US10383268B2
A nozzle holder is configured to include an insertion hole for inserting and storing a cartridge from an entrance thereof, a tubular holder tube portion having a vent hole for introducing a negative pressure into the insertion hole, and a clamp lever in which an engaging portion engaged with an engaged portion of the nozzle inserted into the insertion hole in a state where the entrance of the insertion hole is blocked, is formed. Accordingly, when the nozzle is detached from the nozzle holder, the clamp lever prevents the cartridge from coming off the insertion hole by being displaced toward the insertion hole.
US10383265B2
An EMI shielding device is provided. A first shielding layer is formed on a first surface of a first substrate, and a first through hole is formed through the first substrate. A second substrate is mounted in an opening of the first through hole, and a second shielding layer is formed on a surface of the second substrate. A conductive paste is mounted between the first substrate and the at least one second substrate to electrically connected the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer. The EMI shielding device is adopted to be mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) by Surface Mount Technology. Therefore, the EMI shielding device may be firmly mounted on the PCB, and there is not any narrow gap that may leak electromagnetic radiation.
US10383259B2
A method of thermal control in a chassis is presented. An example method of thermal control can include each of one or more blades reporting a requested fan blade speed to a CMC controller where the CMC controller performs an auction of the requested fan blade speed, determines a high value and assigning a corresponding active blade, and reporting the high value to the blades. The active blade then provides fan speed alerts while the passive blades provide fan speed alerts only when the new fan speed request exceeds the high value.
US10383258B2
A method of thermal control in a chassis is presented. An example method of thermal control can include each of one or more blades reporting a requested fan blade speed to a CMC controller where the CMC controller performs an auction of the requested fan blade speed, determines a high value and assigning a corresponding active blade, and reporting the high value to the blades. The active blade then provides fan speed alerts while the passive blades provide fan speed alerts only when the new fan speed request exceeds the high value.
US10383246B2
An electrical distribution box for an aircraft includes first housings configured to receive power modules, second housings configured to receive electronic control modules, and an interface configured for connection of the power and control modules and external electrical members. The interface includes at least one input power busbar extending into at least one of the first housings for connection to at least one of the power modules. The at least one input power busbar is adapted to be connected to a cable of a wiring harness for connection of the at least one power module to the wiring harness.
US10383245B1
A power supply chassis has at least one accommodating slot therein. Two side walls of the accommodating slot of the power supply chassis are provided with a first left guiding and fixing block and a first right guiding and fixing block. The guiding and fixing blocks have a first left guiding bevel and a first right guiding bevel facing a front side of the accommodating slot, a first left fixing plane and a first right fixing plane corresponding in position to the middle of the accommodating slot. When a power supply is placed into the accommodating slot, the first left guiding bevel and the first right guiding bevel guide the power supply to a middle position of the accommodating slot, and the power supply is clamped by the first left fixing plane and the first right fixing plane to enhance the stability of the power supply.
US10383237B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display which is curved such that opposite lateral ends thereof protrude forward relative to a central portion thereof. A support frame having a lower end supported on a horizontal surface and allowing the display to be disposed inside thereof is provided; wherein the support frame is curved such that opposite lateral ends thereof protrude forward relative to the central portion thereof.
US10383236B2
A manufacturing method for circuit board on copper ceramic substrate comprises stamping a copper sheet into a copper circuit board in a shape matching a ceramic substrate, fitting the copper circuit board to the ceramic substrate and sintering the copper circuit board and the ceramic substrate together by direct bonding copper.
US10383233B2
A method for forming an electronic circuit on a molded plastic substrate. The method includes laser etching at least a portion of the molded plastic substrate; activating via laser selective plating the laser-etched portion of the molded plastic substrate to form one or more electrically conductive traces; placing at least two electrically conductive pads at predetermined positions along the one or more electrically conductive traces that maximize an amount of surface area contact between the at least two electrically conductive pads and the molded plastic substrate; and surface mounting an electrical component to the at least two electrically conductive pads using electrically conductive bonding material.
US10383232B2
A multilayer structure for an electronic device including a flexible substrate film for accommodating electronics; at least one electronic component provided on the substrate film; and a number of conductive traces provided on the substrate film for electrically powering and/or connecting electronics including the at least one electronic component, wherein at least one preferably thermoformed cover is attached to the substrate film on top of the at least one electronic component, the at least one thermoformed cover and the substrate film accommodating the electronics being overmolded with thermoplastic material. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a multilayer structure for an electronic device.
US10383228B2
An electronic component device includes a first coreless wiring substrate, an electronic component mounted on the first coreless wiring substrate, a second coreless wiring substrate disposed above the first coreless wiring substrate and the electronic component such that the second coreless wiring substrate is spaced from the first coreless wiring substrate and the electronic component, a connection terminal that connects the first coreless wiring substrate and the second coreless wiring substrate, and a sealing resin filled between the first and second coreless wiring substrates. Each of the first and second coreless wiring substrates include an insulating layer, a wiring layer, and a reinforcing layer embedded in the insulating layer and provided in a region overlaying the electronic component.
US10383226B2
A multi-layer circuit structure including a core layer, a first circuit structure, a second circuit structure, and a build-up circuit structure is provided. The first circuit structure and the second circuit structure are respectively disposed on two opposite surfaces of the core layer. The build-up circuit structure includes a first dielectric layer disposed on the first circuit structure, first conductive blind holes, a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, second conductive blind holes, and a patterned circuit layer disposed on the second dielectric layer. The first conductive blind holes penetrate through the first dielectric layer and electrically contact the first circuit structure. The second conductive blind holes penetrate through the second dielectric layer and electrically contact the first conductive blind holes respectively. The patterned circuit layer electrically contacts the second conductive blind holes. A manufacturing method of the multi-layer circuit structure is also provided.
US10383223B2
A circuit board film-plated against corrosion of conductive traces comprises a substrate, a conductive circuit layer attached to the substrate, a plating film attached to outer surface of the conductive circuit layer, and a covering film. Each plating film comprises a top outer surface and a side surface. The circuit board defines at least one through hole. Each through hole passes through substrate, conductive circuit layer, and the plating film. The covering film covers the conductive circuit layer, the side surfaces, and the through holes. The conductive circuit layer and the side surfaces of the plating films are sealed against the atmosphere and cannot be corroded. A method for making the circuit board is also provided.
US10383215B2
(1) A conductor layer is disposed on at least one surface of a dielectric layer, the dielectric layer including an intermediate layer and a pair or more of fluororesin layers disposed on both surfaces of the intermediate layer, in which the ratio of the total average thickness of the intermediate layer to the total average thickness of the fluororesin layers is 0.001 to 30, the relative dielectric constant of the intermediate layer is 1.2 to 10, the coefficient of linear expansion of the intermediate layer is −1×10−4/° C. to 5×10−5/° C., and the adhesive strength between the fluororesin layer and the conductor layer is 300 g/cm or more. (2) Conductor layers are disposed on both surfaces of a dielectric layer made of a fluororesin, in which at least one of the conductor layers constitutes a wiring pattern, the average trace width of the wiring pattern is 25 to 300 μm, the average thickness of the dielectric layer in the region where traces of the wiring pattern are disposed is 5 to 125 μm, and the ratio of the average trace width to the average thickness of the dielectric layer is 2.4 to 30. (3) A multilayer structure includes conductor layers and dielectric layers made of a fluororesin alternately disposed, in which the fluororesin of the dielectric layers is crosslinked and chemically bonded to the conductor layers, the average thickness of the multilayer structure is 30 to 2,000 μm, and the crush resistance of the multilayer structure measured by a loop stiffness test is 0.1 to 20,000 N/cm.
US10383213B1
In some examples, an electronic device includes a printed circuit board (PCB) device that includes a first trace electrically connected to a first pad of a first trace via on a first layer and a second trace electrically connected to a second pad of a second trace via on a second layer. In some examples, the PCB device also includes four ground pads on the first layer and an antipad surrounding the two trace vias, where a first ground pad is positioned between the first trace and the second trace, where the first ground pad and the second ground pad are approximately symmetrically positioned about a perpendicular bisector of a line from the first pad to the second pad, and wherein the third ground pad and the fourth ground pad are approximately symmetrically positioned about the perpendicular bisector of the line from the first pad to the second pad.
US10383208B2
A hybrid component carrier is manufactured by providing a first layer structure having at least one electrically insulating layer and at least one electrically conductive layer; and forming a second layer structure on the first layer structure where the second layer structure includes at least a first layer and a second layer. The first layer structure has a first density of electrically conductive elements. The second layer structure has a second density of electrically conductive elements that is greater than the first density of electrically conductive elements. The forming of the second layer structure on the first layer structure includes forming the first layer of the second layer structure on the first layer structure; and subsequently forming the second layer of the second layer structure on the first layer of the second layer structure.
US10383201B1
Techniques are described for providing a smart-mesh socket. The smart-mesh socket may be sized and shaped to be engaged with a conventional electrical socket of one or more types (e.g., a USB receptacle providing DC electrical power) to provide power to one or more circuits housed within the smart-mesh socket. These circuits may include, for example, a main circuit that includes at least a dual processor for controlling the operation and communications of at least two communication circuits. The dual processors may execute instructions for an operating system, thus allowing the smart-mesh socket to provide enhanced capabilities for networked devices. One or more first communication circuits may each include one or more transceivers that allow the first communication circuit to send and receive communications with other devices over wireless network(s) using one or multiple wireless communication protocols.
US10383196B1
A control system for a facility can automatically control lighting conditions in an area of a facility to prevent the accidental turning off of lights in the area while machines or equipment are operating in the area. The control system can use information from a compressed air system that provides compressed air to the machines in the area to determine if the machines are presently being used in the area. If the machines are being used, the control system can control the lighting conditions in the area to provide a appropriate level of lighting. If the machines are not being used in the area, the control system can control the lighting conditions in the area based on one or more occupancy sensors used to determine if a person is located in the area.
US10383189B2
Systems, software, and methods are provided for efficient, dynamic lighting control. In an embodiment, a two-channel LED lighting system is dynamically controlled to emulate dimming of an incandescent fixture. In an example, a lighting fixture may include red, green, blue, and white emitting LED modules. The lighting fixture may be controlled such that it produces generally white light from about 2150K candle light color to 5500K daylight white color with only 4 LEDs. Furthermore, the white LED may be controlled such that the white LED CRI is approximately 95 to ensure optimal results when mixed with red and green. In another embodiment, a dynamic two-channel LED lighting system is controlled to emulate dimming of an incandescent fixture. Specific dimming protocol can allow for efficient dimming which helps minimize the height of a linear light fixture and maintain diffusion with multiple colored point sources at minimal pitch.
US10383187B2
System controller and method for a lighting system. The system controller includes a first controller terminal configured to receive a first signal, and a second controller terminal configured to output a second signal to a diver component. The driver component is configured to receive a first current and provide one or more drive currents to one or more light emitting diodes in response to the second signal. Additionally, the system controller is configured to process information associated with the first signal, determine a first time period for the first signal to increase from a first threshold to a second threshold, and determine a second time period for the first signal to decrease from the second threshold to the first threshold.
US10383175B2
An apparatus and method for melting snow and/or ice on a vehicle comprises a precipitation sensor, a surface temperature sensor, an ambient temperature sensor, a heater, and a programmable controller. The programmable controller comprises a memory unit to store a cut off surface temperature Tc, and a set of program modules. The programmable controller further comprises a processor to execute the set of program modules. A heater control module, executed by the processor, is configured to deactivate a heater based on a surface temperature being greater than the cut off surface temperature. Further, heater control module is configured to activate the heater based on an ambient temperature being lower than freezing point of water and precipitation being present outside the vehicle, thereby melting snow and/or ice on the vehicle. The snow melts off because of heat generated by the heater upon activation.
US10383173B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of wireless communications, and in particular, to a method, a device and a system for transmitting a data packet, which are used to resolve the problem existing in the prior art that an LTE network structure causes a signaling burden on a backhaul between a radio access network and a core network and causes a transmission delay on the backhaul. In the embodiments of the present application, a control point sends a data packet that is from at least one base station to an access network gateway or a core network gateway; and a data packet that is from the access network gateway or the core network gateway is sent to the at least one base station, the control point being a connection control point of a terminal and a mobility control point of the terminal. In the embodiments of the present invention, a control plane signaling process of a core network of a new network architecture is greatly simplified; therefore, the control delay and traffic pressure on a Backhaul between an access network and a core network are reduced. Under the control of a control point, a transmission mode is flexibly selected at an access network side, so that requirements of different services on aspects of the delay and reliability can be met.
US10383168B2
Managing data resource utilization in a wireless network environment comprising a first data network and a second data network is described herein. The described management infrastructure and method incorporates monitoring data usage of a wireless network subscriber over the first data network, determining that the data usage over the first data network meets a specified threshold, and, in response to the determination that usage has reached the specified threshold, administratively disconnecting the wireless network subscriber from the first data network so as to cause a data session of the wireless network subscriber to be reassigned to the second data network.
US10383165B2
A downlink control information (DCI) may be received. The DCI may comprise an uplink grant for the LAA cell. The uplink grant may comprise transmission parameters. The transmission parameter may comprise: uplink resources for one or more transport blocks (TBs), and an indication of a listen-before-talk (LBT) priority class. One or more first logical channels of the plurality of logical channels may be selected based on the LBT priority class. First uplink resources of the uplink resources to the one or more first logical channels may be allocated. Some remaining uplink resources of the uplink resources may be allocated to one or more second logical channels of the plurality of logical channels in response to the uplink resources not being exhausted. The one or more TBs may be transmitted on the LAA cell.
US10383164B2
In some implementations, a terminal, e.g., of a wireless telecommunications network, can receive information of at least two anchoring devices. The terminal can commence respective transactions with the anchoring devices via the network and determine that the respective transactions have failed. The terminal can then receive information of an additional anchoring device and commence a transaction with the additional anchoring device. In some examples, the terminal can commence transactions with a first anchoring device, then a second anchoring device in response to a transaction failure, then with the first anchoring device again in response to another transaction failure. In some examples, the terminal can commence a first transaction with the first anchoring device and determine that the first transaction has failed. The terminal can commence another transaction with the second anchoring device in response to an error reply, or with a third anchoring device in response to a timeout.
US10383150B2
A wireless device transmits a plurality of random access preambles (RAPs) via a plurality of random access channel (RACH) resources in response to initiating a random access procedure on a cell. A plurality of random access radio network temporary identifiers (RA-RNTIs) are determined based on the plurality of RACH resources. A physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may be monitored for at least one random access response (RAR) corresponding to at least one of the plurality of the RAPs. The monitoring may be based, at least in part, on the plurality of RA-RNTIs and performed within a first duration. A first RAR of the at least one RAR corresponding to at least one of the plurality of RAPs may be received. The first RAR may comprise an uplink grant. The uplink grant may comprise transmission parameters for one or more transport blocks (TBs). The one or more TBs may be transmitted.
US10383147B2
The sensing method a first vehicle user equipment (UE) for collision avoidance in a wireless communication network comprises receiving a set of scheduling assignment (SA) information allocated to a set of second vehicle UEs, decoding the set of SA information, each of which includes SA information to each of the set of second vehicle UEs, performing energy sensing operation for resources to be used by each of the set of second vehicle UEs to determine additional potential SA transmission and data transmission from the set of second vehicle UEs over the resources, determining available resources for the data transmission from the first vehicle UE based on the performed energy sensing and SA sensing, skipping a channel sensing operation on at least one subframe that is used for the data transmission from the first vehicle UE, and transmitting data among resources identified as unused in next transmissions from second vehicle UEs.
US10383142B2
A communication device for handling channel status information (CSI) reports for transmission time intervals (TTIs) comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise receiving a downlink (DL) control information (DCI) from a network, wherein the DCI comprises a CSI request indicating a CSI reporting for at least one serving cell of the network; and transmitting a first CSI report for a DL normal TTI (nTTI) of the at least one serving cell and a second CSI report for a DL shortened TTI (sTTI) of the at least one serving cell according to the CSI request to the network.
US10383140B2
A technique includes receiving, by a first user device from a base station, control information indicating an assignment of the first user device to a first scheduling request sub-pool of resources of one or more scheduling request sub-pools, and an assignment of the first user device to a first data sub-pool of resources of one or more data sub-pools, wherein the sub-pools assigned to the first user device allow a contention-based grant-free mode transmission from the first user device of both a data and a scheduling request at the same time via different resources, wherein for at least a plurality of user devices no two user devices are assigned to both a same data sub-pool and a same scheduling request sub-pool.
US10383134B2
Communication resources are appropriately used. An information processing device is an information processing device including an acquisition unit and a control unit. Here, the acquisition unit acquires a relative priority of each information processing device in a network built through autonomous wireless communication of a plurality of information processing devices. In addition, the control unit performs control such that a communication resource of the network is allocated based on the priority (a relative priority of each information processing device in the network) acquired by the acquisition unit.
US10383133B2
In embodiments of the present disclosure improved capabilities are described for a system having a host computer connected to a communication network, wherein the communication network includes a publish-subscribe broker network adapted to provide publish-subscribe broker services to a sensor device in RF communication with a wireless RF access node, wherein the wireless RF access node is connected to the communication network and enables the sensor device to connect to the publish-subscribe broker network. The publish-subscribe broker network is adapted to route packets of sensor data, on behalf of the sensor device that publishes the sensor data, to a sensor-processing application, wherein the sensor processing application subscribes to the sensor data, and wherein the sensor processing application generates application data that is at least in part sensor data from the sensor device. The publish-subscribe broker network is adapted to route packets of application data, on behalf of the sensor processing application that publishes the application data, to a communicating entity that is connected to the communication network if the communicating entity subscribes to the application data.
US10383131B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a transmission and reception mechanism for a downlink control channel applicable to a narrowband MTC UE, and a base station and a user equipment for executing the mechanism. The method according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: determining an MPDCCH-PRB-set and determining a set of MPDCCH candidates in the determined MPDCCH-PRB-set according to an aggregation level, wherein a number of PRB-pairs in the MPDCCH-PRB-set is 2, 4 or 6; and monitoring the MPDCCH in the determined set of MPDCCH candidates to obtain downlink control information for an MTC UE.
US10383128B2
Distance is employed to facilitate sector selection and re-selection in a network during handoff. A system receives measurement information for a mobile device. The measurement information includes information indicative of a geographical location of the mobile device. The system determines information indicative of a geographical location of a cell site to which the mobile device is assigned. The system then selects a sector of the cell site with which to associate the mobile device. The selection of the sector is based, at least, on a distance determined between the mobile device and the cell site. In various embodiments, the distance information is determined based on the latitude and longitude of the mobile device. In various embodiments, the morphology of the terrain for the area in which the mobile device is located is factored into the determination of the sector.
US10383124B1
A method and system for assigning data packet transmission in a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving first and second user data packets having respective first and second packet sizes, one of the packet sizes being larger than the other, determining an uplink/downlink ratio based on network statistics, and assigning the first and second data packets to respective first and second signal carrier spectrums each having a different time interval between uplink transmissions with the network. A system is also provided comprising a network controller configured to receive data packets and assign individual data packets to one of a first and a second signal carrier spectrum based on the size of the data packets, the first and the second signal carrier spectrums having the same uplink/downlink ratio and different uplink intervals.
US10383122B2
The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to decode modulated data. A modulated signal is received. A format of the modulated signal is determined, wherein the format can include a first format comprising a first type of modulated signal, or a second format comprising the first type of modulated signal and a second type of modulated signal that is different than the first type. The modulated signal is decoded by determining a frequency shift amount based on the format of the modulated signal, shifting a frequency band of the first type of modulated signal from an original position to a shifted position, thereby shifting a center frequency of the first type of modulated signal by the frequency shift amount, and filtering, based on the format of the modulated signal, signals outside of the frequency band of the shifted first type of modulated signal.
US10383118B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving a user equipment signal for vehicle to everything (V2X) communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a V2X signal in a time domain; and acquiring, from the V2X signal, V2X data in resource elements, which correspond to a plurality of sub-carriers determined according to a specific pattern among the sub-carriers configured for the user equipment and have a specific symbol index, wherein the V2X data is allocated so as to be separated, on the plurality of sub-carriers, as far as an interval determined according to the specific pattern in a frequency domain, and the V2X signals are characterized in that V2X data signals are repeated and represented the number of times corresponding to the specific pattern at a time interval corresponding to one symbol in the time domain.
US10383116B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method, including: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a first subframe; configuring the UE to send a first uplink signal in the first subframe; determining, by the UE, that the first uplink signal is a first type of uplink signal, where the first type of uplink signal occupies a first part of symbols of the first subframe, and the number of symbols included in the first part of symbols is less than the number of symbols included in the first subframe; and detecting, by the UE, a downlink control channel on a second part of symbols in the first subframe, where the first part of symbols and the second part of symbols do not overlap in time domain.
US10383112B2
Wireless client devices within a wireless network exchange data with other wireless devices during particular time slots determined by the network. More particularly, the system generates and wirelessly broadcasts synchronization information to the client devices, where the synchronization information contains individual masks to be applied to bit fields of individual client devices, where said time slots are determined in accordance with the masked bit fields. In such a manner, client devices can be coordinated to communicate with the system in a dynamic real-time tiered manner.
US10383098B2
To improve manipulability.An information processing device includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit performs real-time image transmission with at least one sink device according to a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification. The control unit performs control related to the real-time image transmission based on control information for controlling the information processing device according to the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast specification, the control information being received from the at least one sink device. The control unit performs control such that on-off switching of a UIBC for transmitting manipulation information in the sink device that has transmitted the control information is performed when a plurality of pieces of control information are received.
US10383096B2
Provided is a method for transmitting resource information for device-to-device (D2D) communication of a D2D transmission terminal in a wireless communication system, the method being characterized by comprising the steps of: receiving a resource pool configuration for D2D communication; and transmitting, to a D2D reception terminal, resource information therefor indicating the resource for a first D2D signal transmission to the D2D transmission terminal.
US10383094B2
Provided is an uplink feedback channel allocation method and apparatus used to feedback data to indicate whether data packets corresponding an enhanced physical downlink control channel (E-PDCCH) were successfully decoded. A terminal may use an additional resource area of an uplink feedback channel or may use an empty resource area of the uplink feedback channel to which feedback information of a data packet corresponding to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is not allocated, to perform feedback.
US10383082B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining a scale associated with received signal strength indicators (RSSIs). In one example, a computing device receives access point (AP) RSSIs. The RSSIs are determined at APs. The APs are associated with coordinate information. In one example, records are maintained for AP reference pairs. Each AP RSSI can be determined at one AP with reference to another AP. In one example, the computing device determines a scale associated with each record.
US10383078B2
A timing signal output device includes a timing signal generation circuit which generates a timing signal synchronized with a reference signal based on a satellite signal received from at least one positioning satellite, the timing signal being synchronized with the reference signal at a timing based on an elevation angle of a positioning satellite.
US10383069B2
The present relates to a node to be integrated in a network of wirelessly connected nodes, to a network system, to method for operating a node of a network, and to a method for communicating within a network. A method is disclosed for communicating within a network of cooperatively synchronized nodes, configured to broadcast data packets to the network during broadcast phases through a flooding mechanism, each data packet comprising hop data. The method comprises, for each broadcast phase, broadcasting a data packet from a source node during a predetermined time slot; and receiving the data packet at one or more destination node during said predetermined time slot. The broadcasting and receiving are repeated according to the hop data, at respective predetermined time slots, wherein each destination node corresponds to a source node in a next execution of broadcasting and the data packet received corresponds substantially to the data packet to be broadcasted in the next repetition.
US10383068B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for wireless communications. Cells may be grouped into a plurality of cell groups. A base station may transmit a first message to a wireless device via a primary cell group. The first message may indicate information associated with content stored at one or more servers. The base station may also transmit the content to the wireless device via the primary cell group and via the secondary cell group.
US10383066B2
A radio communication system includes a radio access network (1) and a radio terminal (2). The radio access network (1) includes a first base station (11) that manages a first cell (110) and a second base station (12) that manages a second cell (120). The radio terminal (2) supports dual connectivity involving a bearer split in which a network bearer between the radio terminal (2) and a core network (3) is split over the first base station (11) and the second base station (12). The radio access network (1) is configured to transmit, to the radio terminal (2), first control information that relates to an access stratum and is necessary for the dual connectivity involving the bearer split. It is thus possible to provide, for example, a control procedure or signalling necessary for starting dual connectivity involving a bearer split.
US10383056B2
Low power consumption networking method for 802.15.4e wireless device “WD” taking 4-20 mA loop power, including: a “WD” taking loop power; constructing a WD oriented to ultra-low power consumption; the WD implementing unidirectional time synchronization based on preceding wireless network; on basis of preceding time synchronization, completing neighbor discovery; the WD interacting with the wireless network; and pausing a preceding procedure according to a power monitoring result of an energy storage monitoring module. Messages are detected through continuously switching channels to implement quick and energy-saving unidirectional time synchronization, replaces listening on beacon frames with listening on common messages on a time synchronization basis, improves a listening sequence for neighbor discovery, enables listening only at a time slot where the beacon frames may appear and sleeps at other times, saving channel search time, and also reducing energy consumption generated in neighbor discovery, thus reducing time and energy consumption of entire network establishment.
US10383052B2
A communications device establishes a communications context for communicating data packets using a packet communications bearer from the communications device via a mobile communications network. A controller of the communications device is configured to identify that the communications device can enter a stasis state because no data packets are available for transmission for a predetermined time via the packet communications bearer or there are no data packets to receive via the packet communications bearer, to transmit a stasis state message to the mobile communications network, and to store information relating to the communications context associated with the packet communications bearer in a data store. The stored information can be used by the controller to re-establish the packet communications bearer to transmit and/or receive data packets using the packet communications bearer, the communications device thereby entering the stasis state.
US10383050B2
To select cell more appropriately when transmission over directional beam is performed, there is provided an apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires information for correcting a result of measurements of a reference signal which is used for selecting a cell and transmitted over a plurality of directional beams in different directions; and a control unit that notifies a terminal apparatus of the information.
US10383042B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, by which to permit selection by a user of a mobile node of with which cellular communication system network that the mobile node shall communicate by way of an interworking wireless local area network. User selection is provided even when the interworking wireless local area network is directly connected to the home network of the mobile node. A determiner determines whether the interworking wireless local area network is directly connected to the home network. And, responsive to the determinations, an identifier identifies the cellular communication system network associated with the interworking wireless local area network.
US10383033B2
An apparatus and method for handling network loss in a wireless access system includes determining whether network loss has occurred or not and, if a Mobile Station (MS) attempts an entry in which the network loss has occurred, transmitting one of a first message including information associated with prohibiting new entry and a second message including information associated with informing that a supported service is restricted.
US10383017B2
A security capability negotiation method is applicable to perform security capability negotiation during a mobile network handover. Moreover, a security capability negotiation system is also provided. Consistent with the provided system and method, it may be unnecessary for the MME to know the security capability of the corresponding eNB in a certain manner during a handover from a 2G/3G network to an LTE network. Meanwhile, during the handover from the LTE network to the 3G network, the SGSN does not need to introduce new requirements.
US10383016B2
Apparatus and methods to support emergency services through untrusted wireless networks by a user equipment (UE) are disclosed. The UE detects a request for emergency services to be provided via an untrusted wireless network. The UE de-registers from any non-emergency services and releases any existing PDN connections. The UE sends a request for emergency services to an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) at an Internet Protocol (IP) address obtained from a table or from a domain name system (DNS) server. The request includes an indication for emergency services using a configuration attribute assigned to indicate emergency services. The UE receives from the ePDG an indication of support for emergency services in a reply to the request.
US10383013B2
An example technique is provided for receiving, by a target base station (BS) from a source PS, information identifying a source cell or the source BS, and a first time advance value used by the user device to transmit signals to the source BS, receiving a signal by the target BS that was transmitted from the user device based on the first tune advance value, determining, by the target BS based upon the first time advance value and the received signal from the user device, a second time advance value to be used by the user device to transmit data to the target BS, sending the second time advance value from the target BS to the source BS, receiving, by the target BS, a handover of the user device from the source BS to the target BS, and receiving data by the target BS from the user device based on the second time advance value.
US10382992B2
Techniques may be used for interference measurement and management in directional mesh networks, including centralized and/or distributed approaches. A centralized node, such as an operations and maintenance (OAM) center, may use feedback from nodes in the mesh network to partition the nodes in the mesh network into clusters based on interference levels. Interference measurement reports may be used by the centralized node to update cluster membership. An initiating node in the mesh network may use topographical information to generate an initial interference cluster, and interference measurement frame (IMF) scheduling information may be used to schedule transmissions within the interference clusters. Techniques for opportunistic measurement campaigns, simultaneous measurement campaigns, link failure detection, and link re-acquisition in directional mesh networks may also be used.
US10382988B2
A communication device according to an embodiment comprises: a controller configured to perform radio communication with another communication device in a mobile communication system to which an MDT function is applied. The controller obtains an MDT measurement result obtained by measuring a parameter in the radio communication. The parameter is a parameter affected by a latency reduction function. The controller adds, to the MDT measurement result, identification information on whether or not the latency reduction function is applied, depending on whether or not the latency reduction function is applied to the radio communication.
US10382987B2
A method, computer system and computer program product for determining a probability that a particular network segment in a telephony network is responsible for poor audio quality associated with a telephone call being transmitted over the telephony network, is provided. A plurality of parameters associated with a telephone call are identified. The plurality of parameters are indicative of audio quality. A probability that a particular network segment is responsible for poor audio quality associated with the telephone call is calculated based on the plurality of parameters. The probability that a particular network segment is responsible for the poor audio quality associated with the telephone call is a function of at least one of the i) duration of the call and ii) call disconnect time relative to call answer time.
US10382984B2
Methods and systems are provided for increasing bandwidth efficiency in satellite communications. In some embodiments, a satellite communications method is provided that comprises receiving, at a satellite and from a plurality of user ground terminals, a plurality of source signals, wherein each of the source signals are modulated according to at least one source modulation method, and further receiving, at a satellite and from a plurality of user ground terminals, a plurality of information signals corresponding to the plurality of source signals. The method further includes combining, at the satellite, the plurality of source signals into a combined source signal with an overlapping bandwidth, wherein each of the source signals are further modulated according to at least one predetermined modulation method before they are combined, and transmitting, by a downlink transmission from the satellite to a gateway ground station, the combined source signal.
US10382983B2
Wireless directional communication is performed in the millimeter wave (mmW) band by nodes in a wireless mesh network. Beacon frames are configured to incorporate an activity indicator that signals active and inactive communication directions on the mmW, with a flag for each respective direction of communication (transmit or receive). The activity indicator is utilized to enhance route and beam selection so as to obtain connections subject to less interference, and/or that create less interference to other stations. The activity indicator is also, or alternately, utilized for improving selections of a connection to an access point (AP) or station (STA) or mesh station (MSTA), toward reducing interference, or selecting which beam from a given AP, STA, or MSTA is to be utilized. Distributed interference and resource coordination can be initiated, and/or rerouting determined, based on the activity indicator.
US10382974B2
The present invention discloses a spectrum sharing method and apparatus thereof. The method includes: acquiring a cycle period of a shared frequency between a first system and a second system; obtaining time slice allocation information of the cycle period; and sending the time slice allocation information to a user equipment. By means of the foregoing manner, a shared frequency can be allocated, so that efficiency of transmitting system data can be effectively improved.
US10382971B2
A method performed by a first base station of requesting resources in an unlicensed spectrum for a mobile terminal for which the first base station serves as a primary cell base station is provided. The method comprises submitting a request for the unlicensed spectrum resources to a second base station serving as a secondary cell base station for the mobile terminal, receiving a response to the request from the second base station indicating that unlicensed spectrum resources will be assigned. The method further comprises submitting, in case the assigned unlicensed spectrum resources are not sufficient for serving the mobile terminal, a request to the second base station to give priority to assignment of the requested unlicensed spectrum resources over resources requested by mobile terminals for which said second base station serves as a primary cell base station.
US10382967B2
A terminal device obtains location information relating to its location, wherein the location information comprises first location information and second location information, wherein the first location information relates to a location of the terminal device within a region, and wherein the second location information identifies the region in which the terminal device is located. The terminal device forms content for a proximity service discovery message, wherein the content for the discovery message includes the first location information; calculates a message integrity code based on the content for the discovery message and the second location information; and transmits the proximity service discovery message, comprising the content for the discovery message and the computed message integrity code.
US10382962B2
A network authentication system with dynamic key generation that facilitates the establishment of both endpoint identity, as well as a secure communication channel using a dynamically-generated key between two end devices (potentially on separate local area networks). An interactive or non-interactive authentication protocol is used to establish the identity of the target end device, and dynamic key generation is used to establish a shared symmetric session key for creating an encrypted communication channel between the end devices.
US10382950B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a mobile device may receive configuration information, associated with configuring a state of the mobile device, via a unicast transmission, and may access a header-compressed broadcast transmission using the configuration information received via the unicast transmission. In some aspects, a network entity may transmit configuration information, to facilitate decompression of a header-compressed broadcast transmission, via a unicast transmission to a mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices, and may transmit the header-compressed broadcast transmission to the plurality of mobile devices in accordance with the configuration information.
US10382948B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises communicating with a plurality of network elements via a first communication protocol to obtain state information of the plurality of network elements; receiving a request via a second communication protocol for a communication session to be established for a client computing device; selecting one or more network elements, wherein the selection is based on at least a portion of the state information of the network elements; and communicating identification information of the one or more network elements selected for use in the communication session.
US10382947B1
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of communicating between a mobile device and a host computing device. One example method of operation may include sensing a wireless communication signal at the host computing device, establishing a wireless connection between the mobile device and the host computing device via the wireless communication signal, and migrating at least one application from the mobile device to the host computing device. The ongoing communication between the mobile device and the host computing device enables applications to be executed on one device and accessed via the other device, providing a user with the capability to operate more than one device at a time.
US10382946B1
Methods and systems for providing a service are provided. A request is received to provide the service to a device. A location of the device, or a network interface through which the device is coupled, is determined. Finally, the delivery of the service is authorized based on the determined location of the device, or the determined network interface.
US10382944B1
A mobile Hotspot is a device that includes a modem for wide area mobile broadband access and a Hotspot Access Point to distribute the internet to local client devices over a local area network such as Wi-Fi. Some of the local client devices may have mobile broadband capability of their own but may use the internet service from the mobile Hotspot when connected to it. In that case the client device may still need to maintain the communication link with the wide area mobile broadband network even when not actively using its services. A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable a mobile Hotspot to maintain the communication link with the wide area mobile broadband network on behalf of the client device. This may enable the client device with mobile broadband connection capability to reduce its power consumption.
US10382941B2
Provided is a wireless communication device which includes a function information transmitting unit for transmitting, via a wireless communication network, function information relating to a function of the wireless communication device, a function information receiving unit for receiving function information transmitted from another device, a function information comparison unit for comparing the function information of the wireless communication device and the function information received from such other device, and a function determination unit for determining which of the wireless communication device and such other device is to play a function of an access point, based on a result of the comparison by the function information comparison unit.
US10382936B2
A computer-implemented method for interactive emergency information and identification is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a notification concerning an emergency situation, wherein the notification includes a location of the emergency situation, and defining, by the processor, a geo-fence representing a first physical area surrounding the location of the emergency situation. The method further includes receiving, by the processor, location information representing locations of a plurality of user devices, each user device being associated with an individual, and determining, by the processor, which of the user devices are located within the geo-fence based on the location information. Additionally, the method includes transmitting, by the processor, information about the emergency situation to the user devices located within the geo-fence.
US10382935B2
An emergency notification device (10) for notifying of emergency information, comprising: a voice input/output part (13a, 13b; 48a, 48b) for performing input/output of voice in the vehicle; a wireless communication part (15) for performing wireless communication; a control part (11) controlling the wireless communication part and the voice input/output part to perform voice conversation by wireless communication in case of vehicle emergency; and a vehicle communication part (17) for performing communication with a communication terminal (40) in the vehicle; wherein the control part is configured to, in a voice input/output disabled state, communicate with the communication terminal via the vehicle communication part to perform input/output of voice via the communication terminal in the vehicle and perform voice conversation by wireless communication with the emergency notification center via the wireless communication part.
US10382927B2
A method and apparatus are provided for text input for wearable devices. The method includes receiving a request for a text batch transfer for input text into a text box on an external device. The method also includes displaying a user interface including a text input box based on the received data. The method also includes receiving input text from the text input box on the user interface. The method also includes transmitting a batch of text from the external mobile device through the wireless communication channel.
US10382924B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for managing a Machine To Machine (M2M) node. On a registered Common Service Entity (CSE) of an Application Entity (AE) or a CSE, an AE resource created for the AE or a CSE resource created for the CSE is associated with an M2M node resource created for an M2M node where the AE or the CSE is located. When the M2M node resource on the registered CSE is changed, the AE resource or the CSE resource associated with the changed M2M node resource is updated.
US10382923B2
A communication apparatus that is capable of preventing data erroneous transmission without disturbing communication with a networking device. The communication apparatus is connectable with a plurality of networks including at least a first network and a second network. A specifying unit specifies an IP address of the communication apparatus that is used in communication with an external apparatus on the first network. A determination unit determines an IP address of which a network part is different from a network part of the IP address specified by the specifying unit as an IP address that will be distributed to an external apparatus on the second network. A distribution unit distributes the IP address determined by the determination unit to the external apparatus on the second network.
US10382920B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods and systems for provisioning and/or customizing a mobile device. After a mobile device is purchased by a user, custom settings and information (or customization content) may be delivered to or accessed on the mobile device. In some embodiments, the customization content may be pre-loaded onto the device and access via a uniform resource identifier (or URI) string. In other embodiments, the customization content may be accessed from a remotely hosted location via a uniform resource locator (or URL) string. Additionally, customization content may be accessed via a combination of the above methods.
US10382910B2
An electronic certificate system facilitates the secure application of certificates against wireless data transfers with a distributer system by a device user. A certificate enabled device carried by the user stores electronic certificates in memory. When the distributer system detects a certificate enabled device within a proximity radio frequency field, the distributer system queries and obtains applicable certificates for the user from the certificate enabled device carried by the user, applies the certificates to a data transfer, and securely communicates the resulting data transfer metadata back to the certificate enabled device.
US10382901B2
A processing method and apparatus for multiple eMBMS service sources is presented. The method includes that receiving at least one service list sent by at least one network device; merging the at least one service list to generate an integrated service list, where the integrated service list records a first correspondence between the at least one service list and the at least one network device, where each of the service list includes at least one service; and providing the integrated service list to user equipment, so that a user selects a target service according to the integrated service list. Service lists of multiple network devices are merged to form an integrated service list, and the integrated service list is provided to user equipment, so that a user selects a target service according to the integrated service list, which effectively increases service types, and enriches service functions.
US10382900B1
A mobile computerized apparatus configured to provide membership status in a roadside assistance program after occurrence of a roadside event is disclosed. The apparatus executes instructions that cause/allow the apparatus to receive input related to an electronic membership card, retrieve from a data store membership information associated with the vehicle, and dynamically update the electronic membership card for display on the apparatus.
US10382898B1
In one embodiment, a technique including receiving, from a client system of a user, a first location of the client system. The technique further including receiving, from the client system, an ID of an access point detected by the client system. The technique also including accessing, by the one or more computing devices, an index to determine a second location of the access point based on the ID. The technique further including determining, by the one or more computing devices, a refined location of the client system based on the first location and the second location. The technique also including generating, by the one or more computing devices, a prioritized list of regions based on the refined location and user data. The technique further including transmitting, by the one or more computing devices, information associated with the prioritized list of regions to the client system.
US10382891B2
A server which can communicate with a plurality of terminals includes an information obtaining unit obtaining position information of each terminal and operation information on an operation onto an operation unit provided on a surface of each terminal, a position determination unit determining whether obtained position information of one terminal and position information of at least one other terminal satisfy a first prescribed condition, an operation determination unit determining whether obtained operation information of one terminal and operation information of at least one other terminal satisfy a second prescribed condition, and a registration manager having information on a user of one terminal and information on a user of at least one other terminal registered in correspondence with each other when both of the first prescribed condition and the second prescribed condition are satisfied.
US10382885B2
A system and method for providing sensor data may comprise receiving a request for sensor data, the request including a triggering parameter. Furthermore, the system and method for providing sensor data may comprise searching for information identifying devices that meet the triggering parameter. Devices are selected from a plurality of item tracking devices, where the plurality of item tracking devices correspond to a plurality of items. Moreover, the system and method for providing sensor data may retrieve the requested sensor data that corresponds to the devices that meet the triggering parameter, and return the requested sensor data.
US10382882B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for identifying a merchant location based on transaction records for the merchant. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes accessing multiple router records. Each router record is assigned to one of multiple cells of a grid structure indicative of geographic location. Each router record is associated with a target merchant. The method further includes, for each of the multiple router records, searching for a match between the router record and at least one of multiple transactions at the target merchant, based on time, and reporting one or more of the multiple cells as a location associated with the target merchant, when a number of matching router records assigned to said one or more of the multiple cells exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10382879B1
Producing a virtual sound field may include receiving an audio signal associated with a remote sound source within a remote environment. The audio signal may be defined or recorded as a binaural recording and recorded from a remote set of binaural microphones. The audio signal may be indicative of a position of the remote sound source relative to the remote set of binaural microphones within the remote environment. Producing the virtual sound field may include determining a virtual position relative to the position of the remote sound source within the remote environment, generating a virtual sound field audio signal which simulates audio representing the remote sound source perceived from the virtual position within the remote environment relative to the position of the remote sound source within the remote environment, and playing back the virtual sound field to simulate the remote sound source as perceived from the virtual position.
US10382878B2
A sound reproducing method used in sound reproducing apparatus that includes the steps outlined below is provided. A sound signal with a three-dimensional (3D) sound generating process is generated according to listener data and sound data. Whether a sound source position is within a target region relative to a listener position within a virtual environment is determined according to the listener data and the sound data. The sound signal is multiplied by an adjusting function to enhance peaks and valleys of the sound signal while maintaining a behavior of the sound signal when the sound source position is within the target region. The sound signal is reproduced.
US10382874B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for a motor assembly that includes a pole piece, at least one magnet, a first magnetizing ring, and an air gap between the pole piece and the first magnetizing ring.
US10382868B2
The present disclosure provides a membrane. The membrane includes a central dome part, and a suspension part surrounding the dome part. The suspension part includes a number of first reinforcing parts, a number of third reinforcing parts spacing from the first reinforcing parts, and an included angle formed between each third reinforcing part and an adjacent first reinforcing part. The third reinforcing part includes a second master extension part, a second slave extension part, and a connecting part connecting the second master extension part and the second slave extension part. The second master extension part and the second slave extension part locate at two ends of the connecting part respectively, and a width of at least one of the second master extension part and the second slave extension part is less than a width of the connecting part.
US10382864B2
In accordance with systems and methods of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving an error microphone signal indicative of an acoustic output of a transducer and ambient audio sounds at the acoustic output of the transducer. The method may also include generating an anti-noise signal to reduce the presence of the ambient audio sounds at the acoustic output of the transducer based at least on the error microphone signal. The method may further include generating an equalized source audio signal from a source audio signal by adapting, based at least on the error microphone signal, a response of the adaptive playback equalization system to minimize a difference between the source audio signal and the error microphone signal. The method may additionally include combining the anti-noise signal with the equalized source audio signal to generate an audio signal provided to the transducer.
US10382858B1
A vibration reduction assembly includes a mass and an actuator. The mass is configured to be attached to a rear plate or a frame of a speaker in a manner that allows the mass to move along a longitudinal axis of a pole of the rear plate. The mass is sized to yield a force that is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction relative to a force generated by moving components in the speaker and acoustic pressure of the speaker. In one example, the actuator is configured to move the mass in phase with movement of a voice coil of the speaker along the longitudinal axis of the pole and in an opposite direction than the voice coil movement. In another example, the actuator is configured to move the mass out of phase with the voice coil movement and in the same direction as the voice coil movement.
US10382857B1
An audio electronics system operates on audio data. A low-pass or bandpass filter produces first data from audio data. A level detector produces a time-varying first gain. The first gain is based on a time-varying level of the first data. A harmonics generator receives, as input, the first data adjusted by an inverse of the first gain. The harmonics generator produces second data, as harmonics of the input. A multiplier outputs the second data adjusted by the first gain. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US10382845B2
A data center network device provides configurations where the port density can be increased by incorporating multiport transceivers within the device and the use of high density fiber connections on exterior panels of the device. The device also permits dynamically reassigning fiber connections to convert from single fiber connection paths to higher rate bonded fiber paths while at the same time making more efficient use of the fiber interconnections.
US10382844B2
An optical switch with a plurality of actuators includes a controller configured to control the operation of a plurality of channels, where each channel has at least one electrical driver and at least one actuator, by interleaving periods of voltage switching output with periods of no voltage switching output for one or more drivers whilst the output voltage is switching from one level to another level. Alternatively, an optical switch with a plurality of actuators comprises a controller configured to control the operation of a plurality of channels, where each channel has at least one electrical driver and at least one actuator, by switching the output voltage from one level to another level for at least one driver of a first channel whilst at least one oilier driver of at least one other channel is in a relatively high impedance mode.
US10382842B2
A method and system for transmitting data is disclosed. The method may include receiving data from two or more data sources. The method may also include selectively classifying the data into at least two input data streams, the at least two data streams including a one dimensional data stream, called an encoded data stream, and an imagery data stream, which can include still images or video or both. The method may also include separately compressing the one-dimensional data stream into a first compressed bit-stream and the imagery data stream into a second compressed bit-stream and combining the first compressed bit-stream and the second compressed bit-stream into a packetized bit-stream. The method may also include encrypting the packetized bit-stream to generate encrypted data packets prepared for transmission.
US10382841B2
A driving and information transmitting system for a sensing module includes a sensing device, a power supply device and a connection device. The sensing device includes a sensor, a microprocessor, a power controller and a data transceiver. The power supply device transfers an energy to the power controller, thereby enabling the sensor. After a monitored data sensed by the at least one sensor is transmitted to the microprocessor, the monitored data is processed into an output data by the microprocessor. After the output data is received by the data transceiver, the output data is transmitted from the data transceiver to the connection device. After a control command from the connection device is received by the data transceiver, the control command is transmitted to the microprocessor to control the sensor.
US10382835B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for verifying the integrity of a video file. The method includes receiving a video file and model information of a video recording device which is claimed to have recorded a verification-target video, extracting a header structure and a header value of the video file, extracting characteristic information according to the received model information of the video recording device from a characteristic database, and determining whether the extracted characteristic information according to the model information of the video recording device corresponds to the header structure and the header value of the video file.
US10382833B2
Systems and methods are operable to distribute targeted assets to a plurality of media devices. An exemplary embodiment generates an asset file defined by an asset file time period, wherein target assets are selected for saving into the asset file when the intended initial presentation time of a target asset falls within the asset file time period of the asset file that is being generated. Then, the asset file is communicated to a plurality of media devices at a time in advance of the intended initial presentation times of a target asset of the asset file.
US10382832B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a first specifying unit that specifies a size of a display region of a video delivered by streaming, the video having a bit rate that is changeable during a playback; a second specifying unit that specifies a data amount of data temporarily stored for a period of the video to be next played back; and a third specifying unit that specifies a bandwidth in reception of the data. The information processing apparatus further includes a determining unit that determines a bit rate of the video that is played back based on the size, the data amount, and the bandwidth that are specified.
US10382830B2
System and methods for improved playback of a video stream are presented. Video snippets are identified that include a number of consecutive frames for playback. Snippets may be evenly temporally spaced in the video stream or may be content adaptive. Then the first frame of a snippet may be selected as the first frame of a scene or other appropriate stopping point. Scene detection, object detection, motion detection, video metadata, or other information generated during encoding or decoding of the video stream may aid in appropriate snippet selection.
US10382826B2
An image display apparatus includes: a display; a memory configured to store channel information corresponding to at least one channel; and a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the image display device to: determine at least one preferred channel based on a search history of a keyword, when a continual channel-up command and/or a continual channel-down command is received, display, on the display, a channel scroll bar and a channel indicator configured to move along the channel scroll bar in response to the continual channel-up command or the continual channel-down command, and display channel information of the at least one preferred channel, at a position of the channel scroll bar, the position corresponding to the at least one preferred channel.
US10382824B2
In one aspect, an example method is disclosed. The method includes (i) receiving, by a first computing system, video content, wherein the received video content comprises at least a first element and a second element, wherein the first element is social media (SM) video content published by a SM user, and wherein the second element is content other than SM video content published by the SM user; (ii) extracting, by the first computing system, the first element from the received video content; (iii) generating, by the first computing system, video content that includes the extracted first element; and (iv) transmitting, by the first computing system, to a second computing system, the generated video content for presentation of the generated video content on the second computing system.
US10382815B2
Media content presentation systems and methods are operable to present media content received by a media device, wherein the media device comprises a plurality of tuner systems. An exemplary embodiment tunes the plurality of tuners to receive different broadcasting media content streams each comprising a streaming media content event; communicates the streaming media content events from the receiving tuner to a corresponding tuner buffer of the tuner system; and stores a portion of the streaming media content events into the corresponding tuner buffers. When a user selection is received for presentation of one of the streaming media content events, the selected one of the streaming media content events are presented to a user of the media device.
US10382811B2
A broadcast receiver includes a mode determination unit to determine a current operation mode among a plurality of operation modes, a communication interface to transmit the determined current operation mode to a mobile device through interactive communication, and to receive a control command from the mobile device, and a controller to provide a service of the determined current operation mode according to the control command received from the mobile device. Accordingly, a user controls the broadcast receiver through the mobile device according to the operation mode so that user's convenience is improved.
US10382810B2
Provided is a method for implementing synchronous playing. The method is applied to a terminal, and includes: determining a first difference value between system time of each mobile terminal and system time of the present terminal respectively; determining the complexity and playing delay of a playing file which can be processed by each mobile terminal respectively; determining, according to the complexity of the playing file which can be processed by each mobile terminal, the complexity of a file to be played; and sending, according to the first difference value and playing delay corresponding to each mobile terminal which can process the determined complexity, the file to be played to the mobile terminal which can process the complexity of the file to be played.
US10382809B2
An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether to include a common decoding unit CPB removal delay parameter in a picture timing Supplemental Enhancement Information (SEI) message. The electronic device also generates either a common decoding unit CPB removal delay parameter or a separate decoding unit CPB removal delay parameter for each decoding unit in the access unit. The electronic device also sends the picture timing SET message with the common decoding unit CPB removal delay parameter or the decoding unit CPB removal delay parameters.
US10382808B2
The present disclosure relates to digital television processes and systems. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a display device includes presenting, by a display device, display content. The display device can receive a touch command indication, wherein the indication is associated with a remote control touch command exceeding a first threshold. The display device can also present a touch layer representation including content elements which are gradually presented based on the duration of the touch command received, determine that the touch command has exceeded a second threshold, and update presentation of the touch layer to display one or more graphical elements in response to the touch command exceeding the second threshold.
US10382793B2
Examples of methods and apparatus for performing wavefront parallel decode of video bitstreams are described herein. An example apparatus includes a CABAC decoder configured to decode a CABAC bitstream and generate an output bitstream. The output bitstream contains a plurality of NAL units, each NAL unit being associated with a respective row of a macroblock. The apparatus includes an extractor block configured to extract entry point information associated with a row, and a memory configured to store the extracted entry point information associated with the row. The apparatus includes an insertion block configured to read from the memory the entry point information and insert the entry point information into the NAL unit associated with the row. The plurality of NAL units are provided to at least one macroblock decoder for performing parallel wavefront decode on the output bitstream.
US10382789B2
Adaptive methods and apparatuses include compressing, recompressing, decompressing, and transmitting/storing digitized media data, such as text, audio, image, and video. Methods may include partitioning data; transforming partitioned data; analyzing partitioned data; organizing partitioned data, predicting partitioned data; partially or fully encoding partitioned data partially or fully decoding partitioned data, and partially or fully restructuring the original data.
US10382783B2
A decoding device includes a decoder that decodes information of a direction of intra-picture prediction of a target block and compression data of a residual signal, a prediction signal generator that generates an intra-picture prediction signal using the information of the direction and an previously reconstructed reference sample of an adjacent block, a residual signal restorator that restores a reconstructed residual signal of the target block, and a block storage that restores and stores a pixel signal of the target block. The prediction signal generator derives reference samples from a previously reconstructed block neighbouring the target block stored, selects two or more key reference samples, performs an interpolation process between the key reference samples for generating interpolated reference samples, and generates the intra-picture prediction signal by extrapolating the interpolated reference samples based on the direction of the intra-picture prediction.
US10382777B2
A coding efficiency increase is achieved by using a common signalization within the bitstream with regard to activation of merging and activation of the skip mode. One possible state of one or more syntax elements within the bitstream may signalize for a current sample set of a picture that the sample set is to be merged and has no prediction residual encoded and inserted into the bitstream. A common flag may signalize whether the coding parameters associated with a current sample set are to be set according to a merge candidate or to be retrieved from the bitstream, and whether the current sample set of the picture is to be reconstructed based on a prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set, without any residual data, or to be reconstructed by refining the prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set by means of residual data within the bitstream.
US10382769B2
Various examples are provided for lossless compression of data streams. In one example, a Z-lossless (ZLS) compression method includes generating compacted depth information by condensing information of a depth image and a compressed binary representation of the depth image using histogram compaction and decorrelating the compacted depth information to produce bitplane slicing of residuals by spatial prediction. In another example, an apparatus includes imaging circuitry that can capture one or more depth images and processing circuitry that can generate compacted depth information by condensing information of a captured depth image and a compressed binary representation of the captured depth image using histogram compaction; decorrelate the compacted depth information to produce bitplane slicing of residuals by spatial prediction; and generate an output stream based upon the bitplane slicing.
US10382768B2
A method and apparatus for transform coefficient coding of image and video data for a video encoder or decoder are disclosed. The method determines a CG (coding group) size adaptively based on the current TU. The current TU is divided into one or more current CGs (coding groups) according to the CG size. Bins associated with the coefficients of the current TU are then encoded or decoded according to a selected CG scan path through the current TU and one or more coefficient scan paths within each CG. If TU width is larger or smaller than TU height for the current TU, then CG width is selected to be larger or smaller than CG height accordingly. According to another method, all bypass-coded bins associated with coefficients in the current TU are grouped to improve the parsing throughput rate.
US10382767B2
Video frames are rotated for encoding and decoding blocks therein. During an encoding process, a number of degrees to rotate a video frame is determined. The video frame is rotated to produce rotated pixel values. A prediction residual is then generated for a block to be encoded based on the rotated pixel values. That block is encoded based on the prediction residual. During a decoding process, an encoded block is decoded to produce inverse transform pixel values, and a number of degrees to inverse rotate an encoded video frame is determined. The encoded video frame is inverse rotated to produce inverse rotated pixel values corresponding to the inverse transform pixel values. The inverse rotated pixel values are then outputted to an output video stream. One or more syntax elements indicating the number of degrees can be encoded to a bitstream during encoding and decoded from the bitstream during decoding.
US10382756B2
Disclosed is method of decoding, from a video bitstream, a transform unit containing at least one chroma residual coefficient array associated with a single chroma channel. The method determines a size of the transform unit related to a hierarchical level of the transform unit in a corresponding coding unit, and identifies a maximum number of inverse transforms according to the determined size. The method decodes from the video bitstream the at least one chroma residual coefficient array using the identified maximum number of transforms, selects an inverse transform for the decoded chroma residual coefficient arrays, the inverse transform being selected from a predetermined set of inverse transforms, and applies the selected inverse transform to each of the chroma residual coefficient arrays to decode chroma residual samples for the chroma channel of the transform unit. A similar encoding method is also disclosed.
US10382752B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and a method that enable easier encoding and decoding of a wider variety of images. The image processing device includes a setting unit that sets a parameter indicating a setting state of a coding tool required in specifying an extended profile that is an extension of a profile specified in a coding standard for performing encoding on each unit having a recursive hierarchical structure. The image processing device further includes an encoding unit that generates an encoded stream by encoding an image in accordance with the parameter set by the setting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to image processing devices that encode image data, for example.
US10382744B2
A monitor system includes at least one three-dimensional camera circuit and a controller. Each of the at least one three-dimensional camera circuit is used for capturing a plurality of images including an object, and generating a depth map corresponding to the object according to the plurality of images. The controller is used for determining a plurality of feature points corresponding to the object according to the plurality of images or depth map, determining relative coordinates of the plurality of feature points according to the depth map, generating external information corresponding to the object according to the relative coordinates of the plurality of feature points, and generating monitor information corresponding to the object according to the external information corresponding to the object and reference parameters corresponding to the object.
US10382743B2
An image processing apparatus includes a distance information acquisition unit that acquires distance information, associated with an object image included in each of a first image and a second image, and corresponding to a distance in a depth direction of the object, a calculation unit that calculates a movement vector of the object image, at least in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, based on position information of the object image, and a generation unit that generates stereoscopic print data of the acquired second image, based on the second image, the distance information, and the movement vector, by increasing a depth component of the position information of the object image included in the second image based on at least part of the movement vector. In addition, a storing unit stores the generated stereoscopic print data in one of a second memory and a recording medium.
US10382740B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus and a method for controlling the same, the image processing apparatus being capable of generating a versatile image file with a suppressed file size from a portion of multiple first images and a second image that can be generated from the multiple first images. In the case of generating an image file from a portion of the multiple first images and the second image that can be generated from the multiple first images, an image file is generated such that the image file does not contain data of, among the multiple first images, a first image that can be generated from a first image and the second image stored in the image file.
US10382738B2
An apparatus for processing an image includes: a first display of which an optical focal distance is a first distance; a second display of which an optical focal distance is a second distance; a processor configured to determine a first value of a first pixel of the first display and a second value of a second pixel of the second display according to a depth value of a first image to be output; and an image converging member configured to overlap the first pixel and the second pixel and output the first image corresponding to the depth value.
US10382728B2
A determination as to whether or not a random operation is able to be performed for a preset tour of a surveillance camera may be easily made, and user's operability may be improved. A client device transmits a command for making an inquiry about the capability of the surveillance camera for a random operation regarding a preset tour. The surveillance camera receives the command, and transmits capability information of the random operation to the client device. The client device analyzes the received information, and changes the GUI display of the client device.
US10382726B2
A method and apparatus for providing images on a camera is provided herein. During operation a server will utilize a vehicle's speed and direction. Images from cameras will then be provided to the vehicle/user based on the vehicle speed and direction. In addition, cameras will have their pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) adjusted based on the vehicle speed and direction of travel in order to eliminate/prevent overlapping the area that is surveyed by a moving observer.
US10382711B2
Disclosed herein is a method of processing a graph-based signal using a geometric primitive, comprising: specifying the geometric primitive to be used for calculating an edge weight; obtaining a parameter for each of the geometric primitive; calculating an edge weight for each of edges within the image based on the parameter; and encoding the image based on the edge weight.
US10382709B2
An image processing method is provided. The image sensor is controlled to output a merged image and a color-block image of a same scene. The merged image is converted into a merged true-color image, and the color-block image is converted into a simulation true-color image. The merged true-color image and the simulation true-color image are displayed. At least one of the merged true-color image and the simulation true-color image is stored according to a user input. An image processing apparatus and an electronic device are also provided.
US10382699B2
An imaging system and a method of producing images for a display apparatus, via the imaging system includes at least one focusable camera for capturing at least one image of a given real-world scene; means for generating a depth map or a voxel map of the given real-world scene; and a processor coupled to the focusable camera and the aforesaid means. The processor is communicably coupled with the display apparatus. The processor is configured to receive information of the gaze direction of the user; map the gaze direction to the depth map or the voxel map to determine an optical depth of a region of interest in the given real-world scene; and control the focusable camera to employ a focus length that is substantially similar to the determined optical depth of the region of interest when capturing the at least one image.
US10382691B2
A mobile terminal including a display; and a controller configured to display a first image including a focusing region and an out-focusing region on the display, wherein a depth of the first image corresponds to a first depth, and display a second image with the out-focusing region adjusted into a second depth in response to a first input signal.
US10382690B2
An information acquiring device for acquiring information data of an object includes: a condition detecting unit configured to detect use condition data of the information acquiring device; and a file generating unit configured to generate a file in which the information data, the use condition data, and information on response characteristics of the condition detecting unit are associated with one another. A method for acquiring information executed by an information acquiring device includes: acquiring information data of an object and storing the information data in a storage unit; detecting use condition data of the information acquiring device and storing the use condition data in the storage unit; and reading the information data and the use condition data from the storage unit, and generating a file in which the information data and the use condition data are associated with information on response characteristics in detecting the use condition data.
US10382689B2
An imaging apparatus for capturing stabilized digital video, includes a user interface for displaying a preview of the field of view of the imaging apparatus and to receive user input, an image sensor for capturing digital video data for a video, a lens comprising one or more lens elements, wherein the one or more lens elements include at least one movable lens element that is movable relative to the imaging apparatus, and a video image processor to receive the video data and the motion data. The processor calculates shift amounts for the sequence of images based at least in part on the motion data generated by the motion sensors, modifies the sequence of images using the calculated shift amounts, combines the modified sequence of images to obtain a stabilized video. A memory connected to the video image processor stores the stabilized video.
US10382687B1
At a processor of a camera-equipped electronic device, a first data set generated at a sensor incorporated within a camera module is obtained, and a second data set generated at one or more sensors external to the camera module is obtained. Based on the first set and second data sets, a first set of control signals is transmitted to the camera module. At a disturbance rejection controller integrated within the camera module, a second set of control signals is generated, based on the first set of control signals and on a third set of data obtained from the sensor incorporated within the camera module. The second set of control signals is transmitted to an actuator, which causes a displacement of a camera lens.
US10382686B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least two camera modules, a motion sensor, and a control circuit configured to determine whether a first camera module of the at least two camera modules is activated, and when it is determined that the first camera module of the at least two camera modules is activated, control optical image stabilization of the first camera module using a signal received from the motion sensor.
US10382684B2
An image capturing apparatus includes a sensor controller and a distance calculator. The sensor controller acquires a target image and a first reference image. The point spread function (PSF) of the target image is point-asymmetric, and the PSF of the first reference image being point-symmetric. The image sensor receives light having passed through a filter region that changes PSFs for sensor images of at least one kind into point-asymmetric forms, and then generates the target image for which a PSF has been changed into a point-asymmetric form by the filter region, and the first reference image that is not the target image. The distance calculator calculates the distance to an object captured in the target image and the first reference image, in accordance with the correlations each between an image obtained by convoluting a blur kernel to the target images and the first reference image.
US10382681B2
An imaging system includes an imaging body having an optical system and an imaging element, a power supplier configured to supply power to the imaging element, and a housing configured to hold the imaging body and the power supplier, wherein the optical system includes at least one optical element projecting from the housing, and a distance AP between a gravity center A of a portion including the optical system and a gravity center P of the entire imaging system and a distance BP between a gravity center B of the power supplier and the gravity center P of the entire imaging system satisfy the following condition. AP>BP
US10382676B2
An image display apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image file that includes reconstructable image data that includes information corresponding to a light field, a display unit configured to display the image data included in the image file acquired by the acquisition unit as an image, and a control unit configured to control the display unit so as to display an image and perform display for informing a user that the image file corresponding to the image is a reconstructable image file.
US10382662B1
An apparatus and method for the operation of, or the arrangement and operation of, a surveillance system comprising a plurality of camera towers, each of which comprises a plurality of cameras tasked with surveilling a plurality of points-of-interest (POIs). In its most general setting, given limited camera towers, the system (a) determines which locations should install towers, (b) evaluates surveillance requirements ƒ that specify the probability that each camera should surveil each POI at any point in time, and (c) generates a set of camera configurations and frequency-of-utilization vector α for those configurations that creates a surveillance schedule to meet requirements ƒ over T. By applying α, the apparatus and method directs each camera to orient at successive time points to surveil in a manner that is relatively unpredictable to adversaries and which meets requirements ƒ. In specialized embodiments, surveillance requirements and/or fixed placements of camera towers are pre-specified.
US10382660B2
In some examples, a computing system may include a computing device, a display device, and a camera. The computing device includes a processor and a memory. The display device may be (1) separate from and electronically connected to the computing device or (2) integrated into the computing device. A camera may be connected to the computing device. The camera may be (1) a standalone device or (2) integrated into the display device. The camera may include a lens, a sensor, and a light source. For example, the light source may be a light emitting diode (LED) or an organic LED (OLED). Providing power to the light source causes the light source to emit an amount of light sufficient to saturate the imaging sensor such that if the camera is hijacked by a third party, the image data from the saturated sensor is distorted and unusable.
US10382659B2
A surveillance camera system includes a camera portion; a base portion supporting the camera portion to be rotatable, and including a main circuit board; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) connecting the camera portion to the main circuit board, and including a first end portion connected to the camera portion, a second end portion connected to the main circuit board, and a conductive line extension portion disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion, wherein a plurality of slits are arranged in the conductive line extension portion; and a first binding member and a second binding member respectively surrounding a part of the conductive line extension portion and being spaced apart from each other.
US10382652B2
According to one example, there is provided a method of generating a day/night image on a media. The method comprises obtaining an image to be printed as a front-to-back image, printing the obtained image on a first side of the media, processing the obtained image by flipping the image, applying a degree of edge removal, and applying a degree blur. The method further comprises printing the processed image on a reverse side of the media, such that the first printed image and printed modified image are substantially aligned with one another.
US10382644B2
An information processing apparatus that positively notifies a notification destination of information to be notified even if a communication protocol is changed before notifying storage of stored data. A notification setting processing section of a document storage notification application sets a protocol for accessing the stored document data from a computer via a network. When document data is stored in a HDD, a mail transmission processing section notifies the computer of storage location information on the document data for accessing the data according to the set protocol. If the set protocol is changed before the storage location information is notified to the computer, a control section causes the mail transmission processing section to notify the computer of storage location information for causing the document data to be accessed using the changed protocol.
US10382643B2
An image processing device includes a reception unit that receives an input image signal, and a synchronization signal used to generate an output image signal on a basis of the input image signal. In a case in which, after receiving the synchronization signal, the reception unit does not receive a next synchronization signal within a predetermined reception period, the reception unit conducts an automatic reception process that treats the next synchronization signal as being received.
US10382642B2
An image reading apparatus includes a light source, a light receiving unit, and an optical system. The light receiving unit includes a plurality of light receiving elements. The optical system includes a plurality of optical components for splitting the light reflected from the object to be read, and guiding the split light to each of the plurality of light receiving elements. The plurality of optical components include a splitting component that splits the light reflected from the object to be read in a direction corresponding to a main direction, and a common component provided with a common portion. The common portion has an optically acting area causing a common effect on the tight split by the splitting component. A cross sectional shape of the optically acting area orthogonal to a direction corresponding to the main direction is the same shape along the direction corresponding to the main direction.
US10382639B2
An information processing device includes a communication interface, a first energy-saving controller, and a second energy-saving controller. The communication interface is configured to communicate with a host device. The first energy-saving controller is configured to, when a predetermined condition is met, perform energy-saving control on an application and issue a notification of start of energy-saving control. The notification contains a predetermined value representing whether or not the predetermined condition is that a notification of start of transition to an energy-saving mode from the host device has been received. The second energy-saving controller is configured to, after receiving the notification of the start of the energy-saving control from the first energy-saving controller, determine whether to perform energy-saving control based on the predetermined value and perform energy-saving control on hardware including the communication interface based on the result of the determination.
US10382637B2
A hardware processor includes: a communication part connected to the hardware processor; a rasterization processing time predictor that predicts a rasterization processing time required for rasterization processing; an output setting information extractor that extracts output setting information from print information about each page and transmits the output setting information to the hardware processor; a warm-up start time calculator that calculates a warm-up start time at which the hardware processor starts warm-up processing in accordance with productivity information about the hardware processor; a warm-up start notifier that notifies the hardware processor of a start of the warm-up processing, when a current time reaches the warm-up start time; a rasterization processor that transmits image data to the hardware processor, the image data being generated by performing the rasterization processing for each page; and a print start notifier that notifies the hardware processor of a print start after the warm-up processing is completed.
US10382636B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a hinge connected to the reading unit, and a cover connected to the hinge. The image reading apparatus further includes a decelerator configured to apply a damping resistance to a particular gear of the hinge, as a planet gear engages with the particular gear during movement of the cover from an open position to a closed position.
US10382634B2
An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller changes, in accordance with an order in which images related to devices that have been identified are linked to each other, an order of priority in which one or plural cooperative functions that use functions of the devices are displayed.
US10382630B2
This disclosure describes a Telecommunications Service Subscription Integration (TSSI) system that generates an integrated service subscription for a client device operating on a telecommunications network. The integrated service subscription may aggregate service features from multiple service subscriptions, and prioritize application of one service subscription within the integrated service subscription over another, or one service feature within the integrated service subscription over another. The TSSI system may also determine whether client eligibility for a service subscription is current or has lapsed. In doing so, the integrated service subscription may be adjusted to remove ineligible service subscriptions and re-prioritize remaining service features. The TSSI system may monitor usage of an integrated service subscription and recommend additional, or alternative, service subscriptions. The TSSI system may parse through client usage data to determine a suitability score for individual service features, and in doing so, recommend an additional, or alternative, service subscription based on suitability scores.
US10382623B2
A method for configuring an automated self-help system based on prior interactions between a plurality of customers and a plurality of agents of a contact center includes: recognizing, by a processor, speech in the prior interactions between customers and agents to generate recognized text, the recognized text including a plurality of phrases, the phrases being classified into a plurality of clusters; extracting, by the processor, a plurality of sequences of clusters, each of the sequences of clusters corresponding to the phrases of one of the prior interactions; filtering, by the processor, the sequences of clusters based on a criterion; mining, by the processor, a preliminary dialog tree from the sequences of clusters; invoking configuration of the automated self-help system based on the preliminary dialog tree; and outputting a dialog tree for configuring the automated self-help system.
US10382621B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing voice-over-IP (VoIP) services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more VoIP servers configured and arranged to route VoIP calls to and from users of a plurality of customer accounts. Each customer account has a respective plurality of users and a respective settings file. For each of the customer accounts, a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the VoIP servers, records an audio portion of a VoIP call to or from a user of the customer account in response to the VoIP call satisfying a set of recording criteria specified in the settings file for the customer account. The recording criteria for at least one of the customer accounts includes account-level settings for selecting VoIP calls to be recorded and sets of user-level settings indicating criteria for preventing recording of VoIP calls of the individual users.
US10382617B2
In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) is positioned within a driver operation zone of a vehicle, one or more UE-based user interfaces (UIs) are restricted and forwarded to a vehicle-based UI controller to permit access to the one or more UE-based features via a vehicle-based UI. In another aspect, the UE in the driver operation zone is engaged in hands-free speakerphone mode via a vehicle audio system of the vehicle, and an attempt to transition the UE to handset-based audio mode is blocked. In another aspect, when a handset-based audio capture and/or playback attempt of the UE is detected, the UE interacts with a vehicle audio system to temporarily reduce volume being output by one or more proximal speakers. In another aspect, the UE streams media to a media presentation device in its own zone or another zone of the vehicle for presentation thereon.
US10382613B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a multi-user, multi-device alarm system, which, according to some embodiments, maintains the confirmation status of the alarm creator and participants, any communications between the alarm creator and participants, and user management functionality. Embodiments include systems and methods for configuring and executing different types of alarms, including personal alarms, group alarms, buddy alarms, and team alarms. The same or alternative embodiments may include cascading notifications to participants of an alarm until the alarm creator or one of the participants marks the alarm as done.
US10382606B2
A mobile terminal and a control method thereof are disclosed. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a terminal body provided with a first body and a second body, and formed to switch from either one of an open configuration in which inner surfaces of the first and second bodies are open and a closed configuration in which the inner surfaces are covered to the other one thereof; a hinge portion configured to connect the first and second bodies, and support the first and second bodies to rotate relative to each other; a display unit comprising inner display regions disposed on the inner surfaces of the first and second bodies, and first and second extended display regions extended from the inner display regions and disposed on outer sides of the first and second bodies; and a controller configured to display a notification icon indicating the occurrence of an event in the first extended display region when the event occurs in at least one application in the closed configuration, and move the notification icon to the second extended display region and change a notification priority of the event when a touch input applied to the notification icon is dragged to the second extended display region.
US10382602B2
A data communications backpack apparatus is disclosed having a backpack carrier. A power supply can be positioned in the backpack carrier. A router device can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the router device in electrical communication with the power supply. An antenna array can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the antenna array in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including one or more cellular antennas and one or more wireless networking antennas. The backpack carrier can include an upper opening extending into a central storage area, a first side pocket, a second side pocket, and a lower compartment positioned below the central storage area. The power supply can be positioned in the first side pocket, the router device can be positioned in the second side pocket, and the antenna array can be positioned in the lower compartment.
US10382595B2
A method includes receiving a data packet including a header having a structure from an operating system at a virtualization layer, where the virtualization layer is above a physical layer and below all other layers. The method also includes performing an operation on a portion of the data packet other than the header, thereby creating a modified data packet and maintaining the original header structure. The method further includes transmitting the modified data packet, including the original header structure, to the physical layer.
US10382579B2
Aspects of the present invention include methods, systems and computer program products. The method includes a detecting, by a processor, a presence of a user at a location. The method further includes detecting, by the processor, a presence of one or more sensors at the location, where the one or more sensors are communicatively coupled together and to the processor. The method further includes determining, by the processor, that the user can be sensed by the one or more sensors at the location. The method further includes notifying, by the processor, the user that a selectable personalized service is available to the user at the location. The method further includes providing, by the processor, the selectable personalized service to the user at the location, where the selectable personalized service notifies the user as to an existence of any anomalies with respect to the user.
US10382573B2
Information on a click stream associated with a user and meta tags commonly used by search engines can be used to profile a user. The click stream may comprise network addresses and timestamps and may be the only source of user information used for the profile. The meta tags may contain metadata that correspond to the network addresses in the click stream, including network address categorization for these network addresses. The profile obtained for the user may be an existing profile that represents a person or a theoretical individual having attributes similar to or most closely match the user. Based at least in part on the profile, information regarding an item may be provided to the user or the item may be offered to the user. Information may be filtered before being displayed to the user.
US10382563B2
A method, computer program product, and a device for establishing a direct communications connection between gateways of two computing systems includes a processor(s) of a first system receiving configuration instructions in a generic format and translating the configuration instructions into a first set of gateway configuration commands that are in a format compatible with a first gateway of the first system. The processor(s) executes the first set to configure the first gateway. The processor(s) transmits, via a communication protocol, the configuration instructions, to a program(s) of a second computing systems, the program(s) translates the configuration instructions into a second set of gateway configuration commands, in a format compatible with the second gateway, and executes the second set to configure the second gateway. The processor(s) establishes a direct communications connection between the first gateway and the second gateway, based on the configurations matching.
US10382560B2
A system and method for displaying content from mobile devices on a plurality of displays in a vehicle are disclosed. Example methods may include receiving content from a first mobile device at a vehicle, and displaying the content on a plurality of displays installed in the vehicle, thereby forming a connected display area amongst the plurality of displays. In some example methods, additional content is received from a second mobile device. An example vehicle may include a plurality of displays and a telematics unit in communication with each of the displays. The telematics unit may be configured to share content received from one or more mobile devices on the plurality of displays, thereby providing a connected display area.
US10382553B2
A distributed storage network (DSN) includes a DSN memory and a distributed storage (DS) processing unit. The DS processing unit determines a particular revision of source data for persistence, and generates a protocol message associated with the particular revision of source data. The protocol message is generated based on a balance between durability and persistence associated with the particular revision. The protocol message is transmitted from the DS processing unit to the DSN memory, and indicates to the DSN memory a particular persistence protocol. The DSN memory process data slices corresponding to the particular revision of source data in accordance with the particular persistence protocol.
US10382545B1
Systems and methods for automated content selection and/or distribution are disclosed herein. The system can include a packet selection system including a recommendation engine. The recommendation engine can select a next data packet that can include content for delivery to a user device. The system can include a presentation system including a presenter module. The presenter module can receive an indication of the selected next data packet and send the content for delivery to the user device via an electrical communication. The system can include a response system including a response processor. The response processor can receive a response from the user device, and the response processor can determine whether the received response is a desired response. The system can include a summary model system including model engine, and a messaging bus.
US10382536B2
A device management apparatus is configured by execution of one or more programs to (i) acquire, from an external apparatus, a status-change information record for a status change that has occurred in a status-changed device, and (ii) determine whether or not the acquired status-change information record is a status-change information record for a managed device managed by the device management apparatus. If it is determined that the acquired status-change information record is a status-change information record for a managed device managed by the device management apparatus, the device management apparatus (iii) transmits an instruction to such managed device to perform a response action to display a message, based on the status-change information record, or if it is determined that the acquired status-change information record is not a status-change information record for any of the managed devices managed by the device management apparatus, the device management apparatus transmits information based on the acquired status-change information record to another device management apparatus managing another device which is not one of the managed devices managed by the device management apparatus.
US10382535B2
Load balancing across hosts in a computer system is triggered based on pairwise comparisons of resource utilization at different host. A method for load balancing across hosts includes the steps of determining a resource utilization difference between first and second hosts, wherein the first host has a higher resource utilization than the second host, comparing the resource utilization difference against a threshold difference, and upon determining that the resource utilization difference exceeds the threshold difference, selecting a workload executing in the first host for migration to the second host.
US10382528B2
Digital asset management with disposition actions based on trigger events are provided. A management service transmits actions to an asset manager to prompt the asset manager to customize the actions. The actions include operations to dispose of digital assets of an asset owner based on a detection of a trigger event. The management service detects a customization and/or a selection of a subset of the actions by the asset manager and monitors the digital assets to detect the trigger event. Once the management service detects the trigger event, the management service executes the subset of the actions to dispose of the digital assets.
US10382520B2
A method of speeding up the delivery of a dynamic webpage is disclosed. A request for a webpage is received, the webpage including one or more dynamic components. A cached stub is sent in response to the request, wherein the cached stub includes components empirically determined as static components of the webpage, and wherein the cached stub includes a placeholder replacing at least a portion of a first dynamic component of the webpage. A script is injected in the cached stub that intercepts any access to the placeholder.
US10382517B2
In one example, the encoding rate at which data is delivered over a network is estimated by intercepting a data packet from a data streaming session, wherein the data packet contains at least a portion of one of a plurality of file segments containing portions of a file, and wherein a number of the plurality of file segments that is delivered via the data streaming session is limited to a maximum number. The mean size of the plurality of file segments is estimated from data contained in the data packet. A plurality of potential sizes of the plurality of file segments is calculated, wherein each potential size corresponds to one number between one and the maximum number. An encoding rate of the data streaming session is calculated, based at least in part on which potential size of the plurality of potential sizes is closest to the mean size.
US10382512B2
A fault tolerant video streaming distribution service utilizes multiple distribution servers to receive and process a video stream simultaneously. Each distribution server performs a mapping of each encoded timestamp associated with a transport stream having time discontinuities to a continuous time sequence. The distribution servers coordinate the timestamp mapping through a distributed leader election protocol that elects a leader to coordinate the timestamp mapping in an environment where failures are anticipated and the number of distribution servers dynamically changes without notice.
US10382508B2
A method and system method for code testing in a video streaming network, A first broadcast stream including a first program containing video content is received by an ingest server of a live cluster of servers, wherein the live cluster of servers is deployed for providing streaming media programs to multiple user devices. The first broadcast stream is provided to one or more user devices. The first broadcast stream is duplicated to generate a copy of the first broadcast stream. The copy of the first broadcast stream is provided to a device under test configured to test processing of the first broadcast stream by new code installed at the device under test. Error performance of the device under test is monitored with respect to the new code's processing of the first broadcast stream.
US10382506B2
Proposed is a method of holding virtual meetings, a system for holing virtual meetings, and a virtual meeting participant interface, which provide for the interaction of a plurality of participant automated workstations, and of at least one automated workstation of an authorized speaker, in which control over the holding of a meeting is carried out from the automated workstation of the authorized speaker by means of striking keys on a keyboard, and wherein each participant is allocated a separate key. The proposed group of inventions provides for the simultaneous control of the transmission of audio content and of video content, and the automated workstation of the authorized speaker is used for controlling when which conference participant is granted the right to speak.
US10382501B2
Techniques provided for a system to determine and enable privileges for one or more meeting windows displayed on a computing device within an electronic meeting. In an embodiment, a set of records of computing devices that are capable of participating in an electronic meeting are maintained. Access permissions for the one or more meeting windows, within the electronic meeting, are maintained. The system receives a request for a first level role, from a first computing device in the electronic meeting. The system determines that the first computing device has, for the first meeting window, a first level role that includes privileges to control the first content. The system enables privileges, based upon the set of records of computing devices and the access permission roles, to allow control of the first content contained in the first meeting window of the electronic meeting to the first computing device.
US10382500B2
According to various exemplary embodiments, an online content account corresponding to a member of a social network service is identified, the online content account being hosted by an online content hosting service distinct from said social network service. Thereafter, a display is generated, via a user interface in a device, of a prompt that invites the member to bind the online content account with a member profile page associated with the member of the social network service.
US10382499B2
Devices described herein are configured to receive a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users and provide the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space. In some embodiments, the group of users is a social network or social network group. The devices are further configured to automatically create a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based on the post, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application.
US10382492B2
In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises creating and storing a scoring threshold value that is associated with determining whether a baseline operation rule is to be generated. Receiving, from service monitoring processes, datasets of operations performed on digital objects by processors associated with computer applications. Aggregating operations and identifying operation properties from the aggregated operations to generate an aggregated baseline dataset that represents operation properties from aggregated operations. Assigning score values to each of the operation properties, wherein each assigned score value represents whether a particular operation property is a candidate for generating a rule that defines expected operation property values for the particular operation property. Automatically generating a set of baseline operations rules for only those operation properties that have assigned values that exceed the score threshold value. The set of baseline operations rules programmed to detect anomalous operations that contain unexpected operation property values.
US10382488B1
A computer-implemented method for enforcing access-control policies may include (i) identifying streaming content that is being transmitted from a media server to a media playback system, (ii) determining that a supervised user is within exposure range of the media playback system and could be exposed to the streaming content, (iii) receiving a sample of the content from a sampling system that is remote from the media playback system, (iv) identifying an access-control policy that defines a content-access restriction for the supervised user, (v) determining, based on an analysis of the sample of the content, that the access-control policy applies to the content, and (vi) in response to determining that the access-control policy applies to the content, enforcing the access-control policy by applying the content-access restriction to the streaming content. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10382472B2
A disclosed computer-implemented method includes receiving and indexing the raw data. Indexing includes dividing the raw data into time stamped searchable events that include information relating to computer or network security. Store the indexed data in an indexed data store and extract values from a field in the indexed data using a schema. Search the extracted field values for the security information. Determine a group of security events using the security information. Each security event includes a field value specified by a criteria. Present a graphical interface (GI) including a summary of the group of security events, other summaries of security events, and a remove element (associated with the summary). Receive input corresponding to an interaction of the remove element. Interacting with the remove element causes the summary to be removed from the GI. Update the GI to remove the summary from the GI.
US10382470B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for interacting with a remote server over a network to determine whether to allow data exchange with a resource at the remote server. Detection is made of an attempt to exchange data with the remote resource over the network. At least one computer instruction is executed to perform at least one interaction with the server over the network to request requested server information for each of the at least one interaction. At least one instance of received server information is received. A determination is made whether the at least one instance of the received server information satisfies at least one security requirement. A determination is made of whether to prevent the exchanging of data with the remote resource based on whether the at least one instance of the received server information satisfies the at least one security requirement.
US10382461B1
Described are techniques for identifying anomalous and non-anomalous requests based on metric values determined from a request. Weights to be associated with particular metric values may be determined based on metric data for those values. The metric data may indicate a total number of accesses by requests having a particular metric value, a frequency of access, or particular access times. Based on the weight values and the metric values for the request, a security score for the request may be determined. The security score may indicate a confidence that the request is anomalous or non-anomalous. Potentially anomalous requests may be determined to be non-anomalous if the metric values correspond to known sets of metric values, determined from previous requests. In some cases, metric data may be normalized prior to use to facilitate faster queries and conserve available data storage.
US10382457B2
An attack stream identification method, apparatus, and device on a software defined network is presented, where an invalid stream filter table is stored in a switch, and the method includes the steps of the switch receives a data packet of a data stream and searches, according to a characteristic value of the data packet, the invalid stream filter table for a state field of a filter entry; when the state field is a suspected attack stream state or a non-attack stream state, the switch sends a report message to a controller, determines a rate value for sending the report message to the controller, and fills the rate value in a rate field of the filter entry; and when the rate value is greater than a preset rate threshold, the switch changes the state field of the filter entry to an attack stream state.
US10382452B1
A system and methods comprise a touchscreen at a premises. The touchscreen includes a processor coupled to a security system at the premises. User interfaces are presented via the touchscreen. The user interfaces include a security interface that provides control of functions of the security system and access to data collected by the security system, and a network interface that provides access to network devices. Network devices at the premises are coupled to the touchscreen. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are coupled to the processor and provide access to the plurality of network devices. A security server at a remote location is coupled to the touchscreen. The security server comprises a client interface through which remote client devices exchange data with the touchscreen and security system, a web application that accesses a first set of the APIs, and a server application that accesses a second set of the APIs.
US10382451B2
Techniques are described for optimizing the placement of automatically generated rules within security policies. An administrator may, for example, interact with the graphical representation of rules rendered by the threat control module and, responsive to the interaction, the system may determine an optimal placement for the created rule in the list of rules for the identified security device based on either the existence of anomalies or threat IP data and/or advanced security parameters. In this way, the system allows administrators to configure rules with the most optimal sequence to detect threats.
US10382450B2
Network data obfuscation is disclosed. For example, an obfuscation driver is initialized in an endpoint device connected to an obfuscation gateway over a secure connection by collaboratively generating a unique machine identifier of the endpoint device. An obfuscated communication session is established between the obfuscation driver and the obfuscation gateway. Obfuscated messages including obfuscation seeds, de-obfuscation instructions and message payloads are exchanged between the obfuscation driver and the obfuscation gateway. Obfuscating and de-obfuscating a given message includes reordering a plurality of message segments of the message based on the de-obfuscation instructions. A de-obfuscated message from the obfuscation driver is forwarded to an application, and a response is obfuscated by the obfuscation gateway before being transmitted to the obfuscation driver. An obfuscation seed exchange occurs between the obfuscation gateway and the obfuscation driver while the application is processing the de-obfuscated message.
US10382442B2
A system may include a first network in which user device(s) and a HIP server are communicably coupled. The first network may include a secure data administrator, such as a medical data system, that stores secure data. In some implementations, at least one of the user devices may include a web module and communicate with a web server through a second network. At least one of the user device may be restricted from communicating with the secure data administrator, so the user device may request data stored in the secure data administrator through the HIP server. The user device may base the requests for the data on information received from the web server.
US10382434B2
To make a trusted web service call, a client application sends a series of messages to obtain tokens that allow service requests to pass through a service relay. The user obtains a first security token by providing the user's credentials. A second token is obtained from a trust broker that validates the first token. Both tokens are then sent with a service request to a service relay. The service relay validates the second token and then passes the first token and the service request to a connector service. The connector service validates the first token and passes the service request to a target back end service. The connector service acts as the user when communicating with the back end service. Service responses are routed back to the user through the connector service and the service relay.
US10382432B2
A method of reading out access authorizations or ID's from at least one customer medium by at least one reader (3, 4, 5) of an access control device (2) and evaluating the selected ID's or access authorizations. All readers are activated and perform a scan for ID's or access authorizations, which can be contained or stored in at least one customer medium. The selected ID's or access authorizations are transmitted to a controller which temporarily stores and transmits them to an evaluation unit (1) while the readers continue to scan for possible ID's or access authorizations. If an evaluation in the evaluation unit finds that a selected access authorization is valid or allocated to a selected ID, the readers are deactivated, and access is granted. If, after a prescribed time, no further ID's or access authorizations are read out, transmitted and recognized as valid, then access is denied.
US10382427B2
The authentication of a client to multiple server resources with a single sign-on procedure using multiple factors is disclosed. One contemplated embodiment is a method in which a login session is initiated with the authentication system of a primary one of the multiple server resources. A first set of login credentials is transmitted thereto, and validated. A token is stored on the client indicating that the initial authentication was successful, which is then used to transition to a secondary one of the multiple resources. A second set of login credentials is also transmitted, and access to the secondary one of the multiple resources is granted on the basis of a validated token and second set of login credentials.
US10382421B2
A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety of sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be received at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.
US10382418B1
There is disclosed a technique for use in authentication. The technique comprises receiving an authentication request. The technique also comprises evaluating an attribute associated with the implementation of the authentication request. The attribute is evaluated with respect to at least one available authentication method. The technique also comprises selecting an available authentication method suitable for use in authentication based on the said evaluation.
US10382415B2
Systems and methods securely determine whether a human or a hacking computing device attempts to engage an application. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to identifying a defined pattern to be displayed by a user interface for an individual to trace. The defined pattern is dynamically displayed so that characteristics associated with the defined pattern change as the defined pattern is displayed. A background is displayed simultaneously with the defined pattern. The background randomly changes as the characteristics associated with the defined pattern change. The likelihood that a hacking computing device can recognize the dynamically changing defined pattern from the dynamically changing background is low while the likelihood that the human brain can do so is high. Thus, user attempting to engage the application is confirmed as a human when a trace of the defined patter is received.
US10382410B2
A processing system includes a processing module having a first interface coupleable to an interconnect. The first interface includes a first cryptologic engine to encrypt a representation of store data of a store operation and a memory address using a first key and a first feedback-based cryptologic process to generate first encrypted data and an encrypted memory address. A memory module includes a second interface coupled to the interconnect. The second interface includes a second cryptologic engine to decrypt the first encrypted data and the encrypted memory address using a second key and a second feedback-based cryptologic process to generate a copy of the representation of the store data and a copy of the memory address. The second interface further is to store the copy of the representation of the store data to a memory location of the memory core based on the copy of the memory address.
US10382409B2
A requestor and a responder may conduct secure communication by making API calls based on a secure multi-party protocol. The requestor may send a request data packet sent in a API request to the responder, where the request data packet can include at least a control block that is asymmetrically encrypted and a data block that is symmetrically encrypted. The responder may return a response data packet to the requestor, where the response data packet can include at least a control block and a data block that are both symmetrically encrypted. The requestor and the responder may derive the keys for decrypting the encrypted portions of the request and response data packets based on some information only known to the requestor and the responder. The secure multi-party protocol forgoes the need to store and manage keys in a hardware security module.
US10382403B2
In one embodiment, a social networking system provides people look up service and establish anonymous communication session between users; creates contact association for future communication between users; and configures one or more privacy settings for users. The method may comprise receiving from an initiating user a request for information of a target user, determining location information associated with the initiating user, accessing one or more privacy settings of the target user to determine if the initiating user fulfills a requirement based on one or more social, spatiotemporal, geographic or temporal conditions associated with the target user and the location information associated with the initiating user, and in response to determining that the initiating user fulfills the requirement, providing the requested information of the target user to the initiating user.
US10382402B2
The invention relates to a telecommunications assembly (10) and a method for traversing an application layer gateway firewall (40) during the establishment of an RTC communication connection between an RTC client (20) and an RTC server (30) using a proprietary RTC signalling protocol, wherein the firewall (40) has no specific knowledge of the proprietary RTC signalling protocol. The method comprises the following steps: the RTC client (20) and the RTC server (30) negotiate during the establishment of the RTC communication connection which of the ports (P1, P2, P3) of the firewall (40) are required for the data packets to be exchanged via the RTC communication connection, wherein they use at least one standardized message element as a component of the proprietary RTC signalling protocol, with which information relating to the ports to be used can be found; during the establishment of the RTC communication connection the firewall (40) detects, with the aid of the standardized message element, which of the ports (P1, P2, P3) of the firewall (40) are considered by the RTC client (20) and the RTC server (30) to be necessary for the data packets to be exchanged via the RTC communication connection; and the firewall (40) opens and closes the required ports (P1, P2, P3) in a dynamic manner according to the result of the negotiation.
US10382399B2
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may include establishing, by a host computing system, a secure connection to a user computing system via a wireless network, wherein the host computing system and the user computing system are in physical proximity to each other. The example method further includes providing, by a host computing system, an operating system session to the user computing system through the secure connection while the host computing system and the user computing system remain in physical proximity to each other. The example method also includes providing, by a host computing system, data associated with a user of the user computing system to the user computing system via the operating system session through the secure connection, wherein the data associated with the user of the user computing device is stored in a data store of the host computing system.
US10382397B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network determines whether a destination address of a packet received by the device is within a neighbor discovery (ND) cache of the device. The device determines whether the destination address is not in a set of addresses used to generate an address lookup array or possibly in the set of addresses used to generate the address lookup array, in response to determining that the destination address of the packet is not within the ND cache. The device performs address resolution for the destination address of the packet, in response to determining that the destination address of the packet is possibly in the set of addresses used to generate the address lookup array.
US10382396B2
A network connection device having a security processor exchanges data traffic between a data network and a host computer via a network port. Security management data is exchanged exclusively between the security processor and a management network via a management network connectivity port that is inaccessible to the data traffic.
US10382390B1
A network device resolves a destination address of an endpoint in an endpoint isolation environment. The network device receives a request for a destination address associated with a destination endpoint. The request originates from an isolated source endpoint. The network device determines whether the destination address is stored on the network device in association with the destination endpoint. Responsive to a determination that the destination address is not stored in association with the destination endpoint, the network device generates a proxy request for the destination address, and sends the proxy request to at least one endpoint attached to the network device. The network device receives a proxy response from the destination endpoint that includes the destination address. The network device stores the destination address in association with the destination endpoint.
US10382388B2
A method comprising: A. forming a consortium blockchain network using domain network nodes and selecting committee members from top-level domain nodes; B. the committee member who received most votes packs the genesis block and generates a random number; C. the housekeeper having the same number as the random number packs the current block and generates a random number for selecting a next housekeeper to pack the next block, each block is approved by more than half of the committee members; D. during the duty cycle, each housekeeper takes turns packing blocks and generating random numbers and the process is repeated. If a block is not approved, the housekeeper with the next number is requested to repack the block; and E. the last random number generated by a housekeeper before the duty cycle ends is used to select the housekeeper to pack the first block of the next duty cycle.
US10382375B2
In some embodiments, security and/or automation systems, collectively referred to as automation systems, may facilitate communications between a remote user and an occupant of a residence. The automation system may receive one or more communications from a user and deliver the communication to the specified recipient when the recipient occupies the residence. The automation system may determine the recipient is proximate the residence and may notify the recipient of the pending communication. The recipient may use the control panel or another device associated with the security and/or automation system to receive the message.
US10382374B2
A system protects content, by detecting, by a first application interface, a message attribute associated with content received by the first application interface. A syntax parser on a first application parses the content to identify the message attribute. The first application interface embeds a protect attribute in metadata associated with the content, where the protect attribute indicated by the message attribute. The system transmits the content from the first application interface to a second application interface. The second application interface extracts the protect attribute from the metadata associated with the content. The system applies the protect attribute to the content rendered by the second application interface. The system propagates the protect attribute applied to the content when the content is transmitted from the second application interface to at least one third application interface, and then applies the protect attribute to the content rendered by the third application interface.
US10382370B1
Disclosed are various embodiments to deploy automated service agents, which can be implemented with an application executed on a computing device. The application can cause the computing device to process a transcript to identify an intended action of a service agent, wherein the transcript comprises a first set of text generated by the service agent and a second set of text generated by another party. The application can also cause the computing device, in response to an identification of the intended action from the transcript, to process the transcript to extract a minimum set of information required to create a workflow item that corresponds to the intended action. Moreover, the application can cause the computing device to send a request to a workflow management system to create the workflow item that corresponds to the intended action, wherein the request comprises an identifier for the intended action and the acquired information.
US10382368B2
This application discloses a method implemented on a client system for creating an automatic reply message. The client system obtains content information of a webpage including information concerning a plurality of content items. A graphical user interface is created using one or more of the plurality of content items. Then, the auto-reply message is composed in accordance with the plurality of content items and additional user instructions. The auto-reply message is further associated with one or more predefined keywords according to one or more auto-reply rules, and sent along with these predefined keywords to a server system. The server system is configured to return the auto-reply message automatically to a subscriber device of a public account of a social network application in response to a user inquiry including one or more predefined keywords.
US10382364B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical access device and an optical access system. The system includes a switching unit, at least two optical access devices, a network integrated processor, and a controller. The optical access device decapsulates an upstream data frame to obtain a payload, encapsulates the payload into a first upstream Ethernet frame, and then sends the first upstream Ethernet frame to the switching unit. The switching unit, which may comprise at least one switch, is configured to send the first upstream Ethernet frame to the network integrated processor, or send the first upstream Ethernet frame to the controller, and receive and send a second upstream Ethernet frame. The network integrated processor processes the first upstream Ethernet frame according to a received protocol parse instruction to obtain the second upstream Ethernet frame, and sends the second upstream Ethernet frame to the switching unit.
US10382357B2
Providing access to content is disclosed. An indication of a context is received. Access is provided to a context-relevant subset of a body of managed content. In some cases, the context-relevant subset includes a document relevant to the content.
US10382337B2
Load balancing in a multimedia conference is disclosed, involving one or more internal terminals and one or more internal nodes separated from one or more external terminals and one or more external nodes by a firewall. Media data is forwarded through the firewall to at least a second one of the nodes, and received media data at the at least a second one of said nodes are processed. At a first event, reconfiguration is performed of said first one of said nodes to process received media data and of said second one of said nodes to forward received media data to said first one of said nodes. At a second event, loading is done of at least a part of said received media data being processed at the first one or second one of said nodes to at least a third one of said nodes.
US10382334B2
A system and method are disclosed for using segment routing (SR) in native IP networks. The method involves receiving a packet. The packet is an IP packet and includes an IP header. The method also involves updating the packet. Updating the packet involves writing information, including a segment routing segment identifier, to the destination address of the packet.
US10382327B1
In various embodiments, an apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable media, and a method are provided, involving: a current node configured to be positioned in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the current node including at least one non-transitory memory configured to store instructions, and one or more processors in communication with the at least one non-transitory memory, wherein the one or more processors is configured to execute the instructions to cause the current node to: detect first data to be transmitted to a receiving node; identify a sequence of node scope-specific identifiers that is selected from a plurality of node scope-specific identifiers based on at least one of: the current node, the receiving node, or a policy, where each of the node scope-specific identifiers of the sequence is in one of a plurality of node scope-specific identifier spaces that is specific to a corresponding one of a plurality of nodes in a path from the current node toward the receiving node, and each of the node scope-specific identifiers of the sequence identifies, for the corresponding one of the plurality of nodes, a corresponding next node in the path from the current node toward the receiving node.
US10382321B1
The techniques described herein may reduce global repairs in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label-Switched Paths (LSPs) by using an aggregated link bundle as a primary path when multiple paths are available. As an example, a router may determine a respective interface type for each path of a plurality of paths; determine, based on the respective interface types, whether one or more paths from the plurality of paths satisfies a set of constraints that are configured such that an aggregated link bundle interface type is preferred over a single link interface type; determine a preferred path based on whether the set of constraints were satisfied; configure a routing table of the router with the preferred path as a LSP to the destination; and send, based on the routing table, one or more packets using an interface of the router associated with the LSP.
US10382318B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for setting a detour path in a wideband high frequency wireless system using a centralized Media Access Control (MAC) protocol. Here, in a wireless system using the centralized MAC protocol where a time synchronization and a band allocation may be performed by a single central control unit, when a signal blockage occurs while a data communication is being performed via a direct path between a source device and a destination device, the detour path may be quickly provided.
US10382313B2
A method obtains a specification of a first test, which includes a set of requests for testing server operation according to a first protocol, and builds a specification of a second test, which includes requests and corresponding expected server responses for testing server operation according to a second protocol. Building the specification of the second test includes selecting and processing a request of the set of requests. Processing the selected request includes identifying, based on an expected response to the selected request, dependencies of the expected response, which are resources indicated by the expected response or dependencies of those resources, that are requested in related additional request(s) of the first test. The process adds, to the specification of the second test, the selected request, and indicates the expected response and the identified dependences as being a corresponding expected server response from a server operating according to the second protocol.
US10382312B2
A handheld maintenance tool operates to detect the existence of a fault in a communication line or bus, including detecting short circuit or other low impedance faults, open circuit or other high impedance faults, etc. Additionally, the handheld maintenance tool may operate to detect an approximate location of a fault within the communication line with respect to the handheld device, to thereby enable an operator or maintenance person to more easily find and repair a detected fault.
US10382310B2
A measuring device is provided for performing one or more of a protocol test and a conformance test of a device under test. The measuring device comprises a measuring unit configured to perform measurements by transmitting signaling to the device under test and to receive measurement results from the device under test. The measuring results comprise one or more of messages and numerical values. The measuring device comprises a storage unit configured to store the signaling and the measuring results in a single binary storage file. The measuring device comprises a searching unit configured to search the storage file for at least one first measuring result based on user-selectable criteria and to generate an output file comprising only the at least one first measuring result.
US10382309B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a trace request packet at a service node in a service chain, the trace request packet comprising a service path identifier, a service index, and a service index limit, processing the trace request packet at the service node, comparing the service index to the service index limit, determining that the service index is greater than the service index limit, generating a trace response packet at the service node indicating that the service index is greater than the service index limit, and transmitting the trace response packet. The trace response packet comprises service function information for each of a plurality of service nodes in the service chain. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.
US10382302B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus that, even when extensions increase, acquires status information in a short time, and suppresses an increase in capacity of a storage device that stores firmware. A status-information-acquisition unit executes applications that are stored in an HDD (storage device) and downloaded from a cloud server (application-providing server), and acquires status information of each of the extensions. A system-control unit transmits the status information to a status-monitoring server, and deletes applications that are stored in the HDD (storage device). As a result, it is not necessary to re-create firmware for acquiring status information of each of the respective extensions, and it is possible to suppress an increase in the data size of applications incorporated in the firmware.
US10382294B2
Disclosed is a method and mechanism to implement a unified infrastructure for handling IoT components and devices. A platform is provided to integrate, access, and control any type of local device, and to use any type of back-end application to processed collected data from the local devices.
US10382280B2
A network device may detect a reduced switching fabric bandwidth due to switching fabric degradation of a switching fabric. The network device may allocate the reduced switching fabric bandwidth to one or more interfaces of a packet processor. The network device may determine a first maximum reservable bandwidth for an interface of the one or more interfaces. The network device may identify a reserved bandwidth for the interface. The network device may determine an unreserved bandwidth for the interface based on the first maximum reservable bandwidth and the reserved bandwidth. The network device may advertise the unreserved bandwidth, for the interface, to a neighbor network device that communicates with the network device via the interface. The network device may provide an instruction, to the neighbor network device, for the neighbor network device to update a second maximum reservable bandwidth associated with the neighbor network device.
US10382277B2
Automating quality assurance (QA) for standardized content sharing is disclosed. A system includes a shared content receiver, a rule retriever, an augmenting data checker, and a verification transmitter. The shared content receiver is configured to receive shared content and receive, from a source of the shared content, augmenting data that describes one or more characteristics of the shared content in a pre-determined format. The rule retriever is configured to retrieve rules associated with serving the shared content. The augmenting data checker is configured to determine if the augmenting data is compliant according to the retrieved rules. The verification transmitter is configured to transmit an indication of whether the augmenting data is compliant.
US10382262B1
In some implementations, a system enables users to create dynamically configurable applications that can be dynamically configured and adjusted. An application that runs on the server system in a first configuration is configured using a first configuration template. Data indicating (i) that the application is being accessed on a computing device in the first configuration, and (ii) a request to adjust the first configuration of the application is received. Operations are then performed while the application is being accessed on the computing device in the first configuration. A second configuration template that specifies a second configuration of the application corresponding to the request included in the received data is generated. The application is adjusted using the second configuration template to run in the second configuration. An instruction is provided to the computing device to enable the computing device to access the application running in the second configuration.
US10382261B2
A technical solution for significantly improving the scalability of the capability of an electronic information exchange platform is disclosed. Services provided by the platform may be described in a uniform way via service-specific provisioning descriptors. To provision services for a client system, a managed services provisioning system provides a service configuration interface through which a service associated with a tuple of a particular sender, receiver, and document type can be selected for further configuration. A service provisioning interface is dynamically generated for obtaining service-specific provisioning information from a user for generating a service-specific provisioning data instance that can be deployed to a backend system. At runtime, the backend system utilizes the service-specific provisioning data instance to provide the provisioned service for a client system. In this way, a variety of services can be efficiently provisioned for a diverse set of clients in a scalable, streamlined, and cost-effective manner.
US10382257B2
Embodiments for fault detection in an end-to-end communication flow between microservices within a cloud computing environment by one or more processors. A communication pattern may be established between an invoking microservice and one or more microservices to enable fault detection of a failure of an end-to-end communication flow between the invoking microservice and the one or more microservices, wherein the communication pattern includes a request to self-monitor for the fault detection by the one or more microservices, and an acknowledgement response provided by the invoking microservice to the one or more microservices indicating success or failure of the end-to-end communication flow between the invoking microservice and the one or more microservices.
US10382255B1
A system and method for failover in a distributed system may comprise a computing device that receives information associating computing nodes with ordinal identifiers, such that the computing nodes are divided into at least a first and second subset based on the identifiers. The identifiers may further define an ordering of the subsets. When failover occurs, candidate computing nodes may be identified and selected based at least in part on the ordering. Secondary considerations, including functions performed by other members of a candidate's subset, are considered when identifying candidate nodes.
US10382252B2
An example device includes an interface to receive, from a device management system, a request message that conforms to a network management protocol, a control unit that provides an execution environment for a management agent, and a data repository. The request message includes a set of managed object identifiers and a set of filter operator object identifiers. The management agent is operable to generate at least one filter criterion based on the managed object identifiers and the filter operator object identifiers, to retrieve managed object values stored in the data repository based on the managed object identifiers, each corresponding to a respective managed object identifier specified in the request message, to generate and output to the device management system a response based on the managed object identifiers of the request message and the retrieved managed object values that satisfy one or more of the at least one filter criterion.
US10382251B2
Within a multi-tier computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes, a first node accesses a data object encapsulating values. Thereafter, the first node generates node specific messages for each of a plurality of tiered nodes in the multi-tier computing environment relating to a transaction. The node specific messages encapsulate at least a portion of the values in the accessed data object and are respectively based on access visibility information associated with each such node. Thereafter, the first node transmits the corresponding node specific messages to each of the plurality of tiered nodes. The first node, in response to the transmitted node specific messages, receives data comprising a plurality of responses in response to the receipt of the node-specific messages. The first node then orchestrates with the plurality of tiered nodes, completion of the transaction by transmitting messages to select nodes of the plurality of tiered nodes.
US10382248B2
A software networking arrangement for operation in a data processing system comprising an OS being operable in: a first mode in which it performs protocol processing of a flow of traffic data and then passes the protocol processed data to a NIC for transmission; and a second mode in which it does not perform protocol processing, the OS being arranged to, on entering the second mode, transmit a message to the NIC indicating that the NIC is to perform protocol processing of the flow of traffic data; the software networking arrangement comprising: a protocol processing entity; and a driver for a NIC configured to receive said message from the OS and in response thereto, configure the protocol processing entity to perform transport-level protocol processing of the flow of traffic data received from an application within the context of that application and then pass the protocol processed data to the NIC.
US10382244B2
A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving a reference signal from a transceiver, estimating a time offset (TO) of the reference signal in the frequency domain based on an accumulation of subcarriers before cross-correlation, providing a TO compensated signal of the reference signal based on the estimated TO in the frequency domain, transforming the TO compensated signal into the time domain, and estimating a frequency offset (FO) based on the time domain TO compensated signal.
US10382239B2
Disclosed herein is a broadcast signal receiver. The broadcast signal receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a synchronization and demodulation module configured to perform detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal, a frame parsing and deinterleaving module configured to parse and deinterleave the signal frame of the broadcast signal, a demapping and decoding module configured to convert the data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into a bit domain and to FEC-decode the PLP data, and an output processing module configured to receive the data of the at least one PLP and to output the received data in a data stream form.
US10382235B2
Transmission of baseband and carrier-modulated vector codewords, using a plurality of encoders, each encoder configured to receive information bits and to generate a set of baseband-encoded symbols representing a vector codeword; one or more modulation circuits, each modulation circuit configured to operate on a corresponding set of baseband-encoded symbols, and using a respective unique carrier frequency, to generate a set of carrier-modulated encoded symbols; and, a summation circuit configured to generate a set of wire-specific outputs, each wire-specific output representing a sum of respective symbols of the carrier-modulated encoded symbols and at least one set of baseband-encoded symbols.
US10382225B2
An example embodiment includes a plurality of flight modules including a primary flight module and a secondary flight module. The embodiment includes a CAN controller, a second CAN controller, a first CAN bus configured to transmit primary control signals from the first CAN controller to the primary flight module and to the secondary flight module, and a second CAN bus configured to transmit secondary control signals from the second CAN controller to the primary flight module and the secondary flight module. The primary flight module is configured to perform functions responsive to receiving the primary control signals, and not in response to receiving the secondary control signals and the secondary flight module is configured to perform functions responsive to receiving the secondary control signals, and not in response to receiving the primary control signals.
US10382223B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting Universal Serial Bus (USB) application data by using an Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) scheme that uses one or more Access Channels (ACs) having different priorities. The method includes receiving one or more USB application data from an USB application, dynamically assigning an AC through which the USB application data is to be transmitted, and transmitting the USB application data through the assigned AC.
US10382222B2
A method for protecting configuration data from a data bus transceiver operable in a subnetwork mode. The configuration data are provided for comparison with data bus message data arriving via a data bus. A reference checksum for the configuration data is generated and stored, and recurrently checked. In the event of an identified alteration, a wake-up signal and/or a piece of error information is output. During or after writing the configuration data to a configuration register via the data bus or directly before the change to the low-power mode of the electronic control unit, a checksum unit forms a checksum that is stored in a reference register. In the low-power mode of the electronic control unit, the checksum for the configuration is repeatedly recomputed and compared with the checksum stored in the reference register. If the recomputed checksum does not match the stored checksum, a wake-up process is triggered.
US10382215B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for device identification and policy enforcement using Power over Ethernet (PoE) are described. In certain aspects, a communication that originates from a Power over Ethernet (PoE) enabled device can be received. The communication can be processed to determine a characteristic of the device. An action can be initiated based on the characteristic.
US10382213B1
A technology is provided for certificate authentication for registering a certificate in computing service environment. A request may be received to register a certificate authority (CA) certificate. A registration token associated with a customer account in a service provider environment may be generated to enable association of the customer account with the CA certificate and to authenticate a registration of the CA certificate. The registration token may be sent to a requester desiring to register the CA certificate. A verification certificate that contains the registration token and that is signed by a certificate authority (CA) of the CA certificate and the CA certificate that is signed by the CA may be received to register the CA certificate with the customer account within a service provider environment The CA certificate is persisted with the service provider environment after verifying the registration token is associated with the customer account and the CA certificate is signed by the CA.
US10382212B2
Provided are a method and device for acquiring a message certificate in a vehicle networking system. The method comprises: receiving, by a Background Control Center (BCC), a privilege certificate request instruction sent by an On-Board Unit (OBU); generating and sending, by the BCC, a write control instruction to the OBU, receiving, by the BCC, an application grant request instruction sent by the OBU, the application grant request instruction being used for applying for use of a privilege certificate already written in the OBU to the BCC; and determining, by the BCC, the valid time for the OBU to use a designated privilege certificate, generating an application control instruction according to the determined valid time, and sending the generated application control instruction to the OBU, the application control instruction being used for indicating that the OBU uses the designated privilege certificate within the valid time.
US10382204B2
A mobile terminal privacy protection method and protection apparatus, and a mobile terminal, where the method includes obtaining an application start instruction, actively obtaining a biometric feature of a user according to the application start instruction, and displaying an encrypted content list and an unencrypted content list of a corresponding application if the obtained biometric feature of the user matches a preset biometric feature. The encrypted content list of the application is generated according to encrypted content in the application, the unencrypted content list of the application is generated according to unencrypted content in the application, and the encrypted content in the application is content that is not presented when the obtained biometric feature of the user does not match the preset biometric feature. Hence, the present disclosure can protect privacy in the mobile terminal without being easily perceived.
US10382198B2
The present disclosure in some embodiments provides an apparatus and method for supplying quantum keys to multiple apparatuses in a quantum key distribution system. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus and method for supplying quantum keys enable Alice or Bob to deliver the quantum keys to the multiple transmitting apparatuses or receiving apparatuses, in real time without a delay.
US10382195B2
Generally described, physical computing devices in a virtual network can be configured to host a number of virtual machine instances. The physical computing devices can be operably coupled with offload devices. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a security component can be incorporated into an offload device. The security component can be a physical device including a microprocessor and storage. The security component can include a set of instructions configured to validate an operational configuration of the offload device or the physical computing device to establish that they are configured in accordance with a secure or trusted configuration. In one example, a first security component on the offload device can validate the operational computing environment on the offload device and a second security component on the physical computing device can validate the operational computing environment on the physical computing device.
US10382188B2
A communication system includes: a first communication device that transmits a plurality of frames at a transmission time interval shorter than a time required for transmitting a minimum frame; and a second communication device that performs timing synchronization with the first communication device on the basis of the plurality of frames when a reception time interval of the plurality of frames received is equal to the transmission time interval.
US10382184B2
A method of handling a communication operation for a communication device comprising performing a reception in a first subframe of a time-division duplexing (TDD) carrier from a network; and performing a transmission for responding the reception via a second subframe of a uplink (UL) carrier to the network; wherein the UL carrier is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) UL carrier, or is another TDD carrier with an UL/downlink (DL) configuration where all subframes are UL subframes.
US10382182B2
A wireless device receives from a base station, first message(s) comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells grouped into a plurality of groups. The plurality of groups comprise: a primary group comprising a primary cell with a primary physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmitted to the base station; and a secondary group comprising a first plurality of secondary cells of the plurality of cells. The first plurality of secondary cells comprise a PUCCH secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH transmitted to the base station. A second message is received that comprises parameter(s) indicating a release of fewer secondary cells than the first plurality of secondary cells. The fewer secondary cells than the first plurality of secondary cells comprise the PUCCH secondary cell. The first plurality of secondary cells in the secondary group are released in response to the parameter(s) indicating the release of the PUCCH secondary cell.
US10382179B2
A wireless communications network is configured to transmit signals including a plurality of data units containing reference signals for use in channel assessment by mobile stations receiving the transmissions. Topological data relating to the relative positions of each base stations in the network is used by a density adjustment function to select a distribution pattern and density of reference signals. A signal is sent to one or more user terminals, the signal comprising reference signals arranged in the selected distribution and density of plurality of data units, and including a control signal to indicate to the mobile terminal which density and distribution is in use.
US10382170B2
A wireless device may receive at least one message. The at least one message may comprise: first configuration parameters for a first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), second configuration parameters for a second SPS, and a maximum number of uplink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes shared among the first SPS and the second SPS. A first downlink control information (DCI) indicating a first resource assignment for the first SPS may be received. A second DCI indicating a second resource assignment for the second SPS may be received. A first transport block (TB) associated with a first HARQ process identifier may be transmitted, employing the first resource assignment. A second TB associated with a second HARQ process identifier may be transmitted, employing the second resource assignment. The second HARQ process identifier of the second SPS may be determined at least based on the first HARQ process identifier of the first SPS.
US10382161B2
Example devices described herein include endpoint devices which may communicate with an access point device by modulating a channel associated with the wireless communication to encode transmit data. The channel modulation may be performed by utilizing a switch to control an impedance of an antenna at the endpoint device to either reflect or absorb wireless network communication signals received by the endpoint device. The access point device may extract the transmit data by decoding changes in the channel caused, at least in part, by the modulation. Access point devices may transmit a pattern of packets—the presence or absence of which may correspond with transmit data. Endpoint devices may decode this data by using an energy detector to differentiate between the presence or absence of a packet.
US10382159B2
A dummy-light generating device includes a continuous wave (CW) light source that outputs CW light, a modulated-light generating unit that generates, using the CW light, first intensity-modulated light subjected to intensity modulation and second intensity-modulated light delayed by a half time of a modulation cycle of the first intensity-modulated light with respect to the first intensity-modulated light and having a polarization state e different from a polarization state e of the first intensity-modulated light, and a polarization combiner that performs polarization combination of the first intensity-modulated light and second intensity-modulated light and outputs light after the polarization combination as dummy light.
US10382158B2
An optical transmission system comprises at least one first connection point and one second connection point arranged to transmit and receive at least one channel signal transmitted via at least one optical means connecting the first connection point and the second connection, wherein each of the at least one channel signal is reversibly configurable to be transmitted in either a first direction or a second direction between the first connection point and the second connection point. A method of transmitting at least one channel signal between a first connection point and a second connection point via at least one optical media in an optical transmission system, wherein each of the at least one channel signal is reversibly configurable to be transmitted in either a first direction or a second direction between the first and the second connection points.
US10382156B2
It is provided a method for reducing interference. The method is performed in a receiver and comprises the steps of: receiving a first signal forming part of a symbol; extracting a differential signal by comparing the first signal with a second signal, wherein the first signal and the second signal are based on the same information; estimating a base frequency of the differential signal for the symbol; mapping the base frequency to a first time of the symbol; estimating frequencies at other times of the symbol using interpolation and/or extrapolation using base frequencies from at least one adjacent symbol; reconstructing an interfering signal based on the estimated frequencies; and subtracting the reconstructed interfering signal from a received signal for the symbol.
US10382154B2
The present invention relates to a method for a companion device to receive current service information from a primary device comprising: (a) said companion device receiving from said primary device an emergency alert message including at least one of: (i) an identifier of said emergency alert message that uniquely identifies said emergency alert message; (ii) a date when said emergency alert message was generated together with a time when said emergency alert message was generated; (iii) a content format defining a content type of an initial said emergency alert message; (iv) a content of said emergency alert message received given by initial content element; (v) a URL which provides initial emergency alert message content for accessibility; (vi) an additional URL which provides additional information about said emergency alert message; (vii) a phone number for obtaining additional information about said emergency alert message; (viii) an e-mail address for obtaining additional information about said emergency alert message; (ix) a received additional emergency alert containing a continuation of another said emergency alert message; (x) a received one of a new or a repeat said emergency alert message; (xi) a received said emergency alert message that is not repeated; (xii) an identifier of said primary device; (xiii) a version of said primary device.
US10382151B2
A method of concurrently testing a plurality of transmission mediums, using a testing device incorporating at least one processor and a single test program that allows a user to view multiple instruments as a single instrument with multiple input and output ports, includes setting up a plurality of instrument functions to perform tests on the plurality of transmission mediums using the single test program, and concurrently performing tests on the plurality of transmission mediums using the plurality of instrument functions.
US10382146B2
An initial phase of each output signal generated by a plurality of radio frequency (RF) front-end circuits is determined by mixing an input signal with a mixing signal in a mixer of the corresponding RF front-end circuit. To that end, a time difference for each of the plurality of RF front-end circuits is determined by measuring a time difference between a reference signal (common to all of the RF front-end circuits) and the mixing signal of each RF front-end circuit. The initial phase for each output signal is then determined based on the measured time difference for the corresponding RF front-end circuit. Determining the initial phase in this manner accounts for any uncertainty of the phase when the RF front-end circuits are activated, enabling the phase of the corresponding antenna element to be accurately controlled.
US10382142B2
An optical module includes a board including a first surface and a second surface, a light-receiving element mounted on the first surface of the board, a capacitor mounted on the first surface of the board and connected to the light-receiving element, an optical waveguide attached to the second surface of the board and configured to transmit light, and a housing that covers the board. A recess is formed in an area of the inner surface of the housing to face the capacitor.
US10382135B2
In an optical network based on a dense wavelength division multiplexing system using a flexible frequency grid, it is difficult to improve the usage efficiency of an optical frequency band owing to the occurrence of fragmentation of the optical frequency band; therefore, an optical network controller according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an optical frequency region setting means for setting a plurality of optical frequency regions in an optical frequency band used in an optical network based on a dense wavelength division multiplexing system using a flexible frequency grid; an optical path setting means for setting optical paths having a common attribute in at least one of the plurality of optical frequency regions; and an optical frequency region control means for changing an optical frequency width of the optical frequency region, and instructing the optical frequency region setting means to reconfigure, as the plurality of optical frequency regions, a plurality of optical frequency reconfigured regions each of which having the optical frequency width after having been changed.
US10382130B1
Method and apparatus are disclosed for a dual mode vehicle camera for visual light communication. An example vehicle includes a camera, a visual light communication (VLC) module, and a camera module. The camera includes a lens removable from a light path between an aperture and a CMOS sensor. The VLC module is communicatively coupled to the camera. The VLC module selects between first and second modes, and when in the second mode, removes the lens from the light path to receive VLC data via the camera. Additionally, the camera module captures images via camera when the VLC module selects the first mode.
US10382129B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for transmitting an identifier using visible light communication (VLC) and for generating a plurality of identifiers for transmission using VLC. Input identifying an illumination factor associated with a light source is received. A first set of modulation parameters is modified for transmitting the identifier using VLC. The first set of modulation parameters is modified based on the illumination factor. A signal, in which the identifier is encoded, is applied to the light source. The signal is applied according to the first set of modulation parameters. Another method includes identifying a number of light transmitting devices, generating a plurality of identifiers based on the identified number of light transmitting devices, storing the generated identifiers, determining a plurality of cyclic shifts for each identifier in the plurality of identifiers, and removing identifiers from the plurality of identifiers that match the identified cyclic shifts.
US10382123B2
A system and method consistent with the present disclosure provides for automated line monitoring system (LMS) baselining that enables capturing and updating of operational parameters specific to each repeater and associated undersea elements based on high loss loopback (HLLB) data. The captured operational parameters may then be utilized to satisfy queries targeting specific undersea elements in a Command-Response (CR) fashion. Therefore, command-response functionality may be achieved without the added cost, complexity and lifespan issues related to deploying undersea elements with on-board CR circuitry. As generally referred to herein, operational parameters include any parameter that may be derived directly or indirectly from HLLB data. Some example non-limiting examples of operational parameters include span gain loss, input power, output power, gain, and gain tilt.
US10382103B2
Methods are disclosed for improving communications on feedback transmission channels, in which there is a possibility of bit errors. The basic solutions to counter those errors are: proper design of the CSI vector quantizer indexing (i.e., the bit representation of centroid indices) in order to minimize impact of index errors, use of error detection techniques to expurgate the erroneous indices and use of other methods to recover correct indices.
US10382097B2
The invention is a method of managing communication between a portable device and a contactless reader able to communicate using a first wireless technology configured to communicate in a short-range mode. The method comprises the steps of: establishing a first channel between the contactless reader and a wireless unit, establishing between the wireless unit and the portable device a second channel using a second wireless technology which is configured: to operate with a range greater than that of said first wireless technology, to detect the position of the portable device with respect to the wireless unit, to handle an anti-collision phase, establishing a bridge between the contactless reader and the portable device through said first and second channels only if the detected position of the portable device matches with the contactless reader.
US10382096B2
A control unit (22) controls a filter (30) of a communication device (3a) by wired communication via a LCX (4a) to pass or cut off a signal in a wireless frequency band, to cause the LCX (4a) and LCX (4b) to function as a single antenna or a plurality of antennas.
US10382095B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating first traffic for transmitting along a network path toward a recipient device, determining a schedule for transmitting the first traffic, and facilitating transmission of the first traffic along the network path using a first waveguide system. The first waveguide system has a dielectric coupler, and operates by communicating electromagnetic waves via the dielectric coupler at a physical interface of a transmission medium that propagate without utilizing an electrical return path. The electromagnetic waves are guided by the transmission medium, wherein the electromagnetic waves at least partially surround an outer surface of the transmission medium, and wherein the electromagnetic waves have a non-optical frequency range. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10382089B2
A system for digital self-interference cancellation includes a filter that generates a reduced-noise digital residue signal; a channel estimator that generates a current self-interference channel estimate from a digital transmit signal, the reduced-noise digital residue signal, and past self-interference channel estimates; a controller that dynamically sets the digital transform configuration in response to changes in a controller-sampled digital residue signal; and a channel memory that stores the past self-interference channel estimates.
US10382085B2
A system for wired analog self-interference cancellation includes a coarse delayer that delays a sampled RF transmit signal by a first delay amount; a frequency downconverter that downconverts the sampled RF transmit signal to IF; a first canceller tap group comprising a first per-tap-group delayer, a first sampling coupler, a first per-tap delayer, and first and second analog vector modulators that generates an IF self-interference cancellation signal; a frequency upconverter that upconverts the IF self-interference cancellation signal to RF; and a receive coupler that combines the RF self-interference cancellation signal with the RF receive signal, reducing self-interference.
US10382079B2
A CMOS channel select filter for DVB-H direct-conversion receives based on a transresistance amplifier (TRA) is disclosed. The channel select filter includes a fully differential transresistance amplifier (FDTRA) configured to change an input current at each differential input terminal to a voltage at each differential output terminal based on an impedance at a corresponding differential impedance terminal. The channel select filter also includes two feedback resistors, each having one end connected to a respective differential output terminal of the FDTRA and having another end connected to the node, two first capacitors, each connected between ground and the node, and two second capacitors, each connected between ground and a respective differential impedance terminal.
US10382076B2
Provided is an antenna device used for evaluating a transmission characteristic or a reception characteristic of equipment under test (EUT) having an array antenna that includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a plane at predetermined intervals. The antenna device includes an antenna for receiving a modulated signal radiated by the EUT via the array antenna or radiating a modulated signal to the array antenna. The antenna is disposed at a position on a z-axis perpendicular to the plane defined by the plurality of antenna elements such that a group delay distortion of the modulated signal is reduced in a near-field region.
US10382075B1
Described are techniques for reducing the effects of interference from one wireless radio on the operations of another wireless radio. A first wireless radio and a second wireless radio may transmit signals within frequency ranges that at least partially overlap. Signal quality values for the first wireless radio, at a time that the second wireless radio is transmitting signals, may be determined for at least a portion of the overlapping frequencies. For each frequency at which the determined signal quality value deviates from a threshold value, that frequency may be excluded from use for subsequent communications by the first wireless radio. Excluding certain frequencies from use may enable continuous use of the first wireless radio without experiencing the effects of interference from the second wireless radio.
US10382074B2
A signal processing method, a signal filtering apparatus, and a signal processing apparatus are provided. An input signal may be input into a filter having a passband, a superfluous signal of the passband may be output from the filter, and a target signal may be obtained by subtracting the superfluous signal from the input signal.
US10382073B2
An RF transmitter arrangement using analog pre-distortion is disclosed. The arrangement includes lower bandwidth circuitry, an analog pre-distorter, and a non-linear amplifier chain. The lower bandwidth circuitry is configured to generate an analog signal. The analog pre-distorter is configured to apply a non-linear distortion to the analog original signal based on a coupled feedback signal in order to generate an RF output signal. The non-linear amplifier chain is configured to amplify the RF output signal to generate a transmission signal relative to the analog original signal. The coupled feedback signal is derived from the transmission signal.
US10382069B2
A method for data encoding includes receiving a data vector to be encoded into a code word in accordance with a code defined by a parity-check matrix H. An intermediate vector s is produced by multiplying the data vector by a data sub-matrix Hs of the parity-check matrix H. A parity part of the code word is derived by applying a sequence of operations to the intermediate vector s based on a decomposition of a parity sub-matrix Hp of the matrix H using matrices A, C, U and V, in which decomposition A is a block triangular matrix that has the same size as Hp, C is matrix that is smaller than Hp, and the matrices U and V are placement matrices that are selected so that A, C, U and V satisfy a matrix equation Hp=A+UCV.
US10382064B2
A first memory location stores circulant contents of portions A, C, E, and B of a parity check matrix H. A second memory location stores circulant column counts of the portions A, C, E, and B. A third memory location stores a dense matrix equal to (ET−1B+D)−1, where T is an identity matrix and D and T are also portions of the parity check matrix H. First and second parity information is generated in response to receiving information data. Generating the first and second parity information includes accessing the circular content of the portions A, C, E, and B of a parity check matrix H and accessing the circulant column counts of the portions A, C, E, and B.
US10382040B2
A high voltage level shifting circuit and related semiconductor devices are presented. The circuit comprises: a level conversion circuit that converts an input signal with a first high voltage to an output signal with a second high voltage; a first switch having a first node connected to a first power source and a second node connected to a control node of a first transistor; a second switch having a first node connected to the control node of the first transistor and a second node connected to a first connection node; and a switch control circuit connected to the first switch and the second switch and controls them not to be close at the same time. By adding these two switches to the level conversion circuit, this inventive concept substantially lowers the static current generated during a high voltage level conversion process.
US10382032B2
Modulating a gate drive current supplied to an output drive switch coupled to an electric motor by performing at least the following: obtain a gate drive current modulation profile, supply, based on the gate drive current modulation profile, a first gate drive current level as the gate drive current when the output drive switch is operating within a first region, drop the first gate drive current level to a second gate drive current level when the output drive switch transitions from the first region to operating within a Miller region, increase the second gate drive current level to a third gate drive current level within the Miller region, and set the gate drive current to a fourth gate drive current level when the output drive switch transitions from the Miller region to operating within a third region.
US10382027B2
A transition detection circuit and method of operation of such a circuit are provided, the transition detection circuit having pulse generation circuitry to receive an input signal and to generate a pulse signal in response to a transition in the input signal, and pulse detection circuitry to assert an error signal on detection of the pulse signal generated by the pulse generation circuitry. The pulse generation circuitry has pulse control circuitry to control a property of the pulse signal dependent on a timing window indication signal. In particular, when the pulse signal is generated at least partly while the timing window indication signal is set, the pulse control circuitry controls the property of the pulse signal such that generated pulse signal is detected by the pulse detection circuitry. In contrast, when the pulse signal is entirely generated while the timing window indication signal is cleared, the pulse control circuitry controls the property of the pulse signal such that the generated pulse signal is undetected by the pulse detection circuitry. This gives rise to significant area and energy consumption savings, while still allowing reliable detection of timing errors.
US10382026B1
A phase shift control circuit for a multi-channel system including a pulse control circuit and a current matching circuit is provided. The pulse control circuit includes first to third transistors, a front operational amplifier, comparers, a current mirror circuit, clock switch circuits and pulse generating circuits. The front operational amplifier has two input terminals connected to a voltage divider circuit and an output terminal of the first transistor respectively, and an output terminal connected to control terminals of all the transistors. One input terminal of the comparer is connected to an output terminal of the third transistor, and another input terminal of the comparer is connected to the output terminal of the first transistor or a reference voltage source. The pulse generators are connected to the comparers and the clock switch circuits respectively. The current mirror circuit is connected to the current matching circuit.
US10382022B2
A nanosecond pulser is disclosed. In some embodiments, the nanosecond pulser may include one or more switch circuits including one or more solid state switches, a transformer, and an output. In some embodiments, the transformer may include a first transformer core, a first primary winding wound at least partially around a portion of the first transformer core, and a secondary winding wound at least partially around a portion of the first transformer core. In some embodiments, each of the one or more switch circuits are coupled with at least a portion of the first primary winding. In some embodiments, the output may be electrically coupled with the secondary winding and outputs electrical pulses having a peak voltage greater than about 1 kilovolt and a rise time of less than 150 nanoseconds or less than 50 nanoseconds.
US10382017B1
Inventive aspects include a dynamic flip flop, comprising a data independent P-stack feedback circuit. The data independent P-stack feedback circuit may include a first P-type transistor gated by a first dynamic inverted net signal, and a second P-type transistor gated by an inverted clock signal. A drain of the second P-type transistor may be coupled to a source of the first P-type transistor. A source of the second P-type transistor may be coupled to a node that is configured to receive a second dynamic inverted net signal. The source of the second P-type transistor may be directly coupled to the node that is configured to receive the second dynamic inverted net signal instead of a constant power source. The data independent P-stack feedback circuit may include one or more delay stages to eliminate race conditions.
US10382014B2
An output clock frequency of an adaptive oscillator circuit changes in response to noise on an integrated circuit power supply line. The circuit features two identical delay lines which are separately connected to a regulated supply and a droopy supply. In response to noise on the droopy supply, the delay lines cause a change in the output clock frequency. The adaptive oscillator circuit slows down the output clock frequency when the droopy supply droops or falls below the regulated supply. The adaptive oscillator circuit clamps the output clock frequency at a level determined by the regulated supply when the droopy supply overshoots or swings above the regulated supply.
US10382011B2
The present invention relates to a capacitance multiplier topology suitable for both positive and negative capacitance multiplication having a minimum configuration consisting of a current feedback amplifier (CFOA), two resistors and a reference capacitor, with each C-multiplier having a respective capacitance amplification constant k which is externally adjustable. Such a capacitance multiplier has less parasitic components, occupies a smaller chip area with higher simulated capacitance value.
US10382006B2
A first attenuation circuit is connected between a node and ground, and the node is located between a ladder resonance circuit and a transmitter-side terminal. A second attenuation circuit is connected between a first parallel arm resonator of the ladder resonance circuit and ground and is connected in series to the first parallel arm resonator. The first attenuation circuit includes a second parallel arm resonator and a first switch that switches between a first state in which the second parallel arm resonator is connected to the node and a second state in which the first switch is open. The second attenuation circuit includes a capacitor and a second switch that switches between a first state in which the capacitor is connected to the first parallel arm resonator and a second state in which the first parallel arm resonator is connected to ground.
US10382005B2
In a communications system that conducts differential data via a pair of wires, AC common mode noise is undesirably coupled to the wires in a noisy environment. A hybrid common mode choke (HCMC) attenuates the AC common mode noise while passing the differential data to a PHY. The HCMC includes a CMC (windings with the same polarity) and a differential mode choke (windings with opposite polarities). The CMC attenuates the AC common mode noise, and the DMC passes the attenuated AC common mode noise to termination circuitry to eliminate it. Also disclosed is a technique for Kelvin sensing the DC voltage at the pair of wires, in a PoDL system, by detecting the voltage on wires that do not carry DC current, so as to provide a more accurate measurement.
US10382000B2
A circuit board mounted with a capacitor includes an electrode to connect one terminal of a capacitor, a first inductor including a wiring pattern that extends from a first end connected with the electrode to a second end across a region mounted with the capacitor, and a second inductor including a wiring pattern that extends from the first end connected with the electrode to a second end across the region mounted with the capacitor from the opposite side from the first inductor. In a plan view, the wiring pattern of the first inductor and the wiring pattern of the second inductor intersect with each other, and an angle defined by the wiring pattern of the first inductor and the wiring pattern of the second inductor is an angle other than a right angle.
US10381992B1
A circuit includes a first signal swapper including a first terminal coupled to a first current source, a second terminal coupled to a second current source, a third terminal coupled to a first current terminal of a first transistor, and a fourth terminal coupled to a third current terminal of a second transistor. The first signal swapper couples the first and second terminals to the third and fourth terminals responsive to a first control signal. First and second switches couple to a gate of the first transistor. The first switch receives the input oscillation signal and the second switch receives a first reference voltage. Third and fourth switches couple to a gate of the second transistor. The third switch receives the input oscillation signal and the fourth switch receives the first reference voltage. A second signal swapper couples to the first signal swapper and to the first and second transistors.
US10381991B1
A receiver front end having low noise amplifiers (LNAs) is disclosed herein. A cascode having a “common source” configured input FET and a “common gate” configured output FET can be turned on or off using the gate of the output FET. A first switch is provided that allows a connection to be either established or broken between the source terminal of the input FET of each LNA. A drain switch is provided between the drain terminals of input FETs to place the input FETs in parallel. This increases the gm of the input stage of the amplifier, thus improving the noise figure of the amplifier.
US10381980B2
The apparatus comprises a first coupler configured to receive two output signals, having 180° phase difference, outputted from a first differential generator as two input signals, and output a first voltage signal generated by adding the two input signals and a second voltage signal corresponding to subtraction of the two input signals, a second coupler configured to receive two output signals, having 180° phase difference, outputted from a second differential generator as two input signals, and output a third voltage signal generated by adding the two input signals and a fourth voltage signal corresponding to subtraction of the two input signals, a coupling network connected to the first differential generator and the second differential generator and a third coupler configured to output a signal generated by adding the voltage signal outputted from the first coupler and corresponding voltage signal outputted from the second coupler.
US10381962B2
The invention provides a method, an apparatus and a system 1 for operating a rotating electric machine. The method has the following steps: defining (S01) a rotor position angle reference value of a rotor of the rotating electric machine (REM); determining (S02) a first rotor position angle measured value of the rotor during operation in the case of essentially a first speed of the rotor by means of a rotor position detection device (REE) of the rotating electric machine (REM); determining (S03) a second rotor position angle measured value of the rotor during operation in the case of essentially a second speed of the rotor by means of the rotor position detection device (REE) of the rotating electric machine (REM), wherein the second speed of the rotor differs from the first speed of the rotor; defining (S04) a first angular offset as the difference between the first rotor position angle measured value and the rotor position angle reference value; defining (S05) a second angular offset as the difference between the second rotor position angle measured value and the rotor position angle reference value; and calculating (S06) a signal delay of the rotor position detection device (REE) on the basis of the defined first angular offset, the defined second angular offset, the first speed of the rotor and the second speed of the rotor.
US10381960B2
A circuit (11) for controlling slew rate of a high-side switching element (6) in a load switch (5) is described. The circuit includes a variable current source (20) for setting a slew rate. The circuit also includes an amplifier (15) comprising a first input coupled to a fixed voltage source (19), a second input coupled to the variable current source and an output (18) for a drive signal. A feedback path (26) from an input terminal (13), connected or connectable to an output (14) of the switching element, to the second input of the amplifier, includes a series voltage-differentiating element, such as a capacitor (27).
US10381949B2
A power converter including a bridge circuit is provided. The power converter is designed to convert a direct current of a current source into an alternating current and/or an alternating current into a direct current. The bridge circuit includes a first parallel circuit assembly, which is coupled to a higher potential of the current source and which has a plurality of switching elements connected in parallel, a second parallel circuit assembly, which is coupled to a lower potential of the current source and which has a plurality of switching elements connected in parallel, and a plurality of taps, which are each coupled to the first and second parallel circuit assemblies. Each switching element of the first and the second parallel circuit assemblies has two conducting connections and a control connection, which controls the flow of current from one conducting connection to the other conducting connection. The power converter also includes a control device, which is designed in such a way that, when the power converter is operated at partial load, at least one switching element of a parallel circuit assembly is controlled in such a way that said switching element is not switched on during at least one cycle. The switching elements of a parallel circuit assembly are thermally coupled to one another.
US10381943B2
In a power conversion device according to the present invention, a capacitor module, includes a first capacitor element; a second capacitor element; a positive pole-side bus bar; and a negative pole-side bus bar disposed in a laminated state, in which the positive pole-side bus bar and the negative pole-side bus bar are laminated via an insulating member. The first capacitor element includes a first body portion, a first positive pole-side electrode, and a first negative pole-side electrode. The second capacitor element includes a second body portion, a second positive pole-side electrode, and a second negative pole-side electrode. The first capacitor element is disposed so that the first positive pole-side electrode assumes a position closer to the second negative pole-side electrode than to the second positive pole-side electrode and faces the second negative pole-side electrode; and a laminate portion formed with the positive pole-side bus bar and the negative pole-side bus bar continues up to a point over a space where the first positive pole-side electrode and the second negative pole-side electrode face each other.
US10381937B2
The present invention aims to provide a power converter, which includes a plurality of switching power supply devices connected in parallel, with a circuit configuration that enables reduction of cost and a size of the power converter. The present invention relates to a power converter including at least a first switching power supply device and a second switching power supply device connected in parallel. A part of high-voltage-compatible switching elements is commonly used between the first switching power supply device and the second switching power supply device, and a drive gate signal of one of the high-voltage-compatible switching elements of the first switching power supply device and the second switching power supply device and a phase difference of a drive gate signal of the commonly used switching power supply device are set to be equal when a load current is a first current value or lower.
US10381927B2
The disclosure describes a DC-DC switching converter providing a peak-current servo, employing a pulse-frequency modulation (PFM) control signal and a constant on-time. A Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost, or similar switching converter that supports PFM mode is required, using a fixed on-time scheme for PFM. A final value of the coil current is sampled, and the sampled value of the coil current is compared to a target value for the coil current, to establish whether it is greater or less than the target value. The on-time of the high side device is adjusted to bring the final value of the coil current closer to the target value, using an adaptive coil current measurement.
US10381914B2
Apparatus providing an integrated transformer are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a power conversion system including a switching circuit including a first primary side transistor coupled between a first input node and a switching node, and a second primary side transistor coupled between the switching node and a second input node, a series circuit including a transformer primary winding, a capacitor, and an inductor coupled in series between the switching node and the second input node, a transformer secondary circuit including a first transformer secondary winding and a second transformer secondary winding, the first and the second transformer secondary windings electrically between a first converter output and a second converter output, the transformer primary winding and the transformer secondary windings wound around at least a portion of a corresponding one of a transformer core in an infinity winding arrangement.
US10381913B2
Correction coefficients corresponding to parameters by which characteristic variation is caused are stored in a data memory of a second integrated circuit element in which driving open/close elements respectively connected in series to a plurality of inductive loads are integrated, and a first integrated circuit element that cooperates with the second integrated circuit element suppresses a current control error accompanying individual variation among circuit components and environmental temperature variation by reading present values of the parameters and combining the present values with the correction coefficients. The correction coefficients are calculated by an adjustment tool in a state where the second integrated circuit element is provided singly, and therefore correction data can be generated in relation to a plurality of temperature environments easily.
US10381912B2
A magnetic transmission is provided with: an inner rotor; an outer rotor; and a magnetic-field-modulating stator disposed coaxially between the inner rotor and the outer rotor. The inner rotor is provided with a first magnet array and a second magnet array arranged in the direction of the central axis and disposed at different pitches along the circumferential direction. The outer rotor is provided with a magnet array disposed along the circumferential direction. The magnetic-field-modulating stator is provided with a first magnetic body array and a second magnetic body array opposing the first magnet array and the second magnet array, respectively. Further, by moving the inner rotor and the magnetic-field-modulating stator in the direction of the central axis while holding the opposing relationship between the first magnetic body array and the second magnetic body array, and the first magnet array and the second magnet array, the position where the outer rotor, and the first magnet array and the second magnet array oppose each other is changed continuously.
US10381911B2
A linear motor includes a movable element and a stator. The stator includes a pair of back yokes provided opposing each other such as to flank the movable element along a direction perpendicular to the movable element's axis of travel, a plurality of main pole magnets provided spaced apart from each other and paralleling the axis of travel, on respective inside lateral surfaces of the pair of back yokes, and first and second interpole magnets provided, adjoining along said axis of travel, in each of intervals between adjoining couples of the main pole magnets.
US10381905B2
A dual shaft integrated motor including inner and outer rotors independently rotatable and rotating in an identical pivotal direction, the inner and outer rotors each having an output shaft positioned on one end of the pivotal direction, the dual shaft integrated motor includes: a detection unit including a first detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the inner rotor, and a second detection unit detecting a rotation angle of the outer rotor; a bearing unit including a first bearing rotating in conjunction with the inner rotor, and a second bearing rotating in conjunction with the outer rotor; a stator core unit including a first core serving as a stator core of the inner rotor, and a second core serving as a stator core of the outer rotor; and a base to which the detection unit, the bearing unit, and the stator core unit are sequentially attached from the one end.
US10381904B2
A rotor coil for a revolving armature includes a strand coil that includes a part arranged in a core slot of the rotor and is composed of a plurality of element wires; and a solid coil welded to an end of the strand coil wherein the end of the strand coil and an end of the solid coil are welded by friction stir welding. A manufacturing method of a rotor coil includes the step of performing friction stir welding wherein the friction stir welding is performed for the butt joint with the end of the strand coil arranged in an advancing side defined by a rotation direction of a tool and with the solid coil arranged in a retreating side.
US10381903B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a stator which includes the steps of inserting a stator segment into a former; introducing a coil wire winding into a coil space of the stator segment, and out via a slot which is located in the region between two pole horns; cohesively connecting the turns of the coil at least partially, at least in parts of that region of the coil, which is located outside the slot; and removing the former.
US10381899B2
The present application provides a sidewall coring structure directly driven by an electric motor comprising a drill bit, an electric motor and a speed reducer, the electric motor and the speed reducer are an integrated structure and the drill bit is directly connected to an output of the speed reducer. The coring structure directly drives the drill bit through an integrated structure of the speed reducer and the electric motor; its transmission efficiency is greatly improved, meanwhile the coring structure is more simplified, with improved reliability, easier maintenance and reduced maintenance cost.
US10381895B2
A bearing arrangement for mounting a wheel and an electric motor or generator having a stator and a rotor to a vehicle, the bearing arrangement comprising a sealing element and a bearing block, wherein the bearing block includes a first coupling element for coupling to a first radial wall of the rotor and the wheel, and a second coupling element for coupling to the stator and/or the vehicle, with a first bearing mounted between the first coupling element and the second coupling element to allow the first coupling element and the second coupling element to rotate relative to each other, wherein the first coupling element includes a mounting flange having a bolt hole arranged to extend through the mounting flange for receiving a bolt at a first aperture of the bolt hole for coupling the rotor and the wheel to the first coupling element, wherein the sealing element is arranged to be mounted over a second aperture of the bolt hole for inhibiting the ingress of dirt through the bolt hole.
US10381885B2
To minimize excessively high output or increases in magnetic-flux leakage by controlling power feeding on the power-feeding side if an unforeseen situation occurs. This power-feeding device (100) feeds power to an external power-receiving device (150) in a contactless manner. A power-feeding coil (103) uses electromagnetic power to feed electrical power to a power-receiving coil (154) in the power-receiving device (150). While power is being fed from said power-feeding coil (103), a power-feeding-side control unit (107) determines the amount of displacement of the power-feeding coil (103) and, on the basis of the determined displacement amount, controls the amount of electrical power being fed.
US10381883B2
An apparatus includes a ping detection module that detects a ping signal transmitted from a secondary pad to a primary pad. The secondary pad is located on a mobile device and the primary pad located on a stationary WPT device, where the stationary WPT device transmits power through the primary pad to the secondary pad of the mobile device during a wireless power transfer operation. The ping signal includes a mobile device ID and the mobile device ID is unique to the mobile device. The apparatus includes an ID detection module that detects the mobile device ID from the ping signal received at the primary pad and a pairing module that pairs the stationary WPT device with the mobile device in response to detecting the mobile device ID of the mobile device.
US10381870B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for electric power grid element and network management are disclosed. At least one grid element constructed and configured for electrical connection and for internet protocol (IP)-based network communication with a server operatively coupled with a memory. The at least one grid element is automatically and/or autonomously transformed into at least one active grid element after automatically communicating an initial message to the server for registration. The at least one active grid element functions actively within the electric power grid. The at least one active grid element has a profile comprising an energy usage pattern or an energy supply pattern. The at least one active grid element sends and receives messages to and from the server.
US10381866B2
A light emitting diode (LED) emergency light with transportation mode includes an alternating current (AC)-direct current (DC) LED driving circuit, a light source, and an emergency module, wherein the emergency module includes a battery, the AC-DC LED driving circuit is electrically connected to a terminal of the light source, and the emergency module is electrically connected to another terminal of the light source. After the emergency module generates a transportation mode signal, the LED emergency light enters the transportation mode, and a power supply circuit within the emergency module utilizing the battery to drive the light source is turned off according to the transportation mode signal. Therefore, after the LED emergency light enters the transportation mode, current consumption of the LED emergency light is decreased significantly, so the present invention greatly extends storage time of the LED emergency light during a transportation and warehouse process of the LED emergency light.
US10381859B2
A wireless power supply system includes: a power transmitter; and power receivers configured to receive power through magnetic field resonance or electric field resonance. The transmitter groups the receivers into first groups based on degrees of coupling between the transmitter and the respective receivers in an initial state. The transmitter calculates, for the respective first groups, charging times required to charge the receivers, and a first total charging time for the first groups. The transmitter sets degrees of coupling greater than or equal to the degrees of coupling in the initial state, and again groups the receivers into second groups based on the set degrees. The transmitter calculates, for the respective second groups, charging times required to charge the receivers and a second total for the second groups, and starts to transmit the power when the second total time is less than or equal to the first total time.
US10381856B2
A wireless charging system for a power tool includes a charging module, docking frame, and tool holder. The charging module has a charging surface and an inductive charging device for charging a power tool resting on the charging surface, and is mounted in the docking frame, which is mounted in a mounting interface of the tool holder such that the charging surface is at an angle. The tool holder further includes a holding portion extending from a downward portion of the mounting interface such that the holding portion transversely supports the power tool. A soft insert structure received in the holding portion forms an interference fit with the power tool and applies a load to the power tool toward the charging surface that urges the power tool to an optimal location for charging, relative to the inductive charging device.
US10381855B2
A secondary battery system includes a battery having an electrode body impregnated with an electrolyte containing lithium ions; and an ECU configured to permit charge and discharge of the battery when battery temperature is equal to or more than a threshold temperature and to restrict the charge and discharge of the battery when the battery temperature is less than the threshold temperature. The ECU is configured to obtain a value related to minimum concentration of the lithium ions (minimum salt concentration) caused by a deviation of concentration distribution of the lithium ions in the electrode body, and to set the threshold temperature to be higher as the related value representing the minimum salt concentration becomes lower.
US10381851B2
A battery support for a scanning device includes a separator plate and multiple elongate battery guides. The separator plate includes multiple mounting supports to engage mounting portions of the interior of the head portion to install the separator plate within the casing. The multiple elongate battery guides extend from the handle-side surface of the separator plate into the interior of the handle portion when the separator plate is installed within the casing. The multiple elongate battery guides engage a removable battery as the battery is inserted into a second end of the handle portion opposite a first end to guide a battery mating connector towards a scanner battery connector. The multiple battery guides continue to engage the removable battery while the battery connector engages the mating connector. The multiple battery guides are configured to prevent exertions of physical stress on the battery connector through the mating connector by the battery.
US10381847B2
A battery pack includes a battery including at least one battery cell, a terminal portion electrically connected to the battery and including a first pack terminal connected to an external load and a second pack terminal, a first switch configured to switch a discharge current of the battery according to a first control signal, a second switch configured to open or close according to a second control signal, and to open the first switch that is turned on by the first control signal, by a voltage of the first pack terminal or the second pack terminal, and a battery manager configured to output the first control signal and the second control signal.
US10381843B2
Aspects of a hierarchical power distribution network are described. In some embodiments, a first guided surface waveguide probe launches a first guided surface wave along a surface of a terrestrial medium within a first power distribution region. A guided surface wave receive structure obtains electrical energy from the first guided surface wave. A second guided surface waveguide probe launches a second guided surface wave along the surface of the terrestrial medium within a second power distribution region using the electrical energy obtained from the first guided surface wave.
US10381840B2
A photovoltaic (PV) power station includes at least one AC power production unit. The AC power production unit includes an energy reservoir that is supplied with DC energy from a DC power generator, such as PV panels. The energy reservoir is used as a buffer to store energy, and improve the efficiency of the PV power station. Whether or not an energy reservoir is used, decoupler devices may be used to prevent power annihilation that can decrease the amount of power delivered by the power station to the grid. In system integration for a PV power station, it is found that the declared rating of DC/AC converter in power grid convention should not be taken as the power conversion capability.
US10381832B2
A power conversion apparatus comprises a first communication unit configured to receive, from an external server, an output suppression message instructing output suppression of a dispersed power source; and a second communication unit configured to perform communication of a predetermined message having a predetermined format with a power management apparatus that manages power information of a consumer's facility. The predetermined format includes an information element capable of storing output suppression information related to the output suppression of the dispersed power source. The second communication unit is configured to transmit the predetermined message including the output suppression information as an information element to the power management apparatus.
US10381829B2
A power distribution system including a high-voltage direct current unit (HVDCU) configured to receive an amount of high-frequency alternating current (AC) input power from a power source and convert the input power into DC power, a negative voltage distribution rail and a positive voltage distribution rail that are together configured to supply the high-voltage DC power to at least one control unit (CU) electrically disposed between the negative voltage distribution rail and the positive voltage distribution rail and the CU being configured to convert the DC power into output power compatible with at least one load and supply the output power to the loads associated with it.
US10381817B1
An assembly for use with an oil-filled cable termination includes a cable gland, a cable received in the cable gland, and a stress cone received around the cable and spaced apart from the cable gland. The cable includes a central conductor and a polymeric insulation layer surrounding the central conductor. A lug is spaced apart from the stress cone and includes a barrel portion with the central conductor of the cable received in the barrel portion. An oil barrier system including an oil barrier layer surrounds the polymeric insulation layer of the cable between the stress cone and the lug.
US10381815B2
A busbar module includes a plurality of busbars that are connected to two or more electrode terminals in an electrode terminal group arranged in a row in a battery module including a plurality of battery cells, a housing case that has insulation property and includes a plurality of housing spaces that house the respective busbars, and a plurality of voltage detection conductors that are connected to the respective busbars. The voltage detection conductors are formed integrally with the housing case.
US10381814B1
An electrical junction box includes a housing assembly that is openable and closable. The electrical junction box also includes a plurality of pass-through apertures, each pass-through aperture being formed through the housing assembly, and a plurality of bushings, each bushing being located within one (1) of the pass-through apertures. The housing assembly is configured to enclose an electrical splice. With the housing assembly being open, each one (1) of the bushings is configured to receive an electrical wire forming a portion of the electrical splice. With the housing assembly being closed, each one (1) of the bushings is configured to prevent linear movement of the electrical wire along a center axis of the pass-through aperture relative to the housing assembly.
US10381813B2
A communication device for pipes of an air conditioner disclosed herein transmits and receives communication signals using induced electromagnetic force, generated by a signal line wound around a core assembly, thereby facilitating for coupling between the core assembly and the signal line. Also, one type of core assembly can be commonly applied to various standards of pipes. Rainwater or foreign materials cannot permeate between the signal line and the core assembly by winding the signal line on the core assembly, despite of external installation, thus preventing breakdown or degraded communication performance of the communication device. Also, with forming a signal line mounting hole through the core assembly, the signal line is fixedly inserted through the signal line mounting hole, thereby preventing in advance a movement of the core assembly even though a refrigerant pipe vibrates.
US10381811B2
A utility conduit system includes a base having a bottom wall, a first side wall extending from the bottom wall, and a second side wall extending from the bottom wall at least partially defining a channel. Various components can be removably positioned in the base to customize the utility conduit system for a given location. Some components can include a universal mounting bracket, a by-pass unit, and a divider bracket.
US10381805B2
The present disclosure provides a VCSEL regular lattice-based laser speckle projector, comprising a VCSEL regular light-emitting lattice, a collimator, a diffractive optical element, an X-Y direction driving circuit, and a lattice display control module; multiple frames of different coded patterns are outputted by driving the light-emitting particles on the VCSEL regular light-emitting lattice to thereby implement a time-space labeling to the target object or projection space, and finally three-dimensional depth measurement of the target object is implemented through a depth decoding algorithm. Compared with the traditional structured-light space coding technology, the projector of the present disclosure facilitates implementation of time-space coding, such that a higher precision, robustness, and antijamming capability may be achieved during the process of depth decoding for the three-dimensional measurement.
US10381800B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor laser element includes: providing a nitride semiconductor structure with a target emission wavelength λo, the nitride semiconductor structure having a light emission-side surface and a light reflection-side surface; forming an emission-side mirror on the light emission-side surface; and forming a reflection-side mirror on the light reflection-side surface. The semiconductor laser element has an actual wavelength λa, which is 500 nm or more and is in a range of λo±X nm (5≤X≤15). A reflectance of the emission-side mirror is lower than a reflectance of the reflection-side mirror and increases in accordance with an increase in wavelength in a range of λo±X nm.
US10381798B2
Provided are a hybrid photon device including an etch stop layer and a method of manufacturing the hybrid photon device. The hybrid photon device includes: a silicon substrate including a waveguide on a surface thereof; a front etch stop layer and a rear etch stop layer disposed on a surface of the waveguide, the front and rear etch stop layers formed respectively to either side of the first region in a length direction of the waveguide; and a group III/V light-emitting unit generating light on a region of the silicon substrate between the front and rear etch stop layers.
US10381793B2
A ground connection structure is a structure for collectively connecting, to a body of a vehicle, a plurality of grounding wires which are connected to respective electrical components installed in the vehicle. The ground connection structure includes: a connection box to which the plurality of grounding wires are connected; a grounding terminal part connected to the vehicle in an electrically conducting state; and an electrically conducting connection part having one end connected to the connection box and the other end connected to the grounding terminal part, the electrically conducting connection part connecting the connection box and the grounding terminal part in an electrically conducting manner. The electrically conducting connection part is made of a low-inductance material having low inductance.
US10381791B2
A coaxial cable connector configured to be mounted to an externally threaded connector, comprising a nut portion having an inner thread configured to engage with an outer thread of said externally threaded connector, an inner-sleeve portion coaxially arranged with said nut and a first sleeve coaxially arranged with said nut, wherein said first sleeve comprises an inner flange radially on an outer wall of said inner-sleeve portion, characterized in that: when said nut is rotated relatively to said first sleeve, said inner-sleeve portion is rotated relatively to said first sleeve.
US10381790B1
A controlled-power RJ45 socket includes a housing having a cavity to receive an RJ45 plug. The socket further includes electrical contacts positioned in the cavity and that come in contact with electrical contacts of the RJ45 plug when the RJ45 plug is plugged into the RJ45 socket. A switch is positioned to disconnect the power to the electrical contacts of the RJ45 socket before the electrical contacts of the RJ45 plug are physically detached from the electrical contacts of the RJ45 socket during a de-mating of the RJ45 plug from the RJ45 socket.
US10381787B1
An electronic device includes a first switch configured to connect a first sideband use (SBU) terminal of a Universal Serial Bus Type-C (USB-C) controller to a first SBU terminal of a USB-C receptacle. The electronic device also includes a second switch configured to connect a second sideband use (SBU) terminal of the USB-C controller to a second SBU terminal of the USB-C receptacle. The electronic device further includes a voltage protection circuit configured to deactivate one or more of the first switch and the second switch when a voltage exceeding a predetermined threshold is detected. The voltage protection circuit includes a first set of diodes coupled to the first SBU terminal of the USB-C controller and a second set of diodes coupled to the second SBU terminal of the USB-C controller.
US10381786B2
A connector has a fitting portion and a cable holding portion. The connector is provided with a signal terminal, a holding member, a cable fixing member and a lower shell. The holding member holds the signal terminal, and the lower shell is attached to the holding member. A cable receiving portion of the lower shell forms the cable holding portion at least in part, and a grounding connection portion forms the fitting portion at least in part. The cable fixing member is fixed to the cable receiving portion, and a cable extends in an intersecting direction from the cable receiving portion. In the intersecting direction, a clamp portion overlaps with the fitting portion.
US10381783B2
An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a mating connector that are mutually inserted. The mating connector includes a socket and a metal shell having an insertion end protruding from the socket formed with an opening. The electrical connector includes an insulating body and an assisting member. The insulating body includes a main body and a mating portion. An upper surface of the main body is higher than that of the mating portion. An interface is formed in the front end of the main body and is positioned behind the socket. The mating portion is smaller than the opening. The assisting member covers the insulating body. A front end of the assisting member guides the insertion of the insertion end. An accommodation space is formed between the assisting member and the main body to receive only the metal shell.
US10381780B2
A socket (16) is designed to receive a plug of a pluggable device (14). The socket has a detection arrangement (42) for detecting connection of a plug to the socket. A new session identifier is generated each time a plug is connected to the socket and it remains valid while the plug remains attached. The session identifier is preferably generated mechanically (48) so that it can be generated without power to the socket or to the plug. This enables detection of system tampering of a system using the sockets.
US10381779B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a base portion, which includes a mating chamber enclosed by a top plate, a bottom plate and two side plates. The mating chamber allows a insertion portion of a mating connector to insert backward therein. The top and bottom plates are provided with multiple accommodating grooves. A projection protrudes from each side plate. The projection has a highest point higher than the mating chamber, and a lowest point lower than the mating chamber. Multiple terminals are correspondingly accommodated in the accommodating grooves. A shielding shell has a top wall and two side walls. A mating port is enclosed by the top wall and front ends of the two side walls and located in front of the projection, and is larger than the mating chamber. Each side wall is respectively and correspondingly provided with a fitting portion to fit with the projection.
US10381774B2
A support is configured to be attached to and supported by a surface and to a channel running from the first end to the opposing second end of the support. The support carries a first magnetic electrical connector in a first end of the channel and a second magnetic electrical connector, wired to the first, in the opposing, second end of the channel. The first magnetic electrical connector is in electrical connection with the second magnetic electrical connector via at least one electrical conductor. An electrical current applied to the first magnetic electrical connector is conveyed by that electrical conductor to the second magnetic electrical connector. Wiring is directed through holed in the support to access points in the outer surface of the support where the user may access electrical current for operating appliances, charging batteries, and passing digital information. The supports may be decorative molding such as baseboards, crown molding, and chair rails.
US10381773B2
A connector includes a connector housing (30) having a separation wall (33), through which a plurality of terminal fittings (20) penetrate, and a receptacle (51) configured to surround a group of the terminal fittings (20) projecting from the separation wall (33), a filling recess (55) configured to surround the terminal fittings (20) in the receptacle (51) and fill a potting agent (80) inside, and auxiliary reservoir portions (57) for the potting agent (80) formed to have a recessed shape on an inner peripheral surface side of the receptacle (51) while communicating with each filling recess (55).
US10381761B2
A circuit card assembly includes a circuit card having front and back ends, substantially parallel longitudinal edges between the front and back ends, and a bus connector extending from one of the longitudinal edges. The circuit card assembly includes a bracket structure providing a mounting surface, the mounting surface comprising a bracket for engaging with a plurality of adjacent ones of a plurality of bracket slots with openings at a fixed pitch. The circuit card assembly includes a connector assembly at the surface of said circuit card at the first end, with at least a first input/output (I/O) connector, and a second I/O connector in a stacked arrangement with respect to the surface of said circuit card, where the first I/O connector and the second I/O connector extend through the bracket and are separated by the fixed pitch.
US10381759B2
A card socket for use in electronic devices is disclosed that can prevent the pushing of the card tray via vertical contact action of the detect terminal and switch terminal. The card socket includes a detection switch that is activated when a card tray has been inserted into the card tray insertion space of a housing in an insertion direction. The detection switch includes a detect terminal that is installed within the insertion space so that when the card tray is inserted into the insertion space the detection switch is activated. The detect terminal is configured to exert a force on the card tray in a direction that is perpendicular to the insertion direction.
US10381755B2
An electrical connector is used for electrically connecting a chip module to a circuit board. The electrical connector includes an insulating body having multiple receiving holes and multiple terminals received in the receiving holes The electrical connector has a top surface and a bottom surface The receiving holes run through the insulating body. Each terminal has a base and a soldering portion extending from a lower part thereof. Two opposite sides of the soldering portion are a first surface and a second surface. The first surface includes a laser irradiation area. A solder is provided at a position, opposite to the laser irradiation area, of the second surface for urging. The laser irradiation area is heated by external laser, such that the solder is partially melted and is soldered and fixed to the second surface.
US10381748B2
A satellite communication system provides for handovers between satellites and multiple gateways. Terminals communicate with a first gateway via a first satellite as beams of the first satellite traverse the region. A second gateway is in communication with the first satellite and hands over to a second satellite. The first gateway is at a first location. The second gateway is at a second location separated from the first location in the orbital direction. Terminals handover to the second satellite as beams of the second satellite begin to traverse the region, and the terminals start connecting to and communicating with the second gateway via the second satellite. After all of the terminals of the plurality of terminals handover to the second satellite, the first gateway hands over to the second satellite and then the terminals in the region communicate with the first gateway via the second satellite.
US10381741B2
A slot array antenna includes: a first conductive member having a first conductive surface and a plurality of slots therein, the slots being arrayed in a first direction and in a second direction which intersects the first direction; a second conductive member having a second conductive surface which opposes the first conductive surface; a plurality of waveguide members arrayed between the first and second conductive members along a direction which intersects the first direction, each waveguide member having an conductive waveguide face which extends along the first direction so as to oppose at least one of the slots; and an artificial magnetic conductor in a subregion which is within a region between the first and second conductive members but outside of a subregion containing the waveguide members. Neither an electric wall nor an artificial magnetic conductor exists in a space between two adjacent waveguide faces among the waveguide members.
US10381738B2
Novel directional antennas are disclosed which utilize fractal plasmonic surfaces (FPS) that include or present an array of closely-spaced parasitic antennas, which may be referred to herein as “parasitic arrays” or fractal plasmonic arrays (FPAs). These fractal plasmonic surfaces represent improved parasitic directional antennas relative to prior techniques and apparatus.
US10381719B2
A spiral antenna device includes a plurality of generally polygonal loops. The polygonal loops have respective side counts that decrease progressively as a function of the loop's radial distance from a center of the antenna device. The side count may vary between loops as a multiple of a power of two.
US10381715B2
An electronic device may include an antenna having a resonating element, an antenna ground, and a feed. First and second tunable components may be coupled to the resonating element. Adjustable matching circuitry may be coupled to the feed. Control circuitry may use the first tunable component to tune a midband antenna resonance when sensor circuitry identifies that the device is being held in a right hand and may use the second tunable component to tune the midband resonance when the sensor circuitry identifies that the device is being held in a left hand. For tuning a low band resonance, the control circuitry may place the antenna in different tuning states by sequentially adjusting a selected one of the matching circuitry and the tunable components, potentially reverting to a previous tuning state at each step in the sequence. This may ensure that antenna efficiency is satisfactory regardless of antenna loading conditions.
US10381706B2
A Wilkinson combiner includes: a plurality of splitting units that splits signals inputted from two ports; an isolating unit that connects one ends of the signals split at the plurality of splitting units to each other; and a combiner that connects other ends of the signals split at the plurality of splitting units to each other and outputs a combined signal. The isolating unit balun-connects the connected signals to each other using a balun circuit, short-circuits the balun-connected one end, and terminates the balun-connected other end using a terminator.
US10381703B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission medium for propagating electromagnetic waves. The transmission medium can include a plurality of cores for selectively guiding an electromagnetic wave of a plurality of electromagnetic waves longitudinally along each core, and a shell surrounding at least a portion of each core for reducing exposure of the electromagnetic wave of each core. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10381702B2
A coaxial radio frequency (RF) isolator is disclosed. The isolator includes a first connector that conducts an RF signal received from a first device connected to the isolator. The isolator also includes a conductive body including a second connector and a conductive outer shield that form a first internal cavity. The isolator further includes a dielectric sleeve between the outer shield and the conductive body. In addition, the isolator includes a conductive coupling/filtering member inside the outer shield and the dielectric sleeve. The conductive coupling/filtering member has a cylindrical shape forming a second internal cavity. Moreover, the isolator includes a thru-RF signal transmission path through the first internal cavity and the second internal cavity. The thru-RF signal transmission path receives the RF signal from the first device, conditions the RF signal, and outputs the RF signal to a second device. Further, the isolator includes a coaxial coupling element in the first internal cavity and has a cylindrical shape. The coaxial coupling element connects the conductive body, the conductive filtering/coupling member, and the conductive outer shield. Additionally, the isolator includes a magnetic toroid in the first cavity that surrounds the conductive coupling/filtering member.
US10381699B2
An excitation assembly comprises a symmetrical OMT and two splitters respectively connected to two pathways of the OMT. The OMT comprises a cross junction comprising a central waveguide parallel to an axis Z and four lateral ports oriented in two directions X, Y, the first splitter consisting of an input waveguide and of two output ports coupled to two lateral ports, oriented in the direction X, by respective connection waveguides. The first splitter is located on a lateral side of the OMT, orthogonally to the direction X, and its two output ports are formed one above the other in a lateral wall of the input waveguide, the upper output port being placed facing a first lateral port of the OMT to which it is connected by the first connection waveguide. The difference in electrical length between the two connection waveguides is equal to λ/2.
US10381694B2
According to the present disclosure, there is a cooling device for battery cells including a heat sink with a hollow structure disposed adjacent to at least one side of a battery cell assembly and having a channel formed therein through which a coolant flows, the battery cell assembly including a plurality of battery cells, and a cooling plate configured to carry out heat exchange with the battery cells, the cooling plate including a heat absorbing part interposed between the battery cells such that one surface or both surfaces come into contact with the battery cells, and a heat emitting part extending from the heat absorbing part and exposed to the channel, wherein the heat emitting part includes at least one bent surface arranged parallel to the channel, and at least one through-hole through which the coolant goes.
US10381692B2
The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring the state of a battery. In the process, the internal temperature of the battery during a charging process is determined in defined intervals at different time points, and an evaluation unit continuously determines a temperature gradient at least from the temperature values. At least one limit value for the temperature gradient is stored in the evaluation unit, and the evaluation unit generates a signal when the temperature gradient which is determined by the evaluation unit reaches this limit value. When this signal from the evaluation unit is present, the charging voltage of the battery is driven such that there is no battery current, while the internal temperature of the battery is further periodically detected, and the evaluation unit generates an alarm signal when the temperature has fallen after suppression of the battery current.
US10381686B2
The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprising a nonaqueous electrolyte solvent which comprises a fluorine-containing phosphate ester represented by a specific formula, a fluorine-containing ether represented by a specific formula, and an open-chain or cyclic acid anhydride. According to the present invention, there is provided an electrolyte solution capable of realizing a lithium secondary battery having an excellent cycle characteristics with little gas generation after charge-discharge cycles.
US10381674B2
Flow batteries can be constructed by combining multiple electrochemical unit cells together with one another in a cell stack. High-throughput processes for fabricating electrochemical unit cells can include providing materials from rolled sources for forming a soft goods assembly and a hard goods assembly, supplying the materials to a production line, and forming an electrochemical unit cell having a bipolar plate disposed on opposite sides of a separator. The electrochemical unit cells can have configurations such that bipolar plates are shared between adjacent electrochemical unit cells in a cell stack, or such that bipolar plates between adjacent electrochemical unit cells are abutted together with one another in a cell stack.
US10381659B2
A fuel cell is provided that includes a cell structure, a pair of separators and a plurality of at least partially porous ribs. The cell structure includes an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte membrane, the anode and the cathode being laminated on opposite sides of the electrolyte membrane, respectively. The separators are disposed on both surfaces of the cell structure with gas passages being defined by the separators and the cell structure for circulating two types of gas for power generation. The porous ribs porous ribs are disposed successively on an entire cross-section of the gas passage in a transverse direction with a flow direction of the gas for power generation.
US10381657B2
A bipolar plate for a fuel cell comprises a fiber reinforcement structure containing thermoplastically bonded carbon fibers, the fiber reinforcement structure being multilayered and comprising a plurality of fiber reinforcement structure layers, at least two of which contain thermoplastically bonded carbon fibers.
US10381651B2
An method for manufacturing a electronic device is provided having a current collector capable of a high specific charge collecting area and power, but is also achieved using a simple and fast technique and resulting in a robust design that may be flexed and can be manufactured in large scale processing. To this end the electronic device comprising an electronic circuit equipped with a current collector formed by a metal substrate having a face forming a high-aspect ratio structure of pillars having an interdistance larger than 600 nm. By forming the high-aspect structure in a metal substrate, new structures can be formed that are conformal to curvature of a macroform or that can be coiled or wound and have a robust design.
US10381647B2
Carbon or cobalt, which is used as a conductive agent in an electrode of an alkaline secondary cell, is oxidized by oxygen generated from a positive electrode. The conductive agent degraded by oxidization loses its conductivity through repetitive charge and discharge, resulting in shortening of the cycle life of the cell. In an alkaline secondary cell filled with hydrogen, hydrogen generated from a positive electrode is bound to the hydrogen. This prevents a conductive agent in an electrode from being degraded by oxidization. A cell with excellent cycle life characteristic is thus provided.
US10381642B2
Anode comprising an anode material, a protective material and a current collector is provided. The anode material is a mixture comprising an active material, at least one electronically conductive agent and at least one binder. The active material may be an alloy of silicon and lithium or an alloy of silicon oxide and lithium. There is provided a process for the preparation of the anode. Also, there is provided use of the anode in the fabrication of a battery.
US10381641B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of lithium-ion batteries and battery modules. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to Si-based anode materials for use as anode active materials for lithium-ion batteries. One example includes micron/nano-scale structures that include a carbonate template structure and a silicon (Si) layer conformally deposited over the carbonate template. Another example includes a hollow, micron/nano-scale silicon structure having an oxygen content less than approximately 9%, wherein the interior of the hollow micron/nano-scale silicon structure is substantially free of carbon.
US10381629B2
A battery includes: positive and negative electrode terminals at least partially provided outside an outer packaging body; and a current cut-off device placed inside the outer packaging body. The current cut-off device is provided in either one of the positive and negative electrode terminals and cuts off an electric current path between the battery element and the either one of the positive and negative electrode when a pressure in the outer packaging body increases. The battery is provided in the movable body such that the either one of the positive and negative electrode terminals provided with the current cut-off device is placed on a vertically upper side relative to the other one of them. The current cut-off device is placed on the vertically upper side relative to a liquid level of the electrolytic solution.
US10381615B2
A battery module comprises an electrochemical cell including a first dielectric layer positioned on a first side of the cell, a first side plate in opposition to the first side, and a first adhesive layer positioned between the first side plate and the first side. The first dielectric layer defines a first window. The first adhesive layer is adhered to the first side plate and the first side through the first window. Another battery module comprises first and second cells, a base plate, a frame, and a first and second adhesive portion. The frame includes a beam positioned between the first cell and the second cell and is in engagement with a first side and a second side of the first and second cells, respectively. The first adhesive portion and the second adhesive portions are positioned between the base plate and the bottom surfaces of the cells.
US10381614B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells arranged in a same direction and a same orientation; and a housing portion disposed on the outer surfaces of the plurality of battery cells. In the battery module, the housing portion includes a reinforcing plate positioned between at least two of the battery cells. The reinforcing plate is part of the housing portion, and strengthens the housing portion, thereby enabling a lighter weight battery module and improving the safety of the battery module.
US10381600B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes a base material including a recessed portion on one face side, and a light emitting element. The light emitting layer including a reflective layer disposed at least on a surface of the recessed portion, a filling layer that has optical transparency and is filled and disposed in the recessed portion with the reflective layer interposed between the recessed portion and the filling layer, a first electrode that has optical transparency and is disposed at least on an upper-layer side of the filling layer, an organic layer that includes at least a light emitting layer and is disposed on an upper layer of the first electrode, and a second electrode that has optical transparency and is disposed on an upper-layer side of the organic layer. The organic electroluminescence device includes a display region divided into a plurality of unit regions separated from each other. The unit regions each has a light emitting area and a non emissive area that are partitioned. The light emitting area includes the light emitting element, and the non emissive area includes a light absorption layer.
US10381596B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, an organic light-emitting device disposed above the substrate, and an encapsulation unit disposed above the organic light-emitting device and sealing the organic light-emitting device, wherein the encapsulation unit includes a compound represented by Formula 1. [R1-(L1)a1]b1-(Ar1)c1-[(L2)a2-R2]b2. Formula 1
US10381595B2
An organic insulating material and a flexible display device are disclosed. The organic insulating material comprises an acrylic polymer having a cinnamoyl moiety.
US10381594B2
An OLED display panel is provided and defined as: a display region, a bending region, and a driving bonding region, wherein the driving bonding region has: a driving chip; a flexible circuit board configured to achieve a connection between the driving chip and a motherboard; and a reinforcing plate disposed on and covered with a surface of the substrate wiring layer of the driving bonding region, wherein a chamber is formed in a bottom portion of the reinforcing plate, and the driving chip is located in the chamber.
US10381588B2
To provide an organic EL element having good injection properties and transport properties of a carrier. Included are: an InGaZnO layer with a composition rich in In2O3 as a transparent electrode contacting a negative electrode; an InGaZnO layer with a stoichiometric ratio of In:Ga:Zn:O=1:1:1:4 as an electron injecting layer; and an InGaZnO layer with a composition rich in Ga2O3 as an electron transport layer contacting a light emitting layer.
US10381587B2
A light emitting apparatus includes: a sealing member (20) forming a sealing region sealing a planar light emitting unit; and a wiring member (51) including a conductive unit (61) electrically connected to the planar light emitting unit and extending from the sealing region to an outside. The sealing member (20) has a drawing port opened at a periphery of the sealing member for drawing the wiring member (51) to the outside. The wiring member (51) includes: an internal wiring portion (71) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the sealing region; an external wiring portion (72) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the outside; and a boundary wiring portion (73) in which the conductive unit (61) is disposed in the drawing port and which has a smaller thickness than the internal wiring portion (71) and/or the external wiring portion (72). Such a configuration provides a light emitting apparatus having a sealing structure of the planar light emitting unit for suppressing deterioration of sealing performance due to disposition of the wiring member.
US10381584B2
The present disclosure provides a carbon nanotube thin film transistor (CNT-TFT) and its manufacturing method. The carbon nanotube thin film transistor includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a channel region, a plurality of protrusions, and a carbon nanotube layer. The channel region is between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The plurality of protrusions are at, and extend in a length direction of, the channel region. The carbon nanotube layer is disposed over the plurality of protrusions, and comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes.
US10381580B2
Novel phosphorescent tetradentate platinum (II) compounds comprising a twisted aryl group are provided. Also provided are novel phosphorescent tetradentate platinum (II) compounds comprising an imidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridine moiety. The compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices to provide improved device efficiency, line shape and lifetime.
US10381578B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: M(L1)n1(L2)n2 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, L1 is a ligand represented by Formula 2, L2 is a ligand represented by one of Formulae 3 to 5, and n1 and n2 are each independently 1 or 2, wherein Formulae 1 to 5 are described in the specification.
US10381570B2
A compound represented by Formula 1, below, an organic light-emitting device including the compound represented by Formula 1, below, in an organic layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, and a display device including the organic light emitting device including the compound represented by Formula 1, below:
US10381564B2
A method of fabricating a hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite film includes depositing a precursor layer onto a substrate, the precursor layer comprising metal halide, placing an organic source-material layer onto a boat, the organic source-material layer comprising an organic cation, and annealing the precursor layer and the organic source-material layer in a vacuum chamber enclosed in a constrained volume.
US10381562B1
Some features pertain to an apparatus that includes a first heat spreader and a second heat spreader, a matrixed heat spreader, the matrixed heat spreader including a first plurality of portions perpendicular to a second plurality of portions, the first plurality of portions intersects the second plurality of portions, and a phase change material (PCM) located in a plurality of reservoirs defined by the matrixed heat spreader.
US10381561B2
Methods and devices are provided for fabricating a resistive random-access array having dedicated electroforming contacts. A lower conductive line is formed on an interlayer dielectric layer. A lower electrode is formed on the lower conductive line. An isolation layer is formed having an upper surface which is coplanar with an upper surface of the lower electrode. A stack structure including a metal-oxide layer and upper electrode is formed on the lower electrode. Insulating spacers are formed on sidewalls of the stack structure. The lower electrode, and stack structure form a resistive memory cell, wherein a footprint of the lower electrode is greater than that of the upper electrode. An upper conductive line contacts the upper electrode, and is arranged orthogonal to the lower conductive line. A dedicated electroforming contact contacts an extended portion of the lower electrode which extends past a cross-point of the upper and lower conductive lines.
US10381554B2
Integrated circuits and methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. In one example, an integrated circuit includes a magnetic tunnel junction. The magnetic tunnel junction includes a fixed layer structure, a free layer structure, and a barrier layer disposed between the fixed layer structure and the free layer structure. The fixed layer structure includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer that is disposed between the first magnetic layer and the barrier layer. The first magnetic layer is configured to produce a first magnetic moment that substantially correlates to a second magnetic moment of the second magnetic layer as a function of temperature.
US10381547B2
A dielectric film includes an elastomer, and metallic oxide particles having a particle diameter of 100 nm or less that are chemically bonded to the elastomer and are dispersed in the elastomer in a state of primary particles. A method for manufacturing the dielectric film includes: a chelating process of adding a chelating agent to an organometallic compound to produce a chelate compound of the organometallic compound; a sol manufacturing process of adding an organic solvent and water to the chelate compound to obtain a sol of metallic oxide particles produced by the hydrolytic reaction of the organometallic compound; a mixed solution preparing process of mixing the sol of the metallic oxide particles and a polymer solution containing a rubber polymer having functional groups that optionally react with hydroxy groups; and a film forming process of applying the mixed solution onto a substrate, and curing the resultant coating film.
US10381546B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a bimorph piezoelectric film that enables the production of touch panels and the like that are less influenced by pyroelectric noise due to temperature change, and exhibit high transparency.The present invention provides a bimorph piezoelectric film comprising in sequence a first piezoelectric film, a tackifier layer or an adhesive agent layer, and a second piezoelectric film, the first piezoelectric film and the second piezoelectric film being disposed in such a manner that their surfaces on which electric charges of the same polarity are generated by a temperature increase are each outward-facing, the first piezoelectric film and the second piezoelectric film each having a total light transmittance of 90% or more, and a total haze value of 8.0% or less.
US10381540B2
A thermoelectric module with high efficiency is provided. The thermoelectric module may include a first substrate including a plurality of first electrodes, a second substrate provided opposite the first substrate and including a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of thermoelectric devices provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and electrically connected to the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and a wire connection hole configured to penetrate through at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate and expose a portion of at least one surface of the first electrodes and the second electrodes.
US10381537B2
A light-emitting element disclosed according to an embodiment may comprise: a substrate comprising a body, a plurality of lead electrodes arranged over the body in a first axial direction, and a heat-radiating frame and a plurality of lead frames arranged below the body in a second axial direction; and a light-emitting chip arranged on a first lead electrode, which is arranged in the central area of the body among the plurality of lead electrodes, and electrically connected with the plurality of lead electrodes. The plurality of lead electrodes have a large length in the second axial direction, the heat-radiating frame is arranged in the central area below the body, and the heat-radiating frame and the plurality of lead frames have a large length in the first axial direction and may vertically overlap with the plurality of lead electrodes.
US10381527B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a composite light source which includes at least one blue light source having peak wavelength in the range of about 400 nm to about 460 nm; at least one yellow-green garnet phosphor; and at least one narrow-band red-emitting down-converter. Such composite light source may have a Lighting Preference Index (LPI) of at least 120. In other aspects the disclosure is directed to composite light source comprising at least one blue light source having peak wavelength in the range of about 400 nm to about 460 nm; at least one yellow-green garnet phosphor; and at least one broad red down-converter. In this latter aspect the composite light source may have a Lighting Preference Index (LPI) of at least 120. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10381522B2
A light emitting diode is presented, including: a first electrode; a second electrode overlapping the first electrode; an emission layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a light efficiency improving layer positioned on at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode may include one surface facing the emission layer and the other surface opposing the one surface and including the other surface on which the light efficiency improving layer is positioned.
US10381516B2
A semiconductor light emitting device which includes at least one concave on a light extraction surface opposite to a surface on which a semiconductor stack comprising a light emitting layer between a n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer is mounted. The concave has not less than two slopes each having a different slope angle in a direction that a diameter of the concave becomes narrower toward a bottom of the concave from an opening of the concave and a slope having a gentle slope angle is provided with irregularities and a slope having a steep slope angle is a flat surface.
US10381515B2
An optoelectronic chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence including at least one n-doped semiconductor layer, at least one p-doped semiconductor layer, an active layer arranged between the at least one n-doped semiconductor layer and the at least one p-doped semiconductor layer, wherein the p-doped semiconductor layer is electrically contacted by a p-connection contact, the n-doped semiconductor layer is electrically contacted by an n-connection contact, the semiconductor chip has at least two trenches, the p-connection contact is located within the first trench and the n-connection contact is located within the second trench, below the p-connection contact and within the first trench a first dielectric mirror element is arranged, which is electrically insulated, and below the n-connection contact and within the second trench and between the n-connection contact and the n-doped semiconductor layer, a second dielectric mirror element is arranged at least in regions, the second dielectric mirror element being electrically insulated.
US10381513B2
There is herein described light generating electronic components with improved light extraction and a method of manufacturing said electronic components. More particularly, there is described LEDs having improved light extraction and a method of manufacturing said LEDs.
US10381508B2
This invention discloses a light emitting element to solve the problem of lattice mismatch and inequality of electron holes and electrons of the conventional light emitting elements. The light emitting element comprises a gallium nitride layer, a gallium nitride pyramid, an insulating layer, a first electrode and a second electrode. The gallium nitride pyramid contacts with the gallium nitride layer, with a c-axis of the gallium nitride layer opposite in direction to a c-axis of the gallium nitride pyramid, and with an M-plane of the gallium nitride layer parallel to an M-plane of the gallium nitride pyramid, with broken bonds at the mounting face of the gallium nitride layer and the larger end face of the gallium nitride pyramid welded with each other, with the gallium nitride layer and the gallium nitride pyramid being used as a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor respectively.
US10381497B2
An apparatus and method for optical-power-transfer (OPT). A light source converts electrical energy into light, and the light is transmitted from the active layer of the light source directly to the active layers of a series of photovoltaic (PV) devices without first passing through a conduction layer of the PV device. Thus, absorption in the conduction layer is avoided, and the efficiency of the OPT system is improved. The PV devices are configured to each generate equal current, and the PV devices are electrically connected in series. PV devices are arranged in series with light first propagating through PV devices closer to the light source, and farther PV devices having a longer propagation length, such that the light absorbed and current generated by each PV device is equal to the other PV devices. In one implementation, the PV devices are configured in a laser cavity with the light source.
US10381495B2
A photodetecting device and method of using the same are provided. The photodetecting device includes a transistor, a silicon nano-channel and a filter dye layer. The transistor includes a source, a drain and a gate. The silicon nano-channel connects the source and the drain, and is configured to receive light. The filter dye layer is over a light-receiving surface of the silicon nano-channel.
US10381488B2
A dialkylzinc partial hydrolysate-containing solution which can be handled in air and can form a zinc oxide thin film in air and a method for producing the zinc oxide thin film are provided. The dialkylzinc partial hydrolysate-containing solution contains a partial hydrolysate of dialkyl zinc represented by general formula (1) and a solvent which has a boiling point of 160° C. or higher, an amide structure represented by general formula (2), and which is an organic compound having a cyclic structure. The partial hydrolysate is the dialkylzinc hydrolyzed with water in a molar ratio in the range of 0.4 to 0.9 with respect to zinc in the dialkylzinc. A method for producing the zinc oxide thin film by applying the dialkylzinc partial hydrolysate-containing solution to a base material is also provided.
US10381480B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises forming a plurality of fins in an active region, forming a plurality of gates around the plurality of fins in the active region, forming one or more gate contacts in the active region, and forming a plurality of contacts to source/drain regions in the active region.
US10381467B2
According to an embodiment of a semiconductor device, the device includes first and second trenches formed in a semiconductor body and an electrode disposed in each of the trenches. One of the electrodes is a gate electrode, and the other electrode is electrically disconnected from the gate electrode. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor mesa between the trenches. The semiconductor mesa includes a separation region and at least one of a source region and a body region located in the semiconductor mesa. A drift zone is provided below the at least one of the source region and the body region. In the separation region, at least one of (i) a capacitive coupling between the gate electrode and the semiconductor mesa and (ii) a conductivity of majority charge carriers of the drift zone is lower than outside of the separation region.
US10381457B2
Various methods and devices that involve body contacted transistors are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises forming a gate on a planar surface of a semiconductor wafer. The gate covers a channel of a first conductivity type that is opposite to a second conductivity type. The method also comprises implanting a body dose of dopants on a source side of the gate using the gate to mask the body dose of dopants. The body dose of dopants spreads underneath the channel to form a deep well. The body dose of dopants has the first conductivity type. The method also comprises implanting, subsequent to implanting the body dose of dopants, a source dose of dopants on the source side of the gate to form a source. The method also comprises forming a source contact that is in contact with the deep well at the planar surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US10381455B1
A diffusion barrier system may prevent migration of gold, oxygen, or both on a plurality of ohmic contacts. The diffusion barrier system may include a first barrier system or a second barrier system. Each barrier system may include a first metallization layer, a second metallization layer, and a third metallization layer.
US10381450B1
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate. An insulating fill material layer and drain select gate electrodes are located over the alternating stack. A group of memory stack structures extends through the alternating stack, and is arranged as rows of memory stack structures. Each memory stack structure is entirely encircled laterally by a respective one of the drain select gate electrodes. The insulating fill material layer includes a drain select level isolation structure extending between neighboring rows of memory stack structures and including a pair of sidewalls containing a respective laterally alternating sequence of planar vertical sidewall portions and concave vertical sidewall portions, and a drain select level field portion adjoined to the drain select level isolation portion.
US10381449B2
A method of manufacturing a memory device including following steps is provided. A first dielectric layer and a first conductive layer are formed in order on the substrate. A first opening and a second opening on the first opening are formed in the substrate, the first dielectric layer and the first conductive layer. An isolation structure is formed in the first opening. A second dielectric layer is formed on the substrate to conformally cover a top surface of the first conductive layer and a surface of the second opening. A heat treatment is performed on the second dielectric layer to enhance the bonding between the second dielectric layer and the first conductive layer. An etching process is performed, so as to remove a portion of the second dielectric layer and expose a top surface of the isolation structure.
US10381444B2
To improve the performance of a semiconductor device, there is provided with a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device including a step of removing an oxide film formed on the surface of a silicon carbide substrate including the inner wall of a trench, before forming the hydrogen annealing.
US10381442B2
Techniques for forming Ga-doped source drain contacts in Ge-based transistors are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming Ga-doped source and drain contacts includes the steps of: depositing a dielectric over a transistor; depositing a dielectric over the transistor; forming contact trenches in the dielectric over, and extending down to, source and drain regions of the transistor; depositing an epitaxial material into the contact trenches; implanting gallium ions into the epitaxial material to form an amorphous gallium-doped layer; and annealing the amorphous gallium-doped layer under conditions sufficient to form a crystalline gallium-doped layer having a homogenous gallium concentration of greater than about 5×1020 at./cm3. Transistor devices are also provided utilizing the present Ga-doped source and drain contacts.
US10381440B2
Aspects described herein relate to food and beverage compositions infused with lipophilic active agents and methods of use for the treatment of a variety of disorders. More particularly, aspects described herein relate to food and beverage compositions infused with lipophilic active agents such as cannabinoids, nicotine, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), and vitamins, that provide enhanced bioavailability of the lipophilic active agents in a subject, and that mask unpleasant tastes of lipophilic active agents.
US10381434B1
Multiple tier structures including a respective alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers is formed over a substrate. A memory opening fill structure extends through the alternating stacks, and includes a vertical semiconductor channel and a memory film. A support pillar structure extends through at least an upper alternating stack, and includes a dummy memory film and a dummy memory film. The support pillar structure may be narrower than the memory opening fill structure at a bottommost layer of the upper alternating stack. Additionally or alternatively, the dummy memory film may be located above a horizontal plane including a topmost surface of a lower alternating stack. Optionally, another support pillar structure including a dielectric material may be provided underneath the support pillar structure in the lower alternating stack. A dielectric material can be provided at levels of the lower alternating stack in a support pillar structure to reduce inter-level leakage current.
US10381432B2
A pattern is defined in a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer includes a low-k dielectric region and a high-k dielectric region. The high-k dielectric region includes a phase change material which is an alloy of tantalum and nitrogen and is a high-k insulator in a deposited state. The pattern includes a first set of features in the low-k dielectric region and a second set of features in the high-k dielectric region. A surface treatment process is performed on the phase change layer to produce a top surface layer having electrically conductive properties. A metal layer is deposited in the first and second set of features. Thus, a set of conductive lines is formed in the low-k dielectric region and a metal insulator metal capacitor in the high-k dielectric region.
US10381431B2
Artificial synaptic devices with an HfO2-based ferroelectric layer that can be implemented in the CMOS back-end are provided. In one aspect, an artificial synapse element is provided. The artificial synapse element includes: a bottom electrode; a ferroelectric layer disposed on the bottom electrode, wherein the ferroelectric layer includes an HfO2-based material that crystallizes in a ferroelectric phase at a temperature of less than or equal to about 400° C.; and a top electrode disposed on the bottom electrode. An artificial synaptic device including the present artificial synapse element and methods for formation thereof are also provided.
US10381428B2
An array substrate, a manufacture method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a first electrode (12), a second electrode (15); a light-emitting functional layer (13) located between the first electrode (12) and the second electrode (15); and an organic planar layer (14). The first electrode (12) is formed on the organic planar layer (14). The first electrode (12) includes metal electrode or metal alloy electrode. An oxide conductive layer (16) is further formed between the organic planar layer (14) and the first electrode (12).
US10381424B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a first light emitting element with a first light reflecting layer, a second light emitting element with a second light reflecting layer, and a third light emitting element with a third light reflecting layer, arranged in a two-dimensional matrix. Each of the light emitting elements includes a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode. Grooves that each have a light shielding layer are formed in a boundary region between the light emitting elements. A bottom of the first groove and a bottom of the third groove are located at a position higher than a top surface of the first light reflecting layer. A bottom of the second groove is located at a position higher than a top surface of the second light reflecting layer.
US10381423B2
A mask frame assembly for an electronic display device includes a frame, and a mask coupled to the frame, in which the mask includes a pattern hole defining a first area over which material may be deposited, and a dam surrounding the pattern hole and defining a second area smaller than the first area over which the material may be deposited. A method of manufacturing a mask frame assembly for an electronic display device is also disclosed.
US10381421B2
A sealing member containing conductive particles and disposed in a seal region is formed between a display panel and a touch panel. A laminated structure formed on the display panel includes a first detection lines. The first detection lines extend from the seal region to a connection region and are connected through the conductive particles to terminals of second detection lines formed on the touch panel. A peripheral edge of the organic barrier is located inward from the conductive particles of the sealing member. The above described structure can facilitate a work for connecting external lines such as FPC to the display panel and the touch panel. Further, the structure can secure stability of electrical connection between the external lines and the touch panel.
US10381416B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged at positions corresponding to coordinates in a row and a column directions; and a plurality of sub-pixels arranged among the pixels. The pixels and the sub-pixels are arranged in a staggered manner. Each of colors of the sub-pixels is any of a first primary color, a second primary color, and a third primary color. The sub-pixels are arranged so that a sub-pixel of the first primary color, a sub-pixel of the second primary color, and a sub-pixel of the third primary color are adjacent to each of the pixels. Each of colors of the pixels is a high luminance color having higher luminance than that of the colors of the sub-pixels.
US10381411B2
A memory cell includes a first electrode which extends horizontally over a substrate, a layer stack containing a phase change memory material layer and a threshold switch material layer which wrap around the first electrode, and a second electrode which contains a first vertical portion and a second vertical portion which extend vertically over the substrate and are located on first and second lateral sides of the layer stack.
US10381395B2
A light control device according to the present disclosure includes: stacked M (provided that M≥1) light control layers 113M in each of which a first nanocarbon film 114, a first intermediate layer 117A, a dielectric material layer 116, and a second intermediate layer 117B are stacked; and a second nanocarbon film 115formed on the second intermediate layer 117B included in an M-th light control layer 113M. A voltage is applied to the first nanocarbon film 114 and the second nanocarbon film 115.
US10381394B2
An electronic component includes a semiconductor layer having a first surface coated with a first insulating layer and a second surface coated with an interconnection structure. A laterally insulated conductive pin extends through the semiconductor layer from a portion of conductive layer of the interconnection structure all the way to a contact pad arranged at the level of the first insulating layer.
US10381389B2
A manufacturing method of a solid state imaging device according to one embodiment includes the steps of forming, on a substrate, a gate electrode of a first transistor and a gate electrode of a second transistor adjacent to the first transistor; forming an insulator film covering the gate electrode of the first transistor and the gate electrode of the second transistor such that a void is formed between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the gate electrode of the second transistor; forming a film on the insulator film; and forming a light shielding member by removing a part of the film by an etching.
US10381381B1
A display may have an array of pixels with light-emitting diodes that emit light to form images. The display may have a substrate with thin-film transistor circuitry for supplying signals to the light-emitting diodes. Anodes may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry, emissive material may be formed on the anodes, and a cathode layer may overlap the anodes. During operation, currents may flow between the anodes and the cathode layer to illuminate the diodes. An array of electrical components such as an array of light sensors in an integrated circuit may be mounted under the substrate. An array of corresponding light transmitting windows may be formed in the display each of which may allow light to pass through the display to a corresponding one of the light sensors. Light transmitting windows may be formed by patterning the cathode layer and supplying the windows with antireflection layers.
US10381380B2
The present invention provides a method of forming a semiconductor device. First, a substrate having a first insulating layer formed thereon is provided. After forming an oxide semiconductor layer on the first insulating layer, two source/drain regions are formed on the oxide semiconductor layer. A bottom oxide layer is formed to entirely cover the source/drain regions, following by forming a high-k dielectric layer on the bottom oxide layer. Next, a thermal process is performed on the high-k dielectric layer, and a plasma treatment is performed on the high-k dielectric layer in the presence of a gas containing an oxygen element.
US10381379B2
The present invention discloses an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, the array substrate includes a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor, the pixel electrode includes a first sub-electrode, a first connection part formed integrally with the first sub-electrode, a second sub-electrode, and a second connection part formed integrally with the second sub-electrode, the first sub-electrode and the second sub-electrode are insulated from each other and are disposed in different layers, and both the first connection part and the second connection part are connected to a drain of the thin film transistor. With the present invention, the pixel electrode of the discrete pattern structure can be manufactured to have a narrow gap smaller than the resolution of the exposure machine, to solve the problem that the single-layered pixel electrode of the discrete pattern structure cannot be resolved by the existing exposure machine.
US10381376B1
Three-dimensional flat NAND memory device including concave word lines and method of making the same
A three-dimensional memory device includes alternating stacks of insulating strips and electrically conductive strips located over a substrate and laterally spaced apart among one another by vertically undulating trenches. The vertically undulating trenches have a greater lateral extent at levels of the electrically conductive strips than at levels of the insulating strips. An interlaced two-dimensional array of memory stack assemblies and dielectric pillar structures are located in the vertically undulating trenches. Each memory stack assembly includes a vertical semiconductor channel and a pair of memory films including a respective pair of convex outer sidewalls that contact, or are spaced by a uniform distance from, concave sidewalls of the electrically conductive strips. Local electrical field at laterally protruding tips of the vertical semiconductor channels are enhanced due to the geometric effect provided by the concave sidewalls of the electrically conductive strips to facilitate faster program and erase operations.
US10381375B2
A semiconductor device includes: a stack structure including horizontal conductive patterns and interlayer insulating layers, which are alternately stacked; gate patterns overlapping with both ends of the stack structure under the stack structure, the gate patterns being spaced apart from each other; and a channel pattern including vertical parts penetrating the stack structure, and a connection part disposed under the stack structure, the connection part connecting the vertical parts.
US10381372B2
Void formation in tungsten lines in a three-dimensional memory device can be prevented by providing polycrystalline aluminum oxide liners in portions of lateral recesses that are laterally spaced from backside trenches by a distance grater than a predefined lateral offset distance. Tungsten nucleates on the polycrystalline aluminum oxide liners prior to nucleating on a metallic liner layer. Thus, tungsten layers can be deposited from the center portion of each backside recess, and the growth of tungsten can proceed toward the backside trenches. By forming the tungsten layers without voids, structural integrity of the three-dimensional memory device can be enhanced.
US10381371B2
A three dimensional NAND memory device includes word line driver devices located on or over a substrate, an alternating stack of word lines and insulating layers located over the word line driver devices, a plurality of memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, each memory stack structure including a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel, and through-memory-level via structures which electrically couple the word lines in a first memory block to the word line driver devices. The through-memory-level via structures extend through a through-memory-level via region located between a staircase region of the first memory block and a staircase region of another memory block.
US10381368B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises: when three directions intersecting each other are assumed to be first through third directions, and two directions intersecting each other in a plane extending in the first and second directions are assumed to be fourth and fifth directions, a memory cell array including: a conductive layer stacked in the third direction above a semiconductor substrate and having a first region; and a first columnar body penetrating the first region of the conductive layer in the third direction and including a semiconductor film, the first columnar body having a cross-section along the first and second directions in which, at a first position which is a certain position in the third direction, a length in the fourth direction is shorter than a length in the fifth direction.
US10381366B1
A memory device includes first conductive rails laterally extending along a first horizontal direction over a substrate, a rectangular array of first memory pillar structures, each containing a memory element, overlying top surfaces of the first conductive rails, second conductive rails laterally extending along a second horizontal direction and overlying top surfaces of the rectangular array of first memory pillar structures, and a one-dimensional array of first cavities free of solid material portions therein, laterally extending along the second horizontal direction and located between neighboring pairs of the second conductive rails.
US10381360B1
A method of forming a uniform WL over the MCEL region and resulting device are provided. Embodiments include providing a substrate having a MCEL region, a HV region and a logic region, separated by an isolation region; forming a plurality of CG stacks over the MCEL region, and a plurality of CG dummy stacks over the HV region and the logic region, respectively; forming first and second overlying polysilicon layers with a spacer therebetween, an EG and a WL on the MCEL region formed; planarizing the second polysilicon layer down to upper surface of the plurality of CG stacks and the plurality of CG dummy stacks; and removing portions of the second polysilicon layer in-between the plurality of CG stacks and around the plurality of CG dummy stacks.
US10381357B2
Some embodiments include a memory cell with two transistors and one capacitor. The transistors are a first transistor and a second transistor. The capacitor has a first node coupled with a source/drain region of the first transistor, and has a second node coupled with a source/drain region of the second transistor. The memory cell has a first body region adjacent the source/drain region of the first transistor, and has a second body region adjacent the source/drain region of the second transistor. A first body connection line couples the first body region of the memory cell to a first reference voltage. A second body connection line couples the second body region of the memory cell to a second reference voltage. The first and second reference voltages may be the same as one another, or may be different from one another.
US10381348B2
A method for fabricating fin field effect transistors comprises creating a pattern of self-aligned small cavities for P-type material growth using at least two hard mask layers, generating a pre-defined isolation area around each small cavity using a vertical spacer, selectively removing N-type material from the self-aligned small cavities, and growing P-type material in the small cavities. The P-type material may be silicon germanium (SiGe) and the N-type material may be tensile Silicon (t-Si). The pattern of self-aligned small cavities for P-type material growth is created by depositing two hard mask materials over a starting substrate wafer, selectively depositing photo resist over a plurality N-type areas, reactive ion etching to remove the second hard mask layer material over areas not covered by photo resist to create gaps in second hard mask layer, and removing the photo resist to expose the second hard mask material in the N-type areas.
US10381339B1
Integrated circuits and methods of producing the same are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a first and second dummy memory cell positioned within a dummy memory bank area. A first dummy top electrode overlies the first and second dummy memory cells, and is in electrical communication with the first and second dummy memory cells. A test circuit is in electrical communication with the first dummy top electrode.
US10381338B2
A technique relates to a method of optimizing self-aligned double patterning. Predefined locations for required metal cuts are provided in order to form metal wires from metal fills that have been cut. Extended locations for extended metal cuts are provided in order to cut adjacent metal fills. The adjacent metal fills are the metal fills that are adjacent to the predefined locations for the required metal cuts, and the extended metal cuts extend beyond the required metal cuts. The required metal cuts into the metal fills are performed and the extended metal cuts into the adjacent metal fills are performed.
US10381336B2
Proximity coupling interconnect packaging systems and methods. A semiconductor package assembly comprises a substrate, a first semiconductor die disposed adjacent the substrate, and a second semiconductor die stacked over the first semiconductor die. There is at least one proximity coupling interconnect between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die, the proximity coupling interconnect comprising a first conductive pad on the first coupling face on the first semiconductor die and a second conductive pad on a second coupling face of the second semiconductor die, the second conductive pad spaced apart from the first conductive pad by a gap distance and aligned with the first conductive pad. An electrical connector is positioned laterally apart from the proximity coupling interconnect and extends between the second semiconductor die and the substrate, the position of the electrical connector defining the alignment of the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad.
US10381334B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface and including a plurality of substrate pads formed on the upper surface, a capacitor structure arranged on the upper surface of the package substrate and including a semiconductor substrate and at least one decoupling capacitor formed in the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first semiconductor chips mounted on the package and supported by the capacitor structure, first conductive connection members electrically connecting chip pads of the first semiconductor chips to the substrate pads, and second conductive connection members electrically connecting capacitor pads of the decoupling capacitor to the substrate pad.
US10381333B2
Light emitting assemblies comprise a plurality of Light Emitting Diode (LED) dies arranged and attached to common substrate to form an LED array having a desired optimum packing density. The LED dies are wired to one another and are attached to landing pads on the substrate for receiving power from an external electrical source via an interconnect device. The assembly comprises a lens structure, wherein each LED die comprises an optical lens disposed thereover that is configured to promote optimal light transmission. Each optical lens has a diameter that is between about 1.5 to 3 times the size of a respective LED die, and is shaped in the form of a hemisphere. Fillet segments are integral with and interposed between the adjacent optical lenses, and provide sufficient space between adjacent optical lenses so that the diameters of adjacent optical lenses do not intersect with one another.
US10381331B2
A semiconductor light emitting device (A) includes an elongated substrate (1) formed with a through-hole (11), a first, a second and a third semiconductor light emitting elements (3R, 3G, 3B) mounted on the main surface of the substrate (1), and an electrode (2R) electrically connected to the first semiconductor light emitting element (3R) and extending to the reverse surface of the substrate (1) via the through-hole (11). The first semiconductor light emitting element (3R) and the through-hole (11) are positioned between the second semiconductor light emitting element (3G) and the third semiconductor light emitting element (3B) in the longitudinal direction of the substrate (1). The second semiconductor light emitting element (3G) is arranged closer to one end of the substrate (1), whereas the third semiconductor light emitting element (3B) is arranged closer to the other end of the substrate (1).
US10381306B2
A semiconductor memory device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided in the present invention. An under-cut structure is formed at an edge of a bit line contact opening in the process of forming the bit line contact opening for avoiding short problems caused by alignment shifting, and the process window of the process of forming the bit line contact opening may be improved accordingly.
US10381302B2
An interposer includes a first redistribution layer, an organic substrate, a capacitor, a hard mask layer, a conductive pillar, and a second redistribution layer. The organic substrate is on the first redistribution layer. The capacitor is embedded in the organic substrate and includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a capacitor dielectric layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The first electrode layer electrically connects with the first redistribution layer. The hard mask layer is on the organic substrate. The conductive pillar is embedded in the organic substrate and the hard mask layer and electrically connects with the first redistribution layer. The second redistribution layer is on the hard mask layer and electrically connects with the second electrode layer and the conductive pillar.
US10381298B2
A method includes forming a plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of redistribution lines in the plurality of dielectric layers, forming stacked vias in the plurality of dielectric layers with the stacked vias forming a continuous electrical connection penetrating through the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a dielectric layer over the stacked vias and the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of bond pads in the dielectric layer, and bonding a device die to the dielectric layer and a first portion of the plurality of bond pads through hybrid bonding.
US10381289B2
The present disclosure relates to a thermally enhanced semiconductor package having field effect transistors (FETs) with a back-gate feature. The thermally enhanced semiconductor package includes a first buried oxide (BOX) layer, a first epitaxial layer over the first BOX layer, a second BOX layer over the first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer over the second BOX layer and having a source, a drain, and a channel between the source and the drain, a gate dielectric aligned over the channel, and a front-gate structure over the gate dielectric. Herein, a back-gate structure is formed in the first epitaxial layer and has a back-gate region aligned below the channel. A FET is formed by the front-gate structure, the source, the drain, the channel, and the back-gate structure.
US10381288B2
Packaged semiconductor die and CTE-engineering die pairs and methods to form packaged semiconductor die and CTE-engineering die pairs are described. For example, a semiconductor package includes a substrate. A semiconductor die is embedded in the substrate and has a surface area. A CTE-engineering die is embedded in the substrate and coupled to the semiconductor die. The CTE-engineering die has a surface area the same and in alignment with the surface area of the semiconductor die.
US10381284B2
A semiconductor package includes a first electronic component disposed on a first surface of a substrate, a first conductive member disposed on the first electronic component, and a sealing member configured to cover the first electronic component and forming a hole to expose the first conductive member to an exterior of the semiconductor package. The semiconductor package also includes a second conductive member disposed on the hole and connected to the first conductive member.
US10381282B2
The present invention relates to a tetramethylbiphenol type epoxy resin having a content of a sodium ion of 1 to 12 ppm which is determined by measurement by the atomic absorption spectrometry using a solution wherein a sample is dissolved in N-methylpyrrolidone.
US10381280B2
Semiconductor packages and methods for forming a semiconductor package are presented. The semiconductor package includes a package substrate having a die region on a first surface thereof. The package includes a die having a sensing element. The die is disposed in the die region and is electrically coupled to contact pads disposed on the first surface of the package substrate by insulated wire bonds. A cap is disposed over the first surface of the package substrate. The cap and the first surface of the package substrate define an inner cavity which accommodates the die and the insulated wire bonds. The insulated wire bonds are directly exposed to an environment through at least one access port of the package.
US10381267B2
A method of forming source/drain contacts with reduced capacitance and resistance, including, forming a source/drain and a channel region on an active region of a substrate, forming a dielectric fill on the source/drain, forming a trench in the dielectric fill, forming a source/drain contact in the trench, forming an inner contact mask section on a portion of an exposed top surface of the source/drain contact, removing a portion of the source/drain contact to form a channel between a sidewall of the dielectric fill and a remaining portion of the source/drain contact, where a surface area of the remaining portion of the source/drain contact is greater than the surface area of the exposed top surface of the source/drain contact, and forming a source/drain electrode fill on the remaining portion of the source/drain contact.
US10381256B2
An apparatus for fixing a wafer, including a chuck having a surface, a plurality of through bores in the chuck extending through the surface of the chuck, a fixed vacuum bellows, and a plurality of floating air bearings, wherein the fixed vacuum bellows and a respective floating air bearing of the plurality of floating air bearings are each individually arranged in separate through bores of the plurality of through bores and elevationally above the surface of the chuck.
US10381255B2
A bonded structure contains a substrate containing at least one feature, the substrate having a top surface; a first release layer overlying the top surface of the substrate, the first release layer being absorptive of light having a first wavelength for being decomposed by the light; an adhesive layer overlying the first release layer, and a second release layer overlying the adhesive layer. The second release layer is absorptive of light having a second wavelength for being decomposed by the light having the second wavelength. The bonded structure further contains a handle substrate that overlies the second release layer, where the handle substrate is substantially transparent to the light having the first wavelength and the second wavelength. Also disclosed is a debonding method to process the bonded structure to remove and reclaim the adhesive layer for re-use. In another embodiment a multi-step method optically cuts and debonds a bonded structure.
US10381253B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a dielectric layer and a conductive layer located inside the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer includes an upper surface and a plurality of protrusions protruding from the upper surface. Each of the protrusions includes a top portion that serves as an attraction surface on which a substrate is attracted. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of first dielectric portions and a second dielectric portion. The second dielectric portion surrounds each of the first dielectric portions in the upper surface of the dielectric layer. At least some of the first dielectric portions include the protrusions and are bonded to the conductive layer. Each of the first dielectric portions is formed from a material that differs from that of the second dielectric portion.
US10381248B2
A system for controlling a temperature of a wafer processing substrate includes memory that stores first data indicative of first temperature responses of at least one first thermal control element. The first data corresponds to the first temperature responses as observed when a first control parameter of the at least one first thermal control element is maintained at a first predetermined first value. A first controller receives a setpoint temperature for the wafer processing substrate and maintains the first control parameter of the at least one first thermal control element at a second value based on the received setpoint temperature. A second controller retrieves the first data from the memory, calculates second data indicative of temperature non-uniformities associated with the wafer processing substrate based on the first data and the second value, and controls a plurality of second thermal control elements based on the calculated second data.
US10381241B2
There is provide a technique that includes preparing a substrate, in which an insulating film is formed on a pattern having an aspect ratio of 20 or greater and a process target film having a thickness of 200 Å or smaller is formed on the insulating film, in a process chamber; raising a temperature of the substrate to a first temperature with an electromagnetic wave; crystallizing the process target film for a first process time period while maintaining the first temperature; raising the temperature of the substrate to a second temperature, which is higher than the first temperature, with the electromagnetic wave, after the act of crystallizing the process target film; and repairing a crystal defect of the crystallized process target film for a second process time period, which is shorter than the first process time period, while maintaining the second temperature.
US10381237B2
An etching method performed by an etching apparatus includes a first process of causing a first high-frequency power supply to output a first high-frequency power with a first frequency and causing a second high-frequency power supply to output a second high-frequency power with a second frequency lower than the first frequency in a cryogenic environment where the temperature of a wafer is −35° C. or lower, to generate plasma from a hydrogen-containing gas and a fluorine-containing gas and to etch, with the plasma, a multi-layer film of silicon dioxide and silicon nitride and a single-layer film of silicon dioxide that are formed on the wafer; and a second process of stopping the output of the second high-frequency power supply. The first process and the second process are repeated multiple times, and the first process is shorter in time than the second process.
US10381233B2
A substrate processing method according to exemplary embodiments includes bringing removal solution obtained by mixing a nitric acid, a strong acid stronger than the nitric acid, and water into contact with a substrate in which a boron monofilm is formed on a film including a silicon-based film so as to remove the boron monofilm from the substrate.
US10381230B2
A method of processing a gallium nitride substrate, includes providing a gallium nitride substrate, polishing a surface of the gallium nitride substrate, and cleaning the polished surface of the gallium nitride substrate. The polished surface includes a GaLα/CKα peak intensity ratio in energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDX) spectrum which is not less than 2, the EDX spectrum being obtained in an EDX of the surface of the gallium nitride substrate using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) at an accelerating voltage of 3 kV.
US10381229B2
An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over a substrate. The spacer material layers are formed as, or are replaced with, electrically conductive layers. An insulating cap layer is formed over the alternating stack. After formation of memory stack structures through each layer of the alternating stack and the insulating cap layer, a line trench straddling a neighboring pair of rows of the memory stack is formed. Sidewalls of the line trench include a sidewall of each memory stack structure within the neighboring pair of rows of the memory stack structures. A drain select gate dielectric and a drain select electrode line are formed within the line trench. The drain select electrode line controls flow of electrical current through an upper portion of a vertical semiconductor channel within each memory stack structure below the drain regions to activate or deactivate the neighboring rows.
US10381226B2
A method of processing a substrate to enable selective doping without a photolithography process is provided. The method includes forming a diffusion barrier on the substrate having a patterned structure using plasma deposition method, removing the diffusion barrier except for part of the diffusion barrier using wet etching, forming a diffusion source layer on the patterned structure and the part of the diffusion barrier, and applying energy to the diffusion source layer.
US10381223B2
A multilayer composite bonding material for transient liquid phase bonding a semiconductor device to a metal substrate includes thermal stress compensation layers sandwiched between a pair of bonding layers. The thermal stress compensation layers may include a core layer with a first stiffness sandwiched between a pair of outer layers with a second stiffness that is different than the first stiffness such that a graded stiffness extends across a thickness of the thermal stress compensation layers. The thermal stress compensation layers have a melting point above a sintering temperature and the bonding layers have a melting point below the sintering temperature. The graded stiffness across the thickness of the thermal stress compensation layers compensates for thermal contraction mismatch between the semiconductor device and the metal substrate during cooling from the sintering temperature to ambient temperature.
US10381218B1
A method of reducing silicon consumption of a silicon material. The method comprises cleaning a silicon material and subjecting the cleaned silicon material to a vacuum anneal at a temperature below a melting point of silicon and under vacuum conditions. The silicon material is subjected to additional process acts without substantially removing silicon of the silicon material. Additional methods of forming a semiconductor structure and forming isolation structures are also disclosed.
US10381216B2
An optical system for generating broadband light via light-sustained plasma formation includes a chamber, an illumination source, a set of focusing optics, and a set of collection optics. The chamber is configured to contain a buffer material in a first phase and a plasma-forming material in a second phase. The illumination source generates continuous-wave pump illumination. The set of focusing optics focuses the continuous-wave pump illumination through the buffer material to an interface between the buffer material and the plasma-forming material in order to generate a plasma by excitation of at least the plasma-forming material. The set of collection optics receives broadband radiation emanated from the plasma.
US10381214B2
A linear ion trap includes at least two discrete trapping regions for processing ions and at least one gas pulse valve for applying pulses of gas to dynamically control pressure in the at least two discrete trapping regions. A RF electrical potential generator produces two RF waveforms, each applied to a pair of pole electrodes of the linear ion trap forming a RF trapping field component to trap ions radially. A multi-output DC electrical potential generator produces multiple DC field components superimposed to the RF trapping field component and distributed across the length of the linear ion trap to control ions axially. A control unit is configured to switch the DC electrical potentials and corresponding DC field components collectively forming a first trapping region of the at least two discrete trapping regions that is populated with ions to alter ion potential energy from a first level to a second level, and to enable at least a first ion processing step in at least one of the first and second levels.
US10381209B2
The invention generally relates to probes, systems, cartridges, and methods of use thereof. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a probe including a porous material and a hollow member coupled to a distal portion of the porous material.
US10381206B2
A hybrid mass spectrometer comprising: an ion source for generating ions from a sample, a first mass spectral system comprising a nanoelectromechanical mass spectral (NEMS-MS) system, a second mass spectral system including at least one mass analyzer adapted to separate the charged particles according to their mass-to-charge ratios, and an integration zone coupling the first and second mass spectral systems, the integration zone including at least one directional device for controllably routing the ions to a selected one or both of the first and second mass spectral systems for analysis thereby. The second system can be an orbital electrostatic trap system. The ion beam can be electrically directed to one or the other system by ion optics. A chip with resonators can be used with cooling. Uses include analysis of large mass complexes found in biological systems, native single molecule analysis, and size and shape analysis.
US10381205B1
Various configurations of muon drift tubes for use in muon tomography are described and involve aluminum end caps coupled to an aluminum tube, an electrode in each of the end caps, and an anode wire extending between the electrodes. A two-part electrically conductive, gas-sealed, connection is located between an aluminum end cap and the aluminum tube. Methods of making those configurations of muon drift tubes are also described.
US10381204B2
Provided is an ultra-high vacuum forming device containing an ion pump having a compact size in the central axis direction. The ultra-high vacuum forming device (1) is provided with at least one ion pump (100). The ion pump (100) is provided with: a casing (110) having at least one opening (111, 112); a board-shaped electrode group (120) formed by means of a central opening (120a) being formed along a predetermined central axis (C) disposed within the casing (110), and a plurality of electrodes (121) being joined with spaces therebetween; a pair of board-shaped electrodes (131, 132) having a different polarity than that of the electrode group (120) and that are disposed at positions sandwiching both sides of the electrode group (120) within the casing (110); and a pair of board-shaped magnets (141, 142) disposed at positions sandwiching both sides of the pair of board-shaped electrodes (131, 132).
US10381202B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetron and a magnetron sputtering device, including an inner magnetic pole and an outer magnetic pole with opposite polarities. Both the inner magnetic pole and the outer magnetic pole comprise multiple spirals. The spirals of the outer magnetic pole surround the spirals of the inner magnetic pole, and a gap exists therebetween. In addition, the gap has different widths in different locations from a spiral center to an edge. Moreover, both the spirals of the outer magnetic pole and the spirals of the inner magnetic pole follow a polar equation: r=aθn+b(cos θ)m+c(tan θ)k+d, 0<=n<=2, 0<=m<=2, c=0 or k=0. Because the gap between the inner magnetic pole and the outer magnetic pole has the different widths in a spiral discrete direction, width sizes of the gap in the different locations can be changed to control magnetic field strength distribution in a plane, thus adjusting uniformity of a membrane thickness.
US10381197B2
A transformer includes: a rotary shaft configured to rotate about a central axis of the rotary shaft as a rotational axis; a primary-side first coil configured to extend around a first axis perpendicular to the central axis; a secondary-side second coil configured to extend around a second axis and supported by the rotary shaft, the second axis being perpendicular to the rotational axis in an area surrounded by the first coil; and a secondary-side third coil configured to extend around a third axis and supported by the rotary shaft, the third axis being perpendicular to the rotational axis and forming a predetermined angle with the second axis in the area.
US10381185B2
A vehicle is disclosed for indicating when a fuse is blown in a vehicle fuse box. An example vehicle includes an electrical system, a fuse box comprising a door and an inner panel, covered in part with respective luminous materials and a plurality of fuses positioned inside the fuse box, coupled to the electrical system. Each fuse comprise an LED coupled between terminals of the fuse, and a lens configured to direct light from the LED toward the door and the inner panel.
US10381181B2
A mobile part of an electromagnetic actuator for an electric contactor. The mobile part is made up of a flat piece cut from a rolled sheet. This flat piece includes a first stage intended to face towards a fixed part of the actuator and a second stage, side-by-side with the first stage along an axis of movement of the mobile part. A solid section of the second stage, measured in a plane perpendicular to the axis of movement of the mobile part, is smaller than a solid section of the first stage.
US10381180B1
An electric arc extinguishing apparatus for a molded case circuit breaker is provided. A first set of arc splitter plates (30) directs into a first flow channel (32) a flow of gases formed during an arcing event. A second set of arc splitter plates (40) directs into a second flow channel (42) a further flow of gases formed during the arcing event. A baffle (46) establishes flow channel separation between the first and second flow channels. This arrangement provides gas flow velocity that is relatively uniform throughout the arc stack and efficiently and reliably removes heat from the hot gas flow since every arc splitter plate effectively contributes to the cooling of the gas flow. Additionally, the electric arc is efficiently blown and distributed into each of the arc splitter plate gaps, resulting in higher arc voltage and improved arc extinguishing performance.
US10381171B2
An electric storage cell has an electric storage element and a covering body. The covering body houses the electric storage element and has a metal layer with a first principal face on the electric storage element side and a second principal face on the opposite side, an internal resin layer made of resin laminated onto the first principal face, and an external resin layer made of resin laminated onto the second principal face, with a groove part formed on the second principal face side of the metal layer. The above structures provides a highly reliable electric storage cell, covering film, and electric storage module capable of releasing the rising internal pressure safely in the event of abnormality.
US10381166B2
Disclosed are tantalum capacitors having enhanced volumetric efficiency, effective series resistance, effective series inductance, and high frequency performance when compared to existing tantalum capacitors. Also disclosed is a screening process for tantalum capacitors to enhance reliability.
US10381165B2
A capacitor that comprises a capacitor element that includes an anode that contains a dielectric formed on a sintered porous body, a solid electrolyte overlying the anode, and a cathode coating is provided. The cathode coating includes a noble metal layer (e.g., gold) overlying the solid electrolyte and a layer overlying the noble metal layer that includes sintered metal particles (e.g., silver particles).
US10381159B2
A plurality of dielectric layers containing one of CaZrO3 and SrZrO3 and a plurality of internal electrodes containing Ni are alternately disposed in a second direction. The plurality of internal electrodes includes a plurality of first internal electrodes and a plurality of second internal electrodes. Each of first connecting portions of the first internal electrodes includes a first end portion connected to a first terminal electrode. Each of second connecting portions of the second internal electrodes includes a second end portion connected to a second terminal electrode. The first end portions of the first connecting portions adjacent to each other in the second direction are located not to overlap with each other when viewed from the second direction. The second end portions of the second connecting portions adjacent to each other in the second direction are located not to overlap with each other when viewed from the second direction.
US10381153B2
Disclosed herein is a spacer fixing structure including a core member constituting a core to be wound with a coil; and a plate spacer fixed to the core member. The spacer has a loop shape. A communication groove is formed in at least one surface of front and back surfaces of the spacer, and extends radially to communicate with inner and outer peripheries of the spacer. A region of the at least one surface of the spacer other than a grooved portion is left as a flat surface. At least the flat surface of the spacer is adhered to the core member via an adhesive layer made of an adhesive.
US10381152B2
A coil component has an outer electrode include a bottom-surface electrode portion disposed along a bottom surface of a component body and an end-surface electrode portion disposed along an end surface of the component body so as to be continuous with the bottom-surface electrode portion. The adhesive strength of the bottom-surface electrode portion with respect to the component body is lower than that of the end-surface electrode portion with respect to the component body.
US10381151B2
The coupling coil structure, which is provided with a plurality of primary coils formed by winding a conductor wire and a plurality of secondary coils provided so as to generate mutual inductance with the plurality of primary coils and in which, among the plurality of primary coils, one primary coil is tapped at an intermediate portion thereof by another primary coil at right angles, is characterized in that, among the plurality of secondary coils, a secondary coil in mutual inductance with the one primary coil is constituted into a coupling coil by one conductor having a width at least the size in the axial direction of the primary coil.
US10381148B2
To suppress a temperature increase of a transformer. A transformer includes a core, a primary winding, and a secondary winding. The core includes a primary core and a secondary core disposed on a side of the primary core. The primary winding includes a first primary winding wound around the primary core and the second primary winding wound around the secondary core and electrically connected in series to the first primary winding. The first primary winding is disposed such that a direction of a magnetic flux on an inner peripheral side of the first primary winding induced by the first primary winding is opposite to a direction of the magnetic flux on the inner peripheral side of the second primary winding induced by the second primary winding. The secondary winding is wound such that a winding axial line of the first primary winding and a winding axial line of the second primary winding are formed on an inner peripheral side of the secondary winding.
US10381147B2
A container arrangement for power transformers that are constructed from individual components. The components are releasably connected to one another in such a way that simple mounting/demounting and separate transportation is made possible. At least some of the components are arranged in containers, wherein each container contains a predetermined type of components in such a way that the components necessary for intended construction variants of the power transformers at the use location are contained in a corresponding selection of containers. This renders possible the correct and efficient mounting of power transformers.
US10381145B2
The disclosure relates to a method for determining a switching function for a sliding mode controller for controlling a controlled variable of a system, the switching function being selected as a function of a control deviation of the controlled variable and its time derivatives up to at least the second order and on the basis of initial control dynamics of the system, coefficients of the switching function being represented by means of poles of a closed control loop of the system, the poles each being selected as a function of the control deviation, and desired control dynamics of the system being set by shifting at least one first pole of the poles, and to such a sliding mode controller and to a use of such a controller.
US10381143B2
This disclosure relates to systems and haptic actuators, and suitably haptic actuation resulting from the response to a magnetic field of magnetic particles within an elastomeric material. Such systems and haptic actuators are useful in structural materials, including as elements of wearables or accessories, as well as in other applications and devices where haptic feedback is desired.
US10381130B2
A wire harness includes a group of first electric wires connected to a first circuit and a group of second electric wires connected to a second circuit whose consumption current is smaller than that of the first circuit. The group of first electric wires include aluminum electric wires. The group of second electric wires include a large diameter electric wire having a conductor formed of aluminum or aluminum alloy, a small diameter electric wire having a conductor formed of copper or copper alloy and a cross-sectional area of the conductor thereof smaller than that of the large diameter electric wire, and an extra fine electric wire having a conductor formed of the copper or copper alloy and a cross-sectional area of the conductor thereof smaller than that of the small diameter electric wire.
US10381121B2
Methods and systems directed to the separation of tritium from an aqueous stream are described. The separation method is a multi-stage method that includes a first stage during which tritium of a tritium-contaminated aqueous stream is adsorbed onto a separation phase, a second stage during which the adsorbed tritium is exchanged with hydrogen in a gaseous stream to provide a gaseous stream with a high tritium concentration, and a third stage during which the tritium of the gaseous stream is separated from the gaseous stream as a gaseous tritium product.
US10381113B2
Embodiments include a customizable encounter document whose contents are populated based on a template for the current patient, a template for all the user's patients, or a combination of templates. The contents include data modules retrieved from various databases and are arranged according to the user's work flow. The contents are presented in one view, a scrollable pane, to assist the user when making medical decisions. The user can make changes to the contents on the scrollable pane in real time that may affect one or more of the templates. Once the customizable encounter document is signed, the contents are captured, de-identified, and saved, along with a link of the captured contents with the user, and/or the patient's EHR.
US10381109B2
The disclosure provides BMDs that have multiple device modes depending on operational conditions of the devices, e.g., motion intensity, device placement, and/or activity type. The device modes are associated with various data processing algorithms. In some embodiments, the BMD is implemented as a wrist-worn or arm-worn device. In some embodiments, methods for tracking physiological metrics using the BMDs are provided. In some embodiments, the process or the BMD applies a time domain analysis on data provided by a sensor of the BMD when the data has a high signal (e.g., high signal-to-noise ratio), and applies a frequency domain analysis on the data when the data has a low signal, which contributes to improved accuracy and speed of biometric data.
US10381101B2
Methods, systems, and devices for non-contact measurement of memory cell threshold voltage, including at one or more intermediate stages of fabrication, are described. One access line may be grounded and coupled with one or more memory cells. Each of the one or more memory cells may be coupled with a corresponding floating access line. A floating access line may be scanned with an electron beam configured to set the floating access line to a particular surface voltage at the scanned bit line, and the threshold voltage of the corresponding memory cell may be determined based on whether setting the scanned bit line to the surface voltage causes a detectable amount current to flow through the corresponding memory cell.
US10381099B2
Apparatuses for error detection and correction for a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: at least one memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells; and a control circuit that receives read data from the plurality of memory cells, compares the read data with reference data, and further provides an error signal. The control circuit further provides the error signal when a number of bit errors detected is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, and suppresses providing the error signal when the number of bit errors detected is less than the predetermined number.
US10381094B2
A two-sided, staged programming operation is applied to a memory having first and second stacks of memory cells C1(i) and C2(i), i being the physical level of a cell. The staged programming operation includes applying a preliminary program stage S1, an intermediate program stage S2, and a final program stage S3 to memory cells in the first and second stacks. In a programming order the final program stage S3 is applied to memory cells in the first and second stacks at each level (i) for which the intermediate program stage S2 has already been applied to the memory cells in any neighboring levels (levels i+1 and i−1). The intermediate program stage S2 is applied only to memory cells for which the preliminary program stage S1 has already been applied to the cells in any neighboring levels (levels i+1 and i−1).
US10381092B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory circuit, a first FIFO, a second FIFO and an input/output circuit. The memory circuit outputs data. The first FIFO receives data from the memory circuit and outputs data synchronously with a first clock signal. The second FIFO receives data output from the first FIFO and outputs data synchronously with the first clock signal. The input/output circuit outputs data output from the second FIFO. The second FIFO is disposed in the vicinity of the input/output circuit than the first FIFO.
US10381091B2
Systems include a first semiconductor die comprising a charge pump to generate power supply signals, a second semiconductor die comprising a memory array and programming circuitry, and a bus connected to the first and second semiconductor dies to carry the power supply signals to the programming circuitry. The programming circuitry is adapted to program memory cells of the memory array to respective threshold voltages that are each less than or equal to the first voltage.
US10381085B2
Apparatus and methods of operating such apparatus include applying a first voltage level to a source connected to a first end of a string of series-connected memory cells, applying a second voltage level to a data line connected to a second end of the string of series-connected memory cells, and applying a third voltage level to a first access line coupled to a first memory cell of the string of series-connected memory cells concurrently with applying the first and second voltage levels, wherein the magnitude of the third voltage level is greater than the magnitude of both the first voltage level and the second voltage level, and wherein a polarity and the magnitude of the third voltage level are expected to decrease a threshold voltage of the first memory cell when concurrently applying the first, second and third voltage levels.
US10381084B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell above the first memory cell, a first word line electrically connected to a gate of the first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a gate of the second memory cell, and a control unit that performs an erasing operation on the first and second memory cells. During the erasing operation, the control unit applies a first voltage to a first word line and a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line.
US10381083B1
A memory device and associated techniques avoid a disturb of a select gate transistor during an erase operation for memory cells in a string. During the erase operation, a channel potential gradient near the select gate transistors is reduced when the voltages of the bit line and the substrate are suitably controlled. In one approach, the voltage of the substrate at a source end of the memory string is increased to an intermediate level first before being increased to the erase voltage threshold level while the voltage of the bit line is held at a reference voltage level to delay floating the voltage of the bit line. Another approach builds off the first approach by temporarily decreasing the voltage of the bit line to a negative level before letting the voltage of the bit line to float at the same time as the voltage of the substrate is increased to the erase voltage threshold level.
US10381073B1
A computer-implemented method for remediating disruptions to memory cells is described. The method includes writing user data to an aggressor memory cell and determining one or more of a write timestamp and an overwrite count associated with the aggressor memory cell. The write timestamp indicates a last write to the aggressor memory cell and the overwrite count indicates the number of writes to the aggressor memory cell during a time period. Based on one or more of the write timestamp and the overwrite count, an increment value is determined for use with a disturb counter associated with a neighbor memory cell of the aggressor memory cell. In particular, the determined increment value is used, in response to the write, to increment the disturb counter associated with the neighbor memory cell. When the disturb counter is greater than or equal to a disturb threshold, remediation for the neighbor memory cell is performed.
US10381066B2
A semiconductor device may include a data input and output circuit (I/O) configured to selectively or simultaneously drive input and output lines according to a burst length and a location of a memory area selected by an address to allow the semiconductor device to receive or output data regardless of the burst length being changed.
US10381064B1
Apparatuses and methods for refreshing memory of a semiconductor device are described. An example method includes producing, responsive to a first refresh command, a plurality of first refresh addresses and detecting, responsive to the plurality of first refresh addresses, that the plurality of first refresh addresses include a first defective address and a first non-defective address. The example method further includes refreshing, responsive to a second refresh command following the first refresh command, the non-defective first address without refreshing the first defective address.
US10381061B2
Word lines intersect bit lines at a plurality of cross points where a plurality of single memory transistor synapse cells are located. Each cell includes a memory transistor; a pulse shaping unit coupled to a given one of a plurality of signal lines and a gate of the memory transistor; a logic gate having inputs coupled to a corresponding one of the word lines and a corresponding one of the bit lines, and an output coupled to the pulse shaping unit; and a pass gate arrangement. The latter is coupled to the memory transistor, the corresponding one of the word lines, the corresponding one of the bit lines, and the output of the logic gate. Pulses are applied to the gate of the memory transistor for weight adjustment during update and to interconnect the memory transistor to the corresponding one of the bit lines during inference.
US10381054B1
The present disclosure relates to a structure which includes an assist circuit which is configured to add a boost voltage using a common boost logic device for both a read logic circuit and a write logic circuit of the assist circuit.
US10381051B2
A charge pump driver circuit (320) arranged to output a charge pump control signal (325). The charge pump driver circuit (320) includes a bias current source component (330) arranged to generate a bias current (335), a control stage (340) and an output stage (350). The control stage (340) is coupled to the bias current source component (330) and arranged to receive the bias current (335). The control stage (340) is further arranged to receive an input signal (215) and to generate a control current signal (345) proportional to the bias current (335) in accordance with the input signal (215). The output stage (350) is arranged to receive the control current signal (345) generated by the control stage (340) and to generate the charge pump control voltage signal (325) based on the control current signal (345) generated by the control stage (340). The bias current source component (330) is arranged to vary the bias current (335) in response to variations in temperature.
US10381049B2
The present disclosure relates to a data storage device housing component (and related data storage devices) that include a polymeric element attached to a surface thereof. The polymeric element includes a polymeric matrix and a plurality of nanofiller elements dispersed within the polymeric matrix to increase the thermal conductivity of the polymeric element as compared to a polymeric element that does not include the plurality of nanofiller elements. Also disclosed are related methods.
US10381042B2
A method and a device for generating a multimedia clip from multimedia content without interrupting playback of the multimedia content and with no user inputs or at least minimal user inputs are provided. A multimedia content being currently played is stored in a buffer. A current time or a current frame is designated as an end point of the multimedia clip. A start point of the multimedia clip is either computed or received. The multimedia clip is generated by retrieving from the buffer a portion of the multimedia content between the start point and the end point.
US10381034B2
Provided is an in-line type film forming apparatus including a processing chamber which is disposed to deviate from a closed path and is connected to a corner chamber, a first loading and unloading unit which unloads a substrate from a carrier and moves the substrate to the inside of the processing chamber, a second loading and unloading unit which unloads the substrate processed in the processing chamber and loads the substrate on the carrier, and a control device which performs control of driving the first and second loading and unloading units to unload the substrate from the carrier and to move the substrate to the inside of the processing chamber, and to take out the substrate processed in the processing chamber in advance from the processing chamber and to load the substrate on the carrier.
US10381031B2
Apparatus and method for disturbance rejection in a control system. In some embodiments, a controller is adapted to position a control object. A disturbance observer generates a disturbance compensation value which is applied to reduce position error resulting from application of mechanical disturbance to the control object. The disturbance observer includes an adaptive filter with at least one dead zone providing a pass-through response with a scalar gain of less than one.
US10381026B2
A record player includes a turntable, a drive motor, a non-contact transmission mechanism, a tone arm, and a housing. The non-contact transmission mechanism includes a drive-side rotor and a magnetic member. The drive-side rotor is rotated by a driving force of the drive motor. The drive-side rotor is formed of a permanent magnet. The magnetic member is constituted of a soft magnetic body. The turntable is rotated according to the rotation of the drive-side rotor by an attraction force acting on the magnetic member from the permanent magnet.
US10381025B2
An apparatus includes a function module, a strength module, and a filter module. The function module compares an input signal, which has a component, to a first delayed version of the input signal and a second delayed version of the input signal to produce a multi-dimensional model. The strength module calculates a strength of each extremum from a plurality of extrema of the multi-dimensional model based on a value of at least one opposite extremum of the multi-dimensional model. The strength module then identifies a first extremum from the plurality of extrema, which is associated with a pitch of the component of the input signal, that has the strength greater than the strength of the remaining extrema. The filter module extracts the pitch of the component from the input signal based on the strength of the first extremum.
US10381020B2
Several embodiments of a digital speech signal enhancer are described that use an artificial neural network that produces clean speech coding parameters based on noisy speech coding parameters as its input features. A vocoder parameter generator produces the noisy speech coding parameters from a noisy speech signal. A vocoder model generator processes the clean speech coding parameters into estimated clean speech spectral magnitudes. In one embodiment, a magnitude modifier modifies an original frequency spectrum of the noisy speech signal using the estimated clean speech spectral magnitudes, to produce an enhanced frequency spectrum, and a synthesis block converts the enhanced frequency spectrum into time domain, as an output speech sequence. Other embodiments are also described.
US10381014B2
A comfort noise controller for generating CN (Comfort Noise) control parameters is described. A buffer of a predetermined size is configured to store CN parameters for SID (Silence Insertion Descriptor) frames and active hangover frames. A subset selector is configured to determine a CN parameter subset relevant for SID frames based on the age of the stored CN parameters and on residual energies. A comfort noise control parameter extractor (50B) is configured to use the determined CN parameter subset to determine the CN control parameters for a first SID frame following an active signal frame.
US10381007B2
Methods, devices, and systems for processing audio information are disclosed. An exemplary method includes receiving an audio stream. The audio stream may be monitored by a low power integrated circuit. The audio stream may be digitized by the low power integrated circuit. The digitized audio stream may be stored in a memory, wherein storing the digitized audio stream comprises replacing a prior digitized audio stream stored in the memory with the digitized audio stream. The low power integrated circuit may analyze the stored digitized audio stream for recognition of a keyword. The low power integrated circuit may induce a processor to enter an increased power usage state upon recognition of the keyword within the stored digitized audio stream. The stored digitized audio stream may be transmitted to a server for processing. A response received from the server based on the processed audio stream may be rendered.
US10381003B2
A voice acquisition system includes a plurality of mobile objects each of which includes one or more microphones and is movable around a sound source; a sound source number estimating unit which estimates the number of sound sources in a vicinity of any of the mobile objects; and a control unit which controls positions of the mobile objects, wherein the control unit controls, based on the number of sound sources in a vicinity of a first mobile object, a position of a second mobile object which differs from the first mobile object, and the voice acquisition system acquires voice using both a microphone included in the first mobile object and a microphone included in the second mobile object.
US10381001B2
A method include placing a first processor in a sleep operating mode and running a second processor that is operative to wake the first processor from the sleep operating mode in response to a speech command phrase. The method includes identifying, by the second processor, a speech command phrase segment and performing a control operation in response to detecting the segment in detected speech. The control operation is performed while the first processor is maintained in the sleep operating mode.
US10380992B2
A system and method of generating a natural language generation (NLG) output, wherein the method includes: receiving speech signals from a user at a microphone of a client device; determining a requested communication goal and at least one inputted communication value based on the received speech signals; determining to use a static natural language generation (NLG) template or a dynamic NLG template to generate an NLG output, wherein the determination of whether to use a static NLG template or a dynamic NLG template is made using a neural network NLG template selection process; selecting an NLG template after the determination of whether to use a static NLG template or a dynamic NLG template; and generating an NLG output based on the selected NLG template.
US10380986B2
This invention discloses a switching system for any odd or even number of two or more matched vibrations sensors, such that all possible circuits of such sensors that can be produced by the system are humbucking, rejecting external interferences signals. The sensors must be matched, especially with respect to response to external hum and internal impedance, and be capable of being made or arranged so that the responses of individual sensors to vibration can be inverted, compared to another matched sensor, placed in the same physical position, while the interference signal is not. Such that for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 sensors, there exist 1, 6, 25, 90, 301, 966 and 3025 unique humbucking circuits, respectively, with signal outputs that can be either single-ended or differential. Embodiments of switching systems include electro-mechanical switches, programmable switches, solid-state digital-analog switches, and micro-controller driven solid state switches using time-series to spectral-series transforms to pick the order of tones from bright to warm and back.
US10380985B2
A keyboard device includes at least one key and an action mechanism corresponding to the at least one key. The action mechanism includes a transmitter which moves in response to key depression to the at least one key, a hammer member which operates, in response to movement of the transmitter, to apply a load to the depressed key, a first abutting part which is arranged on one of the hammer member and a member which the hammer member abuts, and an elastic part which is arranged on another of the hammer member and the member which the hammer member abuts. At least one part of the elastic part gets over the first abutting part in a process of deforming of the elastic part, thereby a let-off feeling is given to the depressed key.
US10380975B2
An optimization method for a brightness compensation data volume, including: providing a to-be-compensated panel, where the to-be-compensated panel has a brightness compensation data memory storing a plurality of pieces of brightness compensation data of the to-be-compensated panel; externally connecting a data processor, where the data processor includes an external memory, and the external memory stores a piece of determination information for determining whether the pieces of brightness compensation data need to be compensated; reading, by the data processor, the pieces of brightness compensation data, classifying, according to the determination information, the pieces of brightness compensation data into a plurality of pieces of to-be-compensated data and a plurality of pieces of not-to-be-compensated data, and storing the plurality of pieces of to-be-compensated data and not-to-be-compensated data after determination into the external memory; and reading and storing, by the brightness compensation data memory, the pieces of to-be-compensated data in the external memory.
US10380974B2
A vehicle auxiliary display device, which includes a display unit and a processor. The display unit is configured to display according to instructions from the processor. The processor is configured to acquire the current driving speed of the vehicle and, according to the current driving speed, match a display effect of a partial display area of the display unit to the current driving speed so as to enhance the display effect of the partial display area relative to the remaining display area of the display unit.
US10380964B2
Disclosed is a shift register unit and a driving method therefor. The shift register unit includes an input circuit that is connected to a first input end and a second input end; a pull-up circuit that is connect to an output end; a first pull-down circuit and a second pull-down circuit; and where the input circuit is configured to receive a first power signal, and a second power signal, and the input circuit is controlled by the first power signal and the second power signal; the first pull-down circuit and the second pull-down circuit are connected to the input circuit and the pull-up circuit, and each first pull-down circuit is configured to receive a control signal; and the pull-up circuit is configured to receive a clock signal.
US10380963B2
The present application includes a display driving circuit, driving method thereof, and display device. A voltage detection circuit is added to an existing display drive circuit, and the voltage detection circuit determines, according to a standard reference voltage signal outputted by a logic circuit, whether a reference voltage signal outputted by a power supply management circuit is abnormal. If the reference voltage signal is determined to be abnormal, the power supply management circuit is controlled to stop outputting the reference voltage signal, such that the power supply management circuit is in a static mode, and therefore, a display panel is in a constant white or constant black mode.
US10380962B2
A driving circuit applied to a LCD apparatus includes N driver chips, a signal source, a WOA wire, a COF wire. Each driver chip is COF-packaged and correspondingly coupled to L output channels. N and L are positive integers and N≥2. The signal source is coupled to L output channels of the first driver chip. One terminal of WOA wire is coupled to L output channels of the second driver chip. One terminal of the COF wire is coupled between the signal source and a first output channel of the first driver chip and another terminal of the COF wire is coupled to another terminal of WOA wire. The resistance of COF wire is far smaller than a first internal resistance between the first output channel and L-th output channel of first driver chip and the resistance of WOA wire is substantially equal to first internal resistance.
US10380960B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes pixel electrodes arranged in matrix, gate lines, source lines, pixel switches, gate drivers allocated at both ends of a display region, a source driver, image signal transmit lines arranged along the columns in which the pixel electrodes are arranged, each image signal transmit line supplying an image signal to each source line, switches arranged along the row direction, each switch configured to switch a connection between the source line and the image signal transmit line, and control lines configured to output source control signals to switch the switches, each control line outputting a source control signal to switch a plurality of the switches at the same time, wherein each source control signal is input to each control line at a position substantially the center of the gate line in the row direction.
US10380950B2
A method for reducing motion blur in a video signal of a head mounted display apparatus is provided. The method includes the following steps. Receive the video signal including a first frame and a second frame. Track an eye movement of a user to determine a user view area. Generate an intermediate frame between the first frame and the second frame. Provide the first frame, the intermediate frame, and the second frame for display. The step of generating the intermediate frame includes synthesizing pixel values only in the user view area of the intermediate frame.
US10380948B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit and corresponding display panel and electronic apparatus. A pixel element includes a self-luminous element and a drive transistor connected to a power supply line. In an emission period of the self-luminous element, an active voltage and an intermediate voltage are sequentially applied between the power supply line and a potential line with a pulse-shaped waveform such that a predetermined luminance duration is obtained in the emission period. In a non-emission period of the self-luminous element, an off-state voltage is applied between the power supply line and the potential line so as to maintain the self-luminous element in a non-emission state.
US10380943B2
An organic light emitting display device includes pixels connected to scan lines, data lines, and emission control lines to emit light components in response to amounts of current that flow from a first driving power source to a second driving power source, a sensing unit connected between the first or second driving power source and the pixels to measure to at least one of current and voltage, a controller to sense a control signal in response to at least one of the current and the voltage measured by the sensing unit, a timing controller to supply a plurality of emission start signals with different widths in a one frame period in response to the control signal when the organic light emitting display device is driven at a low frequency, and an emission driver to supply emission control signals to the emission control lines in response to the emission start signals.
US10380941B2
An OLED pixel circuit and a display apparatus comprising the OLED pixel circuit. An OLED pixel circuit comprises an OLED and driving units (TFT1, S1, C) for driving the OLED to emit light, wherein one electrode of the OLED is connected to the driving units (TFT1, S1, C). The OLED pixel circuit further comprises compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2). The compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2) comprises a sensing element (R1) which can sense light and convert an optical signal of the OLED into an electrical signal. The compensation units (R1, S2, TFT2, R2) compensate for currents used by the driving units (TFT1, S1, C) to drive the OLED according to the light-emitting brightness of the OLED.
US10380937B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for reducing VCOM settling periods. A number of pixels is sub-divided into a plurality of regions. The pixels are configured to transmit light. A common voltage (VCOM) driving circuit is configured to drive a common electrode of the pixels. Moreover, each of a number of VCOM driving circuits includes a variable resistor configured to be driven to a resistance level based at least in part on which region of the plurality of regions includes an active pixel within the region. Furthermore, a resistance level is set and based at least in part on where the active pixel is located.
US10380934B2
A display driving device includes an interface, a clock generator, a sync signal generator and a timing controller. The interface receives a first vertical sync signal having a first vertical period, a first horizontal sync signal having a first horizontal period shorter than the first vertical period, and image data. The clock generator generates a clock signal having a predetermined frequency. The sync signal generator generates a second vertical sync signal using the first vertical sync signal, and generates a second horizontal sync signal having a second horizontal period different from the first horizontal period, using the clock signal, when a porch period included in the first vertical period is greater than a predetermined reference value. The timing controller drives a display panel based on the second vertical sync signal and the second horizontal sync signal.
US10380931B2
The present invention is directed to driving methods for a color display device which can display high quality color states. The display device utilizes an electrophoretic fluid which comprises three types of pigment particles having different optical characteristics, and provides for displaying at a viewing surface not only the colors of the three types of particles but also the colors of binary mixtures thereof.
US10380929B2
Disclosed are a GOA drive unit and a GOA drive circuit. The GOA drive unit includes a bidirectional selection unit. The bidirectional selection unit is activated under an action of a first control signal and a second control signal which are complementary to each other in timing sequence, and outputs a first selection signal. The bidirectional selection unit is activated under an action of a third control signal and a fourth control signal which are complementary to each other in timing sequence, and outputs a second selection signal. The GOA drive unit can reduce the influence of stress and improve the reliability of the GOA drive circuit.
US10380918B2
A modular medical training apparatus having a body shaped like an upper torso and configured to house a plurality of self-contained needle insertion training devices. Preferably, the body will house at least one self-contained needle insertion training devices in the forearm of the torso for catheter needle insertions training and at least one in the front upper chest area for needle decompression insertion training. Also disclosed is a readily replaceable simulated vein strip for needle insertion training devices including such components of the modular training apparatus, and a simulated vein with index markings to facilitate length determination for use with needle insertion training devices including such components of the modular training apparatus.
