US10326067B2
Single source precursors, methods to synthesize single source precursors and methods to deposit nanowire based thin films using single source precursors for high efficiency thermoelectric devices are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of forming a single source precursor includes mixing a first compound with one of SbX3, SbX5, Sb2(SO4)3 or with one of BiX3, Bi(NO3)3, Bi(OTf)3, Bi(PO4), Bi(OAc)3, wherein the first compound is one of a lithium selenolate, a lithium tellurolate, a monoselenide, or a monotelluride.
US10326064B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a light transmissive member, and a cover member. The light transmissive member is disposed on an upper face of the light emitting element. The cover member covers a lateral face of the light emitting element and a lateral face of the light transmissive member, and includes first and second cover members. The first cover member is disposed adjacent to the lateral face of the light emitting element and the lateral face of the light transmissive member, and contains a first light reflecting material and a fluorine-based first resin. The second cover member covers the first cover member, and contains a second light reflecting material and a second resin. A refractive index difference between the first light reflecting material and the first resin is larger than a refractive index difference between the second light reflecting material and the second resin.
US10326063B2
An optical semiconductor element mounting package that has good adhesion between the resin molding and the lead electrodes and has excellent reliability is provided, as well as an optical semiconductor device using the package is also provided. The optical semiconductor element mounting package having a recessed part that serves as an optical semiconductor element mounting region, wherein the package is formed by integrating: a resin molding composed of a thermosetting light-reflecting resin composition, which forms at least the side faces of the recessed part; and at least a pair of positive and negative lead electrodes disposed opposite each other so as to form part of the bottom face of the recessed part, and there is no gap at a joint face between the resin molding and the lead electrodes.
US10326062B2
A UV light-emitting unit includes a carrier, a UV LED chip, a side lens, and a water-resistant layer. The UV LED chip is disposed on the carrier, and the UV LED chip has a top surface and a surrounding side surface arranged adjacent to the top surface. The top surface has a center region and an external region arranged around the center region and connected to the surrounding side surface. The side lens is disposed on the carrier. The surrounding side surface of the UV LED chip is covered by the side lens. The water-resistant layer covers an outer surface of the side lens and the external region of the top surface of the UV LED chip. In addition, the present disclosure also discloses a UV LED package structure and a method for manufacturing a UV light-emitting unit.
US10326055B2
A light emitting device includes a first conductive-type layer, an active layer, and a second conductive-type layer; a first electrode on a first surface of the first conductive-type layer, the first electrode having a multilayer structure including Pt; a first pad on the first electrode, the first pad disposed on an edge of the first surface of the first conductive-type layer in a cross-sectional view; and a second electrode and a second pad on a second surface of the second conductive-type layer, the second electrode having a metal layer including Ti. In addition, the first pad include Au, further the second electrode is unitary with the second pad, and also the second electrode includes a reflective layer configured to reflect light from the active layer.
US10326049B1
An UV light-emitting diode includes a patterned substrate, a template layer, a growth layer, a first n-type semiconductor layer, an intrinsic semiconductor layer, a second n-type semiconductor layer, a plurality of layers of multiple quantum wells, a barrier layer, a first electron blocking layer, a second electron blocking layer, a first p-type semiconductor layer and a second p-type semiconductor layer in sequence from a bottom layer to a top layer. Whereas the aforementioned layers all include Group III nitride materials and the number of layers for the plurality of layers of multiple quantum wells is at least five layers. Because the first n-type semiconductor layer, the first p-type semiconductor layer, and the plurality of layers of multiple quantum wells all contain aluminum, short-wavelength UV light is emitted when a current is applied.
US10326045B2
A method for manufacturing a micro light emitting diode device is provided. A connection layer and epitaxial structures are formed on a substrate. A first pad is formed on each of the epitaxial structures. A first adhesive layer is formed on the connection layer, and the first adhesive layer encapsulates the epitaxial structures and the first pads. A first substrate is connected to the first adhesive layer. The substrate is removed, and a second substrate is connected to the connection layer through a second adhesive layer. The first substrate and the first adhesive layer are removed. The connection layer located between any two adjacent epitaxial structures are partially removed to form a plurality of connection portions. Each of the connection portions is connected to the corresponding epitaxial structure, and a side edge of each of the connection portions protrudes from a side wall surface of the corresponding epitaxial structure.
US10326040B1
Embodiments relate to forming a conformable interface layers (clayers) on small semiconductor devices, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) to facilitate adhesion with a pick-up head for operations during the manufacturing of an electronic display. A conformable material is formed in regions between LED dies on a carrier substrate and over the LED dies. A mask is applied over the conformable material to selectively cover the conformable material. Portions of the conformable material are exposed to light to selectively cure or not cure the portions of the conformable material. The conformable material between the LED dies is removed to form a conformable interface layer over each of the LED dies.
US10326039B2
A proximity detector device may include a first interconnect layer including a first dielectric layer, and first electrically conductive traces carried thereby, an IC layer above the first interconnect layer and having an image sensor IC, and a light source IC laterally spaced from the image sensor IC. The proximity detector device may include a second interconnect layer above the IC layer and having a second dielectric layer, and second electrically conductive traces carried thereby. The second interconnect layer may have first and second openings therein respectively aligned with the image sensor IC and the light source IC. Each of the image sensor IC and the light source IC may be coupled to the first and second electrically conductive traces. The proximity detector device may include a lens assembly above the second interconnect layer and having first and second lenses respectively aligned with the first and second openings.
US10326035B2
The invention relates to quantum dot and photodetector technology, and more particularly, to quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs) and focal plane array. The invention further relates to devices and methods for the enhancement of the photocurrent of quantum dot infrared photodetectors in focal plane arrays.
US10326034B2
A semiconductor layer includes a first semiconductor layer containing a III-V group compound semiconductor and having a first conductivity type, a quantum-well structure containing a III-V group compound semiconductor, a second semiconductor layer containing a III-V group compound semiconductor, a third semiconductor layer containing a III-V group compound semiconductor, and a fourth semiconductor layer containing a III-V group compound semiconductor and having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. The first semiconductor layer, the quantum-well structure, the second semiconductor layer, the third semiconductor layer, and the fourth semiconductor layer are stacked in this order. The concentration of an impurity that generates carriers of the second conductivity type is lower in the third semiconductor layer than in the fourth semiconductor layer. The concentration of an impurity that generates majority carriers in the second semiconductor layer is lower in the third semiconductor layer than in the second semiconductor layer.
US10326032B2
Methods and systems including a photodetector of a downhole tool for performing downhole operations are provided herein. The photodetector includes a housing configured along a carrier disposed downhole within a borehole and a graphene tunneling photodetector located within the housing configured to perform a downhole operation.
US10326029B2
First and second semiconductor light receiving elements each include: a first P-type semiconductor region which is formed in an N-type semiconductor substrate; a first N-type semiconductor layer region which is formed in the first P-type semiconductor region; a P-type semiconductor region having a high concentration which is formed in the first P-type semiconductor region; and an N-type semiconductor region having a high concentration which is formed in the first N-type semiconductor layer region. On the semiconductor substrate, insulating oxide films are formed. On the first and the second semiconductor light receiving elements, insulating oxide films that have different thicknesses are formed.
US10326025B2
To provide a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor having excellent electric characteristics and high reliability and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor device with high mass productivity. The summary is that an inverted-staggered (bottom-gate) thin film transistor is included in which an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn is used as a semiconductor layer, a channel protective layer is provided in a region that overlaps a channel formation region of the semiconductor layer, and a buffer layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and source and drain electrodes. An ohmic contact is formed by intentionally providing the buffer layer having a higher carrier concentration than the semiconductor layer between the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrodes.
US10326023B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure having a top face and a first side face and a second side face opposite to the first side face, forming a lower cover layer over the first and second side faces, forming an upper cover layer over the first and second side faces, the upper cover layer being spaced apart from the lower cover layer so that exposed regions of the first and second side faces are formed between the lower cover layer and the upper cover layer, and forming first and second semiconductor layers over the exposed regions of the first and second side faces, respectively.
US10326022B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming a gate structure over a plurality of fin structures, wherein the gate structure provides a first fill pinch off between the fin structures separated by a first pitch; and forming a material stack of a silicon containing layer, and a dielectric layer over the plurality of fin structures, wherein the dielectric provides a second fill pinch off between fin structures separated by a second pitch. The silicon containing layer is converted into an oxide material layer. The second dielectric that provides the second fill pinch off is removed, and an opening is etched in a remaining silicon containing layer exposed by removing the second fill pinch off. An underlying gate cut region is etched in the gate structure using the opening in the remaining portion of the silicon containing layer.
US10326019B2
A structure capable of effectively preventing dopant diffusion from source/drain regions into an underlying semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) layer of fully-depleted SOI transistors with U-shaped channels is provided. By inserting a dopant diffusion barrier layer between an SOI layer of an SOI substrate and a doped extension layer from which source/drain extension regions are derived, the undesired dopant diffusion from the source/drain extension regions into the underlying SOI layer can be prevented.
US10326018B1
Embodiments of field effect transistor (FET) circuits, RF switches, and devices include source and drain terminals coupled to an active surface of a semiconductor substrate, a channel in the substrate between the source and drain terminals, and a plurality of gate structures coupled to the active surface over the channel. A channel contact is coupled to the active surface over the channel between a pair of the gate structures. A first capacitor is electrically coupled between the channel contact and the source terminal, and a second capacitor is electrically coupled between the channel contact and the drain terminal.
US10326014B2
In at least some embodiments, a semiconductor device comprises a source region is formed within a well. The source region comprises a first dopant type, and the well comprises a second dopant type opposite the first dopant type. A termination region is formed within the well, the termination region being aligned with the source region and having an end adjacent to and spaced apart from an end of the source region. The termination region comprises a semiconducting material having the second dopant type. A preselected concentration value of the dopant in the termination region is greater than a concentration value of the second dopant type in the well.
US10326013B2
A method is provided for forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure including trench-based semiconductor devices, e.g., trench FETs, having front-side drain contacts. The method may include forming an epitaxy region, forming a poly gate trench in the epitaxy region, forming a drain contact trench through the poly gate trench and extending below the poly gate trench, forming a poly gate in the poly gate trench, forming a front-side drain contact in the drain contact trench, and forming a source region in the epitaxy region adjacent the poly gate. The device may define a drift region from the poly gate/source intersection to the front-side drain contact. The drift region may be located within the epitaxy layer, without extending into an underlying substrate or transition layer. The front-side drain contact depth may be selected to influence the device breakdown voltage. The front-side drain contacts may allow flip-chip mounting of the IC structure.
US10326012B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate via a gate insulator film. The semiconductor substrate includes a first portion constituted of GaN and a second portion constituted of AlxGa(1-x)N (0
US10326011B2
An electronic device can include a bidirectional HEMT. In an aspect, the electronic device can include a pair of switch gate and blocking gate electrodes, wherein the switch gate electrodes are not electrically connected to the blocking gate electrodes, and the first blocking, first switch, second blocking, and second switch gate electrodes are on the same die. In another aspect, the electronic device can include shielding structures having different numbers of laterally extending portions. In a further aspect, the electronic device can include a gate electrode and a shielding structure, wherein a portion of the shielding structure defines an opening overlying the gate electrode.
US10326009B2
A power semiconductor transistor includes a trench extending into a semiconductor body along a vertical direction and having first and second trench sidewalls and a trench bottom, an electrode in the trench electrically insulated from the semiconductor body, drift and source regions of a first conductivity type, a semiconductor channel region of a second conductivity type laterally adjacent the first trench sidewall and separating the source and drift regions, and a guidance zone. The guidance zone includes a bar section of the second conductivity type extending along the second trench sidewall or along a sidewall of another trench in the vertical direction to a depth in the semiconductor body deeper than the trench bottom, and a plateau section of the second conductivity type adjoining the bar section and extending under the trench bottom towards the semiconductor channel region. The plateau section has at least one opening below the channel region.
US10326008B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an insulating surface; a light-transmitting first electrode provided over the substrate; a light-transmitting second electrode provided over the substrate; a light-transmitting semiconductor layer provided so as to be electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; a first wiring electrically connected to the first electrode; an insulating layer provided so as to cover at least the semiconductor layer; a light-transmitting third electrode provided over the insulating layer in a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer; and a second wiring electrically connected to the third electrode.
US10326007B2
Methods of forming a graded SiGe percentage PFET channel in a FinFET or FDSOI device by post gate thermal condensation and oxidation of a high Ge percentage channel layer and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include forming a gate dielectric layer over a plurality of Si fins; forming a gate over each fin; forming a HM and spacer layer over and on sidewalls of each gate; forming a cavity in each fin adjacent to the gate and spacer layer; epitaxially growing an un-doped high percentage SiGe layer in each cavity and along sidewalls of each fin; thermally condensing the high percentage SiGe layer, an un-doped low percentage SiGe formed underneath in the substrate and fins; and forming a S/D region over the high percentage SiGe layer in each u-shaped cavity, an upper surface of the S/D regions below the gate dielectric layer.
US10326005B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a fin structure over a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack covering a portion of the fin structure. The gate stack includes a work function layer and a gate dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes an isolation element over the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the gate stack. The isolation element is in direct contact with the work function layer and the gate dielectric layer, and a lower width of the isolation element is greater than an upper width of the isolation element.
US10326002B1
Methods of forming self-aligned gate contacts and cross-coupling contacts for field-effect transistors and structures for field effect-transistors that include self-aligned gate contacts and cross-coupling contacts. A sidewall spacer is formed at a sidewall of a gate structure and an epitaxial semiconductor layer is formed adjacent to the sidewall spacer. After forming the epitaxial semiconductor layer, the sidewall spacer is recessed with a first etching process. After recessing the spacer, the gate structure is recessed with a second etching process. After recessing the gate structure, a cross-coupling contact is formed that connects the gate structure with the epitaxial semiconductor layer.
US10325995B2
Provided herewith are embodiments related to a semiconductor structure and a method for forming the semiconductor structure. A first spacer layer and a second spacer layer are formed opposite a major surface of a substrate. The second spacer layer is removed using the first spacer layer as a stop layer. The removal of the second spacer layer forms an air-gap spacer in an area previously occupied by the second spacer layer.
US10325984B2
In a semiconductor switch with a monolithically integrated field effect transistor, the source or emitter region of the field effect transistor is connected via a semiconductor region and an n-doped contact region to a first electrical terminal. In the semiconductor region, a semiconductor structure with n-doped channels is formed between the n-doped contact region and the source or emitter region of the field effect transistor; the n-doped channels electrically connect the n-doped contact region with the source or emitter region of the field effect transistor and run between p-doped regions that are connected to the n-doped contact region. The semiconductor switch is suitable as a self-switching load disconnector and has low losses in the switched-on state.
US10325982B1
A transistor device comprises a base structure and a superlattice of conducting channels overlying the base structure. The superlattice of conducting channels includes source and drain access regions spaced-apart from each other, a ledge between and spaced-apart from the source and drain access regions, and source-side alternating multichannel ridges and trenches that extend from the source access region to the ledge, each ridge having a topside and opposing sidewalls that each extend from the ledge to the source access region. The transistor device includes gate metal that covers each ridge continuously from the ledge to the source access region, such that the gate metal completely covers the topside of the ridge and edges of the conducting channels that intersect the sidewalls of the ridge.
US10325980B2
Power devices using refilled trenches with permanent charge at or near their sidewalls. These trenches extend vertically into a drift region.
US10325976B2
The present invention discloses a display panel. The display panel, comprises a substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of display areas and a plurality of non-display areas surrounded by the display areas, wherein each of the display areas is divided into at least two sub display areas along a predetermined direction; a boundary between the sub-display areas is a straight line or a polyline; and a plurality of organic light emitting diodes is disposed in the sub-display areas; and a plurality of powerlines, disposed on the periphery of each of the sub-display areas, wherein the powerlines are located in the non-display areas; the powerlines on the periphery of display areas are independent from each other and a power voltage is applied on the organic light emitting diodes of each of the sub-display areas via the powerlines so that each of the organic light emitting diodes receives the same power voltage.
US10325973B2
A display unit includes a light emitting layer including a light emitting device; a color filter layer including a color filter corresponding to the light emitting device; and a light blocking layer including a light blocking member arranged to overlap an end of the color filter, a center position of the light blocking member being offset from the end of the color filter.
US10325968B2
A reflective display device is disclosed, which includes first and second substrates facing each other, each of which includes a display area and a reflective area; a display element provided in the display area; and a reflective control element provided in the reflective area, controlling reflectance of externally incident light. The reflective display device may improve a contrast ratio by controlling reflectance of a reflective area when an image is displayed.
US10325963B2
The present disclosure provides a display unit of a display device including a light emitting unit and a light converting layer disposed on the light emitting unit. The display unit emits an output light under an operation of the highest gray level, the output light having an output spectrum, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 380 nm to 470 nm defines as a first intensity integral, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 580 nm to 780 nm defines as a second intensity integral, a ratio of the first intensity integral over the second intensity integral defines as a first ratio, and the first ratio is greater than 0% and less than or equal to 2.5%.
US10325955B2
A CMOS image sensor 101 comprises an active layer 11 of a first conductivity type arranged to be reversed biased and a pixel 20 comprising a photosensitive element comprising a well 22 of a second conductivity type and a well 21 of the first conductivity type containing active CMOS elements for reading and resetting the photosensitive element. The CMOS image sensor further comprises a doped buried layer 111 of the second conductivity type in the active layer beneath the well of the first conductivity type. The buried layer is arranged to extend a depletion region below the well of the second conductivity type also below the well of the first conductivity type.
US10325946B2
A packaging method and a package for an image sensing chip are provided. The packaging method includes: providing a wafer including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, where the wafer has multiple image sensing chips arranged in a grid, each of the image sensing chips has an image sensing region and contact pads arranged on a side of the first surface; forming an opening corresponding to each of the contact pads and cutting trenches on a side of the second surface of the wafer, where the contact pad is exposed through the opening; filling the cutting trenches with a first photosensitive ink; and applying a second photosensitive ink on the second surface of the wafer to cover the opening with the second photosensitive ink and form a hollow cavity in the opening.
US10325945B2
An imaging device includes a unit pixel cell including: a photoelectric converter that generates a signal charge through photoelectric conversion of incident light, and a signal detection circuit that detects an electric signal according to an amount of the signal charge, wherein the signal detection circuit includes: a first transistor that amplifies the electric signal, a gate of the first transistor being connected to the photoelectric converter, a second transistor having a source and a drain, one of the source and the drain being connected to the photoelectric converter, and a first capacitor having a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the other of the source and the drain of the second transistor, the second end being connected to a first voltage source.
US10325936B2
Disclosed is a light emitting diode display device in which a time taken in a process of connecting a light emitting device to a pixel circuit is shortened. The light emitting diode display device includes a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate including a concave portion and a light emitting device disposed in the concave portion. The light emitting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The light emitting device further includes a first portion, including the first and second electrodes, and a second portion opposite to the first portion, and a distance between the first portion to a floor surface of the concave portion is greater than a distance between the second portion to the floor surface of the concave portion.
US10325922B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stacked structure of insulating layers and gate electrodes alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate, and a pillar passing through the stacked-layer structure. The insulating layers include lower insulating layers, intermediate insulating layers disposed on the lower insulating layers, and upper insulating layers disposed on the intermediate insulating layers. The lower insulating layers have a hardness less than that of the intermediate insulating layers, and the upper insulating layers have a hardness greater than that of the intermediate insulating layers.
US10325921B2
To improve reliability of a semiconductor device, a control transistor and a memory transistor formed in a memory cell region are configured to have a double-gate structure, and a transistor formed in a peripheral circuit region is configured to have a triple-gate structure. For example, in the memory transistor, a gate insulating film formed by an ONO film is provided between a memory gate electrode and sidewalls of a fin, and an insulating film (a stacked film of a multilayer film of an insulating film/an oxide film and the ONO film) thicker than the ONO film is provided between the memory gate electrode and a top surface of the fin. This configuration can reduce concentration of an electric field onto a tip of the fin, so that deterioration of reliability of the ONO film can be prevented.
US10325919B1
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to a method for forming an integrated circuit (IC), and the associated integrated circuit. In some embodiments, a stack of gate dielectric precursor layers is formed on a plurality of logic sub-region and is then selectively removed from at least two logic sub-regions. Then, a gate dielectric precursor layer is formed, and a plasma treatment process and an annealing process are subsequently performed. The gate dielectric precursor layer is then selectively removed from a low-voltage logic sub-region, but not a high-voltage logic sub-region. By removing the stack of gate dielectric precursor layers from the low-voltage logic sub-region prior to performing the plasma treatment process and the annealing process, less gate dielectric precursor material is treated, annealed, and removed from the low-voltage logic sub-region. Thus, the resulting residues are reduced, and the defects introduced by the residues are also reduced or eliminated.
US10325915B2
An electronic device includes a plurality of CMOS control elements arranged in a two-dimensional array, where each CMOS control element of the plurality of CMOS control elements includes semiconductor devices. The plurality of CMOS control elements each including a PMOS semiconductor device portion comprising a high voltage PMOS device and a low voltage PMOS device and an NMOS semiconductor device portion comprising a high voltage NMOS device and a low voltage NMOS device. The plurality of CMOS control elements are arranged in the two-dimensional array such that the PMOS semiconductor device portion of a CMOS control element of the plurality of CMOS control elements is only adjacent to other PMOS semiconductor device portions of adjacent CMOS control elements of the plurality of CMOS control elements, and such that the NMOS semiconductor device portion of a CMOS control element of the plurality of CMOS control elements is only adjacent to other NMOS semiconductor device portions of adjacent CMOS control elements of the plurality of CMOS control elements.
US10325910B2
A semiconductor structure with a MISFET and a HEMT region includes a first III-V compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer and is different from the first III-V compound layer in composition. A third III-V compound layer is disposed on the second III-V compound layer is different from the second III-V compound layer in composition. A source feature and a drain feature are disposed in each of the MISFET and HEMT regions on the third III-V compound layer. A gate electrode is disposed over the second III-V compound layer between the source feature and the drain feature. A gate dielectric layer is disposed under the gate electrode in the MISFET region but above the top surface of the third III-V compound layer.
US10325904B2
In one embodiment, an overvoltage protection device may include a semiconductor substrate comprising an n-type body region. The overvoltage protection device may further include a first p-type region disposed in a first surface region of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a first P/N junction with the n-type body region, and a second p-type region disposed in a second surface region of the semiconductor substrate opposite the first surface, and forming a second P/N junction with the n-type body region, wherein the n-type body region, first p-type region, and second p-type region form a breakdown device having a breakdown voltage greater than 100V when an external voltage is applied between the first surface region and second surface region.
US10325899B2
To make a gate insulating film of a selecting transistor coupled in series to a MONOS memory transistor thinner and to ensure insulation resistance of the gate insulating film, the selecting transistor and the memory transistor, which constitute a memory cell, are formed on an SOI substrate, and an extension region of the selecting transistor is formed to be away from a selecting gate electrode in a plan view. A drain region of the selecting transistor and a source region of the memory transistor share the same semiconductor region with each other.
US10325896B2
The present disclosure relates to a microelectronics package with a self-aligned stacked-die assembly and a process for making the same. The disclosed microelectronics package includes a module substrate, a first die with a first coupling component, a second die with a second coupling component, and a first mold compound. The first die is attached to the module substrate. The first mold compound resides over the module substrate, surrounds the first die, and extends above an upper surface of the first die to define a first opening. Herein, the first mold compound provides vertical walls of the first opening, which are aligned with edges of the first die in X-direction and Y-direction. The second die is stacked with the first die and in the first opening, such that the second coupling component is mirrored to the first coupling component.
US10325889B1
A display device includes a substrate, at least one bonding electrode, at least one LED device electrically connected to the bonding electrode, and a transparent conductive layer. The bonding electrode is between the LED device and the substrate. The LED device includes a n type semiconductor layer, a p type semiconductor layer between the n type semiconductor layer and the bonding electrode, and an intermediate layer. The p type semiconductor layer includes a high resistance portion and a low resistance portion enclosed by the high resistance portion. A resistivity of the p type semiconductor layer increases from the low resistance portion toward the high resistance portion. The intermediate layer is between the p type semiconductor layer and the bonding electrode. The transparent conductive layer is electrically connected to the n type semiconductor layer. The LED device is between the transparent conductive layer and the bonding electrode.
US10325888B2
A manufacturing method of a display including the following steps is provided. Firstly, a back plate, a first transfer platform and a second transfer platform are provided, wherein a plurality of first light-emitting devices are disposed on the first transfer platform, and a plurality of second light-emitting devices are disposed on the second transfer platform. Secondly, a plurality of first bonding layers are formed at a plurality of first positions of the back plate. Then, the first transfer platform and the back plate are correspondingly docked, so that the first light-emitting devices are bonded on the first positions through the first bonding layers. After that, a plurality of second bonding layers are formed at a plurality of second positions of the back plate. Finally, the second transfer platform and the back plate are correspondingly docked, so that the second light-emitting devices are bonded on the second positions through the second bonding layers.
US10325885B2
An elongated light circuit includes an elongated circuit trace and a plurality of micro-sized, unpackaged LEDs disposed sequentially on the circuit trace. A height of the LEDs ranges from about 12.5 microns to about 200 microns. The elongated circuit trace and the LEDs are coated with a protective coating.
US10325884B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for scalable memory. An example apparatus comprises a logic component, a plurality of memory components adjacent to and coupled to one another and the logic component, a plurality of memory component programmable delay lines (PDLs), of the plurality of memory component PDLs associated with a respective one of the plurality of memory components, and a logic component programmable delay line (LPDL) coupled to the logic component and each of the plurality of memory component PDLs.
US10325880B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a hybrid interposer for 3D or 2.5D package arrangements. A quantity of pockets is formed on a surface of a carrier in a predetermined pattern. The pockets are filled with a reflowable conductive material. Chip dice are coupled to the interposer carrier by fixing terminals of the dice into the pockets. The carrier may include topside and backside redistribution layers to provide fanout for the chip dice, for coupling the interposer to another carrier, board, etc. having a pitch greater than that of the chip dice.
US10325873B2
A chip-stack structure including a first chip and a second chip located on the first chip is provided. The first chip includes a first substrate, a first interconnect structure, a first pad, and a first contact conductor. The first interconnect structure is located on a first surface of the first substrate. The first pad is located on the first interconnect structure. The first contact conductor is located in the first substrate and exposed on a second surface of the first substrate opposite to the first surface. The second chip includes a second substrate, a second interconnect structure, a second pad, and a second contact conductor. The second interconnect structure is located on the second substrate. The second pad is located on the second interconnect structure. The second contact conductor is located in the second substrate, wherein the first contact conductor is directly physically in contact with the second pad.
US10325872B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor structure and a method of fabricating the same. The method includes: providing a chip having conductive pads, forming a metal layer on the conductive pads, forming a passivation layer on a portion of the metal layer, and forming conductive pillars on the metal layer. Since the metal layer is protected by the passivation layer, the undercut problem is solved, the supporting strength of the conductive pillars is increased, and the product reliability is improved.
US10325871B2
A display device comprises a control circuit board generating a first control signal; a driver chip package connected to the control circuit board and receiving the first control signal; and a display panel connected to the driver chip package interconnecting the control circuit board and the display panel. The display panel comprises pixels formed and signal lines connected to the pixels. The driver chip package comprises a wire film and a driver chip attached over the wire film. The driver chip is fixed to the display panel to transfer the second control signal to at least one of the plurality of signal lines. The wire film interconnects the driver chip and the control circuit board to transfer the first control signal from the control circuit board to the driver chip.
US10325857B2
According to an embodiment, a first resist pattern that includes a mark including a second pattern provided with first components and a third pattern not provided with the first components is formed. Then, a first recessed area is formed on a processing target layer using the first resist pattern. Thereafter, a second resist pattern that includes a fourth pattern is formed. The fourth pattern is formed such that the third pattern and part of the second pattern, which includes at least one row of the first components arranged along a periphery of the third pattern, are exposed. Then, a second recessed area is formed by using the second resist pattern. Thereafter, a position of the processing target layer is recognized by using a stepped portion formed at the second recessed area, in a light exposure apparatus, and a third resist pattern is formed.
US10325851B2
A graphene wiring structure of an embodiment has: an amorphous or polycrystalline insulating film; and a multilayer graphene on the insulating film. The multilayer graphene including a plurality of graphene crystals having a zigzag direction is oriented at 17 degrees or less with respect to an electric conduction direction on the insulating film.
US10325849B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip has a plurality of gate structures arranged over a substrate. A plurality of first MOL (middle-of-line) structures are arranged at a first pitch over the substrate at locations interleaved between the plurality of gate structures. The plurality of first MOL structures connect active regions within the substrate to an overlying metal interconnect layer. A plurality of second MOL structures are arranged at a second pitch over the plurality of gate structures at locations interleaved between the plurality of first MOL structures. The plurality of second MOL structures connect the plurality of gate structures to the metal interconnect layer. The second pitch is different than the first pitch. The different pitches avoid misalignment errors between the plurality of gate structures and the metal interconnect layer.
US10325848B2
A self-aligned interconnect structure includes a fin structure patterned in a substrate; an epitaxial contact disposed over the fin structure; a first metal gate and a second metal gate disposed over and substantially perpendicular to the epitaxial contact, the first metal gate and the second metal gate being substantially parallel to one another; and a metal contact on and in contact with the substrate in a region between the first and second metal gates.
US10325842B2
A substrate for packaging a semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first patterned conductive layer adjacent to the first surface of the first dielectric layer, and a second patterned conductive layer adjacent to the second surface of the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first patterned conductive layer. The first patterned conductive layer includes a first portion and a second portion. Each of the first portion and the second portion is embedded in the first dielectric layer and protrudes relative to the first surface of the first dielectric layer toward a direction away from the second surface of the first dielectric layer. A thickness of the first portion of the first patterned conductive layer is greater than a thickness of the second portion of the first patterned conductive layer.
US10325838B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes placing a first semiconductor chip on a carrier with the first main surface of the first semiconductor chip facing the carrier. A first layer of soft solder material is provided between the first main surface and the carrier. Heat is applied during placing so that a temperature at the first layer of soft solder material is equal to or higher than a melting temperature of the first layer of soft solder material. A second layer of soft solder material is provided between the first contact area and the second main surface. Heat is applied during placing so that a temperature at the second layer of soft solder material is equal to or higher than a melting temperature of the second layer of soft solder material. The first and second layers of soft solder material are cooled to solidify the soft solder materials.
US10325832B2
An air-cooling heat dissipation device is provided for removing heat from an electronic component. The air-cooling heat dissipation device includes a supporting substrate, an air pump and a heat sink. The supporting substrate includes a top surface, a bottom surface, an introduction opening and a thermal conduction plate. The thermal conduction plate is located over the top surface of the supporting substrate and aligned with the introduction opening. The electronic component is disposed on the thermal conduction plate. The air pump is fixed on the bottom surface of the supporting substrate and aligned with the introduction opening. The heat sink is attached on the electronic component. When the air pump is enabled, an ambient air is introduced into the introduction opening to remove the heat from the thermal conduction plate.
US10325829B2
A heat spreading lid, including a lid body, a wing portion, where the wing portion flexibly moves independently from the lid body.
US10325818B2
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a fin field-effect transistor (fin-FET), including: providing a substrate having a plurality of discrete fin structures thereon; forming a chemical oxide layer on at least a sidewall of a fin structure; forming a doped layer containing doping ions on the chemical oxide layer; and annealing the doped layer such that the doping ions diffuse into the fin structure to form a doped region.
US10325816B2
The present disclosure provides an embodiment of a fin-like field-effect transistor (FinFET) device. The device includes a substrate having a first gate region, a first fin structure over the substrate in the first gate region. The first fin structure includes an upper semiconductor material member, a lower semiconductor material member, surrounded by an oxide feature and a liner wrapping around the oxide feature of the lower semiconductor material member, and extending upwards to wrap around a lower portion of the upper semiconductor material member. The device also includes a dielectric layer laterally proximate to an upper portion of the upper semiconductor material member. Therefore the upper semiconductor material member includes a middle portion that is neither laterally proximate to the dielectric layer nor wrapped by the liner.
US10325807B2
A semiconductor device includes first, second, and third metallization layers, on top of one another, that are disposed above a substrate, wherein each of the first, second, and third metallization layer includes a respective metallization structure formed in a respective dielectric layer, wherein the second metallization layer is disposed between the first and third metallization layers; and a via tower structure that extends from the first metallization layer to the third metallization layer so as to electrically couple at least part of the respective metallization structures of the first and third metallization layers.
US10325803B2
According to various embodiments, a semiconductor wafer may include: a semiconductor body including an integrated circuit structure; and at least one tetrahedral amorphous carbon layer formed at least one of over or in the integrated circuit structure, the at least one tetrahedral amorphous carbon layer may include a substance amount fraction of sp3-hybridized carbon of larger than approximately 0.4 and a substance amount fraction of hydrogen smaller than approximately 0.1.
US10325801B2
There is provided a mounting table system which includes: a mounting table rotatably installed so as to mount a substrate thereon; a plurality of heating parts installed in the mounting table, and configured to heat the mounting table; a single power source configured to supply an electric power to the plurality of heating parts; and a power switching part configured to switch from a first heating part among the plurality of heating parts to which the electric power is supplied from the single power source, to a second heating part among the plurality of heating parts, depending on a rotational angle of the mounting table.
US10325793B2
A method for producing a crystal substrate includes preparing, measuring, holding, and machining. The preparing prepares a crystal substrate body including a curved crystal lattice plane. The measuring measures a shape feature of the crystal lattice plane. The holding holds the crystal substrate body in a warped state in accordance with the shape feature measured by the measuring, to more flatten the crystal lattice plane than the crystal lattice plane at the preparing. The machining machines a surface of the crystal substrate body held in the warped state, to flatten the surface.
US10325786B1
The application provides a double-sided plastic fan-out package structure having an antenna structure. It includes a redistribution layer (RDL); a semiconductor chip, invertedly mounted on a first surface of the redistribution layer with a front surface facing downward; a first plastic encapsulation material layer, located on the first surface of the redistribution layer, encapsulating the semiconductor chip; a second plastic encapsulation material layer, located on a second surface of the redistribution layer; an antenna structure, located on a surface of the second plastic packaging material layer distant from the redistribution layer; an electrical connection structure, located inside the second plastic encapsulation material layer, and electrically connected to the antenna structure on the lower side of the redistribution layer. This structure can shield an interference signal of the antenna structure, thereby preventing the antenna structure from interfering the semiconductor chip.
US10325784B2
A method for manufacturing a cover for an electronic package includes placing an insert having opposite faces between opposite faces of a cavity of a mold. A coating material is injected in the mold cavity around the insert. The coating material is then set to form a substrate that is overmolded around the insert and produce the cover.
US10325779B2
A technique to inhibit the growth of colloidal silica deposits on surfaces treated in phosphoric acid is described. In one embodiment, the disclosed techniques include the use of a colloidal silica growth inhibitor as an additive to a phosphoric acid solution utilized for a silicon nitride etch. In some embodiments, the additive may have chemistry that may contain strong anionic groups. A method and apparatus is provided that monitors the silica concentration and/or the colloidal silica growth inhibitor concentration in the phosphoric acid solution during processing and adjusts the amount of those components as needed. Techniques are provided for a method and apparatus to control the additive concentration to be used as well as the silica concentration in the phosphoric acid solution. The techniques described herein provide a high selectivity etch of silicon nitride towards silicon dioxide without the growth of colloidal silica deposits on the exposed surfaces.
US10325778B2
A chemical material is deposited on a surface of a substrate. A mandrel composition is deposited on a surface of the chemical material. A mandrel hard mask pattern is deposited on a surface of the mandrel composition. The mandrel composition is etched. The mandrel hard mask pattern is removed. A plurality of spacer materials are deposited sequentially onto a surface of the chemical material and a surface of the mandrel composition. A portion of each of the plurality of spacer materials are removed sequentially. A remainder of the mandrel composition is removed. The substrate is etched. The chemical material and at least one of the spacer materials of the plurality of spacer materials are removed.
US10325776B2
An n-type layer (3) is formed by implanting an n-type impurity in a back surface of a Si substrate (1). A recess (4) is formed in the back surface of the Si substrate (1). After forming the n-type layer (3), an oxide film (5) is formed on the back surface and in the recess (4). The oxide film (5) on the back surface is removed while the oxide film (5) in the recess (4) is left. After removing the oxide film (5), an Al—Si film (6) is formed on the back surface. A metal electrode (7) is formed on the Al—Si film (6). The oxide film (5) in the recess (4) prevents Al from diffusing from the Al—Si film (6) into the Si substrate (1) through the recess (4).
US10325767B1
A FAIMS device interfaces between an ionization source and a mass spectrometer. The FAIMS device includes inner and outer electrodes having radially opposed surfaces, which define there between a gap through which ions are transported. A waveform generator is configured to apply a selected one of two distinct periodic waveforms to the electrodes, consisting of: a first waveform characterized by equal high and low amplitudes and periods and a second waveform including a bi-sinusoidal waveform superimposed with a DC compensation voltage. The device is configured to toggle between a transmission mode of operation in which ions are passed through the device with no spatial separation when the first waveform is applied to the inner and/or outer electrodes and a separation mode of operation in which spatial separation of the ions occurs in the gap when the bi-sinusoidal waveform and DC voltage are applied to the inner and/or outer electrodes.
US10325765B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for continuous or batch wise sampling of a surface for analysis of trace chemical constituents that may be present on the surface by mass spectrometry. Integration of time and place of the sampling and analysis processes allows real-time on-the-spot response to the analytical data and can take into account that material is not necessarily uniformly distributed on a surface. A further feature of the systems and methods of the invention is that the swabbing process also cleans the surface being analyzed. Accordingly, systems and methods of the invention provide an integrated approach that allows for a surface to be cleaned, sampled and analyzed in real-time, providing a faster and more efficient way to verify or validate whether a manufacturing vessel is sufficiently clean to start another production.
US10325763B2
Physical vapor deposition target assemblies and methods of cooling physical vapor deposition targets are disclosed. An exemplary target assembly comprises a flow pattern including a plurality of rows and bends fluidly connected to an inlet end and an outlet end.
US10325762B2
A C-containing FePt-based sputtering target for forming a magnetic recording film, wherein a ratio of an X-ray diffraction peak intensity of a graphite (002) plane in a cross section perpendicular to a sputtering surface relative to an X-ray diffraction peak intensity of a graphite (002) plane in a plane horizontal to a sputtering surface is 2 or more. A magnetic recording layer is configured from a magnetic phase such as an Fe—Pt alloy and a nonmagnetic phase that separates the magnetic phase, and the sputtering target is a ferromagnetic material sputtering target in which carbon is used as a nonmagnetic phase material. When sputtered, the ferromagnetic material sputtering target is effective in preventing the generation of particles caused by an abnormal discharge originating from carbon, which is prone to aggregate.
US10325750B2
A collision ionization source is disclosed herein. An example source includes an ionization region arranged to receive a gas and a charged particle beam, the charged particle beam to ionize at least some of the gas, and a supply duct arranged to provide the gas to the ionization region, the supply duct having a non-uniform height decreasing from an input orifice to an output orifice, the output orifice arranged adjacent to the ionization region.
US10325747B2
Provided herein are approaches for securing an electrical protection device (e.g., a fuse). In one approach, an apparatus includes a conductor and a terminal coupling the conductor to the fuse, wherein the terminal includes an end cap having a cavity for receiving and securing the conductor, and a set of contact elements extending from a base member. The base member may be coupled to the end cap, and a body of the fuse may be coupled to the base member. In some approaches, a fuse blade of the fuse is disposed between the set of contact elements. In some approaches, the apparatus further includes a cover adjacent the terminal, wherein the cover is configured to engage the contact elements to increase a contact force and electrical connection between the set of contact elements and the fuse blade.
US10325742B2
The present disclosure provides for a microelectromechanical switch including a first port (e.g., input port), one or more second ports (e.g., output ports), a cantilever beam, and a mechanical spring connected to the cantilever beam for providing a mechanical force to move the cantilever beam. The cantilever beam extends from a first end, which is in contact with either the first port or one of the second ports, to a second end that is switchably connectable to the other of the first port or said one of the second ports. The first and second ports and cantilever beam may be formed in a coplanar waveguide.
US10325733B2
A key button and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The key button includes an upper surface, a side surface formed at a certain height along a border of the upper surface, and at least two worked surfaces formed to have a certain slope in a boundary portion between the side surface and the upper surface, wherein at least one first worked surface and at least one second worked surface are formed such that a shortest distance between the upper surface and the side surface differs from each other.
US10325730B2
A cathode active material includes NaxMO2 having at least a first phase, a second phase different from the first phase, and a third phase that is different from the first and second phases, wherein each phase is independently selected from Pm or On, where m and n are individually an integer, M is a transition metal or a mixture of transition metals, and x is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 1.
US10325718B2
Disclosed is a method for optimizing a layout of a secondary coil for a wireless power transfer. The method includes reconstructing a secondary coil based on a fixed grid, corresponding to a design domain, to set a relative turn of each fixed grid and obtaining at least one or more of an electromagnetic measure and a physical measure of the secondary coil to optimize a layout of the secondary coil; applying an effective turn to the optimized layout of the secondary coil to perform post-processing; and deriving a layout of a physical coil about the secondary coil. The effective turn corresponds to a difference between the relative turns existing at a same position.
US10325717B2
A roadway powered electric vehicle system includes a power supply (101) which makes power available inductively to one or more modules (111) provided in or under a roadway. Modules (111) make a magnetic field selectively available to one or more vehicles travelling over the roadway corresponding to the location of the vehicle. The presence or strength of the magnetic field provided on the roadway may be dependent upon the vehicle type or category.
US10325710B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to a magnetoresistive device and more particularly to a magnetoresistive device comprising chromium. According to an aspect, a method of forming a magnetoresistive device comprises forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure over a substrate. The MTJ structure includes, in a bottom-up direction away from the substrate, a free layer, a tunnel barrier layer and a reference layer. The method additionally includes forming a pinning layer over the MTJ structure, wherein the pinning layer pins a magnetization direction of the reference layer. The method additionally includes forming capping layer comprising chromium (Cr) over the pinning layer. The method further includes annealing the capping layer under a condition sufficient to cause diffusion of Cr from the capping layer into at least the pinning layer. According to another aspect, a magnetoresistive device is formed according to the method.
US10325708B2
A Near Field Communications (NFC) antenna coil, having a first loop; and a second loop connected to the first loop to form a spiral shape, wherein the first loop and the second loop have different sizes to be mutually couplable with a first antenna pairing coil and a second antenna pairing coil, respectively.
US10325707B2
A magnetic field coil assembly includes a plurality of stacked dielectric layers, each of the plurality of stacked dielectric layers having a partial-loop conductive trace on a first side of the layer, a via interconnect in communication with the partial-loop conductive trace and extending from the first side of the layer to a side of the layer opposite from the first side, and a vapor cell reception aperture; and a vapor cell axially extending through the plurality of vapor cell reception apertures so that the plurality of partial-loop conductive traces is electrically connected serially to form a continuous coil disposed around the vapor cell that would create a magnetic field upon application of a current.
US10325697B2
A multi-phase cable, the cable including a plurality of conductors for conducting currents of two or more different phases, each phase being associated with one or more conductors and each conductor being associated with one respective phase. Each conductor has a cross-section with at least one dimension that is sized to decrease a skin effect of the conductor at a maximum or nominal operation frequency of the conductor. The conductors are arranged to permit free air cooling of the cable on at least two sides of each conductor, and such that each conductor of a given phase has, as immediate neighbors, only conductors of one or more different phases.
US10325696B2
In an electrical cable of the type having an outer sheath enclosing a conductor assembly comprising a plurality of insulated conductors disposed within a binder, the binder having a crush resistance for protecting the insulated conductors, an improvement in which a strength enhancer is mixed within the conductor insulation such that the binder can be removed without decreasing a crush resistance of the electrical cable.
US10325695B2
A rectangular wire having: a multilayer conductor member constructed by stacking, in a thickness direction, a rectangular metallic conductor that has a layer of a first thermoplastic resin formed on the outer periphery thereof, the first thermoplastic resin being a non-crystalline resin having no melting point or a crystalline resin having an amide bond; and a layer of a second thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 300° C. or more on the outer periphery of the multilayer conductor member.
US10325684B2
A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating an autoimmune disorder in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the autoimmune condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the autoimmune condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US10325675B2
The invention provides methods for identifying rare variants near a structural variation in a genetic sequence, for example, in a nucleic acid sample taken from a subject. The invention additionally includes methods for aligning reads (e.g., nucleic acid reads) to a reference sequence construct accounting for the structural variation, methods for building a reference sequence construct accounting for the structural variation or the structural variation and the rare variant, and systems that use the alignment methods to identify rare variants. The method is scalable, and can be used to align millions of reads to a construct thousands of bases long, or longer.
US10325663B1
Systems, methods, circuits, and apparatus including computer-readable mediums for protecting memory cells from in-process charging effects for a memory system, e.g., NAND flash memory. The methods include: forming a first connection to connect a first node of a diode to a memory cell line coupled with one or more memory cells to be fabricated and a second connection to connect a second node of the diode to a control circuit, such that, during fabricating the memory, in-process charges accumulated on the memory cells are discharged to a ground via a conductive path formed by a first voltage caused by the in-process charges forward biasing the diode and then enabling the control circuit to conduct a current to the ground, and after fabricating the memory and during operating the memory, turning off the conductive path by reverse biasing the diode with a second voltage applied on the control circuit.
US10325662B2
A circuit for adjusting a select gate voltage of a non-volatile memory is provided. The circuit includes a well, a select gate, and an adjustment unit. There is a capacitive coupling between the well and the select gate. The adjustment unit generates a driving voltage for the select gate based on a non-constant voltage.
US10325652B2
Technology for verifying cell programming for a phase change memory array is disclosed. In an example, a method may include sending a reset pulse to a phase change memory cell. The method may further include sensing a threshold voltage of the phase change memory cell in response to applying first and second verify voltages across the phase change memory cell, where the second verify voltage is lower than the first verify voltage. The method may also include determining whether the threshold voltage of the phase change memory cell was below the first or second verify voltages.
US10325648B2
The apparatus provided may be a memory circuit. The memory circuit includes a memory cell. The memory cell has a bitline. The memory circuit also includes a write driver. The write driver is configured to drive the bitline to write a bit to the memory cell during a write operation. The write driver is also configured to float the bitline to mask the bit during a read operation. The write driver may use NMOS pullup transistors.
US10325635B2
The present disclosure includes devices, methods, and systems supporting on unit termination. A number of embodiments include a number of memory units, wherein a memory unit includes termination circuitry, and a memory unit does not include termination circuitry.
US10325634B2
The present invention provides a differential sensing circuit with a dynamic voltage reference for a single-ended bit line memory is disclosed. The exemplary differential sensing circuit comprises: a dynamic voltage reference generating unit and a differential sensing amplifying unit. The dynamic voltage reference generating unit is coupled to an input voltage, and utilized for receiving a setting signal to generate the dynamic voltage reference. The differential sensing amplifying unit is coupled to the single-ended bit line memory and the dynamic voltage reference generating unit, and utilized for receiving at least an input signal from the single-ended bit line memory and the dynamic voltage reference from the dynamic voltage reference generating unit, so as to generate at least an output signal accordingly.
US10325633B2
Disclosed is a storage device. The storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device that receives write data based on a data strobe signal and a data signal and outputs read data based on the data strobe signal and the data signal, and a controller that performs a training operation for training the nonvolatile memory device to align the data signal and the data strobe signal. The controller detects a left edge of a window of the data signal for the training operation. The controller determines a center of the window by using the detected left edge and unit interval length information of the data signal or determines a start point of a detection operation for detecting a right edge of the window by using the detected left edge and the unit interval length information.
US10325630B2
An electronic device that includes an external storage medium connection unit to which an external storage medium is connected; a detection unit that detects whether or not demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit; and an operation mode control unit that causes the device to operate in a demonstration mode in a case where the demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit, and causes the device to operate in a normal mode in a case where the external storage medium is not connected to the external storage medium connection unit and no demonstration data is stored in the external storage medium connected to the external storage medium connection unit.
US10325625B2
Audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices according to the present embodiments comprise a processor, a motion sensor, and a camera. In various embodiments, the A/V recording and communication devices are configured to reduce latency and/or to reduce false positive indications of motion.
US10325624B1
According to one embodiment, there is provided a disk device including a head and a controller. The controller, with mapping information in which parameter sets each including multiple types of parameters related to operations of the head are mapped to an adjustment variable so as to be associated with multiple different values of the adjustment variable, evaluates operations of the head while changing the value of the adjustment variable contained in the mapping information and determines a parameter set corresponding to an appropriate value of the adjustment variable based on the evaluation results and the mapping information to set for operations of the head using the determined parameter set.
US10325621B1
A PZT microactuator such as for a hard disk drive has a restraining layer bonded on its side that is opposite the side on which the PZT is mounted. The restraining layer comprises a stiff and resilient material such as stainless steel. The restraining layer can cover most or all of the top of the PZT, with an electrical connection being made to the PZT where it is not covered by the restraining layer. The restraining layer reduces bending of the PZT as mounted and hence increases effective stroke length, or reverses the sign of the bending which increases the effective stroke length of the PZT even further. The restraining layer can be one or more active layers of PZT material that act in the opposite direction as the main PZT layer. The restraining layer(s) may be thinner than the main PZT layer.
US10325616B2
An acquisition unit acquiring data including sound information uttered by a subject; a detection unit detecting feelings of the subject using the acquired data; a decision unit deciding weighting coefficients for data in accordance with the feelings of the subject; a calculation unit calculating energy which involves in human emotions and organ activities; a plurality of elements outputting signals each of which indicates the change in a state of the element as homeostasis in each of the human emotions and the organ activities; an emergence unit deciding feelings and intentions in accordance with the signals output from the elements; and a control unit performing phase transition of the state of the elements when an amount of change in the state of at least one element is equal to or less than a predetermined amount or when the state of at least one element is in a predetermined state.
US10325615B2
Methods and systems for audio source separation in real-time are described. In an embodiment, the present disclosure describes reading and decoding an audio source into PCM samples, fragmenting Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) samples into fragments, transforming fragments into spectrograms, performing audio source separation using a training database that includes a training dictionary and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) to generate a set of component signals, and streaming the component signals to a playback engine. In an embodiment, a semantic equalizer graphical user allows for fading of individual component signals.
US10325613B1
An acoustic signal delay measurement apparatus constituted of: an acoustic signal input terminal; an acoustic signal output terminal; at least one echo input terminal; an adjustable tapped delay line exhibiting a plurality of taps, a first end of the tapped delay line coupled to the acoustic signal input terminal, each of the taps exhibiting a respective predetermined delay; a processor, an output of the processor coupled to a control input of the adjustable tapped delay line; and a plurality of adaptive filters, a first input of each of the plurality of adaptive filters coupled to a respective one of the at least one echo input terminal, a second input of each of the plurality of adaptive filters coupled to a respective one of the plurality of taps and an output of each of the plurality of adaptive filters coupled to a respective input of the processor, wherein the processor is arranged to determine a system delay responsive to: the amount of time it takes for one of the plurality of adaptive filters to converge; and the delay of the tap associated with the converged adaptive filter.
US10325612B2
A method and apparatus that filters audio data received from a speaking person that includes a specific filter for that speaker. The audio characteristics of the speaker's voice may be collected and the specific filter may be formed to reduce noise while also enhancing voice quality. For instance, if a speaker's voice does not contain specific frequencies, then a filter may cancel the noise at such frequencies to ease noise cancellation and reduce processing sound spectrum for cleaning that is not needed. Additionally, the strength frequencies of a speaker's voice may be identified from the collected audio characteristics and those spectrums can be filtered with finer granularity to provide a speaker specific filter that enhances the voice quality of the speaker's voice data that is transmitted or output by a communication device. The audio data may also be output based upon a user's predefined hearing spectrum.
US10325605B2
Techniques are provided for updating state data of an audio decoder for packet loss concealment (PLC). A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes decoding encoded bits in a sequence of audio packets. A decoder history buffer stores the encoded bits and decimated state data associated with the decoding of those bits. The decimation factor of the state data is based on a down-sampling rate of the decoder. The method further includes performing PLC for an invalid audio packet using concealment samples from a PLC history buffer. The state of the audio decoder is updated from the decoder history buffer, based on timing associated with the concealment samples. The method further includes re-decoding the stored encoded bits associated with the updated state data, to further update the state of the audio decoder for subsequent decoding of a valid audio packet following the invalid audio packet.
US10325601B2
Utterances of at least two speakers in a speech signal may be distinguished and the associated speaker identified by use of diarization together with automatic speech recognition of identifying words and phrases commonly in the speech signal. The diarization process clusters turns of the conversation while recognized special form phrases and entity names identify the speakers. A trained probabilistic model deduces which entity name(s) correspond to the clusters.
US10325599B1
Systems and methods for extracting contact information from a message are described. A system can receive a message for a recipient, where the message originates from a message source having a first contact identifier (i.e., phone number, text address, etc.). The system can determine text data associated with the content of that message and process the text data to determine that the message refers to a second contact identifier that is different from the first contact identifier. The system may output the message to a recipient device (such as using text-to-speech, etc.) and may store an association between the message source and the second contact identifier. When the recipient speaks a command to reply to the first message or contact the message source, the system may determine the reply is intended for the message source and may route the reply using the second contact identifier included in the first message.
US10325590B2
A language model is modified for a local speech recognition system using remote speech recognition sources. In one example, a speech utterance is received. The speech utterance is sent to at least one remote speech recognition system. Text results corresponding to the utterance are received from the remote speech recognition system. A local text result is generated using local vocabulary. The received text results and the generated text result are compared to determine words that are out of the local vocabulary and the local vocabulary is updated using the out of vocabulary words.
US10325589B2
Inputs provided into user interface elements of an application are observed. Records are made of the inputs and the state(s) the application was in while the inputs were provided. For each state, a corresponding language model is trained based on the input(s) provided to the application while the application was in that state. When the application is next observed to be in a previously-observed state, a language model associated with the application's current state is applied to recognize speech input provided by a user and thereby to generate speech recognition output that is provided to the application. An application's state at a particular time may include the user interface element(s) that are displayed and/or in focus at that time, and is determined by an operating system hooking component embedded in the automatic speech recognition system.
US10325585B2
Ambient sound is converted into digital signals. A processor performs active noise cancellation and/or a transformation operation that is distinct from the active noise cancellation on the digital signals. The active noise cancellation and the transformation operation transform the digital signals into modified digital signals. The modified digital signals are converted into modified analog signals. The modified analog signals are outputted as audio waves. An interior microphone is configured to output an output signal to the processor in response to receiving the modified analog signals. In response to receiving the output signal from the interior microphone, the processor is configured to determine whether the modified digital signals produce desired audio waves.
US10325583B2
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for audio-signal processing. One representative embodiment includes HT sub-band analysis/decomposition modules, e.g., one for each audio channel and one for an echo reference signal. Each HT sub-band analysis/decomposition module includes a Hilbert Transformation module and an analysis/decomposition filter bank and provides sub-band outputs. Echo-cancellation modules, e.g., one for each audio channel, perform echo-cancellation processing on such sub-bands. Beamforming modules, e.g., one for each sub-band, then perform beamforming, e.g., across all audio channels. Finally, a resynthesis stage combines the different sub-band outputs in order to provide a system output signal.
US10325581B2
A singing voice edit assistance method, performed by to computer, includes: judging whether phoneme data based on which waveform data for listening contained in a data set for singing synthesis is synthesized, is available or not for a user to edit a singing voice, the data set for singing synthesis containing score data representing a time series of notes, a lyrics data representing words corresponding to the respective notes; and synthesizing the waveform data for listening while shifting pitches of phoneme data, representing waveforms of phonemes, indicated by the lyrics data to pitches indicated by the score data and connecting the pitch-shifted phoneme data and, if the indicated phoneme data is not available, the synthesizing synthesizes waveform data for listening based on the score data, the lyrics data, and substitute phoneme data available for the user instead of the indicated phoneme data.
US10325579B1
A system and method to help players of string instruments with the usability of their instruments, particularly with the detection and assessment of the mechanical status of their instrument's strings and in determining when and/or whether the strings need to be replaced.
US10325575B1
A small tool, tube like in nature, comprised of plastic, metal, or composite material, that makes changing guitar strings easier by insertion into guitar then feeding string though.
US10325574B2
The present disclosure provides a simultaneous display method, system, and computer numerical control machine tool based on QT embedded. The method includes triggering a target QT paint event which displays a first display content; executing a drawing function corresponding to the QT paint event, and meanwhile, triggering a predefined first triggering event; wherein, the first triggering event is used to trigger a frame buffer operation to display a second display content, and the second display content and the first display content are contents required to be simultaneously displayed; displaying the first display content and the second display content simultaneously by a display device. The present disclosure can guarantee that the frame buffer operation is executed after executing the target QT paint event, to ensure that the frame buffer operation and QT embedded drawing are displayed simultaneously, avoiding displaying errors and improving the user experience.
US10325573B2
To manage dynamic adjustment of the refresh rate of a computer display, the operating system defines at least two playback modes: one or more custom modes that can be selected by applications, and a standard mode which is a default setting for the system that can be expected by applications. The operating system provides an application programming interface that enables an application to request using a custom mode. If approved to use the custom mode, then the application presents frames for display based on the custom mode. The operating system stores timing data for each buffered frame indicating how to play the frame in both standard mode and the custom mode. If a transition back to the standard mode occurs, the operating system uses the timing data to properly present frames of video until the application stops generating frames of video in the custom mode.
US10325570B2
A display device includes: a first display unit which is a transmissive display unit; a transparent backlight formed of transparent material, provided relative to the first display unit opposite the viewing surface of the first display unit, and configured to emit light toward the first display unit; a light source configured to output object light to the transparent backlight where light from an object provided opposite the light emission plane of the transparent backlight is output toward the transparent backlight and the first display unit; and a controller configured to control the first display unit, the transparent backlight, and the light source so that light emitted from the transparent backlight shows an image on the first display unit, and so that the object light can pass through the transparent backlight and the first display unit and be output.
US10325568B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to providing electronic survey content to a user in accordance with a particular layout. In particular, a survey system facilitates providing survey questions of an electronic survey to a user within a display area of a client device in accordance with a determined layout based on one or more features of the display area. For example, the survey system associates a plurality of layouts with one or more survey questions. Further, the survey system provides the survey questions and associated layout to a client device for presentation to a user. The client device identifies one or more features of a display area and determines a layout from the plurality of layouts to use in providing the survey question(s) to the user. Further, the client device provides one or more survey questions to a user within the display area in accordance with a determined layout.
US10325567B2
The present disclosure provides a vehicle and method for controlling the vehicle, which relates to a technology for reconstructing a screen to be displayed in a display area based on a display area of an external device held in a holding groove inside the vehicle. The vehicle includes: a holding groove configured to hold an external device when the external device is inserted thereto; an electrode positioned in the holding groove that is configured to transmit a frequency signal to the external device; a controller configured to generate image data to reconstruct a screen to be displayed on the external device according to information about a display area of the external device set up by the external device based on the frequency signal; and a communicator configured to transmit the image data to the external device.
US10325563B2
A circuit and method for eliminating image sticking during power-on and power-off, the circuit for eliminating image sticking during power-on and power-off includes a voltage detecting module and a common signal writing module; the voltage detecting module detects whether an operating voltage is lower than a first threshold voltage during power-on, and detects whether the operating voltage is lower than a second threshold voltage during power-off; and the common signal writing module writes, when the operating voltage is lower than the first threshold voltage during power-on or the operating voltage is lower than the second threshold voltage during power-off, a signal with a voltage equal to a voltage at a common voltage signal terminal at the same timing, to a data line.
US10325553B2
There are provided a pixel circuit, a method for driving the light emitting device (04) and an organic light emitting display panel. The initializing module (03) is added to the pixel circuit. In the initializing phase, the initializing module (03) initializes the driving module (02) and the light emitting device (04); in the writing phase, the charging module (01) writes the data signal inputted from the data signal terminal into the control terminal of the driving module (02); and in the light emitting phase, the charging module (01) loads the first reference signal inputted from the data signal terminal (Data) to the control terminal of the driving module (02), and the initializing module (03) connects the output terminal of the driving module (02) with the input terminal of the light emitting device (04) so that the driving module (02) drives the light emitting device (04) to emit light. The pixel circuit initializes the driving module (02) and the light emitting device (04) in the initialization phase, which eliminates the influence of the voltage difference in a previous phase on a subsequent phase, provides a compensating voltage and a driving voltage for the driving module (02) in the writing phase, which avoids the influence of change of the threshold voltage on the light emitting luminance of the light emitting device (04), so that the quality of the display picture is ensured.
US10325544B2
A data input unit, a data input method, a source drive circuit and a display device. The data input unit includes: an input module, configured to provide a normal display data; a setting module, configured to preset one or more predetermined display data; and a selection module, configured to select the input module to provide the normal display data to a data input end or select the setting module to provide a special predetermined display data to the data input end, according to the one or more external control signals. Thus, besides a normal driving function, other special driving functions also may be provided for special display demands so as to improve the performance and display quality of a display device.
US10325526B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of labeling a plurality of products includes coating a pressure sensitive adhesive to a roll of face stock, the roll of face stock configured to be converted to a plurality of individual labels aligned in a single lane; singulating an individual label from the roll of face stock; and applying the individual label to a product of the plurality of products, wherein the coating, singulating and applying are conducted sequentially in a single continuous operation with a single continuous web of material.
US10325525B1
A combination wristband and label form has a front ply and a back ply. The front ply has a top portion having a plurality of labels die cut therein and a bottom portion with a generally rectangular wristband configured to receive indicia, and an outer portion surrounding the wristband. The wristband is separable from the form and is formed of a single ply of water-resistant material, and has a first lateral end and a second lateral end. The back ply is at least partially coated in a control bond adhesive and further includes at least one area of silicone. The control bond adhesive includes between about 1 kg and 2 kg of a flexible adhesive; between about 1 kg and 2 kg of water; between about 12 g and 16 g gypsum, and between about 13 g and 23 g fumed silica.
US10325511B2
This disclosure provides a method and system to convert a first digital representation of a document including a first format to a second digital representation of the document including a second format. According to an exemplary method, a preexisting printed assessment is scanned to produce an image file and an educational assessment analysis system captures an image area associated with a question, processes the captured image area to automatically assign metadata associated with an independent assessment creation process to the captured image area, which is subsequently processed to generate an assessment based on the assigned metadata which conforms with a format consistent with the independent assessment creation process.
US10325509B2
An educational evidence and evaluation system for generating media files and context parameters and linking the media files and context parameters to education profiles during evaluation of a subject is disclosed. An example educational evidence and evaluation system comprises a capture engine that captures two media files, a context engine that tags the media files with context parameters, and a linking engine that links the media files and their tagged context parameters to an education profiles of a subject, wherein the evaluation engine links a first media file and its first context parameter to the education profile of a first subject before the capture engine captures a second media file.
US10325506B2
A method for monitoring an airspace includes a first control and detection system and a second control and detection system. The first control and detection system has a first flying device and a first control and detection unit, and the second control and detection system has a second flying device and a second control and detection unit. An airspace monitoring system is different from the first control and detection unit and also from the second control and detection unit. First data relating to the first flying device is transmitted from the first control and detection unit to the airspace monitoring system, and data based on the first data is transmitted from the airspace monitoring system to the second control and detection unit. In this manner, the method allows a system-independent airspace monitoring process.
US10325505B2
The present invention provides a flight control method for an aerial vehicle and a related device. The method may comprises receiving flight indication data under a current environment, the flight indication data including flight indication data detected by another aerial vehicle or provided by an external storage device; generating a flight control instruction according to the received flight indication data to control a flight of the aerial vehicle. An embodiment of the present invention may store and manage the flight indication data acquired by various aerial vehicles, so as to provide the support of related flight indication data to some requesting aerial vehicles, to enable the requesting aerial vehicles to perform operations such as obstacle avoidance, safe path planning and finding landing places based on the flight indication data.
US10325504B2
A system and method for the real-time optimization of aircraft fuel economy includes sensors to monitor in-flight performance characteristics, to monitor the status of aircraft control elements during flight, to monitor fuel consumption, and to identify aircraft position information during flight. A processor is coupled to receive information from the sensors. During flight, the processor calculates a current performance level by entering the received information into a predetermined flight model. The processor then determines, based on a comparison of the calculated current performance level with a predetermined expected performance level, a current level of fuel efficiency. Next, the processor determines any parameter changes for improving fuel efficiency. Finally, the processor causes the determined parameter changes to be displayed on a flight deck display. The flight crew may then selectively implement one or more of the determined parameter changes via the flight deck display.
US10325502B2
The present disclosure relates to parking systems and parking methods. One parking system may include: a vehicle having an accelerator, brakes, wheels, sensors, a display, a processor, and memory; a parking assist program stored in the memory and configured to: receive dimensions of a parallel parking spot and the vehicle, project, based on the received dimensions, whether the vehicle can: exit the parallel parking spot with a future leading block, and exit the parallel parking spot with a future trailing block.
US10325498B2
Methods for broadcasting or receiving information through a channel which is dedicated for vehicular safety use are provided. And electronic devices are provided. One of the methods includes: an electronic device mounted on a vehicle obtaining lane information of the vehicle, where the lane information indicates on which lane the vehicle is travelling; and broadcasting the lane information of the vehicle through a channel which is dedicated for vehicular safety use. By employing the methods, electronic devices can broadcast their lane information, road information or layer information through a channel which is dedicated for vehicular safety use, which may meet requirements in some vehicular safety applications.
US10325497B2
A parking inventory management system includes a sensor apparatus with at least one magnetometer configured to generate a magnetic signature of a vehicle as it drives across the sensor apparatus. A computing device performs an analysis of the magnetic signature of the vehicle as received from the at least one magnetometer, the analysis including at least comparing the magnetic signature of the vehicle as received from the at least one magnetometer to known magnetic signatures of known vehicles. The computing device performs the analysis of the magnetic signature of the vehicle by comparing the magnetic signature of the vehicle to each of the known magnetic signatures of known vehicles to thereby determine a direction of travel of the vehicle based upon the comparison.
US10325496B1
A wireless transmission system includes a server in communication with one or more receiving devices. The server generates a query to a user associated with a receiving device regarding a parking-space preference. The server receive the parking-space preference along with the unique identifier and a receiving device identifier from the receiving device. The server determines a current location associated with the receiving device based on the received unique identifier, and generate an instruction to receive attributes associated with one or more parking spaces corresponding to the parking-space preferences. The server upon transmitting the instructions to the database, receive one or more parking spaces corresponding to the parking-space preferences. The server generates a graphical user interface to display instructions to reach parking spaces corresponding to the parking-space preferences in relation to the current location of the receiving device, and then transmits the graphical user interface to the receiving device.
US10325495B2
A method for ascertaining a free parking position for a vehicle, in which at least one measurement value is ascertained by at least one vehicle-side sensor, the at least one ascertained measurement value is transmitted by a vehicle-side communication device of at least one vehicle to a vehicle-external server unit, the at least one ascertained measurement value is evaluated with respect to a free parking position by the vehicle-external server unit, and the evaluated at least one free parking position is provided in a retrievable manner on the vehicle-external server unit. A system for implementing the method is also described.
US10325493B1
A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage. The use of traffic windows defined based on changes in rates of change of speeds for traffic on road segments allows for more rapid determination of a set of one or more high quality solutions as compared to requiring on-demand, in-process determination of a shortest path for a particular time during comparison of paths or routes performed as part of a process for determining high quality solutions to the routing problem.
US10325490B2
A method and system for providing a driving condition alert to vehicle drivers and others are disclosed. The alert is provided based on road location and attribute data; real-time, historic, and forecast traffic data; real-time, historic, and forecast weather data; and/or scheduled and unscheduled event data. The alert may include information indicating the reason for the alert provided. In addition, the alert may include a relative scale of hazard (e.g., a scale of 1-10 with 1 representing no hazard and 10 representing the highest hazardous condition). As a result of receiving the alert, the driver may adjust their route or driving behavior.
US10325488B2
An image display device includes a light illuminator, a space detector, a travel information acquirer, a possibility calculator, and an illumination controller. The light illuminator is configured to send out light frontward of a first vehicle as an own vehicle, to display an image on a road a pedestrian is going to cross. The space detector is configured to detect a travel space sideward of the first vehicle. The possibility calculator is configured to calculate travel possibility that a second vehicle other than the first vehicle travels through the travel space, on the basis of travel information acquired by the travel information acquirer and on the basis of a position of the travel space detected by the space detector. The illumination controller is configured to control the light illuminator to display a no-crossing image on the condition that the travel possibility is equal to or larger than a predetermined value.
US10325481B2
A building device with a front accessible address programming interface is provided. The building device includes a mounting base having front and rear surfaces. The front surface defines two connector channels extending towards the rear surface. The connector channels are spaced apart and sized to each receive a respective prong of a programming device connector plug. The building device further includes external terminals disposed on the rear surface, internal terminals, a group of normally closed switches having a common control input, and an actuator. Each switch connects an external terminal to a respective internal terminal when the common control input is deactivated to provide a network connection. The actuator is connected to the common control input and disposed such that the connector plug engages the actuator to activate the common control input of the switches when each of the connector channels receive a respective prong of the connector plug.
US10325479B2
Network-connected (i.e., “smart”) containers are described herein that include an electronic display on which personalized information can be presented. For example, the electronic display (and other necessary components, such as memory, processors, and communication modules) can be integrated into the cap or the body of a container, which holds a skin care product (e.g., a medication or a personal care product, such as a cosmetic) that is applied by the user as part of a skin care regimen. More specifically, a smart container can include an electronic display that presents relevant information to a user for review. Such information can include the name of the skin care product, textual instructions for complying with a skin care regimen, animations illustrating how to apply the skin care product, user information, messages (e.g., text messages delivered via a cloud service), notifications, and device information (e.g., battery status and network connectivity status).
US10325470B2
A system for monitoring a health status of a person within an enclosed area may include a plurality of sensors distributed about the enclosed area. The sensors may be configured to detect respective different types of inputs based upon activity by the person within the enclosed area. The system may also include a computing device cooperating with the sensors to determine when the health status falls below a threshold status level based upon a timing and sequence in which the sensors are activated from the activity of the person within the enclosed area, and generate an alert based upon the health status falling below the threshold status level.
US10325469B2
Techniques are described for tracking intruders of a monitored property by the unique identifying characteristics or “digital fingerprints” of electronic devices carried by the intruders. A system detects an alarm event at a monitored property based on output from at least one sensor located at the monitored property. In response to detecting the alarm event at the monitored property, the system initiates a process to gather electronic identifiers for mobile electronic devices located within the monitored property at a time corresponding to the detected alarm event. The system determines electronic identifiers for the mobile electronic devices located within the monitored property at a time corresponding to the detected alarm event. The system stores in electronic storage, information indicating the determined electronic identifiers for the mobile electronic devices located within the monitored property at a time corresponding to the detected alarm event.
US10325467B2
Systems and methods for providing spoken messages that reflect event status of one or more hazard detection systems within a smart-home environment are described herein. The messages can inform occupants in concise manner that does not overload cognitive recognition of those occupants. For example, the messages may be prioritized to limit the amount of information that is spoken and intelligently condense information in as concise a manner as possible. This may be accomplished by using one or more speaking paradigms to compile audible messages to be played back through a speaker of the hazard detection system.
US10325462B2
The present disclosure described herein, a wireless motion monitoring system and method. The motion detection device may comprise at least two sensors, a microprocessor and a memory unit. The motion detection device comprises retrieving a first motion data and a second motion data, filtering noise data, transmitting the filtered motion data to a data processing device, calculating steady-state values and transmitting the steady-state values to the data processing device. The data processing device comprises receiving a first filtered motion data, a second filtered motion data and steady-state values, normalizing the first filtered motion data, calculating velocity and displacement, comparing the displacement with a pre-defined displacement threshold, verifying whether a difference between a last value in the second filtered motion data and the steady-state values is greater than a pre-defined threshold value, validating the movement of the motion detection device and updating a change in status of the motion detection device.
US10325461B1
A security patrol guidance system and method configured to automatically and dynamically identify patrol areas within a geospatial boundary and notify the security guards of said areas. The system and method considers recent security alerts, non-visible areas, and SMP operator identified patrol areas in view of the current locations of each security guard to create a patrol list. The patrol list includes areas deemed to be at risk of future security event and the system instructs security guards to patrol said areas at certain intervals. The system is constantly updating to ensure that a desired level of security is achieved at all times.
US10325459B2
A system and method for snap-on emergency exit LED lighting. The emergency exit lighting fixture comprises a structure for housing at least one LED light, an LED driver electronically coupled to the LED light(s), a continuous power source, a backup power source, and a test switch. The fixture, in various configurations, may be mounted to an existing T-grid. The fixture may be tested remotely.
US10325458B2
A system and method for emergency exit LED lighting. The emergency exit lighting fixture comprises a structure for housing at least one LED light, an LED driver electronically coupled to the LED light(s), a continuous power source, a backup power source, and a test switch. The fixture, in various configurations, may be mounted to a wall, a ceiling, or a doorway. The fixture may be tested remotely.
US10325457B2
A wristband-type information processing device includes: a band section configured to be worn on a wrist of a user; a sensor unit configured to detect a motion of the user; a vibration signal generating unit configured to generate a first vibration signal for vibrating another associated wristband-type information processing device according to the motion detected by the sensor unit; and a communication unit configured to transmit the first vibration signal generated by the vibration signal generating unit to the other wristband-type information processing device.
US10325451B2
A method and system for a card-based game with simulates a traditional keno game through the use of a specially designed deck of playing cards. The system includes a computer, a scanner, a specialty card shoe, and the specially designed deck of cards. The method includes first shuffling the deck of cards by the specialty card shoe. Next, a card is drawn from the deck of cards and scanned, thus extracting a unique number that is associated with a spot on a traditional Keno card. The unique number is then associated and indicated to a spot on a simulated Keno card by the computer. This process is repeated for twenty iteration to compile winning numbers. The winning numbers are then compared against guessed spots associated with a user account to identify a set of matching spots. A primary payout transaction is managed based on the set of matching spots.
US10325439B2
A reader for article identification comprises one or more solenoids configured to generate a magnetic field for locally exciting portions of a marker element carrying at least one data feature as the marker element moves through the magnetic field and for causing the marker element to generate a varying magnetic field; and one or more giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) sensors upstream of the one or more solenoids configured to detect the varying magnetic field and produce output based on the varying magnetic field.
US10325435B2
Currency is selectively illuminated with Ultraviolet (UV) light, Infrared (IR) light, and/or white light in front of a camera, which may be integrated into a scanner in some embodiments. The camera takes an image of the illuminated currency and the image is presented on a screen of a display for validating the currency.
US10325427B2
A wearable electronic device comprising an electroencephalography (EEG) sensor for enabling access to a transit system. The device may also include a device transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit a request signal to a gate receiver. The device may further include a device processor configured to receive an EEG signal from the EEG sensor, analyze the EEG signal to determine that the transit user is attempting to enter the transit system through a particular gate, generate the request signal identifying the transit user and indicating that the transit user is attempting to enter the transit system through the particular gate, and wirelessly transmit, using the device transmitter, the request signal to the gate receiver. The EEG signal may be based at least in part on the transit user viewing a visual stimuli displayed by the particular gate.
US10325425B1
Systems and methods for generating vehicle operation logs are provided. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may receive and analyze image data depicting an individual located within a vehicle. The electronic device may also interface with a set of sensors to retrieve or access relevant data related to the operation of the vehicle, such as time and date information, location information, and other data. The electronic device may generate a vehicle operation log that associates the individual depicted in the image data with the vehicle operating parameters.
US10325424B2
A machine time usage determination system includes a data processing pipeline configured to receive data from a plurality of sources, a machine time usage determination program, and a controller in communication with the data processing pipeline and configured to execute the machine time usage determination program. Thus, the controller is configured to review a set of data from the data processing pipeline, and assign a current activity of a set of predetermined machine activities to a piece of equipment based on the set of data. Each activity of the set of predetermined machine activities is categorized as a productive activity or an unproductive activity. The controller is also configured to determine a probability value associated with the assigned current activity.
US10325412B2
Methods and devices for cutting a three-dimensional image are disclosed. According to one example of the methods, a region of interest may be selected from an original three-dimensional image. A mesh model of the region of interest may be constructed. Then, distance field information and a shape index characteristic value of each mesh point in the mesh model may be obtained. A set of initiation points and a set of termination points may be obtained by splitting the mesh model according to the distance field information. Afterward, a mixed cost value of each mesh point may be obtained according to the distance field information, the shape index characteristic value and an image value of each mesh point. In this way, a cutting path may be determined from the set of initiation points and the set of termination points according to the mixed cost value.
US10325408B2
A method and a device for presenting multimedia information are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring representation information, the representation information including electromagnetic-field spectral information for representing an object, the electromagnetic-field spectral information being observable for a naked eye and/or acquirable for a device; establishing a four-dimensional time-space model for characterizing the representation information according to the acquired representation information, the four-dimensional time-space model having an attribute for characterizing in a digital form variation of the representation information over time; and presenting the representation information characterized by the four-dimensional time-space model. In the solution, the four-dimensional time-space model has an attribute for characterizing in a digital form variation of the representation information over time. Thereby, the problem of delay in presenting representation information may be solved to some degree. Therefore, the solution may solve the defects of delay in the related art to some degree.
US10325403B2
In one general aspect, a computer-implemented method can include identifying a plurality of pixel samples included in a layered depth image (LDI) representation of a scene for rendering in a three-dimensional (3D) image in a virtual reality (VR) space, grouping, by a processor, a subset of the plurality of pixel samples into a block of data, including extracting each pixel sample included in the subset of the plurality of pixel samples from the LDI representation of the scene for inclusion in the block of data based on an error metric associated with the respective pixel sample, creating, by the processor, a texture map for a block of data, the texture map being associated with the block of data, storing the block of data and the texture map, and triggering a rendering of the 3D image in the VR space using the block of data and the texture map.
US10325391B2
Techniques are described related to generating image content. A graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to receive a first set of images generated from a first camera device in a first location, the first camera device having a first orientation, render for display the first set of images oriented to an orientation reference, receive a second, different set of images generated from a second, different camera device in a second, different location, the second camera device having a second orientation, the second orientation being different than the first orientation, and render for display the second set of images oriented to the orientation reference.
US10325387B2
A disclosed state display method includes: determining which of a first period and a second period is dominant in a designated period based on chronological measurement results of vital activities of a subject in the designated period, the first period being a period that has been determined that the subject is in a sleep state, the second period being a period that has been determined that the subject is in a non-sleep state; and changing configuration of a display screen that displays information related to states of the subject in the designated period according to a result of the determining.
US10325382B2
A contextual image manipulation apparatus may include an image part identifier to identify a part of an image, an information collector to collect information from at least one external source, a context identifier communicatively coupled to the information collector to determine contextual information from the collected information and at least one other contextual source, and an image manipulator communicatively coupled to the image part identifier and the context identifier to alter a feature of the image part based on the contextual information.
US10325379B2
A biometric device that may include a sensor that reacts to a chemical element associated with a sweat gland; wherein when the sensor is contacted by an area of a skin of a person, an image that comprises information about locations of sweat glands within the area of the skin of the person is generated by the sensor; an image processor that is configured to generate an authentication result by comparing between (a) the information of the image generated by the sensor and (b) reference information of locations of sweat glands of a given person; wherein the authentication result indicates whether the person is the given person; and a communication module for communicating an authentication result indication.
US10325368B2
An optical measuring apparatus and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The optical measuring apparatus includes a light source, a carrier chip, a light sensor, an analyzing chip and a display. Samples are uniformly distributed on the carrier chip. The light source emits sensing lights toward the carrier chip. The light sensor receives the sensing lights passing through the carrier chip at a plurality of times to obtain a plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of times respectively. The analyzing chip is coupled to the light sensor. The analyzing chip analyzes the object number and distribution variation with time in the sample according to the plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of times and estimates intrinsic characteristics of the object in the sample accordingly. The display is coupled to the analyzing chip. The display displays the intrinsic characteristics of the object in the sample.
US10325361B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically generating a wafer image to design coordinate mapping. In use, a design of a wafer is received by a computer processor. In addition, an image of a wafer fabricated from the design is received by the computer processor. Further, a coordinate mapping between the design and the image is automatically generated by the computer processor.
US10325357B2
Embodiments of the present application provide image processing methods and apparatus. A image processing method disclosed herein comprises: acquiring, from an image, two regions which have a textural similarity higher than a first value and have different depths; performing frequency-domain conversion on each of the regions, to obtain a frequency-domain signal of each region; and optimizing the image at least according to the frequency-domain signal of each region, the depth of each region and a focusing distance of the image.
US10325355B2
An image processing unit performs gamma correction on a video signal using a gamma characteristic selected from among a plurality of gamma characteristics. Further, in a case where a gamma characteristic used in the gamma correction is changed by selection of the gamma characteristic, the image processing unit calculates a contour correction characteristic corresponding to the changed gamma characteristic and performs contour correction using the contour correction characteristic on the video signal.
US10325350B2
Image capture systems and methods may include one or more video capture devices capable of capturing one or more video frames. The video frames may include geographic position data and orientation data associated therewith, and may be stored on one or more non-transient computer readable medium. The computer system may marshal each video frame to one or more processors from a bank of processors for geo-referencing and overlaying of geographic information system (GIS) data on the video frames in real time.
US10325346B2
An image processor inputs a first image and outputs a downscaled second image by upscaling the second image to a third image, wherein the third image is substantially the same size as the first image size with a third resolution, associating pixels in the second image with a corresponding group of pixels from the third set of pixels, sampling a first image area at a first location of the first set of pixels to generate a first image sample, sampling a second image area of the third set of pixels to generate a second image sample, measuring similarity between the image areas, generating a perceptual image value, recursively adjusting values of third set of pixels until the image perception value matches a perceptual standard value, and adjusting pixel values in the second image to a representative pixel value of each of the corresponding group of pixels.
US10325342B2
Embodiments relate to a configurable convolution engine that receives configuration information to perform convolution and other deep machine learning operations on streaming input data of various formats. The convolution engine may include two convolution circuits that each generate a stream of values by applying convolution kernels to input data. The stream of values may each define multiple channels of image data. A channel merge circuit interleaves the streams of values from the convolution circuits to generate an output stream of output values. The output stream includes the data multiple channels of each input stream arranged in an interleaved manner.
US10325339B2
A method for capturing an image of a traffic sign by an image sensor is disclosed. The method may include capturing, by the image sensor, at least one image including the traffic sign, wherein the image sensor is mounted in a vehicle. The method may include detecting, by a processor, the traffic sign in the at least one image. The method may also include in response to detecting the traffic sign, determining, by the processor, at least one direction of the image sensor based on the at least one image and motion of the vehicle. In addition, the method may include adjusting, by the processor, the image sensor to the at least one direction.
US10325333B2
Methods and systems for fulfillment gateway are described. In one embodiment, a prescription order for a prescription drug is received from an order processing station. An order message associated with the prescription order is generated. The order message has a prescription parameter and a dispensation preference for fulfilling the prescription order. The order message is assigned to an order fulfillment station based on the prescription parameter, the dispensation preference and a dispensary attribute of the order fulfillment station. In other embodiments, the order message is selected for delivery based on based on the prescription parameter, the dispensation preference and a dispensary attribute of the order fulfillment station. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
US10325330B2
Systems and methods facilitate and automate well abandonment procedures. In an embodiment, well field data for a plurality of wells is categorized into well types. An inspection set of wells, including wells of each type, is determined from the entire plurality of wells. Inspection data is collected for each well type, including environmental, regulatory, and well condition data. The inspection data is extrapolated onto wells with similar types for the entire filed and analyzed. The analysis may include determining an optimal sequence of well abandonment activities, and an estimate of costs for abandoning each well, all wells of each type, and the entire well field. In an embodiment, a risk assessment analysis is performed and may include an analysis of factors that may change the cost of abandoning the well field or a sequence of well abandonment activities.
US10325312B2
The present disclosure involves systems and computer implemented methods for performing a failure analysis on a device monitored by at least one connected device, where in response to a determination of an impending failure, at least one corrective action is determined and suggested to the user of the monitored device. In one example, operations include monitoring operations of at least one monitored device using at least one connected device, determining a projected life span of the at least one monitored device based on the monitored operations, and, if the projected life span of the monitored device is less than a threshold amount, determining a corrective action to perform. A proposal can be generated for presentation based on the corrective action. The proposal may be based on the estimated cost of the determined corrective action and an analysis of an account.
US10325308B2
A system includes N location indicators and a mobile scanning device. The N location indicators are configured to be arranged throughout a store that includes a plurality of stocked items for picking according to one or more electronic customer orders. Each of the N location indicators is configured to transmit a different location signal. The mobile scanning device includes a display. The mobile scanning device is configured to wirelessly receive an electronic customer order comprising a plurality of ordered items indicating which of the stocked items are to be picked, detect at least one of the N location signals, and arrange at least some of the plurality of ordered items on the display based on which of the at least one of the N location signals is detected.
US10325304B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing alternative recommendations using search context. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include receiving a user search query and receiving a request to view an item included in a set of search results retrieved in response to the search query. The method may further include determining an alternative item recommendation using the search query and attributes of the item, and causing presentation of the item and the alternative item recommendation in response to receiving the request to view the item.
US10325303B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for providing product information. The present invention implements a system for defining product variations and assigning references to them at the point of sale or delivery. The present invention is unique in allowing a seller to assign or modify a reference associated with such a bar code or similar device at the point of sale or delivery, thereby changing the information delivered to the buyer based on details about the specific unit sold, the circumstances of the transaction, or the identity of the buyer.
US10325298B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium may include executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to provide for a non-destructive testing (NDT) ecosystem. The NDT ecosystem includes a repository of digital content, and a store configured to sell the digital content to a customer, wherein the digital content is executable by a NDT device and wherein the digital content is created by a plurality of entities.
US10325294B2
A system and method for notifying customers of a retail enterprise of checkout queue activity includes a stored identification code identifying a location in or near a customer entry area to multiple point-of-sale systems grouped together in a brick-and-mortar outlet of the retail enterprise, and customer codes associated in a database with various customers of the retail enterprise, monitoring purchase transaction activity at each of the plurality of point-of-sale systems. An operating state of each of the point-of-sale systems is determined based on the monitored purchase transaction activity thereof. In response to a wirelessly received customer code and identification code, a notification message is wirelessly transmitted to a mobile communication device identified by a matching one of the customer codes in the database if the wirelessly received identification code matches the stored identification code. The notification message includes information identifying the operating state of at least one point-of-sale system.
US10325293B2
In an information processing device performing display control for a web page having at least a first advertisement frame and a second advertisement frame placed below the first advertisement frame as advertisement frames in which advertisements are displayed, the device causes the first advertisement frame to follow scrolling in response to a display reference position in a web page display frame of a web browser reaching a first follow-start position for the first advertisement frame as the web page is scrolled in the web page display frame, and causes the second advertisement frame to follow the scrolling in response to the display reference position reaching a second follow-start position for the second advertisement frame after termination of the following of the first advertisement frame.
US10325289B2
Methods and apparatus for finding similar on-line users for advertisement or content targeting are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of user data sets associated with a plurality of user identifiers for a plurality of anonymous users are obtained, and each user data set of each user identifier specifies one or more user attributes and on-line user events that have occurred for such user identifier. For each attribute, a correlation to a success metric value is determined for a particular type of event or attribute that has occurred for a plurality of user identifiers that are each associated with such attribute. The plurality of user identifiers and associated data sets are clustered into a plurality of user groups that each has similar data sets by weighting based on the attributes' relative correlation to the success metric.
US10325283B2
An advertiser specifies an advertising campaign along with a budget, a duration and one or more objectives associated with the advertising campaign. An online system presenting advertisements from the advertising campaign determines an interval representing a portion of the duration, an interval budget, and one or more interval objectives. Historical information describing selection and presentation of advertisements by the online system is retrieved, and used to determine one or more filters limiting the number of opportunities to present an advertisement in which advertisements from the advertising campaign are included. The scaling filters may be based on the one or more interval objectives, bid amounts determined for advertisements in the advertising campaign, and bid amounts associated with advertisements previously selected for presentation form the historical data.
US10325281B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which contextual bids for an auction are provided for advertisement requests for presentation of an advertisement in an identified context. Each contextual bid is based on an effectiveness measure associated with a corresponding advertisement and the identified context. Each corresponding advertisement can be served in a plurality of contexts, and the corresponding advertisement has a corresponding plurality of effectiveness measures, each effectiveness measure determined from evaluation results received from evaluations conducted in the plurality of contexts.
US10325280B2
The presentation of interaction sequences to a user on a mobile communications device is disclosed. A first external input corresponding to a triggering of an interaction sequence delivery is received on a first input modality. An overlay is displayed in a graphical user interface in response to receiving the external input. Interaction sequence invocation instructions are displayed within the overlay. A second external input is received on a second input modality different from the first input modality. The second external input is translated to a set of quantified values. An interaction sequence results content is then displayed within the overlay in response to a substantial match between the set of quantified values translated from the received second external input to the set of predefined values corresponding to the interaction sequence invocation instructions.
US10325274B2
Systems and methods are provided for collecting, sorting, and reporting data sets representing transactions, product reviews, social media product mentions, or the like. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a trend aggregation system includes a backend data collector, a trend database, and a trend server. Data may be gathered from heterogeneous sources such as transaction records, product reviews posted by consumers on web sites, and product mentions posted on social network platforms. The data may be sorted and stored in a way to provide recall of trend data segments filtered according to selected parameters.
US10325273B2
A social networking system allows users that are people to partner with users that are non-person entities. A partnership allows the entity participating in the partnership to personalize an associated page with content from the person participating in the partnership and similarly allows the person to include certain content from the entity, made available because of the partnership, in the person's user profile. The entity may provide additional benefits, such as enrollment in a rewards program or access to new products, to a user participating in a partnership. The partnership is bidirectional, and is separate from other unidirectional connection mechanisms provided by the social networking system such as indications of affinity (e.g., “likes”), friendships, and subscriptions.
US10325264B2
Pre-authorized communication services and/or transactions are provided via a plurality of networks in response to a request received from a user to provide at least one of a communication service, a transaction and user account information via a plurality of networks of different types. Prior to processing the request, there is verification of the user's authorization to receive the at least one of the communication service, the transaction, and the user account information, and that an account associated with the user has a sufficient amount currently available for payment of the at least one of the communication service and the transaction. After verification, an authorized account associated with the user is charged in real time as the at least one of the communication service and the transaction is provided.
US10325263B2
A system includes one or more client members connected to one or more primary users and/or one or more end users. The client member receives risk data from the primary user and the end user, and the risk data includes one or more risk variables. A service provider is connected to the client member, and receives at least one of the risk variables from the client member and identifies whether the risk variable corresponds to an undefined type value or a predefined type value. The service member updates an existing database by storing the risk variable under a non-standard type category when the risk variable is identified as the undefined type value. The service member determines whether the received risk variable is a viable risk and a notification is transmitted to the client member when the viable risk is determined.
US10325262B2
A method of performing operations on a processor of a mobile payment transaction processing system, includes receiving mobile payment messages from a point-of-sale (POS) terminal operated by a merchant performing mobile payment transactions with mobile terminals. Each of the mobile payment messages contains transaction information, a network address for the POS terminal, and a geographic location provided by the mobile terminal. A POS terminal risk score is generated based on similarity between the geographic locations provided by the mobile terminals contained in the mobile payment messages which also contain the network address for the POS terminal. Processing of another mobile payment message, which is received from the POS terminal performing another mobile payment transaction with another mobile terminal subsequent to the generating of the POS terminal risk score, is controlled based on the POS terminal risk score and transaction information contained in the another mobile payment message. Related computer nodes of mobile payment transaction processing systems are disclosed.
US10325245B2
A plurality of agent terminals operable by agents of the money transfer service are interconnected by a communications network. A money transfer control system is connected to the communications network for controlling the implementation of the money transfer service. The money transfer control system includes an agent account data store storing account data for each agent and a transaction data store storing transaction data for transactions by agents implementing money transfers from a sending entity to at least one receiving entity.
US10325242B2
A method and system for sharing activities of devices enabling sharing of various Social Network Services (SNS) based user activities and enabling a shared activity to be directly performed by a user device by collecting, by a first device, information on activities performed by a user of the first device, providing, by the first device, the collected activity information for sharing, and performing, by a second device, an event depending on the shared activity information provided by the first device.
US10325229B2
A system and associated interfaces are provided that permit the monitoring of workers within the workplace environment. In one aspect, a monitor having various sensing capabilities may be assigned to a monitored subject that records various parameters that are personal to the worker. For instance, it is appreciated that there may be sensor that can be attached to the monitored subject that is adapted to monitor certain parameters associated with the worker's environment. For instance, a sensor assigned to the monitored subject may be capable of determining the location of the subject, along with motion, impacts, altitude, and other environmental parameters that could affect the health or other condition of the worker.
US10325222B2
Embodiments may include machine learning, including decision tree machine learning. Predictive variables may be selected for the machine learning through an iterative process. Predictive power of the predictive variables and collinearity between the predictive variables may be considered when selecting a set of the predictive variables for the machine learning.
US10325219B2
A sorting engine is an intermediary layer between a multi-threaded engine that obtains batches of training data from the producers in parallel and the underlying machine learning engine. The sorting engine includes a shared buffer that has various slots for storing batches of training data, where the slots are organized in a deterministic order associated with the producers. A batch of training data obtained by a thread from a given producer may be stored only in a corresponding slot in the shared buffer. Further, the sorting engine transmits the batch to the machine learning engine only when a previous batch in the deterministic order has been transmitted from the shared buffer to the machine learning engine.
US10325218B1
In a general aspect, a quantum process for execution by a quantum processor is generated. In some instances, test data representing a test output of a quantum process are obtained. The test data are obtained based on a value assigned to a variable parameter of the quantum process. An objective function is evaluated based on the test data, and an updated value is assigned to the variable parameter based on the evaluation of the objective function. The quantum process is provided for execution by a quantum processor, and the quantum process provided for execution has the updated value assigned to the variable parameter.
US10325216B2
A system and method can be used to facilitate a strategy for decision making in a fantasy sports league. The method can be used in conjunction with a web or mobile based application. By entering data into the various matrices associated with the application, a customized data set can be created. This data set can then be used with graphical overlays to facilitate future decision making based on created scores attributable to each individual athlete. The end result being a streamlined process that gives one an advantage over others in the fantasy sports league.
US10325211B2
A method for using hybrid data within a cognitive information processing system environment comprising: receiving data from a plurality of data sources, the plurality of data sources comprising a public data source and a private data source, the public data source comprising publicly available travel information, the private data source comprising privately managed, company specific travel information; accessing information from the plurality of data sources via a cognitive data management module; and, providing the information to an inference and learning system.
US10325210B2
A computer-implementable method for providing cognitive insights comprising: receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching and generating a sub-graph for incorporation into a cognitive graph; and, processing the cognitive graph, the processing the cognitive graph providing cognitive insights.
US10325208B2
Born To Live is use for mitigating obstacles of exponential broadening base logic, inherent in multi-levels tree formation systems, to deriving Pareto efficient system solutions for scheduling fair leveraging treatment frequencies. The disclosed intellectual property know-how is use for working with pools of leveraging contributors, starting with the minimum age of eighteen (18) year old, to applying age ranges interval tabulations, whereby forming Born To Live relational multi-levels tree formation systems. It instructs pre-sorting of leveraging contributors' position assignments sequences base on age's priorities order. Guided by a levels strengths analysis chart constructed, it instructs the formation of adjacent optimal multi-levels trees, for managing obstacles of the next insurmountable incremental in multi-levels tree formation systems. It also instructs periodically re-scheduling fair leveraging assignments for leveraging contributors, during subsequent contributors' age advancements, whereby assigning each leveraging contributor into a new position throughout Born To Live relational multi-levels tree formation systems, and to finally graduating leveraging contributors out of the multi-levels tree formation systems itself.
US10325207B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing cognitive computing operations comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph; defining a cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the cognitive persona corresponding to an archetype user model, the cognitive persona comprising a set of nodes in the cognitive graph; associating a user with the cognitive persona; and, performing a cognitive computing operation based upon the cognitive persona associated with the user.
US10325206B2
An apparatus for use within a cognitive information processing system environment comprising: a dataset engine, the dataset engine coupled to receive data from a plurality of data sources, the dataset engine processing the data from the plurality of data sources to establish and maintain a dynamic data ingestion and enrichment pipeline.
US10325203B2
An apparatus for use within a cognitive information processing system comprising: an insight/learning engine, the insight/learning engine encapsulating an operation, the operation being applied to a target cognitive graph to generate a cognitive insight.
US10325201B1
A method for generating a deceivable composite image by using a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) including a generating and a discriminating neural network to allow a surveillance system to recognize surroundings and detect a rare event, such as hazardous situations, more accurately by using a heterogeneous sensor fusion is provided. The method includes steps of: a computing device, generating location candidates of a rare object on a background image, and selecting a specific location candidate among the location candidates as an optimal location of the rare object by referring to candidate scores; inserting a rare object image into the optimal location, generating an initial composite image; and adjusting color values corresponding to each of pixels in the initial composite image, generating the deceivable composite image. Further, the method may be applicable to a pedestrian assistant system and a route planning by using 3D maps, GPS, smartphones, V2X communications, etc.
US10325200B2
Discriminative pretraining technique embodiments are presented that pretrain the hidden layers of a Deep Neural Network (DNN). In general, a one-hidden-layer neural network is trained first using labels discriminatively with error back-propagation (BP). Then, after discarding an output layer in the previous one-hidden-layer neural network, another randomly initialized hidden layer is added on top of the previously trained hidden layer along with a new output layer that represents the targets for classification or recognition. The resulting multiple-hidden-layer DNN is then discriminatively trained using the same strategy, and so on until the desired number of hidden layers is reached. This produces a pretrained DNN. The discriminative pretraining technique embodiments have the advantage of bringing the DNN layer weights close to a good local optimum, while still leaving them in a range with a high gradient so that they can be fine-tuned effectively.
US10325189B2
An image processing method of performing rasterization of a page in units of band area includes, among other things, performing, in units of band areas, rasterization based on second intermediate data stored in a first memory area for storing intermediate data and compressed raster data stored in a second memory area. The rasterization of the plurality of band areas is performed in parallel. In addition, the performing of the rasterization based on the second intermediate data and the compressed raster data includes selectively decompressing, in units of predetermined areas, a piece of the compressed raster data stored in the second memory area, in accordance with which band areas, of a plurality of band areas, are to be subject to the rasterization.
US10325175B2
In various implementations, a computing device is configured to provide a live preview of salient contours generated on a live digital video feed. In particular, a designer can use a computing device with a camera, such as a smart phone, to view a real-time preview of salient contours generated from edges detected in frames of a live digital video feed prior to capture, thereby eliminating the unpredictability of salient contours generated from a previously captured image. In some implementations, the salient contours are overlaid on a greyscale conversion of the live digital video feed for improved processing and visual contrast. Other implementations modify aspects of edge-detecting or post-processing filters for improved performance on mobile computing devices.
US10325173B2
A method for analyzing images to generate a plurality of output features includes receiving input features of the image and performing Fourier transforms on each input feature. Kernels having coefficients of a plurality of trained features are received and on-the-fly Fourier transforms (OTF-FTs) are performed on the coefficients in the kernels. The output of each Fourier transform and each OTF-FT are multiplied together to generate a plurality of products and each of the products are added to produce one sum for each output feature. Two-dimensional inverse Fourier transforms are performed on each sum.
US10325169B2
A spatio-temporal awareness engine combines a low-resolution tracking process and high resolution tracking process to employ an array of imaging sensors to track an object within the visual field. The system utilizes a low-resolution conversion through noise filtering and feature consolidation to load-balance the more computationally-intensive aspects of object tracking, allowing for a more robust system, while utilizing less computer resources. A process for target recovery and object path prediction in a robotic drone may include tracking targets using a combination of visual and acoustic multimodal sensors, operating a camera as a main tracking sensor of the multimodal sensors and feeding output of the camera to a spatiotemoral engine, complementing the main tracking sensor with non-visual, fast secondary sensors to assign rough directionality to a target tracking signal, and applying the rough directionality to prioritize visual scanning by the main tracking sensor.
US10325167B1
Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for generating a vehicle driver rating. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for determining vehicle driver ratings based on vehicle interior image data.
US10325158B2
In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are described herein including a shelf assembly that utilizes the accumulated weight of products stocked thereon to compress a compression member disposed within the assembly. An electronic imaging device can be mounted proximate to the assembly and can be oriented to capture an image of the compression member to determine whether a particular shelf needs to be restocked and avoid having to manipulate or remove products from a shelf to determine a current stock level.
US10325155B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates generally to industrial automation systems, and, more particularly, to collecting video streams from a variety of video devices in an industrial environment, identifying and analyzing potential problems in the industrial environment using the video streams, and presenting the video streams and data associated with the potential problem to appropriate recipients.
US10325152B1
A method of extracting a warehouse in a port from a hierarchically screened remote sensing image includes the following steps: first, recognizing a texture feature of a remote sensing image and extracting edge lines of a coast of a port; then, selecting a sample of an optional irregular texture region and forming, through a CA transformation, principal component images of different hierarchies by taking a ratio of a between-class difference to an intra-class difference being maximum as an optimization condition; sequentially, extracting a correlation relationship of the warehouse in the port, and forming a feature point set with recognized warehouses to be analyzed; and last, extracting a feature of a visually sensitive image through a scene image to obtain a feedback selection of a real scene image to extract the warehouse in the port accurately.
US10325142B2
In one aspect, a fingerprint sensor device includes sensing circuitry to generate a sensor signal responsive to detecting a contact input associated with a fingerprint. The sensing circuitry includes a fingerprint sensor to detect the contact input and generate a signal indicative of an image of the fingerprint. The sensing circuitry includes a live finger sensor to generate a signal indicative of an identification of the fingerprint as belonging to a live finger. The generated sensor signal includes the signal indicative of the image of the fingerprint and the signal indicative of the identification of the fingerprint as belonging to a live finger. The fingerprint sensor device includes processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the sensing circuitry to process the generated sensor signal to determine whether the contact input associated with the fingerprint belongs to a live finger.
US10325141B2
A system, method, and computer program product for automatic machine-implemented pattern registration, particularly suited to small sensor systems which include a reduced image capture area size relative to the pattern being sensed.
US10325138B2
A unit pixel of a fingerprint sensor is provided. The unit pixel includes a sensing electrode located to form a capacitance with an object touching a touch surface, a first switch connected between a first node and a second node to transmit at least one driving voltage input through the second node, the first node connected to the sensing electrode, the switch configured to the sensing electrode, an amplifier configured to receive a signal from the sensing electrode and amplify the signal, and a first capacitor connected between a first input terminal and an output terminal of the amplifier, the first capacitor configured to transmit the signal from the sensing electrode to the output terminal. The amplifier is configured to output a different output voltage according to the at least one driving based on an operation of the first switch.
US10325135B2
The present invention relates to a method of enrolling a fingerprint of a user's finger using a fingerprint sensor, specifically allowing for an adaptability in a number of times the use's finger needs to touch/contact the fingerprint sensor for enrollment completion. The invention also relates to a corresponding electronic device and to a computer program product.
US10325133B2
A capacitive fingerprint sensing device for sensing a fingerprint pattern of a finger can comprise a plurality of sensing elements. Each sensing element comprises a protective dielectric top layer to be touched by the finger; a first electrode comprising an optically transparent electrically conductive sensing structure arranged underneath the top layer; fingerprint sensing circuitry connected to the first electrode and configured to provide an analog sensing signal indicative of a distance between the finger and the sensing structure, a second electrode arranged underneath the first electrode; an organic light emitting layer arranged between the first and second electrodes; display element control circuitry connected to the second electrode and configured to control a display element comprising the first and second electrodes and the organic light emitting layer; and a switching mechanism configured to switch the sensing element between a fingerprint sensing mode and a display mode.
US10325130B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for an embedded, scalable, predictive tool capable of detecting in-field anomalies and trends in advance of productivity losses on single devices, device clusters, and/or multi-cluster architectures. In-field and in real-time, sets of barcode signal sequences associated with respective barcode symbols are collected in time series (that is, at successive time intervals). A quality index measure in computed for each of the barcode signal sequence sets such that each quality index measure is associated with a barcode symbol. Patterns among the sets are identified therefrom and compared to barcode symbol patterns that are known to be associated with particular trends or anomalies and appropriately classified as such.
US10325127B2
A data reading system and method, such as for reading optical codes on objects being passed through a read zone, including one or more imagers and at least one illumination module having a reflector housing that includes a baffle structure with a first inner surface and a second inner surface, and a light source disposed at the rear end of the reflector housing and operative to generate illumination out through the baffle structure along an outgoing illumination path, wherein at least one of the inner surfaces of the baffle structure comprises a dielectric material operative to exhibit high reflectivity to light rays from the light source impinging at a high incidence angle and to exhibit low reflectivity to light rays from the light source impinging at a low incidence angle, thereby minimizing stray light impinging on the eyes of the operator while maximizing on-target illumination.
US10325124B1
A control system for indoor position and vector tracking includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters to detect a mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The control system includes an intelligent controller to receive location information from the RF transmitters and to calculate a vector associated with the mobile RFID tag. The intelligent controller may utilize the vector as a control input to an algorithm for selecting a control operation for one or more of plurality of networked devices.
US10325120B2
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided which comprises: a substrate; an integrated circuit; a layer of glue between the substrate and the integrated circuit; a set of driving electrodes coupled to the glue and to the integrated circuit; a receiving electrode coupled to the glue and to the integrated circuit; a counter electrode coupled to the glue and to the substrate; wherein the glue comprises conductive particles which electrically connect the receiving electrode, the counter electrode and at least a part of the set of driving electrodes, such that, if drive currents are provided to said set of driving electrodes, at least a part of the drive currents flows to the receiving electrode through the conductive particles and the counter electrode. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of manufacturing an electronic device is conceived.
US10325113B2
Minimizing data security risks may be provided. A number and type of confidential data in a computing environment may be determined to generate a metric for the type of confidential data in the computing environment. The metric of the type of confidential data may be compared to a predetermined metric for the type. Responsive to determining the metric for the type of confidential data exceeding a predetermined metric for the type, an action may be performed to prevent more entries of the type of confidential data in the computing environment.
US10325103B1
A computer-implemented method may include (1) generating or receiving, at a computing device, display data defining a display layout and one or more fields; (2) providing, on a display screen of the computing device and by processing the display data, a display that initially obscures an item of information in a secure field without obscuring an entirety of the display; (3) detecting, using at least a camera of the computing device, a change in orientation of a user relative to the computing device; and (4) in response to the change in orientation, causing the display to show the item of information in the secure field, and after causing the display to show the item, (i) detecting an expiration of a predetermined time limit, and (ii) in response to detecting the expiration, causing the display to again obscure the item in the secure field without obscuring the entirety of the display.
US10325098B2
A system and method for processing electronic devices to determine removal of customer personal information (CPI). An electronic device is connected to a test device. A number of electronic devices including the electronic device are received for determining that the CPI is removed from a number of sources. The number of electronic devices include a number of makes and models of electronic devices. A determination of whether CPI is included on the electronic device is made. An identification of the electronic device is recorded in response to determining that CPI is included on the electronic device. The CPI is cleared form the electronic device in response to determining that the CPI is included on the electronic device. The identification of the electronic devices and metadata is reported in response to determining the CPI was included on the electronic device.
US10325095B2
An approach is provided for controlling a task to perform a change ticket. The task is correlated with user(s) authorized to initiate execution of command(s) to perform the task and with an authorized location. A requestor is determined to be in the authorized location by receiving verification from physical access control system(s). The requestor is determined to be logged into a first computer system at the authorized location and to have utilized the first computer system to request execution of one of the command(s). The requestor is determined to be remotely logged into a second computer system via the first computer system. The requestor is determined to be one of the authorized user(s) correlated with the task. Based in part on determining the requestor is one of the authorized user(s) subsequent to determining the requestor is remotely logged into the second computer system, the requested command is executed.
US10325090B2
The disclosure relates to a digital identity system including an enrolment module executing on a processor configured to receive a data item from an enrolling device and to create in persistent electronic storage a digital profile comprising the data item. The system also includes a credential creation module executing on a processor configured to generate a credential from a random sequence, to associate the credential with the digital profile in a database, and to transmit the credential to the enrolling device. The system further includes a publication module executing on a processor configured, in response to later presentation of the credential to the digital identity system, to publish the digital profile by storing a version of the digital profile in a memory location accessible to a device presenting the credential.
US10325084B1
Methods and systems for creating a verifiable digital identity are provided. The method includes verifying a device belongs to a user. The method also includes tying the device to a private key. The method also includes obtaining a first user-generated item comprising an identifiable feature. The method also includes digitally signing the first user-generated item to generate a secure digital artifact. The method also includes uploading the secure digital artifact and the first user-generated item to an auditable chain of a public ledger. The method also includes verifying a digital identity of the user by auditing the auditable chain. The method also includes obtaining a second user-generated item generated comprising the identifiable feature. The method also includes comparing the first and second user-generated items. The method also includes uploading the second user-generated item to the public ledger when the comparing is within a threshold.
US10325081B2
Method, media, and system for authentication of a claimant as a claimed identity. Embodiments break the authentication process into two steps. In the first step, a registrant establishes an identity profile by presenting identity documents and authentication points that can later be used to verify that they are the person who established the identity profile. Subsequently, when a claimant claims the identity in the identity profile, an identity score and an authentication score can be calculated based on the identity profile and the information provided by the claimant. The authentication score measures how likely it is that the claimant is the same person who established the identity profile. The identity score measures how likely it is that the registrant is who they are claiming to be. The identity score and the authentication score can then be combined to determine the likelihood that the claimant actually corresponds to the claimed identity.
US10325080B2
An example method for verifying identity information includes: receiving image information transmitted and rendered by a client; extracting feature information from the image information; matching the feature information with the feature determination information collected in advance; the feature determination information having associated identity information; determining whether the client fits with the identity information when the match is successful. The example embodiment of the present disclosure identifies a user on the basis of the uniqueness of the image information rendered by different client environments and clients, ensuring the accuracy of identification of user identity information, meanwhile avoiding the problem that the user identity information cannot be identified due to the shutdown of Cookie by clients, and raising the success rate of identification of identity information.
US10325074B2
Apparatus adapting to ambient environment and internal self-diagnostics operating within acceptance criteria, sustaining prescription medications within specifications, which in addition to conventional quality parameters include apparatus specific parameters, such as: combined weight of medication inside a container, and length of container. A control algorithm executed by apparatus sustaining operation within acceptance criteria. Apparatus including conveyor transport system configurable for vertical distribution of prescription medications between pharmacy and authorized user. Vertical configuration provides support for pharmacy to serve multi-story facility, such as a hospital. Automatic dispensing ensures high productivity and quality as only verified specification medications are dispensed to authorized customers.
US10325073B1
The method and system determine and report measures of adherence of patients to prescription medication regimens based upon fill gaps in the prescription history of the patients. The measure of adherence may be the proportion of days covered by the medication. The method and system may receive or access information relating to a patient's medical history, including past prescription medication fills. Fills of both the prescription medication and other medications that may substitute for the prescription medication may be considered in determining patient adherence levels. Upon determining the patient's level of adherence, the system and method may generate a report including the adherence information and associated information, such as a home pharmacy location. The report may include an indication of whether new-to-therapy information should be presented to a patient based on patient adherence levels.
US10325069B2
A method of optimizing healthcare services consumption according to the invention includes the steps of assessing the healthcare situation of an employer providing healthcare benefits to a population, identifying a first group of patients from the population likely to generate expensive healthcare claims based on data representing past claims, periodically determining whether patients in the first group have satisfied certain predetermined healthcare requirements, identifying a first group of providers who provide high quality, cost efficient healthcare services based on the practice patterns of the providers, prompting patients who have not satisfied the predetermined healthcare requirements to obtain services from providers in the first group, and responding to healthcare requests from patients by determining whether the requesting patient is seeking services from a provider in the first group, and, if not, urging the patient to obtain such services from a provider in the first group.
US10325048B1
An integrated circuit test method provides an interactive shell environment having analysis modules organized as a directory such that for a given session a user can access any of the analysis modules. This invention describes a virtual directory structure for navigating through the entire test data starting from design, test configuration, ATPG patterns, failure information and callout information. This structure also allows the creation of a scripting environment for the user to select a specific configuration and process the information. User can achieve all of this in a single session as opposed to working on every test configuration in an independent session.
US10325038B2
A method of simulating shaping a textile strip by winding on a mold presenting a surface of revolution is described. The textile strip is made by three-dimensional weaving between a plurality of layers of warp yarns and a plurality of layers of weft yarns, the warp yarn layers being interlinked by the weft yarn layers. For each warp yarn layer, the method includes positioning crossing points between at least some of the warp yarns of the warp yarn layer and at least some of the weft yarns, the warp yarns of the at least some of the warp yarns including a reference warp yarn having a determined axial position on the mold.
US10325036B2
A method for determining a welding sequence including a plurality of welding operations is disclosed. The method includes steps of determining a population of welding sequences based on a set of user-generated constraints, and simulating welding for at least one welding sequence in the population of welding sequences to obtain a multi-objective dependent distortion model of the at least one welding sequence. The method further includes steps of comparing a merit value of the multi-objective dependent distortion model for the at least one welding sequence with one or more predetermined criteria, and outputting a set of welding sequences as potential welding sequences based on the comparison between the merit value and the multi-objective dependent distortion model.
US10325031B2
Embodiments of methods and/or systems of manipulating tree expressions are disclosed.
US10325030B2
Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed include a durable multiversion modification of B+-tree with full transaction semantics. In-memory and persistent page images are managed without a buffer manager. Instead, a non-leaf page downlink directly points either to in-memory or on-disk pages. In turn, the reduced amount of fetches per page access improves scalability on multi-core hardware platforms. Embodiments include structurally consistent copy-on-write checkpoints that enable using row-level write-ahead logs. In combination with in-memory undo log for multiversion concurrency control, the amount of persistent storage operations is significantly reduced.
US10325026B2
A technique for generating a new equivalent phrase for an input phrase includes receiving a first input phrase for natural language expansion. Tokens that correspond to parts of speech are generated for the first input phrase. An original grammar tree is generated using at least some of the tokens. One or more alternate grammar trees are generated that are different from the original grammar tree but substantially equivalent to the original grammar tree. One or more synonyms for at least one of the tokens are generated. Finally, one or more new phrases are generated based on the one or more alternate grammar trees and the one or more synonyms.
US10325024B2
Embodiments relate to an intelligent computer platform to provide a contextual analogy response. The aspect of providing a contextual analogy response includes receiving a communication that includes an analogy. The analogy within the communication is identified and parsed into grammatical components. The grammatical components are utilized to identify a meaning of the analogy that correlates to a response statement. The grammatical structure of the analogy is analyzed and then utilized together with the grammatical components to construct an analogy representation. A response is communicated as output including both the response statement together with the analogy representation.
US10325019B2
The present disclosure is descriptive of discovering structure, content, and context of a media event, e.g., a live media event, using real-time discussions that unfold through short messaging services. Generally, a sampling of short messages of a plurality of users is obtained. The sampling of short messages corresponds to a media event. A segment in the media event is identified using the sampling of short messages, and at least one term taken from the sampling of short messages is identified. The at least one term is indicative of a context of the identified segment.
US10325011B2
Systems, devices and methods operative for identifying a reference within a figure and an identifier in a text associated with the figure, the reference referring to an element depicted in the figure, the reference corresponding to the identifier, the identifier identifying the element in the text, placing the identifier on the figure at a distance from the reference, the identifier visually associated with the reference upon the placing, the placing of the identifier on the figure is irrespective of the distance between the identifier and the reference.
US10324993B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for augmenting search engine index that indexes resources from a collection of resources. In one aspect, a method of augmenting a first search engine index that indexes resources from a first collection of resources includes the actions of identifying a first resource, in the first collection of resources, that is indexed in the first search engine index for which a value of a search engine ranking signal is not available, wherein a search engine uses values of the search engine ranking signal in ranking resources in response to received search queries; processing text from the first resource using a machine learning model, the machine learning model being configured to: process the text to predict a value of the search engine ranking signal for the first resource; and updating the first search engine index by associating the predicted value of the search engine ranking signal with the first resource in the first search engine index.
US10324991B2
A method for presenting search results is provided. The method receives a user input search query; obtains, from a search engine, a first set of search results responsive to the user input search query; efficiently identifies a promoted set of search results for promotion using a set of search promotion rules, each of the set of search promotion rules including a set of terms and one or more document identifiers; revises the first set of search results, based on the identified promoted set, to create a second set of search results; and presents the second set of search results, wherein the second set of search results includes the first set of search results and the promoted set in a promoted position.
US10324985B2
A method includes receiving a search query and a device type identifier from a user device at a processing system. The method also includes identifying a consideration set of application records based on the search query. Each application record in the consideration set has an initial score associated therewith indicating a degree to which the application record matches the search query. For each application record, the method includes determining a device-specific rating of the software application identified in the application record based on the device type identifier by the processing system, and determining a result score of the application record based on the device-specific rating and the initial score. The method further includes generating device-specific search results based on the consideration set of application records and the result scores thereof by the processing system and transmitting the device-specific search results from the processing system to the user device.
US10324980B2
A system and method for the caching of files streaming from at least one source-server towards at least one end-user via the internet; system characterized by at least one integrated circuit (IC) configured to manage and direct files to be cached in at least one storage-element, said ICs and storage elements interconnected by at least one high speed bus. The storage elements comprise different types of non-volatile memory, each characterized by its access speed. A protocol selects files and file fragments for caching. At least one database maintains data on each cached file or file fragment, the data comprising: caching status, data format characteristics, and relative end-user demand. A protocol continuously allocates or reallocates memory for the caching of the files and file fragments, from among the storage elements, as a function of the database data and respective amounts of memory available in the storage elements.
US10324977B2
The present disclosure discloses a searching method and apparatus. A specific embodiment of the searching method comprises: receiving a search request sent by a client, the search request including a target picture; analyzing the target picture to extract text information and an image characteristic; matching the text information with text information of each preset picture in a preset picture set to determine a first similarity, matching the image characteristic with an image characteristic of the preset picture in response to the first similarity greater than a first preset threshold, and determining whether the preset picture is determined as an identical picture based on matching results; and acquiring associated information of the identical picture, sending the identical picture and the associated information as a search result to the client to be displayed on the client. The present embodiment improves the search efficiency and reduces the labor cost of the search.
US10324968B2
An aspect of topic generation includes parsing communications conducted by users through an application. The communications include a communication generated by a sender and response communications received from recipients in reply to the communication generated by the sender. An aspect also includes identifying keywords, timestamps, and indications of sentiment from the parsed communications through natural language processing, determining a focus of the communication generated by the sender based on the keywords identified from the parsing, and formulating a topic for a publication based on criteria including a frequency of occurrence of the keywords in the parsed communications, a threshold level of the indications of sentiment that appear in the parsed communications, and/or a number of the communications containing one or more of the keywords having corresponding timestamps that fall within a threshold period of time. An aspect further includes submitting the topic for publication to the sender.
US10324967B2
A system for performing semantic search receives an electronic text corpus and separates the text corpus into a plurality of sentences. The system parses and converts each sentence into a sentence tree. The system receives a search query and matches the search query with one or more of the sentence trees.
US10324962B1
A set of domain aware tokens generated for a given unstructured data set are obtained. A value is computed for the given unstructured data set as a function of the set of domain aware tokens and a given context of interest. The value represents a valuation of the unstructured data set for the given context of interest. A placement of the unstructured data set within a data storage environment may be determined based on the computed value.
US10324960B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a number of unique viewers of a content item. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an identifier specifying characteristics of a user associated with a device that was used to present a given content item. A user category is identified for the received identifier based on the characteristics. Each user category of a set of user categories include a respective number of pseudo-users. The received identifier is assigned to a given pseudo-user in the identified user category based on a non-linear distribution of identifiers per actual user in the identified user category. A number of unique users, including the given pseudo-user, that have viewed the given content item is determined based on a total number of pseudo-users that have been assigned an identifier corresponding to presentation of the given content item.
US10324958B2
A method is provided that includes receiving a first electronic document for a manufactured product, with the first electronic document including first data regarding the manufactured product. The method includes extracting the first data from the first electronic document. And the method includes correlating the first data so extracted and second data regarding the manufactured product to produce aggregated data including the first data and second data, and storing the aggregated data in a storage from which the aggregated data is queryable.
US10324954B2
A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described.
US10324949B2
A method is provided for consolidating data retrieved from different text records stored in different languages and associated with a single user. According to an embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: extracting a plurality of users' identifications from a plurality of text records and converting them into a corresponding plurality of speech records, each being essentially identical to the pronunciation of a corresponding user identification in a language which its respective text record has been stored; converting each speech record to a respective data record; extracting from the data records obtained, at least one group of data records comprising two or more data records essentially identical to each other; for each of the groups, retrieving information comprised in two or more text records which are stored in different languages from each other; and storing the information retrieved in a consolidated text record.
US10324946B2
Mechanisms and methods for sharing database content between tenants in a multi-tenant database system are provided. The ability to temporarily store metadata related to the shared data for subsequent use optimizes the data transfer process for multiple data transfers. In an embodiment, the metadata is stored for a pre-determined period of time and fetched again after the period elapses if required. The metadata may be erased from temporary storage if an administrator updates the shared data.
US10324936B2
Systems and methods that quantify document relevance for a document relative to a training corpus and select a best match or best matches are provided herein. Methods may include generating an example-based explanation for relevancy of a document to a training corpus by executing a support vector machine classifier, the support vector machine classifier performing a centroid classification of a relevant document in a term frequency-inverse document frequency features space relative to training examples in a training corpus, and generating an example-based explanation by selecting a best match for the relevant document from the training examples based upon the centroid classification.
US10324929B2
A query is parsed and positions of symbols of the query are determined. A parse tree including the positions of the symbols is generated based on the parsed query. The parse tree is sent to a DBMS optimizer. The parse tree is transformed into an optimizer tree. The optimizer tree includes the positions of the symbols of the query.Based on the optimizer tree, a query execution plan is generated for the execution of the query. The positions of the symbols of the query is copied from the optimizer tree into the query execution plan. The query execution plan is sent to a query execution engine.The query is executed in accordance with the query execution plan. When a runtime error is detected, an exception message associated with the runtime error is displayed. The error message includes an error code and the positions of the symbols of the query.
US10324921B1
In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method and system for implementing external content type (ECT) object types in a content management system (CMS). More specifically, embodiments of the technology relate to augmenting the object model with a new class of object type—an external content type (ECT) object type. The ECT object types are a class of object types that are used to manage object (referred to as managed external objects) that are located in external data systems.
US10324919B2
A processing device receives a request that identifies an object to store in a storage system. The request includes a custom path for the object that represents content of the object. The processing device selects one or more other objects in the storage system that has a respective custom path that is similar to the custom path in the request. The one or more other objects that have the respective custom path that is similar to the custom path in the request includes content that is similar to the content of the object that is identified in the request. The processing device determines which data store in the storage system stores the one or more other objects that have the respective custom path that is similar to the custom path in the request, and routes the object identified in the request to a storage node corresponding to the data store to store the object in the data store with the one or more other objects.
US10324916B2
The invention relates to predictive browsing. A set of words for use with an experience matrix are formed, wherein the words are descriptive of a context of a system such as a current web page, and wherein said experience matrix comprises sparse vectors associated with words. At least a part of at least one sparse vector of said experience matrix is accessed to form a prediction output, and suggestions of web pages are provided to a user in response to said prediction output.
US10324911B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a storage system that includes a database. A controller associated with the storage system is configured to perform rebalancing of bucket contents tables for respective buckets of the database where each such bucket contains a plurality of objects stored within the database. A given one of the bucket contents tables for a particular one of the buckets comprises a plurality of rows each associated with a different hash key. The given bucket contents table further comprises a plurality of columns each associated with multiple objects stored within the database. Each such object has a corresponding object key and is associated with a particular entry of the bucket contents table that includes metadata for that object. The controller illustratively performs the rebalancing of the given bucket contents table using adaptive partitioning of object key ranges associated with respective rows of the given bucket contents table.
US10324901B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for sharing tenant information utilizing a multi-tenant on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for sharing tenant information utilizing a multi-tenant on-demand database service can allow automatic sharing of information owned by a first tenant with other tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service. In this way, collaboration among tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service may be enabled via the sharing of the tenant information.
US10324896B2
A method and an apparatus for acquiring a resource. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for acquiring a resource, including receiving, by a storage server, a resource check request sent by a first client, where the resource check request carries resource information of a resource to be uploaded by the first client, an identifier of an external link created by a second client, and storage location information corresponding to the external link; searching, by the storage server, according to the identifier, a database configured to store external-link information for an attribute of the external link corresponding to the identifier of the external link, and checking the resource information according to a value of the found attribute; and if the check succeeds, storing, by the storage server the acquired resource or acquired resource location information according to the storage location information.
US10324892B2
Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to improving security of data that is stored at a data store distributed over a computer network. In an example, source data to be protected is partitioned into multiple files, and each file is obfuscated, such as by being encrypted, to created multiple obfuscated data files. Information as to how each obfuscated data file was obfuscated is stored in an associated trace file. The multiple obfuscated data files are moved around a computer network via a data movement process that includes sending each of the multiple obfuscated data files to a different randomly selected computer, where the computer further obfuscates the obfuscated data the trace file, and sends the further obfuscated data and trace file to a next randomly selected computer.
US10324886B2
The invention relates to a holding device for securing at least one first expansion card in a rack server slot of one height unit. Incidentally, the holding device comprises a base body and a first holding tab, which is arranged on a first side of the base body. The first holding tab is configured to secure a riser card and a module to the holding device. Furthermore, the holding device comprises at least one second holding tab located on a second side of the base body opposite the first side. The at least one second holding tab is configured to secure a first expansion card to the holding device. Furthermore, the invention relates to an assembly having a holding device and a rack server slot of one height unit.
US10324880B1
A PCIe fabric is configured to couple a plurality of elements. The PCIe fabric includes a plurality of PCIe subfabrics. A primary master central processing system is configured to couple the plurality of PCIe subfabrics and includes a primary master central processing unit.
US10324879B2
An apparatus and method may detect and reduce noise on data busses by adjusting the phase of the input/output (I/O) signals in a controlled, predictable manner. The control may allow a maximum data rate to be achieved. In one embodiment, an algorithm used to determine phase change data may be handled by a feedback loop and may be dynamically adjusted. The system may detect noise on rails and critical signals for logging in call home data. The system may maintain a database of settings as a function of a workload. The system may be used in the field as the workload changes to determine that a signal has reached a first threshold. In response to determining that the signal has reached the first threshold, an alert is initiated. A system may determine that the signal has reached a second threshold. In response to determining that the signal has reached the second threshold, the signal may be coupled to logic circuitry.
US10324877B2
USB controllers, systems and methods are presented to conserve power in a USB controller, in which a transmitter transmits data to a line of a connected USB cable according to a transmit data signal, and a pull down circuit selectively sinks current from a supply node of the transmitter when the transmit data signal is in a first state, refrains from sinking the first current from the supply node when the transmit data signal is in a different second state.
US10324872B2
Systems, Methods and apparatuses relating to processor cores that respond to interrupts are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an interrupt interface, a memory interface; and a processor core to generate an interrupt acknowledge signal in response to a received interrupt; receive data in return; determine whether the received data is an interrupt service routine address, the interrupt service routine address being stored in an interrupt vector translation lookaside buffer; and, if not, use the received data to calculate the interrupt service routine address; wherein the processor core is further to use the interrupt service routine address to issue a request on the memory interface to fetch the interrupt service routine, and to execute the interrupt service routine.
US10324862B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide for supporting oversubscription of guest enclave memory pages. In one implementation, a processing device comprising a memory controller unit to access a secure enclave and a processor core, operatively coupled to the memory controller unit. The processing device is to identify a target memory page in memory. The target memory page is associated with a secure enclave of a virtual machine (VM). A data structure comprising context information corresponding to the target memory page is received. A state of the target memory page is determined based on the received data structure. The state indicating whether the target memory page is associated with at least one of: a child memory page or a parent memory page of the VM. Thereupon, an instruction to evict the target memory page from the secure enclave is generated based on the determined state.
US10324861B2
According to embodiments described herein, the hierarchical complexity for coherence protocols associated with clustered cache architectures can be encapsulated in a simple function, i.e., that of determining when a data block is shared entirely within a cluster (i.e., a sub-tree of the hierarchy) and is private from the outside. This allows embodiments to eliminate complex recursive coherence operations that span the hierarchy and instead employ simple coherence mechanisms such as self-invalidation and write-through but which are restricted to operate where a data block is shared. Thus embodiments recognize that, in the context of clustered cache hierarchies, data can be shared entirely within one cluster but can be private (unshared) to this cluster when viewed from the perspective of other clusters. This characteristic of the data can be determined and then used to locally simplify coherence protocols.
US10324857B2
A processing device including a linear address transformation circuit to determine that a metadata value stored in a portion of a linear address falls within a pre-defined metadata range. The metadata value corresponds to a plurality of metadata bits. The linear address transformation circuit to replace each of the plurality of the metadata bits with a constant value.
US10324848B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating independent and separate entity-based graphics cache at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitate hosting of a plurality of cache at a plurality of entities associated with a graphics processor, wherein each entity hosts at least one cache, and wherein an entity includes a dual sub-slice (DSS) or a streaming multiprocessor (SM).
US10324844B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to memory consistency in a memory hierarchy with relaxed ordering. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first level cache that is shared by a plurality of shader processing elements and a second level cache that is shared by the shader processing elements and at least a texture processing unit. In some embodiments, the apparatus is configured to execute operations specified by graphics instructions that include (1) an attribute of the operation that specifies a type of memory consistency to be imposed for the operation and (2) scope information for the attribute that specifies whether the memory consistency specified by the attribute should be enforced at the first level cache or the second level cache. In some embodiments, the apparatus is configured to determine whether to sequence memory accesses at the first level cache and the second level cache based on the attribute and the scope.
US10324831B1
Described are techniques for testing software. The techniques may include identifying, at a first point in time, first code that has been modified, identifying, using first mapping information, a testing set of one or more test cases wherein the first mapping information identifies each test case of the testing set as a test case used to test the first code, running the testing set, generating coverage information in accordance with executing; analyzing the coverage information, generating second mapping information in accordance with said analyzing, and updating the first mapping information in accordance with the second mapping information.
US10324824B2
In an embodiment, a system is configured to replay and/or reconstruct execution events and system states in real time or substantially in real time starting from the point when execution of a target program has stopped to the point when the user desires to step through the target program's execution in order to debug the software. In an embodiment, a system is configured to efficiently collect trace data that is sufficient to reconstruct the state of a computer system at any point of time from the start of execution to the time execution was stopped. Efficient and effective debugging of the software can be performed using embodiments of the disclosed methods, systems, and devices.
US10324822B1
Embodiments describe methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing data analytics on one or more features of software under development. In one exemplary embodiment, a data mining module receives a first set of data including an expected timeline of a plurality of features of program code being developed. The data mining module further retrieves a second set of data from a program testing system based on the first set of data. The second set of data includes defect information and a testing result for each of the plurality of features indicated in the first set of data. Moreover, a data analysis module executed performs an analysis on the first and second sets of data. Based on the analysis, a report generator generates an analysis report that includes an expected defect level and an actual defect level of each of the plurality of features.
US10324820B2
Providing specialization for a static program analysis procedure by executing an automated agent to monitor a code authoring process for a program under examination that includes a plurality of respective lexical scopes. The agent monitors a corresponding amount of coding time, or a corresponding number of edits, for each of the plurality of respective lexical scopes. A mapping associates each of the plurality of respective lexical scopes with a first quantitative measure of the corresponding amount of time, or a second quantitative measure of the corresponding number of edits, that were used to code each of the plurality of respective lexical scopes. The static analysis procedure is specialized by applying a more refined, detailed, precise, or granular analysis to a first lexical scope that is mapped to a greater amount of time or a greater number of edits than a second lexical scope.
US10324819B1
Operations include diagnosing performance hotspots with minimal performance impact. A system selectively extracts a subset of in-memory application data, for failure analysis, based on application metadata associated with an application. The selective data extraction may be used to generate succinct reports that are customized to explore the specific vulnerabilities of each particular application. Application metadata identifies application data attributes for value extraction. The application metadata may identify, for example, a client attribute which indicates the client which requested the execution of a failed operation (or execution of an operation with a failed sub-function). The application metadata may identify a particular function, associated with an operation, that is to be analyzed in case of operation failure. The application metadata may identify a thread-local variable of a thread, executing an operation, that is to be analyzed in case of operation failure.
US10324811B2
Failover processing of a service in a cluster of nodes is disclosed. A node brings up a failover instance of a service in response to an indication of a failure in an initial instance of the service. The failover service executes in the background so as not to be visible to users and thus does not receive user requests. The background service is terminated in response to the failure indication being a false positive. The background service is executed in the foreground in response to detecting that the initial instance of the service has failed and processes user requests.
US10324789B2
A method for accessing a flash memory module includes: sequentially writing Nth−(N+K)th data to a plurality of flash memory chips of the flash memory module, and encoding the Nth−(N+K)th data to generate Nth−(N+K)th ECCs, respectively, where the Nth−(N+K)th ECCs are used to correct errors of the Nth−(N+K)th data, respectively, and N and K are positive integers; and writing the (N+K+1)th data to the plurality of flash memory chips of the flash memory module, and encoding the (N+K+1)th data with at least one of the Nth−(N+K)th ECCs to generate the (N+K+1)th ECC.
US10324788B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory, and a processor. The memory converts an amount of charge held by a memory cell into a value. The processor executes a first process of reading first data from the memory. The processor executes a second process of reading the first data by making the memory use a first determination potential different in a case where error correction of the first data read through the first process is failed. The processor executes a third process of reading second data from the memory by making the memory use a third determination potential in a case where error correction of the first data read through the second process is succeeded. The third determination potential is the first determination potential used by the memory in a case where error correction of the first data read through the second process is succeeded.
US10324778B2
According to embodiments a technique for utilizing an error prediction an avoidance component for a transaction processing system is provided. The technique includes identifying critical functions of the transaction processing system, and collecting usage data. The technique also includes determining a focus area based on the usage data for each of the critical functions, and generating a data message for the focus area, the data message combining internal data and the usage data. The technique includes transmitting the data message to a data processing component (DPC), the data message includes DPC timer information used by the DPC for performing a summarization process, and receiving a summary message from the DPC based on the summarization process performed by the DPC. The technique also includes identifying a summary message focus area from the summary message, and determining a condition of the summary message focus area of the summary message.
US10324776B2
A method for distributed processing involves receiving a graph (G) of targets and of influencers, with each influencer related to at least one target, receiving an action graph of actions performed by one or more of the influencers, and key partitioning G across shards. The method further involves transposing the first graph (G) to obtain a first transposed graph (GT), valuing partitioning GT across the shards, storing the action graph on multiple shards, issuing, to a shard, a request specifying an influencer, to perform an intersection, receiving a response to the request of a set of influencers each of which is related to a target, and determining whether to send a recommendation to the target based on the response.
US10324774B2
Provided is a kernel program and so on capable of enhancing the confidentiality of data memorized in a storage device without using a file system on an OS kernel level. The kernel program is mounted on a computer operable to input and output data between an application program and a storage device, and causes the computer to function as: a socket establisher establishing a socket for connecting with the application program; a relational database operable to input and output data from/to the storage device through a device driver; and an access controller inputting a command from the application program through a message structure of the socket then to output the command to the relational database and inputting an execution result from the relational database then to output the execution result through a message structure of the socket to the application program.
US10324770B2
To reduce the risk of exposing personally identifiable information (PII) and reduce resource consumption while still collecting helpful screen-based experience data, an application feedback system can build an application screen library from initial screen captures. When sufficient screens of an application have been captured for the library, the application feedback system can stop collecting actual screen captures. Instead, agents at the host devices (i.e., devices hosting the application) can capture screen identifiers instead of screens and transmit the screen identifiers along with other screen-based application experience data. For screen-based application experience playback, the application feedback system constructs a playback sequence with screens from the screen library as identified by the screen identifiers. Since a screen identifier can be implemented as a basic data type, storing and transmitting of the screen identifier consumes substantially less resources than storing and transmitting of image data for a captured screen.
US10324767B2
An electronic device, a method of providing battery information of an electronic device, and a storage medium for storing the method are provided. The electronic device includes a storage unit that stores an application use history; and a controller that partitions an entire battery capacity into at least one or more logical batteries, and allocates at least one or more applications to each of the at least one or more logical batteries according to the application use history.
US10324759B1
Techniques for secure and efficient interfacing with a cloud computing service are described. In an embodiment, a cloud computing management service is programmed or configured to communicate with a cloud computing service. The cloud computing management service can be accessed by software engineers that are looking to deploy a software instance to a computing device of the cloud computing service. Thus, the cloud computing management service acts as an intermediary layer in front of the cloud computing service. In an embodiment, the cloud computing management service may store one or more frequently-used system parameters for deployment of software instances. The parameters conform to company's security protocols, compliance protocols, and/or other standards.
US10324757B2
A method and computer system for scheduling, for periodic execution, a program requiring a computer hardware resource for execution. A processor of the computer system receives a request to schedule the program for execution on a day at a specified time and periodically thereafter at the specified time, and in response, the processor determines if there was historical availability of the resource exceeding a predetermined availability threshold on the day at approximately the specified time to execute the program, and if so, schedule the program for execution on the day at the specified time and periodically thereafter, and if not, not schedule the program for execution on the day at the specified time periodically. In response to a determination of no historical availability of the resource at approximately the specified time, the processor automatically determines another time on the day during which there was historical availability of the resource.
US10324745B2
Systems herein include thin clients that operate with managed profile-based virtual machines. This can allow users to utilize personal user devices in an enterprise environment without subjecting sensitive enterprise credentials to the user device. A management server can determine a profile associated with the user device. Based on the profile, a virtual machine can be instantiated at a thin server, remotely from the thin client. The profile-specific virtual machine can include a particular guest operating system, guest applications, security features, or functionality. The instance of the virtual machine can communicate graphics information from a guest application to the thin client, and the thin client can communicate user interface events to the instance for controlling the guest application.
US10324744B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to provide virtualized computing sessions with attachable volumes to requesting users. In one implementation, a virtual computing service identifies a service login for an end user to initiate a virtual computing session. In response to the service login, the virtual computing service identifies a virtual machine to allocate to the virtual computing service, and initiates a user login process to log the end user into the virtual machine. The virtual computing service further initiates, prior to completing the user login process, a volume attach process to attach at least one storage volume to the virtual machine based on credentials associated with the service login.
US10324742B2
A method. A JavaScript (JS) object is instantiated. The instantiated JS object processes application programming interface (API) requests received from mobile devices. The instantiation of the JS object is based on a JS model including (1) a JS file that stores a description of a behavior of the JS object and (2) a JS object notation (JSON) file that stores a description of properties of the JS object. The JSON file includes at least one validation rule to reject a data tuple unless the data tuple meets a required constraint specified in the validation rule. A data abstracter is an interface between the JS object and a set of data storages from which the JS object retrieves data while processing at least two of the API requests. The data abstractor is connected with the set of data storages by implementing a data exchange logic for the set of data storages.
US10324741B2
According to one technique, a virtual machine stores type profiling data for program code, the type profiling data indicating observed types for profiled values within the program code at specific profile points during previous executions of the program code. The virtual machine determines to optimize a particular code segment of the program code. The virtual machine generates a program representation describing a flow of data through different variables within the code segment. The virtual machine assigns speculative types to certain variables in the particular code segment by: assigning speculative types of first variables to respective observed types recorded in the type profiling data; calculating speculative types of second variables, based on propagating the speculative types of the first variables through the program representation. The virtual machine compiles the particular code segment by optimizing instructions within the particular code segment based speculative types of variables utilized by the instructions.
US10324736B2
Systems and methods for displaying a stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) webpage overlay. In some embodiments user input may be received from a user input device and in response to determining that the user input device is substantially concurrently interacting with the 3D content, at least one of a plurality of render properties associated with of the 3D content may be modified. In some embodiments, the at least one render property may be incrementally modified over a specified period of time, thereby animating modification of the at least one render property.
US10324730B2
A computing device performs parallel computations using a set of thread processing units and a memory shuffle engine. The memory shuffle engine includes a register array to store an array of data elements retrieved from a memory buffer, and an array of input selectors. According to a first control signal, each input selector transfers at least a first data element from a corresponding subset of the register array, which is coupled to the input selector via input lines, to one or more corresponding thread processing units. According to a second control signal, each input selector transfers at least a second data element from another subset of the register array, which is coupled to another input selector via other input lines, to the one or more corresponding thread processing units.
US10324729B2
Methods and systems enabling rapid application development, verification, and deployment requiring only knowledge of high level languages. Two aspects of the disclosed methods and systems are called Machine Intelligence and Learning for Graphic chip Accessibility (MILeGrA) and Machine Intelligence and Learning for Graphic chip Execution (MILeGrE). Using MILeGrA and MILeGrE, high-level language programmers do not need to learn complex coprocessor programming languages, but can still use coprocessors (e.g., GPU processors) to benefit from results-in-seconds big data capabilities through the translation of coprocessor-unaware code to coprocessor-aware code. Execution of such coprocessor-unaware code on coprocessors includes parsing the coprocessor-unaware code to generate intermediate code, analyzing the intermediate code to determine a model for coprocessor-aware code generation, and generating coprocessor-aware code based on the model using machine learning techniques.
US10324719B2
Detection of whether a result of a floating point operation is safe. Characteristics of the result are examined to determine whether the result is safe or potentially unsafe, as defined by the user. An instruction is provided to facilitate detection of safe or potentially unsafe results.
US10324718B2
A method of an aspect includes receiving a masked packed rotate instruction. The instruction indicates a first source packed data including a plurality of packed data elements, a packed data operation mask having a plurality of mask elements, at least one rotation amount, and a destination storage location. A result packed data is stored in the destination storage location in response to the instruction. The result packed data includes result data elements that each correspond to a different one of the mask elements in a corresponding relative position. Result data elements that are not masked out by the corresponding mask element include one of the data elements of the first source packed data in a corresponding position that has been rotated. Result data elements that are masked out by the corresponding mask element include a masked out value. Other methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions are disclosed.
US10324716B2
An instruction defined to be a looping instruction is obtained and processed. A determination is made as to whether an obtained selected character is an expected selected character. Based on the obtained selected character being the expected selected character, an execution process is used that includes a sequence of operations to perform an operation, the sequence of operations replacing a loop and providing a non-looping sequence to perform the operation on up to a defined number of units of data. The sequence of operations is configured to repeat one or more times and to terminate based on the obtained selected character. Based on the obtained selected character being different than the expected selected character, an alternate execution process is chosen.
US10324714B2
Apparatus and method are described for trimming parameters of analog circuits. The apparatus includes trim result registers for storing trim results for adjusting parameters of analog circuits, respectively; a memory device configured to store sets of operands; and a trim calculation unit configured to generate the set of trim results by performing a set of arithmetic operations on the sets of operands based on a set of commands, respectively. The trim calculation unit receives a set of commands; transfers sets of operands from the memory device to a programmable ALU array based on the set of commands, respectively; generates trim results by performing arithmetic operations on the sets of operands based on the set of commands, respectively; and sends the trim results to the trim result registers based on the set of commands, respectively.
US10324699B2
Identification of unmatched registry entries may be provided, by scanning a file system, discovering software, collecting first attribute values of the discovered software, receiving a plurality of filtering rules including a method and an attribute. The attribute may comprise a software-specific condition. The method may further comprise collecting native registry entries comprising second attribute values indicated by said attributes of at least one of said rule, and comparing said first attribute values of said discovered software with related ones of said second attribute values of said collected native registry entries. Then, the native registry entries may be grouped into two groups. The first group represents matched registry entries and the second group represents unmatched registry entries. The unmatched registry entries may be identified as unequivocal entries for further software discovery. Finally, the filtering rules may be applied against said collected registry entries based on said filtering method.
US10324698B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for installing software onto a client in the NIM environment and corresponding client. Said method includes: initializing said client, wherein a virtual mapping device associated with a memory driver of the client is created, the virtual mapping device for scheduling between the client's memory driver and the remote NIM server with respect to the I/O operation for running the software so as to direct the I/O operation for running said software to the client's memory driver or the remote NIM server; running said software on the client; acquiring the resources desired for running software; and conducting data migration operation from the NIM server to the client while running said software, wherein the migrated data is the resource data obtained from NIM server and desired for installing said software; and the software installation being completed when all the data desired for installing said software are migrated to the memory driver of the client. It is unnecessary for the present invention to copy all the installation images to the local client before installing software, therefore time delay of installing OSs or application programs can be shortened or even eliminated.
US10324694B2
Mechanisms are provided for arranging binary code to reduce instruction cache conflict misses. These mechanisms generate a call graph of a portion of code. Nodes and edges in the call graph are weighted to generate a weighted call graph. The weighted call graph is then partitioned according to the weights, affinities between nodes of the call graph, and the size of cache lines in an instruction cache of the data processing system, so that binary code associated with one or more subsets of nodes in the call graph are combined into individual cache lines based on the partitioning. The binary code corresponding to the partitioned call graph is then output for execution in a computing device.
US10324693B2
A system and method for optimizing multiple invocations of a graphics processing unit (GPU) program in Java. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a frontend component in a computer system and configured to compile Java bytecode associated with the a class object that implements a functional interface into Intermediate Representation (IR) code and store the IR code with the associated jogArray and (2) a collector/composer component in the computer system, associated with the frontend and configured to traverse a tree containing the multiple invocations from the result to collect the IR code and compose the IR code collected in the traversing into aggregate IR code when a result of the GPU program is explicitly requested to be transferred to a host.
US10324679B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for transmitting to a display communicatively coupled to a second device electronic ink input data received from a first device. Specifically, embodiments disclosed herein provide translating electronic ink input data based upon one or more output parameters associated with a display. Once the electronic ink input data is translated, electronic ink output data is generated. In certain embodiments, a stream of the electronic ink output data is transmitted to the display.
US10324675B2
A method is provided for enabling sharing of data. The method comprises defining a sharing region corresponding to a portion of a surface of an apparatus. The method further comprises enabling sharing of data with an external device in response to user input associating the data with the sharing region.
US10324672B2
A system and method for consistent print product generation that converts aspects of a print job from a first print shop in a first print shop terminology to a standard terminology using a mapping scheme generated by the first print shop such that for a second print shop selected to execute the submitted print job, the standard terminology is converted to the second print shop's terminology by using a mapping scheme generated by the second print shop. The system and method of the inventive subject matter can use feedback to improve the accuracy of the mapping schemes.
US10324663B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for cluster configuration information replication, managing cluster-wide service agents, and/or for cluster-wide outage detection. In an example of cluster configuration information replication, a replication workflow corresponding to a storage operation implemented for a storage object (e.g., renaming of a volume) of a first cluster may be transferred to a second storage cluster for selectively implementation. In an example of managing cluster-wide service agents, cluster-wide service agents are deployed to nodes of a cluster storage environment, where a master agent actively processes cluster service calls and standby agents passively wait for reassignment as a failover master in the event the master agent fails. In an example of cluster-wide outage detection, a cluster-wide outage may be determined for a cluster storage environment based upon a number of inaccessible nodes satisfying a cluster outage detection metric.
US10324661B2
A storage device including a nonvolatile memory device and an operating method of the storage device. The method includes receiving first data from an external device, compressing the received first data based on a first compression ratio, programming the compressed first data in the nonvolatile memory device, reading second data from the nonvolatile memory device, compressing the second data based on a second compression ratio that may be higher than the first compression ratio, and programming the compressed second data in the nonvolatile memory device.
US10324658B1
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of operating and allocating a shared memory between various applications operating via a processing computing platform. One example may include receiving a first buffer context switch request message from a first application operating via a processor, transmitting a first buffer context switch flag to the processor operating the application confirming the first buffer context switch request was received, receiving a second buffer context switch request from a second application with a different processing cycle operating via the processor and transmitting a second buffer context switch flag to the processor operating the second application confirming the second buffer context switch request was received. Once the applications have been identified and confirmed, a synchronization operation may be performed to create a shared number of memory units between at least two different buffers and provide the shared memory units to the first application and the second application.
US10324656B1
A method of controlling one or more data services in a computing environment includes the following steps. A request to one of read data from and write data to one or more storage devices in a computing environment is obtained from an application executing on a host device in the computing environment. One or more application-aware parameters associated with the data of the request are obtained. Operation of the one or more data services is controlled based on the one or more application-aware parameters.
US10324655B2
A method to more efficiently utilize data structures in an asynchronous data replication system is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes maintaining, in memory of a primary storage system, a set of data structures for mirroring updates from the primary storage system to a secondary storage system. Each data structure has a status of either active or inactive. The method further establishes an upper threshold and lower threshold for each data structure. The method receives, into active data structures, updates that need to be mirrored to the secondary storage system. When updates in each of the active data structures reaches the upper threshold, the method activates a deactivated data structure. When updates in an active data structure fall below the lower threshold, the method deactivates and drains the data structure. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10324651B2
A data transmission method is provided. The method includes receiving a transmission command from a host system, wherein the transmission command includes a starting logical block address, a number of logical blocks, a first physical region page pointer, and a second physical region page pointer, wherein the transmission command is configured to transmit target data between at least one target logical block of a rewritable non-volatile memory module and at least one target memory page of a host memory; buffering a plurality of entries of at least one physical region page pointer list corresponding to the transmission command if the second physical region page pointer is a first list starting address of a first physical region page pointer list corresponding to the transmission command; and transmitting corresponding data according to the buffered entries.
US10324648B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for wear-based access optimization. An apparatus may comprise a circuit configured to perform a data access operation at a target location of a memory, and determine a wear value of the target location. The circuit may compare the wear value to global wear value of other locations of the drive, and adjust data access parameters for the target location based on the comparison.
US10324647B2
A method for enabling applications to compress and un-compress selected objects based on defined rules is provided. The method may include generating un-compressed objects and proxy objects, and storing the generated un-compressed objects on an un-compressed objects storage. The method may include receiving defined rules. The method may include compressing the stored un-compressed objects based on the defined rules, and storing the generated compressed objects on a compressed objects storage. The method may include receiving requests to invoke methods. The method may include in response to a determination that the received requests are to invoke methods associated with the un-compressed objects, retrieving the stored un-compressed objects. The method may include in response to a determination that the received requests are to invoke methods associated with the stored compressed objects, retrieving the compressed objects. The method may include restoring the retrieved compressed objects. The method may include presenting the invoked methods.
US10324632B2
Improved processes for making opioid products having low impurity levels including making 14-hydroxycodeinone and 14-hydroxymorphinone from thebaine and oripavine, respectively.
US10324625B2
A memory system includes a memory in which stored data is periodically rewritten by a refresh command, and a memory controller. The memory has an input/output (“I/O”) terminal, and the memory controller is communicatively coupled by a channel to the I/O terminal. The memory transmits a plurality of commands over the channel to the memory. The memory controller estimates a first total energy consumed based on the plurality of commands during a first sampling period, determines a temperature of the memory based on the first total energy consumed in the first sampling period, determines a first refresh cycle rate corresponding to the first temperature of the memory and transmits a refresh command to the memory based on the first refresh cycle rate.
US10324621B2
Facilitating analysis of user interface gesture patterns is described. In example implementations, a computing device acquires data that describes a user interface gesture pattern, such as finger movements on a touchscreen, in terms of pixels of a visual display. A repetitive arrangement of polygons, such as a grid of rectangles, is logically overlaid on the visual display. The computing device transforms the pixel-based data into polygon-based data that represents the gesture pattern in terms of polygons traversed by the gesture pattern. The computing device also converts the polygon-based data into text-based data such that the gesture pattern is represented by textual characters, such as a text string. The text string can include, for instance, a list of polygons traversed by the gesture pattern. The text-based data is forwarded to a service that can efficiently analyze relationships that may exist among multiple gesture patterns across multiple devices or end users.
US10324614B2
A content management system rendering a file sharing GUI on a first device which is communicatively coupled to a content management system and associated with a first user having an account with the content management system. A file to be shared with a second user is identified in response to the file being selected and dragged. In response to the file being identified, a contact section displaying contact icons is rendered. The selected file is released on a displayed contact icon and a user identifier, e.g., an email address or account, associated with the displayed contact icon is identified. In response to the user identifier being identified, the selected file is shared with a second user associated with the user identified.
US10324599B2
User selection of a displayed object is detected. The size of the selected object is identified and compared with a move target size threshold. If the size of the selected object does not meet the move target size threshold, then a user actuatable move handle is displayed in a location displaced from the selected object, on the user interface, but visually connected to the selected object. User actuation of the move handle correspondingly moves the object on the user interface.
US10324597B2
There are provided a setting unit, a selecting unit, a moving unit, and a reception unit. The setting unit sets each of sensitive regions of a plurality of display items in a wider region than each of display regions of the plurality of display items. The selecting unit selects any of the plurality of display items. The moving unit moves a display item in accordance with a touch operation. The reception unit receives a touch operation as an operation to a display item having been selected when a touch operation to an overlapped region is detected. The overlapped region is a region in which the sensitive regions of the plurality of display items overlap.
US10324580B2
A method comprising determining that a flexible display, which comprises a flexural display region between a non-flexural display region and an opposite non-flexural display region, is configured in a closed configuration, determining to cause display of a notification, determining a notification display region based, at least in part, on the closed configuration, and causing display of a representations of the notification in the notification display region is disclosed.
US10324578B2
A touch screen panel includes first and second sense cells on a same layer and coupling patterns that couple adjacent ones of the first sense cells and adjacent ones of the second sense cells to each other, respectively. The coupling patterns do not cross with each other, thereby improving the ability of the coupling patterns to withstand static electricity. A dummy line formed of a same material as the sense cells may be formed between the first and second sense cells, and the dummy line is electrically coupled to a guard ring located in an area outside of a display area of the touch screen panel, making it possible to overcome the effects of static electricity applied to the front surface of the touch screen panel as well as the side surface thereof.
US10324562B2
An apparatus and method for processing a user input in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a touch device detecting a touch input; a pressure device detecting a pressure input; and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to if the pressure input is detected, generate an event corresponding to the pressure input, determine if the touch input is detected while the pressure input is detected, if the touch input is detected while the pressure input is detected, update the event to correspond to the pressure input and the touch input, and process the updated event.
US10324554B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method, a touch display panel, a touch display apparatus are provided. The manufacturing method includes: forming a gate on a substrate; forming a first insulating layer covering the gate; forming an active layer and a sensing resistor; forming a first electrode layer covering the sensing resistor; forming a source and a drain; etching the first doped layer at a part being not overlapped with the source and the drain, reserving the first electrode layer to cover the sensing resistor; forming a second insulating layer covering the source and the drain; etching the second insulating layer at a part being overlapped with the sensing resistor to expose the first electrode layer; forming a second electrode layer, and etching the first/second electrode layer at a part where the first/second electrode layer is overlapped with the sensing resistor to expose the sensing resistor.
US10324552B2
Provided is a touch panel having a curved surface. A touch panel 10 is formed of a sheet of a flat sheet 1 by thermoforming. A plurality of island-like electrodes 2,3 is arrayed in each of an X direction and a Y direction on the input region. The island-like electrodes 2, 3, inter-electrode wires 4, and a lead wiring are formed of a ductile wire material. A center portion of the flat sheet 1 is formed into a convex dome shape by thermoforming. The touch panel 10 includes a first input region 11 and a second input region 12. The first input region 11 is provided on the convex dome shape. The second input region 12 is provided on the flat surface (zero curvature). The first input region 11 is provided at around a center on the inside of the second input region 12.
US10324545B2
An optical navigation device including an image sensor, a navigation engine, a smoothing engine and an adjusting interface. The image sensor generates image frames. The navigation engine calculates displacement according to the image frames. The smoothing engine changes a smoothing level for smoothing the calculated displacement according to a trigger signal sent from the adjusting interface.
US10324543B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and a display method thereof that are configured to display at least one first object in a main view; and display at least one second object in a sub-view, different from the main view, in response to a rotation input.
US10324537B2
A method for combining of alphabet characters of different languages is provided. The method includes loading, from a memory, a combined virtual keyboard providing simultaneous access to both an alphabet character of a first language and an alphabet character of a second language. On the combined keyboard, an input of the alphabet character of the first language and an input of the alphabet character of the second language are received for display. Each of the inputted alphabet characters of the first language and the second language has an image of respective alphabet character surrounded by a quadrilateral boundary of a predetermined size. When the alphabet characters are combined, at least one of the alphabet character of the first language and the alphabet character of the second language shifted towards each other, such that boundaries surrounding the alphabet characters are partially overlapped.
US10324534B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a delay amount decision unit configured to decide a delay amount of a haptic output from occurrence of an event on the basis of an event occurring position in a virtual space, and a haptic output control unit configured to delay the haptic output according to the delay amount decided by the delay amount decision unit.
US10324532B2
Device especially for a display for visually impaired people and display including such a device. The device includes a tactile screen, especially for a display for visually impaired people, said screen including, on one of the edges thereof, a line of icons that each correspond to a piece of software. The surface of the said tactile screen is divided at least into as many columns as icons, and the device includes an element for determining the position of the finger of a user on said tactile screen in order to control the implementation of the software corresponding to the determined position of the user's finger.
US10324525B2
Context aware backlighting techniques include determining a focal point of a display space based on a user display context. The user display context represents an area of interest on the monitor. The user display context can be based on eye tracking data, ambient light data, motion sensing data, cursor location in the display space, an image content, proximity data, or the like and any combination thereof. A first set of one or more of a plurality of backlight sections corresponding to the determined focal point of the display space can be driven to output at a first intensity level, while a second set of one or more of the plurality of backlight sections can be driven to output at a second intensity level.
US10324519B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores and a power controller including a first logic, responsive to a determination that the processor resided in a forced idle state for less than a threshold duration, to update a first counter and, responsive to a value of the first counter that exceeds a control threshold, prevent the processor from entry into the forced idle state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10324503B1
A bezel comprises a base, a cover and at least one insertable component. The base comprises a plurality of openings. The cover is configured for mounting to a front of the base, and the cover comprises at least a first aperture. When the cover is mounted to the base, the first aperture aligns with at least a first one of the plurality of openings in the base. The at least one insertable component is configured for mounting to the base in the first opening through the first aperture of the cover. The bezel is configured for attachment to a front portion of an electronic equipment chassis.
US10324502B2
A speaker module includes a DC-DC converter device including a switching circuit device and a choke coil connected to the switching circuit device and a speaker device that converts an electric signal generated using output voltage from the DC-DC converter device into sound. A magnetic substrate which includes the choke coil and on which the switching circuit device is mounted is disposed between the switching circuit device and the speaker device.
US10324497B1
A computing device can include a processor; memory accessible by the processor; a base that includes a first platform at a first height and a second platform at a second height that differs from the first height; an arm operatively coupled to the base; and a display operatively coupled to the processor and operatively coupled to the arm.
US10324495B2
A base of tablet computer includes a housing, a moving member, and an interface assembly. The housing has a trench, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall connected to the first sidewall. The first sidewall forms a portion of the trench and has a first opening. The second sidewall forms another portion of the trench and has a second opening. The moving member is configured to move relative to the housing to selectively enter or exit the trench via the first opening. The interface assembly protrudes to a side of the second sidewall adjacent to the trench via the second opening, and is configured to rotate relative to the second opening based on an axis. The interface assembly is operatively connected to the moving member, so as to be rotated by the moving member while the moving member is moved relative to the housing.
US10324494B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for an apparatus for detection of a change of electromagnetic field in response to a gesture, to identify the gesture that caused the field change. In one instance, the apparatus may include a first conducting component having first features for the disposal on or around a portion of a user's body, to generate an electromagnetic field in response to a receipt of a source signal. The apparatus may further include a second conducting component having second features for the disposal on or around a portion of the user's body, at a distance from the first conducting component, to provide an indication of a change in the electromagnetic field over time, to identify a change of a position of the user's body portion (gesture) that causes the change in the electromagnetic field. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10324488B2
An actuator comprising two devices each comprising an out-of-plane deformable element, said deformable element comprising a first fixed end anchored on a substrate and a second free end relative to the substrate, said device also comprising means to guide the second free end in in-plane translation along a first direction, the first deformable element being capable of deforming out-of-plane through application of a stimulus so that the second free end draws close to the first fixed end following in-plane translational movement. The actuator also comprises an element mobile in rotation about an axis orthogonal to the plane and mechanically linked to the free ends of the deformable elements, and a translationally mobile element mechanically linked to the rotationally mobile element.
US10324487B2
A gimbal support that senses rotational displacement and provides haptic feedback in one, two or three dimensions of a manually-operated control member used to generate control inputs using a single hand while also limiting cross-coupling.
US10324486B1
A button assembly that couples and releases a hitch insert to and from a hitch is described. A button of the button assembly may be configured to be pressed to a degree that allows the hitch insert to be inserted into and removed from a hitch. However, the button assembly may be configured to prevent a user's finger (or other extremity) from entering an aperture of the hitch insert that accommodates the button. For example, in a pressed orientation, a surface of the button that a user contacts may remain flush (or substantially flush) with an outer surface of the hitch insert.
US10324485B2
A body bias voltage generating circuit for supplying a body bias voltage to a body of a transistor of a functional circuit is provided, including: a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between a supply voltage terminal and a ground terminal, wherein a control terminal of the first transistor is coupled with a control terminal of the second transistor; a third transistor, wherein a body of the third transistor is electrically coupled with any one of the body of the first transistor and the second transistor, and a terminal of the third transistor is coupled with the body of the third transistor; and a resistance element coupled between the terminal of the third transistor and a current input terminal of the first transistor or a current output terminal of the second transistor. The terminal of the third transistor is the body bias voltage.
US10324481B2
A low-dropout voltage regulator (2) comprises: a differential amplifier portion (4) including a first amplifier input connected to a reference voltage (16), a second amplifier input, and a differential output which is determined by a difference between the reference voltage and a voltage on the second amplifier input; an output portion (10) arranged to provide a regulator output voltage (62) which is controlled by the differential output of the amplifier portion, the second amplifier input being connected to or derived from (70) the regulator output voltage; and a biasing portion (8) arranged to measure an external load current and to provide a biasing current to the differential amplifier portion which depends on the load current.
US10324480B2
A multiphase voltage regulator includes a plurality of phases and a controller. Each phase is configured to output a phase current to a load through an inductor in response to a control signal input to the phase. The controller is operable to: generate the control signals input to the phases; set a switching frequency of the control signals to a first value; and change the switching frequency from the first value to a second value different than the first value if the load current changes repetitively at a frequency that is within a predetermined range of the first value of the switching frequency. A corresponding method of operating the multiphase voltage regulator is also provided.
US10324472B2
A vehicle control device includes a lane shape acquisition unit which acquires lane shape data of a lane of a predetermined region from map information, at a stage at which a host vehicle has arrived at the predetermined region or prior to the host vehicle arriving at the predetermined region, a peripheral image acquisition unit which acquires peripheral image data including lane markings of the predetermined region, and a lane marking selection unit which collates the acquired lane shape data with the peripheral image data, and from within the peripheral image data, selects lane markings to be used at least for lane keeping.
US10324465B1
Systems and computer-implemented methods for executing a command in an autonomous vehicle are provided, including the steps of: generating at least three independent vehicle data-sets; transmitting the at least three independent vehicle data-sets to at least three command determination modules, respectively; and, at each one of the at least three command determination modules, using the respective received vehicle data-set to determine a command. The method further includes the step of, during a monitoring phase, comparing the commands to each other to determine if any one of these commands is desynchronized from the other commands. If a command is determined to be desynchronized from the other commands during the monitoring phase, the method includes the step of excluding the command determination module which determined the desynchronized command. The method further includes the step of, during a substantiation phase, comparing commands determined by non-excluded command determination modules to each other to determine if any one of these commands is desynchronized from the other commands. If a command is determined to be desynchronized from the other commands in the substantiation phase, the method includes the step of excluding the previously non-excluded command determination module which determined the desynchronized command. After the monitoring and substantiation phases are completed, the method includes the step of selecting a command determined by a non-excluded command determination module; and executing the selected command.
US10324457B2
The present invention discloses robotic process automation (RPA) of supply chain management (SCM) operations. In example embodiments the invention discloses RPA method and systems for supply chain management. The RPA systems include IOT devices and server as part of a sub network for secured communication relating to SCM operations like procurement operations. The system and method of the present invention utilizes AI based processing logic using a bot for automation of SCM operations thereby reducing the processing times and increasing efficiency.
US10324445B2
An automated computer-implemented method for generating commands for controlling a computer numerically controlled machine to fabricate an object from a workpiece, the method including the steps of selecting a maximum permitted engagement angle between a rotating cutting tool and the workpiece, selecting a minimum permitted engagement angle between the rotating cutting tool and the workpiece, and configuring a tool path for the tool relative to the workpiece in which the engagement angle gradually varies between the maximum permitted engagement angle and the minimum permitted engagement angle.
US10324444B2
Executable format data resulting from decoding of a positioning block (retraction block) prior to start of cutting and an end point coordinate position P1 for command for the retraction block are stored. When machining is interrupted and a request for retraction of a tool is input, a retracting operation 1 is performed to retract the tool from a machining interruption position P2 to the stored end point coordinate position P1 of the retraction block. Subsequently, the stored executable format data of the retraction block is executed, with a moving direction for the executable format data being reversed to move the tool. The tool performs a retracting operation 2 of moving in the opposite direction along a moving path for in the retraction block. The retracting operations 1, 2 allow the tool to be retracted while avoiding interfering with other members.
US10324442B2
An iterative method for controlling a production process and a production control unit for iteratively controlling the production process of at least one of a material and a product formed out of the compound material. Nominal parameters and indicative parameters selected from the group comprising process parameters, material recipe parameters and product property parameters are provided in the iterative method or to the production control unit. The iterative method and production control unit consider the nominal and indicative parameters, including both process parameters and material recipe parameters to determine whether a setting of at least one correcting parameter for a subsequent process is necessary. A correcting parameter is selected from the group comprising process parameters and recipe parameters and the setting of at least one correction parameter comprises the choice of a parameter from a parameter set comprising process parameters and material recipe parameters.
US10324441B2
An automation system includes a first control facility with a first fieldbus connection, a second control facility with a second fieldbus connection, a fieldbus, a peripheral board with at least one I/O peripheral module, wherein the peripheral board has an interface module with a third fieldbus connection, where the interface module has at least one I/O module which stores interconnection information featuring an assignment of input/outputs of the I/O peripheral module(s) to the control facilities, where the interface module additionally has a virtual I/O module, in which an output region is assigned to the first control facility, and furthermore an input region is assigned to the second controller, and where the virtual I/O module is configured such that the output data is copied from the output region of the first control facility into the input region as input data for the second control facility.
US10324436B2
A system of hardware configuration of a programmable control instrument, test and measure that includes an integrated FPGA is disclosed. The FPGA includes a static section comprising at least one static logic FPGA preset; a dynamic section comprising at least one dynamic logic FPGA programmable by a user; and a logical interface that connects the static section and dynamic section.
US10324428B2
A system includes a terminal configured to intake a vehicle into a service shop, a server configured to store vehicle data associated with the vehicle, and, a scanner configured to identify the vehicle and relay timing and location information about the vehicle to the server.
US10324423B2
A computer-readable storage medium for controlling a process plant includes instructions operable to determine the location of a device in the process plant and to display data related to proximate devices. The instructions cause a processor to transmit to a server a first request for first data from a data storage area and to receive from the server, in response to the first request, first data from the storage area. The instructions cause the processor to cause the display to display the first data received from the server and to receive an indication that the mobile user interface device is in proximity to an external device. The instructions cause the processor to transmit to the server a second request for second data according to the received indication and to receive second data from the server.
US10324422B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a device capable of wireless communication includes a counter for counting current time, and a processor for setting a communication mode of the device to one of a notification mode in which the device sends a first notification signal for informing of its existence and a detection mode in which the device detects a second notification signal sent from other device. In the case that the processor changes the communication mode of the device from the notification mode to the detection mode and the second notification signal received in the detection mode includes first time information, the processor corrects time of the counter based on the first time information.
US10324415B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developing cartridge, a drum cartridge, and an electric contact. The developing cartridge includes a holder having a resilient member. In a state where the holder is positioned at a first position, the resilient member has a first length and the electric contact surface is in contact with the electric contact. In a state where the holder is positioned at a second position, the resilient member has a second length in the third direction longer than the first length and the electric contact surface is in contact with the electric contact. In a state where the holder moves from the first position to the second position, the holder pivots in a state where the holder is in contact with the first contact surface.
US10324403B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a blowing section, and a hard ware processor. The blowing section generates airflow toward the fixing nip, and the airflow is used for separating a sheet from the fixing member. The hardware processor performs a control of the blowing section so that airflow amounts of the blowing section toward the fixing nip are different in an axial direction of the fixing member and part of the airflow flowing from the blowing section toward a non-sheet-passing region of the fixing nip is directed in the moving direction of the fixing member.
US10324401B1
An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet with a decolorable color material decolorable, a second image forming section configured to form an image on the sheet with a non-decolorable color material, a fixing device configured to heat the sheet on which the images are formed with the decolorable color material and the non-decolorable color material, and a cooling section configured to cool the heated sheet.
US10324395B2
A method of converting a CMYK color toner printer to a CMYX color toner printer for under print printing in a single pass, comprising the steps: providing a color toner printer with four toner printing cartridges: a cyan toner printing cartridge, a magenta toner printing cartridge, a yellow toner printing cartridge, and a black toner printing cartridge; wherein the black toner printing cartridge is in a first toner cartridge position; removing the back toner printing cartridge from the first toner cartridge position; providing a non-standard toner printing cartridge; installing the non-standard toner printing cartridge into the first toner cartridge position; providing a raster image processor software; wherein the raster image processor software is configured to remap the four toner printing cartridges of the color toner printer and allows the color toner printer to print a layer of non-standard toner under an image in a single pass; and wherein the image is printed from at least one of a cyan toner, a yellow toner, and a magenta toner.
US10324394B2
A developing device includes a developing sleeve configured to carry and convey developer containing non-magnetic toner and magnetic carrier and having a plurality of concave parts on a surface thereof. The concave parts are periodically arranged in each of a rotation direction and a width direction of the developing sleeve, and each have a shape that can house a circular shape having a diameter equal to an average particle diameter of the carrier carried on the developing sleeve, in a planar view. A distance between the concave parts is smaller than the average particle diameter.
US10324390B2
A toner is provided. The toner includes a resin and a fluorine-containing component. The toner satisfies the following formula: 5.0≤FXPS/FXRF≤25.0 where FXPS (atomic %) represents a content rate of fluorine atom in the toner determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and FXRF (weight %) represents another content rate of fluorine atom in the toner determined by X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF).
US10324383B2
A lithographic apparatus includes a clamp (406) configured to receive an object (402). The clamp defines at least one channel (408) configured to pass a fluid at a first fluid temperature. The lithographic apparatus also includes a chuck (404) coupled to the clamp. The chuck (404) defines at least one void (464) configured to thermally insulate the chuck from the clamp.
US10324381B1
A method to address overlay accuracy compensation using finFET cut isolation revisions is disclosed. For an integrated circuit (IC) layout including at least a portion of an active region including a plurality of gates extending over a plurality of fins, prior to optical proximity correction of the IC layout: the method determines a number of fins to be cut with same source/drain connection by a fin cut isolation opening, and determines a fin cut isolation pitch in the gate length direction of the plurality of gates. The method revises a size of a fin cut isolation opening in the IC layout based on a number of fins to be cut with same source/drain connection by the fin cut isolation opening and the fin cut isolation pitch in the gate length direction. The revision in size of the fin cut isolation compensates for overlay inaccuracy.
US10324379B2
A method to form on a substrate a first target comprising a first feature and a second target comprising a second feature, wherein the forming of the targets comprises applying the first feature and the second feature to the substrate by projection of a radiation beam through a production patterning device installed in a lithographic apparatus, the features corresponding to one or more features of the patterning device, and controlling a configuration of the lithographic apparatus to induce an aberration component, such that the first feature is applied to the substrate using a first value of an induced aberration component and the second feature is applied to the substrate using a second, different value of the induced aberration component; measuring a property of the targets; and using the measurements to determine a sensitivity of the property of the targets to changes in value of the induced aberration component.
US10324376B2
The present invention provides a negative type colored photosensitive resin composition that serves to produce a cured film having a forward tapered shape. This negative type colored photosensitive resin composition includes an alkali-soluble resin (A), a photo initiator (B), a photo polymerizable compound (C), and a coloring agent (D), the alkali-soluble resin (A) containing a polyimide precursor, polybenzoxazole precursor, and/or a copolymer thereof (A-1), each resin (A-1) having a trifluoromethyl group in the backbone chain.
US10324373B2
A photosensitive composition and a quantum dot-polymer composite pattern formed from the photosensitive composition are disclosed, and the photosensitive composition includes: a plurality of quantum dots; a color filter material including an absorption dye, an absorption pigment, or a combination thereof; a polymer binder; a photopolymerizable monomer having a carbon-carbon double bond; a photoinitiator; and a solvent, wherein in a normalized photoluminescence spectrum of the quantum dot and a normalized ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum of the color filter material, a photoluminescence peak wavelength (PL peak wavelength) of the quantum dot and a wavelength of maximum absorbance of the color filter material do not overlap with each other, and the color filter material is included in an amount of less than or equal to 1 part by weight per 10 parts by weight of the plurality of quantum dots.
US10324361B2
A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are mapped to target regions areas on an image. Areas of the source regions are adjusted to vary the amount of light delivered to each of the target regions. Adjustment of the source areas may be achieved using a L-BFGS optimization which preferably incorporates smoothness and curl regularizers. Embodiments apply parallel processing to obtain control values for a free form lens in real time or near real time. Apparatus may process image data and display an image by controlling a dynamically variable free form lens using the processed image data.
US10324355B2
Disclosed herein are various improvements in optical switching engines. In one aspect, a range of switching engines includes various multiple bounce, multiple image devices, such as, for example, the Herriott Cell and the Robert Cell. In another aspect, liquid crystal spatial light modulators (SLMs) are used in the switching engine of an optical cross-connect. In another aspect, polarization gratings (PGs) are used in the switching engine. In another aspect, a switching engine includes a Fourier cell using SLMs with more than two states. Alternative imaging optics in a Fourier cell implementing a multiple-bounce, multiple image device are also disclosed.
US10324353B2
An electrophoretic device (101) comprises a first electrode (60) and a second electrode (60) spaced apart from the first electrode (60). An electrophoretic cell (809) containing an electrophoretic ink (830) and one or more optically-transparent, non-planar, solid polymer elements (808) is located between the electrodes (60). The ink (830) includes charged particles (11) of at least one type suspended in an optically-transparent suspending fluid (820). The refractive indices of the solid polymer elements (808) and the suspending fluid (820) are matched to have a difference of less than 0.0075, and for half or more of the operating temperature range of the device (0° C.-70° C.), the thermo-optic coefficients (temperature coefficient of refractive index per Kelvin) of the solid polymer elements (808) and the suspending fluid (820) are matched to have an arithmetic-mean difference of less than 0.0002/K in magnitude.
US10324348B2
The array substrate, the liquid crystal display panel and the liquid crystal display device of the present disclosure are designed to form the MIS storage capacitor by the P—Si semiconductor layer, the first metal layer and the insulating layer between above or the P—Si semiconductor layer, the second metal layer and the dielectric spacer layer between above, when one side of the first metal layer or the second metal layer receiving the negative gray voltage, the P—Si in the P—Si semiconductor layer will gather to form the hole, when receiving the positive gray voltage, will form the depletion layer on the upper layer of the P—Si to reduce the capacity of the MIS storage capacitor, thereby reducing the difference of the capacitance when the MIS storage capacitor in the positive and negative gray voltage, improving the flicker phenomena and ensuring the display effect.
US10324340B2
The present invention provides a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode comprises a peripheral frame electrode that is in an enclosed form and at least one pair of peripheral edges of the peripheral frame electrode are provided, on outer sides thereof, with a sawtooth-like configuration. The sawtooth-like configuration comprises tooth troughs having an extension direction that is substantially parallel to and consistent with an extension direction of branch electrodes of the pixel electrode corresponding thereto so that liquid crystal in an area corresponding to the peripheral frame electrode may incline in the direction of the branch electrodes in the same way as liquid crystal in an inside area of the peripheral frame electrode inclines in such a direction to prevent the occurrence of dark patterns in the area corresponding to the peripheral frame electrode. Application of the pixel electrode to an HVA liquid crystal display panel would effectively improve transmission rate and brightness of the liquid crystal display panel so as to improve the display performance.
US10324337B2
A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has a display area that includes a plurality of pixels (Px). The display area is made up of n kinds of domains (where n is an integer that is equal to or greater than two and equal to or smaller than four). The directors of the n kinds of domains define mutually different alignment directions. If the domain structure of each pixel (Px) is defined by the kinds of the domains that form the pixel (Px), the number k of the kinds of the domains that form the pixel (Px), and the arrangement of the domains in the pixel (Px), the display area includes a pixel, of which k is less than n and of which the domain structure is different from the domain structures of adjacent pixels.
US10324333B2
A color polarizing film including a first layer including a first polymer and a first dichroic dye having an absorption wavelength region of about 380 nm to about 780 nm and a second layer including a second polymer and a second dichroic dye having an absorption wavelength region of about 380 nm to about 780 nm, wherein the second layer is disposed on the first layer, wherein a polarization axis of the first layer and a polarization axis of a second layer cross each other, and wherein the color polarizing film exhibits a maximum absorption wavelength (λmax) in a wavelength range of about 380 nm to about 780 nm.
US10324331B2
The present specification relates to a display unit manufacturing method and an optical film laminating system.
US10324330B2
A display apparatus includes a first panel including a plurality of pixel areas configured to provide an image, and a non-pixel area around the plurality of pixel areas, a lens unit on the first panel and configured to enlarge the image by a magnitude of N to generate a display image, a second panel on the lens unit, the second panel being larger than the first panel by a magnitude of N, and including a plurality of non-active areas corresponding to the plurality of pixel areas, and an active area around the plurality of non-active areas, and corresponding to the non-pixel area, a first substrate including a first electrode at the active area, a second substrate including a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a light transmission adjusting layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein N is a rational number greater than 1.
US10324329B2
A display device includes a display panel; a light guide plate configured to provide light to a rear side of the display panel; a cover bottom including a rear portion configured to cover a rear surface of the light guide plate, and a side portion bent toward the display panel from an end portion of the rear portion; and a support coupled to the cover bottom and configured to position the light guide plate and to accommodate longitudinal expansion of the light guide plate, the support being provided at a position adjacent to a longitudinal end portion of the light guide plate.
US10324327B2
Display devices are provided. The first display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged with an interval therebetween; and an antenna radiator configured with one or more conductors that are arranged between the plurality of pixels. The second display device includes a substrate; a plurality of light emitting parts arranged on the substrate with an interval therebetween; and an antenna radiator configured with one or more conductors that are arranged between the substrate and the light emitting parts.
US10324319B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driving part, and a data driving part. The display panel is configured to display an image, and includes a gate line and data lines. The gate driving part is configured to output a gate signal to the gate line. The data driving part includes a plurality of data driving integrated circuit parts. Each of the plurality of data driving integrated circuit parts includes channels, configured to output data signals to the data lines, and a dummy data channel. A sensing pin, configured to receive the gate signal, is formed in each dummy data channel.
US10324314B2
An optical device includes a nanostructured transparent dielectric film, which is a Huygens metasurface. The Huygens metasurface imparts a phase change to light propagating through or reflecting from the surface. The phase change can be achieved by means of a resonant interaction between light and the Huygens resonators, resulting in a controllable phase change of 0 to 2π with approximately 100% light transmission characterized by a below 0.1 dielectric loss tangent of delta and with the height of the resonators less than the wavelength of light. In one embodiment, the metasurface includes titanium dioxide, but many materials or stacks of different materials may be used. The optical device is functional throughout the visible spectrum between 380 and 700 nm. The nanostructured transparent dielectric film includes a plurality of Huygens resonators. The phase and the amplitude of the nanostructured transparent dielectric film are modulated by arranging the plurality of Huygens resonators such that certain properties, including the radius and height of each Huygens resonator, as well as the gap between two adjacent Huygens resonators, are controlled to optimize the performance of the optical device within the visible spectrum.
US10324313B2
In one aspect the invention provides a graded refractive index single crystal waveguide having a glass block containing at least one crystal core, the crystal core having a central portion extending along an axis from a first end to a second end; an interface defining a peripheral boundary of the crystal core at a junction of the crystal core and an adjacent portion of the glass block, and a continuous, radially symmetric misorientation transverse to the central portion; wherein the misorientation has a misorientation angle that increases with increasing distance from the central portion towards the interface.
US10324312B2
A temple cover for eye glasses. The removable front cover has a first end component and a second end component. Each of the end components are an integral part of the removable front cover. Together with each temple cover they form an eye glass cover.
US10324310B2
A sun glare reducer includes a frame having a right templar portion, a right lens retaining portion connected to the right templar portion, a left templar portion, a left lens retaining portion connected to the left templar portion, and a nose bridge portion connecting the right lens retaining portion and the left lens retaining portion. A right lens is retained by the right lens retaining portion. The right lens has a right body disposed between the right templar portion and the nose bridge and a right glare reducing portion extending downwardly from the right body below the right lens retaining portion. A left lens is retained by the left lens retaining portion. The left lens has a left body disposed between the left templar portion and the nose bridge and a left glare reducing portion extending downwardly from the left body below the left lens retaining portion.
US10324300B2
A dynamic imaging system of an endoscope that adjusts path length differences or focal points to expand a usable depth of field. The imaging system utilizes a variable lens to adjust the focal plane of the beam or an actuated sensor to adjust the detected focal plane. The imaging system is thus capable of capturing and adjusting the focal plane of separate images captured on separate sensors. The separate light beams may be differently polarized by a variable wave plate or a polarized beam splitter to allow separate manipulation of the beams for addition of more frames. These differently focused frames are then combined using image fusion techniques.
US10324294B2
There is provided a display control device capable of ensuring the user's field of vision while keeping the user safe when the user is using a see-through head-mounted display, the display control device including: a situation acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a situation where a see-through display is being used, and a display control unit configured to perform display control on the see-through display using the information acquired by the situation acquisition unit so that a display of the information on the see-through display gradually becomes clearly visible.
US10324288B2
An anti-glare head-up display system for vehicles includes a projection imaging unit and a curved mirror. The projection imaging unit is in an upper region of a cabin of the vehicle. The curved mirror is on a top surface of an instrument panel of the vehicle. The curved mirror includes a doped glass, a high-reflection coating and a dark coating. The doped glass and the dark coating absorb visible light. The high-reflection coating is on a surface of the doped glass facing the projection imaging unit and has a high-reflection effect at wavelengths corresponding to light sources used by the projection imaging unit. The dark coating is on another surface of the doped glass opposite with the projection imaging unit. Light rays emitted by the projection imaging unit are projected onto the curved mirror, and light rays reflected from the curved mirror are projected onto the windshield to form a virtual image in front of the windshield. Light rays of ambient light projected onto the curved mirror which do not belong to the wavelengths corresponding to the light sources pass through the high-reflection coating and are absorbed by the doped glass and the dark coating.
US10324286B2
A device is provided for processing a light/optical radiation including at least two reflective optical elements defining a multi-pass cavity so that at least one of the optical elements reflects the light radiation at least twice, at at least two different reflection positions, and including at least one element, called a corrective element, having at least one position, called a corrective position, producing a reflection or a transmission of the optical radiation, and the surface of which is irregular so that the spatial phase profile of the corrective position has a different phase shift for several different reflection/transmission points of the corrective position.
US10324275B2
An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh lens elements arranged in a sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The object-side of the third lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery. The object-side of the fifth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery. The object-side of the sixth lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery. All of lens elements having refracting power of the imaging lens are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh lens elements.’
US10324266B1
An LED light projector comprising a housing, a motor seated in the housing, and a projection carousel mounted distally on the motor and configured to rotate therewith in the housing. The projection carousel comprises a disk with a plurality of windows each having a plano-convex lens mounted therein. In addition, an LED circuit board is mounted on the motor, the LED circuit board including a number of LEDs for emitting a plurality of light beams. A focal assembly is mounted on the motor overtop the LED circuit board and it too includes windows each having a plano-concave lens for collimating the light beams. A partition is mounted in the housing adjacent (outside) the focal assembly and projection carousel, and it includes windows each having a removable image slide for passing the light beams and projecting an image thereon. The projected images result in a unique kaleidoscopic pattern.
US10324262B1
An assembly for splicing first and second optical fibers is contemplated. The assembly typically comprises a splicing member disposed within a barrel member. A first optical fiber can be inserted through a first end of the barrel member, and a second optical fiber can be inserted through a second end of the barrel member to splice ends of the first and second optical fibers in the splicing member. A recess at the second end of the barrel can be used to lock the second optical cable, and a clamping member can be used to hold the second optical fiber. An optical fiber stub holder can couple the first end of the barrel member and an optical fiber stub from which the first optical fiber extends. Thus, the first and second optical fibers can be effectively secured in a splicing relationship using the assembly.
US10324256B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method includes: (i) forming at least a pair of optoelectronic devices from at least a first wafer material arranged on a semiconductor substrate, the first wafer material different to silicon; (ii) etching the first wafer material to form a first recess to be filled with a second material; (iii) processing the second material to form a waveguide for coupling the pair of optoelectronic devices to define an optical interconnect; and (iv) bonding at least one partially processed CMOS device layer having at least one transistor to the second semiconductor substrate to form the integrated circuit, the partially processed CMOS device layer arranged adjacent to the optical interconnect. An integrated circuit is also disclosed.
US10324245B2
A backlight unit for a holographic display is provided. The backlight unit includes: at least one light source; at least one input coupler; a light guide panel (LGP) that guides light; a first holographic element on a first surface of the LGP; and a second holographic element on a second surface of the LGP, wherein the at least one input coupler is configured to uniformly transmit rays emitted from the at least one light source toward the first holographic element through the LGP, and the LGP is configured to transmit the rays incident from the at least one input coupler toward the first holographic element, and the first holographic element redirects the rays toward the second holographic element, the redirected rays being substantially parallel to one another, and the second holographic element emits rays incident from the first holographic element toward an outside of the LGP.
US10324239B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are opposed to each other, wherein the second substrate includes, in a display area where an image is displayed, first light shields extending in a first direction and arranged apart from each other in a second direction which crosses the first direction, second light shields extending in the second direction and arranged apart from each other in the first direction, and an intermediate layer disposed between the first light shields and the second light shields, and the first light shields cross the second light shields via the intermediate layer.
US10324237B2
A transparent display includes nanoparticles having wavelength-selective scattering (e.g., resonant scattering) to preferentially scatter light at one or more discrete wavelengths so as to create images. The nanoparticles transmit light at other wavelengths to maintain a high transparency of the display. The nanoparticles are disposed in proximity to a thin film, which can enhance the scattering the process by reflecting light back to the nanoparticles for re-scattering or increasing the quality factor of the resonant scattering.
US10324236B2
An optical device with a deformable membrane (2) including an anchor area (2.3) on a support (1) entrapping a liquid or gas fluid, a central area (2.1) reversibly deformable from a rest position, actuating means for moving the fluid (4) biasing the membrane (2) into an intermediate area between the anchor area (2.3) and the central area (2.1), the actuating means include a piezoelectric continuous crown accommodating several actuators (5.1), this crown surrounding the central area (2.1), the actuating means (5) being anchored to the membrane (2) in at least the intermediate area (2.2), the actuating means (5) and the membrane (2) to which they are anchored, forming at least one piezoelectric bimorph (B), the actuating means (5) radially contracting or extending upon actuation so as to generate a movement of said fluid (4) from the intermediate area (2.2) to the central area (2.1) of the membrane (2) or vice versa, aiming at deforming the central area (2.1) with respect to its rest position.
US10324235B2
A coated substrate includes a substrate having a glow-discharged surface; and a coating having a submicrometric layer thickness sputter deposited onto the substrate. The coating having a submicrometric layer thickness has a predetermined absorbance. The predetermined absorbance regulates an amount of light transmitted from a light source through the substrate from a first side to a second side of the substrate. The substrate is opaque on the second side of the substrate when the light source is deactivated on the first side of the substrate. The predetermined absorbance varies as a function of one or more controlled process parameters.
US10324234B2
The present invention provides a substrate with an antireflection layer not only which is excellent in the antireflection properties but also which has high water repellency and oil repellency and favorable oil and fat stain removability, and a display device provided with a substrate with an antireflection layer.A substrate with an antireflection layer, which comprises an antireflection layer on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the antireflection layer contains a silica porous film having fluorinated organic groups, and the surface of the antireflection layer on the opposite side from the substrate has an element number ratio F/Si of at least 1 as obtained from the peak height of F1s and the peak height of Si2p in surface analysis by scanning X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (ESCA) and has an arithmetic mean roughness (Sa) of at most 3.0 nm.
US10324228B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing gridless simulation of a fluvio-deltaic environment. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a system that includes at least one processor, and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor performs operations that include generating a set of channel centerlines corresponding to a set of channels that are indicative of flow units in a fluvio-deltaic environment; and generating channel widths for each of the channel centerlines. In one embodiment, the operations for generating the set of channel centerlines of the reservoir include selecting a seed point for each channel, assigning each seed point a direction of propagation, and iteratively generating each channel.
US10324222B2
Systems, methods, and software for predicting a pore throat size distribution are described. A representative method includes obtaining a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation-time distribution data set. The method also includes training a radial basis function (RBF) model based on the NMR relaxation-time distribution data set and a measured pore throat size distribution data set. The method also includes obtaining a subsequent NMR relaxation-time distribution data set. The method also includes employing the trained RBF model to predict a pore throat size distribution data set based at least in part on the subsequent NMR relaxation-time distribution data set. The method also includes storing or displaying a predicted pore throat size distribution corresponding to the predicted pore throat size distribution data set. The predicted pore throat size distribution is associated with a rock sample or subsurface formation volume.
US10324214B2
Electrostatic field sensor and security system in interior spaces and exterior spaces which can measure electrostatic fields and the variations thereof along a metal conductor that acts as a detection probe or antenna (1). The antenna (1) is connected to an electronic circuit (2, 3, 4, 31, 32) which is able to decode the changes in the electrostatic field around the conductor and to detect minuscule variations in the electrostatic field by means of a processor (7) enabling the clear detection of a human presence in an area surrounding the antenna (1) and the ability to differentiate between a human presence and any other type of animal or object.
US10324200B2
A detector assembly is provided that includes a semiconductor detector, a pinhole collimator, and a processing unit. The semiconductor detector has a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other. The first surface includes pixelated anodes. The pinhole collimator includes an array of pinhole openings corresponding to the pixelated anodes. Each pinhole opening corresponds to a corresponding group of pixelated anodes. The processing unit is operably coupled to the semiconductor detector and configured to identify detected events from the pixelated anodes. The processing unit is configured to generate a trigger signal responsive to a given detected event in a given pixelated anode, provide the trigger signal to a readout, and, using the readout, read and sum signals arriving from the given pixelated anode and anodes surrounding the given pixelated anode.
US10324198B2
The invention relates to an inorganic scintillator material of formula Lu(2-y)Y(y-z-x)CexMzSi(1-v)M′vO5, in which: M represents a divalent alkaline earth metal and M′ represents a trivalent metal, (z+v) being greater than or equal to 0.0001 and less than or equal to 0.2; z being greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.2; v being greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.2; x being greater than or equal to 0.0001 and less than 0.1; and y ranging from (x+z) to 1. In particular, this material may equip scintillation detectors for applications in industry, for the medical field (scanners) and/or for detection in oil drilling. The presence of Ca in the crystal reduces the afterglow, while stopping power for high-energy radiation remains high.
US10324195B2
Disclosed embodiments pertain to a method on a UE may comprise determining a first absolute position of the UE at a first time based on GNSS measurements from a set of satellites. At a second time subsequent to the first time, the UE may determine a first estimate of displacement of the UE relative to the first absolute position using non-GNSS measurements. Further, at the second time, the UE may also determine a second estimate of displacement relative to the first absolute position and/or a second absolute position of the UE based, in part, on: the GNSS carrier phase measurements at the first time from the set of satellites, and GNSS carrier phase measurements at the second time from a subset comprising two or more satellites of the set of satellites, and the first estimate of displacement of the UE.
US10324182B2
The invention relates to a method for identifying at least one object (9, 10) in a surrounding area (7) of a motor vehicle (1), in which the motor vehicle (1) is moved relative to at least one object (9, 10) and, while the motor vehicle (1) is moved relative to the at least one object (9, 10), a measurement cycle is performed at each of a plurality of successive times, wherein each measurement cycle involves an ultrasonic sensor (4) of the motor vehicle (1) being used to transmit an ultrasonic signal, and a feature (14) being determined that describes a position value, which describes a position of the at least one object (9, 10) and which is ascertained on the basis of a first received echo of the ultrasonic signal, and a presence of a second echo of the ultrasonic signal that is received within a predetermined period of time after the first echo, wherein the respective features (14) are associated with a cluster (13) on the basis of their position value, and the features (14) of the cluster (13) are signalled as belonging to the at least one object (9, 10) on the basis of the presence of the second echo.
US10324174B2
During transmission, a speed of sound pulses gradually reduces due to acoustic impedance. Regulating a length or a density or a sound speed of the sound pulses affects their average speed in the transmitting medium, sound intensity and detecting depth. Time of flight (TOF) and TOF shift can be used to calculate the depth and moving speed of detecting objects. Calculating a speed of moving objects by simultaneously detecting TOF shift at same site from two separated piezoelectric (PZT) elements improves the testing results with accuracy, simplification and reproducibility. Coding sound pulses to obtained the TOF and the TOF shift will simultaneously calculate the depth and the moving speed of sampling points, which can be used to construct 2D and 3D images for these motionless and/or moving sampling points. Coded sound pulses also improves the quality of the imaging.
US10324167B2
A method of spatially filtering signal parameter vector data includes receiving, at a computing device, a first signal parameter vector at a first time and a second signal parameter vector at a second time occurring after the first time. The first and second signal parameter vectors are derived from a plurality of signals received at a sensor, and include first and second signal data blocks, respectively. The method also includes transmitting, to at least a first and second element of an array data structure representative of a physical spatial domain, the first and second signal data blocks, respectively, and determining an elliptical error region probability object having a center and a pair of axes containing the first and second signal data blocks. The center represents a highest probability location of a signal emitter at the second time and the pair of axes represents the spatial error of the center.
US10324161B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a balloon-based positioning system and method. In one example embodiment, a system includes a group of at least three balloons deployed in the stratosphere and a control system configured for: determining a first set of spatial relationships relating to the group; determining a second set of spatial relationships relating to at least a portion of the group and to a reference point; determining a position of the reference point relative to the earth; using the determined first set, the determined second set, and the determined position of the reference point relative to the earth as a basis for determining a position of a target balloon in the group relative to the earth; and transmitting the determined position of the target balloon relative to the earth.
US10324154B2
A magnetic resonance imaging method includes generating spatially resolved fiber orientation distributions (FODs) from magnetic resonance signals acquired from a patient tissue using a plurality of diffusion encodings, each acquired magnetic resonance signal corresponding to one of the diffusion encodings and being representative of a three-dimensional distribution of displacement of magnetic spins of gyromagnetic nuclei present in each imaging voxel. Generating the spatially resolved FODs includes performing generalized spherical deconvolution using the acquired magnetic resonance signals and a modeled tissue response matrix (TRM) to reconstruct the spatially resolved FODs. The method also includes using the spatially resolved FODs to generate a representation of fibrous tissue within the patient tissue.
US10324152B2
A passive apparatus including a plurality of resonators increases signal-to-noise ratio of radiofrequency signals emitted by a specimen and captured by an MRI machine. The apparatus increases the magnetic field component of radiofrequency energy during signal transmission from the MRI machine to the specimen, and/or reception of signals from the specimen to the MRI machine. Moreover, the apparatus enhances specimen safety by substantially avoiding unwanted generation of an electric field, or an increase in the electric field component of the RF energy. Use of the apparatus improves the images generated by the MRI machine, and/or reduces the time necessary for the MRI machine to capture the image.
US10324147B2
According to some aspects, a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising a B0 magnet configured to produce a B0 magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging system, the B0 magnet comprising at least one first B0 magnet to produce a magnetic field to contribute to the B0 magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging system, at least one second B0 magnet to produce a magnetic field to contribute to the B0 magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging system, wherein the at least one first B0 magnet and the at least one second B0 magnet are arranged relative to one another so that an imaging region is provided there between, a surface configured to support a patient anatomy within the imaging region, and a positioning member coupled to the B0 magnet and configured to allow the B0 magnet to be tilted to position the planar surface at a corresponding incline.
US10324141B2
An apparatus comprises one or more substrates and one or more coils. At least one of the coils is configured to produce a first magnetic field that induces eddy currents in a conductive target, which generates a reflected magnetic field. One or more magnetic field sensing elements supported by the one or more substrates detect the reflected magnetic field. A conductive support structure supports the one or more substrates. The support structure includes a gap in an area adjacent to the one or more coils so that the support structure does not generate a reflected magnetic field in response to the first magnetic field.
US10324138B2
Embodiments of a method, a system, and non-transitory computer readable storage media evaluating electrochemical qualities for interphase products. The disclosed embodiments perform a selection of a plurality of chemical phases for a solid electrolyte and at least one of the anode and cathode to be received. Thermodynamic data is received for the plurality of chemical phases. The retrieved thermodynamic data is received to evaluate a respective electrochemical quality for at least one of an interface between the solid electrolyte and the anode, and an interface between the solid electrolyte and the cathode.
US10324126B2
A method for aligning probe pins with respect to positions of electronic devices comprises conducting contact stamping on a first electronic device with the probe pins to form first probe marks on lead pads of the first electronic device, capturing an image of the first electronic device, determining positions of the first probe marks on the first electronic device using the captured image, calculating an offset using the positions of the first probe marks, adjusting relative positions between a subsequent plurality of electronic devices and the probe pins using the offset, and contacting lead pads of the subsequent plurality of electronic devices with the probe pins for testing said electronic devices. The first probe marks are configured to have greater visibility as compared with second probe marks formed when contacting the lead pads of the subsequent plurality of electronic devices with the probe pins, so as to improve the accuracy of the offset calculated.
US10324118B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for correcting power usage measurements at an apparatus. The method includes receiving, by the apparatus, a first power usage measurement from a utility meter measured at a first time unit and a second power usage measurement from a submeter measured at a set of second time units, wherein the set of second time units is dynamically defined with respect to the first time unit. Further, the method includes determining, by the apparatus, a time difference error based on the first time unit and each of the second time unit. Further, the method includes correcting, by the apparatus, the second power usage measurement based on the time difference error.
US10324111B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus, system and method for testing electrical functions. The apparatus for testing electrical functions comprises: at least one clamping tool configured to be capable of being clamped in the vicinity of at least one bonding area of an electronic device; at least one row of probes configured to be electrically connected to multiple pins in the at least one bonding area respectively when the at least one clamping tool is clamped; and at least one multiplex switch. Each multiplex switch has a first terminal comprising multiple ports, and a second terminal comprising at least one port and capable of being connected to a measurement instrument, and the at least one multiplex switch is configured to turn on or turn off an electrical connection between the multiple ports of the first terminal and at least one port of the second terminal.
US10324104B2
A monitoring device includes a cavity assembly with a plurality of cavities. Openings of the plurality of cavities are distributed about a flow-facing surface of the cavity assembly. A gas pressure sensor is disposed within each of the cavities, and is configured to measure an absolute pressure of a gas flow which flows past the monitoring device. Gas pressure measurements from the pressure sensors may be used to determine a flow speed and a flow direction of the gas flow. More specifically, a mapping may be used to map the logarithm of the difference between the maximum and minimum pressures to a flow speed. Further, a lookup table may be used to map a pattern of pressure measurements to a flow direction.
US10324097B2
A method for measuring bilirubin levels in a subject. The method can include the steps of providing a sample to be measured from the subject, wherein the sample comprises bilirubin bound to albumin; adding a release agent to the sample, the release agent configured to release the bound bilirubin from the albumin; measuring electrochemical data of the sample using an electrochemical cell; and determining a total serum bilirubin concentration of the sample using the electrochemical data. This method is capable of providing a simpler, faster, and more robust measurement when compared to traditional bilirubin assay methods.
US10324086B2
A method for magnetic cellular manipulation may include contacting a composition with a biological sample to form a mixture. The composition may include a plurality of particles. Each particle in the plurality of particles may include a magnetic substrate. The magnetic substrate may be characterized by a magnetic susceptibility greater than zero. The composition may also include a chargeable silicon-containing compound. The chargeable silicon-containing compound may coat at least a portion of the magnetic substrate. The biological sample may include cells and/or cellular structures. The method may also include applying a magnetic field to the mixture to manipulate the composition.
US10324076B1
A water quality analysis instrument for performing a blowback operation and a non-volatile total organic carbon analysis operation in sequence. When the blowback operation is performed, a previous residual gas within a water sample analyzer is discharged. When the non-volatile total organic carbon analysis operation is performed, the water sample flows between an accommodating space and an UV light providing module in a circulating manner, so that the non-volatile total organic carbon in the water sample is nearly completely oxidized, so that the water sample analyzer can analyze a content of non-volatile total organic carbon in the water sample accurately.
US10324072B2
Moisture sensing color change compositions are built of nanofibers of suitable small dimension based on diacetylene monomers that are polymerized in situ in a dried film containing a hygroscopic polymer that is bound to the nanofibers either directly or through crosslinkers.
US10324071B2
A chromatograph mass spectrometer including: an MSn-1 analysis setter for setting an analysis execution period for performing an MSn-1 analysis, an execution time for the analysis and a loop time; an analysis period divider for dividing the analysis period into segments according to a change in number or analysis condition of MSn-1 analyses to be performed within the same time window; an MSn analysis setter for performing MSn-1 analysis to obtain mass spectrum data and for scheduling MSn analysis, an ion corresponding to a peak satisfying a set condition being designated as a precursor ion; an MSn analysis execution time allotter for allotting, in each segment, a time period for execution of the MSn analysis, the time period being calculated by subtracting an event execution time from the loop time; and an analysis executer for repeatedly performing MSn-1 analysis and MSn analysis in each segment.
US10324068B2
A method performed by a processing device, the method comprising: obtaining first waveform data indicative of traversal of a first signal through a structure at a first time; applying a scale transform to the first waveform data and the second waveform data; computing, by the processing device and based on applying the scale transform, a scale-cross correlation function that promotes identification of scaling behavior between the first waveform data and the second waveform data; performing one or more of: computing, by the processing device and based on the scale-cross correlation function, a scale factor for the first waveform data and the second waveform data; and computing, by the processing device and based on the scale-cross correlation function, a scale invariant correlation coefficient between the first waveform data and the second waveform data.
US10324061B2
A method of determining a concentration of phenol and/or a phenol derivative in a first solution. The method includes (a) subjecting a graphite pencil electrode system comprising a graphite pencil working electrode, a counter electrode, and a reference electrode to cyclic voltammetry in a second solution such that a surface of the graphite pencil working electrode is charged by the cyclic voltammetry to form a charged surface, (b) contacting the charged surface of the graphite pencil working electrode with the first solution for sufficient time to electropolymerize the phenol and/or the phenol derivative on the charged surface in open circuit fashion, and (c) determining the concentration of the phenol and/or the phenol derivative in the first solution, wherein the amount of the electropolymerized phenol and/or the electropolymerized phenol derivative formed on the charged surface correlates with the concentration of the phenol and/or the phenol derivative in the first solution.
US10324052B2
A method of extracting complex impedance from selected volumes of the material under test (MUT) combined with various embodiments of electrode sensor arrays. Configurations of linear and planar electrode arrays provide measured data of complex impedance of selected volumes, or voxels, of the MUT, which then can be used to extract the impedance of selected sub-volumes or sub-voxels of the MUT through application of circuit theory. The complex impedance characteristics of the sub-voxels may be used to identify variations in the properties of the various sub-voxels of the MUT, or be correlated to physical properties of the MUT using electromagnetic impedance tomography and/or spectroscopy.
US10324042B2
An apparatus, method and kit includes one or more use protocol indicators having a color changeable dye, the dye being translucent or having a first color upon immediate exposure to an environment and for a defined time thereafter and the dye changing color after exposure to the environment for the defined time. A dual environment indicator includes a first indicator color changeable dye being translucent or having a first color upon immediate exposure to a first environment and changing color after exposure to a second environment and a second indicator color changeable dye being translucent or having a first color upon immediate exposure to the second environment and for a defined time thereafter and changing color after exposure to the second environment for the defined time. A time exposure indicator comprises at least one color changeable dye disposed to change color in a sequential manner.
US10324034B2
A self-referencing localized plasmon resonance sensing device and a system thereof are disclosed. The reference optical waveguide element is modified with a noble metal nanoparticle layer. The sensing optical waveguide element is modified with a noble metal nanoparticle layer, which is further modified with a recognition unit. The incident light is guided into the reference and the sensing optical waveguide elements to respectively generate localized plasmon resonance sensor signals. The reference and the sensing optical waveguide elements respectively have a calibration slope. The processor utilizes the calibration slopes to regulate the second difference generated by detecting with the sensing optical waveguide element. The processor utilizes a difference between the first difference, which is generated by detecting with the reference optical waveguide element, and the regulated second difference to obtain a sensor response.
US10324032B2
Disclosed herein is a sunscreen detector for use with portable device, such as a mobile and/or wearable device. One variation of a sunscreen detector comprises an illumination system that is configured to illuminate a target skin area with ultraviolet and/or infrared spectrum light and a sensor system that is configured to detect the amount of ultraviolet and/or infrared spectrum light that is reflected from the target skin area. The sunscreen detector is configured to analyze the data collected by the sensor system to generate a notification to the user as to whether they should apply sunscreen.
US10324030B2
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for analyzing the moisture content in natural gas. In one embodiment, a portable moisture analyzer system is provided and can include a moisture analyzer and a housing. The moisture analyzer can include a tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer (TDLAS) and a natural gas sample conditioning system. The TDLAS can be configured to detect water vapor content within a natural gas sample. The sample conditioning system can be in fluid communication with the TDLAS and can be configured to condition at least one of temperature, flow rate, and pressure of a natural gas sample. The housing can be configured to receive the moisture analyzer therein and to protect the moisture analyzer from vibration and/or shock.
US10324027B2
An elastic wave receiving apparatus includes: a probe that receives an elastic wave generated from a subject; a plate-like compression plate that supports the subject and whose surface is scanned by the probe; a motor for driving the probe; a controller that supplies a drive signal to the motor so that the probe moves to a predetermined target position on the compression plate; and a load estimating unit that preliminarily acquires and stores a physical value corresponding to a load generated at the time of scanning the compression plate by the probe. The controller corrects the drive signal so that the probe moves to the target position regardless of the load by using the physical value stored in the load estimating unit.
US10324024B2
Embodiments relate generally to methods, systems, devices and applications for use in relation to the detection of chemical vapours. A particular embodiment relates to a device for chemical vapour sensing. The device comprises a housing of a size to be manually portable, the housing defining a plurality of receptors adapted to receive a respective plurality of manually replaceable chemical vapour sensing components. The device further comprises at least one signal receiver to receive data signals from each chemical vapour sensing component when the chemical vapour sensing component is positioned in one of the receptors.
US10324017B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for measuring a local permeability of a porous material. A probe can be positioned perpendicular to the surface of the material. The probe can be configured to sense a velocity of a fluid flowing over the surface. The probe can be positioned at a distance determined based on an average porosity of the material. The probe can take measurements at various positions at the distance by moving a minimum dimension between each measurement.
US10324015B2
A fluid is received into a sample tube. A processor causes an energy to be applied to the sample tube to induce vibration in the sample tube at a resonant frequency of the sample tube containing the fluid. The processor stops the supply of energy to the sample tube. The processor monitors an amplitude of the vibration of the sample tube as the amplitude of the vibrations diminish over a period of time. The processor uses the monitored amplitude to calculate an RF of the sample tube containing the fluid. The processor uses the calculated RF to calculate the viscosity of the fluid.
US10324011B2
Described herein are devices and methods for high throughput purification of particles. In some cases, methods and devices described herein can be used to remove erythrocytes and purify leukocytes and raise the quality of umbilical cord blood and other transplant grafts, thereby significantly improving patient outcomes.
US10324009B2
The present invention is related to the field of bio/chemical sampling, sensing, assays and applications. Particularly, the present invention is related to how to make the sampling/sensing/assay become simple to use, fast to results, highly sensitive, easy to use, using tiny sample volume (e.g. 0.5 uL or less), operated by a person without any professionals, reading by mobile-phone, or low cost, or a combination of them.
US10324008B2
Compositions and methods for the simultaneous capture and release using micropattern surfaces for tissue and cell microdissection. In one example, a patterned thermoplastic film has a first surface and a plurality of projections attached to and extending outwardly from the first surface. The projections form a pattern on the thermoplastic film.
US10323999B2
A load is provided to an article under test, the article under test having a surface movable about an axis of rotation. The article under test, such as a wing or other aerodynamic component of an aircraft, is load tested by determining a change in attitude of the article under test about the axis of rotation. Responsive to the change in the attitude, adjusting in real time a position of a load mechanism that provides the load to the surface of the article under test.
US10323990B2
At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature a mobile sensing system comprising a sensing device for measuring a thermal property of an object, comprising an RF circuit and an antenna electronically coupled to the RF circuit, a sensor electronically coupled to the RF circuit, and a thermal source thermally coupled to the sensor and electronically coupled to the RF circuit, a mobile device having a processor, an RF reader connected to or integrated with the mobile device, wherein the RF reader is configured to interrogate the sensing device; wherein the sensing device receives power when the RF reader interrogates the sensing device and provides at least a portion of the power to the thermal source.
US10323985B2
A system for determining a calibrated spectral measurement includes a tunable Fabry-Perot etalon, a detector, and a processor. The tunable Fabry-Perot etalon has a settable gap. The detector measures light intensity. The processor is configured to determine the calibrated spectral measurement. The calibrated spectral measurement is based at least in part on a measurement set of detected light intensities for a plurality of settable gaps and a reconstruction matrix. The reconstruction matrix is based at least in part on calibration measurements. For a calibration measurement, a settable gap is selected and a set of input monochromatic source wavelengths is used to measure responses at a detector after transmission through the Fabry-Perot etalon. Each input monochromatic source wavelength is also measured using a radiometer to scale detector measurements.
US10323979B2
Disclosed are an ultraviolet measuring device, a photodetector, an ultraviolet detector, an ultraviolet index calculation device, and an electronic device or portable terminal including the same. In one aspect, an ultraviolet measuring is provided to comprise: a substrate on which an electrode is formed; a readout integrated circuit (ROTC) unit electrically connected with the electrode; and an aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) based UVB sensor electrically connected with the readout integrated circuit unit and formed on an insulating substrate, wherein the read-out integrated circuit converts a photocurrent input from the UV sensor into a digital signal including UV data.
US10323976B2
A liquid level detection device is provided with a fixed body and a rotating body, having a float and an arm. The arm has an insertion portion inserted in the rotating body and an extending portion extending straight and bent relative to the insertion portion. The rotating body has an insertion hole in which the insertion portion is inserted, a holding portion having a receiving opening receiving the extending portion and holding the extending portion received by the receiving opening, and a stopper releasing the receiving opening from a blocking state in which a blocking portion blocks the receiving opening. The stopper has a sliding surface portion on which the extending portion is allowed to slide. A thickness of the blocking portion at a tip end of the sliding surface portion is greater than a diameter of the extending portion.
US10323956B1
A method and system may provide speed limit data to users driving in vehicles. A user's client device such as a smart-phone, smart watch, or tablet computer, may provide visual, audible, and/or haptic alerts to the user when the user exceeds a posted speed limit by more than a threshold amount. For example, when the user exceeds the posted speed limit by more than the threshold amount, the user's smart-phone may play a beeping sound and may announce the posted speed limit to the user. A map of a geographic area including the user's travelled route may also be displayed, with annotated areas along the route where the user exceeded the posted speed limit. The map may also include an indication of a proportion of a duration or distance of the route in which the user travelled above the posted speed limit.
US10323944B2
Systems and methods including mobile devices determining their locations using location determination units, such as GPS receivers. A computing device generates a statistical measurement of location pattern changes in relation to a predetermined region for a predetermined period of time. The measurement is generated from a difference between responses of exposed mobile devices and responses of non-exposed mobile devices, which devices are selected based on a cluster analysis to match the distributions of the exposed mobile devices and the non-exposed mobile devices in an attribute space. Each response of a mobile device can be computed based on applying, at a time instance, an anti-symmetric weight function having an exponential distribution to a time series of visitation measurements to generate a response corresponding to the time instance, and summing the responses corresponding to time instances falling within the predetermined period of time as the response of the mobile device.
US10323936B2
A sensor calibration tool, in particular for calibrating sensors on a vehicle, includes a vertical rail that defines a first rail axis, a vertically movable carriage assembly, and a horizontally movable carriage assembly. The vertically movable carriage assembly is supported by the vertical rail and movable along the first rail axis, and has a horizontal rail that defines a second rail axis transverse to the first rail axis. The horizontally movable carriage assembly is supported by the horizontal rail and is movable along the second rail axis. The horizontally movable carriage assembly has a transverse mounting bar with a plurality of target mounts. Each target mount is configured to releasably support a respective calibration target. Different combinations and positions of calibration targets enables calibration of sensors on different vehicles based on predetermined specifications corresponding to the different vehicles.
US10323930B1
A system for a movable structured light projector may include (1) a light projector assembly that receives a light control signal and projects structured light into a local area based on the light control signal, (2) an imaging device that receives a capture control signal and captures a reflection of the structured light from the local area based on the capture control signal, and (3) an actuator, coupled to the light projector assembly, that receives an actuator control signal and moves the light projector assembly relative to the imaging device based on the actuator control signal. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10323924B2
In interferometer imaging signal acquisition using a movable optical beam to sample a target with specular or non specular reflecting surfaces or internal features, beam moving during interferometer signal acquisition can generate unwanted phase error due to shifting speckle field. Examples include coherent LIDAR, Interferometry Doppler sensing and optical coherence tomography. During an interferometer signal acquisition period, an interferometer sensing beam can be substantially stationary, and active step-scanning can be synchronized with interferometer signal acquisition cycles. For interferometers using repetitive chirping lasers, passive dispersive counter-scan mechanisms can be used to assist step-scanning operation.
US10323918B2
Described are spherical projectiles such as used in birdshot, buckshot, or single ball spherical projectiles, including slugs, muzzle loading projectiles, or any close-to-bore diameter projectile, that is auto-segmenting or self-segmenting upon impact with a target. The projectile or shot disclosed herein retains its shape and structure during flight until impact with soft tissue, whereupon its individual sections separate or segment in a controllable manner, each portion of the projectile imparting or depositing a high amount energy to the tissue and target. The auto-segmenting spherical projectiles can be frangible or non-frangible. This disclosure also provides cartridges such as shotshells that are loaded with the projectiles described herein.
US10323915B2
The invention relates to a firework battery (10), comprising at least one receiving part (11) for at least one pyrotechnic charge (20) and a border (13), which is connected via at least one hinge part (14) to a further receiving part (11) and/or an extension element (15) that continues the border and that is arranged on a receiving part (11), the axis of rotation of the hinge part being arranged vertically in relation to a ground. According to the invention, it is provided that the geometric arrangements of the receiving part (11) and/or of the extension element (15) are movable relative to one another, whereby a bordered support base (30) of the firework battery (10) is enlarged.
US10323911B1
The disclosed invention is a device for non-lethally stopping or slowing any water jet propelled craft, such as a common personal watercraft (PWC), by disrupting the water suction and thereby reducing the generated thrust. Most PWCs have an inboard engine that is coupled to a water jet pump which uses an impeller to generate thrust. This invention is ingested by the PWC intake to either clog the intake gate (or screen) or fill critical volume in any portion of the jet pump (such as the intake, impeller, stator, or pressure nozzle). In any case, water flow through the jet drive is significantly reduced which reduces the vessel's thrust. PWCs depend on adequate water flow through the jet pump to generate the thrust required for propulsion and steerage, and to provide engine cooling. Since this invention is designed to interrupt water flow, the result is reduced speed, steerage, and/or engine overheating.
US10323908B2
A flexible composite suitable for use in a knife, pick, bullet and fragment-resistant article comprising (i) a first zone comprising fabric but no resin, the first first zone comprising from 10 to 90 percent of the total thickness of the composite, (ii) a third zone comprising an elastomeric or thermoplastic resin but no fabric, the third zone comprising from 0 to 50 percent of the total thickness of the composite and (iii) a second zone, located between the first and third zones, comprising fabric and an elastomeric or thermoplastic resin, the second zone comprising from 10 to 90 percent of the total thickness of the composite.
US10323905B2
A laser shooting training system includes a target device including a target area and a camera for photographing the target area, and an analysis device for calculating a coordinate of a laser discharged to the target area based on an image photographed by the camera, and displaying a spotted position corresponding to the laser coordinate to a user display screen. The analysis device calculates a center coordinate of a laser area included in the image, corrects the center coordinate based on a correction value relating to a size of the laser area, and calculates the laser coordinate.
US10323902B2
A target marking system includes a light source emitting a thermal beam having a predetermined temporal modulation, and an optics assembly directing the thermal beam to impact a target, the target directing radiation to the optics assembly in response to the impact. A portion of the radiation having the predetermined temporal modulation. The target marking system further includes a detector configured to distinguish the portion of the radiation having the predetermined temporal modulation from a remainder of the radiation, the portion of the radiation passing to the director through the optics assembly. The system also includes a readout integrated circuit, the detector directing an input signal to the readout integrated circuit, and the readout integrated circuit producing a digitally enhanced output signal in response to receipt of the input signal.
US10323901B2
A compressed gas gun including a housing and a bolt movable within a passage in the housing. Movement of the bolt relative to the housing opens a flow path for firing a projectile.
US10323897B1
A support pod that supports a weapon in a firing position includes a support tube telescopingly joined with a leg having a longitudinal axis. A lock portion defines grooves downwardly angled relative to the longitudinal axis. A guide portion defines recesses downwardly angled relative to the axis. The recesses can be distal and separate from the grooves, and both optionally are downwardly spiraling. The leg is operable in a locked mode, in which a lock element is in a groove, and a guide element is in a corresponding recess, to set a first overall length of the support. The leg can operate in an adjustment mode in which the lock and guide element can transition out from the groove and recess, and can move to other respective grooves and recesses chosen by a user to set the pod at another overall length. A related method of use is provided.
US10323890B2
A method for joining a first metal part with a second metal part, the metal parts having a solidus temperature above 1000° C. The method includes applying a melting depressant composition on a surface of the first metal part, the melting depressant composition including a melting depressant component that includes phosphorus and silicon for decreasing a melting temperature of the first metal part; bringing the second metal part into contact with the melting depressant composition at a contact point on said surface; heating the first and second metal parts to a temperature above 1000° C.; and allowing a melted metal layer of the first metal component to solidify, such that a joint is obtained at the contact point. The melting depressant composition and related products are also described.
US10323889B2
A container for a waste heat utilization circuit may include a housing that defines a housing interior such that the housing interior can be flowed through by a working medium. A sheath may be arranged in the housing interior for accommodating an auxiliary medium. The sheath may be fluid-tight and heat-conductive at least in certain areas. The sheath may define a sheath interior of variable volume.
US10323888B2
The system and method for installing external corrosion guards of the present disclosure comprises a method of protecting tubing in tubular heat exchangers from external corrosion that includes the installation of protective collars or guards around the tube outer diameter at the tubsheet plate, anti-vibration baffle, and/or pass partition plate levels. The external corrosion guards can be installed using a ridge method, where a ridge sits on a plate level, using a mechanical expansion method, and using a mechanical rolling method.
US10323877B2
Handling and storage of beer kegs in walk-in coolers used in the food/beverage industry. The invention utilizes a track system with an electric hoist to lift and stack kegs anywhere within the defined beer cooler. The invention is designed to optimize the keg storage footprint and better organize keg rotation. With the optional digital scale, the end user can take the guess work out of calculating partial kegs for precise inventory control.
US10323870B2
A refrigeration system includes a valve and a controller. The valve is configured to control the flow of refrigerant into an evaporator, the refrigerant having an associated liquid setting comprising a temperature and a pressure at which the refrigerant flows through the valve. The controller is operable to adjust the liquid setting, the adjusted liquid setting comprising a temperature and a pressure selected to improve energy efficiency under conditions currently being experienced by the refrigeration system, wherein the controller is operable to adjust the temperature and the pressure simultaneously such that the adjustment does not interfere with operation of the valve.
US10323865B2
A compact cooling system based on thermoelastic effect is provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises a pair of rollers serving as a heat sink, stress applicator and belt drive, a cold reservoir and a solid refrigerant belt coupled to the cold reservoir and to the heat sinks to pump heat from the cold reservoir to the heat sink. The refrigerant belt comprises solid thermoelastic materials capable of thermoelastic effect. The refrigerant material is mechanically compressed when entering the gap of the roller and subsequently released after passing through. When compressed the refrigerant material transforms to martensite phase and releases heat to the roller and neighboring materials. After released by the rollers, the refrigerant material transforms back to austenite and absorbs heat from the ambient atmosphere.
US10323860B1
An automatically flushing water heater maintenance system may be provided, the system including a water heater and a water heater controller. The water heater may include an inlet, an outlet, and a flush outlet having a first control valve in flow communication therewith. The first control valve may be configured to control a flow of water and sediment through the flush outlet out of the water heater. The water heater controller may be configured to communicate with the first control valve by transmitting a first control signal to the first control valve, the first control signal configured to cause the first control valve to open or close as part of an automatic flushing process. As a result of the flushing, the useful life of the water heater may be extended, and/or water heater leakage alleviated. Insurance discounts may be provided based upon using the automatic water heater flushing functionality.
US10323853B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a ventilation assembly including a scroll assembly that can include a blower assembly including a motor coupled to a blower wheel. Some embodiments include a discharge grid capable of being coupled to the scroll using a coupling pin or snap tabs. In some embodiments, the discharge grid includes a plurality of vertical and horizontal fins, and an outlet restriction. In some embodiments, at least one of the plurality of horizontal fins extends from the outlet restriction to couple with at least one vertical fin to form an aperture. In other embodiments, at least a portion of at least one of the plurality of vertical and horizontal fins includes a flared surface. Some embodiments include a scroll assembly that includes a scroll crescent. In some embodiments, a scroll including a discharge grid and scroll crescent can at least partially guide a fluid within the ventilation assembly.
US10323851B2
A UV tube for killing microorganisms in a fluid generally includes a hollow tubular body, a UV isolation layer, and at least one UV light source. The hollow tubular body has an inlet port, an outlet port, and a fluid channel portion between the inlet port and the outlet port. The fluid channel portion has an inner surface. The UV isolation layer is disposed at the inner surface of the hollow tubular body for sheltering the inner surface of the hollow tubular body. The fluid is allowed to flow through the UV isolation layer. The UV light source is provided at the hollow tubular body and/or the UV isolation layer. The UV isolation layer can absorb and/or reflect the ultraviolet light emitting from the UV light source, so that the possibility of the fluid channel portion being irradiated by the UV light can be reduced.
US10323847B2
A tripod joint assembly for connecting first and second overlapping panel segments of a flowpath liner in a gas turbine engine includes a threaded fastener extending through an opening in the first overlapping panel segment and adjacent to an outer segment edge of the second overlapping panel segment disposed on the first overlapping segment. The assembly further includes a tripod plate having first and second plate edges and an access hole therebetween. The first plate edge contacts the first overlapping panel segment, the second plate edge contacts the outer segment edge of the second overlapping panel segment. The access hole is disposed around the threaded fastener. First and second washers are disposed around the threaded fastener, the first washer on the tripod plate opposite to the overlapping panel segments, and the second washer on the first washer opposite to the tripod plate. A threaded locknut secures the assembly.
US10323838B2
A ballast-bypass type LED tube lamp is provided herein, which implements the safety function for protecting the user from electric shock since it conducts only when both ends thereof have been correctly installed into a lamp socket. The ballast-bypass type LED tube lamp includes a lamp tube, two end caps, an LED module and a power supply module. The power supply module includes a detection module for temporarily conducting two detection terminals of the detection module during a detection stage, so that a pulse current is generated when the LED tube lamp is powered on. The detection module performs a detection based on the pulse current, so as to determine whether to conduct or cut off a current path between the first and the second detection terminals after the detection stage.
US10323835B1
A combination LED lighting system and angle power strip including an elongated and horizontally extending housing which may be placed on a vertical wall below a cabinet or the like. The housing has an inclined front wall which has a plurality of electrical outlets mounted thereon at an acute angle with respect to the wall. The housing also has a lens selectively removably secured thereto which is positioned above the electrical outlets. A LED lighting system is mounted in the housing for directing light downwardly and outwardly through the lens. The ends of the housing have caps removably secured thereto. The housing also has an outer wall member which may be selectively detached from the housing for repair or replacement of the components within the housing.
US10323820B2
A lens component disperses light from a source having a distribution characteristic in which luminosity becomes smaller according to distance from the optical axis. The component includes an incidence portion at a source position struck by light from the source and guiding portions branching from the incidence portion and extending radially from the source position. Each guiding portion includes a basal end portion joined to the incidence portion, emission end portion emitting light away from the source, and reflection surface guiding light that struck the basal end portion while performing internal reflection. The incidence portion and guiding portions form a light distribution structure arranged so that a ratio of luminosity in a direction making a predetermined angle with the optical axis with respect to luminosity in the axial direction in light emitted from the structure is larger than a corresponding ratio in the source's distribution characteristic.
US10323819B2
A screen cover includes a screen cover body including an array of cover units arranged in multiple rows and multiple columns, each cover unit configured to be positioned over a respective LED lamp of an array of LED pixel units. Each cover unit has a shaped outer surface with edges, including an edge in common with an adjacent cover unit in a same row and an edge in common with an adjacent cover unit in a same column, such that the outer surfaces of the cover units along the columns and rows together form a continuous outer cover surface.
US10323813B2
A light ring module may be used to customize headlights for any vehicle. A frame supports at least one LED or another light source and is mounted about a headlight on the vehicle. The light source may be directly hardwired into the vehicle power system or independently powered and controlled. The module may be made to fit any type of vehicle or, alternatively, a bezel may be made to support the module. Such a bezel would be compatible with a given vehicle with mounting points and methods according to the underlying structure. A bezel would also have a slot to support the light ring module and could, optionally, have a lens through which the light may shine.
US10323796B2
The invention relates to a container/container support assembly, notably for a medical gas cylinder, comprising a gas container (11) comprising a protective cap (3) comprising a peripheral wall (3), and a container support (20) able and designed to accept and bear said gas container (11). The protective cap (3) of the gas container (11) comprises a fixing element (10) projecting from the surface of the peripheral wall (3), and said container support (20) comprises an attachment system (24) for fixing said container support (20) to a bearing structure (30), and a housing (22) able and designed to accept said fixing element (10) borne by the protective cap (3) of the gas container (11) so as to secure said gas container (11) to said container support (20) when said fixing element (10) is positioned in said housing (22) of the container support (20).
US10323789B2
An infant item holder for holding one or more infant items. The infant item holder may include a base with a passage. The infant item holder may also include an elongated member that is longer than the passage and includes first and second ends. The elongated member may be positioned in the passage with the first end extending from a first side of the passage and the second end extending from a second side of the passage. The elongated member may be movably positioned within the passage and adjustable between a first orientation with the first end in closer proximity to the base than the second end, and a second orientation with the second end in closer proximity to the base than the first end. Infant items may be positioned at the ends of the elongated member.
US10323787B2
The present invention relates to an elevator handrail supporting device including: a fixing plate assembly 20 and a bracket 50 coupled to the fixing plate assembly, in which the bracket includes T-nut guides 60, a T-nut 70 coupled to the T-nut guides, a stopper 80 being in contact with a bolt head, a bolt support 90, and a catching projection 96, and when the bracket 50 is fitted with the fixing plate assembly 20 coupled to a handrail 10, a stepped portion 94 of the catching projection 96 is engaged with and coupled to a catching hole 24, a bolt is fitted into a fastening hole 22, and then the bolt is tightened into a threaded hole 76 of the T-nut 70, the fixing plate assembly 20 is bent downward by elasticity so as to apply an upward force to the handrail 10.
US10323786B2
The present disclosure relates to a manually adjustable monitor bracket for a flat panel display of a mobile diagnostic device that includes at least two joints with mutually parallel pivot axes, the joints being connected to one another by a first arm. In order to prevent a collision of the flat panel screen attached to a hand joint on a second arm and/or of the monitor bracket with an obstacle whose position relative to the coordinate system of the mobile diagnostic device is known, in particular with a part of the diagnostic device, the monitor bracket includes a device for preventing a collision that limits the movement of the monitor bracket in such a manner that movement in a direction about the first horizontal pivot axis or in a direction about the second horizontal pivot axis is blocked if a continuation of the movement about the pivot axes would lead to the value pairs consisting of the pivot angles of the shoulder joint and of the pivot angles of the elbow joint being contained in the number of the value pairs of the pivot angles of the collision-endangered area.
US10323777B2
A coupling (10) is provided to create a connection between two tubes (12) and includes a first coupling body (14) having an externally threaded end (26), and a second coupling body (16) has an internally threaded end (32) operably engaged with the externally threaded end (28). A first deformable ring (18) is located in the first coupling body (14). A second deformable ring (20) is located in the second coupling body (16). A sleeve (22) is located in the first and second coupling bodies (14,16) extending between the first and second deformable rings (18,20). The coupling (10) has a free condition wherein tubes (12) can be inserted into the coupling (10), and a connecting condition wherein the first and second deformable rings (18,20) are engaged with the sleeve (22) and the first and second coupling bodies (14,16) to be deformed into engagement with any tubes (12) that have been inserted into the coupling (10).
US10323769B2
A pressure relief valve (10) is provided for controlling fluid flow between a first fluid path (12a) and a second fluid path (12b). The pressure relief valve includes a housing (14), a diaphragm member (24) movably affixed within the housing and having a fluid port (18), a first biasing member (20) for urging the diaphragm member in a first direction, and a sealing member (26) movably mounted in the housing and configured for reversibly sealing the fluid port (18). When a pressure at the second fluid path (12b) exceeds a first predetermined threshold the diaphragm member (24) is pushed against the first biasing member (20), and the sealing member (26) is initially urged towards the fluid port (18) and subsequently becomes disengaged with the fluid port, allowing fluid communication between the second fluid path (12b) and the first fluid path (12a) via the fluid port. When the pressure at the second fluid path (12b) decreases below a second predetermined threshold, the sealing member (26) becomes disengaged from the diaphragm member (24), allowing fluid communication between the first fluid path and the second fluid path via the fluid port. A valve assembly including the pressure release valve (10) and an externally actuated valve (60) is also provided.
US10323764B2
A valve device includes: a valve body having assembly holes; solenoid components configured such that a first part is inserted into each assembly hole; and a fixing member fixed to the valve body. An engagement groove is provided in an outer circumferential surface of each solenoid component in a direction intersecting an axial center of the solenoid component. Each engagement groove is provided to a portion of the first part that is located outside the assembly hole when the first part is inserted in the assembly hole. The fixing member includes locking portions. Side walls of each engagement groove are engaged with each locking portion so as to set a position in an axial direction of each solenoid component. Each locking portion is engaged with a groove bottom of each engagement groove so as to set a phase around the axial center of each solenoid component.
US10323752B2
A butterfly valve includes a valve element that turns with a shaft to control open/closed states of a passage or adjust an opening degree of the passage. The valve element includes a plate and an elastic member provided along an outer circumference of the plate. The elastic member has seal parts that touch and leave an inner surface of the passage to close and open the passage. The plate has specific shapes on both sides with respect to an axis of the shaft, the specific shapes narrowing gaps between the plate and the inner surface on lower-pressure sides of seal centers of the seal parts in a valve closed state.
US10323734B2
This disclosure relates to an electric actuator to render optical elements movable. The electrical actuator generally has a motor, a mechanical transmission assembly having an endless screw, a support element of the endless screw, a drive mechanism, and a return mechanism. The motor is configured to drive the mechanical transmission assembly and the mechanical transmission assembly is configured to drive the drive mechanism, wherein the return mechanism exerts an axial pressure against the endless screw in such a way as to press the endless screw against the support element. The disclosure also relates to an assembly having a movable optical element and an electric actuator of the movable optical element as described above.
US10323727B2
The present disclosure provides a multiple speed transmission having an input member, an output member, a plurality of planetary gearsets, a plurality of interconnecting members and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms. The plurality of planetary gear sets includes first, second and ring gears. The input member is continuously interconnected with at least one member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets, and the output member is continuously interconnected with another member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets. At least eight forward speeds and one reverse speed are achieved by the selective engagement of the five torque-transmitting mechanisms.
US10323725B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is disclosed. A planetary gear train of claim of an automatic transmission for a vehicle, includes an input shaft for receiving an external torque; an output shaft for outputting a shifted torque; a first planetary gear set having first, second, and third rotational elements; a second planetary gear set having fourth, fifth, and sixth rotational elements; a third planetary gear set having seventh, eighth, and ninth rotational elements; a fourth planetary gear set having tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotational elements; a first shaft fixedly connected with the second rotational element, the sixth rotational element, the seventh rotational element, and the input shaft; a second shaft fixedly connected with the eleventh rotational element, and the output shaft; and a third shaft fixedly connected with the first rotational element and the tenth rotational element.
US10323715B2
A torsional vibration damper in which noise and vibrations in a planetary gear unit are suppressed is provided. In a planetary gear unit, as an inertial element is oscillated to establish an inertial torque by a relative rotation between a sun gear and a ring gear. Pinion gears are interposed between the sun gear and the ring gear at predetermined intervals, and gear dimensions of one of the pinion gears and gear dimensions of another one of the pinion gears are different from each other.
US10323712B2
A hydraulic device includes a tubular housing containing a rod to which a plunger is rigidly secured that separates an upper chamber and a lower chamber both filled with a hydraulic fluid such that the plunger and the rod move together in a relative manner axially inside the tubular housing, thereby moving the hydraulic fluid from one chamber to the other and varying the volumes thereof. The hydraulic device further includes a spring that operates under compression resisting the movement of the plunger in one direction when the plunger moves toward a maximum extension position of the hydraulic device. The hydraulic device also includes an open elastic ring, the ends of which define an adjustable intermediate passage for the hydraulic fluid in order to adjust damping at the end of maximum extension of the hydraulic device and in other relative positions.
US10323703B2
A disc brake caliper includes actuator and reaction portions disposed on opposite sides of a rotor and a bridge portion extending between the actuator and reaction portions and disposed radially outward of the rotor. The actuator portion houses a piston and a lever and defines a mounting flange for a brake actuator. Movement of the lever by the brake actuator causes the piston and the reaction portion to urge brake pads against opposite sides of the rotor. The mounting flange defines a pushrod bore and a fastener bore that receive a pushrod of the actuator and a shank of a fastener extending from the actuator, respectively. The fastener bore has a diameter that varies along at least a portion of a length of the bore beginning from a first end of the bore proximate the actuator and tapering moving towards a second end of the bore distant from the actuator.
US10323700B2
A wedge clutch, including: an axis of rotation; a hub; an inner ring located radially inward of the hub; a cage radially disposed between the hub and the inner ring; a plurality of circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments radially disposed between the hub and the inner ring; and a circumferentially continuous resilient element engaged with the cage and the plurality of circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments, and urging the plurality of circumferentially aligned wedge plate segments radially outward.
US10323699B2
An electromagnetic connect/disconnect system with an electromagnet including a coil and a coil housing. The system also includes a rotatable and axially slideable slide ring located between the coil housing and a sliding collar. The slide ring has a radially outer surface and a radially inner surface. The sliding collar has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is located radially inward from the slide ring and defines a first set of axially extending teeth. The second portion is located radially inward from the first portion. A return spring is located adjacent the sliding collar. An output gear is also included which has a second set of axially extending teeth for selective engagement with the sliding collar.
US10323698B2
A torque transferring transmission-drive system includes a first friction surface. A second friction surface is directed toward the first friction surface. A reaction plate is positioned between the first friction surface and the second friction surface. A piston is actuated by a fluid pressure to displace the first friction surface toward the second friction surface, frictionally engaging the reaction plate between the first friction surface and the second friction surface. At least one strap spring in a clutch engaged condition elastically compresses to allow the reaction plate to be frictionally engaged between the first friction surface and the second friction surface, and in a clutch disengaged condition the at least one strap spring elastically expands to create a clearance between the reaction plate and each of the first friction surface and the second friction surface.
US10323697B2
A multi-stage transmission having at least four planetary gear stages which are disposed one behind the other along a main axis of rotation and which in each case have a sun gear, a planetary gear support, and a ring gear is disclosed. The multi-stage transmission has a bearing which supports the sun gear of the second planetary gear stage and the ring gear of the third planetary gear stage axially with respect to one another.
US10323686B2
A radial roller bearing can include an outer race having as a center axis a first axis extending in a first direction and an inner race having as the center axis the first axis. A group of rollers composed of a plurality of rollers arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction can be centered on the first axis between the outer raceway surface of the outer race and the inner raceway surface of the inner race and a cage can be provided for holding the group of rollers. A first regulating part can be provided for regulating the movement of the outer race to one side. A second regulating part can be provided for regulating the movement of the outer race to another side. The first regulating part and the second regulating part can be arranged at positions at which the distance between the first regulating part and the second regulating part is a prescribed distance longer than the outer race.
US10323682B2
A mounting assembly for mounting an actuator having a base end and a piston end on an item of equipment. The mounting assembly comprises a plate that is adapted to be mounted to the item of equipment at a first location, a pin hole that is disposed on the plate and has a raised portion, and a pin that is disposed in the pin hole and has a pin diameter, a longitudinal axis, and a channel. The pin is affixed to the cap end of the actuator, the piston end of the actuator is mounted to the item of equipment at a second location, and the channel of the pin is seated on the raised portion of the pin hole. A method for mounting an actuator comprising providing a mounting assembly and moving the actuator between a retracted position and an extended position.
US10323676B2
A nut fastener is provided for locking the nut to prevent inadvertent loosening of the nut. The nut fastener is particularly useful for tightening a wheel onto an axle. The nut fastener includes a nut, a collar and a retaining ring. The nut is unlocked by pushing on an engagement surface of the collar or by riding ratchet teeth over each other. When the collar is released, the collar locks against the nut to resist rotation of the nut.
US10323669B2
A holder device for being present at the surface of a first part made of composite material in order to enable a second part to be held to the first part, the holder device including a body made of composite material including a fiber structure and a matrix present in the pores of the fiber structure; and a holder member including a base and holder tabs extending from either side of the base, the holder tabs being for defining a holding zone for holding the second part to the first part, the base of the holder device being present in the body, and the holder tabs projecting through a surface of the body.
US10323661B2
An adsorption separation device is used with a cylinder, wherein the cylinder comprises a cylinder body, a first piston, and a second piston. The first piston and the second piston are arranged inside the cylinder body, and the first piston and the second piston are be spaced from each other. The cylinder further comprises a first shaft and a second shaft where the first shaft extends into the cylinder body and is connected with the first piston, and the second shaft is slidably sleeved in the first shaft and connected with the second piston. The adsorption separation device includes the cylinder. The cylinder and the adsorption separation device are actually two or more cylinders sharing the same cylinder body and controlling two or more pistons and shafts respectively. The control directions and strokes of the pistons are independent relative to each other and do not affect each other.
US10323660B2
A cylinder guide mechanism includes a floating bush, a holding part that holds the floating bush, and a linear guide. When a working fluid is supplied in a tube and a piston rod moves back and forth, the floating bush and a guide member of the linear guide move back and forth in the same direction. At this time, a slider of the linear guide is displaced relative to the guide member by retaining the same position. The slider is connected to the tube via an L-bracket.
US10323657B2
A system for hydraulic systems includes a working cylinder (58) which operates as a consumer of hydraulic energy or as a generator of hydraulic energy. A hydraulic accumulator (1) can be charged by the working cylinder for storing energy and can be discharged for delivering energy to the working cylinder (58). One hydraulic accumulator is provided in the form of an adjustable hydropneumatic piston accumulator (1), in which with a plurality of pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) adjoining effective surfaces (11, 13, 15, 17) of different sizes are on the fluid side of the accumulator piston (5). An adjusting arrangement (51) connects a selected pressure chamber (19, 21, 23, 25) or a plurality of selected pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) of the piston accumulator (1) to the working cylinder (58) as a function of the pressure level that prevails respectively on the gas side of the piston accumulator (1) and on the working cylinder (58).
US10323653B2
The invention discloses a centrifugal compressor. The centrifugal compressor includes multiple stages of compression units which are communicated in sequence. Each stage of compression unit includes a diffusion cavity (1) and a diffusion adjustment device, wherein the diffusion adjustment device includes a movable member (21) configured to change a radial flow area of the diffusion cavity (1) provided in correspondence thereto, the movable member (21) being movably provided in an axial direction of the centrifugal compressor. The invention also discloses a centrifugal unit having the centrifugal compressor. The movable member of each stage of compression unit of the centrifugal compressor changes the radial flow area of the diffusion cavity of this stage of compression unit, thereby effectively reducing the possibility of surging.
US10323646B2
A pumping system featuring a pump chamber configured with a central portion having a tangential outlet, and configured with a tubular coupling end portion having inwardly flexible rim portions on one side; and a mounting base, having a circular portion with an inner circumferential rim configured to receive and engage the inwardly flexible rim portions of the tubular coupling portion of the pump chamber so as to be rotationally coupled to the pumping chamber so that the pumping chamber may be rotated 360° in relation to the mounting base.
US10323644B1
The disclosure herein includes an electric submersible pump assembly for pumping fluids from a wellbore, which electric submersible pump assembly may include: a pump; and a motor assembly coupled to the pump, the motor assembly including: a housing; a stator disposed within the housing, wherein the stator has an inner surface having a diameter; a rotor disposed in the stator, wherein the rotor has an outer surface and a magnet; a first bearing assembly disposed around the rotor; and a second bearing assembly disposed around the rotor; wherein the rotor has a length separating the first bearing assembly from the second bearing assembly; and the length divided by the diameter of the inner surface of the stator yields a ratio from 7.00 to 13.00.
US10323636B2
A gear pump includes a housing, at least one gear set and a plurality of end plates. The gear set may be positioned between the end plates so that side surfaces of the gears face corresponding side surfaces of the end plates. The side surfaces of the end plates may have a plurality of spiral grooves positioned directly adjacent the side surface of the gears. The plurality of spiral grooves may have a logarithmic shape. Thus arranged, when the gears rotate, fluid in the pump is forced along the lengths of the spiral grooves, creating a local high pressure region that forces fluid between the side surfaces of the gears and the end plates, minimizing or eliminating contact therebetween. In some embodiments the plurality of spiral grooves may be positioned on bearing surfaces of the pump instead of end plates.
US10323635B2
Disclosed is a vane pump device including: an even number of vanes; a rotor; a cam ring; an inner plate; and an outer plate. An inner-plate high pressure side through-hole and an inner-plate low pressure side recess portion are formed separately from each other in a rotation direction in cam ring side end surfaces of the inner plate and the outer plate, and communicate with a columnar groove which is a space of a vane groove on a rotation center side. The position of an inner-plate high pressure side through-hole upstream end and the position of an inner-plate low pressure side recess portion upstream end are point-symmetrical with each other with respect to the rotation center.
US10323632B2
A lubricating oil supply device for a vehicle includes an electric oil pump and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the electric oil pump, determine whether or not lubricating oil needs to be supplied by the electric oil pump, control a drive duty of the electric oil pump to a first value when the ECU determines that lubricating oil needs to be supplied, and control the drive duty to a second value that is smaller than the first value when the ECU determines that lubricating oil does not need to be supplied. The electronic control unit is configured to perform duty variable control for controlling the drive duty to a third value, which is between the first value and the second value, during a predetermined changeover transition period, in changing over the drive duty from the first value to the second value.
US10323628B2
A linear motor compressor including a compressor housing and a cylinder housing having a plurality of opposing compression chambers. A piston freely reciprocates within the cylinder housing using a linear electric motor.
US10323622B2
A bi-directional contra-rotating circular rail bearing Y-shaped compound blade fluid energy collection multi-unit power generating windmill, the windmill comprising: a windmill remote automatic control system (1); a Y-shaped compound blade (2) from a combining of single blades; a circular rail windmill body (3) bearing the Y-shaped compound blade (2); a circular windmill rail (4) bearing the circular rail windmill body (3) for operation; a circular rail connection cable pulling vehicle (5) running on the circular cable pulling vehicle rail to pull the circular rail windmill using a stay cable (209); a hydraulic energy collection multi-unit power generating system (6) or pneumatic energy collection multi-unit power generating system (7); the Y-shaped compound blade (2) is born by three circles of the circular rail windmill body (3) arranged equidistant thereon; the circular rail windmill body (3) has six circles.
