprising at least two riser assemblies coupled to each other are disclosed.
US10301884B2
A portable frame assembly has a skid assembly for supporting a vertically oriented mast assembly. The mast assembly includes at least two column assemblies that may be extended or retracted vertically as desired. The mast assembly is translatable horizontally on the skid assembly. The skid assembly may be positioned adjacent a wellhead for the purpose of performing plug and abandon operations. The skid assembly may include a power swivel and other such hydraulic or mechanical tools for performing a variety of operations on a well including removing and plugging well casing strings, milling pipe strings, cement drilling, removing wellhead assemblies, or setting and pulling plugs from pipe strings.
US10301875B2
The present invention is a universal stabilization apparatus which is functional for use with any type of extension ladder and can be easily manually attached/detached using only one hand of the worker. The apparatus is of simple construction, lightweight, portable, completely adjustable and attachable onto substantially any type of roof edge. The apparatus consists of only two elongated resilient members in combination and each have attachments thereon for securing the extension ladder when in use.
US10301874B1
An accessory holder for a ladder, such as an extension ladder, has a main body that attaches to the side rail of a ladder via the hollow interior of a rung, and has various adjustable hooks or arms that are configured to hold paint buckets, tools, brushes and other items for a painter or other tradesman.
US10301870B2
A vent comprises a vent body (1) having at least one air flow channel through the body between a front face and a rear face (2) of the body. At least one float controlled flap valve (13) is pivotably mounted within the body, the or each valve having a first, normal position in which air is permitted to flow through an air flow channel and a second position in which the valve pivots in the presence of water to seal the air flow channel.
US10301856B2
In a door opening and closing device for a vehicle, a handle case is mounted on an outer panel of a door, an arm portion of an outer handle that can be operated on the door extends through the handle case, penetrates into the outer panel, and is pivotably supported on the handle case, and a return spring is provided between the handle case and a pivoting member that is disposed on the handle case, pivotably supported on the handle case, and operatively linked to the outer handle. The device includes a dust proof wall surrounding a coil portion of the return spring. Accordingly, even when foreign matter enters an interior of the outer panel of the door through a gap between the arm portion of the outer handle and the handle case, it is possible to inhibit foreign matter from being caught in the return spring.
US10301855B2
A vehicle door includes a powered latch configured to selectively retain the door in a closed position when the powered latch is latched, and permits the door to be opened when the powered latch is unlatched. The vehicle door further includes an exterior door handle having an outer side that faces away from the door structure, and an inner side that is spaced apart from an outer surface of the door to define a gap. A force sensor on the exterior door handle detects impact forces on the handle. The door also includes an unlatch switch that can be actuated by a user to request unlatching of the powered latch. A controller is configured to deny an unlatch request generated by actuation of the unlatch switch if the force sensor detects an impact on the exterior handle.
US10301850B2
An apparatus for selectively securing at least a first zipper closure mechanism and a second zipper closure mechanism of a luggage case, may include a lock device coupled to the luggage case. The lock device includes a lock mechanism operable between a locked and unlocked configuration, at least two securing recesses for releasable receipt of at least a portion of each of the respective first and second zipper closure mechanisms and at least one release member for actuating the lock mechanism.
US10301848B2
The present disclosure relates to a locking bracket for securing two adjacent bodies to one another, in particular for securing a gate to a fence post. The locking bracket comprises a first hoop and a second hoop that, together with the first hoop, surrounds a region for receiving the two adjacent bodies. The hoops respectively have a first end and a second end, wherein they are connected to one another in an articulated manner at their first ends so that the hoops can be pivoted between an open position in which the locking bracket can be arranged around the two adjacent bodies and a closed position in which the hoops together surround the region for receiving the two adjacent bodies. Each of the hoops forms a lug at their free ends, the lug being oriented substantially perpendicular to the second end and having at least one bore.
US10301835B2
Swimming pool recess covers and methods of covering swimming pool recesses, for example, stairwells, are disclosed. The recess covers include a flexible sheet adapted to at least partially cover the recess, and one or more fasteners mounted to an edge of the sheet. The fasteners are adapted to engage a main pool cover. The fastener may be an elongated fastener having a receptacle adapted to receive a projection mounted on the main pool cover. The receptacle may have an opening defined by opposing arms adapted to deflect when contacted by the projection on the main cover. The flexible arms may also include projections that enhance engagement of the receptacle with the projection on the main pool cover. Swimming pool peripheral recess cover fasteners are also provided.
US10301834B2
A portable inflatable golf studio including an arcuate shaped roof panel, first and second side panels, a floor panel, a front panel, a back panel, a projector screen, a projector, and a tracking system. The first and second side panels are positioned parallel from one another and are attached to the arcuate shaped roof panel, wherein one of the first and second side panels defines a cavity configured to receive a television monitor. The floor panel configured to connect the first and second side panels to one another. The front panel removable attached to the arcuate shaped roof panel and the first and second side panels. The back panel positioned parallel to the front panel and attached to the arcuate shaped roof panel and the first and second side panels. Each panel includes one or more of inflatable sections.
US10301828B2
An underlayment material made of a laminate of a nonwoven thermoplastic fabric having a dimensional stability of less than 1% when exposed to a temperature of 82° C. when tested in accordance with ASTM D 1204 in both machine- and cross-directions and a thermoplastic barrier layer provides a combination of an improved dimensional stability, resistance to sliding along a roof deck and protection as a moisture barrier when used in roofing and flashing structures.
US10301827B2
In a bonding structure for bonding a bonding attachment, having an insertion hole formed to allow insertion of a rebar therein, to the rebar, an application liquid mixed with a granular fine powder is previously applied on the rebar or the inside of the insertion hole of the bonding attachment, and then the bonding attachment is bonded to the rebar inserted in the insertion hole. Thereby, the granular fine powder is disposed on the contact surfaces of the bonding attachment and the rebar inserted in the insertion hole of the bonding attachment, increasing the friction force to resist against the force to pull the inserted rebar out from the insertion hole.
US10301826B2
Provided herein are connectors for use in assembling reinforced concrete structures, as well as methods of assembly using the connectors. In one embodiment, the connectors and methods provide for secure and easy connection to the butt end of any rebar rod, as well as attachment of an opposite end to another metal structure. For example, a butt portion of a connector slides over the butt portion of a rebar rod, and can include one or more sidewall openings to allow welding onto rebar that is enclosed within the butt portion of the connector. The opposite second end can include a faceplate for attaching a weld plate, thus permitting a series of connections using connectors and weld plates, among other things. The connectors provide selected properties that differ from the rebar, welds, and weld plates, such as stretch, yield strength, ultimate strength, and transfer of stress and vibration, among other things.
US10301823B2
Frame supported panels with an increased load carrying capacity derived from inducing newly discovered conditions on panels made from weaker, lighter and thinner materials. The fixed/continuous/dropped condition can increase a panel's load capacity many times based on the panel's interaction with frame members. This enables foam panels, for example, to be used in structural applications. It also enables polyurethane foam with any cladding to provide a comprehensive, structural building panel that provides a finished exterior, continuous and cavity insulation, an air, moisture and vapor barrier and increased uplift resistance while eliminating condensation and thermal expansion/contraction.
US10301814B2
An automated extrusion construction system may include an extrusion nozzle configured to extrude construction material in a substantially horizontal direction against an elongated and substantially vertical surface. An extrusion nozzle may have a height adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the height of an outlet in response to level deviations in the surface on which the construction material is extruded by the extrusion nozzle. An automated extrusion construction system may include a slicing mechanism configured to controllably slice through the extruded layer.
US10301813B1
A prefabricated building module constructed at a central location and delivered to a construction site via shipping using the intermodal freight transport system and having cold formed wood bracing walls to resist forces in shear and uplift while providing a continuous load path to the foundation system. The module may include interior walls to section the module into rooms and further comprises mechanical, electrical, utility and plumbing aspects of a building, capable of inspection and certification prior to delivery to the construction site. Once arrived at the construction site the building module is anchored to the building foundation and the remainder of the house is built around the building module.
US10301812B1
Described is a modular home bar apparatus that allows for easy home installation and removal. The modular home bar apparatus includes a frame, an L-shaped or U-shaped unit, and optional shelving or ceiling units. The frame can be installed against a wall or as a floating unit in the room. The L-shaped or U-shaped unit covers the top of the frame and at least one side of the frame, providing both stability for the home bar apparatus and a place to mix drinks.
US10301800B2
A water control system including a showerhead and a tub faucet. The faucet has a valve configured to automatically restrict fluid flow through the faucet and direct fluid to the showerhead as a function of a parameter, such as a predetermined water temperature. The faucet has many modes of operation, including a Reset Mode, an Auto-Divert Mode, a Bypass Mode, and a Cold Mode. A flow control device generates minimal back-pressure when in the Reset Mode such that water does not undesirably back flow to a shower head.
US10301797B2
To improve the precision of position of a fastener hole and a seating face for mounting a counterweight, a counterweight supporting member is comprised of a support plate erected and fixed at the rear end of a revolving frame and a supporting member attached to the support plate. The supporting member is comprised of a base member that is locked and secured to a through hole opened on the support plate in a back and forth adjustable manner and has a counterweight fixing surface and a bolt fastening member in which a fastener hole for receiving a fastener bolt is formed.
US10301794B2
A construction machine acquires efficiently and accurately the target surface to be displayed or controlled. The construction machine includes: a design surface information storage unit storing three-dimensional target shape as multiple design surfaces; a work equipment velocity vector acquisition unit detecting or estimating the velocity of work equipment; a work equipment position acquisition unit detecting or estimating the position of the work equipment; a target surface acquisition unit acquiring a principal target surface to acquire an estimated target surface that is potentially the next principal target surface; an operation control unit correcting the work equipment velocity; and a display unit displaying the positional relations between the work equipment position and the principal target surface. The target surface acquisition unit includes an estimated target surface calculation unit determining as an estimated target surface the design surface located in the direction of the work equipment velocity vector.
US10301787B2
The present invention is directed to differing embodiments of safety trailers, which have first and second platforms and a safety wall positioned therebetween. The platforms and safety wall define an area protected from vehicular incursions.
US10301782B2
The present invention relates to a ground milling machine, in particular a road milling machine, for removing ground material, comprising a machine frame having a chassis, a milling drum supported on a machine frame, and a transport device having at least one conveyor belt, which is configured for conveying removed ground material in a conveying direction away from the milling drum to a discharge point, as well as to a method for operating a ground milling machine. One aspect of the present invention is to provide an electrostatic precipitator, which reduces the dust pollution.
US10301776B2
Provided is greaseproof paper that, when folded, shows little reduction in grease resistance at the folded portion. The greaseproof paper includes a paper base and a greaseproof layer provided on at least one surface of the paper base, wherein the greaseproof layer includes an ethylene-vinyl alcohol-vinyl ester copolymer (A) and a fatty acid derivative (B), contains 1 to 100 parts by mass of the component (B) per 100 parts by mass of the component (A), and is in an amount of 0.5 to 5.0 g/m2 in terms of dry mass. In the greaseproof paper, the ethylene-vinyl alcohol-vinyl ester copolymer (A) has a content of ethylene units of 1 to 15 mol %, has a total content of vinyl alcohol units and vinyl ester units of 85 to 99 mol %, and has a degree of polymerization of 300 to 2000. In the greaseproof paper, the fatty acid derivative (B) is a fatty acid amide compound.
US10301754B2
A sewing machine includes a vertical shuttle and a middle shuttle presser disposed at a front side of the vertical shuttle. The sewing machine includes a presser frame, an optical upper thread detector and a stitch skipping detection processor. The presser frame is movably supported between a pressing position at which the middle shuttle presser is pressed and a retract position separated from the pressing position. The optical upper thread detector is provided at the presser frame and is configured to detect passage of an upper thread using detecting light which passes through passage portions formed in the middle shuttle presser and which crosses a front side of a bobbin case of the vertical shuttle. The stitch skipping detection processor is configured to determine whether the passage of the upper thread is present based on an amount of received light of the detecting light from the upper thread detector.
US10301749B2
A circular comb of a combing machine has a base body oriented parallel to a rotational axis of the circular comb, the base body including an inner support surface and a radially oriented opening. A comb element is disposed on an outer circumference of the base body, and a retaining element having a threaded bore is connected to the comb element. A threaded bolt has a threaded first section that engages into the threaded bore, a middle section that protrudes through the radially oriented opening the in base body, and a second end section supported on the inner support surface of the base body. A diameter of the first end section of the threaded bolt is smaller than a diameter of the middle section. A spring element is provided between the inner support surface of the base body and the second end section of the threaded bolt.
US10301748B2
A fiber processing system for opening and mixing fiber material includes a plurality of bale openers for opening fiber bales. Conveying devices are arranged downstream of the bale openers for mixing and conveying the opened fiber material to a downstream processing device. The bale openers are divided into at least two opener groups, wherein each opener group produces a respective fiber mixture. Each opener group is allocated one or more of the conveying devices arranged in such a manner that the respective fiber mixtures are transported directly away from their associated opener group in different directions and the fiber mixtures are subsequently combined before or in the processing device into an overall fiber mixture.
US10301745B2
An ultralow defect gallium-containing nitride crystal and methods of making ultralow defect gallium-containing nitride crystals are disclosed. The crystals are useful as substrates for light emitting diodes, laser diodes, transistors, photodetectors, solar cells, and photoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen generators.
US10301744B2
A GaAs crystal has Δx(1) not greater than 20 cm−1 in an expression 1 Δ x ( 1 ) = ∑ i = 1 s x i - x BL s Expression 1 where xi represents a Raman shift of a first peak attributed to oscillation of a longitudinal optical phonon of GaAs in a Raman spectrum measured at an ith point in measurement of Raman spectra at s points in a (100) plane, xBL represents a Raman shift of an emission line peak of neon, and i and s are each a natural number greater than 0.
US10301743B2
A new GaN single crystal is provided. A GaN single crystal according to the present embodiment comprises a gallium polar surface which is a main surface on one side and a nitrogen polar surface which is a main surface on the opposite side, wherein on the gallium polar surface is found at least one square area, an outer periphery of which is constituted by four sides each with a length of 2 mm or more, and, when the at least one square are is divided into a plurality of sub-areas each of which is a square of 100 μm×100 μm, pit-free areas account for 80% or more of the sub-areas.
