US10306614B2
A method and a user equipment for receiving, and a method and an eNodeB for transmitting, downlink control information in a wireless communication system are discussed. The method for receiving downlink control information according to an embodiment includes receiving information on a starting symbol for monitoring an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) from an eNodeB; and receiving downlink control information by monitoring the EPDCCH in a specific region of a subframe starting from a starting symbol from the eNodeB. The starting symbol is determined based on a downlink bandwidth assigned to the user equipment and the information on the starting symbol.
US10306612B2
A technique for converging 5th Generation (5G) communication and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies is provided. The technique may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication and IoT technologies. Further, a method by a terminal in a communication system is provided that includes receiving configuration information including information on an uplink control channel format, receiving downlink data on at least one of a first subframe of a primary cell and a first subframe of a secondary cell, and transmitting a response corresponding to the downlink data on a second subframe of the primary cell based on the configuration information and the first subframe of a secondary cell. According to the method, data may be transmitted/received through the cells operating in the different duplex modes simultaneously and an uplink control format optimized for uplink control channel transmission may be used, resulting in improvement of uplink resource utilization efficiency.
US10306600B2
The present invention provides a method for the performance of a device-to-device (D2D) operation by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: starting to use an exceptional resource; determining whether a condition for suspending the use of the exceptional resource is satisfied; and when the condition for suspending the use of the exceptional resource is satisfied, suspending the use of the exceptional resource, wherein the condition for suspending the use of the exceptional resource is a suspension condition in an RRC idle state.
US10306594B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provided techniques for enhancing uplink coverage. A method for wireless communications by a wireless device is provided. The method generally includes obtaining a payload of data to be transmitted to a base station, selecting at least one uplink control channel and a number of transmission time intervals (TTIs), and conveying the data in the at least one uplink control channel over the number of TTIs, wherein different portions of the data are conveyed in different TTIs.
US10306585B2
The present invention provides a signal determining method and an apparatus, so as to resolve a problem, in a conventional positioning method, that a signal receiving device cannot accurately determine whether a received signal is an aggregated reference signal, and consequently, positioning fails due to a relatively large error of location information obtained by means of positioning. The method is as follows: A signal receiving device may estimate, according to a TAE between at least two subcarriers used by a signal sending device to transmit a reference signal and a reference signal sent by the signal sending device on each subcarrier, an aggregated reference signal that is sent by the signal sending device and that is obtained after carrier aggregation. After receiving a signal, the signal receiving device determines whether the signal is an aggregated reference signal sent by the signal sending device.
US10306583B2
Systems and methods to identify a region in which a mobile device is located, by: applying device attributes of the mobile device and region attributes of coordinates of the mobile device to a predictive model to generate an accuracy indicator, identifying a plurality of locations from the coordinates of the mobile device that represent one point and the accuracy indicator, converting coordinates of the locations to cell identifiers of a grid reference system, determining region(s) containing the locations by finding matching cell identifiers that are pre-associated with the region(s), and determining a confidence level of a region that contains at least a portion of the locations based on the weights of locations in the portion. The region is identified in response to a determination that the confidence level is above a threshold.
US10306572B2
A mobile communication device according to one embodiment includes a receiver, an imager, a detector, a determiner. The receiver configured to receive a frame including a first timing, a second timing, and first position information. The imager configured to capture the imaging target for a plurality of times. The detector configured to detect second position information, and third position information. The determiner determines whether or not the frame received by the receiver is a frame transmitted in tandem with an operation performed by the imaging target based on first to fourth timings. The corrector, when the determiner configured to determine that the frame received by the receiver is a frame transmitted in tandem with an operation performed by the imaging target, correct a timing of the clock based on the first to third position information and the first to fourth timings.
US10306568B2
Disclosed is a method for transceiving D2D data in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication, the method carried out by a first terminal comprising the step of transceiving a signal with a second terminal by means of a frame comprising one or more from among a first subframe to which a resource associated with D2D communication is allocated or a second subframe to which a resource associated with cellular communication is allocated, wherein if an overlap occurs between the first subframes or between the first subframe and the second subframe, then the signal transmission/reception from the overlapped section or a subframe comprising the overlapped section is dropped.
US10306565B2
Digital content can be broadcast in a sideband of an analog broadcast channel using multiple digital in-band on-channel (IBOC) transceivers connected in a mesh configuration to form an IBOC mesh network. The digital IBOC transceivers are positioned at various geographic locations, so that unlike traditional “HD” radio broadcasts, the IBOC broadcast transmission is spread out over a wide area, using multiple low power digital IBOC transceivers rather than being broadcast from the same location as the analog signal. An edge transceiver can limit IBOC transmission power of the IBOC transceivers to a desired portion of the power used to broadcast the analog signal. The edge server can make this determination based on measurements taken at the geographically distributed digital IBOC transceivers. The IBOC mesh network provides bi-directional communication between a mesh transceiver and a user device, and can be used to deliver user feedback.
US10306559B2
Techniques provided herein are directed toward using information from various sources to determine when the mobile device enters and exits a traffic tunnel, turning off the GNSS receiver of the mobile device when the mobile device enters the tunnel, and turning the GNSS receiver back on once it exits. For example, the mobile device can turn off the GNSS receiver based, at least in part, on a determination that the mobile device has entered the traffic tunnel, and a determined traffic tunnel length and/or estimated amount of time the mobile device will be in the traffic tunnel.
US10306557B2
An operating mode change method of a wireless local area network (WLAN) system according to an exemplary embodiment includes transmitting, by a station (STA) to an access point (AP), an operating mode change request frame comprising at least one of information on a change of a traffic indication map (TIM) mode, a request for a change of a power save parameter, and information on a change of a service type of the STA, receiving, from the AP, an operating mode change response frame comprising at least one of a TIM mode allowed by the AP, a reallocated association identification (AID), and information on a changed power save parameter, and performing at least one of the change of the TIM mode and the change of the power save parameter based on the information included in the operating mode change.
US10306553B2
A method and apparatus are provided for managing a state of activation of a radio access network in a local area network. A gateway allows access to a wide area communication network to devices of the local area network and communicates with at least one of the devices of the local area network by way of the radio access network, termed the main network. The gateway is associated with a device of the local area network on a secondary radio access network, termed the command network, distinct from the main network. A message is received by the gateway on the command network originating from the device. When the state of activation of the main network is deactivated, the gateway activates the main network. A connection between the device and the gateway can then be established on the main network.
US10306544B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for reducing contention in a wireless network. An IEEE 802.11 station (STA) may send a request frame to an IEEE 802.11 access point (AP). The AP may be able to accommodate the IEEE 802.11 STA. The STA may receive a response frame that may include a basic service set (BSS) discovery policy. The IEEE 802.11 STA may send a revised request frame, when the indicated BSS discover method is active scanning. The revised request frame may be sent based on the BSS discovery policy received from the IEEE 802.11 AP during the period of time. The IEEE 802.11 STA may send the revised request frame, e.g., when time elapsed since last second request exceeds an active scanning interval. The IEEE 802.11 STA may refrain from sending the second request frame, e.g., when the indicated BSS discovery method received from the IEEE 802.11 AP is passive scanning.
US10306540B2
A method for processing a first node to configure a neighbor network in a wireless communication system including the first node and one or more second nodes neighboring the first node. The method includes generating discovery information; and broadcasting the generated discovery information to one or more of the second nodes. The discovery information includes information of the first node, an indicator indicating whether to receive the discovery information and accept the relay of the received discovery information to other nodes, and a hop limit indicating the number of available relays of the discovery information. A value of the indicator is set through an input of a user.
US10306535B2
In some embodiments, a method comprises blocking mobile devices from establishing new connections to a cell, ending existent connections of mobile devices to the cell gradually based on a shutdown procedure, and locking the cell after the shutdown procedure. The shutdown procedure is configured according to pre-defined parameters that indicate to end the existent connections based on at least one of a priority level of existent connections or an activity level of existent connections.
US10306532B2
A Distributed sensing and control network includes multiple sensing/control nodes, each of which includes a controller. Each sensing/control node determines signal transmission/receipt scheduling based on a physical-ratio-k-scheduling (PRKS) protocol stored within the controller.
US10306530B2
A method performed by a first radio network node for handling mobility of a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The first radio network node provides radio coverage over a first service area using a first reference signal for identifying the first service area in the wireless communication network. A second radio network node provides radio coverage over a second service area using a second reference signal for identifying the second service area in the wireless communication network. The first radio network node receives a measurement report from the second radio network node, which measurement report indicates a second signal strength or quality of a second dedicated beam used for data transmission for wireless devices in the second service area. The first radio network node performs a mobility decision for the wireless device taking the second signal strength or quality, indicated in the received measurement report, into account.
US10306528B2
The present invention relates to an interference control method and an apparatus therefor in a heterogeneous system. To this end, the present invention relates to an interference control method for an almost blank subframe (ABS) ratio determination apparatus in a wireless communication system in which a cell range expansion (CRE) area is defined, comprising the steps of: receiving information about data load within a cell from one or more first cells, and one or more second cells; determining an ABS ratio on the basis of the wireless resource requirements of a CRE terminal with respect to the wireless resource requirements of all cells that are obtained from the data load information; and transmitting the determined ABS ratio to one of the first cells and the second cells.
US10306525B2
Defined is a handover procedure of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers requiring different UL Timing Advances (TAs) are aggregated in a mobile communication system. The handover procedure includes admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell, setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell and transmitting the set radio resource information to the source cell, determining whether a random access procedure, which is executed, among the multiple UL carriers, with a reference UL carrier or with an UL carrier to which the same UL TA as that of the reference UL carrier is applied, has been completed, and determining that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed if the random access procedure has been completed, and determining that the handover procedure of the UE has failed if the random access procedure fails.
US10306520B2
The present invention relates to a handover method between heterogeneous wireless communication techniques and a device for same. A wireless access device is capable of: transmitting to a terminal condition information related to conditions required for the terminal to carry out a predetermined reporting action; establishing wireless connection with the terminal, when a request from the terminal due to the reporting action has been received; providing to a network controller of a core network a message according to the reporting action; receiving from the network controller context information of the terminal for establishing security and data bearers; establishing a data bearer for each data flow to be handed over by using the context information, when a request for data transmission/reception according to the handover has been received from the terminal; and receiving data from the terminal.
US10306518B2
A method includes when a terminal needs to execute a circuit switched service again after completing the execution of the circuit switched service once, the terminal executes the circuit switched service again instead of immediately returning to a first network, and then returns to the first network when a preset condition is met.
US10306510B2
There is provided bandwidth limitation of a connectivity service for a user equipment with respect to an access point name (APN) served by a packet data gateway (PGW) in a communications network. The PGW receives a request to separate bandwidth limitation with respect to the APN for a connectivity service and a specific service delivered over the connectivity service. The PGW enforces a first bandwidth limitation on the connectivity service. The PGW enforces a second bandwidth limitation on the specific service.
US10306489B2
A status report transmission of the PDCP layer for a PDCP status report can reduce radio resources by transmitting the reception success or failure of a series of PDCP service data units (SDUs) in the form of a bitmap when configuring the PDCP status report for reporting a reception status of PDCP SDUs to another party in the PDCP layer. A PDCP control packet data unit (PDU) is generated to communicate a status report for one or more PDCP SDUs transmitted from a transmitting node. The PDCP control PDU includes a data/control (D/C) bit field to indicate the PDCP control PDU is a control PDU, a control PDU type field to indicate a type of corresponding control information, a sequence number field to indicate a first missing PDCP SDU, and a bitmap field for a variable length bitmap. A specific bit in the variable length bitmap indicates whether a corresponding one of the one or more PDCP SDUs has been successfully been received. The PDCP control PDU is transmitted to the transmitting node.
US10306475B2
In order for making MTC more efficient and/or secure, a base station forming a communication system connects a UE to a core network. A node serves as an entering point to the core network for a service provider, and transmits traffic between the service provider and the UE. The node establishes, as a connection to the base station, a first connection for directly transceiving messages between the node and the base station. Alternatively, the node establishes a second connection for transparently transceiving the messages through a different node that is placed within the core network and has established a different secure connection to the base station.
US10306471B2
A determination is made as to whether a password is required for connecting to a wireless network. In response to determining that no password is required for connecting to the wireless network, data is retrieved from at least one predefined network address through the wireless network. A determination is made as to whether a secondary login verification is required for connecting to the wireless network based on, at least, the retrieved data from the at least one predefined network address.
US10306465B2
Managing data security on a mobile device. Data associated with a mobile device is received; the data includes an identification (ID) of the mobile device and a location of the mobile device relative to one or more location sensor devices. A path is determined, relative to the one or more location sensor devices, through which the mobile device has traveled. An electronic security key is communicated to the mobile device based on determining that the path corresponds to a defined path associated with the mobile device.
US10306461B2
The invention relates to a method for providing roaming services, for a user equipment, within a mobile communication network, the mobile communication network comprising a core network and an access network, the access network of the mobile communication network comprising at least one radio cell being served by a base station entity, wherein the user equipment is able to be attached to the mobile communication network via the base station entity despite the user equipment being related to a further mobile communication network as the home public land mobile network of the user equipment, wherein the core network comprises a serving core network node and a home subscriber server functionality, wherein the serving core network node provides mobility management functionality regarding the base station entity and thereby provides mobility management functionality regarding the user equipment, wherein the further mobile communication network comprises a further core network, the further core network comprising a further home subscriber server functionality, the further home subscriber server functionality being able to provide subscription profile data regarding the user equipment, wherein upon attachment of the user equipment with the mobile communication network the method comprises the following steps: in a first step, the serving core network node requests, from the home subscriber server functionality and by means of a first request message, subscription profile data regarding the user equipment, in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the home subscriber server functionality requests, from the further home subscriber server functionality and by means of a second request message, subscription profile data regarding the user equipment, in a third step, subsequent to the second step, the further home subscriber server functionality transmits, by means of a first response message, first subscription profile data regarding the user equipment to the home subscriber server functionality, in a fourth step, subsequent to the third step, the home subscriber server functionality transmits, by means of a second response message, second subscription profile data to the serving core network node having requested subscription profile data by means of the first request message, the second subscription profile data corresponding at least in part to the first subscription profile data.
US10306459B1
A method includes maintaining a VLR validation database accessible by an SS7 STP and receiving, by the STP, a MAP SAI request message. The method also includes determining that the MAP SAI request message includes a VLR identifier not recorded in the VLR validation database accessible by the STP and recording the VLR identifier in the VLR validation database. The method further includes receiving a first MAP LU request message and detecting a VLR identifier in the first MAP LU request message and determining that the VLR identifier read from the first MAP LU request message does not match the VLR identifier recorded for a subscriber in the VLR validation database. In response to determining that the VLR identifier does not match the VLR identifier recorded for the subscriber in the VLR validation database, the first MAP LU request message is rejected.
US10306443B2
In one aspect, a device includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive at least a first Bluetooth low energy (BLE) signal from a BLE beacon and enable a first function of the first device at least in part in based on receipt of the first BLE signal.
US10306442B1
Disclosed herein are hub devices for a machine-to-machine (M2M) communications network that enables multiple communication modes for data source nodes, the hub comprising a processor, a local connectivity system configured to communicate data with the data source nodes via an interface, a data processing and caching system comprising a local memory and configured to receive and store user-defined data routing and processing functions, prioritize the data based on the user-defined functions; and route the prioritized data to the local memory for storage or to the data transmission system for immediate transmission based on the priority, and a data transmission system configured to dynamically assign an M2M upload mechanism to the routed data selected from: a real-time transmission mechanism, a fixed interval mechanism, a data backhaul mechanism, and a user pull mechanism; and transmit the data to a network backhaul link for delivery to a host point.
US10306439B2
One embodiment provides a technique of adjusting a gate voltage to be applied to at least one MOS capacitor and an amount of electric charge to be stored in the MOS capacitor so as to determine sensitivity of a change in the amount of electric charge stored in the MOS capacitor, and exposing the MOS capacitor to an electric field for a predetermined amount of time and then reading an electron inflow or outflow result due to the electric field so as to interpret the intensity and the direction of the electric field, thereby measuring the intensity and the direction of the electric field.
US10306438B2
Disclosed is an operating method of an M2M terminal which operates in idle mode by confirming that there is no additional data transmission, transmitting to a base station a message for requesting to maintain context information during a predetermined time period which a timer indicates, even when changing to the idle mode, and receiving from the base station a message instructing to enter the idle mode.
US10306437B2
The present disclosure discloses a smart device grouping system, method and apparatus, which belong to the field of smart home. The method includes: sending a transmission power value to one or more smart devices; acquiring signal strength information fed back by the smart devices. The signal strength information include signal strengths of the received signals and identifications of the smart devices sending the received signals. The received signals are broadcast by other smart devices based on the transmission power value. The method further includes grouping the selected smart devices according to the signal strength information fed back by said each smart device.
US10306431B1
A system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle, a first computing device associated with a driver of the vehicle, and a server. The server may receive, from the telematics device or another device, driving behavior data, a vehicle location, and a time corresponding to the vehicle location, and parse data regarding a driver's calendar in order to identify a scheduled meeting or event and a location and/or time associated therewith. Further, the server may estimate a time of arrival at which the vehicle will arrive at the meeting or event location, determine whether or not the driver will be late to the meeting or event, and take action as appropriate.
US10306430B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a portion of a data offload from a radar antenna of a first vehicle. The data offload includes data packets that each include a sequence number and a total number of data packets in the data offload. The method includes generating a data packet log, storing in the data packet log the sequence number of each received data packet, determining that one or more sequence numbers are missing from the data packet log, and sending to the radar antenna, a communication signal that includes an acknowledgement and the sequence numbers that are missing from the data packet log. The method also includes determining that one or more data packets of the data offload include a location of an object in an environment surrounding the first vehicle, and sending the location of the object to a second radar antenna of a second vehicle.
US10306429B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a vehicle to everything (V2X) signal of user equipment for V2X communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a resource pool configuration of which a first resource unit and a second resource unit, set for V2X communication, are defined; and transmitting the V2X signal, according to the resource pool configuration, through a specific resource region among the entire time-frequency hopped resource region, wherein the first resource unit is a multiple of the second resource unit, a first resource region corresponding to the first resource unit comprises a plurality of second resource regions corresponding to the second resource unit, and with respect to time-frequency hopping, frequency axis-based hopping or time axis-based hopping is determined according to a period of the V2X signal.
US10306422B2
A method for controlling the operability and functionality of an electronic device with an electronic device detection system begins by determining whether an electronic device is located within the vehicle and proximate to an operator of the vehicle. The electronic device detection system defines a restricted zone in which electronic device use is partially or fully prohibited and a safe zone in which all or some of the functionality of electronic devices is enabled. Once it is determined that an electronic device is in use and within a restricted zone, a determination is made as to whether any usage prohibition conditions are satisfied. If usage prohibition conditions are satisfied, then particular functions of the electronic device may be disabled in a restricted zone. If prohibition conditions are not met, the electronic device may be totally enabled, partially enabled to allow certain functions, or the electronic device is never disabled.
US10306410B2
According to various embodiments, a mobile device may be provided. The mobile device may include: a location determination circuit configured to determine a location of the mobile device; a goal determination circuit configured to determine a goal of a user of the mobile device; a target determination circuit configured to determine a target based on the determined location and based on the determined goal; and a notification circuit configured to notify the user about the target.
US10306409B2
Real-time zone events are tracked within a venue by detecting real-time location and movement of multiple mobile devices relative to a set of short-distance wireless device location detection sensors positioned within the venue. The zone events represent differences of relative movements, coincident similar real-time movements, and measured dwelling times of multiple mobile devices within the venue as users of the respective mobile devices move across boundaries of, move within, and dwell within the multiple configured zones of the venue. A relationship is inferred between at least two of the users responsive to a configured zone event threshold being satisfied by the tracked zone events of the two users.
US10306398B2
Provided are a positioning method, device, positioning center, terminal and computer storage medium. The method includes, when receiving a positioning request message requesting to position a first terminal carrying a first terminal identifier of the first terminal, calculating an original position range of the first terminal according to first correspondence relationship between a pre-stored terminal identifier and base station information of a base station in which the terminal is currently located; acquiring second position information of at least three second terminals, whose positioning accuracy is higher than that of the first terminal, within a target position range determined according to the original position range of the first terminal and a preset regional radius; acquiring measurement result of distances measured by the first terminal from the second terminals according to the first terminal identifier; and calculating first position information of the first terminal according to second position information and measurement result.
US10306392B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to content-adaptive surround sound virtualization. A method of virtualizing surround sound is disclosed. The method includes receiving a set of input audio signals, each of the input audio signals being indicative of sound from one of different sound sources, and determining a probability of the set of input audio signals belonging to a predefined audio content category. The method also includes determining a virtualization amount based on the determined probability, the virtualization amount indicating to which extent the set of input audio signals is virtualized as surround sound. The method further includes performing surround sound virtualization on two or more input audio signals in the set based on the determined virtualization amount and generating output audio signals based on the virtualized input audio signals and other input audio signals in the set. Corresponding system and computer program product for virtualizing surround sound are also disclosed.
US10306380B2
A hearing assistance system having a first hearing device worn at a first of a user's ears, a second hearing device worn at a second of the user's ears, and an external audio source device for transmitting an external audio data stream, each hearing device having an interface for wireless data exchange with the external device, including receipt of the external audio data stream, the hearing devices being adapted to establish a binaural link between the first and second hearing devices, the hearing assistance system being adapted to estimate the quality of at least one of the links from the external device to the hearing devices. The hearing assistance system is adapted to dynamically adjust the coding of the audio stream transmitted by the external device according to the estimated quality of the at least one of the links from the external device to the hearing devices.
US10306376B2
A sound processing arrangement is described for a patient with a bilateral cochlear implant system having implanted electrode arrays in each ear. There is a left-side sensing microphone and a right-side sensing microphone, each configured for sensing the sound environment surrounding the patient and generating corresponding microphone signals. A sound object identification module is configured for analyzing the microphone signals to identify one or more sound objects within the sound environment. A sound object selection module is configured for processing the microphone signals to generate a sound object signal for each of the one or more sound objects. A stimulation side selector module is configured for selecting on which side or sides of the bilateral cochlear implant arrangement to process each sound object signal. One or more sound processors processes the sound object signals to generate stimulation signals to the implanted electrode arrays on the selected side or sides.
US10306351B2
A portable sound device includes: a main body having an audio output unit holder; an audio output unit detachably mountable in the audio output unit holder and configured to output audio; an audio cable coupled to the audio output unit and configured to transmit an audio signal to the audio output unit, one end of the audio cable located outside the main body and the other end of the audio cable located inside the main body; and a rotary module rotatably mounted in the main body and configured to wind or unwind the audio cable according to a rotational direction of the rotary module.
US10306350B1
An electronic device may include an optical proximity sensor system. The optical proximity sensor system may be a transreflective optical proximity sensor system having a light emitter that emits light into a light-emitting region and a light detector that detects light in a light-detecting region. Control circuitry in the device can use the transreflective optical proximity sensor system to detect objects in an object detection region formed where the light-emitting region and light-detecting region overlap. The electronic device may be a pair of headphones in which housing structures such as housing walls define ear cup cavities. Speakers may be provided in the ear cups of the headphones to provide sound to the ear cup cavities. The transreflective optical proximity sensor system can detect the presence of a user's ear in an ear cup cavity.
US10306346B2
A speaker housing comprises an enclosing side wall frame and a washer. A portion enclosed by the side wall frame is an inner side of the side wall frame. The washer is integrated with the side wall frame by injection molding, and at least a part of the washer is exposed at the inner side of the side wall frame. A seam is formed between a surface of the washer exposed at the inner side of the side wall frame and a surface of the side wall frame. Recesses are formed in surfaces of the washer and the side wall frame at two sides of the seam. Further provided is a speaker unit comprising the above speaker housing. A technical effect of the present application is to prevent a plastic burr extending from the seam between the washer and the side wall frame from affecting the speaker.
US10306340B2
Embodiments are disclosed that sense vibrations caused by flow of water in pipes, and covert the sensed vibrations into water usage data which can be analyzed, aggregated, and made available to users. In one embodiment, mechanical vibrations of a pipe are sensed, via a piezo-electric sensor attached to an external surface of the pipe, to form analog electrical signals. The analog electrical signals are converted into time-sampled digital data via a microcontroller having analog-to-digital conversion capability. A frequency analysis is performed on the time-sampled digital data, via at least one processor, to generate spectral data. The spectral data is analyzed, via the at least one processor, to determine whether the vibrations are caused by a fluid flowing through the pipe.
US10306329B2
Embodiments facilitating mixed service use of bonded satellite transponders in communication systems are provided. An apparatus comprises a first multiplexer configured to receive first content from first channels of a first type of channel, a second multiplexer configured to receive second content from second channels of a second type of channel, and a transport stream processor (TSP). The TSP can be configured to output the received first content and the second content to modulators respectively associated with different channels for transmission of the first type of channel and the second type of channel, wherein the different channels are transmitted to a bonded satellite transponders, which transmits to a receiver. In some embodiments, the apparatus can comprise a multiplexer aggregator coupled between the TSP and the first multiplexer and the second multiplexer. The first content can be high bit-rate information and the second content can be lower bit-rate information.
US10306310B2
A system for assisting a content consumer to select content services, the system including a processor that is configured to execute a matching algorithm. The matching algorithm comprises interviewing the content consumer for questions in a plurality of categories, determining a point system for answers obtained by the interviewing step, wherein the answers indicate entertainment interests of the content consumer; calculating a service score for each content service based on the point system, wherein the service score indicates an agreement between a content service and the entertainment interests of the content consumer; and selecting a pre-determined number of content services based on the service score.
US10306309B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for determining aspects of a user interface, and determining therefrom a service or device that corresponds to the user interface. In doing so, a user's activity can be profiled, and aggregate usage data over a population of particular devices and OTT applications can be tracked. Moreover, losses and gains of popularity of services or devices may be monitored.
US10306306B2
Graphics are preferably superimposed on uncompressed image data received from an external device to be transmitted to another external device. An AV amplifier 12 inserted on an HDMI transmission path between a BD player 11 and a television receiver 13 superimposes the graphics on the transmitted uncompressed image data. At that time, the AV amplifier 12 receives dynamic range conversion definition information of the uncompressed image data and generates graphics image data on the basis of the dynamic range conversion definition information to superimpose, thereby displaying the graphics with desired luminance even when dynamic range reverse conversion is performed by the television receiver 13.
US10306300B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing information associated with media contents are provided. The method comprises broadcasting a communication address associated with a playing device configured to play the media contents, the broadcasted communication address enables a user terminal device to communicate with the playing device; receiving, from the user terminal device, a request to acquire information associated with the media contents; determining an identifier associated with the information; and transmitting the identifier to the user terminal device. The identifier enables the user terminal device to acquire the information.
US10306288B2
A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to monitor for a first adjustment made by a first communication device associated with a user where the first communication device is capable of presenting media content and where the first adjustment is associated with the presentation of the media content, determine a second adjustment to be made to a second communication device associated with the user where the determination is based at least in part on the monitored first adjustment where the second adjustment is associated with the presentation of the media content and where the second communication device is a battery-operated mobile device, and wirelessly communicate adjustment information to the second communication device that is representative of the second adjustment, where the adjustment information is adapted for allowing the second communication device to perform the second adjustment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10306277B2
The present invention provides a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. A method for transmitting a broadcast signal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating service guide information, which includes information for accessing a broadcast service, and content data, wherein the service guide information includes a service fragment which displays information related to the content data, and wherein the content fragment includes a component element which displays information related to a component included in the content data; encoding the service guide information and the content data which have been generated; and transmitting the service guide information and the content data which have been encoded.
US10306275B2
A method and apparatus for managing video transport is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to predict visibility to a viewer of packet loss impairment for communicated video content based at least in part on scene information for one or more packets of the video content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10306270B2
An endpoint device outputs frames of test media during a testing procedure. Each frame of test media includes a test pattern. A test module coupled to the endpoint device samples the test pattern and transmits sample data to a media test engine. The media test engine decodes a binary number from the test pattern and then converts the binary number to an integer value that is associated with the corresponding frame. The media test engine then analyzes sequences of these integer values to identify playback errors associated with the endpoint device.
US10306268B2
There is provided an information processing device including an adjustment unit that adjusts respective lengths of delay times, which delay data transmission, for a plurality of different delay elements regarding the data transmission, so as to match with the longest delay time of the plurality of delay times or a predetermined time equal to or more than the longest delay time, and a setting unit that sets the respective plurality of delay times of which the lengths are adjusted by the adjustment unit in a processing unit which performs a process for the data transmission.
US10306267B2
A compression system for compressing a video received from an imaging device, the compression system including a transformation estimation device configured to estimate, based on pixel transformations between a first frame and a second frame of the video, a transformation matrix, an encoding device configured to encode the second frame as an increment with the first frame based on the transformation matrix generated by the transformation device, a compression device configured to compress the increments into compressed data, and a reconstruction device configured to reconstruct the first frame and the second frame using the transformation matrix generated by the transformation estimation device.
US10306265B2
In general, this disclosure describes techniques for simplifying SDC coding of large intra-prediction blocks, such as 64×64 blocks, in a 3D video coding process, such as 3D-HEVC. In some examples, the techniques may include processing 64×64 intra-prediction blocks as four 32×32 intra-prediction blocks in intra SDC. Processing large intra-prediction blocks as multiple, smaller intra-prediction blocks in intra SDC may reduce maximum buffer size requirements in the intra SDC process.
US10306254B2
Multiple Holocam Orbs observe a real-life environment and generate an artificial reality representation of the real-life environment. Depth image data is cleansed of error due to LED shadow by identifying the edge of a foreground object in an (near infrared light) intensity image, identifying an edge in a depth image, and taking the difference between the start of both edges. Depth data error due to parallax is identified noting when associated text data in a given pixel row that is progressing in a given row direction (left-to-right or right-to-left) reverses order. Sound sources are identified by comparing results of a blind audio source localization algorithm, with the spatial 3D model provided by the Holocam Orb. Sound sources that corresponding to identifying 3D objects are associated together. Additionally, types of data supported by a standard movie data container, such as an MPEG container, is expanding to incorporate free viewpoint data (FVD) model data. This is done by inserting FVD data of different individual 3D objects at different sample rates into a single video stream. Each 3D object is separately identified by a separately assigned ID.
US10306247B2
According to an embodiment, an image decoding apparatus includes a memory, a decoder and a first filter. The memory stores reference pixels based on pixels included in a decoded pixel block. The decoder decodes encoded data in units of pixel blocks using the reference pixels to generate a first decoded pixel block, the first decoded pixel block being adjacent to the reference pixels. The first filter performs a first filtering on only the first decoded pixel block using the first decoded pixel block and part of the reference pixels perpendicularly adjacent to the first decoded pixel block in a scan direction of image decoding processing.
US10306244B2
A method of decoding a bistream comprising a plurality of layers according to the present invention includes setting parameters for decoding the bitstream from a random access point when random access occurs, and decoding a decoding target picture, wherein the setting of the parameters includes setting an initialization flag indicating whether the decoding target picture, that is an intra random access point (IRAP) picture, is output by correctly decoding all reference layers of a target layer including the decoding target picture when the random access occurs; setting a flag variable (NoRaslOutputFlag) indicating whether the decoding target picture is used as a random access point; and resetting the initialization flag when the decoding target picture is an IRAP picture and the flag variable is 1.
US10306236B2
In terms of the transmission of the coding method, it is ensured to decode information coded according to the intra-frame prediction coding with vector information. An error of a piece of divisional image information targeted for image prediction coding and a piece of predicted information is determined to perform prediction coding. A data stream in which a piece of information for identifying a prediction method and a piece of information subjected to prediction coding according to the method are arranged is produced according to the process sequence of the prediction coding for each process on the divisional image information. At this time, the data stream has a pair of vector information and the error information as information subjected to prediction coding for each process on the divisional image information on condition that the prediction method is intra-frame prediction coding with vectors.
US10306233B2
To allow better quality rendering of video on any display, a method is proposed of encoding, in addition to video data (VID), additional data (DD), wherein the additional data includes at least one change time instant (TMA_1) indicating a change in time of a characteristic luminance (CHRLUM) of the video data, which characteristic luminance summarizes a set of luminances of pixels in an image of the video data, the method: generates on the basis of the video data (VID) descriptive data (DED) regarding the characteristic luminance variation of the video, the descriptive data comprising at least one change time instant (TMA_1), and encodes and outputs the descriptive data (DED) as additional data (DD).
US10306232B2
An entropy decoder is configured to, for horizontal and vertical components of motion vector differences, derive a truncated unary code from the data stream using context-adaptive binary entropy decoding with exactly one context per bin position of the truncated unary code, which is common for horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences, and an Exp-Golomb code using a constant equi-probability bypass mode to obtain the binarizations of the motion vector differences. A desymbolizer is configured to debinarize the binarizations of the motion vector difference syntax elements to obtain integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences. A reconstructor is configured to reconstruct a video based on the integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences.
US10306228B2
The present invention relates to a method for encoding and decoding a quantized matrix and an apparatus using the same. The method for encoding a quantized matrix according to the present invention includes the steps of: determining a quantization matrix to be used for quantization and quantizing; determining the prediction scheme used for the quantization of the quantization matrix; and encoding quantization matrix information on the basis of the determined prediction scheme. In this case, the prediction scheme may be either a prediction scheme between coefficients in the quantization matrix or a quantization matrix copying scheme.
US10306214B2
Stereoscopic image presenting device, stereoscopic image presenting method, and head-mounted display
In a stereoscopic image presenting device, an image obtaining portion obtains an image to be presented. An image presenting portion presents a virtual image of the image obtained by the image obtaining portion to a field of view of a user of the stereoscopic image presenting device. The image presenting portion is configured to be able to change the position of the virtual image presented to the user, and changes the position at which the virtual image is presented on the basis of depth information of an object appearing in the image.
US10306213B2
In some embodiments, optical systems with a reflector and a lens proximate a light output opening of the reflector provide light output with high spatial uniformity and high efficiency. The reflectors are shaped to provide substantially angularly uniform light output and the lens is configured to transform this angularly uniform light output into spatially uniform light output. The light output may be directed into a light modulator, which modulates the light to project an image.
US10306212B2
An exemplary volumetric frame capture controller (“controller”) transmits first and second commands to first and second three-dimensional (“3D”) capture devices disposed, respectively, at first and second positions with respect to a real-world scene. The first and second commands are to capture, respectively, first and second 3D sub-frames representative of the real-world scene from first and second vantage points associated with the first and second positions. Based on the first and second commands, the controller receives the first and second 3D sub-frames and, in response, determines that a first timestamp associated with a capture of the first 3D sub-frame is less than a predefined time threshold from a second timestamp associated with a capture of the second 3D sub-frame. In response to this determination, the controller provides the first and second 3D sub-frames for use in forming a volumetric frame of the real-world scene. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US10306210B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire captured image data and depth map data representing a distribution of depth information of an object acquired from the captured image data; a reduction unit configured to reduce the captured image data acquired by the acquisition unit in accordance with a data amount of the depth map data; and a correction unit configured to correct the depth map data by using the reduced captured image data.
US10306198B2
A method and electronic device for detecting a wavelength spectrum of incident light. The electronic device includes an image sensor including a pixel array, wherein the pixel array includes a unit pixel including a micro lens configured to focus incident light, and two or more photodetectors configured to output an electrical signal in response to the incident light; and a processor configured to detect a wavelength spectrum of the incident light based on output values from the two or more photodetectors.
US10306193B2
An integrated processing and projection device suitable for use on a supporting surface includes a processor and a projector designed to provide a display on the supporting surface proximate to the device. Various sensors enable object and gesture detection in a detection area in the display area. Trigger zones are defined in the detection area such that interaction of an object or human limb in the detection zone provides object and zone specific feedback by the integrated processing and projection device. The feedback can be provided in the projection area or may be provided as audible or active feedback to a device having active feedback capabilities.
US10306192B2
First image data and second image data are image data in which each pixel value corresponds to one of a plurality of color components that constitute a color filter of an image sensor. Also, the second image data is image data whose field of view overlaps the field of view of the first image data, and whose resolution is higher than that of the first image data. An image processing apparatus performs color interpolation processing on the first image data by referring to, out of the values of the pixels that constitute the second image data, the value of a pixel at a first position corresponding to the position of a pixel to be interpolated in the first image data or a position closest to the first position.
US10306190B1
A vehicular control system includes a forward viewing camera and an image processor operable to process image data captured by the forward viewing camera. Responsive at least in part to processing of captured image data, a traffic lane of the road along which the equipped vehicle is traveling is determined and another vehicle present on the road along which the equipped vehicle is traveling and forward of the equipped vehicle is detected. Responsive at least in part to processing of captured image data, the vehicular control system determines that the detected other vehicle is travelling in a traffic lane to the left of the determined traffic lane along which the equipped vehicle is traveling. A speed control system controls speed of the equipped vehicle at least in part responsive to (a) processing of captured image data and (b) map data relevant to a current geographic location of the equipped vehicle.
US10306168B2
To provide a novel semiconductor device, a semiconductor device capable of operating at a high speed, or a semiconductor device with reduced area, or a semiconductor device with low power consumption. The semiconductor device which has a function of taking a moving image includes a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels, a first circuit, and a second circuit. Each of the plurality of pixels has a function of converting irradiation light to generate first data and a function of generating second data corresponding to a difference between the first data in a first frame period and the first data in a second frame period. The first circuit has a function of converting the second data into a digital signal and outputting the digital signal as compressed data of the moving image. The second circuit has a function of controlling output of the compressed data.
US10306162B2
An image pickup apparatus having: an image sensor, having an image pickup plane, configured to photoelectrically convert a subject image formed on the image pickup plane to an image signal; a driving actuator configured to rotatably move the image sensor relative to a rotation axis passing through the image pickup plane; an angular velocity detection sensor configured to detect a rotational angular velocity of the image sensor about the rotation axis; a first shutter configured to control an exposure time of the image sensor; a second shutter configured to control the exposure time of the image sensor; and one or more processors configured to: control the driving actuator to reduce rotational shake around the rotation axis based on the rotational angular velocity; and select one of the first shutter and the second shutter to control the exposure time of the image sensor based on the rotational angular velocity.
US10306147B2
An image processing device includes an input unit which inputs ordinary frames in a state in which an object is irradiated with ordinary light, and a special frame in a state in which the object is irradiated with special light, which are imaged consecutively at a predetermined ratio according to a predetermined frame period; a detection unit which detects motion vectors of the object from a plurality of the ordinary frames with different imaging timing; a motion correction unit which subjects the special frame to motion correction corresponding to the imaging timing of the ordinary frames based on the detected motion vectors; and a compositing unit which subjects the ordinary frames to an image compositing process based on the special frame.
US10306146B2
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to accurately reproduce a blur degree of an optical lens. A ray generation section generates rays to be incident to a virtual lens having a synthetic aperture configured from a plurality of image pickup sections that pick up images of a plurality of visual points from a real space point in a real space. A luminance allocation section allocates a luminance to rays remaining as a result of a collision decision for deciding whether or not the rays collide with an object before the rays are incident to the virtual lens. The present technology can be applied to a light field technology for reconstructing, for example, images picked up using various optical lenses from images of a plurality of visual points.
US10306144B2
An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a touch operation in a first direction, a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, a third direction, and a fourth direction substantially opposite to the third direction. The image pickup device has at least first and second imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first touch operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second touch operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. In the first and second imaging modes, a setting is changed by a third touch operation in the third direction and a fourth touch operation in the fourth direction.
US10306143B2
A multiple lenses system includes a lens module, a processing unit, a switching unit, and a focus module. The lens module includes a plurality of lenses. The switching unit is electrically connected to the plurality of lenses and the processing unit. The focus module includes a laser emitter and a laser receiver. The laser emitter emits laser beam towards an object under control of the processing unit. The laser receiver receives the laser beam reflected by the object. The processing unit obtains a focus distance between the object and the focus module according to a time difference from emitting the laser beam to receiving the laser beam, and controls the switching unit to switch and to select at least one of the plurality of lenses according to the focus distance.
US10306142B2
A headset for panoramic photography, including a left receiver body and a right receiver body for being mounted on the left ear and the right ear of a user. A side of the left receiver body away from the left ear of a user is provided with a left camera, and a side of the right receiver body away from the right ear of the user is provided with a right camera. The cameras are ultra-wide-angle with a field angle of at least 180°, and optical axes of the cameras are perpendicular to optical axes of eyes of the user. User can listen, speak, and shoot photos or videos without hand-holding the camera. By shooting within a field angle of 180° at the left and right sides of a human body, a 360° panoramic image is obtained by merging the acquired images, thus produces simulated images and Virtual Reality environment.
US10306140B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for adaptively selecting what portion (aka slice) of a first image (aka frame) is selected to overlap and blend with a second frame during frame capture operations are disclosed. In general, for every new frame captured in a sequence the overlap between it and the slice selected from a prior frame may be determined based, at least in part, on sensor output. If the overlap so determined is below a desired threshold, the position of the current frame's slice may be adjusted so as to provide the desired overlap.
US10306138B2
An image output method for an image capturing device includes capturing a first test image at a first time point and a second test image at a second time point, calculating a first image feature value of the first test image and a second image feature value of the second test image, and determining whether to output images generated by the image capturing device according to the first image feature value of the first test image and the second image feature value of the second test image.
US10306133B2
One aspect of the present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of tracking an image region to be tracked with high accuracy.A distance distribution generation unit generates distance information indicating a distance of each of regions in first image data. An object likelihood distribution generation unit generates a likelihood distribution of an object in the first image data based on information indicating a position specified as the object in the first image data, the distance information, and reliability of the distance information. A feature amount extraction unit calculates a feature amount to be used to detect the object from second image data based on the likelihood distribution.
US10306125B2
Systems and methods are described for a network video camera device. Specifically, various techniques and systems are provided for embodiments of a network video camera with a blocking mechanism for privacy and control of the blocking mechanism. Embodiments of the present invention include a network video capture device. The network video capture device comprises a lens connected to a housing; a blocking mechanism, wherein the a blocking mechanism is configured to selectively block the lens from capturing video images, and wherein the blocking mechanism includes a physical body; an indication device, wherein the indication device is configured to provide visible feedback that the lens is blocked; and a circuit board having a data processor, a wireless transceiver, and a memory configured to store a customizable setting associated with the blocking mechanism.
US10306122B2
An end effector is provided. The end effector comprises a housing, a movement system within the housing, an inspection system, a collar installation system, and a sealant application system. The housing has an operating window. The movement system comprises at least one of a rotation mechanism or a number of linear slides. The inspection system is associated with the movement system. The collar installation system is associated with the movement system. The sealant application system is associated with the movement system. Activating the movement system positions any of the inspection system, the collar installation system, or the sealant application system in an active position relative to the operating window.
US10306108B2
A halftone comprises a first halftone screen and a second halftone screen. The first halftone screen comprises a first plurality of amplitude modulated dots arranged according to a first plurality of rows, the first plurality of rows being orientated according to a first direction and comprising a first dot spacing. The second halftone screen comprises a second plurality of amplitude modulated dots arranged according to a second plurality of rows, the second plurality of row being orientated in a second direction and comprising a second dot spacing. The first direction and the second direction define an angle of 45 degrees or less and a ratio of the second dot spacing to the first dot spacing is less than one.
US10306103B2
A control method in a printing apparatus includes printing, by a printing unit, an adjustment image for adjusting a printing position on a sheet, conveying, by a conveying unit, the sheet on which the adjustment image is printed, reading, by a reading unit, an image to generate image data, the reading unit being executable to perform reading by a first reading method for reading an image of a sheet without conveying the sheet or a second reading method for reading the image of the sheet while conveying the sheet, and determining, based on that a type of the sheet on which the adjustment image is to be printed is a specific type, to read the adjustment image by the first reading method.
US10306099B2
In a system constructed by a plurality of integrated circuits, interrupt control can be performed in the case where an interrupt has occurred in an integrated circuit in which the function of a CPU is suspended. An interrupt unit of a second integrated circuit outputs an interrupt to at least one of the plurality of image processing units of the second integrated circuit, an image processing unit of the second integrated circuit, to which the interrupt is input, outputs an interrupt to a first integrated circuit, an image processing unit of the first integrated circuit, to which an interrupt from the second integrated circuit is input, outputs an interrupt to an interrupt unit of the first integrated circuit, and the interrupt unit of the first integrated circuit outputs an interrupt to an control unit of the first integrated circuit in accordance with the interrupt being input.
US10306098B2
An image processing system includes a portable terminal and an image processing device that wirelessly communicates with the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes a first CPU that sends a connection request to the image processing device to request to establish a connection with the image processing device and that sends an execution start command to enable the image processing device to execute a job when the connection with the image processing device is established. The image processing device includes a wireless communication interface that establishes the connection with the portable terminal in response to the connection request from the portable terminal and a second CPU that receives the execution start command from the portable terminal, executes the job based on the execution start command in order of receipt, and terminates the connection with the portable terminal after the execution start command is received.
US10306096B2
An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming devices and a server device. The plurality of image forming devices and the server device are connected to one another via a network. The server device includes a position information history management unit configured to receive the position information of a wearable device through an image forming device performing short-range wireless communication with the wearable device and to manage a history of the position information of the wearable device and an image data generating unit configured to generate image data according to a history of the position information of the wearable device, and transmits image data generated by the image data generating unit to the image forming device performing short-range wireless communication with the wearable device.
US10306093B2
An image forming apparatus includes an identification-mark making unit. The identification-mark making unit makes a page identification mark for identifying a page, on a predetermined position of a paper sheet during printing. The identification-mark making unit, based on the page identification mark made in a previous printing, includes a correction/addition mark that indicates an existence of a correction page or an additional page since the previous printing in a part of the page identification mark when a new print output is performed.
US10306091B2
An image forming apparatus having a plurality of sheet feeding cassettes includes a display device; and a controller circuit including: a display control unit configured to generate information to be displayed on the display device, the information including a sheet feeding cassette selection region and a first recording agent selection region; and a setting unit configured to apply a recording agent setting for each of the sheet feeding cassettes based on a selection made in the first recording agent selection region among at least a decolorable recording agent including a decolorable color material and a non-decolorable recording agent including a non-decolorable color material. The display control unit is further configured to generate for display on the display device a list of the sheet feeding cassettes along with the recording agent setting for each of the sheet feeding cassettes.
US10306087B2
A hinge for a cover of an image forming apparatus has a hinge housing to be movably positioned into an opening in a body of the image forming apparatus, a hinge cam to couple to the cover and to pivotably couple to the hinge housing to support pivoting of the cover.
US10306074B2
A method for accessing telecommunications services (124-126) from a terminal (110-112, 140-142) having credit-based communications capabilities. The method includes consuming credit when accessing telecommunications services, when available communications credit value becomes lower than a predefined threshold, providing to a user of said terminal a action selection user interface enabling the selection of a credit-generating action by the user, and after the action has been executed, recharging communications credit for the user. The present invention also provides a system for implementing the method.
US10306071B1
Methods are provided for providing a unified communication history of a multi-modal communication. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of event logs related to the multi-modal communication. The multi-modal communication comprises a first communication modality and a second communication modality that is different from the first communication modality. The method includes aggregating the one or more events from the event logs as a plurality of aggregated events and resolving an identity of each user from among the plurality of users in the plurality of aggregated events. The method includes storing the aggregated events into a communication history of the multi-modal communication. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10306062B1
A method, apparatus, system, and non-transitory computer program product configured to process user call responses and assign caller specific preferences to the user based on the caller's feedback. One example being a method of processing spoken words from a user of a calling platform. This may include operations such as calling a user via a call processing device and/or sending a call prompt message to the user after the user has answered the call, wherein the call prompt message solicits a user response. Other operations may include recording the spoken call greeting and determining whether the spoken call greeting is indicative of a language preference. The system may process the user's word(s) or utterances and assign language preferences to the user based on the user provided information.
US10306051B2
A battery powered mobile device has battery monitoring circuit that measures one or more parameters indicative of a current state of the battery. A plurality of operational systems and processes form a part of the mobile device. A programmed processor is programmed to carry out a process that includes: determining a current state of the battery by receiving data representing the one or more parameters from the battery monitoring circuit indicative of the current state of the battery; calculating a battery power factor as a function of the parameter; comparing the battery power factor to a threshold; when the battery power factor exceeds the threshold, identifying a system or process within the mobile device whose power consumption can be reduced; and reducing the power consumption by altering or disabling the identified system or process.
US10306049B1
In some implementations, a computer-implemented method of displaying alert information with a mobile communication device includes displaying device status indicators to a user of a mobile device in a status area; receiving information from an application to display an alert in the status area; displaying in the status area a first level of information for the alert and a user-selectable control; and displaying, in response to a selection of the user-selectable control, a second level of information for the alert that provides greater detail than the first level of information.
US10306043B2
An information processing apparatus includes a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with another information processing apparatus, a display unit configured to display an image received from the another information processing apparatus by the wireless communication unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire operation to a region indicated in control information received from the another information processing apparatus by the wireless communication unit in the image displayed by the display unit, and a control unit configured to perform control to perform processing indicated in the control information according to the operation acquired by the acquisition unit.
US10306039B2
An electronic device includes an FPC as an extending member which extends to connect a first region and a second region to each other and includes a first surface and a second surface facing away from each other, a first member located to abut on the first surface, and a second member located to abut on the second surface. The first member and the second member form in combination, a sealing region which surrounds a certain section of the extending member with a gap being located in part. The first region and the second region are watertightly separated from each other by a sealant located in the gap at least in the sealing region. The first member includes a through hole which allows communication between the gap and the outside.
US10306038B2
Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
US10306032B2
A bracket assembly is provided. The bracket assembly includes a metal bracket and a spring module. The metal bracket is configured to support an electronic component in a mobile terminal. The spring module includes a fixing portion, a pressing portion, and a elastic portion; the fixing portion is fixed in the mobile terminal and grounded, and the elastic portion connects the pressing portion and the fixing portion; the elastic portion is configured to provide a restoring force to the pressing portion, and press the pressing portion to be in contact with the metal bracket. A camera module and a mobile terminal are also provided.
US10306029B1
There is disclosed a mobile terminal including: a display; a middle frame including a supporting portion and a side portion provided around the supporting portion to define a lateral external appearance; a main board including a ground; a first wireless communication unit configured to transceive a first signal; a second wireless communication unit configured to transceive a second signal; and a rear case configured to cover a rear surface of the main board, wherein the side portion includes a plurality of conductive members of which ends are divided into slits, and the plurality of the conductive members includes a common antenna electrically connectable with the first wireless communication unit and the second wireless communication unit and configured to receive the first signal and the second signal; and an independent antenna electrically connectable with the first wireless communication unit and configured to receive the first signal.
US10306027B2
A frame delineation method for a generic framing procedure (GFP) that includes: searching a serial data stream comprising GFP frames, octet by octet, to identify an eight octet sequence; and delineating GFP frames from the serial data stream in response to determining that a first group of four octets of the identified eight octet sequence comprises a valid Core Header, and in response to determining that a second group of four octets of the identified eight octet sequence comprises one of a valid Core Header and a valid descrambled Type Header.
US10306026B1
A computer-implemented method is provided, comprising causing access to be provided, to a client computer, to code that causes the client computer to operate in accordance with a protocol that is separate from TCP, in order to establish a protocol connection with another server computer, by: receiving a packet, detecting an idle time period parameter field in the packet, identifying metadata in the idle time period parameter field for an idle time period, where, after the idle time period is detected, the second protocol connection is deemed inactive, and creating or modifying, by the client computer and based on the metadata, a timeout attribute associated with the second protocol connection.
US10306025B2
A method of managing a multipath TCP (MPTCP) connection includes establishing the MPTCP connection as a logical connection between end-points that utilizes multiple network paths with one TCP subflow per network path. At least two subflows of the MPTCP connection are terminated at different end-points.
US10306023B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums are disclosed for introducing pre-formed instruction sets to a mobile cloud service. In some examples, an archive file, such as a .zip file, can include two sets of files: 1) logic for creating an application programming interface (API) and connecting the API with backend service behind a corporate enterprise network's firewall, and 2) custom user-code. In such examples, the API can connect through defined channels to the back end service. In some examples, the custom user code can execute in a secure virtual machine (VM) on the cloud service. In such examples, the custom user code can perform error checks on data, recalculate or reformat data, or otherwise modify it before sending to a user's mobile device or receiving from a user's device.
US10306016B2
In some example embodiments, a method includes storing a user attribute, a resource attribute of a resource of a web service, one or more scope conditions for applying one of attributes in generating a decision of whether to permit an action, and a script comprising an access control policy comprising one or more policy conditions to be satisfied in order to permit an action. A web service request may be received for accessing the resource. The scope condition(s) may be determined to be satisfied, and a decision to permit or deny the web service request may be generated based on the access control policy, with use of the stored attribute in generating the decision being based on the determination that the scope condition(s) are satisfied. Generating the decision may comprise interpreting the script. The decision may be transmitted to the web service.
US10306010B2
Implementations of the disclosure describe inferring social groups through patterns of communication. A method of the disclosure includes ascertaining, by a processing device, a proposed group of contacts from contacts of the user based on a correlation in geographic locations of communications between the user and the proposed group of contacts and a correlation in a type of medium of the communications, providing a recommendation that the user create a new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group of contacts, and responsive to the user indicating acceptance of the recommendation, creating the new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group.
US10306009B2
A system and method for decreasing latency in providing a data packet to a user device subsequent to receipt of an electronic signal from the user device are disclosed herein. The system can include memory including: a user profile database; and a content library database. The system can include a user device including: a network interface; and an I/O subsystem. The system can include a content management server. The content management server can: provide a data packet to the user device; request generation of a contingent recommendation; receive the contingent recommendation; receive an electronic signal including a user response; select a next action; and provide the next action to the user device.
US10306004B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a communication interface configured to receive a message, at least one processor configured to determine a notification scheme for outputting the message based on status information about the electronic device and obtain a summary message by converting the message according to the notification scheme, and an output module for outputting the summary message.
US10306003B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a frequency by which content items published by an entity are to be provided for a user. Examples of content items previously published by the entity are selected. Information is provided to assist the user in a determination about whether to assent to provision of content items published by the entity for the user.
US10305985B1
Described are techniques for request processing. A server receives from a client a request for first data to be returned to the client. The first data includes a first property of an object. The object is included in an object model and includes a predefined property. The first property is not a predefined property of the object and is a new property defined using an expression included in the request. The request includes any of the predefined property and a constant. First processing is performed at the server to service the request and obtain the first data. At the server in accordance with the first processing, a response to the request including the first data is generated.
US10305983B2
Disclosed is a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium including encoded commands according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. When the computer program is executed by one or more processors of a computer system, the computer program causes the one or more processors to perform the following procedures for the distributed processing. The procedures may include: analyzing queries included in a process by a processor to classify the queries into a distributed processing query and a centralized processing query; registering the distributed processing query in one or more distributed processing nodes among two or more nodes; registering the centralized processing query in a centralized processing node among two or more nodes; and receiving an event by each node.
US10305982B2
A method begins by identifying, when a first migration of a plurality of sets of encoded data slices from an original source storage set to an intermediate destination storage set is active, a new destination storage set of a second migration for the plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method continues by issuing migration requests to storage sets associated with current storage of the plurality of sets of encoded data slices in accordance with a first cursor identifying a particular DSN storage address of a corresponding set of encoded data slices and, when the second migration is active, facilitating processing of a data access request to produce a data access response utilizing the first cursor of the first migration and a second cursor identifying a particular DSN address of a corresponding set of encoded data slices that is next up for migration.
US10305980B1
Data employed in computations amongst multiple processors in a computing system is processed so that less bits than a full representation of the data needs to be communicated yet all of the relevant information is communicated. More specifically, a sensitivity value is determined for various items of the data which reflect the number of bits in the data items that are not garbage bits, and only information in the data items that are indicated by the sensitivity value to not be garbage bits are necessarily effectively retained. At least the information that is not garbage bits and the corresponding associated sensitivity are packed together. The results of computations that are performed using the data items as at least one of the operands for the computation are associated with a sensitivity that is derived from the individual sensitivities of the operands used in the computation.
US10305976B2
A method for managing computing includes replicating a subset of a machine state of a first computing device onto a second computing device, wherein the subset of the machine state is required to execute machine code. Execution of the machine code is offloaded to the second computing device.
US10305970B2
A mechanism is provided for automatically recovering one or more distributed cluster nodes on a host system. Responsive to the host system recovering, restoring, or restarting, a set of distributed clustered systems affected due to the reboot of the host system and details associated with each of the set of distributed clustered systems are identified. Using the details, a set of nodes that operate on the host system are identified. For each node: respective components and configurations are prepared; a heartbeat is initiated thereby causing the node to register with a cluster network and identify peers within their associated distributed clustered system; a determination is made as to whether the node has reestablished connection with its associated distributed clustered system; and, responsive to the node reestablishing connection with its associated distributed clustered system, service components are started on the node.
US10305968B2
A CCN network node use reputation values for one or more interfaces to determine how to forward an Interest. During operation, the network node can receive an Interest or Content Object via a network interface, determines one or more candidate outbound faces for forwarding the Interest by performing a longest-prefix-matching lookup in a forwarding information base (FIB) using the Interest's name or name prefix as input. A respective FIB entry maps a name prefix to a forwarding rule that includes a corresponding outbound face for the name prefix. The node can determine a reputation value for each of the candidate outbound faces based on reputation information stored in association with the Interest's name or name prefix, and selects a candidate outbound face with a reputation value exceeding a first predetermined threshold. The node can then forward the received Interest via the selected outbound face.
US10305966B2
A method and device for communication and control of access including an access point containing a screen and camera whereby a visitor who is not preauthorized desires to communicate with a remote entity and uses a smartphone, holding it in line of sight of the camera, which smartphone contains indicia that is transmitted by the camera to the remote entity to obtain access.
US10305965B2
Method for executing applications on electronic devices, wherein a first application (11) on a first electronic device (21) controls the execution of a second application (12) on a second electronic device (22), and a first server (31) provides an environment for executing the second application (12), wherein the method includes the steps of: executing the first application (11) on the first electronic device (21); initiating the execution of the second application (12) by the first electronic device; coupling of the first electronic device (21) to the second electronic device (22); providing the environment for executing the second application (22) by the first server (31); and executing the second application (12) on the second electronic device (22).
US10305960B1
A method includes extracting a priority indicator from network communications that corresponds to a relative priority assigned by a client to one or more logical streams for a multiplexed transport connection. A stream quantity indicator is identified from network communications that corresponds to a number of logical streams initiated by the client for the multiplexed transport connection. The multiplexed transport connection is mapped to a connection profile based on one or more connection attributes of the multiplexed transport connection. Using the connection profile, a deviation of the multiplexed transport connection from a benchmark of the connection profile for the priority indicator and the stream quantity indicator is identified. A network access service of the client is altered based on the identifying of the deviation of the multiplexed transport connection.
US10305959B2
A method includes after determining that a first type of communication path to a self-organizing network controller is not available at an access point that supports a first wireless local area network, selecting, by an agent application at the access point, a second type of communication path to the self-organizing network controller from a prioritized set of communication paths. The method also includes attempting to establish a communication connection to the self-organizing network controller using the second type of communication path.
US10305945B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, method and/or computer program product embodiments for providing survivable calling and conferencing. An embodiment operates by providing, by a first server, a first sub-conference to a plurality of user devices over first lines. The first sub-conference is combined with a second sub-conference to form a collective conference of the plurality of user devices. The first server accesses the conference. A second server is configured to provide the second sub-conference of the collective conference to the plurality of user devices over second lines, the first and second lines being distinct from each other. The collective conference may provide resilient and reliable sharing of information among participants and may leverage dispersed elements or diverse links simultaneously without impediments of echoes, loops, or other impacts.
US10305944B1
The disclosure includes a system and method for providing a customized stream of content to a user. The system includes: an item sourcer for gathering one or more content items from one or more content sources; a behavior indicator module and scorer for determining one or more behavior scores for the one or more content items; a content indicator module and scorer for determining one or more content scores for the one or more content items; a score combiner for aggregating the one or more behavior scores and the one or more content scores to generate one or more item scores for the one or more content items; a content diversifier for determining one or more diverse items from the one or more content items; and a stream generator for generating a customized stream of content for the user from the one or more diverse items.
US10305942B2
A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server within an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network may be associated with multiple, different identifiers. In some embodiments, a process for implementing the multiple, different identifiers of the SIP server within the IMS network may include maintaining, at a home subscriber server (HSS), a first identifier of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server in association with a user, and inserting a second identifier of the SIP server in a message header of a SIP request during a wireless communication session of the user. In some embodiments, the first identifier of the SIP server may be transmitted over Diameter (Cx) interfaces, while the second identifier of the SIP server may be transmitted over SIP (ISC) interfaces. Using multiple identifiers of a SIP server allows for minimizing downtime while restoring the user's wireless communication session in the event of a failure of the SIP server.
US10305941B2
A broadcast reception method includes: receiving a broadcast signal including service data and signaling information for at least one service, wherein the signaling information includes first signaling information for acquisition of the service, wherein the signaling information includes second signaling information containing bootstrap information of the first signaling information; filtering the service on the basis of the second signaling information; and storing information for the filtered service in a channel map on the basis of the signaling information.
US10305938B2
A call server for optimizing the use of the resources in a media gateway of a core network, this call server being configured to receive a session setup request message decide to accept or to reject the session setup request as a function of the load of a gateway controlled by this call server retrieve an internal priority value assigned to an incoming SIP trunk linked to this core network and carrying this session setup request message and decide to accept or to reject the session setup request also as a function of the internal priority value assigned to an incoming SIP trunk carrying this session setup request message.
US10305934B2
A local network element on an enterprise network caches Domain Name System (DNS) responses in association with user identifiers in accordance with a DNS-based access control policy. The network element receives a DNS request from a first endpoint device. The DNS request includes a domain name to resolve. The network element forwards the DNS request to a domain name server along with a first user identifier associated with the first endpoint device. The network element receives a DNS response from the domain name server. The DNS response includes a network address associated with the domain name, as well as the first user identifier and at least one other user identifier. The network element stores the network address in a DNS cache as a cached DNS response for the domain name. The cached DNS response is stored in association with the first user identifier and the other user identifier(s).
US10305933B2
A method and computing device for enablement of a disabled profile or a third party application associated with the disabled profile on the device, the method including receiving, at an identity module on the device, a request to enable the disabled profile or the third party application; obtaining, from each profile on the device that is currently active, a respective policy; obtaining, from the disabled profile, a policy for the disabled profile; determining, based on the respective policies obtained from the active profiles and based on the policy for the disabled profile, whether the disabled profile or third party application can be enabled; and providing a response to the request to enable the disabled profile based on the determining.
US10305932B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a substation phasor data concentrator (ssPDC) is disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment is a method for operating an electrical substation including a merging unit (MU), a phasor measurement unit (PMU), and a substation phasor data concentrator (ssPDC). The method includes receiving, with the MU and the PMU, input information corresponding to a set of electrical characteristics of the electrical substation; measuring, with the MU, the input information; measuring, with the PMU, the input information; a and estimating, with the ssPDC, electrical characteristics of the electrical substation using the received false measurement and the one of the MU measurement and the PMU measurement, determining in substantially real time the false measurement does not correspond to the set of electrical characteristics using the estimated electric characteristics, and replacing the false measurement with the received the one of the MU measurement and the PMU measurement.
US10305918B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for monitoring instances of an application operating on a set of mobile devices. In some embodiments, the method receives content data to be used by the application and injects monitoring code into the content data before providing it to a web view of the application. In some embodiments, the content data includes various types of content (e.g., multimedia files, scripts, data files, etc.) received from a content server managed by the developer of the application and may be used by the native code and/or the web view of the hybrid application. The content data of some embodiments also includes monitoring code that is inserted by the developer of the application to monitor developer-specified events in the native code and/or web view. The method of some embodiments gathers monitored data from both the native code and the web view.
US10305898B1
During secure communications between two parties, the identity of the message creator is not always certain. In many cases, the signature of the message is automatically generated by the computer of the sending party. On the other hand, the signature of the received message from the sender indicates only form whose account the message comes, but it may not be the sender himself sending the message. In this patent, we propose the use of a personal attribute to be included in the secure message protocols. This personal attribute could be the personal typing rhythm (keystroke dynamics) of the message originator. This patent defines a methodology and algorithms for two different cases: when the information is encrypted, and when it is not. Also included in this methodology are the cases where a Rhythm Certification Agency (RCA) is used to validate rhythm information, or without an RCA. A Rhythm Software Application running locally on the user computer to capture and analyze the users typing rhythm is included in this patent.
US10305894B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for providing a user verification service based on analyzing digital fingerprint signals derived from out-of-band data (i.e., data not directly supplied by the user). In some embodiments, a digital fingerprint engine embedded in an app hosted on a client device being accessed by a user reads various device or user data and then creates a set of encoded user verification data representing out-of-band data stored locally on that device. In some embodiments, the user verification data are encoded as hashes generated by a hash function. In some embodiments, the app is configured to contact a business server via the cloud, and the set of digital fingerprints are included in an authorization request transmitted from the client device to the business server. In some embodiments, a digital fingerprint verification service verifies the set of digital fingerprints by determining whether they match any of a stored set of digital fingerprints representing a group of previously verified users.
US10305891B2
A computing platform may receive, from a client portal server, a request to authenticate a user to a user account. The computing platform may generate a first one-time passcode for a first computing device associated with the user account and may send, to the first computing device, the first one-time passcode. The computing platform also may generate a first registered-device authentication prompt for a second computing device associated with the user account and may send, to the second computing device, the first registered-device authentication prompt. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive first one-time passcode input and a first response to the first registered-device authentication prompt, which the computing platform may validate. Based on the validating, the computing platform may generate a validation message directing the client portal server to provide the user with access to the user account, which the computing platform may send to the client portal server.
US10305887B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for authenticating a field tool by a field device comprising: receiving, on a field device, an authentication certificate; verifying the authentication certificate using a trust anchor certificate on the field device; securing communication between the field tool and the field device with a key generated by a key derivation method using exchanged certificates; receiving a field tool task authorization certificate; verifying the authorization certificate using a trust anchor certificate on the field device; receiving a task request to perform a task by the field tool; and determining whether the task is authorized based on the task authorization certificate; and performing the task on the field device when it is determined the task is authorized.
US10305882B2
A system and method for using a Service-Provider password to simulate F-SSO functionality. A processor receives from an F-SSO Identity Provider authentication data for a user who has requested access to a secured service. The service is managed by an F-SSO Service Provider that does not offer F-SSO functionality for that service. Upon receiving the data, the processor redirects the user to an SU-F-SSO portal of the Service Provider, which uses the received authentication data to authenticate the user. The processor sends the user an on-demand password and, when the user uses that password to sign on, the processor matches the entered password with a stored copy of the password that was sent to the user. If they match, the processor grants the user access to the requested service. In some embodiments, the on-demand password may be a single-use password or may be sent to the user via an out-of-band communication.
US10305869B2
Methods and systems for directly and securely transferring encrypted medical data between two remote locations, such as an imaging site and a diagnostic site, wherein the diagnostic site is not within a data transfer network utilized by the imaging site. The invention allows the diagnostic site to receive medical data and view the data using a thin client viewer, and allows the diagnostic site to register as an in-network site.
US10305867B2
A content delivery platform is provided that includes generating a first content package of content that is encrypted with a unique symmetric key, and a second content package including a link encrypted with the key to the first content package. The first content package is stored in a repository, and a request including the key is transmitted to a first computing device associated with a mail exchange for an encryption key file. An encryption key file is generated using the unique symmetric key and together with a authorizing token is received. A third content package is generated that is encrypted using the encryption key file and includes the encrypted link. The third content package is transmitted to a distributor gateway and the encrypted link is accessible in response to the consumer decrypting the third content package. The link is available to provide to access to the content for the consumer.
US10305861B2
A method and proxy device for cross-tenant data leakage isolation in a multi-tenant database are provided. The method includes monitoring, by a proxy device, traffic flows between a server executing at least one cloud-based application and the multi-tenant database, wherein the proxy device is communicatively connected between the server and the multi-tenant database; capturing, by the proxy device, at least a request to access the multi-tenant database, wherein the request is communicated using a database-specific protocol; analyzing the request to determine if the request is legitimate; upon determining that the request is not legitimate, modifying the request to point to a global-tenant table and to designate a unique tenant identifier, wherein the unique tenant identifier corresponds to a tenant-specific table name designated in the global-tenant table; and sending the modified request to the multi-tenant database using the database-specific protocol.
US10305857B2
One embodiment relates to a method for obtaining, in a communication network, a routing policy indicating rules for routing requests emitted by a software module running on a client device. The method comprises sending, by the client device, a connection request to an authentication server of the communication network in order to attach the client device to the communications network- and receiving, by the client device, a connection context response from the authentication server. The context comprises an identifier of a system for managing routing rules. The software module obtains the routing policy in accordance with at least one first rule for routing to a proxy system certified by the operator of the communications network obtained by means of the identifier.
US10305855B2
The present disclosure relates to field of telecommunication that provides method and system for connecting network entities in broadband communication network without Circuit-Switched fallback. Primary network entity sends a request to local network controller that ensures interoperability and reduces delay in setting up voice/data connection. The local network controller forwards the request to the central network controller that identifies the destination intermediate network entity. If the destination intermediate network entity is present in the same network as the source intermediate network entity, the central network controller assigns an IP address and establishes a traffic engineered tunnel which in turn establishes the voice calls/data connection between the primary and the secondary network entity. Otherwise, the voice calls/data connection is forwarded to a Remote Anchoring Gateway. The present disclosure reduces congestion as the request reaches Remote Anchoring Gateway only when the source and the destination intermediate network entities are in different networks.
US10305851B1
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for identifying relevant content from a messaging platform. The method can include: identifying a context account; identifying a set of initial accounts of the messaging platform; selecting a set of relevant accounts from among the set of initial accounts; selecting a set of messages authored by the set of relevant accounts based at least on a recency of each of the set of messages; and providing the set of messages in response to a request.
US10305841B2
A system and method of an enterprise mobile message are provided. The system includes a cloud composed of a database, a server, and a push gateway. The server receives an uploaded add subject instruction and a related message to create a new subject block in the database and assigns thereto a subject ID, so as to store the message. The server receives an uploaded reply subject instruction and a related reply message to create a second level block and assigns thereto a second level subject ID, so as to store the reply message. The server delivers the messages and the reply message to the mobile communication device of a corresponding member by a push notification and through the push gateway and an external push host.
US10305832B2
An email system that enables users to request for and receive recommended messages which are relevant and contextually related to a received message via activation of a user interface element is disclosed. When a message is received, it is analyzed and keywords relevant to the received message along with named entities comprised in the received message are retrieved and stored. Upon activation of a user interface element, the relevant keywords are employed to retrieve other similar messages which are grouped into clusters. The clusters are further ranked based on their relevance to the received message and the top ranked messages from the most relevant cluster are selected for display to the user as the messages that are contextually relevant to the received message. The email system also facilitates execution of batch operations on the contextually relevant messages.
US10305822B2
The present disclosure discloses a service chain routing method and system, and equipment in the system, wherein, the service chain routing method includes that: a relay node receives a first data message forwarded by a switching node, wherein the first data message is a message sent to a next-hop node which does not support service chain routing, and the relay node forms a binding relationship with the next-hop node; after determining that a type of the next-hop node is a service node, the relay node deletes a service chain identifier in the first data message; and the relay node sends the first data message in which the service chain identifier is deleted to the switching node, as to the switching node to forward, according to the binding relationship, the first data message in which the service chain identifier is deleted to the next-hop node.
US10305817B1
A provisioning system for a distributed computing environment includes a map reduce framework that includes a splitter process, a mapper process, and a reduce process. The splitter process receives a task associated with a distributed application to be deployed on the distributed computing environment, and selects which of the resources are to be provisioned for executing the distributed application. The mapper process converts at least one abstract address included in the task to an absolute address, and executes the task for provisioning the selected resources, while the reduce process consolidates results of the executed task.
US10305815B2
Methods and systems of managing a resource in a distributed resource management system can include: receiving a resource request including data identifying at least one requested resource attribute; identifying one or more candidate resources from a plurality of resources by performing element-wise operations on one or more resource attribute element sets corresponding to the at least one requested resource attribute, each resource attribute element set comprising an element for each of the plurality of resources, each element representing a resource attribute for a respective resource of the plurality of resources; and scheduling a workload associated with the resource request for execution based on the one or more identified candidate resources.
US10305814B2
A computer-implemented method sizes a Storage Area Network (SAN) storage migration. One or more processors determine Input/output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and throughput of hardware devices operatively coupled to a target Storage Area Network (SAN) prior to a SAN migration from a source SAN to the target SAN. One or more processors determine an estimated time and size of the SAN migration based on the IOPS and the throughput of the hardware devices. One or more processors then configure transmission resources available to the source SAN to comport with the estimated time and size of the SAN migration.
US10305809B2
In one embodiment, a networking device in a network detects a traffic flow conveyed in the network via the networking device. The networking device generates flow data for the traffic flow. The networking device performs a classification of the traffic flow using the flow data as input to a machine learning-based classifier. The networking device performs a mediation action based on the classification of the traffic flow.
US10305804B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for processing network congestion. A first switch obtains total traffic that is received by a receiving port communicating with a third switch. The total traffic includes traffic that is occupied by a data flow sent by a second switch, and the first switch. When the first switch determines, according to the total traffic, that a sending port of the third switch is congested, the first switch determines a target port. The target port is another port that can receive the data flow and that is selected from receiving ports of the first switch. The first switch sends an adjustment message to the second switch. The adjustment message carries an identifier of the data flow and an identifier of the target port, and the adjustment message is used by the second switch to send the data flow to the target port.
US10305799B2
Presented herein are techniques for performing packet forwarding or routing using a pipeline of a plurality of tiles. A method includes receiving a packet, parsing the packet to generate a vector, passing the vector to a first tile dedicated to a first type of lookup, performing a lookup in the first tile, storing a result of the first type of lookup in the vector to obtain a first updated vector, passing the first updated vector to a second tile dedicated to a second type of lookup, performing a lookup in the second tile, storing a result of the second type of lookup in the vector to obtain a second updated vector, and transmitting the packet from the network routing device via an output port thereof selected based on the second updated vector.
US10305796B2
A method, in a switch in an interconnected layer-2 architecture, is disclosed for enhanced forwarding database synchronization of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses based on HIT logic. The method includes learning a MAC address against a port associated with the switch; storing the MAC address with information comprising a port Identifier (ID), a switch ID, and the enhanced HIT logic set to true; setting the enhanced HIT logic to false if the MAC address was not seen on the port at an end of a cycle; and synchronizing the MAC address with other switches in the interconnected layer-2 or multi-chassis architecture if the enhanced HIT logic is true at the end of the cycle.
US10305795B1
The disclosed method may include (1) receiving, at a route server that serves an Internet exchange, a request from an autonomous system to join the Internet exchange, (2) obtaining, from the autonomous system, a policy that defines which routes pertaining to the autonomous system are to be shared with additional autonomous systems that have joined the Internet exchange, (3) obtaining, from the autonomous system, a plurality of routes pertaining to the autonomous system, (4) storing, at the route server, the plurality of routes pertaining to the autonomous system, and then (5) advertising at least a portion of the plurality of routes to at least one of the additional autonomous systems in accordance with the policy obtained from the autonomous system. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10305786B2
A method of processing messages within a distributed computer system in order to compensate for latency effects within the distributed computer system, the distributed computer system comprising a plurality of user devices and a message processing device, the method comprising: receiving a message from a user device at a message management device; determining if the received message corresponds to a message type that requires compensation for latency delays; and, in the event that the message does not require compensation, forwarding the message to the message processing device; and, in the event that the message does require compensation for latency effects, calculating a randomized delay period, and holding the message at the message management device for the calculated delay period and subsequently forwarding the message to the message processing device.
US10305781B2
Arrangements described herein implement a CONtent CentrIc cross-layer SchEduling (CONCISE) approach in which content specific routes and schedules are created, resulting in an overlaid routing structure and multiple content based schedules. In CONCISE, not only is non-conflict multi-hop scheduling implemented but also data aggregation along the routing path is taken into account during the scheduling process. This therefore provides a new way to route and aggregate data in a deterministic and timely manner via scheduling.
US10305779B2
A node receives, from a center node, a request packet including a data part in which a MAC address and position information of the center node are described, determines whether or not there is a request destination node, where determining that there is the request destination node, additionally describes a MAC address and position information of the node itself in the data part, and transmits the described request packet to the request destination node, where determining that there is no request destination node, determines that the node itself is a terminal node, where determining that the node itself is the terminal node, generates a reply packet including a data part in which all of MAC addresses and all pieces of position information described in the data part of the received request packet are described, and transmits the reply packet to a request source node.
US10305778B2
A station of a mesh network comprising a peer table which is configured to list neighboring peers within the mesh network. Each peer comprises a qualification grade and the station comprises a controller which is configured to detect a new peer entering the mesh network and to establish a peer connection with the new peer. The controller is also configured to add the new peer to the peer table and to determine if the peer table is full when the new peer has been added. The controller is further configured to compare the qualification grades of the neighboring peers in the peer table if the peer table is full, and to remove a peer having a high qualification grade in relation to the neighboring peers in the peer table.
US10305776B2
A network verification method may include identifying a data plane for routing traffic through a network that includes one or more forwarding tables for each switch of a plurality of switches in the data plane. The method may also include obtaining a forwarding behavior representation of the data plane based on the forwarding tables, and obtaining a forwarding rule from the one or more forwarding tables. The method may additionally include transforming the forwarding behavior representation based on the forwarding rule. The method may also include pruning meta-information about the forwarding rule that is redundant to forwarding behavior, and comparing the forwarding behavior representation of the data plane to one or more network properties of expected behavior of the data plane to detect one or more errors in the data plane as variations from the expected behavior.
US10305773B2
Systems and methods for device identity augmentation. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive high-level metrics; receive low-level metrics; determine, using a plurality of sets of threshold values, that the high-level metrics and the low-level metrics match at least one of a plurality of device profiles; and at least one of: (a) identify a device as belonging to class of devices corresponding to the matching device profile, or (b) identify whether at least a subset of the high-level metrics or the low-level metrics are outside one or more of the sets of threshold values.
US10305772B2
A method for communication includes receiving multiple work requests from a process running on a computer to transmit respective messages over a network. A single work item corresponding to the multiple work requests is submitted to a network interface controller (NIC) connected to the computer. In response to the single work item, multiple data packets carrying the respective messages are transmitted from the NIC to the network.
US10305768B2
A method of measuring load time for a web page includes video recording a duration of the web page load including capturing N frames in a series of frames 1 through N of the web page. The method includes comparing each frame from frame 1 through frame N−1 with a next frame from frame 2 through frame N in the series of frames to determine a pixel change amount between the compared frames. The method includes defining a series of page phases for the duration of the web page load, each page phase defined by a start time and an end time with each phase start time determined based on estimating user perceptible pixel change amount levels.
US10305761B2
An accurate monitoring system for a multi-tenant system monitors each data stream of the multi-tenant system and determines the identity of the tenant using each of the data streams, and the application that the tenant is accessing. Aspects of each data stream are aggregated by a bucket aggregator to track and record trends for each tenant and/or each application. The aggregated data could be filtered, sorted, and reported for accurate subscription billing for each of the tenants and/or applications within a multi-tenant system.
US10305758B1
Network connected devices are controlled via the transmission of action messages to prevent or correct conditions that impair the operation of the networked information technology (IT) assets. The service monitoring system (SMS) monitoring the IT environment groups together related notable events that are received during system operation. Automatic processes dynamically determine grouping operations that automatically correlate the events without requiring, for example, a set of declarative grouping rules. Events grouping may be performed on a by-service basis to facilitate the complex processing of predicting undesirable system conditions that may be prevented or reduced by transmission of the action messages to the appropriate assets.
US10305755B2
A reliability and performance analysis system is disclosed. The reliability and performance analysis system includes a logic analyzer and a server. The logic analyzer includes a set of probes capable of retrieving signals of a digital device. The retrieved signals are integrated and stored into a storage module of the logic analyzer. The retrieved signals are then transmitted to a remote server which are utilized to select specific signals to analyze the reliability and performance of the digital device. The storage module can increase the stability of the logic analyzer such that the logic analyzer can proceed a long-term signal retrieving process and a user can obtain an analysis result by connecting to the server directly.
US10305748B2
The invention concerns computer systems that are specially adapted to propagate content over a dynamic network, substantially in real time, by virtue of the locational proximity of network-joined Client Computers. Preferably, the content will also be weighting (for example, proximity-weighting, rank-weighting, topic-weighting, query-weighting, time-weighting, location-weighting, locality-weighting, vote-weighting, segment-weighting, etc.). The invention particularly concerns such computer systems that employ more than one such weighting. The invention particularly concerns such computer systems that operate using, or through, mobile devices, particularly for distributed computing applications, including social media applications and communications applications conducted over Restricted Computer Networks.
US10305747B2
Techniques are described for managing compute and storage resources in a container-based, multi-tenant, computing infrastructure. In some implementations, a plurality of containers may each execute an instance of a software framework. Each container may include compute capacity and storage capacity according to the executed framework. Containers may be allocated among clusters in a multi-tenant, cloud-based computing environment based on measured demand for compute capacity and/or storage capacity in the various clusters. In some implementations, a scheduler (e.g., a Level 2 scheduler, or a scheduler of schedulers) determines whether to move compute containers between clusters within a multi-tenant environment, to provide performance improvements, resource utilization efficiency, and cost reduction within the data center, and to satisfy tenant requests for compute and/or storage resources.
US10305746B2
Providing network insights is disclosed. A mapping between a device identifier and one or more nodes in a network topology associated with a network service provider is obtained. End user experience data associated with the device identifier is obtained. Based at least in part on the device identifier. at least some of the obtained end user experience data is associated with at least some of the one or more nodes in the network topology associated with the network service provider. Processing is performed based at least in part on the association of the at least some of the obtained end user experience data with the at least some of the one or more nodes in the network topology associated with the network service provider. Output is provided based at least in part on the processing.
US10305744B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods are described for enhanced monitoring for an event candidate within a wireless node network. Such a system, for example, may include a server at a top level within the wireless node network, an ID node disposed at a low level within the wireless node network, and a master node disposed at a middle level within the wireless node network. The master node, which separately communicates with the server and the ID node and executes event detection code stored on its memory storage, is operative to detect a first and a second advertising signal broadcast by the ID node over a communication path with the ID node, compare an observed parameter of each of the first and second advertising signal (such as signal strength), identify the event candidate based upon the comparison, and use a second communication path to report the identified event candidate to the server.
US10305743B1
A hosting system is provided. The hosting system includes a grid of hardware nodes for provisioning virtual servers including a first virtual server for a first user and a second virtual server for a second user. The hosting system further includes dedicated servers including a first dedicated server for the first user and a second dedicated server for the second user. A switch, in response to the first virtual server and the second virtual server having overlapping virtual local area network (VLAN) identifications (IDs), defines a first broadcast domain for the first user and a second broadcast domain for the second user, places the first virtual server and the first dedicated server in the first broadcast domain, and places the second virtual server and the second dedicated server in the second broadcast domain.
US10305739B1
A method, system and computer product for undoing user or administrator server configuration actions on a multi-tenant server panel. When a user or an administrator makes a mistake doing an operation in a server UI all the actions that were performed after the mistake, will be executed with errors, incorrectly or will produce unexpected results. The system allows for undoing all the subsequent user actions after the mistake to the point where the mistake was made. Separate action logs for each individual user or administrator are kept. A user can select an action from a menu list to be undone by invoking a corresponding server API without affecting any actions by other server panel users.
US10305735B2
A system and method for dynamic selection of media server in a communication network includes selecting a new media server to optimize a communication network. At least one of a user characteristic, a session characteristic, or a network condition is monitored during an ongoing communication session involving an existing media server. A need for selection of a new media server is determined based on at least one of the user characteristic, the session characteristic, or the network condition. The new media server to optimize the communication network is dynamically selected in response to the need. The dynamic selection may determine a plurality of overall network path lengths between each of a plurality of selectable media servers and a plurality of user equipment involved in the ongoing communication session.
US10305733B1
Functionality is disclosed herein for utilizing a physical model to define infrastructure associated with the service provider network or other networks. The model is analyzed to identify resources represented by the physical model as well as any connections between the resources. Based upon the analysis, configuration data that describes the configuration of the resources within the service provider network may be generated and used to perform one or more actions. For example, the configuration data might be used to generate a deployment template and/or used to provision the resources within the service provider network or other networks. After provisioning, the model may show information relating to the operation of the resources within the network.
US10305726B2
A representation of network resources and relationships among the network resources is established. The network resources include network resources of a tenant and network resources of a plurality of clouds. Input specifying at least one network resource of the tenant, at least one network resource of each of two of the plurality of clouds, and an action directed to the specified network resources is received in the representation. A multi-cloud extension is configured in accordance with the input. The multi-cloud extension extends to network resources of the tenant and the plurality of clouds, and is isolated from network resources of other tenants.
US10305717B2
According to an exemplary embodiment, a method of making a Hermetic transform to mitigate noise comprises: receiving over a channel signal frames comprising predetermined data and gaps comprising noise; framing the predetermined data; constructing a set of linear equations which relate a transfer function matrix of the channel to the predetermined data; determining the transfer function matrix by inverting the linear equations using a first pseudo inverse matrix; incorporating transfer function matrix into linear equations for a hermetic transform; and determining the hermetic transform using a second pseudo inverse matrix based on the predetermined data and the noise.
US10305715B2
A method is provided for receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. A user equipment performs a blind decoding in a first search space on the cell to find a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The user equipment receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message including information on a second search space for monitoring a second PDCCH and identity information, and performs a blind decoding in the second search space on the cell to find the second PDCCH. The first PDCCH is demodulated based on a physical cell identity of the cell, and the second PDCCH is demodulated based on the identity information instead of the physical cell identity.
US10305713B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide efficient support for the exchange of trigger information between wireless data communication devices and systems, including Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) devices and systems that may utilize Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). In accordance with one or more embodiments, a trigger information exchange mechanism is disclosed that transfers trigger data as part of a pre-existing data frame handshake. Such a system may offer improved capabilities such as a reduced channel overhead incurred due to the trigger information exchange.
US10305711B2
A method for modulating and coding a data packet comprising digitally encoded information. The method comprises selecting a hierarchy of modulation and coding schemes to use for modulation and coding of the digitally encoded information. The method also comprises identifying, among the bits in the digitally encoded information and based on the selected hierarchy of modulation and coding schemes, two sets of data, a first set of data and a second set of data, the second set of data being a sub-set of the first set of data and comprising bits different from the most robust bits of the first set of data. The method further comprises performing modulation and coding of the first set of data using a modulation and coding scheme with high order modulation in order to create a first layer of the data packet.
US10305710B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating, by a base station, multiple modulation schemes in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: calculating the number of terminals, among the terminals in a cell managed by the base station, of which a channel state is included in a state that is lower than a preset state; reporting information related to the calculated number of terminals to an upstream entity of the base station; receiving information about a band, assigned by the upstream entity, for a hybrid frequency shift keying (FSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) (FQAM) scheme on the basis of a QAM scheme and a FSK scheme; and transmitting downwardly the information about the band for the FQAM scheme to the terminals of which a channel state is included in a state that is lower than the preset state. Other modified embodiments on the basis of the technical concept of the present invention are also possible.
US10305706B2
An apparatus for communication includes a transmission chain, an interference suppressor and a reception chain. The transmission chain is configured to transmit a transmitted signal. The interference suppressor is configured to produce suppression signals, by filtering reference signals drawn from the transmission chain. At least one of the reference signals is filtered in a frequency domain. The reception chain is configured to receive a signal distorted by at least an attenuated and delayed replica of the transmitted signal. The transmitted signal and the received signal are (i) synchronized in time and (ii) each includes one or more subcarriers selected from a common subcarrier-resource. The reception chain is further configured to process the received signal up to selected points, to subtract the suppression signals from the received signal at the selected points to produce an interference-suppressed signal, and to recover data carried in the received signal from the interference-suppressed signal.
US10305705B2
A signal receiver circuit may include: a receiver suitable for generating a received signal based on comparison of an input signal with a reference voltage during a normal operation and based on comparison of the input signal with a target voltage during a training operation; a compensator suitable for applying a weight to the received signal to compensate for the input signal; and a weight adjuster suitable for adjusting the weight based on a level of the received signal during the training operation, wherein during the training operation, the input signal toggles between first and second levels, and the receiver is enabled when the input signal is at the first level.
US10305703B1
The presently-disclosed solution enables continuous time linear equalizer (CTLE) tuning without needing to perform bit error rate (BER) measurements. Because time consuming BER measurements are avoided, the CTLE tuning may be performed more rapidly as to reduce substantially the time required for link training. Furthermore, this solution re-uses decision feedback equalizer (DFE) adaptation circuitry so as to be highly efficient in its implementation. One embodiment relates to a method that tunes the CTLE based on results from the adaptation of the tap values of the DFE. Another embodiment relates to an apparatus that includes an interface for a control module to control a setting of a CTLE and an adaptation engine for a DFE. The value for the setting of the CTLE is selected using the adapted tap 1 value of the DFE as a figure of merit. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.
US10305696B2
A method is provided in one example and includes assigning a virtual switch identifier to a group of a plurality of switches in which each of the plurality of switches is configured with a redundancy protocol. The method further includes configuring a redundancy protocol priority value for each the plurality of switches, and generating at least one link-state routing protocol message including priority information indicative of the redundancy protocol priority value associated with one or more of the plurality of switches. The method further includes distributing the at least one link-state routing protocol message to one or more of the plurality of switches.
US10305692B2
In one example, a method includes transitioning, responsive to determining that a charging coil of wireless charger is in proximity of an implantable medical device (IMD) and by the IMD, from operating in a non-pairing mode into a pairing mode of a far-field wireless communication protocol. In this example, operating in the paring mode comprises: receiving, by the IMD and via a transceiver of the far-field wireless communication protocol, a public encryption key from another device that is different than the wireless charger; and determining, based on the public encryption key of the other device and a public encryption key of the IMD, a link encryption key for future communication between the IMD and the other device. In this example, the method further includes communicating, by the IMD and based on the link encryption key, with the other device via the far-field wireless communication protocol.
US10305686B2
Secure data transfers between communication nodes is performed using a group encryption key supplied by a remote management system. A first node transmits a request for secure communications with a second node to the remote management system using a control channel. The remote management system generates and encrypts a group encryption key usable by the first and second nodes and forwards the encrypted group encryption key to the first and second nodes using one or more control channels. The first and second communication nodes decrypt the group encryption key and use it to encrypt data transmitted between the nodes using a data transport network. In some implementations the securely communicating nodes may use encryption keys and/or techniques that prevent the remote management system from eavesdropping on the nodes' communications.
US10305679B2
A method for implementing a communication between at least two control units, and a control unit interconnection for implementing the method are provided. An electronic hardware security module is provided in each control unit, the communication taking place via an additional communications link.
US10305678B2
The invention relates to a method for securing an electronic device (SC) against attacks via covert channels when the electronic device (SC) implements a Montgomery ladder for calculating the element A⊥A⊥. . . ⊥A where A appears k times. A designates an element of an Abelian group with a law ⊥, and k is a natural number. The method comprises a modified implementation of the Montgomery ladder. The invention also relates to a device (SC), a computer program and a storage medium arranged so as to implement such a method.
US10305672B2
A communication system includes a master node and one more slave nodes connected via a transmission line. The master node is configured to output a first PWM signal having a shorter low level time and a second PWM signal having a longer low level time. The slave node is configured to output the second PWM signal when detecting a high to low signal level change on the transmission line. The master node detects a time delay as measured from when an input signal to a transmission buffer falls to when an output signal from a reception buffer falls. The time delay is an index value used to change the low level time of the first PWM signal when the time delay is equal to or less than a preset value.
US10305665B2
An ABS proportion adjustment method and device are provided. In the ABS proportion adjustment method, a macro cell receives the number of interfered UEs and an Almost Blank Subframe (ABS) utilization rate from a micro cell in a coverage of the macro cell; and the macro cell adjusts an ABS proportion according to load information of the macro cell, the number of the interfered UEs under the micro cell and the ABS utilization rate, wherein the load information comprises a Guaranteed Bit Rate Physical Resource Block (GBR PRB) utilization rate and a Guaranteed Bit Rate Downlink Physical Resource Block (GBR DL PRB) utilization rate, and the ABS proportion is a ratio of the number of ABSs in an ABS pattern period to a total number of downlink subframes in the ABS pattern period.
US10305663B2
Provided is a method of transmitting ACK/NACK in a TDD-based wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving M downlink subframes associated with an uplink subframe n in each of two serving cells; determining four candidate resources based on the M downlink subframes received in each of the two serving cells; and transmitting an ACK/NACK response for the M downlink subframes by using one resource selected from the four candidate resources in the uplink subframe n, wherein the two serving cells includes a first serving cell and a second serving cell, and wherein among the four candidate resources, a first resource and a second resource are associated with a PDSCH or a SPS release PDCCH for releasing semi-persistent scheduling received in the first serving cell, and a third resource and a fourth resources are associated with a PDSCH received in the second serving cell.
US10305656B2
Massive MIMO systems provide impressive spectral efficiencies through beam forming techniques such as Zero-Forcing Precoding (ZFP). Unfortunately, ZFP imposes a considerable computational burden for each additional user. Relationships between the antennas, the users, and the environment must be rapidly, and accurately, reassessed during ZFP on an ongoing basis. Brute force approaches to these reassessments may be unfeasible for certain hardware and design conditions. Accordingly, various of the proposed embodiments implement representational optimizations which reduce the computational burden for each reassessment. Some embodiments employ “dynamic sectorization”, whereby the serviced environment is divided into regions and the corresponding representation is modified to reduce the computations of each reassessment. A backplane, antenna separation/directivity and thresholds for environment noise may each be adjusted to reduce the computational burden.
US10305652B2
The present invention provides a UE, a method for an aperiodic SRS in a base station and a device. For a problem of a scheduling restriction of a traditional A-SRS in unlicensed spectrum communication, the present disclosure provides the method and apparatus for the A-SRS, wherein physical-layer signaling is used to indicate a sending frequency band of an SRS to implement flexible scheduling of the aperiodic SRS. As an embodiment, the number of antenna ports of the A-SRS is configured by high-layer signaling identified by a logical cell index. A physical resource occupied by the aperiodic SRS is configured by high-layer signaling identified by a carrier index. The logical cell index at different frameworks may correspond to different physical carriers.
US10305649B2
An interference coordination method, apparatus, and system are provided in a communications system, which including a first cell and at least one neighboring cell of the first cell. A first cell management apparatus corresponding to the first cell sends configuration information of an uplink reference signal to at least one second cell management apparatus corresponding to the at least one neighboring cell, so that each second cell management apparatus measures the uplink reference signal sent by UE within the first cell, to obtain a second measured value; and the first cell management apparatus measures the uplink reference signal sent by the UE, to obtain a first measured value; an interference coordination apparatus coordinates downlink transmit power of the first cell and the at least one neighboring cell according to the first measured value and at least one second measured value, which effectively reduces inter-cell interference and increases a network capacity.
US10305641B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process utilization for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions, wherein a reserved HARQ process identification (ID) can be reused. A subset of a plurality of HARQ process IDs is reserved to use for a semi-persistent allocation, and data is transmitted based on the semi-persistent allocation. A dynamic allocation is received via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). At least one of the reserved HARQ process IDs is selectively used for transmitting data based on the dynamic allocation.
US10305637B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). In a feedback method of a terminal, receiving a first subframe from a base station, detecting, from the first subframe, downlink control information (DCI) including transmission timing information and frequency resource information for feedback, creating feedback information for data decoding of the first subframe to be transmitted in a second subframe determined based on the DCI, and transmitting the feedback information, based on a time resource indicated from the transmission timing information and a frequency resource indicated from the frequency resource information in the DCI.
US10305629B2
A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by performing LDPC encoding, an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword, and a modulator configured to modulate the interleaved LDPC codeword according to a modulation method to generate a modulation symbol. The interleaver performs interleaving by dividing the LDPC codeword into a plurality of groups, rearranging an order of the plurality of groups in group units, and dividing the plurality of rearranged groups based on a modulation order according to the modulation method.
US10305628B2
A transmission frame generating device generates a transmission frame. The generating device includes a control information signal generator which generates a modulation method control signal indicating a modulation method used for a data signal and an error correction method control signal indicating an error correction method used for the data signal and a frame former which forms the transmission frame by arranging a training signal, the data signal, the modulation method control signal and the error correction method control signal on a plurality of subcarriers on a frequency axis. The modulation method control signal being repeatedly and discretely arranged on a first multiple of the plurality of subcarriers on the frequency axis and the error correction method control signal being repeatedly and discretely arranged on a second multiple of the plurality of the subcarriers on the frequency axis.
US10305620B2
Blind polarization demultiplexing algorithms based on complex independent component analysis (ICA) by negentropy maximization for quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) coherent optical systems are disclosed. The polarization demultiplexing is achieved by maximizing the signal's non-Gaussianity measured by the information theoretic quantity of negentropy. An adaptive gradient optimization algorithm and a Quasi-Newton algorithm with accelerated convergence are employed to maximize the negentropy. Certain approximate nonlinear functions can be substitutes for the negentropy which is strictly derived from the probability density function (PDF) of the received noisy QAM signal with phase noise, and this reduces the computational complexity. The numerical simulation and experimental results of polarization division multiplexing (PDM)-quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) and PDM-16QAM reveal that the ICA demultiplexing algorithms are feasible and effective in coherent systems and the simplified ones can also achieve equivalent performance.
US10305618B2
Techniques for transmitting and detecting for overhead channels and signals in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a base station may blank (i.e., not transmit) at least one overhead transmission on certain resources in order to detect for the at least one overhead transmission of another base station. In one design, the base station may (i) send the overhead transmission(s) on a first subset of designated resources and (ii) blank the overhead transmission(s) on a second subset of the designated resources. The designated resources may be resources on which the overhead transmission(s) are sent by macro base stations. The base station may detect for the overhead transmission(s) from at least one other base station on the second subset of the designated resources. In another aspect, the base station may transmit the overhead transmission(s) on additional resources different from the designated resources.
US10305611B1
An apparatus is disclosed for proximity detection using a hybrid-transceiver. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a hybrid transceiver coupled to a first antenna and a second antenna. The hybrid transceiver is configured to generate, in a digital domain, a digital baseband radar signal. The hybrid transceiver is also configured to transmit, via the first antenna, a radio-frequency transmit signal that is derived from the digital baseband radar signal. Via the second antenna, the hybrid transceiver is configured to receive a radio-frequency receive signal, which includes a portion of the radio-frequency transmit signal that is reflected by an object. In an analog domain, the hybrid transceiver is configured to generate an analog receive signal that includes a beat frequency, which is indicative of a frequency offset between the radio-frequency transmit signal and the radio-frequency receive signal. The analog receive signal is derived from the radio-frequency receive signal.
US10305604B1
An optical system for responding to distortions in incident light in a free space optical communication system comprises a machine learning output storing at least an indication of multiple images and corresponding positioning or orientation attributes for one or more optical elements; a sensor configured to generate an image; and a component configured to adjust the one or more optical elements based on the generated image.
US10305597B2
Methods and systems for encoding multi-level pulse amplitude modulated signals using integrated optoelectronics are disclosed and may include generating a multi-level, amplitude-modulated optical signal utilizing an optical modulator driven by first and second electrical input signals, where the optical modulator may configure levels in the multi-level amplitude modulated optical signal, drivers are coupled to the optical modulator; and the first and second electrical input signals may be synchronized before being communicated to the drivers. The optical modulator may include optical modulator elements coupled in series and configured into groups. The number of optical modular elements and groups may configure the number of levels in the multi-level amplitude modulated optical signal. Unit drivers may be coupled to each of the groups. The electrical input signals may be synchronized before communicating them to the unit drivers utilizing flip-flops. Phase addition may be synchronized utilizing one or more electrical delay lines.
US10305594B2
An optical fiber-based cable is formed to include pre-manufactured wireless access nodes included at spaced-apart locations along a length of the optical fiber cable. Each wireless access node is formed to include an antenna, a wireless radio transceiver, and an optical transceiver. The cable is formed to include an optical transmission fiber (or fibers) and an electrical power conductor. The optical fiber(s) couples to the optical transceiver within each wireless access node, and a power conductor from the cable terminates at the node and is used to energize both the wireless transceiver and the optical transceiver. The antenna is preferably formed as a sheathing member around at least a portion of components forming the node. Upon deployment, the wireless node portion of the cable is able to provide communication between the cable and wireless devices in its vicinity.
US10305593B1
An auto-equalization network device for optical transmitting and receiving is provided. The device includes a network device having an optical transmitter and an optical receiver. The network device is configured to determine a frequency domain forward transmission loss characterization for a signal transmitted by the optical transmitter, looped back and received by the optical receiver. The device is configured to generate a model in the frequency domain having control points based on the characterization, generate and load finite impulse response (FIR) filter taps into a finite impulse response filter based on the model in the frequency domain. The device is configured to iterate transmission of a signal with frequency-dependent preemphasis by the finite impulse response filter, characterization for the frequency-dependent preemphasized signal as looped back and received by the optical receiver, comparison to previous characterization, adjustment of the control points, and reloading the finite impulse response filter taps, until the comparison meets an optimum, so that the network device is auto-equalized for optical transmitting.
US10305589B2
A receiver applies a calibration method to compensate for skew between input channels. The receiver skew is estimated by observing the coefficients of an adaptive equalizer which adjusts the coefficients based on time-varying properties of the multi-channel input signal. The receiver skew is compensated by programming the phase of the sampling clocks for the different channels. Furthermore, during real-time operation of the receiver, channel diagnostics is performed to automatically estimate differential group delay and/or other channel characteristics based on the equalizer coefficients using a frequency averaging or polarization averaging approach. Framer information can furthermore be utilized to estimate differential group delay that is an integer multiple of the symbol rate. Additionally, a DSP reset may be performed when substantial signal degradation is detected based on the channel diagnostics information.
US10305588B2
There is provided a network management device including a memory in which a change rate of a transmission quality of a first optical signal to be transmitted on a first path with respect to a power of the first optical signal is stored, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to determine, based on the change rate, whether to set a second path on which a second optical signal transmits to overlap with at least a portion of a route of the first path.
US10305583B2
A wireless network includes a channel allocation manager and multiple wireless access points. The wireless channel allocation manager receives a request from a first wireless access point amongst multiple wireless access points for allocation of a wireless channel. In response to receiving the request for allocation of a wireless channel, the channel allocation manager selects a particular wireless channel for allocation to the first wireless access point in the network environment. The channel allocation manager notifies the multiple wireless access points of a particular wireless channel that has been allocated for use by the first wireless access point (or its subordinates) in a specified timeframe. The first wireless access point either uses the allocated channel to communicate data downstream to a respective mobile communication device or notifies the mobile communication device that the particular wireless channel has been allocated to communicate upstream to the first wireless access point.
US10305574B2
Generally discussed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods that can provide a coverage enhancement to a coverage limited device. According to an example a method can include repeating a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) data transmission multiple times over multiple sub-frames to a coverage limited Machine Type Communication (MTC) User Equipment (UE), or repeating the PBCH data transmission two or three times within one sub-frame to the coverage limited MTC UE.
US10305561B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A communication method and apparatus using beamforming are provided. The method includes acquiring transmission beam specific, measurement information of a base station (BS) and measuring a reference signal (RS) transmitted through transmission beams of the BS according to the transmission beam specific, measurement information. The measurement information on each transmission beam is determined according to at least one of an elevation angle of the corresponding transmission beam, an azimuth of the corresponding transmission beam, a handover urgency, information on a handover failure, and information on a radio link failure (RLF). A mobile station (MS) may perform a measurement report or a handover process according to a result of the measurement.
US10305551B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for receiving transmission beam (Tx beam) information by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system supporting a multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) scheme is provided. The method includes transmitting information on a selected Tx beam to a base station (BS), and receiving Tx beam information including information for a Tx beam selected by at least one UE other than the UE from the BS.
US10305546B2
A method for sending data by inductive coupling includes: extracting an antenna signal from an antenna circuit, extracting from the antenna signal a first periodic signal, producing a second periodic signal by way of a synchronous oscillator, placing the oscillator in a free oscillation mode and applying to the antenna circuit the second periodic signal, modifying the impedance of the antenna circuit, restoring the amplitude of the antenna signal, then resynchronizing the oscillator on the first periodic signal.
US10305542B2
Method, apparatus and system for crosstalk suppression of power line communication are provided. The method includes: receiving a joining request message; judging a matching state of the communication terminal based on a history matching record and communication terminal identifier, if matching state of the communication terminal is unmatched: sending a joining response message to the communication terminal; receiving an acknowledgment request message sent by the communication terminal after switch of the communication terminal is turned on; detecting voltage on power line between the communication terminal and an inverter corresponding to the power line communication transmitter, if voltage is within preset voltage range, sending an acknowledgment response message to the communication terminal; storing communication terminal identifier in history matching record and storing matching state of the communication terminal as successfully-matched. The method, apparatus and system can avoid malfunction of switch of the communication terminal during communication crosstalk.
US10305538B2
The present disclosure provides a signal processing system and method for a non-orthogonal multiple access communication system, a base station and a user equipment. The signal processing system is configured to perform interleaving processing on information to be transmitted subjected to modulation processing. The signal processing system can obtain at least one of the following beneficial effects: capable of saving length of an interleaver; and capable of obtaining more diversity gain.
US10305535B2
A radio receiver for processing digital chirp spread-spectrum modulated signals that comprise a plurality of frequency chirps that are cyclically time-shifted replicas of a base chirp profile, said time-shifts being an encoded representation of a transmitted message. Includes a soft demapping unit that is adapted for working on fully populated as well as on partial modulation sets, and implements a timing error correction loop that acts back both in the time domain and in the frequency domain.
US10305521B2
A method and a predistortion system for linearizing an output of a power amplifier include receiving a first input signal representative of an analog RF modulated signal of the predistortion system, receiving a digitized reference signal representative of an idealized reference signal, and receiving a digitized feedback signal representative of nonlinear characteristics of the power amplifier. The method further includes generating, using a lookup table, a predistortion correction signal based on an error between the digitized reference signal and the digitized feedback signal. The first input signal and the predistortion correction signal are combined to produce a predistortion signal that is supplied to the power amplifier to linearize the output of the power amplifier.
US10305512B2
An encoding method and apparatus is described. In an encoding method, when a first target sub-block in a target block is obtained, a hash operation is first performed on the first target sub-block. Then, a first hash table is queried for a corresponding hash value according to an operation result, and a corresponding location in a reference block is found according to the hash value obtained by means of query, that is, first reference data is found. The first piece of target data in the first target sub-block is matched with the first reference data, and second target data in the target block is matched with second reference data in the reference block. In this way, an approximate location is predetermined, so that a range in which matching needs to be performed is narrowed, a data compression time is reduced, and data compression efficiency is improved.
US10305510B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for unified significance map coding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (400) for encoding transform coefficients for at least a portion of a picture. The transform coefficients are obtained using a plurality of transforms. One or more context sharing maps are generated for the transform coefficients based on a unified rule. The one or more context sharing maps are for providing at least one context that is shared among at least some of the transform coefficients obtained from at least two different ones of the plurality of transforms.
US10305508B2
A processor comprises a first memory to store data elements that are encoded according to a floating point format including a sign field, an exponent field, and a significand field; and a compression engine comprising circuitry, the compression engine to generate a compressed data block that is to include a tag type per data element, wherein responsive to a determination that a first data element includes a value in its exponent field that does not match a value of any entry in a dictionary, a first tag type and an uncompressed value of the data element are included in the compressed data block; and responsive to a determination that a second data element includes a value in its exponent field that matches a value of a first entry in the dictionary, a second tag type and a compressed value of the data element are included in the compressed data block.
US10305507B1
A first-order sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter includes an input terminal, an integrator circuit, a comparator, and control circuitry. The input terminal is configured to receive a unipolar input signal to be digitized. The integrator circuit is coupled to the input terminal. The comparator is coupled to an output of the integrator circuit. The control circuitry is coupled to the integrator circuit and the comparator. The control circuitry is configured to equalize time that an output signal generated by the integrator circuit is greater than zero and time that the output signal generated by the integrator circuit is less than zero during digitization of the unipolar input signal.
US10305500B1
An amplification circuit is provided. The amplification circuit may include an amplification stage configured to amplify a first signal and a second signal, and generate third and fourth signals while in a first operation period. The amplification circuit may include a latch stage configured to latch the third and fourth signals while in a in a second operation period. The amplification circuit may supply a low voltage to the amplification stage during the first operation period, the low voltage to the latch stage during the second operation period, a high voltage to the amplification stage during the first operation period, and the high voltage to the latch stage during the second operation period.
US10305499B2
A frequency synthesizer includes: an oscillating section that generates a first signal; a frequency ratio measuring section that measures a frequency ratio of the first signal and a second signal by using the first signal and the second signal; a comparing section that compares the frequency ratio, which is measured by the frequency measuring section, with a target value of a frequency ratio; and a filter that is disposed on a preceding stage of the comparing section. A frequency of the first signal of the oscillating section is adjusted on the basis of a comparison result of the comparing section.
US10305491B2
To provide an oscillator configured to output a frequency signal accurately reflecting a result of a temperature adjustment by a heater circuit. An oscillator outputs a frequency signal with a frequency preliminarily set. A crystal resonator connected to an oscillator circuit is housed inside a crystal resonator cover. Soldering this crystal resonator cover onto the base plate inside the container disposes the crystal resonator on the base plate inside the container. A heater circuit performs a temperature adjustment inside the container based on a temperature detected by a temperature detector. At this time, the crystal resonator cover that houses the crystal resonator is constituted of a phosphorus deoxidized copper.
US10305486B2
The present invention discloses a new type of configurable gate array—a configurable computing array package. It comprises at least a configurable computing die and a configurable logic die. The configurable computing die comprises at least one configurable computing element. The configurable computing element can selectively realize a basic function from a math library. It comprises a plurality of printed arrays for storing the look-up tables (LUT) for different basic functions. The configurable computing die and the configurable logic die are located in a same package.
US10305485B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for effectively performing characterization for circuit verification by static timing analysis, of a programmable logic integrated circuit including a crossbar switch including a resistance-variable element, and a logic circuit logically configured with the crossbar switch, wherein: the programmable logic integrated circuit is divided into a plurality of leaf cells including a plurality of load circuits including a part of the crossbar switch, and a power supply element input to the crossbar switch; the leaf cell is divided into delay paths each including a base leaf cell and a correction leaf cell; and circuit verification is performed based on a delay information library in which a delay time for the base leaf cell and a correction delay for the correction leaf cell are integrated into a delay time for the leaf cell.
US10305482B2
A voltage level shifter including a voltage level shifting circuit and a boost circuit is provided. The voltage level shifting circuit includes a first reference input end, a second reference input end, a first boosted input end, and a second boosted input end. The voltage level shifting circuit operates between a first voltage and a second voltage. The boost circuit is coupled to the voltage level shifting circuit. The boost circuit boosts the first boosted input end and the second boosted input end according to voltage values of the first reference input end and the second reference input end to reduce a transient current that flows from the first voltage to the second voltage.
US10305481B2
A pre-driver for driving an LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) driving circuit is provided. The pre-driver includes a first inverter, a high-pass filter, and a second inverter. The first inverter has an input terminal coupled to an input node of the pre-driver, and an output terminal coupled to a first node. The high-pass filter is coupled between the first node and a second node. The second inverter has an input terminal coupled to the second node, and an output terminal coupled to an output node of the pre-driver. The high-pass filter is configured to improve a high-frequency response of the pre-driver.
US10305473B2
In some examples, a device includes a set of switches configured to deliver current to an output node of the device, wherein the set of switches includes a first switch including a first control terminal and a second switch including a second control terminal, wherein a width-length ratio of the second switch is larger than a width-length ratio of the first switch, and wherein the first switch is electrically connected in parallel with the second switch. The device further includes control circuitry configured to deliver a first control signal to the first control terminal and deliver a second control signal to the second control terminal concurrently with delivering the first control signal to the first control terminal.
US10305447B2
An acoustic filter comprises a piezoelectric layer; an acoustic resonator structure monolithically disposed on the piezoelectric layer, the acoustic resonator structure including an arrangement of planar interdigitated resonator fingers; and a lumped capacitive structure monolithically disposed on the piezoelectric layer and being electrically coupled to the acoustic resonator structure, the lumped capacitive structure including an arrangement of planar interdigitated capacitive fingers, each of at least one of the interdigitated capacitive fingers having an edge that is entirely continuous.
US10305442B2
A micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) guided wave device includes a plurality of electrodes arranged below a piezoelectric layer (e.g., either embedded in a slow wave propagation layer or supported by a suspended portion of the piezoelectric layer) and configured for transduction of a lateral acoustic wave in the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer permits one or more additions or modifications to be made thereto, such as trimming (thinning) of selective areas, addition of loading materials, sandwiching of piezoelectric layer regions between electrodes to yield capacitive elements or non-linear elastic convolvers, addition of sensing materials, and addition of functional layers providing mixed domain signal processing utility.
US10305441B2
A common mode noise filter includes first to fourth insulator layers stacked in a stacking direction and first to third coils provided on the first to fourth insulator layers independently of one another. The first coil includes a first coil conductor provided on the first insulator layer and a second coil conductor provided on the fourth insulator layer and connected to the first coil conductor. The second coil is provided on the second insulator layer. The third coil is provided on the third insulator layer. The first coil conductor overlaps the second coil viewing from above. At least a part of the second coil overlaps at least a part of the third coil viewing from above. The second coil conductor overlaps the third coil viewing from above.
US10305439B2
An active sound management system comprises a transducer that senses an actual sound or vibration from a sound generating source and generates a transducer signal in response to sensing the actual sound or vibration; a harmonic extractor device that extracts a plurality of harmonics from the transducer signal; and a harmonic modifier device that adjusts a feature of the extracted harmonic to be within a predetermined threshold with respect to a target harmonic corresponding to a desired sound.
US10305428B1
A passive mixer may include an output coupled to a next stage circuit. The output may be coupled to baseband inputs via first switches. The passive mixer may further include a tunable capacitor bank. The tunable capacitor bank may be coupled via second switches to the baseband inputs.
US10305413B2
A machine learning device which learns a current command for a motor, the machine learning device including a state observation unit which observes a state variable including a motor rotation speed or a motor torque command of the motor and at least one of a motor torque, a motor current, and a motor voltage of the motor; and a learning unit which learns the current command for the motor based on the state variable.
US10305407B2
Controllers, method and programs for controlling machines are provided. For example, A method comprises determining a resistance value for a loss compensation resistor, updating at least one control equation based on an equivalent circuit using the resistance value and controlling the machine based on the updated at least one control equation. The resistance value represents a plurality of electro-magnetic losses of a machine. The resistance value can be determined from an inverse resistance value.
US10305406B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a motor control apparatus includes a first driving circuit connected to a motor first phase winding and having H bridge circuit first switching elements, a second driving circuit connected to second phase winding of the motor and having H bridge circuit second switching elements, first and second pulse generators. a detector, an estimator, and a selector. The first pulse generator generates a first PWM signal having a first level signal and a second level signal. The second pulse generator generates a second PWM signal having a first and a second level signal. The selector selects whether to detect a driving current flowing through the first phase winding or to estimate a driving current flowing through the first phase winding. The first pulse generator generates the first PWM signal based on a driving current value output from the detector or the estimator.
US10305398B2
Disclosed herein is an auxiliary generator for a vehicle that converts kinetic energy of the vehicle into electrical energy, the auxiliary generator including a spherical inertial body configured to be movable in a direction opposite to a direction in which the vehicle moves due to inertial force obtained from movement of the vehicle, a fixed pipe having the movable spherical inertial body received therein, a generation member mounted in the fixed pipe for generating electrical energy from movement of the spherical inertial body, and a converter electrically connected to the generation member for converting the electrical energy generated by the generation member into available electricity.
US10305390B2
The present invention relates to a filter circuit for eliminating capacitive inrush current occurring in electromagnetic coil control circuits controlling the actuator coil of electromagnetic contactors or relays. The filter circuit comprises input terminals to be connected with a direct current voltage, a first output terminal to be connected with a first terminal of the inductive load and a second output terminal to be connected to a second terminal of the inductive load, a first diode, wherein the cathode of the first diode is connected to said first output terminal and to said first input terminal, a second diode, wherein the anode of the second diode is connected to said second output terminal, and a filter capacitor which is connected between said second input terminal and to a node which interconnects the anode of said first diode and the cathode of said second diode.
US10305383B2
A power converter comprises an inductor coupled between a switching terminal and an output terminal of the power converter, a high side switching element coupled between an input terminal of the power converter and the switching terminal, a low side switching element coupled between the switching terminal and a reference terminal, and a feedback circuit comprising a continuous comparator unit configured to compare a ramp signal with an error signal using a first enable signal, a latched comparator unit configured to compare the ramp signal with the error signal using a second enable signal, wherein the error signal is based on a difference between a reference voltage and an output voltage at the output terminal of the power converter.
US10305381B2
A device includes a digital switch regulator to supply an output voltage and a first current to a load based on a reference voltage. The device also includes an analog circuit to supply a second current to the load in addition to the first current based on a duty cycle of the digital switch regulator.
US10305378B2
The present invention relates to a regulation circuit for a charge pump and to a method of regulating a charge pump. The regulation circuit comprises a detector operable to analyze a temporal activity of the charge pump, and a pump clock generator coupled to an output of the detector and having an output coupled to a clock input of the charge pump to vary a pump clock frequency of the charge pump in dependence of the analysis of the detector, or a supply or voltage generator coupled to an output of the detector and having an output coupled to the charge pump to vary an amplitude of a clock signal within the charge pump in dependence of the analysis of the detector.
US10305376B1
A switchable charge pump (SCP) combines a switching element and a charge pump. An SCP can be utilized within an RF circuit to allow the charge pump to be activated or deactivated in the circuit depending on incident RF power level. Multiple SCPs can be utilized to provide a generalized a single-pole N-throw (SPNT) system architecture.In one example, an RF transmit-receive (T/R) system utilizes SCPs to operate in one of three modes: transmit mode, receive mode, or self-selecting terminate mode.
US10305374B2
A power supplying circuit includes a rectifier, a flyback converter, a power factor correction circuit, an LLC resonant converter, a power factor correction (PFC) controller, and a LLC resonant controller. The PFC controller is configured to supply a first operating voltage to the PFC circuit. The LLC resonant controller is configured to supply a second operating voltage to the LLC resonant converter upon a condition that a voltage applied on the output terminal of the PFC circuit reaches a predetermined voltage.
US10305372B2
A power conversion device including: a power conversion circuit including a voltage control type first semiconductor switching element configured to convert DC power to polyphase AC power; a brake circuit including a voltage control type second semiconductor switching element configured to protect the power conversion circuit from an overvoltage applied to the power conversion circuit; a control circuit configured to control the first semiconductor switching element in the power conversion circuit and the second semiconductor switching element in the brake circuit; and a snubber circuit including a resistor and a capacitor that are connected between a negative potential side of the power conversion circuit and a negative potential side of the control circuit and are configured to suppress a surge voltage.
US10305369B2
This application discusses techniques for reducing the energy of an output ripple in a voltage converter at a switching frequency of the voltage converter. In certain examples, an amplitude of a reference voltage can be modulated with a time-varying random value or pseudo-random value to provide a reduction in the energy of the output ripple at the switching frequency of the voltage converter.
US10305368B2
Multilevel power converters, power cells and methods are presented for selectively bypassing a power stage of a multilevel inverter circuit, in which a single relay or contactor includes first and second normally closed output control contacts coupled between a given power cell switching circuit and the given power cell output, along with a normally open bypass contact coupled across the power stage output, with a local or central controller energizing the coil of the relay or contactor of a given cell to bypass that cell.
US10305366B2
The disclosure relates to a controller for a power converter, the power converter comprising a first switch and a second switch, wherein the controller is configured to receive a first control signal based on a first drain-to-source voltage of the first switch; receive a second control signal based on a second drain-to-source voltage of the second switch; derive a first switch control signal based on the first control signal and control the first switch by providing the first switch control signal to the first switch; derive a second switch control signal based on the second control signal and control the second switch by providing the second switch control signal to the second switch; wherein the first switch control signal and the second switch control signal each comprises turn-on edges and turn-off edges. Furthermore, disclosure also relates to corresponding methods, a non-transitory computer readable medium.
US10305360B2
A balanced magnetic rotor assembly is disclosed. The balanced rotor assembly including a driver rotor assembly having a first driver rotor assembly and a second driver rotor assembly arranged about a rotational axis and being spaced apart from each other a distance along the rotational axis, and a load rotor being arranged about the rotational axis and arranged between the first driver rotor and the second driver rotor.
US10305354B2
An apparatus for winding coils of dynamoelectric machines, wherein the apparatus includes means for inserting leg portions of a coil member in a plurality of slots of at least one core of a dynamoelectric machine, wherein each slot includes an insulation member lining the walls thereof. A passage member is provided with a plurality of passages and a plurality of support areas. Each passage is configured to receive a leg portion of a coil member, and each support area is arranged adjacent a respective passage. The apparatus further includes means to align the passage member with the at least one core to align the passages of the passage member with the slots of the core such that the plurality of passages each receive a respective leg portion of a coil member and corresponding support areas engage an end of a respective insulation member during insertion of the respective leg portions.
US10305353B2
The present invention relates to a rotor for a rotating machine and more in particular, to a component of the rotor. The present invention generally relates to an improved cooling configuration of a rotating machine. Unlike generally known arrangements, the solution proposed herein does not guide coolant fluid to parts which require cooling. Instead, the heat generated from the losses in the rotor pole is transferred to parts having favourable characteristics for establishing heat exchange.
US10305346B2
A motor and a coupler disposed therein are provided. The motor includes a housing, a stator disposed in the housing, a rotor rotatably disposed inside the stator, a rotating shaft which integrally rotates with the rotor, a bearing which supports the rotating shaft, a bracket disposed at an upper portion of the housing, wherein the bearing is mounted in the bracket, and a coupler disposed at an upper end portion of the rotating shaft which passes through and protrudes from the bracket, wherein the coupler is in contact with the bracket due to a pressure generated when an external system is coupled with the coupler. Accordingly, damage to the bearing and noise occurrence are prevented in advance in the motor including the coupler.
US10305343B2
To provide a waterproof structure for an electric motor that can more reliably seal a boundary at which an insert component of a stator and a mold resin join. A sealing member (5) includes a first sealing part (55) arranged more to a side of an insert component (3) than a joint (23), a second sealing part (56) arranged more to a side of a mold resin (4) than the joint (23), and a connecting part (57) that connects the first and second sealing parts (55, 56).
US10305339B2
A rotating electrical machine includes a stator having a stator core, coil groups, and a rotor. The coil groups include a first coil group located at an outer circumference side of the stator core and a second coil group located at an inner circumference side of the stator core. The first and second coil groups are formed into an annular shape by inserting unit coils into stator core slots so that the coils adjacent in a circumferential direction overlap alternately in a radial direction and so that an inside and an outside of the overlap alternate with each other. The first coil group is disposed to surround an outside of the second coil group. The first and second coil groups are disposed in a concentric manner. The unit coils constituting the second coil group have shorter circumferential lengths than the unit coils constituting the first coil group.
US10305338B2
A rotor for a rotating electric machine has interference and lightening holes. The rotor includes a shaft and a rotor iron core. The shaft is press fitted in the rotor iron core. The rotor iron core includes a shaft hole, an outer area, an inner area in which the shaft is press fitted, a plurality of ribs connecting the outer area and the inner area. Each of the ribs includes a plurality of outer rib joints adjacent to the outer area, a plurality of outer rib portions adjacent to the outer area, a plurality of inner rib joints adjacent to the inner area, and a plurality of inner rib portions adjacent to the inner area. The outer rib portions are connected to the inner rib portions and the total number of the inner rib joints is larger than that of the outer rib joints.
US10305336B2
The present invention relates to an aircraft with at least one synchronous reluctance machine which comprises a stator with a plurality of grooves and teeth and a rotor with a plurality of magnetic flux barriers, wherein at least one magnetic flux barrier is designed asymmetrical to the q-axis.
US10305335B2
To improve the insulating reliability of a stator for a rotating electrical machine and the rotating electrical machine, the stator is provided with a winding having a molten metal junction, and covering material which covers the winding. The covering material has a bending part which bends to be partially in contact with the winding.
US10305333B2
A power receiver which wirelessly receives power from at least one power source using one of magnetic field resonance and electric field resonance, including a power receiver coil, an internal circuit, a power detection resistor, a switch, a power reception control unit, and a communication circuit unit. The power receiver coil wirelessly receives the power from the power source, and the internal circuit uses the power obtained by the power receiver coil. The power detection resistor detects the power obtained by the power receiver coil, and the switch applies a received power voltage obtained by the power receiver coil by switching to the power detection resistor. The power reception control unit controls the power detection resistor and the switch, and the communication circuit unit performs communication with the power source, comprising detection information of a received power and power supply timing information.
US10305317B2
It is described a method and related system for transferring electric energy from an electric energy source to a load to be electrically supplied. The method and related system allow to store electric energy from an electric energy source and supply a load using at least one capacitor and at least one rechargeable battery in which, during the step of charging, the method, related to the availability of the electric supply, can choose to charge sequentially or simultaneously said at least one capacitor and said at least one rechargeable battery. During the step of discharging, the method supplies the load using sequentially electric energy stored in said at least one capacitor and after that in said at least one rechargeable battery.
US10305293B2
A device comprises a control entity configured to monitor an operation parameter of at least one battery cell of a battery. The device further comprises an interface coupled with a power line of the battery and configured to transceive control data via at least one of load modulation or load demodulation of a power line signal of the power line.
US10305290B2
A current regulation system includes a current regulation module and a current distribution module. The current regulation module is coupled to a first power source and a second power source. The current regulation module is configured to derive a first current from the first power source, and derive a second current from the second power source when coupled to a load. The current distribution module is coupled to the first power source, the second power source and the current regulation module. The current distribution module makes the current regulation module regulate the first current and the second current according to a first electric quantity of the first power source and second electric quantity of the second power source.
US10305286B2
A power control system includes a first inverter power control system and a second inverter power control system coupled in a parallel configuration with the first inverter power control system. Both first and second inverter power control systems may each include an input configured to receive direct current (DC) power; a DC to alternating current (AC) inverter stage configured to receive the DC power input; an anti-islanding relay coupled to the output of the DC/AC inverter stage; and a transition relay coupled to the anti-islanding relay. The transition relay may be configured to route an output of the inverter power control system between one or more onsite back-up loads and an AC grid. The first inverter power control system may be designated as a master that is configured to control the operation of the second inverter power control system designated as a slave.
US10305283B1
A method for reducing a delay between a power command and actual power of a power system includes receiving, via a power angle estimator, a power command of the power system. The method also includes receiving, via the power angle estimator, one or more grid conditions of the power grid. Further, the method includes estimating, via the power angle estimator, a power angle signal across the power system based on the power command and the one or more grid conditions. Moreover, the method includes receiving, via a phase locked loop (PLL), the estimated power angle signal. In addition, the method includes generating, via the PLL, a PLL phase angle signal based, at least in part, on the estimated power angle signal. Thus, the method further includes controlling, via a converter controller, a power conversion assembly of the power system based on the PLL phase angle signal.
US10305282B2
For initiating a control function based on a real time available fault current measurement, a measurement module measures an operating voltage, a short voltage, and a ring parameter of alternating current power lines. A processor calculates an impedance of the power lines as a function of the operating voltage, the short voltage, and the ring parameter. The processor further calculates a dynamic available fault current as a function of the impedance. In addition, the processor initiates a control function based on the available fault current.
US10305268B2
A utility enclosure assembly includes a box and a lid. The box has a plurality of side walls each having an upper ledge, an interior center opening and a plurality of locking member mounting areas associated with a ledge in at least one of the side walls. The lid rests on the ledges of the side walls and has a plurality of non-detachable latching assemblies. The plurality of non-detachable latching assemblies are provided to operatively engage a respective one of the plurality of locking member mounting areas.
US10305264B2
An apparatus for distributing power from a power source to a set of power outputs using a power distribution rack includes a manifold having a set of bus bar channels in a wall, a set of electronic cards, and a set of bus bars received in the set of bus bar channels and coupling a power source to the electronic cards, wherein the electronic cards route the power from the power source to the power outputs.
US10305263B2
The present disclosure provides an electrical power supply structure comprising a plurality of conductors, each conductor extending longitudinally and configured to carry high amperage electrical power, a barrier support plate comprising one or more openings for receiving the plurality of conductors, and a sealing system forming a water tight seal around the plurality of conductors in the openings, a first support structure extending longitudinally from a first side of the barrier support plate, the first support structure connected to the barrier support plate by a first flexible joint, and a second support structure extending longitudinally from a second side of the barrier support plate, the second support structure connected to the barrier support plate by a second flexible joint. Each of the first and second support structures comprises a longitudinally extending enclosure having a plurality of transversely extending conductor support members for supporting the plurality of conductors.
US10305260B2
Disclosed is a spark plug including: an insulator having an axial hole formed along an axis of the spark plug; a center electrode disposed in a front end side of the axial hole; and a metal shell fixed around an outer circumference of the insulator, with a front end portion of the insulator protruding frontward from a front end of the metal shell. The front end portion of the insulator consists only of a first section and a second section located adjacent to and frontward of the first section and having an inner diameter larger than that of the first section. The second section has a chamfered area formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof so as to continue to a front end of the insulator.
US10305250B2
Photonic devices such as semiconductor lasers and photodetectors of various operating wavelengths are grown monolithically on a Silicon substrate, and formed of nanowire structures with quantum structures as active regions. A reduction of strain during fabrication results from the use of these nanowire structures, thereby allowing devices to operate for extended periods of time at elevated temperatures. Monolithic photonic devices and monolithic photonic integrated circuits formed on Silicon substrates are thus provided.
US10305249B2
In a laser apparatus, transmission of vibration, which is generated in a portion that generates a cooling gas flow, to a laser unit is suppressed, and heat generated from the laser unit is efficiently dissipated. A laser unit is housed inside a box-shaped housing having a plurality of faces. A frame supports a laser unit with a first mount interposed therebetween inside the housing. The frame has a through-hole penetrating from one face side to the other face side. A blower fan generates a flow of cooling gas for cooling the laser unit. The blower fan is attached to, for example, a second housing so as to face the laser unit. The cooling gas moves through the through-hole of the frame between the blower fan and the laser unit.
US10305247B2
An optical apparatus includes an array of lasers, which are arranged in a grid pattern having a predefined spatial pitch and are configured to emit respective beams of pulses of optical radiation. Projection optics having a selected focal length project the beams toward a target with an angular pitch between the beams defined by the spatial pitch and the focal length. A scanner scans the projected beams over a range of scan angles that is less than twice the angular pitch. Control circuitry drives the lasers and the scanner so that the pulses cover the target with a resolution finer than the angular pitch. A receiver receives and measures a time of flight of the pulses reflected from the target.
US10305244B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for applying laser energy having desired pulse characteristics, including a sufficiently short duration and/or a sufficiently high energy for the photomechanical treatment of skin pigmentations and pigmented lesions, both naturally-occurring (e.g., birthmarks), as well as artificial (e.g., tattoos). The laser energy may be generated with an apparatus having a resonator with the capability of switching between a modelocked pulse operating mode and an amplification operating mode. The operating modes are carried out through the application of a time-dependent bias voltage, having waveforms as described herein, to an electro-optical device positioned along the optical axis of the resonator.
US10305237B1
The present application relates to an adapter. The adapter includes a base and an adapter head inserted and fixed on the base. The base includes two base copper terminals mounted thereon and two connector wire holes defined therein, the connector wire hole is configured for inserting a connecting wire to contact with the base copper terminal, an assembling portion protruding out from a bottom end of the base is defined. The adapter head includes two adapter head copper terminals mounted thereon and two plug wire holes defined therein. The two adapter head copper terminals are in contact with the two base copper terminals, respectively. The plug wire hole is configured for inserting a plug wire to contact with the base copper terminal. An assembling hole is formed in a top end of the adapter head.
US10305230B2
An electronic power connector including a contact and a contact core. The contact is configured to electrically connect a power supply to a load. The contact core is configured to receive the contact. The contact core includes a transformer winding configured to sense a current and a sensor slot configured to receive a sensor. In some embodiments, the sensor is configured to sense a temperature. In some embodiments, the sensor is configured to sense a voltage.
US10305226B2
A shield connector (1) includes electric wires (11), a housing (20), a shield conductor (30), and a shield bracket (40). The shield bracket 40 includes a main bracket (50) including a conductor holding portion (51), first and second connection portions (61, 71) and an auxiliary bracket (80). The conductor holding portion (51) and the shield conductor (30) held thereby the cover outlet tubes (27) and the electric wires (11) from one side. The housing (20) includes first and second attachment protrusions (25, 26). The first connection portion (61) includes a first attachment piece (64) engaged with the first attachment protrusion (25). The auxiliary bracket (80) includes an auxiliary attachment piece (82) engaged with the second attachment protrusion (26). An overlapping plate (81) of the auxiliary bracket (80) is swaged onto the second connection portion (71) by a swaging piece (75) of the second connection portion (71).
US10305209B2
An electrical connector comprises a housing, a plurality of contacts arranged in the housing, an actuator mounted on the housing, capable of rotating with reference to the housing and a pair of fixing tabs positioned in the vicinity of two ends of the actuator. Each fixing tab has a lock portion for engaging with a flexible printed circuited connected to the electrical connector and a spring portion connected to the lock portion. The fixing tab is engaged with the actuator so that rotation of the actuator from an original position to a release position causes the lock portion of the fixing tab to disengage with the flexible printed circuit connected to the electrical connector and the actuator resumes from the release position to the original position under a resilient force exerted thereon by the spring portion of the fixing tab.
US10305201B2
A terminal (20) includes a bottom surface (23) and solder holding portions (25, 25). A solder member (30) is placed on the bottom surface (23) of the terminal (20) and the solder holding portions (25, 25) are deformed to hold the solder member (30) in place. A conductor (12) of a wire (11) is placed on solder member (30). The solder member (30) then is melted by heating to connect the conductor (12) of the wire (11) to the terminal (20).
US10305192B1
In accordance with one or more embodiments, a system includes an impedance matching circuit that includes one or more adjustable circuit elements, wherein the impedance matching circuit receives an input signal and generates an output signal in response to the input signal. A guided wave launcher is configured to generate, in response to the output signal, a first guided electromagnetic wave along a surface of a transmission medium, wherein the first guided electromagnetic wave propagates along the surface of the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. A controller is configured to generate one or more control signals in response to a channel quality indicator, wherein the one or more control signals adjust the one or more adjustable circuit elements of the impedance matching circuit, wherein adjustment of the one or more adjustable circuit elements facilitates reducing an impedance mismatch of the guided wave launcher.
US10305184B2
An antenna device includes an antenna element, which is able to transmit and receive high-frequency signals of a plurality of frequency bands, and an antenna matching circuit. The antenna matching circuit includes an impedance converting circuit, which is connected to the antenna element side of the circuit, and a variable reactance circuit, which is connected to a feeder circuit side of the circuit. The impedance converting circuit includes a first inductance element and a second inductance element, which are transformer coupled with each other. The variable reactance circuit includes a reactance element, which is connected in parallel or series with the transmission/reception signal transmission path, and a switch that switches the connection state of the reactance element.
US10305181B2
An antenna is provided. The antenna includes a first radiator, a second radiator, a current feeder configured to supply power to at least one of the first radiator and the second radiator, and an adjuster configured to adjust transceiving directions of electromagnetic waves transmitted and received to and from the first radiator and the second radiator to be perpendicular to each other.
US10305178B2
A nozzle cap assembly can include a nozzle cap housing configured to mount on a hydrant, a nozzle cap cover mounted on the nozzle cap housing, an antenna cover positioned on the nozzle cap housing and secured by the nozzle cap cover, the nozzle cap housing, the antenna cover, and the nozzle cap cover can define an antenna cover cavity, and an antenna assembly can be positioned in the antenna cover cavity.
US10305160B2
Radio-frequency devices that include metamaterial structures are provided. Inclusion of resonator sections in a structure enables the utilization of desirable line segment widths without sacrificing performance, and further enables a reduction in the amount of space or area taken up by such devices on a printed circuit board.
US10305157B2
A high-frequency signal transmission line includes an element, a linear signal line provided at the element and including a first end and a second end, and at least one ground conductor provided at the element and extending along the signal line. The element includes stacked insulating layers. The ground conductor is positioned opposite to the signal line with the insulating layer positioned therebetween. The ground conductor is a contiguous conductor. The signal line, the ground conductor, and the element generate a characteristic impedance. The signal line includes a first section and a second section. The first section is an uninterrupted section generating a characteristic impedance greater than or equal to a first characteristic impedance at the first end and including the first end. The second section generates a characteristic impedance less than the first characteristic impedance and is adjacent to the first section. The second section is longer than the first section. The signal line is wider in the second section than in the first section.
US10305156B2
In a transmission line, a first ground conductor pattern and a second ground conductor pattern are connected through a first interlayer connecting conductor, and the first ground conductor pattern and a third ground conductor pattern are connected through a second interlayer connecting conductor. A first signal conductor pattern includes a first bypassing pattern portion that bypasses the first interlayer connecting conductor, and a second signal conductor pattern includes a second bypassing pattern portion that bypasses the second interlayer connecting conductor. Bypassing directions of the first bypassing pattern portion and the second bypassing pattern portion are opposite to each other.
US10305146B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes a bipolar electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The electrode includes positive-pole and negative-pole active material layers formed on both side surfaces of a current collector. The electrode is divided into plural parts each having a predetermined length in one direction, and is sequentially and alternately bent at every lines between the parts in opposite directions so that the parts are overlapped with each other.
US10305129B2
A fuel battery system includes a fuel battery, an electric storage, a voltage adjuster, a pump, an abnormity detector, and circuitry. The fuel battery generates electricity using fuel gas and oxidant gas. The voltage adjuster is connected to at least one of the fuel battery and the electric storage. The voltage adjuster is configured to adjust voltage output from the fuel battery or the electric storage to output the adjusted voltage to a load. The pump supplies the oxidant gas to the fuel battery using electric power output from at least one of the fuel battery and the electric storage. The voltage adjuster is connected between the fuel battery and the pump. The abnormity detector detects abnormity in the voltage adjuster. The circuitry is configured to restrict the electric power supplied to the pump in a case where the abnormity detector detects the abnormity in the voltage adjuster.
US10305115B2
A method of preparing a nitrogen containing electrode catalyst by converting a high surface area metal-organic framework (MOF) material free of platinum group metals that includes a transition metal, an organic ligand, and an organic solvent via a high temperature thermal treatment to form catalytic active sites in the MOF. At least a portion of the contained organic solvent may be replaced with a nitrogen containing organic solvent or an organometallic compound or a transition metal salt to enhance catalytic performance. The electrode catalysts may be used in various electrochemical systems, including an alkaline fuel cell.
US10305100B2
A composite cathode active material including an overlithiated metal oxide having a layered structure, a material having an olivine structure, and one or more of: an inorganic material, and nitrogen atoms doped in the material having an olivine structure. The inorganic material includes a nitride or carbide of a non-transition metal. The composite cathode active material may be included in a cathode, and the cathode may be included in a lithium battery.
US10305099B2
Provided is an electrode alloy powder that is useful to obtain a nickel-metal hydride storage battery having a high battery capacity and a reduced self-discharge. The alloy powder is: a mixture including particles of a first hydrogen storage alloy having an AB5-type crystal structure, and particles of at least one second hydrogen storage alloy selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen storage alloy a having an AB2-type crystal structure and a hydrogen storage alloy b having an AB3-type crystal structure, wherein an amount of the first hydrogen storage alloy included in the mixture is greater than 50 mass %.
US10305097B2
Negative active materials, lithium batteries including the negative active materials, and methods of preparing the negative active materials. The negative active material includes a complex including: a silicon-based core; particles of metal nitride randomly disposed on the silicon-based core, and nanostructures disposed on at least one of the silicon-based core or the metal nitride. The negative active material may improve the electrical conductivity of a negative electrode. Accordingly, a lithium battery including the negative electrode may have improved lifetime characteristics.
US10305096B2
The present invention is to provide an electrode active material and a method for producing the same capable of preventing production of foreign substance, poor coating and deterioration of electrode active material upon covering the surface of the electrode active material with ion conductive oxide, decreasing battery resistance and having higher output of battery. Disclosed is a method for producing an electrode active material, the surface of which is covered with ion conductive oxide, comprising the steps of: preparing an alkoxide solution by mixing at least alkoxide compound and liquid water; and applying and drying the alkoxide solution on a surface of an electrode active material under dry atmosphere, and an electrode active material, the surface of which is covered with ion conductive oxide, wherein an area on the surface of the electrode active material occupied by a substance other than the ion conductive oxide is 21% or less.
US10305091B2
The present invention concerns the use, as an active electrode material, of compounds comprising at least one entity of formula (I): in which the phenyl group is substituted with one to four identical or different substituent(s) R, chosen from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom chosen from fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine, a —C(═S)—S—C+ group, an —O—C+ group, an —S—C+ group, C+ being an alkali cation chosen from Li+, Na+ and K+, a (C1-C12) alkyl radical, a (C2-C12) alkenyl radical, a (C6-C14) aryl or heteroaryl radical; or two vicinal substituents R that can, if appropriate, be linked to each other to together form a 3- to 7-membered ring optionally including another heteroatom chosen from N, O or S; in the base or salt form; and the tautomeric forms of same. It also concerns an electrode material, an electrode and a lithium, sodium or potassium secondary battery, obtained from these compounds.
US10305090B2
A composite electrode active material including: a core, which is capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium; and a surface treatment layer disposed on the core, wherein the surface treatment layer comprises a lithium-free oxide that has a spinel structure and includes a dopant, wherein the dopant includes at least one selected from fluorine, sulfur, nitrogen, boron, and phosphorous.
US10305086B2
This application provides a top cover of a power battery and a power battery, the top cover includes a top cover sheet, a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit, the first electrode unit includes a turning sheet, an insulating piece and a current cutting-off structure, the current cutting-off structure is fixed in radial projection range of an assembling hole and is electrically connected with the top cover sheet, the turning sheet is fixed at an underneath of the top cover sheet through the insulating piece, the turning sheet is electrically connected with the top cover sheet merely through the current cutting-off structure, and the turning sheet is capable of turning and breaking the current cutting-off structure when an internal pressure of the power battery exceeds a reference pressure, so as to cut off an electrical connection of the current cutting-off structure with the top cover sheet.
US10305082B2
A terminal-securing auxiliary member includes a terminal securing portion which is to be fastened to a battery post and which is to be secured to a battery terminal, the battery post disposed at a post disposing portion of a battery, the battery having a portion of irregular height on an upper surface thereof in a circumferential edge of the post disposing portion, the battery terminal to which a battery-direct-attached type fuse unit is to be fastened; a battery joining portion which engages with the portion of the irregular height to restrict movement in a direction along the upper surface of the battery; and a connecting portion which connects the terminal securing portion and the battery joining portion.
US10305081B2
A separator for a rechargeable battery includes a porous substrate and a heat-resistance layer disposed on at least one surface of the porous substrate, wherein the heat-resistance layer includes a cross-linkable binder, and the cross-linkable binder is derived from a polymer including a structural unit including an aromatic moiety and a (meth)acrylate group; and a rechargeable lithium battery includes the same.
US10305079B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a separator, comprising the steps of (S1) preparing a porous planar substrate having multiple pores; (S2) coating a coating solution obtained by dissolving a binder polymer in a solvent and dispersing inorganic particles therein on the porous substrate to form a porous coating layer and drying the porous coating layer; and (S3) applying a binder solution on the surface of the dried porous coating layer to form an adhesive layer, wherein the binder solution has a surface energy of at least 10 mN/m higher than that of the porous coating layer and a contact angle of the binder solution to the surface of the porous coating layer maintained at 80° or more for 30 seconds. In accordance with the present invention, a separator capable of obtaining sufficient adhesion force with minimizing the amount of an adhesive used for the adhesion with an electrode, and minimizing the deterioration of battery performances can be easily manufactured.
US10305073B2
A battery pack includes a battery cell including an electrode tab, a cell holder through which the electrode tab is inserted, and a support rib protruding from the cell holder toward the battery cell, the support rib supporting a terrace of the battery cell from which the electrode tab extends.
US10305072B2
A heat-sealable insulating film for installation in a secondary battery including a positive electrode member and a negative electrode member being formed from a collector foil and an active material layer formed to cover one end on the collector foil, wherein an adhesive layer is adhered by heat-sealing to cover at least a boundary of an exposed part of the collector foil and the active material layer of the positive electrode member or the negative electrode member, a peripheral edge of the positive electrode member or the negative electrode member has a cross-sectional surface including the collector foil and the insulating film, and the insulating film consists of at least two layers of a base material layer made of a polyolefin resin and the adhesive layer made of a polyolefin resin modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof.
US10305068B2
An organic EL element includes an anode, a light emitting layer, a functional layer, a cathode, and a low refractive index layer. The light emitting layer is disposed above the anode. The functional layer is disposed on and in contact with the light emitting layer and includes a first metal. The cathode is disposed on and in contact with the functional layer and is made of a light transmissive metal oxide. The low refractive index layer is disposed on and in contact with the cathode. Refractive index of the low refractive index layer is smaller than refractive index of the cathode, film thickness of the functional layer is from 15 nm to 35 nm, and a distance between an anode-side surface of the light emitting layer and an interface between the cathode and the low refractive index layer is 110 nm or greater.
US10305066B2
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US10305060B2
An organic light emitting diode includes a support body, an anode electrode, a hole transport layer, an organic light emitting layer and an electron transport layer stacked on each other in that order. The electron transport layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The electron transport layer includes a polymer and a plurality of first carbon nanotubes dispersed in the polymer, and partial surface of the plurality of first carbon nanotubes is exposed from the first surface and spaced apart from the organic light emitting layer.
US10305057B2
The present disclosure provides a light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus containing the light-emitting device. The light-emitting device comprises a quantum dot light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and an energy transfer layer. The quantum dot light-emitting layer comprises a quantum dot material. The energy transfer layer is between the quantum dot light-emitting layer and the electron transport layer. The energy transfer layer is configured to facilitate a transfer of energy from the electron transport layer to the quantum dot light-emitting layer such that the quantum dot light-emitting layer has an improved electroluminescence efficiency compared with the quantum dot light-emitting layer having an energy transferred directly from the electron transport layer without the energy transfer layer.
US10305054B2
Memristive devices based on tunable Schottky barrier are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a memristive device includes: forming a semiconductor layer on a bottom metal electrode, wherein the semiconductor layer has workfunction-modifying molecules embedded therein; and forming a top metal electrode on the semiconductor layer, wherein the top metal electrode forms a Schottky junction with the semiconductor layer, and wherein the workfunction-modifying molecules are configured to alter a workfunction of the top metal electrode. A memristive device and a method for operating a memristive device are also provided.
US10305051B2
Provided are a flexible display device and a method of manufacturing the same. More particularly, the method of manufacturing the flexible display device according to the present invention includes a step of forming a first polyimide-based layer by coating a polyimide-based solution on a carrier substrate; a step of forming an oxide thin film transistor array on the first polyimide-based layer; a step of forming a second polyimide-based layer by coating a polyimide-based solution on the oxide thin film transistor array; a step of forming an organic light emitting diode on the second polyimide-based layer; and a step of removing the carrier substrate, wherein, in the step of forming the oxide thin film transistor array, the oxide thin film transistor array is disposed between the first polyimide-based layer and the second polyimide-based layer.
US10305047B2
A metal complex of a metal from groups 13 to 16 uses a ligand of the structure (I), where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can independently be oxygen, sulfur, selenium, NH or NR.sup.4, where R.sup.4 an alkyl or aryl and can be connected to R.sup.3. R.sup.3 is an alkyl, long-chain alkyl, alkoxy, long-chain alkoxy, cycloalkyl, halogenalkyl, aryl, arylene, halogenaryl, heteroaryl, heteroarylene, heterocycloalkylene, heterocycloalkyl, halogenheteroaryl, alkenyl, halogenalkenyl, alkynyl, halogenalkynyl, ketoaryl, halogenketoaryl, ketoheteroaryl, ketoalkyl, halogenketoalkyl, ketoalkenyl, halogenketoalkenyl, where in suitable radicals, one or more non-adjacent CH.sup.2-groups can be substituted independently of one another by —O—, —S—, —NH—, —NR.sup.o-, —SiR.sup.oR.sup.oo-, —CO—, —COO—, —OCO—, —OCO—O—, —SO.sub.2-, —S—CO—, —CO—S—, —CY1═CY2 or —C.dbd.C—, specifically in such a way that O and/or S atoms are not connected directly to one another, are likewise optionally substituted with aryl- or heteroaryl preferably containing 1 to 30 C atoms, as a dopant for matrix materials in organic electronic components.
US10305043B2
The present invention provides a novel compound for an EBL capable of improving the light emitting efficiency, stability and life span of a device, and an organic electric element and an electronic device using the same.
US10305037B2
A variable resistive memory device includes a first electrode layer, a variable resistive pattern structure located on the first electrode layer and including a variable resistive layer, a capping layer formed on opposite side walls of the variable resistive pattern structure and including regions having different impurity concentrations, and a second electrode layer formed on the capping layer.
US10305032B2
A memory cell pillar of a memory device includes a heating electrode having a base portion (leg) and a fin portion (ascender), and a selection device between a first conductive line and the heating electrode. A side surface of the selection device and a side surface of the fin portion extend along a first straight line. A method of fabricating a memory device includes forming a plurality of first insulating walls through a stack structure including a preliminary selection device layer and a preliminary electrode layer, forming a plurality of self-aligned preliminary heating electrode layers, forming a plurality of second insulating walls each between two of the plurality of first insulating walls, and forming a plurality of third insulating walls in a plurality of holes extending along a direction intersecting the plurality of first insulating walls.
US10305031B1
A method for manufacturing a magnetic random access memory array at a density greater than would be possible using photolithography. The method involves patterning a chemical template material with patterned portions separated by a center to center distance that is substantially equal to a natural period of a block copolymer. A block copolymer material is then deposited and annealed to form self assembled cylinders that are located over the patterned regions of the chemical template and also over areas between the patterned regions. The chemical template layer can be patterned by depositing a first, preliminary block copolymer, over a mask structure and annealing the mask structure to form cylinders in the openings in the mask structure. The cylinders can be removed leaving openings, and a UV exposure can be performed to expose and treat portions of the chemical template layer that are exposed through the opening.
US10305025B2
A magnetic memory device including a first magnetic layer selectively exhibiting a first state in which the first magnetic layer has a first magnetization direction perpendicular to a main surface thereof and a second state in which the first magnetic layer has a second magnetization direction opposite to the first magnetization direction; a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction which is perpendicular to a main surface thereof and which corresponds to the first magnetization direction, and having a top surface including a recess portion or a bottom surface including a recess portion; a third magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, and having a fixed magnetization direction which is perpendicular to a main surface thereof and which corresponds to the second magnetization direction; and a nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer.
US10305012B2
An electrical converter and heater module with heat insulators having different cross-sectional areas includes a thermoelectric conversion module that corrects the difference in thermal resistance between a P-type thermoelectric conversion member and an N-type thermoelectric conversion member. In this thermoelectric conversion module, since insulators included in the P-type thermoelectric conversion member and the N-type thermoelectric conversion member have a different thermal resistance, it is possible to correct the difference in thermal resistance between the P-type thermoelectric conversion element and the N-type thermoelectric conversion element.
US10305010B2
A light emitting device includes a support substrate; a conductive wiring located on an upper surface of the support substrate; a light emitting element disposed on an upper surface of the conductive wiring via a bonding member interposed therebetween; and a frame body located on an upper surface of the support substrate. The frame body has a plurality of recessed portions on an inner lateral surface surrounding the light emitting element in a top view of the light emitting device. The conductive wiring includes an underlying portion located directly under the light emitting element, and at least two extended portions extending from the underlying portion to a location inside of at least two respective ones of the recessed portions in a top view of the light emitting device.
US10305004B2
Provided an LED display apparatus including: an LED substrate in which a plurality of LED elements emitting first-wavelength light are arranged in rows and columns; a first wavelength conversion sheet provided on the LED substrate and converting the first-wavelength light into second-wavelength light; and a second wavelength conversion sheet provided on the first wavelength conversion sheet and converting the first-wavelength light or the second-wavelength light into third-wavelength light.
US10305000B2
A sacrificial layer is formed on a region for forming the reflective electrode later on the p-type layer, Subsequently, a part of the p-type layer is dry etched to expose an n-type layer. Then, a resist layer having an opening is formed through photolithography on the p-type layer and the n-type layer exposed in the previous step. The opening has a pattern to enclose the sacrificial layer in a plan view. Next, the sacrificial layer is wet etched using a buffered hydrofluoric acid to remove the entire sacrifice layer. Subsequently, a reflective film is formed by sputtering on the p-type layer and the resist layer. Next, the resist layer is removed using a resist stripper, and only the reflective film on the p-type layer is left to form the reflective electrode.
US10304996B2
A semiconductor light-emitting apparatus is constructed by a substrate; a semiconductor light-emitting element mounted on the substrate; a wavelength-converting structure, provided on the semiconductor light-emitting element, at least an outer edge portion of the wavelength-converting structure having an uneven top surface; and a white-light reflective layer provided on the substrate to surround sidewalls of the semiconductor light-emitting element and the wavelength-converting structure. The white-light reflective layer further includes an additional transparent resin layer excluding the reflective fillers on at least the outer edge portion of the wavelength-converting structure. The additional transparent resin layer is coupled to the transparent resin layer.
US10304984B2
A photovoltaic device and method include a doped germanium-containing substrate, an emitter contact coupled to the substrate on a first side and a back contact coupled to the substrate on a side opposite the first side. The emitter includes at least one doped layer of an opposite conductivity type as that of the substrate and the back contact includes at least one doped layer of the same conductivity type as that of the substrate. The at least one doped layer of the emitter contact or the at least one doped layer of the back contact is in direct contact with the substrate, and the at least one doped layer of the emitter contact or the back contact includes an n-type material having an electron affinity smaller than that of the substrate, or a p-type material having a hole affinity larger than that of the substrate.
US10304979B2
A method and apparatus for manufacturing a nitrogen-doped CZTSSe layer for a solar cell is disclosed. A substrate is mounted in a vacuum chamber. A plurality of effusion cells are placed within the vacuum chamber in order to evaporate copper, zinc, tin, sulfur, and/or selenium to form elemental vapors in a region proximate the substrate. An RF-based nitrogen source delivers a nitrogen plasma in the region proximal to the substrate. The elemental vapors and the nitrogen plasma form a gas mixture in the region near the substrate, which then react at the substrate to form a CZTSSe absorber layer for a solar cell.
US10304973B2
An infrared sensor forming an infrared solid-state imaging device includes a sensor element portion disposed in a package. In the sensor element portion, an absorption structure supported on a substrate is provided. The absorption structure has a structure in which a second insulating film, an absorption film, and a first insulating film are stacked on a reflective film. The first insulating film and the second insulating film are formed so as to have a film thickness with which the index of absorption of infrared radiation entering the absorption structure is maximized with consideration given to the energy loss in an optical transmission path to the absorption structure.
US10304969B2
According to one embodiment, in a semiconductor device, The first semiconductor region is provided between the first and the second electrode. The second semiconductor region is provided between the first semiconductor region and the second electrode. The first and second connection region are electrically connected to the second electrode, reaches the first semiconductor region. The first insulating film is provided between the first connection region and the second semiconductor region and between the first connection region and the first semiconductor region. The second insulating film is provided between the second connection region and the second semiconductor region and between the second connection region and the first semiconductor region. The third connection region is provided between the first connection region and the second connection region, the third connection region is electrically connected to the second electrode, reaches the first semiconductor region or reaches the second semiconductor region.
US10304957B2
Selective epitaxial growth is used to form a hetero-structured source/drain region to fill an etched recess in a silicon fin for an n-type FinFET device.
US10304956B2
A method including forming an opening in a junction region of a fin on and extending from a substrate; introducing a doped semiconductor material in the opening; and thermal processing the doped semiconductor material. A method including forming a gate electrode on a fin extending from a substrate; forming openings in the fin adjacent opposite sides of the gate electrode; introducing a doped semiconductor material in the openings; and thermally processing the doped semiconductor material sufficient to induce the diffusion of a dopant in the doped semiconductor material. An apparatus including a gate electrode transversing a fin extending from a substrate; and semiconductor material filled openings in junction regions of the fin adjacent opposite sides of the gate electrode, wherein the semiconductor material comprises a dopant.
US10304950B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a semiconductor layer, and a first insulating portion. The first electrode includes first and second electrode regions. The semiconductor layer includes first to third semiconductor regions, and third and fourth partial regions. The first semiconductor region includes first and second partial regions. The first partial region is separated from the first electrode region. The second semiconductor region is separated from the second partial region. The third semiconductor region is provided between the second partial region and the second semiconductor region. The third partial region is separated from the second electrode region. The fourth partial region is separated from the second electrode region. The first insulating portion is provided between the electrode region and the partial region and between the electrode region and the semiconductor region. The first insulating portion has a first width and a second width.
US10304944B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method including forming a first vertical channel on a first layer of source/drain material that is perpendicular relative to the first vertical channel, and forming a first source/drain semiconductor structure by removing one or more portions of the first layer of source/drain material such that i) the first source/drain semiconductor structure has a vertical side that is substantially planar with a vertical side of the first vertical channel and ii) a width of the source/drain is greater than a width of the first vertical channel, wherein the first source/drain semiconductor structure extends perpendicularly from its vertical side farther than the first vertical channel extends perpendicularly from its vertical side.
US10304939B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device capable of reducing an ON resistance. In the present invention, a drift layer is formed on a substrate. An ion implanted layer is formed in a surface of the drift layer. A surplus carbon region is formed in the drift layer. The drift layer is heated. In a case where the surplus carbon region is formed, the surplus carbon region is formed in a region deeper than an interface between the ion implanted layer and the drift layer. In a case where the drift layer is heated, impurity ions of the ion implanted layer are activated to form an activation layer, and interstitial carbon atoms are dispersed toward the activation layer.
US10304938B2
Various methods and semiconductor structures for fabricating an FET device having Nickel atoms implanted in a silicide metal film on a source-drain contact region of the FET device thereby reducing resistance of the source-drain contact region of the FET device. An example fabrication method includes maskless blanket implantation of Nickel atoms across a semiconductor wafer. Nickel atoms can be implanted into silicide metal film of a source-drain contact region of nFET devices, pFET devices, or both, on a semiconductor wafer. Nickel atoms can be implanted into silicide metal film on a source-drain contact region of nFET devices and pFET devices. The silicide metal film on the source-drain contact region of the nFET device being a different material than the silicide metal film on the source-drain contact region of the pFET device.
US10304936B2
A starting structure for forming a gate-all-around field effect transistor (FET) and a method of fabricating the gate-all-around FET. The method includes forming a stack of silicon nanosheets above a substrateforming an interfacial layer over the nanosheets depositing a high-k dielectric layer conformally on the interfacial layer. The method also includes depositing a layer of silicon nitride (SiN) above the high-k dielectric layer and performing reliability anneal after depositing the layer of SiN to crystallize the high-k dielectric layer.
US10304933B1
A transistor includes a trench defined in a semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is disposed in the trench and insulated from a sidewall of the trench by a gate dielectric. A shield electrode is disposed in the trench below the gate electrode and insulated from the gate electrode and the sidewall of the trench by a shield dielectric. The shield dielectric includes solid dielectric portions and a cavity disposed between the shield electrode and the sidewall of the trench.
US10304925B2
An object of the invention is to provide a semiconductor device having improved performance. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a trench and then forming a first insulating film made of a silicon oxide film through CVD using a gas containing an O3 gas and a TEOS gas to cover the side surface of the trench with the insulating film; forming a second insulating film made of a silicon oxide film through PECVD to cover the side surface of the trench with the second insulating film via the first insulating film; and forming a third insulating film made of a silicon oxide film through CVD using a gas containing an O3 gas and a TEOS gas to close the trench with the third insulating film while leaving a space in the trench.
US10304922B2
An array substrate and a wearable device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate. A first surface of the base substrate is provided with a plurality of first signal lines having a concentric arc shape and a plurality of second signal lines linearly arranged along a radial direction of the first signal lines. A first driving circuit connected to the respective first signal lines is provided on the first surface or a second surface of the base substrate and a second driving circuit connected to the respective second signal lines is provided on the first surface or a second surface of the base substrate. In the array substrate, since the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit are both positioned within a display region, the screen proportion of the display region is improved, thereby achieving a narrow bezel design or even bezel-free design for the wearable device.
US10304915B2
The present application discloses a method of fabricating a display substrate. The method includes forming a sacrificial layer including a plurality of sacrificial blocks on a base substrate; forming a pixel definition material layer on the base substrate subsequent to forming the sacrificial layer; and removing the sacrificial layer thereby forming a pixel definition layer comprising a plurality of pixel definition blocks. Each of the plurality of sacrificial blocks is formed to have a first side surface distal to the base substrate, a second side surface facing the first side surface and proximal to the base substrate, and a third side surface connecting the first side surface and the second side surface. An average tangential inclination of the third side surface with respect to the second side surface is an acute angle.
US10304910B2
Disclosed herein is a display device including a touch screen. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including a touch screen according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of pixels including organic light emitting bodies; and a common electrode which applies a common voltage to the organic light emitting body, in which a plurality of touch sensors and a plurality of sensor lines are formed in a mesh pattern in a partial region of the common electrode corresponding to a boundary region between the organic light emitting bodies. Further, the present invention includes exemplary embodiments different from the described exemplary embodiment.
US10304903B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a bottom electrode via (BEVA), a recap layer on the BEVA, and a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) layer over the recap layer. The BEVA includes a lining layer over a bottom and a sidewall of a trench of the BEVA, and electroplated copper over the lining layer, filling the trench of the BEVA. The recap layer overlaps a top surface of the lining layer and a top surface of the electroplated copper.
US10304896B2
An infrared detector and an infrared sensor including the infrared detector are provided. The infrared detector includes a plurality of quantum dots spaced apart from each other and including a first component, a first semiconductor layer covering the plurality of quantum dots, and a second semiconductor layer covering the first semiconductor layer.
US10304894B2
Respective first signal holding units of a plurality of sets are commonly connected to an input node of an amplification unit of one set via a second transfer unit of a set to which the first signal holding unit corresponds, and respective second signal holding units of the plurality of sets are commonly connected to the input node of the amplification unit of one set via a fourth transfer unit of a set to which the second signal holding unit corresponds.
US10304892B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of first connectors, and a plurality of second connectors. The plurality of first connectors are configured to transmit a first signal. The plurality of second connectors are configured to transmit a second signal. The first signal has at least two levels, and the levels of the first signal discretely vary between the at least two levels. The second signal is a continuous time signal. A first area of a first region is smaller than a second area of a second region. The first region is a projection region of each of the plurality of first connectors in a principal surface of the first substrate. The second region is a projection region of each of the plurality of second connectors in the principal surface.
US10304887B2
A substrate includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array structure and has a front side and a back side opposite to the front side. An interconnection is arranged on the front side of the substrate. An insulating layer, a color filter, and a micro-lens are arranged on the back side of the substrate. A pixel separation structure is disposed in the substrate. The pixel separation structure includes a conductive layer having a grid structure in a planar view of the image sensor and surrounds each of the plurality of pixels. A back side contact is vertically overlapped with and electrically connected to a grid point portion of the grid structure of the conductive layer of the pixel separation structure.
US10304883B2
A color filter array and an image sensing device are disclosed. The color filter array includes a plurality of color cells arranged into a matrix. Each color cell has an intermediate region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region is configured around the intermediate region. The intermediate region forms a color filter object. Parts of the peripheral region form transparent objects. The transparent objects extend to edge parts of the color cells from an edge of the intermediate region. The remaining peripheral regions form the color filter objects. The color filter object is a high-refractive index material. The transparent object is a low-refractive index material. Therefore, in each color cell, the color filter objects configured in the intermediate region and the peripheral region reduce the spectral crosstalk, and the transparent objects configured in the peripheral region reduce the optical crosstalk, thereby enhancing the image quality sensed by sensor chips.
US10304877B2
A circuit may include an array of single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cells, each SPAD cell configured to be selectively enabled by an activation signal. The circuit may include a control circuit configured to selectively enable a subset of the array of SPAD cells based on a measured count rate of the array of SPAD cells.
US10304874B2
A flexible display substrate, a flexible display device, and a method for repairing the same are disclosed in embodiments of the disclosure, all belonging to a technical field of display. The flexible display substrate comprises: an underlying substrate; and a plurality of flexible structure assemblies provided on the underlying substrate, each of which is electrically conductive; at least one of the plurality of flexible structure assemblies comprises at least one repairing layer formed by a first conductive material which is repairable and at least one circuit device layer formed by a second conductive material, the circuit device layer and the repairing layer being provided to overlap with each other.
US10304872B2
Provided is a semiconductor device exemplified by an inverter circuit and a shift register circuit, which is characterized by a reduced number of transistors. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring, and the other thereof is electrically connected to a second wiring. One of a source and a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the first wiring, a gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor, and the other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor, while the other electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to a third wiring. The first and second transistors have the same conductivity type.
US10304868B2
To provide a circuit used for a shift register or the like. The basic configuration includes first to fourth transistors and four wirings. The power supply potential VDD is supplied to the first wiring and the power supply potential VSS is supplied to the second wiring. A binary digital signal is supplied to each of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. An H level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VDD, and an L level of the digital signal is equal to the power supply potential VSS. There are four combinations of the potentials of the third wiring and the fourth wiring. Each of the first transistor to the fourth transistor can be turned off by any combination of the potentials. That is, since there is no transistor that is constantly on, deterioration of the characteristics of the transistors can be suppressed.
US10304867B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing technique which allows reduction of semiconductor chip size. First, a pad and other wires are formed over an insulating film. A surface protective film is formed over the insulating film including the pad and wires, and an opening is made in the surface protective film. The opening lies over the pad and exposes a surface of the pad. A bump electrode is formed over the surface protective film including the opening. Here, the pad is smaller than the bump electrode. Consequently, the wires are arranged just beneath the bump electrode in the same layer as the pad 10. In other words, the wires are arranged in space which becomes available because the pad is small enough.
US10304859B2
The stability of a step of processing a wiring formed using copper, aluminum, gold, silver, molybdenum, or the like is increased. Moreover, the concentration of impurities in a semiconductor film is reduced. Moreover, the electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, an oxide film in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, and a pair of conductive films being in contact with the oxide film and including copper, aluminum, gold, silver, molybdenum, or the like, the oxide film has a plurality of crystal parts and has c-axis alignment in the crystal parts, and the c-axes are aligned in a direction parallel to a normal vector of a top surface of the oxide semiconductor film or the oxide film.
US10304856B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides an array substrate. The array substrate includes a display region and a packaging region. The packaging region includes a plurality of functional layers. And the packaging region further includes: a plurality of through holes running through at least one of the plurality of functional layers and configured to allow a packaging adhesive to enter therein; and a groove formed above at least some of the through holes, wherein, projection areas of the at least some of the through holes onto a base substrate of the array substrate are located within a projection area of the groove onto the base substrate. Embodiments of the present invention further provides a display panel and a display apparatus including the abovementioned array substrate, and a method of manufacturing the abovementioned array substrate.
US10304845B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, and first to fourth interconnects provided on the substrate to be adjacent to one another. The device includes a first pad portion connected with the first or second interconnect, and a second pad portion adjacent to the first pad portion in a first direction. The device includes a third pad portion connected with the third or fourth interconnect, and adjacent to one of the first and second pad portions in a second direction, and a fourth pad portion adjacent to the third pad portion in the first direction, and adjacent to the other of the first and second pad portions in the second direction. The device includes one or more interconnects insulated from the first to fourth interconnects and the first to fourth pad portions, and provided between the first and second interconnects and the third and fourth interconnects.
US10304844B1
A method for integrating a stack of fins to form an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) device is presented. The method includes forming a stack of at least a first fin structure and a second fin structure over a semiconductor substrate, forming a sacrificial gate straddling the stack of at least the first fin structure and the second fin structure, forming a first conductivity type source/drain region to the first fin structure, and forming a second conductivity type source/drain to the second fin structure. The method further includes removing the sacrificial gate to form a gate opening, and forming a single floating gate in communication with a channel for each of the first and second fin structures.
US10304843B2
A memory device includes a capacitor, a tunneling-enhanced device, and a transistor. In accordance with an embodiment, capacitor has first and second electrodes wherein the first electrode of the capacitor serves as a control gate of the memory device. The tunneling-enhanced device has a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode of the second capacitor serves as an erase gate of the memory device and the second electrode of the tunneling-enhanced device is coupled to the second electrode of the capacitor to form a floating gate. The transistor has a control electrode and a pair of current carrying electrodes, wherein the control electrode of the transistor is directly coupled to the floating gate. In accordance with another embodiment, a method for manufacturing the memory device includes a method for manufacturing the memory device.
US10304837B2
An integrated circuit device having (i) a memory cell array which includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, wherein each memory cell includes at least one transistor having a gate, gate dielectric and first, second and body regions, wherein: (i) the body region of each transistor is electrically floating and (ii) the transistors of adjacent memory cells have a common first region and/or a common second region. Each common first region and/or second regions of transistors of adjacent memory cells includes a barrier disposed therein and/or therebetween, wherein each barrier provides a discontinuity in the common regions and/or includes one or more electrical characteristics that are different from one or more corresponding electrical characteristics of the common regions.
US10304835B1
In an embodiment, a method includes: forming a gate dielectric layer on an interface layer; forming a doping layer on the gate dielectric layer, the doping layer including a dipole-inducing element; annealing the doping layer to drive the dipole-inducing element through the gate dielectric layer to a first side of the gate dielectric layer adjacent the interface layer; removing the doping layer; forming a sacrificial layer on the gate dielectric layer, a material of the sacrificial layer reacting with residual dipole-inducing elements at a second side of the gate dielectric layer adjacent the sacrificial layer; removing the sacrificial layer; forming a capping layer on the gate dielectric layer; and forming a gate electrode layer on the capping layer.
US10304830B2
There is formed a first concave portion that extends inside a semiconductor substrate from a main surface thereof. An insulating film is formed over the main surface, over a side wall and a bottom wall of the first concave portion so as to cover an element and to form a capped hollow in the first concave portion. A first hole portion is formed in the insulating film so as to reach the hollow in the first concave portion from an upper surface of the insulating film, and to reach the semiconductor substrate on the bottom wall of the first concave portion while leaving the insulating film over the side wall of the first concave portion. There is formed a second hole portion that reaches the conductive portion from the upper surface of the insulating film. The first and second hole portions are formed by the same etching treatment.
US10304829B2
A device includes a vertical transistor and a lateral transistor on a substrate, wherein the vertical transistor comprises a first gate in a first trench, a second gate in a second trench, a source and a drain, wherein the source and the drain are on opposite sides of the first trench and the lateral transistor and the drain are on opposite sides of the second trench.
US10304828B2
An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first insulating layer covering a surface of the semiconductor substrate, the first insulating layer including first and second portions, a thickness of the first portion being greater than a thickness of the second portion; and an imaging cell. The imaging cell includes: a first transistor including a first gate insulating layer and an impurity region in the semiconductor substrate as one of a source and a drain; a second transistor including a gate electrode and a second gate insulating layer; and a photoelectric converter electrically connected to the gate electrode and the impurity region. The first portion covers a portion of the impurity region, the portion being exposed to the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first gate insulating layer is a part of the first portion. The second gate insulating layer is a part of the second portion.
US10304822B2
The present disclosure provides a substrate and a display device. The substrate includes an internal region and a peripheral region surrounding the internal region, a plurality of signal wires and at least one ground wire being included in the peripheral region; any two adjacent signal wires, as well as the signal wire and the ground wire which are adjacent to each other, are connected through a selective connection structure; and the selective connection structure is capable of being connected in case of electro-static discharge. In the substrate and the display device provided by the present disclosure, because static electricity in each signal channel inside the substrate can be finally discharged via the ground wire in case of ESD, ESD protection for each signal channel in the internal region and the signal wire connected thereto can be achieved.
US10304813B2
The embodiment provides a display device including an array substrate, an opposite substrate, a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes and a plurality of bank structures. The opposite substrate is disposed opposite to the array substrate. The micro light-emitting diodes are arranged in an array on the array substrate, wherein the micro light-emitting diodes are electrically connected to the array substrate. The bank structures are located between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, wherein the bank structures form a plurality of accommodating regions, and one of the micro light-emitting diodes is located in one of the accommodating regions. A height of the bank structures is more than or equal to a height of the micro light-emitting diodes.
US10304812B2
An optoelectronic device including a first integrated circuit that includes:—a substrate, having first and second opposite surfaces; and—groups of sets of light-emitting diodes resting on the first surface. The integrated circuit also includes:—in the substrate, first side elements for electrically insulating portions of the substrate around each set; and—for each group on the second surface, at least one first conductive contact, connected to the first terminal of the group, and one second conductive contact, connected to the second terminal of the group. The device includes a second integrated circuit containing:—third and fourth opposite surfaces; and—third conductive contacts, located on the third surface and electrically connected to the first and second conductive contacts. The first integrated circuit is attached onto the third surface of the second integrated circuit.
US10304811B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) display panel includes a substrate, a driver circuit array on the substrate and including a plurality of pixel driver circuits arranged in an array, an LED array including a plurality of LED dies each being coupled to one of the pixel driver circuits, a micro lens array including a plurality of micro lenses each corresponding to and being arranged over at least one of the LED dies, and an optical spacer formed between the LED array and the micro lens array.
US10304802B2
Examples of techniques for an integrated wafer-level processing system are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, an integrated wafer-level processing system includes a memory wafer and a processing element connected to the memory wafer via a data connection.
US10304799B2
BGA packages with a LGA package extension. First lands on a substrate are populated with solder balls, while only solder paste is dispensed on second lands that are surrounded by the first lands. Differences in solder stand-off may accommodate non-planarity in a package or the insertion of an LGA extension component, such as an IC or one or more discrete devices. Where an LGA extension component is attached to the second lands, solder paste may be further dispensed on third lands located on a package-side of the extension component. A BGA package is then attached to the first lands and third lands. The larger volume BGA solder connections maintaining mechanical reliability, particularly where the solder ball interconnects form a perimeter surrounding the low-volume solder interconnects.
US10304795B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor die, and an antistatic die attach material between the substrate and the semiconductor die. The antistatic die attach material includes a mixture of a nonconductive adhesive material and carbon black or graphite. In one example, the antistatic die attach material has a resistivity between 101 Ω·cm and 1010 Ω·cm.
US10304791B2
An electronic component package includes: a frame, including a through-hole and a through-wiring; an electronic component disposed in the through-hole of the frame; a metal plate disposed on a first side of the electronic component and the frame; and a redistribution layer disposed on a second side of the electronic component opposing the first side and electrically connected to the electronic component.
US10304783B2
A semiconductor structure includes filled dual reinforcing trenches that reduce curvature of the semiconductor structure by stiffening the semiconductor structure. The filled dual reinforcing trenches reduce curvature by acting against transverse loading, axial loading, and/or torsional loading of the semiconductor structure that would otherwise result in semiconductor structure curvature. The filled dual reinforcing trenches may be located in an array throughout the semiconductor structure, in particular locations within the semiconductor structure, or at the perimeter of the semiconductor structure.
US10304781B2
The semiconductor devices may include a semiconductor substrate, and a guard ring and a crack sensing circuit on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate may include a main chip region that is defined by the guard ring and includes the crack sensing circuit, a central portion of the main chip region surrounded by the crack sensing circuit, and a chamfer region that is in a corner portion of the main chip region and is defined by the guard ring and the crack sensing circuit. The semiconductor devices may also include at least one gate structure on the semiconductor substrate in the main chip region, a plurality of metal pattern structures on the at least one gate structure in the chamfer region, and an insulating layer on the plurality of metal pattern structures. The plurality of metal pattern structures may extend in parallel to one another and may have different lengths.
US10304763B2
A method for producing wafer level packaging using an embedded leadframe strip and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include placing dies into a mold with an active side of each die facing a surface of the mold; placing a leadframe strip on the mold, wherein the leadframe strip includes etched and half etched portions positioned between each die; placing a mold cover over the mold and dies; and adding mold compound in spaces between the dies and mold cover.
US10304762B2
A molded interconnect device adapted to form a three-dimensional circuit by using laser beams includes: a main body on which the three-dimensional circuit is formed; and a lead portion connected to an external electrode of an external substrate by solder and extending from the main body. The lead portion includes: a lead main body molded from a material same as a material of the main body; and a metal film formed on at least a part of an outer periphery of the lead main body.
US10304761B2
Provided are a semiconductor device realized easily at low cost without requiring a complicated manufacturing process, and an alternator using the same. The semiconductor device includes a base having a base seat, a lead having a lead header, and an electronic circuit body, wherein the electronic circuit body is arranged between the base and the lead; the base seat is connected to a first surface of the electronic circuit body; the lead header is connected to a second surface of the electronic circuit body; the electronic circuit body is integrally covered by resin, including a transistor circuit chip having a switching element, a control circuit chip for controlling the switching element, a drain frame, and a source frame; either one of the drain frame and the source frame, and the base are connected; and the other one of the drain frame and the source frame, and the lead are connected.
US10304755B1
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a first heatsink that is coupled to a first component of a multichip module, (2) a second heatsink that is (A) coupled to a second component of the multichip module and (B) physically separated from the first heatsink by at least a certain amount of clearance, and (3) a coil spring that (A) encompasses the second heatsink, (B) resides within the certain amount of clearance that separates the first and second heatsinks from one another, and (C) prevents at least some electromagnetic radiation from leaking via the certain amount of clearance that separates the first and second heatsinks from one another. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10304736B2
A method for fabricating self-aligned contacts includes forming a liner over a gate structure having a gate conductor and one sidewall spacer and etching an exposed gate conductor to form a recess extending less than a width of the gate conductor. A dielectric layer is conformally deposited to fill the recess between the liner and the one sidewall spacer to form a partial dielectric cap formed on the gate conductor. A self-aligned contact is formed adjacent to the one sidewall spacer of the gate structure that is electrically isolated from the gate conductor by the partial dielectric cap and the at least one sidewall spacer.
US10304732B2
Methods and apparatus for filling features with cobalt are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for processing a substrate includes: depositing a first cobalt layer via a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process atop a substrate and within a feature disposed in the substrate; and at least partially filling the feature with cobalt or cobalt containing material by performing a plasma process in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber having a cobalt target to reflow a portion of the first cobalt layer into the feature. The PVD chamber may be configured to simultaneously deposit cobalt or cobalt containing material within the feature from a cobalt target disposed in the PVD chamber.
US10304725B2
Embodiments are disclosed for processing microelectronic workpieces having patterned structures that include ultra-low dielectric constant (k) (ULK) material layers. In particular, embodiments are disclosed that deposit protective layers to protect ULK features during etch processing of patterned structures within substrates for microelectronic workpieces. For certain embodiments, these protective layers are deposited in-situ within the etch chamber.
US10304716B1
A manufacturing method of a package structure is provided. The method includes the following steps. A package panel is provided. The package panel includes a first encapsulation, a plurality of first integrated circuit components and a plurality of redistribution circuit patterns electrically connected to the first integrated circuit components, the first integrated circuit components are encapsulated by the first encapsulation, and the redistribution circuit patterns are distributed on the first encapsulation and the first integrated circuit components. The first encapsulation of the package panel is cut to form a plurality of singulated package strips. One of the singulated package strips is attached onto an attachment region of a substrate. The substrate includes at least one tooling hole distributed outside of the attachment region. The package process is performed over the singulated package strip with the substrate affixed through the tooling hole to form the package structure.
US10304714B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for electrostatic coupling of a substrate with a substrate carrier, wherein the apparatus includes a flexible plastic carrier film on which an electrically contactable electrode structure is unilaterally deposited, and a cover layer which can be brought into contact with the electrode structure on the side of the electrode structure facing away from the carrier film, wherein the apparatus is configured such that, in a coupled state, the same is arranged at least in sections between the substrate and the substrate carrier and, in a non-coupled state, the same can be removed from the substrate carrier in a reusable manner.
US10304690B2
A method of can be used to generating a fluid droplet pattern for an imprint lithography process. A fluid dispense head can include a set of fluid dispense ports, wherein the fluid dispense ports are in a fixed arrangement. The method can include rotating the set of the fluid dispense ports to a rotation angle to change a fluid droplet pitch in a first direction; moving a substrate and the set of the fluid dispense ports relative to each other in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and dispensing fluid droplets onto the substrate while moving the substrate and the set of the fluid dispense ports relative to each other. The method can be used in the formation of an electronic component within or over a semiconductor substrate. The apparatus can be configured to carry out the methods as described herein.
US10304684B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a gate trench in a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate dielectric layer over a bottom surface and sidewalls of the gate trench; forming a first work function layer over the gate dielectric layer; doping a work function adjustment element to form a second work function layer which overlaps with the sidewalls of the gate trench; forming a gate conductive layer that partially fills the gate trench; and forming doped regions inside the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the gate trench.
US10304673B2
An ion guide comprises a first ion guide portion that forms a first ion guiding path and a second ion guide portion that forms a second ion guiding path. A first device applies a plurality of different first voltages or potentials to the electrodes of the first ion guide portion in order to generate an electric field that directs ions from the first ion guiding path of the first ion guide portion into the second ion guiding path of the second ion guide portion. The use of plural different first voltages can provide a controlled transfer of ions from the first ion guiding path into the second ion guiding path.
US10304672B2
The disclosure relates to a mass spectrometer for mass spectrometric examination of gas mixtures, including: an ionization device and an ion trap for storage and mass spectrometric examination of the gas mixture. In one aspect of the disclosure, the ionization device is embodied for supplying ions and/or metastable particles of an ionization gas and/or for supplying electrons to the ion trap for ionizing the gas mixture to be examined and the mass spectrometer is embodied to determine the number of ions and/or metastable particles of the ionization gas present in the ion trap and/or the number of ions of a residual gas present in the ion trap prior to examining the gas mixture. The disclosure also relates to the use of such a mass spectrometer and a method for mass spectrometric examination of a gas mixture.
US10304667B1
A method of removing sample residue from a surface of a mass spectrometer inlet, with the surface being adjacent to an ion passageway, is provided. A pendent droplet of a cleaning solvent is formed at a tip of a capillary, with the tip being spaced apart from the surface. The pendent droplet detaches from the tip and contacts the surface. The surface is heated to a temperature T at least 50° C. above the boiling point of the least volatile component of the cleaning solvent.
US10304666B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a chamber; a placing table; an exhaust path provided around the placing table to surround the placing table, and configured to exhaust a gas within a processing space above the semiconductor wafer placed on the placing table; an exhaust device configured to exhaust the gas within the processing space through the exhaust path; a baffle plate having a plurality of through holes and provided between the processing space and the exhaust path to surround the placing table; and a rectifying plate provided around the placing table to surround the placing table within the exhaust path at a position farther from the processing space than the baffle plate, and forming an opening within the exhaust path to make a sectional area of a flow path within the exhaust path larger at a position farther from a position within the exhaust path connected to the exhaust device.
US10304664B2
Substrate treating systems are disclosed. The system may include a chamber with a processing space, a supporting unit provided in the processing space to support a substrate, a gas supplying unit provided in the processing space to supply gas into the processing space, a plasma source unit generating plasma from the gas, and a liner unit disposed to enclose the supporting unit. The supporting unit may include a supporting plate supporting a substrate. The liner unit may include an inner liner enclosing the supporting plate and an actuator vertically moving the inner liner.
US10304661B2
Some embodiments include a high voltage waveform generator comprising: a generator inductor; a high voltage nanosecond pulser having one or more solid state switches electrically and/or inductively coupled with the generator inductor, the high voltage nanosecond pulser configured to produce a pulse burst having a burst period, the pulse burst comprising a plurality of pulses having different pulse widths; and a load electrically and/or inductively coupled with the high voltage nanosecond pulser, the generator inductor, and the generator capacitor, the voltage across the load having an output pulse with a pulse width substantially equal to the burst period and the voltage across the load varying in a manner that is substantially proportional with the pulse widths of the plurality of pulses.
US10304660B1
Systems and methods for multi-level pulsing of a parameter and multi-level pulsing of a frequency of a radio frequency (RF) signal are described. The RF signal is applied to a substrate support via a match. The parameter is pulsed from a low level to a high level while the frequency is pulsed from a low level to a high level. In addition, a direct current (DC) parameter is applied to the substrate support or another RF signal is applied to an upper electrode. The parameter and the frequency of the RF signal applied to the substrate support are simultaneously pulsed with the DC parameter or the RF signal applied to the upper electrode to increase a rate of processing a wafer, to increase mask selectivity, and to reduce angular spread of ions within a plasma chamber.
US10304655B2
In this charged particle beam device, when a sample chamber is to be placed in a high-vacuum state, a charged particle gun chamber and the sample chamber are evacuated via a main intake of a turbo molecular pump, and when the sample chamber is to be placed in a low-vacuum state, the sample chamber is evacuated via an intermediate intake of the turbo molecular pump while the charged particle gun chamber is evacuated via the main intake. An oil rotation pump for performing back pressure exhausting of the turbo molecular pump does not directly evacuate the charged particle gun chamber or the sample chamber. It is thereby possible to minimize contamination of the device interior in both high-vacuum and low-vacuum states, which makes it possible to prevent contamination of the observed sample and reduce deterioration over time in the ultimate vacuum.
US10304654B2
A purpose of the present invention is to provide a charged particle beam device that suppresses an off-axis amount when a field of view moves, said move causing an aberration, and allows large field of view moves to be carried out. In order to achieve the above-mentioned purpose, this charged particle beam device is provided with an objective lens and deflectors for field of view moves, said deflectors deflecting a charged particle beam, and is further provided with an accelerating tube positioned between the objective lens and the deflectors for field of view moves, a power source that applies a voltage to the accelerating tube, and a control device that controls the voltage to be applied to the power source in response to the deflection conditions of the deflectors for field of view moves.
US10304652B2
An electron emitter assembly includes a plurality of electron emitters, and a removable structure connected to, and fixing a positional relationship among, individual ones of the plurality of electron emitters. A method of assembling an electron emitter assembly includes connecting individual ones of a plurality of electron emitters together with a removable structure, and fixing a positional relationship among the individual ones of the plurality of electron emitters.
US10304648B2
A cable pull switch includes a polychotomous sensor configured to provide a reading of at least one of a plurality of values, the reading corresponding to a tension on a pull cable or a linear displacement of an end of a pull cable. A processor coupled to the polychotomous cable pull sensor configured to determine a rate of change of the value of the reading from the sensor and determine an occurrence of a cable pull event, the determination based on the determined rate of change of the value, and determine whether the rate of change of the value of an electrical resistance through the polychotomous cable pull sensor is below a threshold rate of change value, and adjust an upper pull threshold value to a new upper pull threshold value that is based on a present reading of the value of the electrical resistance through the strain gauge.
US10304642B2
A switch device for a vehicle includes an emergency notification switch, an operation switch other than the emergency notification switch, and a cover that is movable between a closed position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are covered and an open position at which the emergency notification switch and the operation switch are exposed. In the switch device, an operating surface of the emergency notification switch is located at a position lower than an operating surface of the operation switch, and the cover is provided with an opening through which the operating surface of the operation switch is exposed at the closed position.
US10304641B2
A spring plate includes a central portion; an opening that is positioned at a center of the central portion; and a strip extending from a part of an inner edge of the opening that is positioned at the center of the central portion. The strip includes a first width that is positioned adjacent to the part of the inner edge of the opening and a second width that is positioned adjacent to an end of the strip. The first width of the strip is wider than the second width that is positioned adjacent to the end of the strip.
US10304639B2
A wireless switch includes a button member, a power generation module, an RF module, and a notification unit. The button member is mounted in a housing, and is configured to move. The power generation module is configured to generate power using energy produced by the movement of the button member. The RF module is connected to the power generation module, and is configured to transmit a switch signal using power generated by the power generation module. The notification unit is configured to operate using power generated by the power generation module. The RF module controls the notification unit in one or more notification states according to a strength or details of a reception state signal corresponding to the transmitted switch signal.
US10304634B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, a first conductive polymer layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer, and a second conductive polymer layer covering at least a part of the first conductive polymer layer. The first conductive polymer layer includes a first conductive polymer. The second conductive polymer layer includes a second conductive polymer. The first conductive polymer layer and the second conductive polymer layer each further include a first polymer dopant having a sulfonation degree of S1. At least one of the first conductive polymer layer and the second conductive polymer layer further includes a second polymer dopant having a sulfonation degree of S2. The sulfonation degree of S1 and the sulfonation degree of S2 satisfy a relation of S1
US10304630B2
A ceramic electronic component that includes a ceramic element, and a coating film and external electrodes that are provided on the surface of the ceramic element. The coating film is selectively formed on the surface of the ceramic element by applying, to the ceramic electronic component, a resin-containing solution containing at least one anion of a sulfuric acid, a sulfonic acid, a carboxylic acid, a phosphoric acid, a phosphoric acid, and a hydrofluoric acid.
US10304622B2
An electronic component includes: a body containing a ceramic material; and an indication part formed on a surface of the body and including a base region and a marking region formed of a non-conductive paste on a portion of the base region.
US10304620B2
Disclosed is an inductor and a method of manufacturing the same. The inductor may include a core insulating layer, a coil including at least one coil pattern formed on an upper part of the core insulating layer, at least one coil pattern formed on a lower part of the core insulating layer, and a through via configured to electrically connect the at least one coil pattern on the upper part and the lower part, and an insulating layer formed on the upper part and the lower part of the core insulating layer, the insulating layer embedding the coil.
US10304619B2
An electronic component includes a circuit element, a body accommodating the circuit element therein, and a holder made of a metal plate and holding the circuit element. The circuit element includes an end portion extending out of the body from a side surface of the body. The end portion extends from the side surface of the body toward a bottom surface of the body. The holder has first and second side surface portions and a bottom surface portion facing the bottom surface of the body. The first and second side surface portions face the side surface of the body. The first and second side surface portions are disposed with respective gaps from the end portion of the circuit element such that the end portion of the circuit element is positioned between the first and second side surface portions. The bottom surface portion is connected to the first and second side surface portions. The end portion of the circuit element is fixed to the bottom surface portion. Widths of the first and second side surface portions are larger than a width of the end portion of the circuit element. This electronic component prevents terminals from being broken due to vibrations even if electronic component has a small size, thus having a high reliability as an automobile component.
US10304613B2
In an embodiments, a coil component 10 is constituted by a drum core 20, a ring core 30, and a resin base 70. A metal plate is embedded in the resin base 70, terminal electrodes 50A, 50B are exposed on a mounting surface side, and connecting parts 52A, 52B internally connected with the terminal electrodes 50A, 50B are pulled out from side surfaces 74A, 74B of the resin base 70. A coating 44 is laser-stripped from lead parts 46A, 46B at both ends of the winding wire 40 wound around a winding shaft 22 of the drum core 20. An end of the conductive wire 42, from which the coating 44 is stripped, is sandwiched by the connecting parts 52A, 52B and securing parts 54A, 54B, and joined together by laser irradiation, forming joining parts 56A, 56B which are separated from the coating end 45.
US10304612B2
A common mode filter includes a body portion including an external electrode disposed outwardly of the body portion, a plurality of coil electrode layers disposed within the body portion and electrically connected to the external electrode, and a shunt electrode layer disposed between portions of the plurality of coil electrode layers and having a coil shape.
US10304608B2
The invention generally relates to a field regulator, particularly a field regulator for a resonant circuit, a transmitter including such a field regulator, a proximity detection system including such a transmitter, and a method of regulating a resonant circuit. In one aspect the invention provides a field regulator for a resonant circuit, the resonant circuit including an inductor coil around a core, the field regulator including a DC bias circuit configured to apply a DC bias current to the inductor coil for regulating an electromagnetic field generated by the inductor. The DC bias circuit can be used to selectively change the inductance of the inductor in the resonant circuit so as to maintain a consistent field strength in a changing environment, particularly to take into account the presence of large metal bodies which might otherwise adversely impact on operation. In particular, the DC bias current may be used to selectively change the natural frequency of the resonant circuit so as to shift the resonant circuit towards a desired resonance point.
US10304596B1
A PTC circuit protection device adapted to be mounted on a substrate, includes: a PPTC component; a first electrically conductive unit including a first electrically conductive member and a first conductive pin member that has a first distal end to be in contact with the substrate, a first stand-off height from the first electrically conductive member to the first distal end being not less than 0.1 mm; and a second electrically conductive unit including a second electrically conductive member and a second conductive pin member that has a second distal end to be in contact with the substrate, a second stand-off height from the first electrically conductive member to the second distal end being not less than 0.1 mm.
US10304593B2
A data carrying cable to connect computing devices includes a first cable portion including a first conductor having a circular cross-section and a first gauge. A first port connector is connected to one end of the first cable portion. A second cable portion includes a second conductor having a circular cross-section and a second gauge that is different than the first gauge. The first conductor and the second conductor are arranged in series and are configured to carry a data signal between the computing devices.
US10304588B2
There is described herein a harness (106) that remains neutral until configured by a configuration device (110). Wires that connect to specific pins responsible for the configuration of a system are taken out and connected to a configuration port (108) on the harness (106). The configuration port (108), when mated with the configuration device (110), sets a configuration setting of the system. The configuration device (110) may be used to set the power and/or signal parameters of the harness (106) for a system or to configure various options within the system itself or another system.
US10304586B2
The present invention relates to electrical conductors for electrical transmission and distribution with pre-stress conditioning of the strength member so that the conductive materials of aluminum, aluminum alloys, copper, copper alloys, or copper micro-alloys are mostly tension free or under compressive stress in the conductor, while the strength member is under tensile stress prior to conductor stringing, resulting in a lower thermal knee point in the conductor.
US10304585B2
The present invention aims to provide a composition which can provide molded foams and foamed electric wires having a small average cell size and a high expansion ratio. The composition of the present invention includes a fluororesin; and boron nitride having an average particle size of 10.5 μm or greater, or boron nitride having a particle size distribution represented by (D84−D16)/D50 of 1.2 or lower.
US10304582B2
The present invention relates to a use of a polymer composition preferably in electrical devices as well as to a cable surrounded by at least one layer including the polymer composition.
US10304581B2
An aluminum alloy, an aluminum alloy wire, an aluminum alloy stranded wire, a covered electric wire, and a wire harness that are of high toughness and high electrical conductivity, and a method of manufacturing an aluminum alloy wire are provided. The aluminum alloy wire contains not less than 0.005% and not more than 2.2% by mass of Fe, and a remainder including Al and an impurity. It may further contain not less than 0.005% and not more than 1.0% by mass in total of at least one additive element selected from Mg, Si, Cu, Zn, Ni, Mn, Ag, Cr, and Zr. The Al alloy wire has an electrical conductivity of not less than 58% IACS and an elongation of not less than 10%. The Al alloy wire is manufactured through the successive steps of casting, rolling, wiredrawing, and softening treatment. The softening treatment can be performed to provide an excellent toughness such as elongation and impact resistance and thereby reduce fracture of the electric wire in the vicinity of a terminal portion when the wire harness is installed.
US10304580B2
Systems for x-ray microscopy using an array of micro-beams having a micro- or nano-scale beam intensity profile to provide selective illumination of micro- or nano-scale regions of an object. An array detector is positioned such that each pixel of the detector only detects x-rays corresponding to a single micro-or nano-beam. This allows the signal arising from each x-ray detector pixel to be identified with the specific, limited micro- or nano-scale region illuminated, allowing sampled transmission image of the object at a micro- or nano-scale to be generated while using a detector with pixels having a larger size and scale. Detectors with higher quantum efficiency may therefore be used, since the lateral resolution is provided solely by the dimensions of the micro- or nano-beams. The micro- or nano-scale beams may be generated using a arrayed x-ray source and a set of Talbot interference fringes.
US10304578B2
A fuel pellet visual inspection device for manufacturing a nuclear fuel rod improves convenience and workability of visual inspection of a plurality of pellets by simultaneously turning over the pellet. The fuel pellet visual inspection device for manufacturing a nuclear fuel rod includes: a rotary shaft; a pair of seats hinged to the hinge shaft, arranged at both sides from the rotary shaft, and seated with a tray thereon; and a dust-collecting unit disposed under the pair of seats and collecting dust scattered from pellets.
US10304573B2
A method and a corresponding device for the pressure relief of a nuclear power plant having an outlet for a relief flow. The relief flow is guided out of a containment into the atmosphere via a relief line provided with a filter system. The filter system has a filter chamber with a filter-chamber inlet and outlet and a sorbent filter arranged therebetween. The relief flow is guided in a high-pressure section of the relief line past the filter chamber, with the latter being heated, and the relief flow is expanded at the end of the high-pressure section and dried. In order for efficient retention of iodine-containing organic compounds, the relief flow is guided through a bed filter, guided in a superheating section past the high-pressure section of the relief line and in the process is heated, guided in this state directly thereafter through the filter chamber having the sorbent filter.
US10304559B2
A device is disclosed that includes a data write engine configured to store data into a block of a memory. The device also includes a post-write read engine configured to adjust a read voltage responsive to an output of the temperature sensor and to read stored data from the block based on the adjusted read voltage to verify integrity of the data. The device also includes a block manager configured to initiate a corrective operation responsive to an error characteristic of the data read from the block.
US10304557B2
A data storage device includes a flash memory and a controller. The controller is coupled to the flash memory and includes a ROM which stores a boot code. In an initialization procedure of the data storage device, the controller does not access the flash memory and receives a debug code from an external device, and executes the boot code and the debug code to complete the initialization procedure.
US10304554B1
A circuit may include a first switch to pre-charge a first voltage line to a first voltage for a first amount of time, such that the first voltage is an opposite polarity as compared to a second voltage coupled to the first voltage line when a first fuse is blown. The circuit may also include a second switch to pre-charge a second voltage line to a third voltage for the first amount of time, such that the third voltage is an opposite polarity as compared to a fourth voltage coupled to the second voltage line when a second fuse is blown. The circuit also includes a latch circuit to amplify a first voltage signal present on the first voltage line and amplify a second voltage signal present on the second voltage line after the first amount of time expires.
US10304551B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for erase depth control. One apparatus includes a block of non-volatile storage cells. A controller is configured to perform a first erase operation on a block of non-volatile storage cells. A controller for a block is configured to determine a first set of storage cells of the block having a faster erase speed than a second set of storage cells of the block based on a verify voltage threshold. A controller for a block is configured to perform a second erase operation on the block using different voltages for a first set of storage cells and a second set of storage cells of the block.
US10304545B2
Disclosed is a non-volatile memory (NVM) device including an array of NVM cells segmented into at least a first sector and a second sector and at least one sensing circuit to sense a state of a target NVM cell in the first sector using a reference current of the second sector received from at least a dynamic reference cell.
US10304543B2
A semiconductor memory device improving a high-temperature data retention is provided. Here, a flash memory includes an erasing element erasing a selected storage cell in a storage cell array. The erasing element further includes an applying element, a verifying element, and a decision element. The applying element applies a monitoring erasing pulse to a monitoring storage cell before starting an erasing operation for selecting the storage cell. The verifying element performs a verification of the monitoring storage cell to which the monitoring erasing pulse is applied. The decision element detennines ISPE conditions based on a verification result of the verifying element. The erasing element erases the storage cell according to the determined ISPE conditions.
US10304533B2
A phase change memory apparatus comprises at least one heating layer; and at least one phase change layer comprising a vanadium dioxide layer, wherein each of the at least one phase change layer is set corresponding to each of the at least one heating layer, the at least one heating layer is configured to heat the at least one phase change layer.
US10304527B2
There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device that can generate a unique ID with the suppression of overhead. When a unique ID is generated, the potential of a word line of a memory cell in an SRAM is raised above the power supply voltage of the SRAM, and then lowered below the power supply voltage of the SRAM. When the potential of the word line is above the power supply voltage of the SRAM, the same data is supplied to both the bit lines of the memory cell. Thereby, the memory cell in the SRAM is put into an undefined state and then changed so as to hold data according to characteristics of elements or the like configuring the memory cell. In the manufacture of the SRAM, there occur variations in characteristics of elements or the like configuring the memory cell. Accordingly, the memory cell in the SRAM holds data according to variations occurring in the manufacture.
US10304522B2
Big data analysis using low power circuit design including storing a plurality of data bits in a plurality of cells on a bitline of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM), wherein each data bit corresponds to a test result, and wherein each of the plurality of cells on the bitline is associated with a different wordline; precharging the bitline to a midpoint voltage between a low voltage corresponding to a low data bit and a high voltage corresponding to a high data bit; activating, at the same time, each wordline associated with each of the plurality of cells on the bitline, wherein activating each wordline causes a voltage to be applied to the bitline from each of the plurality of cells; and measuring a resulting voltage on the bitline to obtain a value corresponding to a percentage of the test results that indicate a passing test result.
US10304518B2
Some embodiments include an apparatus which has a wordline coupled with a transistor gate, and which has a compensator line extending along the wordline and spaced from the wordline by a dielectric region. A driver is coupled with the wordline, and a controller is coupled with the compensator line. The wordline is coupled with access transistors, and is operated at a first voltage while the access transistors are in an OFF state. The compensator line is operated at a second voltage while the wordline is at the first voltage; with the second voltage being greater than the first voltage. The wordline is operated at a third voltage while the access transistors are in an ON state, and the compensator line is operated at a fourth voltage while the wordline is at the third voltage. The third voltage may or may not be greater than the fourth voltage.
US10304517B2
A system that calibrates timing relationships between signals involved in performing write operations is described. This system includes a memory controller which is coupled to a set of memory chips, wherein each memory chip includes a phase detector configured to calibrate a phase relationship between a data-strobe signal and a clock signal received at the memory chip from the memory controller during a write operation. Furthermore, the memory controller is configured to perform one or more write-read-validate operations to calibrate a clock-cycle relationship between the data-strobe signal and the clock signal, wherein the write-read-validate operations involve varying a delay on the data-strobe signal relative to the clock signal by a multiple of a clock period.
US10304514B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for self-referencing sensing schemes are described. A cell having two transistors, or other switching components, and one capacitor, such as a ferroelectric capacitor, may be sensed using a reference value that is specific to the cell. The cell may be read and sampled via one access line, and the cell may be used to generate a reference voltage and sampled via another access line. For instance, a first access line of a cell may be connected to one read voltage while a second access line of the cell is isolated from a voltage source; then the second access line may be connected to another read voltage while the first access line is isolate from a voltage source. The resulting voltages on the respective access lines may be compared to each other and a logic value of the cell determined from the comparison.
US10304509B2
According to an embodiment, a magnetic storage device includes a memory cell including a magnetoresistive element, a selector, a first end, and a second end. The magnetoresistive element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, a third ferromagnetic layer, a first nonmagnetic layer disposed between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, and a second nonmagnetic layer disposed between the second ferromagnetic layer and the third ferromagnetic layer to couple the second ferromagnetic layer with the third ferromagnetic layer in an antiferromagnetic manner. The first ferromagnetic layer has a film thickness larger than a film thickness of the second ferromagnetic layer.
US10304504B2
A semiconductor device includes an information storage circuit suitable for outputting an operating frequency information according to a command; and a data alignment circuit including a plurality of latch units and suitable for aligning input data inputted in series according to a data strobe signal, by determining activation of at least one latch unit among the plurality of latch units depending on the operating frequency information.
US10304496B2
A semiconductor device includes an input/output circuit to which a signal is input or from which a signal is output; a first terminal connected to a power line of the input/output circuit; a second terminal connected to the power line; a resistance element connected between the second terminal and the power line; and a first capacitance element connected between the second terminal and a ground terminal. The semiconductor device can suppress a resonance phenomena and Volt age variation caused by impedance of the power line.
US10304495B2
In a compact three-dimensional memory (3D-MC), a memory array and an above-substrate decoding stage thereof are formed on a same memory level. For the memory devices in the memory array, the overlap portion and the non-overlap portions of the x-line are both highly-conductive; for the decoding device in the above-substrate decoding stage, while the non-overlap portions are still highly-conductive, the overlap portion is semi-conductive.
US10304493B2
Provided is a cartoon content editing method including: displaying, by a controller, at least one of a plurality of cuts included in cartoon content on a display unit; receiving, by an input receiver, a command to generate a still cut, which is a still image, from a motion cut including movement from among the cuts; and generating, by the controller, the still cut by inserting at least one of a plurality of scenes shown during the movement of the motion cut.
US10304488B2
To provide a memory cell for storing multilevel data that is less likely to be affected by variations in characteristics of transistors and that is capable of easily writing multilevel data in a short time and accurately reading it out. In writing, a current corresponding to multilevel data is supplied to the transistor in the memory cell and stored as the gate-drain voltage of the transistor in the memory cell. In reading, a current is supplied to the transistor in the transistor with the stored gate-drain voltage, and the multilevel data is obtained from the voltage supplied to generate a current that is equal to the current.
US10304486B2
The magnetic tape device includes: a magnetic tape; and a reproducing head, in which the reproducing head is a magnetic head including a tunnel magnetoresistance effect type element as a reproducing element, the magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, and logarithmic decrement acquired by a pendulum viscoelasticity test performed regarding the surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 0.050.
US10304485B2
The present invention aims at providing a magnetic recording medium capable of realizing lowering of recording temperature. A magnetic recording medium comprises a substrate, and a magnetic recording layer comprising a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer, in which the second magnetic layer comprises an FePtRh ordered alloy, and the first magnetic layer has Ku at room temperature larger than Ku of the second magnetic layer at room temperature.
US10304483B1
A slider adhesion system can be practiced in a data storage device with a flexure suspended from a load beam and a slider mounted to a gimbal tongue of the flexure. The slider can be aligned with an aperture of the gimbal tongue and attached to an adhesion feature of the gimbal tongue with an adhesive layer. The adhesion feature may consist of a plurality of cantilevered tabs extending into the aperture of the gimbal tongue.
US10304472B2
A coding technology that efficiently codes an input sound signal irrespective of the characteristics thereof and can obtain a decoded sound signal that sounds less artificial to a listener. A coding method codes an input sound signal frame by frame of a predetermined time segment by a selected coding processing from a plurality of types of coding processing in the frequency domain, the coding method makes it possible for a selection unit to select coding processing which is different from the coding processing of the preceding frame as coding processing of the present frame if at least one of the magnitude of the energy of high frequency components of the input sound signal of the preceding frame and the magnitude of the energy of high frequency components of the input sound signal of the present frame is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.
US10304463B2
A method at an electronic device with one or more microphones and a speaker includes receiving a first freeform voice input; comparing the first voice input to a set of voice models associated with a plurality of users associated with the electronic device, where the voice models are trained to the electronic device; based on the comparing, determining that the first voice input corresponds to a first user of the plurality of users; and presenting a response in accordance with the determination.
US10304451B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving, utilizing a processor, textual data associated with a real-time conversation between a first participant and a second participant, receiving, utilizing the processor, an objective of the first participant for the real-time conversation between the first participant and the second participant, receiving, utilizing the processor, a proposed dialog act to be entered at a current point in the real-time conversation from the first participant, determining, utilizing the processor, an impact of the proposed dialog act on the objective of the first participant, utilizing a model, and performing, utilizing the processor, one or more actions based on the impact of the proposed dialog act.
US10304445B2
A wearable utterance training system includes a wearable utterance training device. The system may, for example: (1) receive one or more target utterances from the user; (2) detect a use of one of the one or more target utterances by the user; and (3) in response, provide one or more responsive effects. The one or more responsive effects may include, for example: (1) providing one or more shocks to the user using the wearable utterance training device; (2) initiating a transfer of money between an account associated with the user and a third party account; (3) creating a public disclosure of the utterance (e.g., by posting the disclosure on one or more social media websites) and/or (4) playing a recording of the user's use of the target utterance or other sound.
US10304431B2
The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular, a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system may comprise an analysis filter bank (501) configured to provide a set of analysis subband signals from the low frequency component of the signal; wherein the set of analysis subband signals comprises at least two analysis subband signals; wherein the analysis filter bank (501) has a frequency resolution of Δf. The system further comprises a nonlinear processing unit (502) configured to determine a set of synthesis subband signals from the set of analysis subband signals using a transposition order P; wherein the set of synthesis subband signals comprises a portion of the set of analysis subband signals phase shifted by an amount derived from the transposition order P; and a synthesis filter bank (504) configured to generate the high frequency component of the signal from the set of synthesis subband signals; wherein the synthesis filter bank (504) has a frequency resolution of FΔf; with F being a resolution factor, with F≥1; wherein the transposition order P is different from the resolution factor F.
US10304427B2
A laser trigger for a bass drum includes an enclosure attached to a drum rim which contains at least one reader of strokes performed with a foot pedal beater. The stroke reader is directed towards the beater, and has a laser beam emitter and the photoelectric element, whereas the retroreflective coating is applied on the pedal beater to reflect the laser beam in the direction of the photoelectric element at the moment of stroke. The enclosure/housing cavity includes a stroke recognition circuit based on parameters of the electric signal from the photoelectric element connected with the processing circuit that includes an audio frequency electric signal generator, which is connected with the output connector to connect the cable for outputting these signals for further processing and amplification.
US10304423B2
The present indention provides a stringed musical instrument comprising; a substantially hollow body portion containing an audio system comprising an amplifier; at least one loudspeaker electrically connected to the audio amplifier; an audio interface for electrically connecting to a smart device and a power supply electrically connected to the audio system; a neck sub-assembly including: a neck; playing strings extending lengthwise along the neck; a bridge attached to the neck over which the strings are stretched, and tensioning means by which the strings are held tensioned; and a docking station whereby, in use, a smart device may be removably secured to the instrument and electrically connected to the audio system.
US10304416B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to display circuitry including pixel overdrive circuitry. The pixel overdrive circuitry includes one more lookup tables of boost values to be applied to pixel display values of a frame to be displayed, for overdrive of that frame. Each lookup table includes a lightness-blur-edge-width-based boost value. The lightness-blur-edge-width-based boost value matches a lightness-blur-edge-width of an intermediate grey-to-grey transition to a lightness-blur-edge-width of a maximum grey-to-grey transition.
US10304415B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus that reduces a memory capacity necessary for deformation processing of each frame image of a moving image. Pixel data of a first frame image being each frame image of an input moving image is written into a plurality of storage areas in a write-in order, and the pixel data of the written first frame image is read out in a read-out order, thereby generating a second frame image being the first frame image deformed. The write-in of the pixel data and the read-out of the pixel data are performed in parallel, the first frame image is divided into blocks in 2 rows×2 columns or more, the blocks are written into each of the storage area and the block to be written next is written into the storage area that becomes vacant by reading out the pixel data immediately before.
US10304406B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a switching element connected to a data line and a gate line, a pixel electrode connected to the switching element, a common electrode facing the pixel electrode and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The display apparatus further includes a data driving circuit configured to convert image data to a data voltage. The display apparatus further includes a driving voltage generator configured to generate a common voltage, in response to a voltage control signal from a timing controller, to the common electrode and the data driving circuit, which is configured to output the common voltage to the pixel electrode during an initial setting period when power is turned on to the display apparatus.
US10304400B2
A display device including a pixel part including a plurality of pixel transistors arranged corresponding to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a scanning signal line arranged on each row and providing a scanning signal to a gate of each of the plurality of pixel transistors belonging to the same row, and a video signal line arranged on each column and providing a video signal to a source or drain of each of the plurality of pixel transistors belonging to the same column, and a drive circuit part including one or more drive transistors and outputting a signal to one of both of the scanning signal line arranged on each row and the video signal line arranged on each column. At least one of the plurality of pixel transistors and the one or more drive transistors is arranged with a characteristic control electrode applying a control voltage.
US10304397B2
The display device includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines. A plurality of dots is defined by the pixels, each of the dots includes first to fourth pixels in a same pixel column arranged in the second direction, and the first to fourth pixels display first to fourth colors, respectively. The first to fourth pixels are connected to two or three gate lines among the gate lines. Three pixels among the first to fourth pixels have a same polarity, and the remaining one pixel among the first to fourth pixels has a different polarity than the three pixels.
US10304392B2
A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes a display panel including a display region and a non-display region and a housing accommodating the display panel therein. The device also includes a light sensing unit interposed between the display panel and the housing, the light sensing unit facing the display panel in the non-display region. The light sensing unit is configured to detect light that is totally reflected from the display panel and is emitted from a side of the display panel.
US10304385B2
An object of the present invention is to implement a display device capable of compensating for degradation of circuit elements without causing a grayscale failure. Based on the results of detection of characteristics of drive transistors and organic EL elements, a control circuit (20) finds magnitudes of threshold shifts of the drive transistors and the organic EL elements. A power supply voltage control unit (201) sets a value of a low-level power supply voltage (ELVSS) to a value lower, by a voltage value corresponding to an average value of the magnitudes of the threshold shifts for all pixels, than a value at an initial point in time. Furthermore, the power supply voltage control unit (201) adjusts a value of a high-level power supply voltage (ELVDD), depending on magnitudes of mobilities obtained by detection of characteristics of the drive transistors.
US10304378B2
A display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode display pixels operating at a low refresh rate. Each display pixel may have six thin-film transistors and one capacitor. One of the six transistors may serve as the drive transistor and may be compensated using the remaining five transistors and the capacitor. One or more on-bias stress operations may be applied before threshold voltage sampling to mitigate first frame dimming. Multiple anode reset and on-bias stress operations may be inserted during vertical blanking periods to reduce flicker and maintain balance and may also be inserted between successive data refreshes to improve first frame performance. Two different emission signals controlling each pixel may be toggled together using a pulse width modulation scheme to help provide darker black levels.
US10304367B2
A sign-monitoring system includes at least one electronic sign and a controller comprising a processor and memory. The electronic sign includes a pixel array, the pixel array including a plurality of pixels. The electronic sign further includes an embedded controller coupled to the at least one electronic sign. The embedded controller develops diagnostic information for the at least one electronic sign, the diagnostic information including information related to a number of malfunctioning pixels in the plurality of pixels. The controller is communicably coupled to the embedded controller and receives at least a portion of the diagnostic information from the embedded controller. In addition, the controller assesses the at least a portion of the diagnostic information to develop health information. The assessment involves evaluating the information related to the number of malfunctioning pixels.
US10304366B2
The invention provides a method for obtaining LCD charging ratio, comprising: measuring V-T curve of LCD, voltage corresponding to peak (D1) of V-T curve being data signal voltage (Vdata); lighting up heavy-duty and light-duty images of LCD according to same grayscale respectively, measuring actual display brightness of the heavy-duty and the light-duty images; computing a ratio between the actual display brightness of the heavy-duty and light-duty images; using the ratio between the actual display brightness of the heavy-duty and light-duty images as a ratio to find and mark a measure point (D2) on V-T curve forming the ratio with peak (Vpixel), voltage corresponding to measure point (D2) being peak value of pixel voltage; computing LCD charging ratio according to peak value (Vpixel) of pixel voltage and data signal voltage (Vdata). As such, accuracy is high and applicable to verifying accuracy of results obtained by using conventional.
US10304362B2
Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel for 3D display, a driving method and a pixel optimization method thereof. The liquid crystal panel includes a display panel and an FPR film attached to a surface of the display panel. The FPR film is divided into first areas and second areas, the first areas and the second areas being arranged alternately in a direction parallel to lines of the sub-pixel units of the display panel, and each covering two lines of sub-pixel units. The liquid crystal panel can reduce the production cost of the 3D display device and improve the resolution.
US10304361B2
The present invention discloses a display device and a method of controlling the same, dedicated spectacles and a display system, thereby enabling switching between secrecy display and normal display. The display device comprises a display panel, in which two adjacent sub-pixels located in the same row are configured to display different image information, and which only displays one image of information when in a first display state displays at least two images of information when in a second display state; the display device further comprises a control panel located at a light exit side of the display panel and comprises first regions and second regions which are alternately arranged and is configured so that when the display panel is in the second display state, a polarization direction of light emitted from the display panel after passing through the first regions is different from that of light emitted from the display panel after the light passes through the second regions. The dedicated spectacles used with the display device are configured to only allow one of light passing through the first regions and light passing through the second regions to pass therethrough.
US10304346B2
A method and system of training in conjunction with a computer animation executed by a computing environment is described. The method includes recognizing a task to be performed in the computer animation, recognizing a problem, displayed in the computer animation, to accomplish the task, and solving the problem by manipulation of a virtual apparatus having virtual components displayed in the computer animation. The virtual components are manipulated by a student or user desiring to learn. The student is taught to understand logically consistent goals by using the virtual apparatus and without language interaction. Rules and properties for a subject area are modeled to the student by the virtual apparatus without language interaction. The student is taught to operate the virtual apparatus without language interaction. The student is requested to operate the virtual apparatus to reach goals in a sequence of problems having progressive difficulty and without language interaction.
US10304344B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating a route that facilitates navigating a vehicle to a diversion destination while satisfying applicable safety thresholds or other constraints, such as a maximum landing weight. One exemplary method of facilitating an aircraft landing at a diversion airport involves obtaining a current position of the aircraft, identifying a landing threshold influenced by a characteristic of the aircraft, obtaining one or more constraints associating with diverting to the diversion airport, and determining a route from the current position to the diversion airport based at least in part on the landing threshold and the one or more constraints. The route satisfies the constraints and results in a predicted value for the aircraft, e.g., a predicted aircraft landing weight, that satisfies the landing threshold. A graphical representation of the route is displayed on a display device onboard the aircraft.
US10304343B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to facilitate flight plan implementation, generation, and management are disclosed. An example method includes receiving flight plan information including a flight route and a listing of base stations, connecting to a first base station on the listing, determining a first transition point between the first base station and a second base station on the listing based on the flight route, determining whether the first transition point has been reached, maintaining the connection with the first base station when the first transition point has not been reached, transitioning the connection from the first base station to the second base station when the first transition point has been reached, and/or dropping signals received from base stations not on the listing.
US10304332B2
A method performed by a database managing system for maintaining a database comprising reported traffic-affecting events is provided. The system derives a position of a first vehicle supporting detection of vehicle surroundings and determines by comparing the vehicle position to positions of reported traffic-affecting events comprised in the database, that the first vehicle is approaching at least a first traffic-affecting event. The system prompts the first vehicle to attempt to detect the first traffic-affecting event, which prompting comprises providing to the first vehicle an expected position of the first traffic-affecting event. The system receives a response from the first vehicle, which response indicates whether or not the expected position was at least partly unobstructedly observable by the first vehicle. The response further indicates—if the expected position was at least partly unobstructedly observable—whether or not the first traffic-affecting event was at least partly detected by the first vehicle.
US10304315B2
Systems and methods for providing a health monitoring and emergency response service are provided. Each element in a plurality of data elements is obtained from a health monitoring device connected to a corresponding subject in a plural of subjects. An alert is triggered through analysis of the data element or manually triggered by the subject or a subject's circle of support. A communication channel is opened between the subject and the members of the circle of support. The subject or one or more members of the circle of support of the subject verifies or rejects the alert. The alert is sent to a remote monitoring alarm center and emergency responders are dispatched.
US10304313B1
A computer-implemented method for generating an automated response to a catastrophic event, that includes (1) analyzing a sample set of data generated in association with a catastrophic event to determine a threshold pattern; (2) receiving, with customer permission or affirmative consent, home sensor data from a smart home controller via wireless communication or data transmission, the home sensor data including data regarding at least one of (i) structural status; (ii) wind speed; (iii) availability of electricity; (iv) presence of water; (v) temperature; (vi) pressure; and/or (vii) presence of pollutants in the air and/or water; (3) determining, based upon or from computer analysis of the home sensor data, whether the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern; and (4) automatically generating a response if the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern. As a result, catastrophic events and responses thereto may be improved through usage of a remote network of home sensors.
US10304291B2
A gaming device that enables players to accumulate awards by activating an award distributor having a plurality of award symbols and at least one selection group activator symbol. The gaming device provides the player with a plurality of activations where an award is associated with each award symbol indicated in each activation. When a selection group activator symbol is indicated, the gaming device displays at least one selection set having a plurality of selections associated with selection awards. The gaming device enables a player to select one selection and provides the associated selection award to the player. The number of available selections in the selection set decreases by one after the player picks a selection. If the selection group activator symbol is subsequently indicated, the player picks from the remaining available selections in the selection set.
US10304282B2
A method of operating a first computerized gaming platform comprising: enabling data communication between the first computerized gaming platform and a second computerized gaming platform with the help of an inter-platform wagering module (WM), the first and second computerized gaming platforms operating autonomously one of the other; obtaining data indicative of a player ID associated with a given player and forwarding the data indicative of a player ID to the second gaming platform; requesting from the second gaming platform the most updated player-related data corresponding to the player ID and obtaining the player-related data; and executing by the first gaming platform one or more game-related campaigns for the given player in accordance with the obtained player-related data.
US10304269B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for performing entry access over two or more networks. The two or more networks are leveraged to accelerate the entry access and provide redundancy. Performance over each of the two or more networks is tracked in order to allow a mobile device to exchange entry access messaging over the particular network providing fastest start-to-unlock time. The mobile device can alternatively exchange the entry access messaging simultaneously over the two or more networks to create a race condition whereby the fastest start-to-unlock time is obtained without monitoring network performance. Performing the entry access messaging exchange over the two or more networks also ensures reliability in the event a particular network is down or congested, an authorization device on a particular network is down or overloaded, a radio of a mobile device communicating over a particular network is disabled or slow performing.
US10304267B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for continuously authenticating individuals are provided. A continuous authentication system receives first biometric authentication information from an individual. The system compares the first biometric authentication information to stored first biometric information to identify the individual and links the identified individual to a device for obtaining second biometric authentication information. The device for obtaining second biometric authentication information continuously receives second biometric authentication information. The continuous authentication system compares the received second biometric authentication information to stored second biometric information that corresponds to the individual to determine if the received second biometric authentication information corresponds to the individual. The individual may be granted access to one or more access points if it is determined that the received second biometric authentication information corresponds to the individual.
US10304259B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and system for offline attendance processing. During operation, the system may detect an attendance triggering event occurring on a preset page displayed on a client device. The system may determine whether a predetermined data transmission condition is satisfied. In response to determining that the predetermined data transmission condition is not satisfied, the system may buffer, at the client device, attendance-related data corresponding to the attendance triggering event. In response to determining that the predetermined data transmission condition is satisfied, the system may transmit the attendance-related data to a server.
US10304255B2
A data processing unit generates graphics data that are sent to a display screen of a head-mountable structure worn by a user. Thereby, the user can observe the image data, which reflect a virtual reality environment implemented by the data processing unit, namely image data representing a field of view as seen by the user from a particular position and in a particular direction in the virtual reality environment. The head-mountable structure includes a first light source projecting a well-defined light pattern on a light-reflecting surface. The data processing unit is associated with an image registering unit recording image data representing the first well-defined light pattern. The data processing unit calculates the graphics data based on the image data.
US10304254B2
Described herein are devices, systems, media, and methods using an augmented reality smartphone application to capture measurements of an interior or exterior space in real-time and generate a floorplan of the space and/or a 3D model of the space from the captured measurements in less than 5 minutes.
US10304250B2
A danger avoidance support program is described which make it possible to always grasp the surrounding situation and avoid danger such as collision even when using a smartphone while walking. This danger avoidance support program detects a direction to each of a plurality of measurement objects located ahead of the portable information terminal and measures the distance to the each measurement object to display the plurality of measurement objects in real time on the screen of the portable information terminal by mapping the plurality of measurement objects in the space of the screen of the portable information terminal on the basis of the detected directions and the measured distances. The plurality of measurement objects are displayed on the screen of the portable information terminal as translucent images which are superimposed on an image displayed by another application running on the portable information terminal.
US10304247B2
A method for displaying via a head-mounted display device a third party holographic portal in a user real world environment is disclosed. The method may include receiving a permission specifying a condition under which a third party is authorized to display the holographic portal in the user real world environment. A request may be received from the third party to display the third party holographic portal in the user real world environment. If the condition is satisfied and in response to the request, the head-mounted display device may display the holographic portal in the user real world environment, with the holographic portal comprising a visual representation of activity in a third party real world environment that is associated with the third party.
US10304245B2
A position of virtual reality glasses is detected using a detection device, a virtual observation position is predefined depending on the detected position of the virtual reality glasses, and a virtual bounding volume which surrounds the virtual observation position at least partially is predefined, a virtual object arranged in a virtual environment is displayed from the virtual observation position using the virtual reality glasses. As long as a part of the virtual object is immersed in the virtual bounding volume, this part is displayed as being at least partially transparent.
US10304243B1
Described herein are technologies pertaining to generating a Voronoi mesh for an enclosed domain of arbitrarily many dimensions. An implicit Voronoi mesh is received that comprises locations of seeds in the domain. Neighbors of a seed are identified by extending a segment from the seed to the boundary of the domain and performing successive hyperplane trimming of the segment to identify a point on the facet of the Voronoi cell of the seed. A vertex of the cell can be identified by successively extending and trimming one or more additional spokes to identify points on a facet of the cell that are constrained to lie in a (d−n) space, where d is a number of dimensions of the domain and n is a number of iterations. A numerical simulation is performed based on the Voronoi mesh to generate simulation results in applications including surrogate modeling, global optimization, calibration, dimension reduction.
US10304240B2
The present disclosure concerns a methodology that allows a user to “orbit” around a model on a specific axis of rotation and view an orthographic floor plan of the model. A user may view and “walk through” the model while staying at a specific height above the ground with smooth transitions between orbiting, floor plan, and walking modes.
US10304239B2
Methods, devices, and apparatuses are provided to facilitate a positioning of an item of virtual content in an extended reality environment. For example, a first user may access the extended reality environment through a display of a mobile device, and in some examples, the methods may determine positions and orientations of the first user and a second user within the extended reality environment. The methods may also determine a position for placement of the item of virtual content in the extended reality environment based on the determined positions and orientations of the first user and the second user, and perform operations that insert the item of virtual content into the extended reality environment at the determined placement position.
US10304235B2
An apparatus and method are described for volumetric integration. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: single instruction multiple data (SIMD) hardware to perform graphics processing operations; ray segmentation circuitry to sub-divide a ray traversing a volumetric object into N segments; and segment-based volumetric integration circuitry for performing volumetric integration over the N segments in parallel using the single-instruction multiple data (SIMD) hardware.
US10304234B2
A system for rendering a virtual environment includes a hardware processor, a memory, and a simulation generator software code stored in the memory. The hardware processor is configured to execute the simulation generator software code to receive a three-dimensional-representation (3D-representation) of a physical object, and to receive a two-dimensional-image (2D-image) of the physical object. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the simulation generator software code to compose a simulation of the virtual environment using the 3D-representation and the 2D-image, in which the 3D-representation of the physical object is situated between the 2D-image of the physical object and a predetermined viewpoint of the virtual environment. The hardware processor further executes the simulation generator software code to render the virtual environment such that the 2D-image of the physical object, but not the 3D-representation of the physical object, is visibly rendered.
US10304233B2
A method and system for creating a transition between a first scene and a second scene on a computer system display, simulating motion. The method includes determining a transformation that maps the first scene into the second scene. Motion between the scenes is simulated by displaying transitional images that include a transitional scene based on a transitional object in the first scene and in the second scene. The rendering of the transitional object evolves according to specified transitional parameters as the transitional images are displayed. A viewer receives a sense of the connectedness of the scenes from the transitional images. Virtual tours of broad areas, such as cityscapes, can be created using inter-scene transitions among a complex network of pairs of scenes.
US10304232B2
System and method for applying presentation templates with image animation to presentation documents. A processor identifies a presentation document including an image and identifies a characteristic of the image. The processor further selects a presentation template with image animation from a plurality of available presentation templates. The selection of the processor is based on the characteristic of the image. The processor further applies the presentation template with animation of the image to the presentation document to define animation of the image. The processor then outputs the presentation document with the presentation template applied.
US10304231B2
A system includes circuitry that receives a user input, which may be a gesture. The system smoothes a trajectory of the user input to generate a smoothed trajectory, when the user input is a first gesture that traces the trajectory over an image. The system also applies an effect to the image to cause a target image to be enlarged and displayed on a display screen and to cause the target image to move based on the smoothed trajectory. The target image is a subset of the image.
US10304223B1
Disclosed are exemplified methods and systems that uses scientific and statistical basis to determine whether wells can be removed from a monitoring network and/or whether the frequency of well sampling can be reduced and/or whether the number of constituents being analyzed can be reduced. The exemplified method facilitates a more accurate and precise assessment of the sufficiency of the monitoring in decision making processes to modify the monitoring protocol of wells at a given contaminated site as well as to provide a defensible assessment and analysis that is empirical, graphical, and easy to understand.
US10304208B1
Disclosed are methods, apparatus and systems for gesture recognition based on neural network processing. One exemplary method for identifying a gesture communicated by a subject includes receiving a plurality of images associated with the gesture, providing the plurality of images to a first 3-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D CNN) and a second 3D CNN, where the first 3D CNN is operable to produce motion information, where the second 3D CNN is operable to produce pose and color information, and where the first 3D CNN is operable to implement an optical flow algorithm to detect the gesture, fusing the motion information and the pose and color information to produce an identification of the gesture, and determining whether the identification corresponds to a singular gesture across the plurality of images using a recurrent neural network that comprises one or more long short-term memory units.
US10304200B2
The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display, using a forward buffer to store current and predicted position estimates calculated by the methods of the present invention. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display.
US10304179B2
A maturity determination device includes an image capturing device including a plurality of pixels arrayed one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally, the image capturing device performing image capturing of at least a part of a fruit or vegetable product to acquire an image, the plurality of pixels including a plurality of first pixels each including a first light transmission filter selectively transmitting light of a first wavelength band, the intensity of the light of the first wavelength band reflected by the fruit or vegetable product varying in accordance with a maturity level; and a signal processing circuit configured to find an area size ratio of an intensity distribution of the light of the first wavelength band on the basis of a predetermined reference value based on a pixel value obtained from the plurality of first pixels, and to generate maturity determination information in accordance with the area size ratio.
US10304176B2
The invention alleviates a burden on a user relating to selection of a lighting color required for image inspection by multi-spectral imaging. A processor controls an illumination device to irradiate a setting target object individually with an illumination beam of each lighting color in a predetermined order, thereby generating a plurality of spectral images. The processor sets a combination of lighting colors recommended to illuminate an inspection target object based on the plurality of spectral images. An inspection unit inspects the inside of each inspection region in a plurality of inspection images generated for the inspection target object illuminated by illumination beams of lighting colors according to the set combination of recommended lighting colors.
US10304174B2
A printer-verifier is provided for printing and verifying a printed indicium. Printer-verifier includes imaging module for capturing image of printed indicium on print media, memory communicatively coupled to imaging module and configured to store print quality verification program, and processor communicatively coupled to memory. Processor is configured by print quality verification program to evaluate print quality of printed indicium, determine if print quality meets print quality standard, reject printed indicium on print media as rejected printed media when print quality does not meet print quality standard, and one of output location-specific feedback about rejected printed media or send a command signal to cutting device to destroy rejected printed media. Location-specific feedback is in same language as language associated with printer-verifier. A printer and methods for verifying the printed indicium are also provided.
US10304164B2
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a generation unit configured to generate normal image data recording normal information for each of a plurality of areas at least part of which is different from one another in image data and for each pixel of the area; a setting unit configured to set one of at least two or more smoothness degrees different from one another to each of a plurality of pieces of generated normal image data; a smoothing unit configured to smooth each of the plurality of pieces of normal image data in the set smoothness degree; an integration unit configured to generate integrated normal image data corresponding to pixel arrangement of the image data by integrating the plurality of pieces of smoothed normal image data; and a lighting processing unit configured to perform lighting processing for the image data based on the integrated normal image data.
US10304162B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to perform automatic image inpainting using local patch statistics. The method includes receiving a user input identifying a user-selected region of an image and determining a local region for the user-selected region. The local region includes a portion of the image outside of the user-selected region and that surrounds the user-selected region. The method may further include identifying patch matches within the local region, and inpainting the user-selected region using some of the patch matches identified within the local region.
US10304160B2
An information processing device includes a web page data generating unit that generates web page data. The web page data causes the terminal device to execute an arrival determination process that determines whether a page-side reference position set as an end position in a forward scroll direction of a predetermined content part among the plurality of content parts has arrived at a screen-side reference position set at a browser screen side of the terminal device in association with scroll in a forward direction or not, and a display control process that slows a scroll following speed of a content part subsequent to the page-side reference position than a scroll following speed of a content part preceding the page-side reference position, and causes an additional content to appear in a space that is expanding between the page-side reference position and the preceding content part by the slowing.
US10304159B2
A computer displays a plurality of edge lines extracted from a shot image of a spatial structure that has been shot by an image shooting apparatus, and a plurality of ridge lines included in a model image represented by model information of the spatial structure, in a manner such that the edge lines and the ridge lines are selectable. Then, the computer accepts a selection instruction indicating an edge line and a ridge line of an overlay target. Finally, in accordance with the accepted selection instruction, the computer displays a superimposition image in which the model image has been superimposed onto the shot image in a manner such that the edge line and the ridge line of the overlay target overlap each other.
US10304149B2
This disclosure relates to advanced image signal processing technology including encoded signals and digital watermarking. We disclose methods, systems and apparatus for selecting which ink(s) should be selected to carry an encoded signal for a given machine-vision wavelength for a package design. We also disclose product packages, and methods to generate such, including a sparse mark in a first ink and an overprinted ink flood in a second ink. The first ink and the second ink are related through tack and spectral reflectance difference. Of course, other methods, packages, systems and apparatus are described in this disclosure.
US10304143B2
The disclosure describes a peer-to-peer consensus system and method for maintaining a manipulation resistant updateable shared ledger. The system achieves consensus on a shared ledger between a plurality of peers and prevents double spending in light of network latency, data corruption and intentional manipulation of the system. Consensus is achieved and double spending is prevented via the use of the widest chain metric to choose a single consensus transaction record. A trustable record is also facilitated by allowing stakeholders to elect a set of trusted non-colluding block signers to cooperatively add transactions to the consensus record. The voting mechanism is a real-time auditable stake weighted approval voting mechanism.
US10304141B1
A method or system may comprise generating a plurality of routes to a destination of a vehicle. Traversal, by the vehicle, of a route may be determined by a telematics device. The telematics vehicle may be configured to monitor a location of the vehicle and motion of the vehicle. The telematics device may be configured to generate data associated with the traversal of the route, the location of the vehicle, or the motion of the vehicle. Driving behavior of the vehicle may be determined, based at least on the data. A rating associated with the vehicle or the traversal of the route may be determined, based at least on the driving behavior. A risk score may be determined for the route. The rating may be determined, based at least on the risk score. The rating may be determined, based at least on the driving behavior.
US10304138B2
A computer implemented method for determining a primary movement window from a vehicle trip is presented. A data server may receive a plurality of telematics data originating from a client computing device and summarize the plurality of telematics data at a specified sample rate. The data server may also select one or more data points from the plurality of telematics data and determine that the selected data points meets a threshold value. The data server may further identify a first primary movement and constant speed windows including the data points and associate the first primary movement and constant speed windows with a customer account and auto insurance risk.
US10304135B1
A system for embedding and displaying a quote link within a portion of text displayed on a client connected to a network includes a server with at least a processor, a database module, and a non-volatile storage system. A purchase request module requests a purchase quote from an exchange via the server over the network when a user of the client activates the quote link on the client. An offer display module displays the purchase quote and a purchase link on a purchase window when the purchase quote is received from the exchange. A transaction handling module makes the purchase on behalf of the user if the user clicks the purchase link displayed on the purchase window. The server utilizes pre-completed user information, including the user's wallet address, stored in the database module to affect the purchase on the user's behalf.
US10304133B2
Systems and methods are provided for communicating and processing market data. The market data may comprise quotes, orders, trades and/or statistics. A messaging structure allows for adding, re-ordering and/or expanding data, within the printable character set of any language. One or more delimiters are defined and used to delimit data elements within the message structure. The data is interpreted based on templates which may be disseminated prior to the sending of messages and used as an abstraction so that the meaning of data need not be conveyed in the message.
US10304129B2
Systems and methods of improving the operation of a transaction network and transaction network devices is disclosed. A lightning KNN host may comprise various modules and engines as discussed herein wherein lookalike records may be identified whereby the speed of the lightning KNN network may be enhanced and the accuracy and precision of results improved whereby the transaction network more properly functions according to approved parameters.
US10304124B2
According to the embodiments described herein, an inventory exchange client can include one or more processors communicatively coupled to client memory, a client communication module, and a display. The memory can store machine readable instructions. The one or more processors can execute the machine readable instructions to store inventory information on the client memory. The inventory information can include a product instance. Updated inventory information can be received via the client communication module. The product instance can be updated according to the updated inventory information. The dynamic web page can be populated with identification objects. The identification objects can be associated with the inventory information. A product order request can be transmitted to an inventory exchange server. The product order request can be encoded to initiate a product transaction via the inventory exchange server.
US10304122B2
In some embodiments, an app provides a geolocation-limited marketplace limited to a pre-defined period of time. The geolocation-limited marketplace is accessible only by the users in a predefined geographical area. Typically, the predefined geographical area is limited to an area small enough for a user to walk from one end to the other in a short period of time. The pre-defined period of time is of some limited length of time that may occur at a pre-defined interval. In some instances, the period of time is one hour.
US10304120B2
The present invention provides a merchandise sales service device based on dynamic scene change, a merchandise sales system based on dynamic scene change, a method for selling merchandise based on dynamic scene change, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program recorded thereon. That is, it is possible to transmit information about a commodity and image information of the commodity to user equipment by efficiently configuring images and dynamically changing the images in a commodity purchase procedure. Accordingly, a user can acquire detailed information about a commodity and carefully purchase the commodity, similar to actually purchasing the commodity at an offline store. Further, it is possible to reduce the rate of returning of purchased commodities for the seller of the commodities.
US10304111B1
A method and system for analyzing user behavior as users search for items within an electronic marketplace is provided. A query is submitted by a user of the electronic marketplace, the query is processed to identify a series of actions or behaviors performed by the user in relation to the query and fingerprint information for the query is determined based at least in part on analyzing the actions. In one embodiment, the electronic marketplace modifies a user experience for the user based on the fingerprint information. An interactive network region comprising search results related to a query issued by a user is generated, based on fingerprint information. Various categories of items related to a query issued by the user are identified based on fingerprint information and the search results are organized based on categories.
US10304102B2
One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving a user experience for performing transactions between potential buyers and sellers online via real-time communications. For example, a social marketplace system enables a potential buyer to initiate a real-time communication with a seller without the potential buyer having to provide contextual information regarding the item to the seller. In one or more embodiments, the social marketplace system provides a banner, in connection with the real-time communication, populated with structured data associated with the item that the potential buyer and the seller are discussing.
US10304094B2
In a method of structured communications in an observation platform, a signal is received from a first communication device. The signal is received at a second communication device that is associated with a computer system. The signal comprises a mandatory message for a third communication device, wherein the third communication device is associated with a user, and wherein the user is required to acknowledge receipt of the mandatory message. The signal is forwarded by the second communication device to the third communication device. Responsive to receipt of the signal by the third communication device, the features of the third communication device are locked such that the user has no access to the features for at least until the mandatory message has been acknowledged by the user. The second communication device receives an acknowledgement of the mandatory message from the third communication device.
US10304093B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for programmatically generating and/or revising deal offers for a merchant based on one or more merchant self-service indicators. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, facilitate registration and verification of merchant identities, monitor and analyze various deal offers for merchants with similar merchant self-service indicators, that enable the system to determine the relative successfulness of a deal offer for a merchant and/or category of merchant. In some embodiments, the system may be further configured to revise the deal offer programmatically and/or upon receiving the merchant's approval of the programmatically generated proposed edits to the deal offer.
US10304089B2
A method for initiating an action responsive to a promotion. The method comprises causing placement of a visual indicator on a billboard, said visual indicator to indicate an existence of a promotion associated with an advertisement carried by the billboard; enabling a scanning process to cause a consumer to scan the visual indicator with a mobile device to generate scan data; and processing the scan data to initiate at least one action based on at least one pre-provisioned action a server system as part of said promotion.
US10304088B2
A method includes making, at a user device, a determination to transition to a standby mode. The method includes sending a message from the user device to a network device in response to the determination. The method includes receiving, in response to the message, an advertising stream at the user device from the network device. The method includes processing the advertising stream at the user device to generate advertising content. The method also includes sending the advertising content to a display device.
US10304087B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system includes a map store, a map server, and a content server. The map server identifies a set of content items in which each content item is associated with a geographic location that is presented in a portion of a map, determines, for a given content item, an adjusted value of a given content item based at least in part on a base value for the content given item and a set of adjustment factors for one or more other content items in the set of content items, selects content items from the set of content items based on the adjusted values, and provides data that present the selected content items on the portion of the map presented at the device.
US10304080B2
Methods and systems for capturing and tracking call information relating to a call from a user to a merchant are provided. According to one embodiment of the disclosed subject matter, a request for a call to a merchant from a user on a device is received and a data connection is initiated with a call analytics platform over which user information is sent from the device to the platform. A unique number allowing the device to call the platform is then passed back to the device. The device calls the platform, call context data is captured, and the call is processed to the merchant. Information relating to the user and merchant call is tracked and logged.
US10304072B2
A method, computer program product, and system for monitoring and rewarding athletic performance and use of a product worn by a person, thereby motivating use of the product and promoting customer loyalty. The present invention includes and system and method for measuring, tracking, and recording use of the product, preferably related to the athletic performance of an athlete, using a portable, remote device; transferring that data from the remote device to a common location, such as an Internet web site service; calculating, assigning, and tracking rewards based on the level of use determined from the data; and allowing the user to redeem his or her rewards or compare his or her performance level with other athletes using other remote devices.
US10304068B2
Described embodiments include a computer-implemented method, device, and computer program product. A computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving a previously prepared estimate of fees and costs to deliver a diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a particular disease, illness, injury, or other physical or mental impairment (hereafter “healthcare service”) to a particular patient. The computer-implemented method includes electronically receiving data at least partially indicative of the healthcare service provided to the patient to date. The computer-implemented method includes estimating probable fees and costs incurred to date in providing the healthcare service to the particular patient. The estimating is responsive to the received data indicative of at least part of the healthcare service provided to date. The computer-implemented method includes outputting in substantially real time information indicative of the probable fees and costs incurred to date in view of the previous estimate of the fees and costs for providing the healthcare service.
US10304066B2
A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest.
